Where to get duct tape?

[Chaz]

Is there a renewable source of duct tape? I'm still a bit early into the game, but every repair uses it and things break down super fast

[Kyane von Schnitzel]

Office drawers, mostly. That can also be crafted in packs of 5 with some glue, etheniol, and clothes scraps.

[mie001]

office resource will respawn in a very slow rate, you can craft duct tape, you can go to the flathill(not sure, the place with giant and mist)portal world to find some, but I recommend you reach 3 floor to get that big anvil and start using the repair bench, it's much more resource efficient

[Slideshow]

Duct tape is abundant in the office sector alone. It should be treated as an emergency repair material. Once you build a repair/salvage station, your consumption of duct tape will significantly decrease.

[Xuhybrid]

Get the anvil and repair station going earlier. I wouldn't use a single duct tape on repairs imo.

[Brother Pedro]

Duct tape also spawn from breakable crates.

[It's Shas]

Originally posted by mie001:

office resource will respawn in a very slow rate, you can craft duct tape, you can go to the flathill(not sure, the place with giant and mist)portal world to find some, but I recommend you reach 3 floor to get that big anvil and start using the repair bench, it's much more resource efficient

No they don't unless you check "simple loot respawning" when creating your world in the advanced sandbox settings.

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by It's Shas:

Originally posted by mie001:

office resource will respawn in a very slow rate, you can craft duct tape, you can go to the flathill(not sure, the place with giant and mist)portal world to find some, but I recommend you reach 3 floor to get that big anvil and start using the repair bench, it's much more resource efficient

No they don't unless you check "simple loot respawning" when creating your world in the advanced sandbox settings.

This is practically correct.

By default there is no 'simple loot respawning', but technically there is... to a point.

After looting a place there can be loot respawning again for a short while. After one or two trips it will no longer respawn. It is as if the game is making you question of you even picked up everything.

This effect can easily make someone think that loot will always respawn when it doesn't (unless set to do that).

[Dragontoast]

When you go to Flathill there are a lot of resources you can farm on portal world resets really quickly when opening shortcuts. You can get magazines, staplers, pens, duct tape, wood, metal, plastic, peas, salt etc. often getting close to a full stack of wood/metal from a single run.

But early game you just need to get a repair bench made to get easier repairs.

[It's Shas]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

Originally posted by It's Shas:

No they don't unless you check "simple loot respawning" when creating your world in the advanced sandbox settings.

This is practically correct.

By default there is no 'simple loot respawning', but technically there is... to a point.

After looting a place there can be loot respawning again for a short while. After one or two trips it will no longer respawn. It is as if the game is making you question of you even picked up everything.

This effect can easily make someone think that loot will always respawn when it doesn't (unless set to do that).

Afaik this is only true for the office area. We had no repsawns in the other zones yet.

[Chaz]

Thanks for all the feedback! Gotta progress more

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by It's Shas:

Originally posted by MechWarden:

This is practically correct.

By default there is no 'simple loot respawning', but technically there is... to a point.

After looting a place there can be loot respawning again for a short while. After one or two trips it will no longer respawn. It is as if the game is making you question of you even picked up everything.

This effect can easily make someone think that loot will always respawn when it doesn't (unless set to do that).

Afaik this is only true for the office area. We had no repsawns in the other zones yet.

That's very likely. I got into Manufactoring, and I don't think I've seen stuff respawn. Or at least nothing memorable.

In the Office area, it feels like the game is wanting to push out more small loot than it can hold, and when room clears up, it finally places it.

It is helpful for the early game. Sometimes stuff happens to a newbie and need more stuff, and can sometimes find it in already explored areas.