Warhammer 40,000: Darktide: Quick reference maps – Heretical Idols, Martyr Skulls, and more!

“Have we missed an Heretical Idol or is there one in the next area?”
“Are there one or two medicaes left in this map?”
“Is it me or this map has like, 20 dropdowns?”
“Where is the karking Martyr Skull?”

Ever had any of this urgent questions during a mission, reject? Fear not! Simply open the quick reference on another screen to check, without spending so much time that you die while looking. You will also avoid full spoilers if you want to figure out the Martyr Skull puzzles.

Simply put, use this guide to very quickly find Heretical Idols, Martyr skulls, or other point of interest in the map you are in, without having to check guides for the specific locations of any of them.

This guide will eventually contain a simplified reference map for every single map in Darktide. Simply find the map for the mission that you are in, and open it to the side or on your phone, to have a quick reference of where you can find all the points of interest in the map. If you are in a mission, you can press TAB to find out what the name is, then ctrl+f that here.

For each mission, you will find a simplified line map, indicating where everything of interest is. ALL DISTANCES AND LOCATIONS ARE ROUGH APPROXIMATIONS. Around the line you can find information telling you where you are, and where important stuff in the map is:

• All of the title cards that announce the name of the area when you reach a new one
• All of the dropdowns, airlocks, elevators, and doors that prevent progress.
• The places where monstrosities and daemonhosts can spawn
• The areas where Heretical Idols can spawn
• The approximate location of the Martyr Skull
• The location of all of the Medicae stations in the map
• All of the map events

Besides that, the images contain:

• An event breakdown, with a reminder of what you will be mostly doing in all of the events in the map, including timers for long waits.
• A legend detailing what each of the icons in the line map mean.
• The title card for the map, in case you want to save the maps somewhere instead of opening this guide. This also includes the location and mission type.

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Coming soon. I have a good chunk of them already completed, but I as I worked on them I figured out how to improve them here and there, so the older ones need a revision to make sure they are up to standard.

Grimoires and Scriptures can spawn in a lot of locations in each map, which makes adding them here pointless. For example, adding Scriptures would mean either covering 90% of the maps with three icons indicating “A Scripture can spawn somewhere around here” or, having 20 tiny “Scripture can spawn around here” icons. With either of these options, adding the scripture icon would not add any useful information to the map.

If you want to find these side objectives, I would recommend following one of the amazing guides already present in steam, and installing the “Book finder” mod.

Each map contains a ton of information. I would be surprised if I hadn’t missed anything. Please comment here if you spot anything that needs to be added, and I will add your name to the credits section if you want.

I am specially interested in:
– Monstrosity and daemonhost spawn locations, since those are the hardest to keep track for me. Either I run through a single map 30 times to make sure I got them all, or I have to rely on my bad memory. I will miss some. With these, just a comment will suffice.
– Heretical Idols that might spawn on the other side of a landmark. Since the spawns are random, there might be a 5% chance for a Heretical Idol to spawn beyond the boundaries I have marked.
For these, I will ask you that you also submit evidence, either a screenshot or video.

I am not a graphic designer, so any tips on improving the visuals of the map are also welcome

Sure, just remember to give credit.