Vending Machine: Selling While You Are Offline

Overview

In-game description

Trade your goods with other players safely by creating sell and buy orders. If a raider gains access to the rear panel, they will have free reign over all of your goodies. Keep it safe.

Turn your surplus into scrap while you sleep. You set the orders, fill the machine and log off; a passing player pays what you asked and walks away with the goods, and nobody ever opens a door. A drop box cannot do that, and a shop front needs both of you online at once.

Picture the third evening of a wipe. Your group has boxes of low grade fuel and mountains of stone it will never use up, and nobody has scrap for the next blueprint. Put the fuel and stone up for scrap, and in the morning the payment is waiting in the machine. Solo players short on farming time buy that sort of thing all day.

The price is the catch early on. Three gears and 20 high quality metal at a Level 1 workbench hurt on day one, so most groups set one up once their furnaces run without a break.

Watch out

The machine's own text warns about its rear panel: whoever reaches it takes everything inside. Face the front out and keep the back inside your walls, and restock it from a box instead of leaving your whole surplus loaded.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Timed Explosive Charge cheapest	5	11,000
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	499	12,500
Satchel Charge	29	13,920
Rocket	10	14,000
Beancan Grenade	139	16,680
High Velocity Rocket	84	16,800
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	250	3,000
Propane Explosive Bomb	10	9,000
Mortar Shell	41	12,600
Survey Charge	304	18,240
Homing Missile	250	25,000
MLRS Rocket	8	—
40mm HE Grenade	70	—
Hammerhead Bolt	100	—

Explosive

Quantity

Sulfur