DEATH STRANDING

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Trail-Blazer

Trail-Blazer

Upgrade all types of structure to the maximum level.

10 XP

0.1%

How to unlock the Trail-Blazer achievement in DEATH STRANDING - Definitive Guide

Need to get all buildings to level three for this one and it can't be finished til the end of Chapter 5.

• Bridge
• Generator
• Postbox
• Safe House
• Zip-line
• Timefall Shelter
• Watchtower.

The easiest way to do this is to choose a city that's not far from a lot of other Locations and not far from other cities. (I chose just outside of South Knot City). Build a Watchtower first then upgrade it to level three, this way you can see materials further away.
Then build and upgrade the postbox next door to it. Build a timefall shelter behind these two. Upgrade it to 3.

Those are the best three to start with. If you use the second road fabricator to build nearby, The shelter should generate more likes for you as it's near an timefall hotzone.

Build You Zipline so it links up to Mama's one and upgrade it to two. Then start on your Safehouse (build it next to the postbox) and try to upgrade it to 2 (or as close to two as you can get it).

If you need materials, raid every NPC safehouse and City as you do standard deliveries. At this point both the Safehouse and Zipline are level two. Focus on the safehouse as it requires more materials. Once that is level three. Chose a location nearby and build a bridge (somewhere people are likely to use it), if you don't mind a trio, north of the Photographer is a set of deep rivers. You can build and upgrade one there last of all to generate easy likes.

Upgrade the zip-line to 3 and now finish the bridges uogrades as the materials are really easy to find out in the wilds and inside cities and safehouses.

Focus on your own buildings as I helped upgrade another players bridge to level 3 and it didn't unlock until I'd done my own one. Just to be safe, focus on your own.
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21 Nov 2019 02:53

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Contrary to what is said above, upgrading other players' structures to level 3 does count towards the completion of this trophy. But you need to be the one making the upgrade, you can't just contribute to it.
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By The_Taulier on 27 Dec 2019 10:39
Just to comment further on the above, upgrading other peoples structures does go towards the trophy, but upgrading NPC’s structures (e.g. the watchtower outside Capital Knot City) does not go towards the trophy.
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By w_n_gaming on 07 Feb 2023 19:56
I also unlocked the Trophie by upgrading other player's structures to level 3.
Try find one that's nearly level 3 and get the materials needed to complete, if you're lucky enough to find any.
You can keep track of this under: World Map :opt: > :left: > Bridge Links > :x: on your PSN ID > Structures. It will be half way down left side.
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By DjBatfink on 31 Dec 2019 20:26
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@SolaceCreed 's post is great. I just wanted to add some color since this one gave me fits, and I spent way too long repeating my work.

TLDR; DO NOT upgrade NPC structures. Make sure they're yours, or another player's. Green ones.

I started this right after beating the game while at Capital Knot City. There were plenty of resources there, and I could zip to the Waystation West of Capital Knot pretty easily. AND I hit the jackpot because there was an L2 Shelter right there next to the Waystation.

I upgraded already existing structures in that area which seems to have been confirmed as acceptable here and elsewhere. Had one of each structure on the 4th tab in my Bridge Link page, but still nothing.
Spent an hour lugging Special Alloys, to another Shelter that was L1. My thought was I still needed to get each structure from 1 to 2 on my own. Still nothing. Got it to L3 myself thinking maybe it had to be the same one which took twice as many trips. Nothing. Then it occurred to me that when I started, the Postbox I upgraded was built by the Capital Knot Captain(?). Built a Postbox and upgraded with 800 metals that were just around. And pop. So stupid. Learn from my mistake. Don't be like me.

Here are the costs for each structure if you're checking which area might have the most nearby loot before you start building.

Bridge 0 / 96 / 500 CCrystal 800 / 1600 / 2800 Metals
Generator 0 / 0 / 100 CC 0 / 400 / 400 Metals
Postbox 0 / 0 / 0 CC 0 / 200 / 600 Metals
Safehouse 300 / 500 / 1000 CC 2400 / 4500 / 6840 Special Alloys
Timefall Shelter 0 / 32 / 300 CC 0 / 400 / 1200 Metals
Watchtower 0 / 32 / 150 CC 0 / 400 / 800 Metals
Zip-line 0 / 0 / 300 CC 0 / 240 / 1440 Chemicals 0 / 480 / 1440 Spec Alloy
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You can see what you have already improved in your player card in the build menu
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13 Nov 2019 02:00

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After opening the cable, you can improve all the buildings. It’s better to do it near the terminal, install your own or improve other people’s buildings to level 3. A lot of resources are required just for the cable and the base
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By limlex on 15 Nov 2019 10:25
According to the plot, when you are given a cable, “MOM” will offer to test it and 3 cable supports will already be built near her shelter, do not improve them, they do not count towards the trophy, although they are listed in the statistics of the most improved structures.
The plot base can be improved.
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By Grad on 20 Nov 2019 19:59
Mailbox
Lv.1 - Phk
Lv.2 - Metals 200
Lv.3 - Metals 600

Cable
Lv.1 - Phk(Lv.2)
Level 2 - Chemicals 240 / Special alloys 480
Lv.3 - Chiral Crystals 300 / Chemicals 1440 / Special Alloys 1440

Tower
Lv.1 - Phk
Lv.2 - Chiral Crystals 32 / Metals 400
Lv.3 - Chiral Crystals 150 / Metals 800

Generator
Lv.1 - Phk
Lv.2 - Metals 400
Lv.3 - Chiral Crystals 100 / Metals 400

Shelter from the rain
Lv.1 - Phk
Lv.2 - Chiral Crystals 32 / Metals 400
Lv.3 - Chiral Crystals 300 / Metals 1200

Bridge
Foundation - Pkhk
Lv.1 - Metals 800
Lv.2 - Chiral Crystals 96 / Metals 1600
Lv.3 - Chiral Crystals 500 / Metals 2800

Base
Foundation - Phk(Lv.2)
Lv.1 - Chiral Crystals 300 / Special Alloys 2400
Lv.2 - Chiral Crystals 500 / Special Alloys 4560
Lv.3 - Chiral Crystals 1000 / Special Alloys 6840

Buildings added to Director's Cut

Cargo catapult
Lv.1 - Phk(Lv.2)
Lv.2 - Resins 320 / Chemicals 240
Lv.3 - Resins 960 / Chemicals 720

Chiral bridge
Lv.1 - Phk(Lv.2)
Lv.2 - Chiral crystals 720 / Special alloys 120
Level 3 - Chiral crystals 1440 / Resins 240 / Special alloys 240

Jumping ramp
Lv.1 - Phk(Lv.2)
Lv.2 - Chiral crystals 480 / Special alloys 240
Level 3 - Chiral crystals 960 / Resins 480 / Special alloys 480
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By Farvbyl on 03 Dec 2019 18:17
Do this when you pump all nodes of the central region to the maximum, then in the distributor of Ozerny, Ozerny, and Southern nodes there will be 10k materials each. Immediately leave the base and build, you don’t even have to bother improving other people’s buildings, you’ll have more than enough materials for your own. The trophy took 15 minutes. The buildings can then be removed from the map by holding down the triangle; you don’t even have to approach them if you don’t have enough network points.
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By Fanquery on 27 Apr 2020 13:17
I recommend building a shelter near the Paleontologist.
When pumping it to 5 stars, for each order delivered it will give out 1200 special alloys, light ones. By the end of the game, I had about 10 of these barrels, which is 12,000 special alloys. + you can also pull him out of his shelter, there are about 6 thousand there. Enough for a fully upgraded shelter
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By AlexIvanovRus on 05 Dec 2020 11:56
It was like that for me. The last ones to improve were my bridge and someone else's base.
The trophy did not drop, although all modifications were included in the statistics to the maximum.
The construction of the plot base was counted because... They gave a trophy for all the buildings.
When I went into the stats of buildings (max. improved buildings were all 1), I saw on the right side a list of all buildings except the base.
Building and improving the base from scratch helped.
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By HardWitcher on 04 Apr 2020 12:16
The most favorable places for construction and improvement are places near the MULE camp (ideally, so that some other node is within walking distance. This will make it easier and faster to obtain materials for particularly expensive buildings, simply by stealing them from the MULEs and receiving them at the node.
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By Jazz013 on 09 Jan 2022 10:30
An easy trophy, I made it in 15 minutes: after pumping it to 5 stars, I unloaded everything that could fit into the truck from the Distributor south of Ozyorny and went to the South Knot. There is plenty of space right at the Yuzhny border - both a base and a bridge will fit. Build everything there is enough materials for from the Distributor south of Ozyorny, then pull out as much as you need from the South (the tip from Farvbyl above is very helpful).
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By galactus_futura on 06 Jul 2022 21:42
Try to improve only your buildings or NPC buildings, because I decided to cheat and improve the buildings of other players, in the end they didn’t give me the trophy, but after I improved 3 of my buildings, they suddenly give it! In general, it’s a glitchy trophy if you don’t improve yours!
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By P0GAN1Y on 15 Jun 2020 18:20
You can improve the buildings of other players. The main thing is to make sure that this is the building of another player, and not an NPC. Upgrading NPC buildings does not count towards the trophy, although it is displayed in the improvement statistics
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By wism on 06 Jul 2020 10:57
I recommend building and upgrading a base near a node with materials, because... To pump, you will have to transport resources by truck. If you are bringing materials from another place, you can find out how much metals/ceramics/crystals are missing by looking at the map (mouse over the building)
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By redSnake on 07 Jan 2020 10:02
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Trophy is potentially glitchy
You need to build and improve it YOURSELF
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13 Nov 2019 04:20

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1.9 update. improved other people's buildings, mainly those that were already level 2 - the trophy fell without problems
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By Necrojazzz on 27 Jan 2020 07:53