Where is Maurice’s Black Market location in Borderlands 4 this week?

Borderlands 4 Maurice's Black Market location: Maurice, a dinosaur-like Saurian, inside Sanctuary from the previous game.

Everyone's favourite dinosaur (Saurian, actually) returns in Borderlands 4, once again running an under-the-table vendor machine that offers you legendary gear. While it works a little differently this time around, you'll still need to find Maurice's Black Market location each week.

If you're a Destiny 2 convert, then Maurice's vending machine is effectively Xur. Each week, the Black Market machine will spawn in a new location somewhere on Kairos, giving you access to top-tier loot in return for cash. With Borderlands 4 moving to a full open-world with Kairos, though, you'll have even more ground to cover to track his machine down.

Where is the Borderlands 4 Black Market location this week?

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(Image credit: Gearbox)

(Image credit: Gearbox)

For the week of October 23 to October 30, Maurice's Black Market vending machine is located in Elpis Orbital Shatterfield, near the end of the area, in a hidden room by the DAHL lift. This will take, unfortunately, a good five or so minutes to reach. The Black Market machine resets every Thursday at 9 am PT.

If you're unsure where Elpis Orbital Shatterfield is, it's the area in space you go to towards the end of the campaign, where you save Lilith. Here's exactly where to find the Black Market machine and how to reach it:

1. On the map of Kairos, use the Elpis Orbital Shatterfield level travel station in the Ripper Queen's Fallen Crown area to view the sub-map.
2. Fast travel to the only available point, which places you at the start of the area.
3. Run through the area, going through the DAHL building and shipwrecks, until you eventually reach the cave with a DAHL lift (where Claptrap helps you during the campaign mission here).
4. Facing the lift, immediately turn around and jump up the metal platforms to find a hidden room behind a half-closed door, obscuring Maurice's Black Market vending machine.

The biggest change to the weekly Black Market in Borderlands 4 is that the inventory on offer is unique to each player—it's no longer a fixed stock for every player. I guess it's more incentive to actually track him down to see if you have any god rolls, though it's not quite as fun as having everyone rush to his vending machine when his stock is revealed.

You can actually reset what your vending machine is selling just by backing out of the store, though it'll then go on a 30-minute cooldown, which you can track via the weekly activity icon on the map. This is an important detail to note if you're against the clock for the weekly reset.

Since each player has a different offering, it's worth checking with your friends to see what their version of Maurice's Black Market machine is selling, as it might just be the perfect item for you.

How to unlock the Black Market vending machine in Borderlands 4

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Before you can start purchasing legendary gear from Maurice's Black Market machine, you have to beat the main campaign and the introductory Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode quest, Maurice's Bounty.

Once you've ticked off that quest, the Black Market vending machine becomes a weekly affair across the open world. The machine will appear almost invisible until you get close to it, though it'll also be marked on your map once you get near enough.