Breathedge 2 WikiChuck's Taxi and the Taxi Fines
The taxi fines are collectibles, not a quest. There are two of them, they are numbers 18 and 22 of the 48 collectibles in Chapter 1, and finding them completes nothing on its own. If you have an objective in your log that seems to be about tracking down where the fines come from, that is not a quest that exists in the game.
The good news is that you are standing in one of the densest areas in Chapter 1. Chuck's Taxi holds three achievements, eight things to repair or interact with, and nine collectibles. This page covers the lot.
The two taxi fines
| # | Collectible | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 18/48 | Chuck's Fine | On the way into the area, check the asteroid below you. There is a sign with Chuck's face on it — the fine is stuck to the sign. |
| 22/48 | The taxi covered in fines | A little further right of the solar panel. |
Everything else in the area
Location descriptions in this section are from VGTimes and recorded playthroughs.
Achievements
- Aphlaebt — the taxi sign is missing letters, and what remains spells something rude. Find the missing letters and put them back in the right order to spell Instant Taxi. About one player in nine has this one.
- Medalist — after finding the antenna, head for the taxi sign; a nearby taxi has several medals on it.
- Drunk robots — at the far right of the area, two drunk robots are lying on sun loungers. You can choose to drink with them, which grants +60% Drunk Respect (VGTimes). This is one of the rarest achievements in the game at under 3% completion, so almost nobody has done it.
Things to repair
| Task | How |
|---|---|
| Repair the Panel | The right-hand solar panel is damaged. Clear the jammed metal fragments with Scrap, craft a Hinge in your backpack to replace the broken part, then deploy it from the console. |
| Repair the Radiator | It is on the roof of the building. Fix it directly with the Twister. |
| Start the Drill | A broken drill sits below the main platform. Interacting unlocks its blueprint, then it needs Refined Metal ×10 and a Battery ×1 (VGTimes). The battery is on the Chuck's Taxi platform itself, behind the cars. |
| Start the Pump | Once the drill runs, follow the cable to the bottom of the asteroid and break the ice. |
| Inspect the Logo | The letter puzzle described above. |
| Talk to the Robots | The drunk robots want Alcohol: Ice ×2, Alkali ×1 and Nutrient Mineral ×1 (VGTimes). Alkali comes from killing an Alkali Mole and extracting it from their hole with the Probe. Give a drink to one robot and you receive the part that opens the compartment. |
| Activate the Unit | Insert the robots' part into the socket and activate it from the console beside the oxygen station. Inside there are resources — including titanium — and another collectible. On the way out, hit the hatch repeatedly with Scrap and your companion will clear the way. |
Collectibles in the area
| # | Item | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 18/48 | Chuck's Fine | On the sign on the asteroid below |
| 19/48 | Poster | Two cars on the platform — check the right one |
| 20/48 | Checkers | Inside the cab of the left car |
| 21/48 | Chuck's Photo | Check the right car again to complete the sub-task; the photo is in the glovebox |
| 22/48 | Taxi covered in fines | Right of the solar panel |
| 23/48 | Green Barrel | A burnt-out car on an asteroid, a little way from the Chuck's Taxi oxygen station |
| 24/48 | Crate of Beer | On the same platform as the drunk robots |
| 25/48 | (inside the unit) | In the compartment you open with the robots' part |
| 34/48 | Dude Beer | In the red wrecked car in front of the Chuck's Taxi asteroid |
| 35/48 | Poster | Behind the Chuck's Taxi platform, in a wrecked taxi with a drilling cable stuck in it |
| 40/48 | Toy | In the scrapped bus in front of the asteroid |
Why there is no "fines" quest
VGTimes catalogues all 48 collectibles and lists the fines among them; Destructoid's achievement list contains nothing about fines, fees or taxis being fined. So the fines are flavour — a joke about Chuck's driving record — and the achievements here are the letter puzzle, the medals and the drinking.
Do this area in one pass
The efficient order, if you want everything in a single visit:
- Grab 18/48 on the asteroid below as you arrive
- Work the two cars for 19-21/48
- 22/48 past the solar panel, then repair the panel and the roof radiator
- Unlock and start the drill, then the pump at the bottom of the asteroid
- Collect the letters and spell out Instant Taxi
- Craft Alcohol, drink with the robots, take the part
- Activate the unit, loot the titanium inside, take 25/48
- Sweep the outlying wrecks for 23, 24, 34, 35 and 40/48
The titanium inside the unit is worth the detour — see the titanium page for what it goes into.
How rare these are
Steam's global statistics give a sense of what most players miss here:
| Achievement | Roughly how many players have it |
|---|---|
| Medalist (the medals taxi) | About 1 in 5 |
| Aphlaebt (the letter puzzle) | About 1 in 9 |
| Drinking with the robots | Fewer than 1 in 30 |
The drinking one is among the rarest in the entire game, and the reason is the Alcohol recipe: it needs Alkali, which early on comes only from killing an Alkali Mole and extracting it from their burrow with the Probe. Most players never assemble the ingredients by accident.
Where this area sits in the chapter
Chuck's Taxi is early, and it is next to an oxygen station, which makes it a natural place to clear thoroughly rather than pass through. Nine of the chapter's 48 collectibles are here, along with the drill and pump chain that unlocks a blueprint.
If you are collecting systematically, do the area after you have the Twister — the roof radiator needs it — and after you can craft a Hinge, since the solar panel repair depends on it. Coming back for one repair you could not do is the main time-waster here.
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