Owning the item is the whole unlock. Christmas Lights have no blueprint to research: players who own them on Steam find the recipe in their menu, and nobody else ever will, whatever scrap or bench they have.
For an owner, fuel is the catch. Each string's low grade fuel divides into whole crafts, so a single one wastes nothing, but lights go up in rows, not one at a time. A full stack comes to 400 fuel, more than a small oil refinery costs to build, and every drop of it starts as animal fat. The metal fragments are one furnace run by comparison.
So craft for the roof line people see from the road, not for every wall. The Deluxe Christmas Lights are the powered, animated version, with a bill of their own.
Questions
Christmas Lights ×10: how many resources?
Metal Fragments ×250, Cloth ×50, Animal Fat ×150.
Which workbench does Christmas Lights need?
None: it is crafted by hand.
How long does Christmas Lights take to craft?
40 s for one, every step included.
How much scrap does researching Christmas Lights take?
