Nuke Nursery

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Terminid Horde

Nuke Nursery

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A massive Terminid Nursery has been discovered here, crawling with millions of freshly-hatched larvae, mere weeks from ravenous adulthood. They must be wiped out, before they reach maturation and kill innocent human children. Terminid Nurseries consist of one or more Nursery Chambers. Use the Hive Breaker Drill to deliver a nuclear extermination device to each one.

— Mission Briefing

Nuke Nursery is a Mission in Helldivers 2. Helldivers must locate 2-3 nursery chambers, call in the Hive Breaker Drill at each drill point, and then detonate the nuclear device that is drilled into the surface.

Objective Steps

• Find the nursery chamber drill point.
  • Helldivers must locate the drill point within a large circular area.
  • The nursery chamber spawns where the ground appears infested.
  • The nursery chamber may be located visually by a large amount of unmarked Bug Holes, and appears on the map as a circular clearing.
• Call in Hive Breaker Drill
  • After inputting a stratagem code, the drill will be delivered via Pelican in a large casing, after reaching the surface it will unpack itself and reveal a terminal.
• Activate Hive Breaker Drill
  • Helldivers must input a 5-direction code to activate the drill.
• Defend the drill
  • The drilling process will begin and the drill must be defended, if damaged too severely the drilling process will fail.
• Use drill interface to deploy Nuclear Payload.
  • Requires a single up-direction press on the terminal.
• Evacuate the area.
  • The drill will detonate after 10 seconds.

Tactical Information

• Failing the drill defense will return the drill to the initial deactivated state, instead of destroying it.
  • The drill may retain up to 50% of previous total progress when re-activated.
• After detonation, a very deep crater will be left in the terrain, falling in this crater kills the Helldiver.
• The Orbital EMS Strike is a very effective strategem for this mission, as it can nearly freeze Terminids attempting to destroy the Drill.

Media

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  A Hive Breaker Drill during the drilling process

Change History

Patch

Description

1.003.101
2025-06-10

Fix

• Fixed an issue with the drill not falling correctly for clients on the 'Nuke Nursery' mission

1.001.201
2024-10-29

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the hive breaker drill would become inaccessible when called in.
• Fixed an issue where the Nuke Nursery mission could not be progressed if two players called down the hive breaker drill at the same time.
• Fixed hive breaker drills getting dropped on top of bug corpses.
• Fixed the hive breaker drill terminals sometimes not being interactable.
• Fixed an issue with Hellpods landing deep underground on edges of Bug Nurseries during the 'Nuke Nurseries' missions.

1.001.100
2024-09-17

Fixes

• Fixed cases where the Hive Breaker drill might become inaccessible after being called in.
• Fixed issue of drill objective floating in air when hot joining an ongoing 'Nuke Nursery' mission.

1.001.002
2024-08-06

Fix

• Hive Breaker Drill now does damage when dropped in Nuke Nursery Chamber missions.

1.000.400
2024-06-13

Added to the game.

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Mission Objectives

Main Objectives

Eradicate Automaton Forces  •  Pump Fuel To ICBM  •  Terminate Illegal Broadcast  •  Eliminate Brood Commanders  •  Sabotage Supply Bases  •  Eliminate Devastators  •  Upload Escape Pod Data  •  Purge Hatcheries  •  Spread Democracy  •  Conduct Geological Survey  •  Activate E-710 Pumps  •  Destroy Transmission Network  •  Launch ICBM  •  Eliminate Chargers  •  Eradicate Terminid Swarm  •  Retrieve Valuable Data  •  Emergency Evacuation  •  Sabotage Air Base  •  Eliminate Automaton Hulks  •  Enable E-710 Extraction  •  Eliminate Bile Titans  •  Destroy Command Bunkers  •  Activate Terminid Control System  •  Retrieve Essential Personnel  •  Evacuate High-Value Assets  •  Eliminate Automaton Factory Strider  •  Blitz Search And Destroy/Automaton  •  Blitz Search And Destroy/Terminid  •  Earn Your Helldiver Cape  •  Deactivate Terminid Control System  •  Deploy Dark Fluid  •  Nuke Nursery  •  Neutralize Orbital Defenses  •  Evacuate Colonists  •  Retrieve Recon Craft Intel  •  Free Colony  •  Destroy Harvesters  •  Blitz: Destroy Illuminate Warp Ships  •  Eliminate Impaler  •  Blitz: Secure Research Site  •  Collect Gloom Spore Readings  •  Chart Terminid Tunnels  •  Collect Meteorological Data  •  Extract Research Probe Data  •  Collect Gloom-Infused Oil  •  Take Down Overship  •  Repel Invasion Fleet  •  Restore Air Quality  •  Cleanse Infested District

Optional Objectives

Terminate Illegal Broadcast  •  Upload Escape Pod Data  •  Anti-Air Emplacement  •  Shrieker Nest  •  Automaton Outpost  •  SEAF Artillery  •  SEAF SAM Site  •  Spore Spewer  •  Radar Station  •  Bug Nest  •  Gunship Facility  •  Detector Tower  •  Destroy Rogue Research Station  •  Mortar Emplacement  •  Stratagem Jammer  •  Stalker Lair  •  Enemy Bio-Processors  •  Retrieve Mutant Larva  •  Cognitive Disruptor  •  Illuminate Encampment  •  Purge Illuminate  •  Intercept Convoy