Guide
Wildlife Photography
The Wildlife Update put 34 animals in the world and a camera in your hands. This guide covers getting the camera, why a picture sometimes refuses to register, and where each species is actually placed.
Last updated Sep 22, 2026 (Build 1000)
Getting the camera
A camera that can capture nature's wildlife in all its splendor.
- Find the download for the Photo Camera blueprint in the Starting Level. The patch notes put it at a wildlife outpost in the first biome.
- Craft the camera from 3x Scrap Metal.
- Photographs land in a journal tab of their own, and are saved to your computer as well.
Filling the frame
A shot only counts once the animal covers enough of the picture, and the bar is set per species. A deer has to fill a hundred times more of the frame than a firefly does. These are the thresholds the game stores, as a share of the whole picture.
1%
Black Deer, Black Rabbit, Blue Crab, Brown Deer, Brown Rabbit, Butterflies Blue, Butterflies Green, Butterflies Orange, Butterflies White, Capybara, Crab, Female Duck, Flamingo, Male Duck, White Rabbit
0.5%
Dolphin, Exotic Heron, Grey Fox, Heron, Migrating Ducks, Red Fox
0.3%
Meerkat, Turtle Green, Turtle Orange
0.2%
Caveglimmer, Green Gecko, Purple Gecko, Red Gecko
0.1%
Crow, Oakrobin, Robin Red, Seagull
0.01%
Fireflies, Hawk
The files give these numbers no name of their own, so they are shown as the plain share of the frame that they are.
Where to look
The journal files each species under one biome, but that is a category, not a fence: crows perch in all four. Each biome map can draw every wildlife spot in it at once.
Starting Level
181 spots
Brown Rabbit12
Brown Deer9
Crow442
Red Fox6
Heron7
Oakrobin556
Butterflies Orange27
Butterflies Blue27
Butterflies White27
Migrating Ducks0
Caveglimmer12
Fireflies8
Pacific Coast
263 spots
Canyons
242 spots
Mountains
333 spots
Migrating Ducks has no fixed spot in the level files at all, and turns up as a passing event rather than in one place.
Questions
- How do you take photos in Outbound?
- You need the Photo Camera. Its blueprint is a download in the Starting Level, and the camera is then crafted from 3x Scrap Metal. The patch notes place that download at a wildlife outpost in the first biome. Point the camera at an animal, fill enough of the frame, and the shot is logged in the journal.
- Why does my photo not count in Outbound?
- Each species has a minimum share of the frame it has to fill. The most forgiving ask for 0.01% of it, and the most common threshold is 1%. If a shot does not register, zoom in or get closer rather than trying again from where you stand.
- How many animals can you photograph in Outbound?
- 34, filed in the journal by biome: 12 under Starting Level, 8 under Pacific Coast, 7 under Canyons, 7 under Mountains.
- Where do you find the animals in Outbound?
- The level files place wildlife at 1019 spots across the four biomes. Some are single animals put down by hand, some are perches and resting places that draw from a small list of species, and some are roaming areas. Every species page lists its own spots, and the biome maps can show them all at once.