How do I know how many mod slots a weapon/armor will have?

[nico_zip]

Is it tied to the rarity number 1/2/3/4/5/6? Is it different for weapons or armors?

I just got a pretty good mod for my rarity 2 helmet (it has 1 slot) and i didn't want to change out my night vision so i crafted a rarity 3 one praying i get more mods slot it has 2 mod slots and i'm happy. But I noticed I have some rarity 2 weapons with 2 mod slots and now i'm confused as to how all this works.

I tried looking at the wiki but no answer.

[Eriskumma]

It depends on item, some items can't have more than 2 slots even as tier 6 and some items have 2-3 slots as tier 1. Starter gear has less slots and can't have max 4 like primitive armor, pipe guns etc, better stuff like 9mm pistol has 2 slots even as tier 1 etc.
Basically you just need to learn how many slots each type of item can have.

[nico_zip]

I see, welp time to learn by playing the game.

Thanks.

[Gliocas]

Why do t hey let you make lvl 6 primitive gear? waste a legendary material and only one head slot, what a waste

[Serious]

The number of mod slots is depending on item tier and quality.
Example 1: Steel Pick has 3 slots at quality 1-3 and 4 slots at quality 4-6.
Example 2: Ak47 at quality 6 could have more slots as the next tier tactical assault rifle at quality 1.

Primitiv armor is generaly just something you create and use because you have nothing else, but as you can build quality 1 other armors pretty much at the same time as quality 6 primitv armor there is no need to create primitiv armor quality 6, mods don't matter here.
If i remember right non-primitiv armors:
• quality 6 have 4 slots
• quality 5 have 3 slots
• quality 3-4 have 2 slots
• quality 1-2 have 1 slot

[Nocternaldaze]

You can always press f1 to open console then type dm and now you should see all ingame items when opening inventory, so you can type what you want to look at before crafting it too see if it`s worth it or not,you might have to type it a few times to get the quality you want, then place the item back on a empty slot in that inventory window to despawn it, and then type dm again and f1 to close it.

[Brevan]

For weapons and tools: Primitive has 1 slot, Iron has 2, Steel has 3. They gain a slot at quality 4. Wrench is Primitive and Ratchet is Iron tier. Some exceptions (e.g. quality 6 AK-47 has 4 slots, maybe all Iron guns are like this)