There's a lot to take in and discover when playing Borderlands 3, and even returning fans may not realize several key elements to the game that aren't explicitly told to you. We've rounded up several noteworthy mechanics and elements to Borderlands 3 that the game doesn't outright tell you, which you can view below.

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How to Unlock Weapon and Item Slots
When you start Borderlands 3, you'll only be able to swap between two equipped weapons, and will only have access to a grenade and shield - so when does everything else unlock? Over the course of the game you'll eventually get two more weapon slots, as well as Class Mods and Artifacts to equip as well. Depending on how fast your moving through areas, you may even start finding items you cant even equip yet.
These unlocks are tied to completing story quests, so here's when you can expect to unlock them.

• Your Third Weapon Slot will unlock after leaving Pandora for the first time, completing the Taking Flight and Sanctuary quests at are your 4th and 5th main missions.
• Your Class Mod Slot will unlock after helping Rhys out on Promethea and defeating the boss and completing the quest Hostile Takeover, which is your 6th main mission.
• Your Fourth Weapon Slot will unlock after completing the first vault mission in the main story, Beneath the Meridian, which is the 10th main mission.
• Finally, your slot for Artifacts will only unlock after taking on another Vault quest called Cold as the Grave, which is the 16th main mission.

Regions are (Mostly) Level-Locked
As you journey across the stars in Borderlands, you'll find out pretty early on that enemies will stick a certain level range when entering new areas and taking on missions. This means that - for the most part - if you pass on a side mission and go back later, you'll likely find both the difficulty and rewards well below your level.
Similarly, if you dash on ahead through main missions as fast as you can, you may start encountering enemies well above your own level, and all the loot they drop may also be unavailable to equip until you can catch up, which can really suck!
Because of this, it's worth your while to stop and smell the flowers - and by that we mean take on side missions, scope out challenges, and generally explore and do whatever you can before moving onto the next area. Certain side missions will appear in areas before or after completing a main mission in that area, so be sure to look around and make sure you don't miss anything.
However, once you reach certain story beats that may return you to past areas, and when you beat the game, enemies in older zones will sometimes increase in difficulty to a certain point. Beyond this, enabling Mayhem Mode once you beat the game will automatically bring all enemies up to level 50 to increase threat and rewards.
Loot the Best Chests ASAP (Or Wait for Mayhem)
These chests will either have the best loot, or the worst loot depending on when you find them.
With regards to level-locked regions, it's very important to note that both Red Chests (usually found after bosses or as bonus unlocked areas from side missions) as well as Typhon Dead Drops (crew challenges triangulated from finding recordings) are also locked to the region of that area (unless a region eventually upgrades over the course of the story).
For that reason you should always be exploring and looting chests in every region as you progress - as saving them for later will only lower the value of what's inside 5 levels later.
However, Mayhem Mode changes this, as it will bring all the chests up to your level along with all other loot and enemies in the region. With Red Chests, you can re-open them each time you quit the game and start anew, while Typhon Dead Drops can only be looted once - so make sure you think hard about when you want to open these. If you miss your chance to get the best loot for your level, come back once you've beaten the game to unlock the other dead drops with Mayhem Mode enabled.
Class Mods Can Boost Locked Skills
Fake it 'til you make it.
Once you start finding Class Mods on Promethea and beyond, you'll notice that they will grant extra points in each of your three skill trees. The better the quality, the more skill points they'll add to more skills.
It's worth noting two things: A Class Mod can further enhance a skill that you've already maxed on the skill tree, which means you can boost the rate of damage or cooldowns and such beyond normal levels.
Secondly, even if you haven't unlocked a skill yet, you don't need to have a point in a skill for a Class Mod to give you that skills effects! Knowing this, you can essentially look for Class Mods to bolster skills in a tree you aren't focusing on to give you an edge in multiple areas at once.
Where Are The Challenges?
Challenge Unlocked - You Found the Challenge Tab
The menus of Borderlands can be.... difficult to navigate at times. Guardian Ranks have their own slot in your ECHO menu, and you can't even check them out until you beat the game. They also take the place of where Challenges were in Borderlands 2 - but that doesn't mean they are gone.
You may start noticing as you play that you'll get notifications that challenges have been met, but they don't appear to be tracked anywhere. If you look at your map, the Challenges Tab only tracks 'Crew Challenges' which are side objectives to uncover in each area.
As it happens, the regular Challenges are hiding deep in the map menu. Hit the Orbit View until you are in the galaxy view of the map, and then click on the Challenges tab. Instead of Crew Challenges, you'll finally see the Challenges you can unlock for killing certain types of enemies, with different weapons, or looting certain items.
Unlike Borderlands 2, Challenges in this game do not unlock bonus stats. Instead, you'll get extra Eridium for each challenge met. Rank 1 will award 1 Eridium, Rank 2 will give 2, and so on until the challenge ranks are all met. Be sure to check your Challenges from time to time to unlock more Eridium, and use it to unlock exclusive rewards from Earl aboard the Sanctuary.
When Can You Mine Eridium?

These purple rocks can be easy to miss.
As you explore Pandora an other planets, you'll likely come across purple rocky mounds that look suspicously like Eridium - but hitting them with your melee attacks proves fruitless, at least for now.
It won't be until much later in the game - you need to complete the 10th Mission: Beneath the Meridian - that you gain the ability to harvest Eridium Ore from the ground wherever you may find it, which can be extremely useful for amassing an Eridium horde. All you need to do once the upgrade is obtained is smash the purple rocks with melee attacks.
Aside from that, your best ways of finding more Eridium are killing (obviously), and taking a spin on the Slot Machines for small Edirium payouts. You can then use the Eridium to either take your chances on the Vault Line Slot Machine, or go see Earl at the bottom of the Sanctuary spaceship to buy special cosmetics and weapons in exchange for the currency.
Respec to Become a New You

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Respecing your Skill Tree is easy when you're broke!
Once you've gotten at least one skill point, and decide that skill you've invested in is complete trash - seek out a Quick Change Station, located at the entrance of most regions and in the Sanctuary Ship.
Here you can not only swap out costumes and skins (as well as renaming both your character and FL4K's pets), but you can also reset all of your skill points to try building out a new style.
Of course, nothing is free in life - being able to respecialize your skills will cost a portion of your total money currently accumulated. A character with 29 thousand on hand will only have to pay just under 3 thousand to respect, while someone with 159k in their pocket will have to shell out 15k for a respec. It's a bit like dying - you always have to pay a portion to get what you want.
You've Got Mail
Please don't try to mail rocket launchers in real life.
It's easy to miss, but at certain points in the game, you may get a notification that you've received mail. Wait, what? Mailboxes in the game only have ammo in them, so where do you check your personal mail?
Head to the options screen and look for the Social tab among the Options/Play/Quit. It's here that you can skim through the different areas of the Social Menu to select your Mail, and obtain rewards given out by various NPCs in the game. Different gun manufacturers may give out presents when you've killed enough enemies with their weapons, and other characters may reward you with items as well when you achieve certain goals.
It's important to note that because the Mail is in the Social Tab - it's not tied to any one character - you'll be able to accept the gifts on any character you're playing as, even if they didn't do all the groundwork to get the gift in the mail. Note that the reward you receive from these in-game characters will be tied to the level you were when you unlocked the mail reward.
However, for those who have purchased a Special Edition of the game, you will also be able to redeem special unlocks and even Legendary Gear from your mail section. Legendary Rewards redeemed from the Special Edition will be tied to the level you are when you accept the gift - you may want to wait until you are a higher level to get gear that won't be quickly discarded.
Important: This is also the location where you will redeem all Golden Keys gained from entering Shift Codes in the SHiFT tab of the social options. They will not appear in your inventory until they are redeemed through mail.
If you've got a list of friends also playing, you can even send weapons you've found to them via the mail, in case you scored a really good class mod when playing on your own that your friend might want.
A Weapon to Surpass Legendary?
6 million dollars and counting spent on slot machines - but still no row of hearts.
While Legendary Weapons are among the best you can get - they might not be the absolute best.
We haven't yet found this elusive tier, you may notice that one of the slot machines in Moxxxi's Bar has a payout for a 'red tier' weapon, which is above the payout for the 'orange tier' legendary weapon.
It is not yet known if these elusive red-tier weapons appear in the wild, or if they can only be obtained from the Slot Machines (or if the payout is actually a lie and you can't even get it anyways), but be sure to keep a lookout - and try not to spend all your money gambling!
The Mystery of Red Text
Though it doesn't list it - each shot fired from the Peacemonger will split into four explosive rounds that hurtle in different directions.
When you begin recieving quest rewards and finding uncommon or better loot in the world, chances are you'll notice many of these items will feature red flavor text in the gun's stats. These range from jokes to quotes to very strange words, but they do have meaning.
Like previous Borderlands games, the Red Text is usually a hint at the hidden nature of a weapon - especially for Legendary Weapons. Sometimes the ability is straightforward - like being able to see bullets explode into smaller pieces or follow a strange trajectory. Other times the abilities may be much harder to decipher - so play around with weapon that feature red text to figure out what features a weapon or item may be hiding.
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• Easy 'Challenge Accepted' Achievement

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• Easy 'Thresher Thrashed' Achievement

To easily kill Terramorphous the Invincible, wait to accept the mission 'You. Will. Die. (Seriously.)' until you have a level 62 or higher character and your current playthrough is inUltimate Vault Hunter mode. Then while in Sanctuary in Normal mode, accept the mission from Dr. Tannis inside the Crimson Raiders HQ. Next, travel to Thousand Cuts and follow the mission marker to the entrance to Terramorphous Peak. Pay the 8 Eridium fee to access it and Terramorphous. Finally, summon Terramorphous with the longhorn. Within five minutes you should have Terramorphous killed, and if the profile being used kills him for the first time the achievement or trophy will be earned. Also, at the very least you should gain one Orange (Legendary) item in the form of a 'Slayer of Terramorphous Class Mod.

• Easy 'Thresher Thrashed' Achievement

To easily kill Terramorphous the Invincible, wait to accept the mission 'You. Will. Die. (Seriously.)' until you have a level 62 or higher character and your current playthrough is inUltimate Vault Hunter mode. Then while in Sanctuary in Normal mode, accept the mission from Dr. Tannis inside the Crimson Raiders HQ. Next, travel to Thousand Cuts and follow the mission marker to the entrance to Terramorphous Peak. Pay the 8 Eridium fee to access it and Terramorphous. Finally, summon Terramorphous with the longhorn. Within five minutes you should have Terramorphous killed, and if the profile being used kills him for the first time the achievement or trophy will be earned. Also, at the very least you should gain one Orange (Legendary) item in the form of a 'Slayer of Terramorphous Class Mod.

• Easy 'Went Five Rounds' achievement

Enter The Fridge and turn left immediately to enter the next zone, 'Fink's Slaughterhouse'. This is the first arena. Accept the quest from Fink and complete all five rounds earn 'Went Five Rounds' and a unique gun. If you have difficulty winning all five rounds, progress in the storyline until you are a higher level and try again.

• Easy Badass ranks

Create a new character and join the game as a guest on controller two. Stand in front of the guest character with your main character and start a duel. Win the duel and repeat the process. Fifty duel victories will result in a gain of 166 Badass ranks. Create a new character and repeat the process as many times as desired.

• Easy money and Eridium

At the beginning of the Southpaw Steam & Power Facility, where you do the 'Assassinate The Assassins' mission, is a room of lockers and small boxes. Check all the boxes and lockers, then go to the 'Pause' menu. Select 'Quit', then 'Save And Quit'. When the game returns to the title screen, continue your game. You will appear at the begging of Southpaw, and the boxes and lockers will have respawned with new items (weapons, money, ammo, shields, and Eridium). Loot the boxes and lockers again and repeat. The entire process is very fast and you can receive at least one Eridium every four times that the room is cleared. This is a good way to get black market items early in the game.

• Extra Wubs

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Press Up(2), Down(2), Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start at the title screen to unlock the 'Extra Wubs' option at the 'Gameplay' section of the 'Options' menu. Note: Extra Wubs has no effect in the game.

• Full Metal Jacket references

One of the rifle challenges is called 'This Is My Rifle', which is a reference to one of the movie's more memorable lines. The reanimation station states 'You will not die unless you are told' after reviving you, which was also a line in the move.

• Level and experience

Level	Experience	Experience needed for next level	Skill Points earned
1	0	358	0
2	358	883	0
3	1241	1609	0
4	2850	2526	0
5	5,376	3621	0
6	8997	4869	1
7	13866	6342	2
8	20208	7918	3
9	28126	9672	4
10	37798	11579	5
11	49377	13639	6
12	63016	15845	7
13	78861	18200	8
14	97061	20696	9
15	117757	23335	10
16	141092	26114	11
17	167206	29032	12
18	196238	32084	13
19	228322	35273	14
20	263595	38595	15
21	302190	42048	16
22	344238	45635	17
23	389873	49349	18
24	439222	53192	19
25	492414	57164	20
26	549578	61262	21
27	610840	65485	22
28	676325	69833	23
29	746158	74305	24
30	820463	78900	25
31	899363	83617	26
32	982980	88455	27
33	1071435	93415	28
34	1164850	98493	29
35	1263343	85748	30
36	1349091	126950	31
37	1476041	114442	32
38	1590483	119993	33
39	1710476	104615	34
40	1815091	152491	35
41	1967582	137344	36
42	2104926	143359	37
43	2248285	149487	38
44	2397772	155729	39
45	2553501	162085	40
46	2715586	168553	41
47	2884139	175134	42
48	3059273	181825	43
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• Minecraft reference

Go to Sanctuary Hole after Chapter 9. Jump off a cliff then go to Caustic Caverns. Run northwest to Guardian Ruins then go to the minecarts and turn right. Jump over the rectangular rocks then turn left to find Minecraft dirt. Break though it to reach Minecraft stone, cobblestone, and coal. Break though those to find Creepers, as well as blocks of gold, diamond, iridium and more. Kill the Badass Creeper to unlock Minecraft-themed skins.

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• Monopoly reference

During the 'Clan War: End of the Rainbow' side mission, once you have followed the Bagman to the Holy Spirits' cash stash underground and are attempting to kill him, he will occasionally teleport. During this time, non-lootable gold coins and paper money resembling the money used for playing the board game 'Monopoly' will appear momentarily. This is most easily noticed if you are trying to attack him from close range.

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reference

There is a quest Patricia Tannis will give you called 'Splinter Group'. The first step is to pick up some 'bait' from Mad Moxxi. This 'bait' is actually pizza and Patricia will say after you pick it up that they love the stuff. You end up going into the sewers, which then is a hideout of the runaway mutants. Leave the pizza on the table and get ready to fight four 'brothers' who talk like the four talking turtles. After you defeat them. you will go further and can choose to just leave and forget about the puzzle in the final room, or try to finish the puzzle to turn five red lights into five green lights. Once all lights are green another mutant will will come out of hiding and attack you. All five of these mutants does flips, Rolls, and jumps just like a ninja would do.

• True Vault Hunter mode

Successfully complete Story mode under the Normal difficulty setting.

• Ultimate Vault Hunter mode

Successfully complete the main story in True Vault Hunter mode.

• Various Achievements

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Achievement	How to unlock
A Road Less Traveled (20 points)	Completed the mission 'The Road To Sanctuary'.
Always Improving (25 points)	Reached level 25.
An Angel's Wish (25 points)	Completed the mission 'Where Angels Fear To Tread'.
An Old Flame (20 points)	Completed the mission 'Hunting The Firehawk'.
Arctic Explorer (15 points)	Discovered all named locations in Three Horns, Tundra Express, and Frostburn Canyon.
Been There (45 points)	Discovered all named locations in Hammerlock's Hunt.
Better Than Money (15 points)	Purchased 5 items from the black market.
Better Than You Were (10 points)	Reached level 10.
Blight Explorer (15 points)	Discovered all named locations in Eridium Blight, Arid Nexus, and Sawtooth Cauldron.
Bombs Away (20 points)	Completed the mission 'Toil And Trouble'.
Bounty Hunter (25 points)	Completed 20 side missions.
Build Buster (20 points)	Killed a Constructor without it ever building another bot.
Can See My House From Here (20 points)	Completed the mission 'Bright Lights, Flying City'.
Capped Out (50 points)	Reached level 50.
Challenge Accepted (30 points)	Completed level 1 of all non-level-specific challenges with a single character.
Completionist (25 points)	Completed all Pirate's Booty side missions.
Cool Story, Bro (30 points)	Defeated Jack.
Cute Loot (15 points)	Killed a Chubby.
Dang Girl You Ace At This Game (30 points)	Won the most challenging round in Murderlin's Temple.
Decked Out (25 points)	Had Purple-rated gear or better equipped in every slot.
Definitely An Italian Plumber (15 points)	Killed Donkey Mong.
Did It All (40 points)	Completed all side missions.
Done That (40 points)	Completed all Hammerlock's Hunt side missions.
Dragon Slayer (20 points)	Completed the mission 'Best Minion Ever'.
Explosive (40 points)	Completed the mission 'Long Way To The Top'.
Face Off (40 points)	Completed the mission 'The Fall of Nakayama'.
Farewell, Old Girl (20 points)	Completed the mission 'Wildlife Preservation'.
Feels Like The First Time (10 points)	Opened the chest at the bus stop in Fyrestone.
First One's Free (10 points)	Completed the mission 'My First Gun'.
Friendship Rules (10 points)	Revived someone from 'Fight for Your Life!' that is on your friends list.
Gadabout (25 points)	Discovered all named locations in Oasis and the surrounding Pirate's Booty zones.
Girl's Gotta Eat (15 points)	Fed thy noble queen 3 times during one visit to her quarters.
Goliath, Meet David (15 points)	Allowed a Goliath to level up four times before killing him.
Got The Band Back Together (20 points)	Completed the mission 'The Once and Future Slab'.
High-Flying Hurler (10 points)	Killed a flying enemy with a thrown Tediore weapon.
Highlands Explorer (15 points)	Discovered all named locations in The Highlands, Thousand Cuts, and Wildlife Exploitation Preserve.
Hmmmmm (15 points)	Wielded the Mysterious Amulet.
How Do I Look? (25 points)	Unlocked 10 customization items.
I Totes Planned That Boss (10 points)	Slew Mister Boney Pants Guy.
Identity Theft (20 points)	Completed the mission 'The Man Who Would Be Jack'.
It's Like That One Video (10 points)	Showed thine worst enemy, the abomination known as 'The Darkness,' who is the nerdiest of them all.
Keep Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' (15 points)	Demonstrated your skill, or lack thereof, at rolling the magical treasure orb of many sides.
Knowing Is Half The Battle (20 points)	Completed the mission 'Data Mining'.
Make it Raaaaaid (50 points)	Vanquished the Ancient Dragons of Destruction.
Motorhead (40 points)	Completed all Campaign of Carnage side missions.
New In Town (20 points)	Completed the mission 'Plan B'.
No Man Left Behind (20 points)	Completed the mission 'A Dam Fine Rescue'.
Not Quite Dead (5 points)	Reached level 5.
Obsessed (45 points)	Collected 10 pictures of Moxxi in Campaign of Carnage.
Phased and Confused (20 points)	Phaselocked 100 enemies.
Sabre Rattler (20 points)	Killed 100 enemies with the Sabre turret.
Shorty, You So Best (60 points)	Completed thy quest by rescuing yonder queen.
Sky's The Limit (20 points)	Completed the mission 'Rising Action'.
So Much Blood! (20 points)	Gunzerked continuously for 90 seconds.
Sugar Daddy (10 points)	Tipped Moxxi $10,000.
They Was All 'Hey That's Mine' (20 points)	Unsheathed 5 swords from Immortal Skeletaurs without leaving the area.
Thresher Thrashed (30 points)	Defeated Terramorphous the Invincible.
Token Gesture (20 points)	Redeemed 25 tokens.
Treasure Hunter (75 points)	Completed the mission 'X Marks the Spot'.
Tribute To A Vault Hunter (15 points)	Got an item from Michael Mamaril.
Unseen Predator (20 points)	Remained in Zero's Deception mode for ten seconds straight.
Up High, Down Low (15 points)	Gave Claptrap a high five.
Urban Explorer (15 points)	Discovered all named locations in Sanctuary, Opportunity, and Lynchwood.
Well That Was Easy (10 points)	Completed the mission 'Shoot This Guy in the Face'.
Went Five Rounds (25 points)	Completed Round 5 of any Circle of Slaughter.
What does it mean? (15 points)	I can't even capture it on my camera.
Wilhelm Screamed (20 points)	Completed the mission 'A Train To Catch'.
World Traveler (50 points)	Discovered all named locations.
Yaaaaaay (25 points)	Introduced thyself to the White Knight.

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