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Xylobone

A use for spare bones: 50 fragments and a Level 1 bench buy an instrument with a soft tone. Apart from the music, it does nothing for your wipe.

Characteristics

Category
Fun
Stack size
1
Workbench
Level 1
Craftable
Yes
Researchable
Yes · 10 Scrap
Health
100

Overview

In-game description
A selection of bones that were “acquired” for their acoustic attributes. Play a lullaby for your camp with these soothing tones.

Back from a night of hunting, you empty your pockets into the box and the pile of bone fragments is bigger than ever. Arrows and knives were made long ago, and nobody wears bone armour after the first days. Fifty of those spare bones become a xylobone.

You need a Level 1 workbench, and there is nothing to research. Nothing else goes into the recipe, so it costs you no metal or wood at all. That makes it the one instrument a hunter pays for entirely out of leftovers. Every player can craft it from the start, too, so nobody in the band is left without an instrument.

It has no effect on anything. If the pile is still huge afterwards, bone armor for a fresh teammate is the other sensible sink.

Raid cost

Explosive Quantity Sulfur
High Velocity Rocket cheapest 1 200
Beancan Grenade 2 240
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo 10–12 250–300
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
Survey Charge 8 480
Mortar Shell 1 600
Propane Explosive Bomb 1 900
MLRS Rocket 1 —
40mm HE Grenade 2 —
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.

Crafting

×50 Bone Fragments
×1 Xylobone
Workbench level
Level 1
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

    at a Level 1 Workbench

  • Research

    10 Scrap at a Research Table