Escape From Tarkov: Lighthouse Rework And New Tasks

One of the most hated maps in Escape From Tarkov is Lighthouse. Ever since its release back in 2022, players have had issues with how poor the map ran, how wide open its center is, and how unbalanced the Rogues are for Bear players.

After some months of promises, Battlestate Games has finally released the Lighthouse Rework and brought with it new tasks to Escape From Tarkov. Here’s every new task and Lighthouse changes.

Lighthouse Map Changes

Here is the main list of changes now live on Lighthouse:

• Water Treatment Plant no longer has any Rogues, mines, nor stationary weapons. The Rogues are now roaming around the mountain chalets in the center of the map.
• There is a new area with loot and cover right in the middle of the road that bisects the map.
• An underground area has been added, taking players from the Side Tunnel co-op extract to the Southern Road extraction point.
• There are now Lighthouse specific caches on top of the usual Jaeger Buried Caches. These contain gear that was abandoned by the Rogues.
• The Marked Room was moved from the Lightkeeper Peninsula to the middle of the Water Treatment Plant.
• Prapor’s Camp has been relocated to a new area on top of the rocks by the Southern Road extraction.
• A transition to Icebreaker has been added by the Docks. It now requires a new item instead of Roubles.
• There is a new Task chain started by Prapor that is apparently temporary.
• The BTR has been added to Lighthouse. It has 8 stops in total, covering the entire map from Southern Road to Northern Checkpoint.

On top of all these changes to the map, BSG also reworked how Lightkeeper functions. Players who want to access Lightkeeper now need to progress the Tour quest until they can access Lighthouse from the menu (giving 20k USD to Mechanic) and reach loyalty level 3 with all Traders, except for Ref and Fence.

Once they’ve done that, talking with Mechanic will start the To the Light questline, eventually leading to unlocking the Lightkeeper.

Lastly, most map resources are still updating Lighthouse to the new version, but Re3mr have already updated their 3d render, including the BTR stops and the new Rogue Caches. Check it out here.

Temporary Changes

We’re not sure how temporary the new taskline is. BSG simply described it as so in the patch notes, but they haven’t given us any specific dates. They might line up with the Kordbreach tasks, which means they’d become unavailable once the season ends.

Prapor’s questline, starting with Fog of War, will eventually lead to some juicy rewards, so that one is certainly worth completing. We’ll have a guide for it soon.

Beyond this, Lighthouse now has a red skull mark on the menu because Glukhar and his minions have taken over the Water Treatment Plant. He is at 100% spawn rate for now and will show up either in the middle of the Plant or around building 2.