How to get Crucible?

[Nami]

is it a recipe? can i find it on random boxes? at the vendors?

im at my day 50 and i havent seen one single crucible in my entire run. Help 🥺

[Ogami]

Can be found (very rarely), can be bought at traders (also rare but more often then finding one) or can be crafted but needs 50 points in the forge magazine skill.
For the traders put some points into Daring Adventurer so they have rarer items to sell.

[Shockwave]

Buy it from the trader. That's the answer to everything now. The trader will have it long before you can craft it so quest, get Dukes, and buy from trader.

INT build with better barter and Daring adventurer is the only acceptable build off the start now.

You must put your base on the edge of a big city anyway to get books, just pray there is more than one trader in range. maps that don't have more than one trader aren't nearly as viable as being able to shop at multiple traders in the 3 day window.

[Lexor]

You can find it, buy it and craft it.

I bought one from a trader in A21 already (15k dukes base price). It's not very common. So reaching the steel tier (where you have steel en mass) is not a sure thing at day X. You can get much steel ingots from the traders and from some items like gas pumps. Not enough to build a base as big as a plane carrier out of steel, though. But it's enough to build steel weapons and armors for example.

[zombygunner]

i always search around until i find a military base and if you find one a town is nearby within 400 yards (or whatever it is you use for measuring). back in the day location 0 by 0 would always be center of the biggest town and that allows you to raid and have a base nearby so you can get your read on. Hopefully this helps somehow

[Pain Weasel]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Can be found (very rarely), can be bought at traders (also rare but more often then finding one) or can be crafted but needs 50 points in the forge magazine skill.

75, not 50.

[Nami]

oh well guess i have to level up intelligence :P

[Nami]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Can be found (very rarely), can be bought at traders (also rare but more often then finding one) or can be crafted but needs 50 points in the forge magazine skill.
For the traders put some points into Daring Adventurer so they have rarer items to sell.

ugh im level 30 so crafting not an option for me, imma check the vendors then

[Rena Ichigawa]

I crafted mine by day 18. 75 forge books, but I got it, and almost immediately jumped up equipment tiers because of it.

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by Nami:

oh well guess i have to level up intelligence :P

Only if you want to. Contrary to some opinions, you don't need to rely on traders for everything.

1 point in engineering is helpful, to get those weighted magazine drops then just hit every mail/news box, hardware store, and bookstore. And then of course loot every destroyed crafting station you find - work benches, cement mixers, forges, etc which very often has the magazine. There are 5 of those at every trader, plus construction sites, garages, etc. You can also run through tier 1 trader jobs, which commonly give magazine bundles.

75 seems like a lot but they add up quick.

[Pain Weasel]

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Originally posted by Nami:

oh well guess i have to level up intelligence :P

Only if you want to. Contrary to some opinions, you don't need to rely on traders for everything.

1 point in engineering is helpful, to get those weighted magazine drops then just hit every mail/news box, hardware store, and bookstore. And then of course loot every destroyed crafting station you find - work benches, cement mixers, forges, etc which very often has the magazine. There are 5 of those at every trader, plus construction sites, garages, etc. You can also run through tier 1 trader jobs, which commonly give magazine bundles.

75 seems like a lot but they add up quick.

Drop another point into Lock Picking as well, it stacks with Adv Eng to increase the drop rate of Forge Ahead. 2 bumps to drop rate without having to increase INT, if that is what someone wanted to do.

Then again Fergit'n Elixer is only 6k dukes. Spend a few points into INT, get lvl 2 or 3 in both Adv Eng and Lock Picking and you'll have 75 magazines in no time. Then repec and get back the points.

[Pingoso]

get really high level on a trader (trader Bob is your best bet) and you might find one for sale, otherwise good luck getting 75 forging ahead magazines

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Pain Weasel:

Originally posted by Ogami:

Can be found (very rarely), can be bought at traders (also rare but more often then finding one) or can be crafted but needs 50 points in the forge magazine skill.

75, not 50.

Ah yes, my bad. 50 was the chemistry station. Thanks for the correction.
So far got the crucible every game LONG before i reached that high in the skill from a trader so my memory clearly was wrong.

[pawtucketpat142]

I found one in loot box at the end of a big pass in gas.

[rincewind]

Originally posted by Nami:

is it a recipe? can i find it on random boxes? at the vendors?

im at my day 50 and i havent seen one single crucible in my entire run. Help 🥺

Put a point in advanced engineering and collect the magazines of forge ahead. Destroyed workstations usually gave those.

I got to make my own around day 45-50 I think.

Or yes, you can get lucky with the vendors.

[Ogami]

To be fair, you get 25 forged steel in pretty much any quest reward as a option.
With double rewards i usually pick it as the second one.
Even before i got a Crucible i had like 600 forged steel in storage + you get them from vending machines and fuel pumps and a bunch of other items when tearing them down with a wrench or higher tier salvaging tool.

But i also have a nearly exclusive trader/quests focused play style and do them nonstop.