Stuck picking up marsh eggs by hand, or cant find that one resource? Look no further!
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Harvesting and Materials
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Introduction
The game does not explain anything about mid to late game resource harvesting so this section will inform you of what you need to know about where and how to acquire certain resources, and the various ways that you can.
Lead
Lead can be found from Lead plating in research outposts within the zones, or near anomaly’s and often include multiple lap computers inside the research lab.
Marsh Eggs
Marsh eggs are those little glowing pink balls on scrap cars next to the large glowing orbs in the middle marsh zone. Despite being able to pick them up by hand you can use the vacuum to quickly pick up large amounts at the same time (as shown below).
You will need a lot of marsh eggs for upgrades, and you need 80 to build one blow torch.
Tree Candy
Tree Candies are little red stalks jutting out from what looks like dead tree stumps in the middle zone sectors (The sectors with the wavy lines, like cooking icon). and can be picked up by hand, or with a vacuum.
Thermosap Crystals
The Beautiful red glow of these crystals can be found in the marshes in specific zones. But if you only need a few scraping Armored cars has a chance to drop a few without needing to go to the swamp.
Below is showing a Sap Condenser That you can break with an impact hammer to receive 4-10 thermosap.
Tips and Tricks
Where to get chemicals?
You need Chems? Stick all your spare paint in the deconstructor.
Don’t use putty on crude/steel doors and panels, just make a new one… since glass and metals are so common.
Swamp corals and LIM magnets
Swamp corals are found in the swamp on Neon Reef anomalies. Can be gather by hand but are definitely vacuum preferred. You kind of have to wait for them to pop out of the reef to harvest them.
LIM magnets are found by tossing scrap metal into points of interest that you find just out and about in the deepzone. You need a fair chunk of metal for 1 magnet.
Also a friendly note for the early/mid game, zones with extreme conditions can sometimes upgrade their anchors to the next tier. Stable->Unstable->Corrupt. Helpful early out for squeaking out an early upgrade.
The fabrication station has different pages
Just for anyone that might not know, when I started it took me a few days to realize that there were different pages on the fabrication station and I was really confused because i didnt know how to get the circuit board or better upgrades for the car. Its really useful.
Tips to Vehicle Upgrades
The rooftop scanner upgrade is the best in-game.
Depending on where you are in your journey i can all but agree.
It do require a good battery management/setup tho to fully utilise.
I went with the extended battery in the seat rack / Added battery on the side with rain and wind collector to recharge it , The last side rack is an added suitcase/inventory for all my spare kits/tools
Since it’s almost always raining or windy i never have to think about power requirement.
In the trunk i have already the “trunk in the trunk” and depending on the trip i’m planning i swap my Roof Headlights to added space and the side trunk becomes a lightning rod.
Extended fuel reservoir on the other seat coupled with another Fuel jug in one of my inventory and i’m usually set for success (mandatory bumper shield for thoses pests trying to steal my stuff or my car).
I find the most problematic thing the more you advance in your journey is your tires and most of all the headlights. (thus the roof headlights that almost always are mandatory in my set up).
tip you can use the auto spotlight to get swamp coral easier.
Pacemaker can produce Tree Candies exchange Plasma
Tourists can also drop plastic when exploded
The resource scanner you can attach to the roof of your car is absolutely magical for finding areas of interest and can show you places where you might have otherwise overlooked. Also, great tip regarding those pacemakers, cloth becomes extremely important and there is never enough of it.
With regards to LIM Magnets I’ve found that Steel Sheets in the transfusers work as well and pumps out the LIM Magents quicker then what plain scrap does.
If you know you’re heading to the deep zone, take a couple stacks of scrap metal with you. LIM magnet converters are relatively common in the Deep Zone.
Red Balloons will pop if you so much as tap it with your car. This gives you whatever it’s holding but destroys all red balloons you could harvest off it. Something to think about if you’re in a hurry.
You have a small chance of finding explosives and Olympium fragments in containers and dumpster pearls.
Tier two harvesting tools (so, Plasma Scrapper, Magnetic Hammer, etc) always have better yields than their normal counterparts.
Hitting anything with the wrong tool massively reduces returns it yields, even if you ultimately harvest it with the correct tool. So don’t hit that plasma generator with a crowbar or try to take a scrapper to your dumpster pearl.
If you need copper wire, the best place to look is in ARDA buildings like trailers or towers. Those usually have lab computers, receivers, and other electronic devices that can be scrapped for plenty of copper wire. You can also occasionally find radios and TVs in civilian buildings that offer some wire too, but those aren’t guaranteed to appear very frequently.
Towers will also usually have a transmuter than can turn one type of resource into another, but the input and output of each one is randomized so odds are you won’t find one that’s particularly useful.
I cannot for the life of me find explosives, the only ones I’ve found were from a dumpster pearl. I’ve been in the deep zone and in both smokestacks and red spires areas but never seem to find the actual lootable boxes, only the Ticking Tumblers. Nothing on the radars either. :c
I found 3 boxes next to each other in the smokestack zone where you first enter the deep zone, you might have some better luck there. other than that keep an eye out for dark red boxes on the road.
what about duck tape and rubber I keep running out
Rubber can be found in the ARDA trailers usually. But I’ve found the best source is just from using the scrapper on wrecked cars. Plasma scrapper is best because I’ve found it gives more resources if you scrap with that. Scrapping Spare Tires is usually a waste of time since they give very little rubber, so Summer Tires or better. The ARDA vehicles will usually have very good tires that will give a decent amount.
I thought it’s 16 Scraps for 3 LIM Magnets.
Also, I’ve only found 1 Explosives Crate. The other one I found was the Ticking Bomb Anomaly (and I didn’t get to scan it).
As a note: LIM Magnet transfusors are 4:1 Scrap to Magnets. The little blue wheel on the display shows a wheel or number of wedges. Those wedges are how many ‘uses’ the transfusor or LIM transfusor has left.
Thanks for the guide.
I would like to add one more way to harvest tourists: Use the vacuum. They start to sway when your are still far enough away not to be hurt by the following explosion.
I found Olympium. It spawns on these random pillars in the deep zone clearly visible by the purple dots. It requires an impact hammer or magnetic hammer to break. You could also break it with a prybar, eventually.
I think they may be easier to harvest with the magnetic hammer since the impact hammer took several hits to get a single piece. I also don’t know if they drop only one fragment or several, because I only broke 1.
The deposits are also radioactive, be warned.
vacuum the purple helium lamps = pressurized cartridges (if you use the scrapper instead of the vacuum)
You dont need a flare to detonate Tourists. Some cheap scrap metal will do.
You can also get Thermosap Crystals from destroying the Tourists but its a 1 in 10 chance
Hazmat cabinets in ARDA trailers = chemicals, gas cylinders
TVs = pressurized cartridges
vacuum the purple helium lamps = light bulbs
Ballons, you get those from beachball anomalies in and around the deepzone. They look like pink orbs with more pink orbs orbiting them. Use vacuum to suck off the balloons and eventually the core will spit out a mid-high tier resource or dumpster pearl.
Tourists have a small chance to drop thermosap crystals when they explode, too. Likewise, shocked tourists will occasionally drop plasma containers. Throwing lit flares at them is the best way to safely detonate them from a distance.