In Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, not every locked door can be forced open or bypassed with gadgets; the answer sometimes is hidden in plain sight. One such moment arrives during Order 26: Recover Old BB Pod From Armed Survivalists Base, where you’ll encounter a locked door at the Motherhood facility. There is no keypad clue, no visual hints, only a quiet terminal and a cryptic memory of something someone might have said. Here’s how to find the Motherhood code solution in Death Stranding 2 and enter the passcode to open the locked door.
How to Get the Door Code for the Motherhood Facility
Once you’ve fought your way through the Armed Survivalists and retrieved the old BB pod, the next objective is to deliver it to Motherhood, a facility locked behind a keypad door. According to the game hints, the code to enter is in Sam’s Corpus, specifically the Databank entry titled The Motherhood.
This is the part many players overlook. The quest hints subtly point you in this direction—both the Data Scientist and Dollman mention consulting the Corpus, and the mission briefing even drops a note to read before heading out. If you missed it, don’t worry, the clue is available. Inside the Databank, go to the entry for The Motherhood, and you’ll see a small prompt to press Square (on PlayStation) to reveal the door code. The code is your in-game birthday.
What is the Motherhood Passcode in Death Stranding 2
The Motherhood passcode is formatted as MMDD, representing the birth month and day you set for Sam at the game’s start. For example, if you entered July 13 as your birthday, the code would be 0713. However, if you can’t remember what you entered during character setup (maybe you picked a random birth date to breeze through the intro), don’t panic. The Corpus has you covered. When you press Square when reading the Motherhood entry, it’ll reveal the four-digit code at the bottom of the text that’s your registered birthday.
You might have noticed that Death Stranding 2 restricts screenshots or video captures when seeing the passcode or keypad entry screen. That’s because Kojima Productions designed this as a privacy feature. Since your birthday is personal information (even in a game), they’ve taken precautions to prevent it from being accidentally shared or streamed.
Once you enter the correct four-digit Motherhood passcode, the door will open, and you can enter the delivery terminal. Hand over the old BB pod here to complete the mission and get one step closer to expanding the Chiral Network across this new Australian frontier. Once this is done, the facility will remain permanently accessible for future visits. It will be a fully operational part of your delivery network, which means fast routes, more resources, and better connectivity moving forward.
