Permafrost: Return to Hunter’s Glade Walkthrough and Robyn’s Recording Location

In Horizon, Robyn offers the side quest Return to Hunter’s Glade. She wants you to retrieve an audio recording from the Hunter’s Glade lookout tower’s summit and deliver it to her cabin. The main quests also take you to the tower, so you can complete the errand on that visit.

Quick answer: Accept the side quest from Robyn in Horizon, climb to the cabin at the top of the Hunter’s Glade tower, pick up the Recording from the desk with F, then carry it back to Robyn and open the reward crate for +400 XP.

Get the quest from Robyn in Horizon

Robyn lives in the log cabin with the green hand banner inside Horizon. The side quest becomes available on her menu once the first Horizon quests are done, and it is on offer right after Horizon’s Kitchen.

Walk up to Robyn and press F to talk. Work through her conversation until the extra options appear.

Choose “Anything else I can help with?” She explains that a place in the woods called Hunter’s Glade used to be her base, and that a recording is waiting at the top of the tower there.

Pick “Yeah, why not. [Accept Side Quest]” from the three replies. The banner RETURN TO HUNTER’S GLADE appears with the objective “Find the recording Robyn asked for.”

Robyn's offer with Accept Side Quest — Choosing the Accept Side Quest reply in Robyn's conversation starts Return to Hunter's Glade. Image: SpaceRocket Games / via @MissPinkPlays

On the map, the quest shows as a marker inside a large circled area east of Horizon. Hovering it reads “Objectives: Bring back the recording from the Hunter’s Glade tower,” and the compass puts the tower roughly 500 metres from Horizon.

Map marker for the recording — The quest marker sits inside a wide circle on the map, pointing you toward the Hunter's Glade tower. Image: SpaceRocket Games / via @MissPinkPlays

Where the recording is in the Hunter’s Glade tower

Hunter’s Glade is the same destination the main quest The Outpost sends you to. At the tower, the location banner reads “HUNTER’S GLADE” followed by “ENTERING No Build Zone.”

Climb the metal stairs all the way up to the cabin on top of the tower.

Look at the long desk under the windows. Two items lie side by side, each with a “Press F to pick up” prompt: a Recipe and a Recording.

Recipe and Recording on the tower desk — The Recording and a Recipe note sit together on the tower desk beneath the windows. Image: SpaceRocket Games / via @MissPinkPlays

Press F on both. The Recipe unlocks Refined Flint Shiv, and the Recording registers as “New recording.” The objective then changes to “Return the recording to Robyn.”

The tower is where High Frequency has you go anyway, so take the side quest from Robyn before you leave Horizon for The Outpost and you can pick the tape up on the same climb, with no second walk.

Return the recording and claim the reward

Head back to Horizon and talk to Robyn again. The conversation about the tape plays out, and it turns out to be a message from her father. The objective becomes “Collect the reward.”

Find the crate marked QUEST REWARD by the fireplace in her cabin. Open it and press R to “Take all.”

Quest reward crate in Robyn's cabin — The QUEST REWARD crate next to Robyn's fireplace holds the quest payout. Image: SpaceRocket Games / via @MissPinkPlays

The centre of the screen shows the recipe banners and +400 XP, and the quest drops off your list. That XP line and the QUEST SUCCEEDED banner confirm the quest is done.

That same crate also pays out Robyn’s earlier quest if you have not opened it yet, so what you pull out depends on what you have already collected. One opening also surfaced RECIPE UNLOCKED: SURVIVOR’S UNIFORM alongside the XP.

What to pack for the trip

The route to the tower crosses open snow with Cold Zones nearby, and “BONE-CHILLING COLD” showed on leaving Horizon at dusk on Survival. Carry enough to keep yourself warm and fed before setting out.

Food to hold back hunger on the walk.
Materials for a Campfire, which costs 2 Stone plus Wood for fuel.
Any warm clothing you have to cut cold damage.