Minor Place of Interest

Minor Place of Interest (also known as POI) are minor locations scattered around Helldivers 2 maps. They can contain various items for players to collect, with the amount that can scavenged varying with difficulty.

Locations and Icons

Minor Place of Interests can be found in multiple ways:

• When looking in the direction and being within a certain distance of one, a question mark icon appears on the compass. The exact distance depends on the size of the map:
  • Trivial size: 75m
  • Medium size: 250m
• On the minimap, hovering over places with the cursor. This method can be unreliable.
• Completing the Radar Station side objective (highlights all POIs on the map).

When found, the icons of Minor Place of Interests will change on the minimap if it was sufficiently looted:

• contains Samples
• contains no Samples

On Challenging and above, enemies can be present at most Minor Place of Interests. On Suicide Mission and above, enemies can occupy them, along with their appearances changing, such as adding structures like Barbed Wire or Cannon Turrets.

Amounts of Minor Place of Interest per Difficulty:

• Trivial: 0 - 13
• Easy: 4 - 13
• Medium: 4 - 13
• Challenging:
• Hard: ~16
• Extreme:
• Suicide Mission: ~17
• Impossible: ~17
• Helldive:

Special Loot

Most Minor Place of Interests feature a special loot vessel. A Pod has space for 1, a Cargo Container has space for 2, and a Bunker has space for 3 with possible additional Supplies inside.

Special Loot may be one of the following:

• a Support Weapon
• a case of 10 or 100 Super Credits
• a Requisition Slip, containing 100 Requisition
• a case of 1-3 Medals
• an undocumented Rare Sample

An undocumented Rare Sample is a sample that doesn't count towards the sample limit counter located on the top right corner during a mission.

The Pod can be opened by saluting it, the Container can be shot with certain weapons and explosives, and the Bunker requires 2 Helldivers to open: Current list of Weapons that can open the Container:

• Primary Weapons:
  • R-36 Eruptor
• Secondary Weapons:
  • GP-31 Grenade Pistol
• Support Weapons:
  • GL-21 Grenade Launcher
  • RS-422 Railgun (the suicide explosion of unsafe mode to be clear)
• A nearby explosion, such as from an Explosive Barrel or stratagems
• Any Hellpod, however aiming the stratagem beacon to land at the door is very difficult

Types

There are various types of Minor Place of Interests.

Minor Place of Interest

Type	Image	Variation	Special Loot Container	Supplies	Looted when	Lore Interactables	Notes
Damaged Hellbomb		Charger (Terminid planets only)	No	* 0-1 Support Weapon		Words Scribbled on Bomb	May detonate Hellbomb with any damage
Damaged Hellbomb		Helldiver	No	* 0-1 Support Weapon		Words Scribbled on Bomb
Graves		N/A	No	* 0-1 Ammo Boxes * 0-1 Common Sample		Communications Device
Ground Stash		Empty	No	Nothing		Hastily Written Note
Ground Stash		Empty + Corpse	No	Nothing		Hastily Written Note
Ground Stash		Stim + Grenades + Weapon	No	* 2 Stim Crates * 1 Grenade Case * 1 Support Weapon
Ground Stash		Ammo + Weapon	No	* 4 Ammo Boxes * 1 Support Weapon
Ground Stash		Ammo	No	* 4 Ammo Boxes
Silvery Rock
L Shaped House
Elevated House
Destroyed House
Farm
Greenhouse
Corn Farm
Crashed Ship
Junkyard
Bunker
Underground Cache
Entrenchment
Checkpoint
Valley
Two Houses