Lantern

The plain fuel lamp for a base: no bench, known from the start, set down wherever you need it. Its real price is the low grade fuel it burns while lit.

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Characteristics

Category: Items

Stack size: 1

Durability: 100

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 10 Scrap

Health: 50

Overview

In-game description

A Lantern. Place it where you need light, requires low grade fuel to work.

Night two of a wipe, and you are sorting loot in a room so dark you can barely tell one box from the next. That is the job of a lantern. Set it down on the floor, put some low grade fuel in it, switch it on, and the room is usable again after sunset.

Getting one is easy. It takes a little fuel and 25 metal fragments, needs no workbench, and every player knows the blueprint from the start, so there is nothing to research. The running cost is what catches people out: a lit lantern keeps burning fuel whether anyone is in the room or not.

Tip

Switch it off before you log off. A glowing window in the middle of the night shows every roamer that the base is lived in, and the fuel stays in the lantern for tomorrow.

For a spot on the wall, the tuna can lamp does the same job with less fuel in its recipe. Once your base runs on electricity, a ceiling light ends the refuelling for good. Decorative versions like the Chinese Lantern seem to work the same way and only change the look.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo cheapest	5–6	150
Beancan Grenade	3	360
High Velocity Rocket	2	400
Satchel Charge	1	480
Rocket	1	1,400
Timed Explosive Charge	1	2,200
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	3	60
Survey Charge	7	420
Mortar Shell	1	600
Homing Missile	5	600
Propane Explosive Bomb	1	900
MLRS Rocket	1	—
40mm HE Grenade	2	—
Hammerhead Bolt	2	—

Direct hit, hard side, no duds. Beancan Grenade is a dud 15% of the time. Satchel Charge is a dud 20% of the time. A range runs from point blank to the far end of the bullet's falloff, fired from an Assault Rifle.