Characteristics
- Category
- Tool
- Stack size
- 1
- Durability
- 50
- Workbench
- Level 1
- Craftable
- Yes
- Researchable
- Yes · 10 Scrap
- Damage
- 15
- Swing time
- 1 s
Overview
A powerful flashlight which illuminates your surroundings and can be used as a weapon.
Use it to look somewhere specific. A torch throws a warm glow around your feet; the flashlight points a beam where you aim, so you can read a dark corner of a monument or check the back of a cave without walking into it.
Pros
Cons
- Only metal fragments at a Level 1 workbench, cheap to replace
- A directed beam that reaches farther than a torch
- No flame, so no fuel in the recipe and nothing to light
- Holding it means not holding a gun
- The beam tells anyone watching exactly where to shoot
- A poor melee swing next to a real weapon
That first con is why it stays in the box for most players once guns come out. A weapon flashlight does the same job on the rifle itself, so you aim and light in one motion. The handheld one earns its slot in the gap before that: farming at night with a bow on your back, or looting a dark building on day two.
Later in a wipe, night vision goggles let you see without showing anyone a beam at all.
Crafting
- Workbench level
- Level 1
- Crafting time
- 15 s
- Research cost
- 10 Scrap
Recycling
At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.
How to get
-
Craft
at a Level 1 Workbench
-
Research
10 Scrap at a Research Table
