# Help finding labs?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-finding-labs/18260
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [January 9, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-finding-labs/18260 "2019-01-09T10:07:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Tipic](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Tipic)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-finding-labs/18260/1 "2019-01-09T10:07:30Z")
I just started my first game of cataclysm in about two years, and I’ve noticed labs seem way harder to find now; so much so that I haven’t found a single one. The last time I played, I remember labs being so common that about 1/3 of my characters would spawn with a lab already revealed on the map. Now, I’ve spent my entire first season looking for one, and haven’t found a single one. I’ve driven past at least 30 towns/cities in my mobile base, and have looted 4 military bunkers, but have yet to see a single lab. So are they just incredibly rare now, or am I incredibly unlucky? Or do labs spawn differently now?
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### Author:  [@Junknown](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Junknown)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-finding-labs/18260/2 "2019-01-09T10:13:19Z")
What are your world settings? If you play in a world with highly unstandard parameters labs won’t always spawn.
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### Author:  [@Tamior](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Tamior)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 10:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-finding-labs/18260/3 "2019-01-09T10:38:58Z")
If you go to a refugee center and take quests from the local doctor, second quest is always leading to a lab. Well, assuming you have static NPCs enabled.
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### Author:  [@pikolinian](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pikolinian)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 10:50am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-finding-labs/18260/4 "2019-01-09T10:50:44Z")
with some mods lab entrances are in houses basements. Try explore map with debug mode - reveal overmap to see if it is a case (perhaps with new world if you don’t like spoilers)
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### Author:  [@Tipic](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Tipic)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-finding-labs/18260/5 "2019-01-09T22:38:52Z")
> Try explore map with debug mode - reveal overmap to see if it is a case (perhaps with new world if you don’t like spoilers)
I tried this, and miraculously, it revealed two labs in close proximity to me. I’m not sure how this is possible, given that the area that I actually explored is much, MUCH larger than the area I revealed with debug, but I guess I’ll chalk it up to really bad luck. Also, I’ll be sure to try that refugee center quest next time I have trouble finding a lab.
Thanks for the help everyone.
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### Author:  [@Petrol\_jelly](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Petrol_jelly)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-finding-labs/18260/6 "2019-01-13T06:17:40Z")
Not to be a bother but how do I turn on dubug mode? Ive gone into the debug section of the settings (thats were I expected it to be) but I found nothing sorry again for asking.
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### Author:  [@pikolinian](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pikolinian)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2019, 9:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-finding-labs/18260/7 "2019-01-13T09:30:33Z")
I meant use debug menu and choose reveal map option. “debug mode” was kind of shortcut 🙂
[http://cddawiki.chezzo.com/cdda\_wiki/index.php?title=Debug\_Menu](http://cddawiki.chezzo.com/cdda_wiki/index.php?title=Debug_Menu)
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### Author:  [@Petrol\_jelly](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Petrol_jelly)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2019, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-finding-labs/18260/8 "2019-01-13T09:33:58Z")
Thank you this is very helpful 🙂