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Construction

Shop Front

A trading counter for a wall frame: you inside, the buyer outside, both put up goods and both accept. Cheap wood, but only the metal one is bulletproof.

Characteristics

Category
Construction
Stack size
1
Durability
100
Craftable
Yes
Researchable
Yes · 10 Scrap
Health
500

Overview

In-game description
A shop front to do commerce.

Trade without opening the door. The shop front fills a wall frame, and each side of the counter gets its own slots: you put your offer in from inside the base, the other player puts his in from outside, and the swap only goes through when both of you accept. Touch the offer after that and the deal needs accepting again.

Picture a neighbour knocking on your wall with a stack of wood he wants to swap for frags. Without a counter you either open up to a stranger or toss things through a window and hope. With one, nobody steps inside and nobody walks off with both halves.

The catch is that both of you have to be there at once. A vending machine sells while you sleep, but it costs gears and high quality metal. A drop box only works one way: people leave things for you, and nothing goes back out.

The wooden counter is the cheap way in, with no bench and nothing to research. On a busy road, though, the metal shop front is the better buy, because the game calls that one bulletproof and says nothing of the kind about this one.

Raid cost

Explosive Quantity Sulfur
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo cheapest 45–46 1,150
Rocket 1 1,400
Satchel Charge 3 1,440
High Velocity Rocket 8 1,600
Beancan Grenade 17 2,040
Timed Explosive Charge 1 2,200
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo 22 300
Propane Explosive Bomb 1 900
Mortar Shell 5 1,800
Survey Charge 32 1,920
Homing Missile 25 2,600
MLRS Rocket 1 —
40mm HE Grenade 8 —
Hammerhead Bolt 10 —

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.

Raid calculator: Shop Front

Crafting

×150 Wood
×1 Shop Front
Crafting time
15 s
Research cost
10 Scrap

Recycling

Recycler

At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.

How to get

  • Craft

    by hand

  • Research

    10 Scrap at a Research Table