Hazard Levels Pub Guide: The Fox Hole Arms & Secret Brewery

Why The Fox Hole Arms Matters

Most horror games give you a sterile bunker as a safe zone. Wales Interactive gave you a countryside boozer with sticky floors, a temperamental jukebox, and a pig in the corner. The Hazard Levels pub, The Fox Hole Arms, is the base between every rift run. It's where you prep, upgrade, invite friends, and turn the ingredients you dragged out of the rifts into perk cocktails.

The pub is a front for The Family, a research division that runs a secret R&D operation underneath it. You're one of their recruits, and your job is to keep the hidden brewery stocked. Hazard Levels hit 1.0 on November 12, 2026, on Steam, Epic, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S with full crossplay, and the pub got a fresh round of features for launch.

Pub Stations at a Glance

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Station	What it does
Telephone	Call up to three friends into your shared hub, or start a solo Crawl
Brewing Station (secret brewery)	Research recipes, fill orders, brew perk cocktails
Bar snack display	Buy stat-boosting snacks for your next Crawl
Upgrade Bench	Upgrade the Gravity Gauntlet and scanner, five levels each
Challenge Room	Browse challenges and claim cosmetic rewards
Beer mat table	Track the challenges you've completed
Customization	Swap your head mask, suit, gloves, and scanner skin
Jukebox	Drop a coin and play one of the pub's warped tracks
Landlord	Hands out new missions (added in 1.0)
Rift Bestiary	Study every creature you've met, hidden somewhere in the pub

Crawls start from the double decker bus outside. That's where you grab your Gravity Gauntlet, scanner, Rift Stabiliser, and weapons. The bus stocks two weapon types, the revolver and the AKM. The AKM starts with 60 rounds.

Finding Brewdragon's Secret Brewery

The brewery stays hidden until you look for it. Activate the hidden door next to the cash register in the main bar to open Brewdragon's Secret Brewery. The Brewing Station inside is the heart of the game's loop: rift, loot, survive, brew, repeat.

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If you're new, the 1.0 update added an integrated tutorial and extra signage around the pub. Those help new players find their way on a first visit.

How Brewing Works

Every ingredient you haul back has two jobs. It's loot you can sell at rift stations, and it's a recipe component for the brewery. Here's how the system plays out:

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• Follow recipes. Each cocktail needs specific ingredients. For example, a Mint Jupiter takes two pulse berries and two rift plants. Other ingredients you'll be hunting include cryo cubes, glow cap spores, horror worms, monster feces, cosmic apples, and entropy pearls.
• Complete orders to unlock recipes. Power drinks are on the house during Crawl 1. After that they cost money, and you need to unlock them for future use.
• Fill the order ledgers. Completing ledgers levels up your perk drinks, which makes them stronger on later Crawls.
• Throw drinks at friends. As of 1.0, every perk cocktail can be thrown at a teammate to give them its effect. Use this to heal someone in a pinch, or to turn them into a toilet.
• Don't freehand it. Mixing ingredients without a recipe gives you a failed drink.

There are over 70 cocktails in the finished 1.0 brewing system. Treat every Crawl as a shopping trip for your recipe list as well as a cash run.

Protect your ingredients on the way home. Slamming loot into walls or teammates with the Gravity Gauntlet drops its value. A cosmic apple worth 6,200 can lose hundreds from one bad bump into a toilet.

Perk Cocktails Worth Knowing

Some drinks are genuinely useful. Others are, in the developer's own words, slightly less sensible. These are the ones whose effects are clear:

Cocktail	Effect
Magnetonic	Pulls items to you from up to 5m away for 20 seconds, with no limit on item count
R.A.D.S	Gives off a toxic aura that damages nearby enemies
Coffin Dodger	Revives you after you go down
Teenie Weenie	Shrinks you, and teammates can pick you up and throw you
Shapeshifter	Turns you into a prop such as a pickle, barrel, or football
Cosmo	Short-range teleportation
Wormhole Sour	Makes you float and pulls nearby objects into orbit around you

Tips for using them:

• Use the Magnetonic in loot-dense rooms. It saves you from shuffling items two at a time with the Gauntlet.
• Drink the Coffin Dodger before trouble starts. Carrying it around in your inventory won't bring you back.
• Save R.A.D.S for runs where you're low on ammo. It gives you a way to fight back without spending rounds.

Bar Snacks and the Upgrade Bench

Bar snacks are stat boosts for a single session, sold at a fair price. Each one has five upgrade levels. If you die during a Crawl you lose the snack's benefit and have to buy it again.

Bar snack	Boost
Iron-Hide Pork Rinds	Max HP
Hoarder's Pickled Rings	Extra inventory slot
Sharp-Tongue Zappers	Stamina
Bull-Rush Beef Strips	Movement speed
Steady-On Nuts	Stamina regen

The Upgrade Bench is your long-term investment. It takes the Gravity Gauntlet and the scanner up through five levels each. The Gauntlet starts out holding two items at once, so upgrading it pays off quickly. Banked money is individual, so each player in your squad spends their own cash here.

Challenge Room, the Landlord, and Pub Secrets

The Challenge Room holds a long list of hidden challenges you complete on Crawls. They unlock cosmetics, many of which are inspired by the team's favorite movies. The Summer Update added 25 Steam achievements that reflect the Challenges, and the game now has 45 Steam achievements in total, including Rift Amateur, Rift Pro, Rift Champion, Gnome Dunk, and Fashion Icon. Check the beer mat table between runs so you know what's left.

Other things to look for around the pub:

• The Landlord. That's the pig in the corner. He has new missions to complete in 1.0, and there might be a reward in it for you. Don't annoy him.
• The Rift Bestiary. It's tucked away somewhere in the pub. Find it to read up on every creature you've encountered without being chased by one.
• The dog. You can pet the dog.
• Seating. You can sit at the tables, and since 1.0 you can sit on the pub toilet too.
• The Post Summary Screen. It shows your money, challenges, and rewards after each Crawl. Read it before you head back to the brewery.

FAQ

Can you use the pub solo or offline?

Yes. You can launch and play Hazard Levels offline when playing solo, and the game is balanced for 1–4 players. To bring friends in, use the pub telephone.

How much does Hazard Levels cost?

The base game is $12.99. You can grab Hazard Levels on the PlayStation Store, where PS Plus members get 20% off the base game until November 26, 2026. It's also on Steam, and a free demo is available.

Are the cocktails alcoholic?

No. The brewery's menu lists them as non-alcoholic, despite all the pub theming.