Sail

The fuel-free way to move a player-built boat: slow and cheap at a Level 1 bench, and every extra sail adds speed. The tarp in it is the catch.

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Characteristics

Category: Items

Stack size: 1

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 15 Scrap

Health: 300

Overview

In-game description

A slow but effective boat sail, made from scraps of fabric hastily stitched together. More sails will generate more speed.

Fit one when the hull has to move and nobody in the group has fuel to spare. A sail burns nothing, so the boat you laid out at the boat building station can leave the coast on day one, as long as someone found a tarp. Its own description is honest about the speed: slow, though each extra sail adds a bit more.

Pros

Cons

No fuel, so an empty tank never strands you at sea
A Level 1 bench and 150 wood besides the tarp
Stacks up: two or three sails beat one

Slow, and a boat with an engine catches you
Each one eats a tarp that planters and water catchers also want
Recycling it gives the tarp back only some of the time

Picture a duo with a coastal base and an island crate run in mind. No gears yet, no Level 2 bench, but a tarp from a road barrel. One sail gets you out and back without touching your low grade fuel. Once the group can afford a small boat engine, the sail stays on as the slow backup for the day the tank runs dry.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo cheapest	6–7	150–200
High Velocity Rocket	1	200
Beancan Grenade	3	360
Satchel Charge	1	480
Rocket	1	1,400
Timed Explosive Charge	1	2,200
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	1	60
Homing Missile	1	200
Mortar Shell	2	600
Propane Explosive Bomb	1	900
Survey Charge	15	900
MLRS Rocket	1	—
40mm HE Grenade	4	—
Hammerhead Bolt	4	—

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.