The Last Caretaker Project Canticle: Where It Is and How to Get In

Project Canticle is a hidden area that came with Content Update 4, Below Us, on May 13, 2026. The developers say only that it is tied to the deeper mystery of the world and is better found than described.

No quest in your log sends you there. What you get is memories, loot and a dark piece of the story.

It lies under Helios Reserve Lyra, in the southeast of the map at 120, 28. Project Canticle is not marked as a place of its own: the way in is underwater, in the pool in the middle of Lyra.

Helios Reserve Lyra appears on your map once you power Navigation Beacon 32 (109, 35).

The doors in the pool stay locked until the main building has power. Lyra has ten solar panels of its own; connect them and add a Medium Battery, so the power holds while you are below.

The door is about 65 m down, so you need to be able to dive that deep.

A pressure gauge good for 70 m is enough. A little short still works, because past the door you are out of the water and the pressure stops hurting you.

The pool is dark. Throw an Abyss Glow in before you jump, or switch your torch on, and bring spares.

Dive by day: at night eels come out of the cocoons in the pool. Bring a weapon and ammo for the cocoons and the robots inside.

Stand at the pool between the second and third strut, step backward into the water and sink close to the wall. At about 65 m, small green lights mark the door.

The door is about 65 m down, so you need to be able to dive that deep.

Do not go to the bottom. The door down there opens into a single room with some loot and no way on; players who found only that room had passed the right door half way down.

Behind the door a ladder climbs out of the water to a second door. From there the route runs through tunnels to a door that opens into the main chamber.

You cannot get lost: the side passages are sealed off by bulkheads, so there is one way through.

Past the main chamber a door leads to a ladder with a Roller Boi waiting at the top. Deal with it, follow the corridor through two sets of doors with cocoons behind the first, pass the diesel tanks and climb the ladders to the top room. From there you walk out of the building where you started.

Nine Porcine Vocal Interfaces lie in Project Canticle, and nowhere else in the world.

Most lie scattered on the floor of the main chamber. Check the small room off it and the floor above as well, with your torch on: it is dark and they are easy to miss.

The Porcine Vocal Interface is a memory item of Artifact quality. Loaded into a Lazarus Pod, each one adds 100 Communication, 50 Creativity and 50 Empathy to a human.

Each one is used up by the human it grows, so the 9 are enough for 9 humans. Take them all.

Sample 129, Pig Experiment, a HoloMemory, is at Helios Reserve Lyra too.

The rest of Helios Reserve Lyra holds more memories, among them Teddy Bears, Guitars and a Mystery Box.

The item is a whistle that was fitted to the animals of Project Canticle, and the animals were pigs. The PECO terminal has its own set of log entries about the project; read them before you go down, because they explain what you find.