Far Far West Hellfire Map: Unlock Route and Volcano Risks

Hellfire is the only region Frostburn added, and the only map in the game that tries to kill you with the terrain as often as with enemies. It is also not unlocked by level, story progress, or currency. It is unlocked by finishing somebody else's archaeology.

The unlock chain, start to finish

Step 1 — Reach the Jungle. Hellfire cannot be started before the Jungle is open, which means finishing Trackman's three-quest chain in Far Far North. The full route is on /zones/jungle-unlock. If your map select lists no Jungle, stop here.

Step 2 — Find Arizona Jones in the Jungle. He offers the whole chain at once, listed as The Skull Temple, The Maze Temple, and The Trial Temple, with the Hellfire map as the reward. You select one quest at a time; he opens the portal.

Step 3 — Clear the three temples. Each temple hides map fragments. The reported split is 8 in the Skull Temple, 6 in the Maze Temple, 3 in the Trial Temple, for 17 total. Each fragment picked up updates an on-screen counter, so you always know what is missing.

Step 4 — Turn in and open the map. Once all three are handed in, Hellfire appears on map select. It does not require a specific difficulty clear.

One reported detail changes your prep: spells are disabled inside the temples, so your only sustain is what you carry — a Banjo or a healing item. Bring Dynamite; every temple reportedly hides a fragment behind a cracked wall.

Inside the temples: what actually kills you

The pattern is that the environment is the boss. Lava does not care about your damage build, and a timed gate does not care about your DPS. Slow, deliberate movement beats a fast clear.

Hellfire itself: the hazards

The map is built around a central volcano that erupts on a cycle, plus meteors that fall periodically across the playable area. Both are telegraphed rather than random, which means they are learnable — and lethal exactly once.

This is the map that makes Shield Points matter. Cover is not reliable when the sky is falling, and the buffer you built before the eruption is the only defense that works during it. A squad that arrives with empty bars learns the lesson quickly — see /guide/shield-guide for how to keep them fed.

Fire loses value here for an obvious reason: you are standing in a furnace, and the enemies are at home in it. Frost is the better assignment, both for the freeze and for the shield it generates. Acid still primes, Voodoo still amplifies, but a pure Fire loadout is fighting the map's own element.

The hidden secret, and why it is worth the trip

Hellfire's secret is a delivery quest with a very recognizable inspiration: find a ring, carry it across the map, and destroy it in the volcano.

1. Find the ring inside a small dungeon in the northern / north-eastern part of the map. Traps guard the approach; listen for them.
2. Carrying it applies a black-and-white visual filter and does not make you invisible or invulnerable. Enemies still attack normally.
3. If you drop it, it stays on the ground labeled "The Precious" and can be picked back up.
4. At the volcano, use Dynamite to blow open the blocked passage, then climb. Bring a second stick — there is a second wall, and the backup box is a detour to the right.
5. Drop the ring into the lava. Reported rewards: the Precious Rush Joker (a chance for a speed-boosting ring to spawn on enemy death) and 30 Uranium.

Two independent walkthroughs describe this route the same way, including the second dynamite wall, which is the detail that separates a real guide from a guess. The reward itself is modest — but 30 Uranium is 30 Uranium, and anything left over converts to XP at extraction.

Who should bring a Hellfire group

Bring: a Frost or shield anchor, one melee player to hold space during eruptions, someone with vertical mobility (Lasso flight, Bridge paths), and a healer or Banjo carrier.

Leave behind: pure Fire builds, snipers who need a stable perch, and anyone who has not cleared the Jungle temples — they cannot enter anyway.

Difficulty: treat Hellfire as a step above the region you unlocked it from. Its damage is largely environmental, so it punishes low health more than low damage. If meteors are killing you rather than enemies, the fix is hero upgrades, not a new gun. See /weapons/weapon-upgrades-guide.

Ronsau's three quests

Hellfire also hosts a three-part questline from Ronsau, a self-declared herald of darkness, rewarding the Ronsau skin. The reported objectives are a sacrificial ritual, a climb to collect a book, and activating valves to wake the volcano — the only quest in the game where triggering the map's own hazard is the goal.

For the rest of the map economy — what to run, what to skip — see /bounties/bounty-types and /guide/bounty-hunting-guide. Boss contracts on a lava map are their own problem; /bounties/boss-fights covers the patterns.

The short version

Unlock the Jungle first, then run Arizona Jones's three temples for 17 fragments. Bring healing items and dynamite, because spells reportedly stop working inside. On the map, keep moving, keep your shield fed, and never fight with lava behind you. The secret is a ring, two walls, and a very long walk.