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Cassette Recorder

How your own voice gets onto a tape: record into a cassette here, then hand the tape to a boom box. Fun for shops and pranks, no help in a fight.

Characteristics

Category
Fun
Stack size
1
Workbench
Level 1
Craftable
Yes
Researchable
Yes · 10 Scrap

Overview

In-game description
Insert a cassette and play the recorded audio with [attack], [attack2] to record new audio and [+reload] to throw.

Anything a boom box says on your server was recorded on one of these first. Slot a cassette in, right-click to record through your microphone, left-click to play it back before the tape goes anywhere else.

It needs only a Level 1 workbench and metal fragments. Say you run a small shop by the road. Record one line on a short cassette, something like "shop's open, vending machine round the side", and drop the tape into a boom box by the door. A longer pitch goes on a long cassette.

The game text also lets you throw the recorder. That makes a cheap trick: toss it around a corner while it plays and watch who turns to look. Beyond that, it does nothing for your base or your fights.

Crafting

×75 Metal Fragments
×1 Cassette Recorder
Workbench level
Level 1
Crafting time
15 s
Research cost
10 Scrap

Recycling

Recycler

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