All RDA Installations locations
Small polluting rigs of nine types: Dredger x5, Drill Tower x3, Gas Collector x5, Hydro Injector x5, Laser Prospector x3, Pneumatic Prospector x3, Pneumatic Tower x5, Seismic Scanner x2, VSM Installation x4.
- Total in game
- 81
- Type
- RDA sites
- Reward
- Restores nature and raises Air Quality.
What are RDA Installations?
Shown on the in-game map: yes (brown pollution visible even under fog).
How to collect them
- 1
Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage each highlighted part.
- 2
Three are destroyed in the story.
Every location
Tick each one off as you go. Your progress is shared with the map.
0/81 found
Kinglor Forest13
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Pneumatic Tower Echo
Destroyed as part of the story (Welcome to the Resistance).
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Gas Collector Charlie
Destroyed as part of the story (main questline).
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Hydro Injector Delta
Destroyed as part of the story (Last Strike).
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Hydro Injector Bravo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Dredger Delta
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Drill Tower Charlie
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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VSM Installation Bravo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Pneumatic Tower Alpha
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Dredger Alpha
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Laser Prospector Charlie
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Gas Collector Echo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Gas Collector Delta
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Seismic Scanner Alpha
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
Upper Plains15
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Drill Tower Bravo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Dredger Charlie
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Pneumatic Prospector Charlie
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Laser Prospector Delta
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Pneumatic Tower Charlie
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Dredger Echo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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VSM Installation Delta
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Gas Collector Bravo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Pneumatic Tower Delta
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Hydro Injector Echo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Laser Prospector Bravo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Pneumatic Prospector Alpha
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Hydro Injector Alpha
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Seismic Scanner Bravo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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VSM Installation Alpha
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
Clouded Forest7
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Pneumatic Prospector Bravo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Dredger Bravo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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VSM Installation Charlie
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Pneumatic Tower Bravo
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Gas Collector Alpha
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Drill Tower Alpha
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
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Hydro Injector Charlie
Small unwalled mining rig with no perimeter wall and light patrols. Scan with Na'vi Senses and sabotage every highlighted weak point.
Heart of the Plains21
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Processing Outpost Alpha
Abandoned site you raid during the main quest The Great Games (underwater rotor, flooded pipes). Only open during that quest; it holds the AMP Defender Requisition voice memo.
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Drill Facility Alpha
First target of Sleeping Giants. Restore power to the doors, get into the control room and sabotage the central refinery.
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Command Station Delta
Lt. Price's command station (Spokes on the Wheel). Also holds one of the stolen Zeswa drums.
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Horizontal Miner Delta
Second Sleeping Giants target. Power the doors, stop the ventilation fan, turn four valves and overload the drill from the control room.
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Fueling Station Alpha
Fuel depot you sabotage by pulling the generator levers. One stolen drum and the Black Market Intake Manifest note are here.
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Fueling Station Charlie
One of Lt. Price's sites; note on the west side by the helicopter.
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Comms Outpost Alpha
The camp where you first meet So'lek; loot sits in its tents.
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Support Outpost Alpha
One of Lt. Hinckley's sites; also holds a stolen Zeswa drum.
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Comms Outpost Bravo
One of Lt. Hinckley's sites; small tent camp.
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Command Station Alpha
Island fortress in the Stone Circle. Lt. Porter's base in the main story; there is a data-pad access code puzzle inside.
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Command Station Charlie
Lt. Hinckley's command station; a long stealth route ends in his fight.
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Refinery Processor Delta
Main quest Shadows in the Night: slip in through the oil pipeline and destroy it from the inside. Sits south of Clouded Ridge.
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Command Station Bravo
Lt. Slate's command station. Hack the two antenna terminals and overload the antenna to bring her out.
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Support Outpost Bravo
One of Lt. Slate's sites; hack the sensors (they sometimes glitch) and hit the equipment container in the middle.
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Fueling Station Bravo
One of Lt. Slate's sites; there is a log on a crate by the south gate.
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Aerial Defense Station Bravo
Wrong Frequency finale: break the 5 fuse boxes, then overload the antenna from the control room. Also hides a stolen drum.
Support Outpost Charlie
One of Lt. Price's three sites (Spokes on the Wheel).
Drill Facility Bravo
First abandoned site you search in the side quest Flight Path.
Seismic Scanner Charlie
Second abandoned site in Flight Path.
Drill Facility Charlie
Third Flight Path site; leads to the crashed aircraft's cargo.
Operating Base Alpha
Harding's base, only open during the final quest The Bitter End. It has a field lab, two RDA briefing audio logs and a legendary Jackhammer Shotgun in Harding's Valkyrie.
Spires of the Clouded Forest25
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Grinder Facility Omega
The huge terraced mining complex in the north-east corner. You assault it in the final main quest, The Fight for Home. You need the chiroptera-hide ikran armor to get past its perimeter turrets. The sub-area is inferred; the wiki only says north-east.
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Surveyor Processing Hub
An RDA hub built inside a cave in the north of Tangled Peaks. It keeps rebuilding the survey sites until you destroy it during Ear to the Ground.
Stone Processor Charlie
RDA ore-processing facility. Holds the audio log about Commander Bruno's psych assessment. Can be cleared fully by stealth.
Stone Processor Delta
RDA ore-processing facility. Holds the Grinder engineer's audio memo. Can be cleared fully by stealth.
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Extraction Refinery Charlie
Mining installation in Splintered Arches. Has an audio log. Coming back after you clear it triggers the side quest Scientific Curiosity.
Extraction Refinery Alpha
One of the seven Spires mining installations. No written location found.
VSM Facility Alpha
Mining installation. Holds the note about Bruno's custom Valkyrie.
VSM Facility Bravo
Mining installation. Holds the first xenobiology survey audio log.
VSM Facility Charlie
One of the seven Spires mining installations. No written location found.
Seismic Scanner Charlie
Seismic scanning installation. No written location found.
Seismic Scanner Echo
Seismic scanning installation. No written location found.
Comms Relay Alpha
RDA tower that holds the canyon stormglider threat note. Its exact spot is not documented in text.
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Convoy Watchtower Bravo
South-east of Sheltering Falls, just east of a crashed airship that holds an audio log. The sub-area is inferred.
Convoy Watchtower Alpha
RDA watchtower that Dragon patrol convoys guard and resupply. Shoot it down from your ikran with the mounted crossbow. No written location found.
Convoy Watchtower Charlie
RDA watchtower that Dragon patrol convoys guard and resupply. Shoot it down from your ikran with the mounted crossbow. No written location found.
Convoy Watchtower Delta
RDA watchtower that Dragon patrol convoys guard and resupply. Shoot it down from your ikran with the mounted crossbow. No written location found.
Convoy Watchtower Echo
RDA watchtower that Dragon patrol convoys guard and resupply. Shoot it down from your ikran with the mounted crossbow. No written location found.
Convoy Watchtower Juliet
RDA watchtower that Dragon patrol convoys guard and resupply. Shoot it down from your ikran with the mounted crossbow. No written location found.
Convoy Watchtower Kilo
RDA watchtower that Dragon patrol convoys guard and resupply. Shoot it down from your ikran with the mounted crossbow. No written location found.
Convoy Watchtower Lima
RDA watchtower that Dragon patrol convoys guard and resupply. Shoot it down from your ikran with the mounted crossbow. No written location found.
Patrol Comms Tower Alpha
RDA patrol communications tower. No written location found.
Patrol Comms Tower Bravo
RDA patrol communications tower. No written location found.
Patrol Comms Tower Charlie
RDA patrol communications tower. No written location found.
Patrol Comms Tower Delta
RDA patrol communications tower. No written location found.
Patrol Comms Tower Juliet
RDA patrol communications tower. No written location found.
Related achievements
Little by Little
Destroy 10 RDA installations.
Reclaim Pandora
Reach 100% Air Quality by clearing all 35 installations, 19 outposts and 3 bases.
Avatar map FAQ
How many RDA Installations are there in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora?
We track 81 RDA Installations: 13 in Kinglor Forest, 15 in Upper Plains, 7 in Clouded Forest, 21 in Heart of the Plains, 25 in Spires of the Clouded Forest. Restores nature and raises Air Quality.
Which achievement is linked to RDA Installations?
Little by Little: Destroy 10 RDA installations. Reclaim Pandora: Reach 100% Air Quality by clearing all 35 installations, 19 outposts and 3 bases.