where can you find electronic components?

[MCNacho-ナチョ]

I'm at the point where I'm literally softlocked. I no longer have any routes that I can follow. I know that you can get them from the devices that you can saw in half, but I don't even have level 2 workshop because I can't find enough and i even need the lim shild. anyone tips?

[Mercutian]

My most productive spots are anywhere you can find the lead shielding (nuke symbol on route planner). In those circles of shielding are usually stacks of lab computers in a rack next to the unscrappable monitor. Best haul had 3 in the rack, 1 on top and 2 receivers nearby on some cabinets or shelving.

You can typically find a dozen or so lead shielding spots per junction so it might be worth it to focus an electronics run wherever the shielding exists.

[Nova225]

Get a scrapper.

Next to the broken down car by the safe garage, there's a computer and a TV you can shred for electronic parts.

When visiting different buildings you can sometimes find computers, phones, TVs, lab equipment, etc, that you can shred with the scrapper tool and get electronics, copper wire, and 9 volt batteries.

[Astrid]

Originally posted by MCNacho:

Originally posted by Nova225:

Get a scrapper.

Next to the broken down car by the safe garage, there's a computer and a TV you can shred for electronic parts.

When visiting different buildings you can sometimes find computers, phones, TVs, lab equipment, etc, that you can shred with the scrapper tool and get electronics, copper wire, and 9 volt batteries.

the problem is, that i dont get enough from them or even nothing. it feels like they have a dropchance of 1%.

best places to find are in houses (youll often find TV's) and near those lead shielded data collecting outposts. they often have stacks of lab computers and recievers you can scrap

[Mercutian]

Originally posted by MCNacho:

Originally posted by Nova225:

Get a scrapper.

Next to the broken down car by the safe garage, there's a computer and a TV you can shred for electronic parts.

When visiting different buildings you can sometimes find computers, phones, TVs, lab equipment, etc, that you can shred with the scrapper tool and get electronics, copper wire, and 9 volt batteries.

the problem is, that i dont get enough from them or even nothing. it feels like they have a dropchance of 1%.

If youre completely out of them the dumpter should favor their drop. Probably not enough to unlock progression but enough to get you out of a rut. Could just be really bad RNG.

As I recall 0-1 pieces per old tech is pretty common for the radio and tv. I HAVE seen a single newer model television at a random gas station that dropped around 10 electronics and copper wire, I believe.

Your best bet for bulk are lab computers and receivers. ARDA trailers have them sometimes but theyre practically guaranteed at lead shielding sites.

[Mercutian]

Well, good luck. Im sure if you persevere youll be able to get back on track but im not in your shoes dont know what youre dealing with.

[Deranger]

No need to restart: Friendly Dumpster, the two "electronics" free items sat on the shelf outside to break down, using the upgraded tools (when you get to that stage, as more resources gained per use), and you can just keep making short runs. Once you have gone somewhere you can always return (a later run) if it is on your route.

Houses and other buildings contain equipment to break down, this is where I got loads of electronics/plastic.

[Deranger]

Originally posted by MCNacho:

dumpsty didnt drop any electrical component for me once.

Then there is the other things mentioned ;) Dumpster is a last resort/something for free loot every time you return to garage. When you get the Pneumatic locker upgrades you no longer have to think about storage room and collecting everything quickly becomes a key strategy. So collecting the free and breaking down what you see in buildings is the best bet for electronics early on.

I run out of Plastic and Fabric the most (as you craft Outfits and Devices/Parts). Everything else is easier once you see where things come from, and loot can be very low or high (check the planner for resources, time, levels of hazards etc).

[Astrid]

Originally posted by Deranger:

Originally posted by MCNacho:

dumpsty didnt drop any electrical component for me once.

Then there is the other things mentioned ;) Dumpster is a last resort/something for free loot every time you return to garage. When you get the Pneumatic locker upgrades you no longer have to think about storage room and collecting everything quickly becomes a key strategy. So collecting the free and breaking down what you see in buildings is the best bet for electronics early on.

I run out of Plastic and Fabric the most (as you craft Outfits and Devices/Parts). Everything else is easier once you see where things come from, and loot can be very low or high (check the planner for resources, time, levels of hazards etc).

i never have enough fabric! at first i thought i would run out of chemicals the fastest but then i discovered pneumatic storage

[Nova225]

Originally posted by MCNacho:

thanks for the help everyone. Guess I'll have to start over <.<

Why? You don't need to go directly to each story mission. You can drive to random places in the zone.

[JDeezNutz]

There is no way for you to have no routes left unless it is some kind of bug. There are always a handful of destinations to choose from. It might not be exactly where you want to go. It might not even be straight to the story mission because you don't have much discovered, but there will always be a chill junction or two close by the shop that you can count on for pretty chill resourcing runs.

[Raptor85]

Originally posted by MCNacho:

Originally posted by Nova225:

Why? You don't need to go directly to each story mission. You can drive to random places in the zone.

yes .... but i dont had any routes left as I already wrote

the scanner's just a scanner, you don't have to scan something to drive to it, it just tells you the road conditions on the route before you do, when you drive out of the garage to the gate you can literally pick any destination you've driven before (and anything known linked off those)

[Druinthor]

Originally posted by MCNacho:

Originally posted by Raptor85:

the scanner's just a scanner, you don't have to scan something to drive to it, it just tells you the road conditions on the route before you do, when you drive out of the garage to the gate you can literally pick any destination you've driven before (and anything known linked off those)

no. i cant select driven locations. only new ones.

theoreticly i can only select each node 1 time.

Then this is some sort of bug. You can go back to the same places as many times as you like.

[Druinthor]

Originally posted by Druinthor:

Originally posted by MCNacho:

no. i cant select driven locations. only new ones.

theoreticly i can only select each node 1 time.

Then this is some sort of bug. You can go back to the same places as many times as you like.

Sorry this is probably misleading. You can only click on new places on the map in the workshop to scan but once you leave the workshop you can drive to where ever you want once you are driving. The map in the workshop has nothing to do with where you end up driving to.

[Abyssal Crow]

Ima clear up some misinformation : You can drive wherever on the route map once you head out, you DO NOT have to scan it.

Scanning can only be done on junctions with gateways. If you hover over a junction and it says "No Stable exits" OR "Deadend" (do not enter a dead end btw) then you cannot scan it. No Stable Exit means there's a junction past it that does have a gateway and you can scan that, it'll scan all junctions leading up to the one you scanned.

Electronics are gotten by mainly scrapping certain things like TV, computer equipment, a phone, etc. They'll highlight when you mouse over them then you just scrapper them.

You don't have to do the main story quest constantly, you can freely explore any other routes and I actually recommend you do this, if you make it to a junction at the end of a path you'll likely unlock another junction past it once you return to the garage. Keep doing these runs and you'll find you get a big ol spider web of junctions that all lead progressively into the zone. Be wary of dead ends though, as said do not enter them, its death unless a stabilizer is in them which you can never know if there is one.