Loot spawns are broken

[Cinnamon Hair Extensions]

I've searched the entirety of rosewood for there to be no how to use generator magazine

[hardy_conrad]

As is typical of complaints, nowhere near enough information is provided for anybody to draw a meaningful conclusion or offer advice. As in :

What are the settings?
Define precisely what you mean by "searched the entirety". Library? Post office? Houses? Cabinets? MAILBOXES?
What build?
Single player or multiplayer (because if multiplayer maybe someone grabbed it)?
Mods?

And so on. However for whatever it's worth, yes finding the generator mag is difficult but thankfully it's not a must. Or at least it wasn't in the previous build, I haven't played the new one yet. Good news is Rosewood isn't the only town on the map. Maybe you'll find it elsewhere.

[Shurenai]

It's not broken. People have searched 3-4 cities in the past and still not found the generator magazine. RNG is RNG is RNG. It CAN drop properly from every source it should drop from.

[Cinnamon Hair Extensions]

Originally posted by Cinnamon Hair Extensions:

Originally posted by hardy_conrad:

As is typical of complaints, nowhere near enough information is provided for anybody to draw a meaningful conclusion or offer advice. As in :

What are the settings?
Define precisely what you mean by "searched the entirety". Library? Post office? Houses? Cabinets? MAILBOXES?
What build?
Single player or multiplayer (because if multiplayer maybe someone grabbed it)?
Mods?

And so on. However for whatever it's worth, yes finding the generator mag is difficult but thankfully it's not a must. Or at least it wasn't in the previous build, I haven't played the new one yet. Good news is Rosewood isn't the only town on the map. Maybe you'll find it elsewhere.

Yes ive checked everything (besides the mailboxes) I have run the town dry. Looting basically every item from every building (Besides food). I'm playing default settings.
Does it spawn in mailboxes now? if so ill go search them

[PapaSloppy]

Originally posted by Cinnamon Hair Extensions:

Originally posted by hardy_conrad:

As is typical of complaints, nowhere near enough information is provided for anybody to draw a meaningful conclusion or offer advice. As in :

What are the settings?
Define precisely what you mean by "searched the entirety". Library? Post office? Houses? Cabinets? MAILBOXES?
What build?
Single player or multiplayer (because if multiplayer maybe someone grabbed it)?
Mods?

And so on. However for whatever it's worth, yes finding the generator mag is difficult but thankfully it's not a must. Or at least it wasn't in the previous build, I haven't played the new one yet. Good news is Rosewood isn't the only town on the map. Maybe you'll find it elsewhere.

Yes ive checked everything (besides the mailboxes) I have run the town dry. Looting basically every item from every building (Besides food). i have like 700hrs. I'm playing default settings.
Does it spawn in mailboxes now? if so ill go search them

they spawned in mailboxes in b41 as well, you sure a majority of your hours aren't afk hours?

[ubanstars]

I've found the generator magazine in mailboxes 2 times in the 1500 hours of my play time. when your looting or just walking down roads you can check with out stopping. I don't know if that helps.

[The society of evil pumpkins]

Easier get lvl 3 electrical skill even that found this magazine

[★Rainmaker★]

The spawns aren't "broken" in any way, they're just much rarer. For a few reasons:
1: Now there are no generic "Book" or "Magazine" items, they're all new and they all get their own spot in the loot tables. That automatically means that they give skill books and recipe magazines fewer chances to spawn in.
2: The default "Rare" setting now actually means rare, unlike in B41.78 where "Rare" was closer to what's "Normal" now.

But I still think that single player is getting way too many nerfs and the devs have intentionally made it way too hard to be a Jack of All Trades type character...

Sooooooooo I'll be developing a mod that doubles Skill Book and Recipe Magazine spawns. :D Because I realized that even if you try to combat the fewer spawns by turning "Literature" spawns up to "Normal" or even "Common", that also means that the Boredom/Stress/Unhappiness books and magazines also get a spawn multiplier.
So I'm just gonna double the actual literature we all want and need, lol.

[Cinnamon Hair Extensions]

Originally posted by The society of evil pumpkins:

Easier get lvl 3 electrical skill even that found this magazine

Can you use the generator with lvl 3 electrical? i wasnt aware of this

[Alex]

Originally posted by Cinnamon Hair Extensions:

Originally posted by The society of evil pumpkins:

Easier get lvl 3 electrical skill even that found this magazine

Can you use the generator with lvl 3 electrical? i wasnt aware of this

It literally written on the genny if you would be so kind to hover the mouse on "connect".
BTW I found this mag inside a trashbag from an office trashcan from spawn town (WP, b42, apocalypse preset).

[WildHunt]

its RNG. you have higher chance finding it in any town Gas Station. it can even spawn during foraging/search mode at lower chance

[dantaeusb]

Nah it's working as intended, so as Zomboid strives for realism, you'll get realistic loot spawns: a typical household will have one fruit in the fridge and wealthy ones may get a knife. Libraries may have a dozen of books, but that's a big one. People also typically siphon gasoline from parked cars at home, and throw it away.
If you don't want to waste your time repeating the same ♥♥♥♥ for hours in a game that has half of the features broken with every update over 15 years, just adjust the loot tables. Spawn will still be quite dumb, but at least you'll get to see some of the game before you get bored. Standard loot tables only make sense when you already decided to invest a lot of time, have nothing better to do, and like to torture yourself for fun.
Especially if you do multiplayer, never leave the default settings unless you want everyone to drop after a single session, unfortunately it takes tinkering to find out the balance.

Better stop writing, got a muscle strain from typing that comment.

[I deserve life]

Originally posted by dantaeusb:

Better stop writing, got a muscle strain from typing that comment.

I could definitely level up my poetry level by this comment but it seems Im already at level 3.

[Overheadace]

i read people been finding them in the electrical grey vans. gonna check myself later

[Asa Mitaka]

you dont need to search generator magazine, just grind that electrical until level 3 it will unlocked it and +extra recipe

[Jambie Lionheart]

Had it happen once too. Search whole of Riverside for it and didn't find it, then rosewood, then West point. Nudda. Found it in a storage lock up in Muldrough somewhere. When I picked insanely rare literature, I think it only made that one mag actually insanely rare.