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The Merlies Guide

How to Beat Cable & Billboard Climbing

Recommended Preparation

Biome

Overgrown City Ruins

Difficulty

Medium

How to Unlock

The signature traversal of the ruins: "climb electric cables and fallen billboards" is named verbatim in the official store description. Human structures become the flock's high roads through the overgrown city.

Unlock

Human structures

How to Get It: Found throughout the city ruins — sagging power lines, collapsed billboards, rusted frames. Like mushrooms, they are terrain, not equipment; the gate is your squad's comfort on vertical human-made surfaces.

How It Works

The Old World's Ladders

Cables and billboards invert the ruins: what was infrastructure overhead becomes the safest footing in the district. Official screenshots show the flock lined along a fallen billboard's face and birds strung along cables like laundry — climbing lines that replace stairs for creatures the size of a fist.

Wind, Weight and Width

Details like sway or weight limits have not been published; what the official media shows is slow, single-file climbing with frequent regrouping. Treat cables as commitment: halfway across, turning back costs as much as finishing.

Billboard faces double as wide rest platforms — plan regroup points on them, not on thin cable spans.

How to Use It

Ruins Route Planning

  • Trace cables before climbing: they link rooftop to rooftop across the streets.
  • Use fallen billboards as the district's staircases between ground and roof levels.
  • Mark the cable entry points closest to the village for fast scrap-run loops.

Last updated: September 27, 2026

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