I can't find a wrench

[karastantar]

Day 11, I got a level 3 baseball bat, a lvl 2 compound bow that I bought from the trader, 75 steel bars, a bicycle, lvl 5 ax, but I haven't found a wrench, I had to buy the workstastion for 5000 from a trader, and now im stuck since i cant get parts. Traders wont sell me a wrench, Ive looted way too many POIS, still no wrench, what the ♥♥♥♥ do i do. I cant even find mechanical parts to create a wrench

[onanonehand8]

Wrenches do seem to be harder to find. Even putting a point in scavenging at outset. I have found one that way, but the drop rate is definitely lower than prior alpha. What seems more reliable is a reward from trader for finishing tier one jobs, but, then it's a choice between a wrench and a bicycle.

[Seftak]

If you can find an engine then you can scrap it for mechanical parts.

[Amins]

Best option is start a new world and hope for better luck. There must be something hard coded into the game that modifies rarity of random resources or something, because every map has those things that are just impossible to find while others are more abundant than they should be. Sometimes it's honey, sometimes it's wrenches, I've had no workstation mags drop at all despite putting three points into Advanced Engineering.

My new rule is around day 4 to gauge how much this aspect will screw me over before I make that decision.

[DrLamp]

Originally posted by Seftak:

If you can find an engine then you can scrap it for mechanical parts.

Problem here is, the best way to get an engine is with a wrench.

[daggaz]

I looted one single wrench across a multitude of playthroughs, from a sink I believe. Got a lvl 4 ratchet from the trader on a tier two quest reward once. Otherwise nothing. They're rare as hell.

Loot more trash and cars. I've a stack of mechanical parts in every playthrough. Eventually you can craft one.

[DrLamp]

I've looted maybe half a dozen in my current world. Now I kind of feel bad that I threw them into my furnace once I found a ratchet.

[Seftak]

Originally posted by DrLamp:

Originally posted by Seftak:

If you can find an engine then you can scrap it for mechanical parts.

Problem here is, the best way to get an engine is with a wrench.

Indeed but some people don't know engines give you mechanical parts. And i found more engines while looting than wrenches. They seriously nerfed their drop rate.

[jynx]

It's cheaper now to just fabricate it. Especially since you don't need them for workbenches anymore.

[karastantar]

I found 4 mechanical parts from searching, took a lot of time, made a tier 1 wrench. Wow that took some time. Thanks for helping out

[daggaz]

Yay I win!

[Kara]

Originally posted by jynx:

It's cheaper now to just fabricate it. Especially since you don't need them for workbenches anymore.

This, why don't you just make one? You only need one wrenches book(mag) to know how.

[vera32_2000]

Originally posted by Kara:

This, why don't you just make one? You only need one wrenches book(mag) to know how.

I did. And how its always in this game, now I find them one after another.

[Kara]

Originally posted by vera32_2000:

Originally posted by Kara:

This, why don't you just make one? You only need one wrenches book(mag) to know how.

I did. And how its always in this game, now I find them one after another.

Yeah =[ I forgot to mention I have found them in airdrops before as well. Just a lvl1 though. On my current session I'm in the north half of the map and my friends are in the south. I found one crappy wrench in a drop. They found a lvl5 and 6 while looting lol.

[CatPerson]

Just to chime in that I've found wrenches as general loot to be a fair bit more rare, as well. And I do mean world loot, not air drops, not traders, not quests.

That said, I haven't had much issue getting enough magazines (so far) to be able to at least craft a lvl1 wrench before too long. Just sounds like it was one of those starts with terrible forever-RNG for something that's commonly needed/wanted. Sometimes I get a start like that and after a while I go "screw it" and start a new game to try and reroll the RNG, so to speak, into wanting to be stingy with something I don't care about.

[Hippie Chef]

Originally posted by CatPerson:

Just to chime in that I've found wrenches as general loot to be a fair bit more rare, as well. And I do mean world loot, not air drops, not traders, not quests.

That said, I haven't had much issue getting enough magazines (so far) to be able to at least craft a lvl1 wrench before too long. Just sounds like it was one of those starts with terrible forever-RNG for something that's commonly needed/wanted. Sometimes I get a start like that and after a while I go "screw it" and start a new game to try and reroll the RNG, so to speak, into wanting to be stingy with something I don't care about.

It's even harder on 25% loot. Finally got awarded one on Day 11 from Joel. Very happy day, that was