Paintable Window

A shop front needs a sign, and this lets the window itself be one. The game calls it a window with paintable glass, so instead of a blank pane you get a surface for a logo, a price note or a joke for the neighbours. It suits the windows strangers actually see, like the one over your compound gate.

Under the paint it is the strengthened glass window. The skin has no blueprint of its own, so you learn that window for 30 scrap, craft it from 50 metal fragments at a Level 2 workbench and, if you own this skin, pick the paintable look. So you are only deciding whether you want a picture in that slot.

Say you run a small trading post by the road. A window with your group's logo, or a crooked arrow pointing at the vending machine, tells passing players more than another plain pane. Inside a raid base, though, nobody admires your art, and cheap metal window bars at least let you shoot back through the gap, which glass does not.