Overview
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Resource
Resources are obtained by salvaging items in the Survivors’ camp or in your inventory. There are 3 types of resources; “Materials”, “Food”, and “Misc”. Materials are used to build camp structures or create things from recipes you’ve obtained (sometimes from salvaging). “Misc” materials are things like water which don’t show up in your stock.
Salvaging
You can salvage items in two ways:
By accessing your stock in your camp; resources here will be stored directly in your stock and can be used in the camp.
By salvaging items in your inventory by clicking the hammer icon and dragging them into it. You can craft items from here if you have the resources in your inventory. These resources cannot be used in the camp unless you first deposit them into your stock.
Note that you cannot salvage poor, expired, or legendary quality items. Higher quality items have a higher chance to give resources for that item that aren’t 100%. You can salvage items that are about to fall apart (low durability), and this will have no penalty.
As you both salvage and craft items, your efficiency in creating those items will go up.
Buying/Selling/Trading Items
You can directly obtain or sell resources in the following ways:
You can buy resources from Jeffrey once a day.
You can sell one specific kinda of resource to Antonio a day.
Trade with other players.
Trading resources between players was introduced in V1.19. Before this, the only way to trade resources was by creating items and then trade those. This was very inefficient however, as it often required twice the resources to make the item, and required other resources to make the item.
Materials
Scrap metal is a common resource that is often required in large amounts for creating camp buildings, and is also used in various weapon recipes.
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The best way to get scrap metal is to find Industrial metal pieces, since they salvage into so much and are fairly common. The best way to find them is by looking at various set locations (see page) although it is also fairly commonly found by checking the trash / recycling, desks, and lockers.
Wood is a common resource that is used in many useful recipes, as well as needed in a lot of camp buildings in large amounts.
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Salvaging chairs and stools is the leading means of obtaining wood resource because of their wide availability in certain maps and they cost a relatively small amount of Rest/Stamina/Fire points to pick up, compared to other items made with wood.
A great zone for collecting wood giving items is Mazon College due to the large amount of chairs. The same applies for the Sacramento Public Library in the South district of the Sacramento Suburbs and the Perfume of the Past preschool directly under the Condemned car dealership in Downtown Santa Rosa. Another good, though not so reliable, source of chairs is the Auction House Secret Passage in Arizona Jurassic Museum. Another great source is logs, which can be found searching the trash/recycling, desks, and shelves.
Tools are an important resource that can seem uncommon unless you know where to look. Many camp buildings require them to be built, and they are also required to harvest resources when farming. It is also used in a few recipes.
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Since every map has at least one rake and shovel somewhere, they are the easiest items to find, although they are often poor quality.
Good zones for salvageable tool items are:
Bodega Bay – the house in the north west most corner of the map has 2 hammers, a crowbar, and an abstract sculpture.
Mall – the construction area (next to toy room, north of golf course) has 2 hammers, 2 shovels, and some other items.
Museum
Blue Mesa
Rope is a fairly common resource that is mostly used to create weapons and fishing rods.
Paper is a very easy to collect resource due to the large amount books give. It has very little use in recipes, and is mostly used in research projects or fueling the kitchen stove’s fire.
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The best source for paper is books, and a great source for books is the college; the main building has a stack of books in the hallway by the lockers on the ground floor, and there are also many books to be found around the building.
Plastic is a common resource mostly used for weapon recipes (especially flare guns and combat knives).
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A great zone for collecting plastic items is the Sunset Mall, specifically the toy shop (large amount of board games and 2 plastic swords). The mall also has a good amount of watering cans and other plastic items, but they take some wandering around to find.
Fabric is a semi-common resource.
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A great zone for collecting fabric items is Mazon College (especially when the football field is open). In Sunset Mall, the toy shop and the lockers of the Jellyfish Public Swimmingpool (5fifth room on the left of the spawn) contains fabric. In the museum there is also a house south of spawn (down the hill) that has a shelf with multiple plushies.
You can also get a decent amount of fabric from farming (being the only non-food resource you can actually get from farming).
Screws are a common resource use in various buildings and weapons
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Best way to obtain is by finding Screw items, which are commonly found in trash/recycling, desks, and lockers.
Fertilizer is a resource that is mainly used for farming.
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The two main ways to collect fertilizer is by fishing and collecting bones. The best source of bones is killing infectds, but some maps such as Walker River have a lot around the map (although many are unsalvageable).
Precious ore, as it’s name suggests, is one of the rarer resources in the game, as the items it belongs to are either rare of have a low chance of giving ore. The best source of precious ore is Jewelry; while it has no 100% locations, it’s a semi uncommon item found in normal containers such as trash/recycling, desks, shelves, boxes, and lockers. While they don’t give ore reliably, Dumbbells are a decent source of ore as they have set locations in various zones making them farmable. Kukri aren’t terribly uncommon to find in containers, so these are also a good source when found (always give 1 ore), and Trophies can be found fairly easily (especially in the lockers). Guns are also a good source, and are commonly found in gun bags.
Glass it a fairly common and largely unused resource. While common, it can be a pain to purposefully collect when you need high amounts for research projects. These best source is probably screens as there are a few spots with many of them all in one spot. However it’s also advised to keep an eye out for blue vases and flower pots as they have a few set locations on various maps.
One of the best sources of electronic components are screens, as they are many zones where they are found in groups, and not many items give more components per item. The best zones for screens are:
Santa Rosa – 15+ near “office” secret passage, high chance to be salvageable.
College – main building, both floors.
Mall – in an internet cafe south west of spawn.
The best source of blades is razor blades, which can be found semi commonly in the trash/recycling, desks, and shelves.
An easy source of medicinal herbs is algae, which can be found in wall medical boxes (common), red trashcans (uncommon), and Peruvian infecteds (common).
While a bit of a cheat, a great source of herbs is by doing Sylvia Bluth’s side mission in Downtown Santa Rosa (keep in mind she not always there). During this side mission all medical zombies / containers in/around the nearby store will have greatly increased odds of dropping antibiotics (average quality). You can then drop or salvage these in your inventory to prevent finishing the quest (as this will decrease the collection counter) until you have all the herbs you need.
Food
Meat is a resource that is used in various cooking and research projects.
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The best zones for collecting meat are:
Sunset Mall – The “supermarket” (and to a lesser extent “apartment”) secret passage has a lot of meat. The supermarket has various beef rib and steak locations, as well as a chicken and hamburger. Apartment has 3 steak and one beef rib location. With both being secret passages the meat item are very likely to be salvageable.
Jurassic Museum – it has various barbecues with decent chance to find steaks or sausages, but the best spot is the red fast food building at the north east most area of the map; it has a definite chicken and pizza (sometimes salvageable though not always) as well as a high likelihood to find meat while searching other things in the building.
Highway 99 – The are various grills spread around the map.
Fish are a somewhat uncommon resource to find in most containers, but are easy to obtain by fishing. Primarily used in cooking and research projects
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The best source for fish is by fishing (preferably with Fishing rod), with Bodega Bay (specifically the large lake to the north of spawn) and Walker River being a great source for fishing spots . You can also find fish in fish tanks (actual fish) and deep friers (cooked fish).
Vegetables are a common resource primarily used in cooking and research projects.
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Resources are obtained by salvaging items in the Survivors’ camp or in your inventory. There are 3 types of resources; “Materials”, “Food”, and “Misc”. Materials are used to build camp structures or create things from recipes you’ve obtained (sometimes from salvaging). “Misc” materials are things like water which don’t show up in your stock.
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Salvaging
Buying/selling/trading resources
List
Sources
Uses
Trivia
Trivia
SalvagingEdit
Bag craft menu
Bag crafting
You can salvage items in two ways:
By accessing your stock in your camp; resources here will be stored directly in your stock and can be used in the camp.
By salvaging items in your inventory by clicking the hammer icon and dragging them into it. You can craft items from here if you have the resources in your inventory. These resources cannot be used in the camp unless you first deposit them into your stock.
Note that you cannot salvage poor, expired, or legendary quality items. Higher quality items have a higher chance to give resources for that item that aren’t 100%. You can salvage items that are about to fall apart (low durability), and this will have no penalty.
As you both salvage and craft items, your efficiency in creating those items will go up.
Buying/selling/trading resourcesEdit
You can directly obtain or sell resources in the following ways:
You can buy resources from Jeffrey once a day.
You can sell one specific kinda of resource to Antonio a day.
Trade with other players.
Trading resources between players was introduced in V1.19. Before this, the only way to trade resources was by creating items and then trade those. This was very inefficient however, as it often required twice the resources to make the item, and required other resources to make the item.
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Below you can find information on various resources as well as how to get them.
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MaterialsFoodMisc
Meat
Fish
Vegetable
Fruits
Chocolate
Cereals
Butter
Salt
Milk
Spices
Cheese
Sugar
Eggs
Seeds
Alcohol
Vegetable
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Vegetables are a common resource primarily used in cooking and research projects.
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While fairly common, it is a hard to purposefully collect resource since it has very few set locations (many of which are commonly expired) and most of these spread out. The best way to collect items that give it is to search everything in a map since food items are somewhat common.
While it would seem farming would be a great source of vegetables, it’s a fairly mediocre source as even when you are lucky enough to get the right plant, each one will at most give you 5, and commonly only gives 3. It’s still advised to vegetable plants however to slowly build up your vegetable reserves.
Fruits is a common but some hard to purposefully collect resource since it has very few set locations (many of which are commonly expired) and most of these spread out.
The best way to collect items that give it is to search everything in a map since food items are somewhat common.
Probably the best source of fruit is from farming as a strawberry bush can give 7-10 fruits.
Chocolate is a semi-rare resource that is used in various cooking recipes and research projects.
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The easiest ways to get chocolate are:
By finding chocolate boxes (see here).
By farming (random if you get the plant, and requires lots of water and time to grow).
Cereals are a resource mostly used for cooking.
While there is arguably no “best” item to try to find for this resource, grabbing various pastries from vending machines is a somewhat dependable source. In general just keep an eye out for all the items listed below as most of them are common or slightly uncommon. The best source of this resource however is likely not from salvaging but instead from farming.
Butter is a rare resource that is used in various cooking recipes and research projects.
he easiest way to get butter is by find strawberry cake. There are 3 main ways to do this:
Vending machines – There’s a decent chance to find various types of cakes/pastries, including strawberry cake (grab any other pastries listed below as well).
Lockers – all lockers may have, but especially those in the mazon stadium/field Secret passage, as it’s not uncommon to find multiple there (also check the vending machines in that secret passage!).
André Patisserie – There is a pastry shop in the Grey alley of the mall to the west of spawn (directly southwest of the Black Mages cybercafé; inside this pastry shop is a cake slice sitting on the counter (decent chance to be salvageable). Warning: shop has a lot of higher level mobs.
Salt is a resource most used in cooking.
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The easiest way to collect it is to go fishing.
Milk is a semi-uncommon resource unless you have a goat pen, as very few items give the resource, although the amount of milk most items give is decently high and most of the items are decently common (other than Milk bottle and Farmer’s Basket).
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There are a couple set Milk bottle locations which are worth checking out if you need milk since they are somewhat rare to find in most containers and give a large amount of milk.
It is recommended to get a goat pen as soon as possible if you need milk, as it makes collecting it much easier.
Spices are an uncommon resource that is used in cooking (most commonly for Energy drink icon energy drinks).
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While it’s hard to purposefully find spices, almost all items that give it are at least semi common and can be found in the trash. A good source of spices is from farming (although what plant you get is random).
Cheese is a difficult resource to get as very few items give it, and most aren’t common. It’s most commonly used in cooking.
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Some good locations to find pizza items are:
Downtown Sant (Sorry no more space from steam)
Food 2 (No more space from steam in Food)
Sugar is a resource mostly used in cooking. It’s most common use is to make drinks (especially energy drinks).
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The easiest way to collect sugar is by collecting soda/juice from vending machines. You can also get sugar from farming.
Eggs are a rare resource (at least without a chicken coop) mostly used for cooking and research projects.
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The best way to farm eggs is by finding, well, an egg! You can occasionally find eggs in nests. It’s also possible to find eggs (as well as mayonnaise) uncommonly as a random item that can be found occasionally. The best source of eggs are the farmer’s basket resource crate and cheese omelets, although both are rare to find. While not cheap, the easiest way to get eggs is to buy them from Jeffrey in the camp. You can also buy cheese omelets from Henry Collins in Lakeview, although they are fairly expensive.
Nest
A nest
You can find a list of nest locations here.
Due to the rarity of eggs, it is recommended to not use eggs on research projects until after you build a chicken coop. This is because chicken coops allow you to collect 2 eggs an hour after you last collected, but requires a large amount of eggs to actually build.
Seeds are a resource who’s primary use is for farming, although it’s also used in a few food recipes, and semi commonly required for research projects.
While many items have a chance to give seeds and none of these items are strictly uncommon, it can be difficult to purposefully find items to salvage into seeds. The best source of these items is mostly fridges, picnic baskets, the trash, and various locations around maps (such as trees).
The best source of seeds is actually from farming. While this seems a bit counterintuitive at first (since it costs seeds to farm), all plants when harvested have at least a chance to give 1 seed, with many having a chance to give even more! The best plant for seeds is wheat as it not only gives the most seeds (5) but also has a 100% chance to always give them![Confirm] Just note that pulling out plants that give less seeds isn’t always advised, as you will often find the seeds lost from replanting aren’t worth the seeds gained from plants that give more of them when grown.
Alcohol is an uncommonly used resource as most recipes that use it aren’t currently very useful (as the “pain killer” effect doesn’t work). It’s main uses are for upgrading certain clothing and research projects.
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One of the best locations for alcohol is Mazon College’s field secret passage; directly north of the crate are 2 wine bottles and 3 wine cups, which have a high chance of being salvageable.
As most alcoholic beverage locations are often expired, probably the best source of alcohol is actually from molotov cocktails as they are somewhat common and are always salvageable.
Misc
Fire is unlike any of the other resources in that it is not obtained from salvaging, but instead from feeding it other resources.
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Resource- Wood: 10
Resource- Fuel: 5
Resource- Paper: 1
Resource- Plastic: 2
Resource- Fabric: 1
Resource- Electricity: 1
Resource- Alcohol: 2
You need to own a water tank in order to store water.
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The best sources of drinking water are vending machines and lockers (especially soda bottles and lemonade, although any soda / juice is good), especially in places where there are multiple together. Some good locations for water are:
All vending machines.
Mazon College – both the water coolers in the main building but especially the vending machines / lockers in the field secret passage (there’s also some beverages sitting around that SP).
You need to own a water tank in order to store water.
You need to own a water tank in order to store water.
You need a fuel tank to store fuel. It’s a possible level up reward; unlocking it will allow you to build one or more.
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A great zone for collecting fuel items is Walker River. Highway 99 also has various fuel spots (in this image see the area between the circle and the road; there’s about 25 worth of fuel around the area (ignore the actual location of the circle).
You need a Battery (building) Battery built in your camp to store electricity.
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The best source of electricity is laptop batteries, which is a common item found on desks, shelves, and the trash/recycling. You can also automatically get electricity from solar panels, although this is a very slow process.
If you really need electricity, you can also convert fuel into electricity at a 1:1 ratio using the engine-generator set.
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