Characteristics
Overview
A key to a door, created from a Lock. Keep this item safe; if lost you'll be unable to open the door again!
One lock, its own keys. You make a door key at the key lock itself, and it opens that lock and nothing else. Each teammate who needs in wants a copy, and each copy costs 25 wood.
- Put the key lock on your door and lock it.
- Look at the lock, hold E and choose to create a key.
- Hand a copy to each teammate and leave the spare with whoever stays at base.
The trouble starts when you die. The key drops with the rest of your inventory, and the roamer who checks your body for scrap now holds the way through your wooden door. The other trap is the one the game text warns about: lose every key while the lock stays shut and you are the one locked out.
Picture the first evening of a wipe. You head out to farm stone with the only key in your pocket, a naked with a spear catches you at a node, and by the time you run back from your spawn the box is empty. That is why keys are a first-night tool. As soon as the metal is there, a code lock leaves nothing in your pockets to steal.
Recycling
At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.
