Usually, you race against the villains to get to one before they do.

Its boring, but it works.

So it’s time to answer some of those questions.

Claptrap cheering behind an enemy in Borderlands 4.

What are the Vaults?

What’s inside them?

Read below to find out.

Borderlands 3 image showing the valkyrie squad, sigrdrifa and rota

This article contains spoilers for the series as a whole, but particularly for Borderlands 3.

What Are The Vaults?

They were typically hidden away, requiring considerable work to uncover and special keys to open.

Split images of characters in Borderlands games

What Are Vault Hunters?

Typically, Vault Hunters are alsothe playable characters in each Borderlands game.

There have been 20 playable Vault Hunters so far.

A hand holding a Psycho Mask from Borderlands.

Brick, Lilith, Mordecai, and Roland were featured in Borderlands.

But who are they?

Borderlands 3 added Amara, FL4K, Moze, and Zane to the roster.

The Eridian Eleseer Sentinel, the upper body of a stone humanoid figure with three rotating alien faces.

What Is Inside The Vaults?

From a gameplay perspective,every Vault contains considerable loot for the player.

It has multiple chests, each holding the chance for some top-tier loot.

Action scene from borderlands 3 featuring enemies rushing the players.

Some Vaults, however, are more like prisons for especially dangerous creatureslike The Destroyer or The Ravager.

How Many Vaults Are There?

The simple truth is thatwe don’t know how many Vaults there are.

The Destroyer from Borderlands being introduced on a splash card with its name in large font.

Is Pandora A Vault?

The Borderlands series has had sequels, pre-sequels, spin-offs - but which one is the best?

A floating Eridian symbol on a stone diamond.

Borderlands 3 Pandora as seen from space.

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