◆ Stage 3 — North Carolina · Artifact 5 / 6 in Outer Banks

Canned Bread Artifact — Where It Hides in Outer Banks

Outer Banks' fifth artifact and the second half of the middle pickup chain — a tin of preserved loaf you scoop up moments after the Jar of Dirt, just before the run forks toward the southwestern-path shortcut.

▶ TL;DR

Canned Bread is artifact 5 of 6 in Outer Banks, Stage 3 of Scale the Depths down in the Graveyard of the Atlantic. It belongs to the same continuous pass as the Jar of Dirt, sitting right after it in MrLeLedg's 100% walkthrough — the chapter 'Artifact (Canned bread)' lands at 2:23. Because the two collectables share one descent, every guide warns you to grab them together rather than surfacing in between. Bank it, then drop toward the southwestern-path shortcut for the final Spanish Doubloon.

▶ Clip2:23 – 3:01 (38s)·Video by MrLeLedg·Watch on YouTube ↗

◇ Step-by-step pickup

  1. Open Outer Banks and pick up the Jar of Dirt first.

    Canned Bread is not a standalone trip. It shares the middle pickup chain with the Jar of Dirt at 2:08, so you should already be partway through that descent when you reach it. If you surface after the Jar of Dirt you will only have to drop down through the same stretch again.

  2. Stay down after the Jar of Dirt — do not retract early.

    The most common mistake here is treating the Jar of Dirt as the end of a pass. Keep the hook in the water and continue along the same line. Frame 1 above (2:27) shows the descent is still active right after the jar; the bread is only a few seconds deeper.

  3. Track the line down to the Canned Bread pocket.

    Follow the same descent path the walkthrough takes between 2:23 and roughly 2:40. The Canned Bread sits in a pocket along this run, marked with the artifact pickup icon rather than a chest or message marker.

  4. Touch the tin to bank the pickup.

    There is no fight and no scaling minigame for an artifact — line the hook onto the bread and the pickup banks instantly. Frame 2 above (2:40) is the exact moment of contact. MrLeLedg's chapter 'Artifact (Canned bread)' opens at 2:23, so this is the window to watch frame-by-frame if you lose the line.

  5. Hold position before the route forks.

    Once the bread is banked you are at the hinge point of the Outer Banks run. Frame 3 above (2:58) shows the layout just before the path splits. From here the southwestern-path shortcut is the efficient way onward — do not double back toward the earlier artifacts.

  6. Take the southwestern-path shortcut toward the Spanish Doubloon.

    With five of six Outer Banks artifacts done, the only one left is the Spanish Doubloon. Drop into the southwestern-path shortcut and follow it to the final pickup. Bank the bread before you commit to the fork so a mis-timed retract never loses it.

◐ Walkthrough Keyframes

Same descent as the Jar of Dirt — Canned Bread is paired with it in one pass, so the hook is still down here rather than back at the surface.
2:27Same descent as the Jar of Dirt — Canned Bread is paired with it in one pass, so the hook is still down here rather than back at the surface.
The Canned Bread pickup itself — the artifact-tagged icon banks the moment the hook touches the tin.
2:40The Canned Bread pickup itself — the artifact-tagged icon banks the moment the hook touches the tin.
With both artifacts banked, the route lines up for the southwestern-path shortcut that leads toward the final Spanish Doubloon.
2:58With both artifacts banked, the route lines up for the southwestern-path shortcut that leads toward the final Spanish Doubloon.

✦ Tips

  • Treat the Jar of Dirt and Canned Bread as a single dive, not two. Planning one continuous descent for both saves you a full re-drop and is exactly what every Outer Banks guide recommends.
  • Watch the artifact-tagged icon, not the generic pickup glow. The middle chain mixes chests, messages and artifacts close together, and only the artifact marker counts toward the Secrets stamp.
  • Use the 2:23 chapter as your reference clip. Scrubbing the walkthrough between 2:23 and 3:01 shows the whole bread pocket and the approach to the fork at normal speed.

⚠ Warnings

  • Do not split Canned Bread from the Jar of Dirt pass. Surfacing between them is the single most common time-waster in Outer Banks — guides call it out specifically.
  • Don't confuse the bread with a money chest or a message bottle nearby. Currency and notes share the corridor but neither advances the 100% Secrets count.
  • Bank the pickup before you take the southwestern-path shortcut. If you retract or fork too soon you can end the dive with the bread still uncollected and have to repeat the whole middle chain.

⌕ Common Questions

I got the Jar of Dirt but missed the Canned Bread — do I have to start over?
No, you just have to drop back down through the same middle stretch. The two share one descent, so the fix is to re-run that pass and stay underwater past the jar this time. Plan it as a single dive on your next attempt and you will catch both at 2:08 and 2:23.
Where exactly is the Canned Bread in Outer Banks?
It's artifact 5 of 6, in a pocket along the same descent as the Jar of Dirt, reached just before the route forks to the southwestern-path shortcut. MrLeLedg's chapter 'Artifact (Canned bread)' catches the pickup starting at 2:23.
Can I sell the Canned Bread for cash?
No. Like every artifact in the game, the Canned Bread is collection-only — it has no sale value and exists purely to fill the Outer Banks 100% Secrets set. Save your money for boat and rod upgrades instead of expecting a payout from collectables.

★ What you get

Completion
Counts toward the Outer Banks 100% Secrets achievement.
Endgame impact
The fifth of six Outer Banks artifacts; once banked, only the Spanish Doubloon remains to complete the Stage 3 Secrets set.
Sells for
Canned Bread cannot be sold. Artifacts exist for lore and 100% completion only.

✎ What Players Are Asking

Real questions from Steam Community discussions, archived as they appeared.

  • “Grab the Canned Bread on the same dive as the Jar of Dirt — they sit on one descent, so surfacing in between just forces you to drop down through the same stretch twice.”
    — Whisper of the House (guide writer)·Whisper of the House — Outer Banks 100% Guide·2026-06-01

    Why this matters: Why this matters: pairing the two artifacts in one pass is the whole reason this stretch is efficient, and it is precisely the step players skip when they treat each artifact as its own trip.

⌬ Related Secrets

Artifact 4 of 6 — collected on the same descent
Jar of Dirt →
2:08 in the walkthrough
Artifact 6 of 6 — the final one, past the southwestern-path shortcut
Spanish Doubloon →
Just after the southwestern-path fork
Full world breakdown — every Stage 3 artifact and route
Outer Banks — Stage 3 Overview →
Index of every Stage 3 secret
The master index across all four worlds
All Secrets — Every World →
Loch Ness → Huatulco → Outer Banks → Point Nemo
Why the game called this artifact a Canned Bread

Canned bread sounds made up, but it is a genuine — if slightly absurd — real product. The New England icon is B&M Brown Bread in a Can, made by Burnham & Morrill of Portland, Maine, a company founded in 1867 that began steaming Boston brown bread inside cans back in 1928. The idea traces to colonial settlers who steamed a rye, cornmeal and molasses loaf in tins because they had no ovens, and it became a World War II rationing staple; B&M still turns out roughly a million cans a year. The format exists overseas too, most famously Japanese long-shelf-life canned bread such as Pan Akimoto, stocked in earthquake and disaster kits. So dredging a tin of bread out of a shipwreck graveyard is goofy, but it is also weirdly logical — preserved emergency rations are exactly the kind of thing you would expect to find scattered across the wrecks of the Graveyard of the Atlantic.