Tool

Metal Detector

Loot without a fight: sweep the ground, dig where the flag shows. It needs HQM, rope and 200 frags at a Level 1 bench, and the area decides what you find.

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Characteristics

Category: Tool

Stack size: 1

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Overview

In-game description

Detects metal objects which may otherwise be hidden. When the light flashes, or you hear a beep, aim to search for items. Increase the bar until a flag appears. Dig at the flag with a melee item to reveal what it is. Different areas yield different rewards

Solo players on a busy server get the most out of it. Every monument is camped, so you walk the coast and the fields with this and a shovel on your belt and pull loot out of the ground instead. Its own text says different areas yield different rewards, so the field behind your base and a road near a monument will not pay the same.

The game's description doubles as the manual:

Hold it and walk until the light flashes or you hear a beep.
Aim (RMB) to search and keep raising the bar until a flag appears.
Switch to a melee item and dig at the flag. The shovel is the obvious pick, and it costs next to nothing.

The craft is the real question. Five high quality metal, 200 frags and two ropes at a Level 1 workbench is nothing late in a wipe, but on day one that HQM belongs in tools that farm faster. Most people pick one up once the base is stable.