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Electrical

Modular Car Lift

The only place you can edit a modular car: swap modules, change engine parts, rebuild a roadside wreck. It needs a gear and a garage worth guarding.

Characteristics

Category
Electrical
Stack size
1
Workbench
Level 2
Craftable
Yes
Researchable
Yes · 60 Scrap
Health
250

Overview

In-game description
This allows you to modify modular vehicles

You found a three-module car rusting by the road, the engine half dead and a flatbed on the back you never wanted. Drive it home, roll it onto the lift, and now you can pull modules, slot new ones in and swap the parts inside the engine module. No other spot in the game lets you edit a car.

The lift is big and sits on the floor of your base, so plan a garage around it: a wide door, room to drive in straight, and walls between the car and the roamers who would love to take it. Car locks are set up from the lift's menu too, and a locked car behind a garage door lasts a lot longer than one parked in the yard.

It costs one gear, five HQM and 200 frags at a Level 2 workbench. Research takes 60 scrap, twice what the electric furnaces and the water pump ask. Early in a wipe that gear is the part that slows you down, since it comes from crates and the recycler.

Tip

Do not drive a wreck you will never use straight to the recycler. Strip it on the lift first: a spare high quality piston or a module you can swap onto your good car is worth more than the scrap.

Raid cost

Explosive Quantity Sulfur
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo cheapest 84–87 2,100–2,200
Timed Explosive Charge 1 2,200
Rocket 2 2,800
High Velocity Rocket 16 3,200
Satchel Charge 7 3,360
Beancan Grenade 30 3,600
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo 41 540
Propane Explosive Bomb 2 1,800
Mortar Shell 9 3,000
Survey Charge 61 3,660
Homing Missile 49 5,000
MLRS Rocket 2 —
40mm HE Grenade 14 —
Hammerhead Bolt 20 —

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

Crafting

Workbench level
Level 2
Crafting time
25 s
Research cost
60 Scrap

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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 2 Workbench

  • Research

    60 Scrap at a Research Table