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Malidictus Jul 31, 2020 @ 6:14am
When does the junkyard reset?
I recently noticed that the yard outside my workshop has a tendency to spawn rusted-out tank hulks. I thought there was just the one I bought and restored, but now I realise these respawn, like scrap from the scrap piles.

My question, then, is how often does the junkyard reset? How often does it spawn new tank hulks? Is it just based on time, or does it respawn based on my actions? Can I do anything to speed it up?

The reason I ask is I'm trying to get a Stug and I can't seem to get one out of exctraction missions. If my yard is capable of spawning tanks on its own, maybe it'll spawn a Stug, but I need to know how often to check it because I don't want to miss that if it happens.
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Psylem Jul 31, 2020 @ 8:51am 
I find it's refreshed after completing a job, I don't recall tanks respawning halfway through a restoration though I'm often able to do a scrap grab midway through so I think scrap is timed.
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Malidictus Jul 31, 2020 @ 8:53am 
Hmm... I suppose the question, then, is what constitutes "completing a job." For client jobs that's pretty obvious - when I turn the contract in and get my reward. What about Extraction jobs, though? Those seem to complete upon returning to the Workshop. Would the Junkyard reset under those circumstances? If so, that might make it easy to "cycle" it for the sake of finding rarer machines.

I'll have to test this out. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Psylem Jul 31, 2020 @ 8:56am 
You can also try saving and reloading, that does work but it's pretty mundane way to find a tank. You're probably better off just smashing through jobs.
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Malidictus Jul 31, 2020 @ 9:00am 
Originally posted by Psylem:
You can also try saving and reloading, that does work but it's pretty mundane way to find a tank. You're probably better off just smashing through jobs.

It does? I'll definitely try that, then. I realise it's a dull way to look, but I'm seriously losing my patience looking for a Stug. At this point, I'm treating the search like MMO loot grind - what's the fastest way to roll on RNG, so I can get what I'm after faster still.

I'm also considering what happens when the developers add more tanks. The more machines there are, the harder it gets to ever SEE any of the new ones.
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Psylem Jul 31, 2020 @ 9:04am 
I've clocked up 30 hours so far and not seen a single Stug or a Tiger
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Malidictus Jul 31, 2020 @ 9:09am 
Originally posted by Psylem:
I've clocked up 30 hours so far and not seen a single Stug or a Tiger

Tigers I've seen. I've had way too many of 'em, actually. Dug up two so far, had a Tiger hulk spawn in my junyard at least twice that I've seen. I have tigers coming out of my ears :) By contrast, it took me for-frikkin'-ever to find a Sherman... Only for a Sherman hulk to spawn immediately after I finished restoring it.

For whatever reason, it seems like the game gives me predominantly T34, KV and PZ3 tanks - possibly because those have multiple variants.
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Malidictus Jul 31, 2020 @ 10:23am 
Aha! Finally, a Stug sprouted in my junkyard! I took your advice of digging out tanks and checking the yard in-between. It took about an hour, but finally I have a Stug hulk. Yay! My tank collection is complete :) ... I think.
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dagwood1988 Aug 1, 2020 @ 12:47am 
Originally posted by Malidictus:
Aha! Finally, a Stug sprouted in my junkyard! I took your advice of digging out tanks and checking the yard in-between. It took about an hour, but finally I have a Stug hulk. Yay! My tank collection is complete :) ... I think.

Word of advise. Just strip off all the parts off of it and leave your stripped stug hull alone in your yard. There is a huge glitch in its code for it and any time the dev's do an update on it parts just randomly disappear on it and you cannot fix it. You have to get a new hull and start all over every time. Just set it aside and wait for the dev's to quit messing with it.
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[DeGenerals]Trebor  [developer] Aug 1, 2020 @ 3:27am 
Originally posted by Malidictus:
I recently noticed that the yard outside my workshop has a tendency to spawn rusted-out tank hulks. I thought there was just the one I bought and restored, but now I realise these respawn, like scrap from the scrap piles.

My question, then, is how often does the junkyard reset? How often does it spawn new tank hulks? Is it just based on time, or does it respawn based on my actions? Can I do anything to speed it up?

The reason I ask is I'm trying to get a Stug and I can't seem to get one out of exctraction missions. If my yard is capable of spawning tanks on its own, maybe it'll spawn a Stug, but I need to know how often to check it because I don't want to miss that if it happens.
It is refreshed in very simple conditions:
- if you spend 30 minutes on the warehouse scene (that means not leaving to menu or starting proving grounds/extraction mission
- if you leave the scene to menu or extraction mission and get back to warehouse scene
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Malidictus Aug 1, 2020 @ 4:45am 
Originally posted by DeGeneralsTrebor:
It is refreshed in very simple conditions:
- if you spend 30 minutes on the warehouse scene (that means not leaving to menu or starting proving grounds/extraction mission
- if you leave the scene to menu or extraction mission and get back to warehouse scene

So every 30 minutes or a major zone load, whichever happens first. OK, that makes sense. Thanks for the tip :)
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