Fun

Telephone

A placed phone with its own number that any other phone can dial. Worth a slot when people outside your Discord need a way to reach your base.

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Characteristics

Category: Fun

Stack size: 1

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Health: 150

Overview

In-game description

Use the telephone to call other telephones on the island!

Placing one of these gives your base a number. Any other phone on the map can ring it, so the people who are not in your voice channel finally have a way in: buyers for your shop, the clan on the next hill, whoever wants to talk before walking up to your door.

Say you run a vending stall by the road and spend half the evening farming. A stranger who wants more ammo than the machine holds no longer has to camp your door. He dials from his own base or from a Mobile Phone in his pocket, and you pick up once you are home. As far as players know, the phone also takes a cassette, so a line recorded on a short cassette can answer while you are out.

It costs more than the mobile: 100 metal fragments, 50 wood and a piece of tech trash at a Level 1 bench, plus 30 scrap to research, while the mobile needs none at all. What you get for that is a fixed line, not reach. It also seems to want power before it rings, so give it a line from a small rechargeable battery or from your base circuit.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Beancan Grenade cheapest	3	360
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	15–17	400–450
Satchel Charge	1	480
High Velocity Rocket	4	800
Rocket	1	1,400
Timed Explosive Charge	1	2,200
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	7	120
Mortar Shell	2	600
Survey Charge	11	660
Propane Explosive Bomb	1	900
Homing Missile	13	1,400
MLRS Rocket	1	—
40mm HE Grenade	3	—
Hammerhead Bolt	6	—

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.