Small Boat Engine

The fast way to drive a player-built boat, paid for with a Level 2 bench, gears, high quality metal and fuel to keep it running. More engines, more speed.

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Characteristics

Category: Items

Stack size: 1

Workbench: Level 2

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 15 Scrap

Health: 300

Overview

In-game description

A punchy boat engine made from scavenged parts, not good for the environment. More engines means more speed.

Speed is what you buy with it. A sail drifts along; an engine pushes, and the game's own text says every extra one adds more. That is the difference between reaching the Oil Rig ahead of the next boat and arriving on a deck someone already looted.

The price tells you where it fits in a wipe. You need a Level 2 workbench, two gears, five high quality metal and fifty low grade fuel just to build one, then more fuel to run it. A group still saving gears for its first guns should keep sailing a little longer. A spare engine gives back roughly half of its parts in the recycler, so a second one is not money thrown away.

Tip

Keep a stack of fuel in a box on deck, not back at base. An engine that runs dry halfway to an island will not bring you home, and neither will the sail you decided to skip.

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.