High Quality Metal

The metal behind everything that wins fights late: armour, rifles, scopes, armoured doors and the Level 3 bench. Spend your first stack carefully.

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Characteristics

Category: Resources

Stack size: 100

Craftable: No

Researchable: No

Overview

In-game description

High quality metal suitable for armor and weapons construction.

Your first real stack of HQM forces a choice. A Level 3 workbench wants 100 of it plus a thousand frags. A metal facemask takes 15, the chest plate 18, an armoured door 20, and an assault rifle 50 on its own. Spread it thin and you end up with a bit of everything and no AK.

A common order: the Level 2 bench first, since it needs only 20, then Level 3, and right after it facemask and chest plate, because both are crafted there and head and body armour decide every fight that follows. Sights, scopes and magazines all take some too, so a fully kitted rifle costs more HQM than people expect. And the armoured building tier is a bottomless pit of its own.

Supply comes from smelting high quality metal ore, which metal nodes give only in small amounts. The recycler is the other half: metal pipes, springs, sheet metal and rifle bodies all hand some back. It also leaves through a side door. A rocket launcher alone takes 40, so a raiding group burns HQM before the first rocket flies.