How to find Oil Samples and unlock School Room in Road to Vostok

The School Room is one of six shelters available in Road to Vostok, and it's arguably the hardest one to unlock. The condition is tied to finding three Oil Samples that are all located on the Terminal map. The Terminal is in Vostok, which is a permadeath zone. In simple words, your game is truly over if you die. Let's figure out how you can find these samples to get yourself a shelter in Vostok.How to get Oil Samples in Road to Vostok Before we deep dive into the process, the School Room can be unlocked with a key. You can get this key if you're lucky. Whether you find it or not is based on your luck, but you don't have to work hard to find the samples. If you don't want to rely on your luck, read on. The Oil Samples are all located on the Terminal map, so you'll need to have access to Vostok. From Outpost, you'll first need to go to Minefield. This is an extremely dangerous area as it's filled with mines. To reduce your risks of dying, you should stick to the edge of the map. You'll still find mines, but they will be fewer in number. The mines, honestly, are not a big problem if you're careful. The actual problem is the AI enemies that patrol these locations. Once you reach the Apartments from Minefield, you'll be able to reach the Terminal. There are several NPCs that can shred you if you're not careful. Image via Road to Vostok Ideally, you'll want to use one of the large tanks in Terminal to scout the area. However, I have always found enemies patrolling them, which means that you'll need to be on your toes. To make matters more difficult, the exact locations of the tanks will be different. However, the samples will always spawn at the Terminal, which is some solace. You can bring all three together or across multiple runs. Finding all three in a single run is difficult, but going to the Terminal multiple times isn't fun either. Image via Road to Vostok Typically, you'll find these samples near and under the pipes in Terminal. I found them between the large tanks, and yes, there are enemies around. Hence, you'll have to be swift when adding the samples to your inventory. Once you manage to bring all three samples, you'll be able to unlock the School Room shelter. It's the best choice if you're looking to farm medicine, which is almost always necessary to have. Hence, the risk is worth the rewards. However, just go the lucky route and hope to find the key from random drops if you don't want to risk a permadeath. There are five more shelters you get to unlock to save your resources and in-game progression on your journey. The post How to find Oil Samples and unlock School Room in Road to Vostok appeared first on Destructoid.

Apr 12, 2026 - 08:28

How to find Oil Samples and unlock School Room in Road to Vostok

The School Room is one of six shelters available in Road to Vostok, and it's arguably the hardest one to unlock. The condition is tied to finding three Oil Samples that are all located on the Terminal map. The Terminal is in Vostok, which is a permadeath zone. In simple words, your game is truly over if you die.

Let's figure out how you can find these samples to get yourself a shelter in Vostok.

How to get Oil Samples in Road to Vostok

Before we deep dive into the process, the School Room can be unlocked with a key. You can get this key if you're lucky. Whether you find it or not is based on your luck, but you don't have to work hard to find the samples. If you don't want to rely on your luck, read on.

The Oil Samples are all located on the Terminal map, so you'll need to have access to Vostok. From Outpost, you'll first need to go to Minefield. This is an extremely dangerous area as it's filled with mines. To reduce your risks of dying, you should stick to the edge of the map. You'll still find mines, but they will be fewer in number.

The mines, honestly, are not a big problem if you're careful. The actual problem is the AI enemies that patrol these locations. Once you reach the Apartments from Minefield, you'll be able to reach the Terminal. There are several NPCs that can shred you if you're not careful.

Image via Road to Vostok Ideally, you'll want to use one of the large tanks in Terminal to scout the area. However, I have always found enemies patrolling them, which means that you'll need to be on your toes. To make matters more difficult, the exact locations of the tanks will be different.

However, the samples will always spawn at the Terminal, which is some solace. You can bring all three together or across multiple runs. Finding all three in a single run is difficult, but going to the Terminal multiple times isn't fun either.

Image via Road to Vostok Typically, you'll find these samples near and under the pipes in Terminal. I found them between the large tanks, and yes, there are enemies around. Hence, you'll have to be swift when adding the samples to your inventory.

Once you manage to bring all three samples, you'll be able to unlock the School Room shelter. It's the best choice if you're looking to farm medicine, which is almost always necessary to have. Hence, the risk is worth the rewards. However, just go the lucky route and hope to find the key from random drops if you don't want to risk a permadeath.

There are five more shelters you get to unlock to save your resources and in-game progression on your journey.

The post How to find Oil Samples and unlock School Room in Road to Vostok appeared first on Destructoid.

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