Forget Celebrations DLC: all book materials

[BoonMike]

Is it possible to get all 11 book materials? I found 10 and then no matter where I looked or how I searched or how I responded to events, no more information on book materials showed up, I didn't get any more clues, I didn't see any more bright orange indicators on the scavenger map screen or when scavenging a location...What did I miss?

[dmac]

I believe the last item is in the hotel, where there's some traders there. It doesn't appear on the map or even when you're inside, but one of the traders will trade you a broken gas mask. It doesn't require much - I gave him a saw and crowbar.

[BoonMike]

Originally posted by dmac:

I believe the last item is in the hotel, where there's some traders there. It doesn't appear on the map or even when you're inside, but one of the traders will trade you a broken gas mask. It doesn't require much - I gave him a saw and crowbar.

Ah! That's odd because previously ones I obtained by trading still showed up on the map beforehand.

[Liar]

the last 2 item you must trade from people

[Third3ye]

Originally posted by dmac:

I believe the last item is in the hotel, where there's some traders there. It doesn't appear on the map or even when you're inside, but one of the traders will trade you a broken gas mask. It doesn't require much - I gave him a saw and crowbar.

I found that one by trader in Military Base.

[BoonMike]

Yeah I think I must have just missed the material I needed when trading. I really do think it was something as simple and dumb as I literally just didn't see that I could scroll down one row further and didn't see the item listed.

[BoonMike]

Having tried quite a few runs now and gotten 10/11 almost every time, I now think the reason I'm struggling is because one material is always gained by trade in an INCREDIBLY deadly level so I a) don't have any indicators telling me it's there and b) am actively inclined to avoid it.

[Cripsklar🧦]

I can only get two at most...

[Cripsklar🧦]

I only found the folding knife and gas mask

[Glowstone]

Did you check the trader at military outpost?

[Lord Darth]

They are spawn randomly in locations. For example, once while slaughtering a military base, I found a folding knife. On the other run, military base trader offered gas mask.

You must find the last material without the help of clues.

By the way. If you killed trader, you still can find material what he offered in this same place.

[Martynas]

Hi, I went through (On day 13)
-Garage - trader doesn't have it
-Military Outpost - trader doesn't have it
-Central Square - restarted multiple times, doesn't have it
-Shelled School - trader doesn't have it
-Church - Priest doesn't have it
-Hospital - doctor doesn't have it

I am lacking the broken gas mask

What am I doing wrong?

[agata.c]

Hi!

Please, contact our Player Support using the contact form HERE [11bitstudios.com] or at [e-mail] and let them know about the issues you are experiencing. Please send them your save file:
Windows:
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Thank you!

[Davrick]

I'm surprised that you had that many options, to be honest. I've played through it three times now, and in every case, there were exactly four locations that have 'possible trade' listed. Two of those four locations had the last items.

To be even more clear:

You start with the one item in your home.
Up to eight items can be found around the map (possible book materials, confirmed book materials).
At least two items must be traded for.

The two that you have to trade for aren't noted on the map, beyond 'possible trade'. Research has never uncovered them for me, and there's no way of knowing (as far as I can tell) which two of the four locations have the items, short of going there and looking around. Note that it won't always be just one item in each location. In one of my runs, I had to trade for one item in one location, and two items in the other -- the Central Square, which has four traders, two of the traders each had one item.

[Martynas]

Could it be a bug, based on your experience? Have you had occasions where traders don't have the final item (gas mask in my case)?

[Davrick]

Not for me. I always had four locations that listed 'possible trade', and two of those four locations actually had the item(s). Again, each of the 'correct' locations had at least one item for trade, but in one case, one of the locations had two items (with the second location having a third tradeable item).