Blueprints location

[Koba]

Hi guys. I am going slowly down the tech tree and got almost all my skills to level 4 and 5 but I am really struggling to find blueprints for steel ingots for example.. I am checking the trader every week with no luck so I was wondering if there is any specific location on the map where I will have more luck to find the blueprints or where I shall be looking more? Thank you.

[Robo]

blueprint drops are random. The best location for blueprints is the locked library on the second floor of the police station

[william_es]

There is an interactive map, and I think one thing you can set it for is "schematics". I believe those are what the grey colored books are called, that include things like steel crafting and other things.

It will show all the buildings that can have them.

2 Story houses are a pretty good source. Especially a type of house that has missing kitchen patio doors (they're not just open, they're completely missing on the back side of the house. The upstairs rooms have desks which are great source of schematics.

The small town in the southwest corner of C6 has one of these house right in the middle of it, and across the river in bottom south east corner of C5 there's another. Once you know what they look like, they're all over the place.

Just a general heads up, trying to go up the stairs next to the front door, has a very high chance of setting off an alarm. I just run up the stairs, down the hallway, and wait in one of the rooms at the end if the alarm goes off. Half the time the zombies can't even path upstairs, sometimes they pour up the stairs in a conga line.

[Felix McDaggart]

yupe, houses, police stations, sometime car boots/trunk and could be some in farm settlements oh and in engineering buildings, but Robos map has the info :)

[SomewhatSolo]

I find most of my blueprints in vehicles. Farm Barns have been a good location too. Bandit Camps should have decent amount. It all depends on your loot settings. I play Rare loot with no Loot Respawn. Vehicles and Barns for me, mostly vehicles.