Search Light

A big wide-beam light you aim by hand, for sweeping the yard at night. It needs a Level 2 bench, and it shows where you are as much as the target.

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Characteristics

Category: Electrical

Stack size: 1

Workbench: Level 2

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Health: 150

Overview

In-game description

A Large, wide beam, aimable light source.

Night on a farm compound is when people come for the planters and the furnaces standing out in the yard. From a roof bunker you see shapes, not players. Put a search light up there, take hold of it and sweep the beam across the yard, and whoever is crouched between the high walls is suddenly standing in daylight.

The game text calls it a large, aimable light with a wide beam, and that is the difference from a spot light: the spot gets pointed once with a hammer and stays, the search light moves live while someone mans it. It needs power like the other lamps. If your roof runs on panels, remember that a large solar panel gives nothing at night, so the line has to come through a battery or from a small generator.

The cost is steep for a lamp: a Level 2 workbench, 200 metal fragments, 500 wood and 30 scrap to research. And the beam works both ways. Everyone around can see where it comes from, so whoever holds it is the easiest target on the roof.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo cheapest	50–52	1,250–1,300
Satchel Charge	4	1,920
High Velocity Rocket	10	2,000
Beancan Grenade	18	2,160
Timed Explosive Charge	1	2,200
Rocket	2	2,800
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	25	300
Propane Explosive Bomb	2	1,800
Mortar Shell	5	1,800
Survey Charge	37	2,220
Homing Missile	29	3,000
MLRS Rocket	1	—
40mm HE Grenade	9	—
Hammerhead Bolt	12	—

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.