Flag Hunting Guide

Cleaning the moon is a robot's job. Finding all 195 flags and 26 survey sites is yours — and it is the hardest part of a full completion. It took us over five hours of driving. This is the method we wish we had used from the start.

Last verified: November 2026 · Steam release build

What you are looking for

Flags are planted poles with a tangled national flag, one for every country — 195 in total. Walk up and press E to untangle it for a cash reward ($100 and up). Survey sites are full-size models of real lunar landers, rovers and crash sites — 26 in total — and pay $250 each. Both appear on the station moon map once found, along with a running count.

Flags are spread fairly evenly across the whole sphere, including mountains and both poles. They are small, grey-ish at night and easy to drive past. Sites are much bigger and easier to see.

A tangled flag. From a distance only the thin pole and a speck of colour are visible.

Gear and upgrades

Crew Transport fully upgraded (~54 km/h) — by far the fastest vehicle.
Night Vision Goggles — press N twice at night. Without them you will miss flags in the dark.
Jetpack + Gravity Boots — for climbing crater walls and mountains on foot to look around.
Plenty of money for markers (see below). You will have millions by now.

The search method

1
Mark everywhere you have been
Every few hundred metres, place something big and cheap: a Garage ($200) is huge and visible from far away; a spiral staircase works too. When you see a marker, you know that area is done.
2
Drive in the overhead view
Press M for the zoomed-out view and keep driving. Flags and wreckage are often easier to spot from above than from the driver's seat.
3
Switch to first person for horizons
Every so often stop and look along the horizon in first person. Flag poles stand out as silhouettes against the sky.
4
Sweep in bands
Work outward from one station in parallel bands, like vehicle lanes but much wider. Random wandering is how you end up with 194/195.
5
Check the moon map at each station
Found flags and sites are shown on the map. Compare against the evenly-spaced pattern and set waypoints (max 12) on empty patches.
6
Visit all the stations
The outer stations (West, East, South…) each have a map terminal and checkpoint. Teleporting between unlocked stations costs $50 and saves a lot of driving.

How to actually spot flags

Objects only render once you are fairly close, so a distant empty plain may not be empty.
Bright colours (reds, greens, blues) pop against grey dust in daylight. At night rely on night vision.
Climb. A crater rim or hilltop shows you a whole valley at once.
Slow down in hilly areas — dips hide flags from a fast-moving van.
Flipping the van is common in moon gravity. Approach slopes at an angle and avoid crater lips at speed.

Tip

Clean hexes make flags easier to see. Searching after the moon is 100% clean is noticeably easier than searching through dust.

Finding the last few

The last handful is where the time goes. Open the moon map and look for gaps in the flag pattern: since flags are roughly evenly spaced, an empty circle on the map is the most likely place for a missed one — even if you are sure you drove through it. Waypoint each gap and search it on foot with the jetpack. Our missed flags turned out to be in a strip between two areas we had both "finished".

Early-game flag runs

Do not wait for the end. Several flags sit within about a kilometre of the starting station, and a 30-minute walk at the very start is worth more than the same time with a hand brush. The HUD always points back to base, so you cannot get lost.