
Components
Gears
gears
Mechanical gears used to craft garage doors, drones and vehicle modules. Found in loot or made from HQM at a workbench.
Used to craft
33 items are crafted with this.
+9 more
Crafting
| ×25 | |
| ×100 |
Workbench Lvl 3Craft time: 1s
account_treeTotal Raw Cost(crafting every sub-component)
Gears | ×1 |
Blueprint
60
Research (scrap)
Workbench Lvl 3
Requires
Recycling
recyclingSafezone Recycler
| ×8 | |
| ×10 |
warningRadtown Recycler
| ×12 | |
| ×15 |
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.
Looted From
Locked CrateLocked Crate - GhostshipLocked Crate - OilrigUnderwater Lab - Tier 2 ComponentsSupply DropSantas Supply DropWagon - Normal CrateGingerbread Mine PresentNormal CrateUnderwater Advanced CrateUnderwater Lab - Normal Crate 2Gingerbread
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