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Cooking Workbench
Misc

Cooking Workbench

cookingworkbench

Used to cook advanced recipes for food, fuel, ammunition and explosives.

Crafting one takes 200× Metal Fragments, 200× Stones, 100× Wood at a Workbench Lvl 2. A recycler breaks one down into Metal Fragments, Stones.

Crafting

Metal Fragments×200
Stones×200
Wood×100
Workbench Lvl 2Craft time: 30s

Blueprint

30
Research (scrap)
30
Tech tree node (scrap)
420
Tech tree path (scrap)
Workbench Lvl 2
Requires

Recycling

recyclingSafezone Recycler
Metal Fragments×80
Stones×80
Wood×40
warningRadtown Recycler
Metal Fragments×120
Stones×120
Wood×60

Radtown recyclers (found in monuments) give more than the safe-zone recyclers at Outpost and Bandit Camp. A percentage next to a yield is the chance of receiving it.

Repair

buildHammer
Metal Fragments×100
Stones×100
Wood×50
Condition lost per repair: 0%Blueprint required: No

Cost shown is the maximum, to repair from near-broken to full condition.

buildRepair Bench
Metal Fragments×40
Stones×40
Wood×20
Condition lost per repair: 0%Blueprint required: Yes

Cost shown is the maximum, to repair from near-broken to full condition.

Looted From

Underwater Advanced CrateWagon - Normal CrateNormal CrateUnderwater Lab - Normal Crate 2Abandoned Military Base ScientistAirfield ScientistArctic Research Base ScientistBradley ScientistCargo Ship ScientistDeep Sea Ghost Ship ScientistDeep Sea Island ScientistExcavator Scientist

Decay & Upkeep

96 h
Decay (outside)
960 h
Decay (inside)

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