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EASY Nightmare Rift Farming Guide In Mad Ellie & The Vault Of The Damned DLC!

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Updated on Mar 29, 2026
Mar 29, 2026

Overview

Farming Nightmare Rifts in the Mad Ellie DLC is tedious, and downright unfair with how little they spawn in the world. This guide aims to make that struggle just a little bit easier for you. Let's get into it!

Let's do some Ice Fishing!

We're going to start this farm by teleporting to Ellie's Garage, near the center of the DLC map. This is where we'll be beginning what we'll be calling 'The Loop'

Upon arriving, follow this handy, and very professionally drawn map guide on your vehicle. Since the rifts spawn on a radius detection based system, we'll be using it to our advantage and looping as many of these zones as we can on the way.

While these aren't all of the locations the rifts can spawn, I've marked the key ones you'll be noticing on the loop.

Big Tip: if you find yourself getting caught on a dry streak whilst doing this farm, I recommend save/quitting the game to reload the map. This isn't proven to do anything, but it has seemingly had an effect on my game when I'm not getting anything.

If you don't know what a rift looks like- luckily, you'll know it when you see it. It's a tall red beam that will be visible to nearly anyone driving by. Don't worry about trying to go too close to the rift spawns to see them either, as they have a discovery range of ~175m in the world.


Summary

Now you know how to farm some rifts, go and get those much sought after dedicated drops, and hope that we never have to meet like this again...


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