Borderlands 4 (BL4): Contracts Board Locations & Interactive Tracking Guide

Contract Boards are the repeatable mission kiosks that power Borderlands 4's Eridium economy — 17 boards placed inside Safehouses and Faction Towns across all four regions of Kairos.

Every Contract Board location is marked on the interactive maps for all Borderlands 4 regions, with direct links to each board's exact position.

What Contract Boards Do in Borderlands 4

Contract Boards dispense short, repeatable missions that refresh periodically — a continuous source of XP, cash, and Eridium throughout the campaign and deep into endgame.

Unlike Side Missions, contracts are not tracked as part of the story mission count and do not need to be completed for story progression. They exist independently as an optional but lucrative parallel activity that scales with your Vault Hunter's level.

Up to 5 contracts can be active simultaneously — across all Contract Boards on Kairos, not per board. Accepting 5 at once from boards concentrated in the same region allows efficient back-to-back completion before returning to refresh the queue.

Six Contract Types

Contracts fall into six categories, ranging in difficulty and reward:

• Bounty (eliminate specific enemies)
• Vile Bounty (eliminate Vile-tier enemies — see below)
• Patrol (reach a location and clear the area)
• Collect (retrieve dropped items)
• Acquire (find and secure specific resources)
• Trace (track down targets across a region)

Patrol, Collect, Acquire, and Trace contracts complete quickly and with minimal combat; Bounty contracts require hunting Named Enemies or Badass enemy variants.

Mix contract types based on current loadout and location to maximise efficiency per session.

Vile Bounties: The Endgame Upgrade

Standard contracts — displayed in blue — provide modest Eridium rewards alongside XP and cash.

Vile Bounties — displayed in purple — are a higher-tier contract type that only appear on boards after completing the main story campaign and unlocking Ultimate Vault Hunter Rank 1.

Each completed Vile Bounty yields significantly more Eridium per run and includes a Reward Chest with approximately a 25% chance of dropping a Legendary item.

Fast-travelling between Contract Boards across all regions to collect every available purple contract before completing them in clusters is the most efficient Eridium farming route in the game — yielding enough Eridium per hour to fund multiple Moxxi's Big Encore runs and Specialization respecs.

The Trophy Requirement: 80 Contracts

Completing any 80 contracts across all boards unlocks the Freelance, but Not for Free trophy and achievement.

The 80 can be any combination of contract types — standard and Vile Bounties both count. Since contracts refresh continuously, the 80-contract total is reachable through normal campaign play without dedicated grinding, particularly if boards are checked regularly at each Safehouse visit.

Do not rush toward story completion without visiting Contract Boards along the way — establishing the habit early reduces the time required for the trophy significantly.

First Contract Board: Coastal Bonescape

The first Contract Board becomes available at the Abandoned Post Safehouse in Coastal Bonescape — the opening Safehouse of the campaign.

Contract access unlocks the moment this Safehouse is reached, making contracts available from the very first hours of the game. Every subsequent Safehouse and Faction Town encountered through the campaign adds another board to the network.

All Contract Board Locations in Borderlands 4

All 17 Contract Boards are inside Safehouses and Faction Towns across every region:

• The Howl — 2 boards
• Coastal Bonescape — 1 board (Abandoned Post, first board in the game)
• Idolator's Noose — 2 boards
• Lopside — 1 board
• Tonnage Peel — 1 board
• Ruined Sumplands — 2 boards
• Stoneblood Forest — 1 board
• Cuspid Climb — 2 boards
• The Low Leys — 1 board
• Windspear — 1 board
• Carcadia District — 1 board
• Terminus District — 1 board
• Fades District — 1 board

Every board's exact Safehouse or Faction Town position is in the interactive guide below and marked on our maps.