Copper Bars

[H e r r F u c h s]

Sorry for repeating the question, but it feels like most people don't realise that sub-forums other than "General Discussions" are even there.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but is there a way to get copper bars at all? 10 of those are required for a copper distillery, and I never saw them for sale anywhere. All I've seen are the wire spools for making electronics. I know there is a recipe that uses copper shavings to make bars... which since the Mines update I've found a grand total of 5, once, in a random dumpster. I don't think copper ore currently exists within the game, so that's not it. I'd very much like to hear how people got their copper distilleries, because so far it seems impossible to get in a legitimate way.

[Enter the Wang]

One Stop Shop sells them sometimes. I once bought a stack of 3 copper bars from there, but after I saw how good the copper distillery was I started buying them everytime they popped up. Just keep checking there daily. It takes awhile to collect.

[Greg]

they can rarely be found in containers, best way to get them is to melt copper shavings which often spawn at the very top of Deekula A in the bin next to the unpowered drill

[H e r r F u c h s]

No dice on either One Stop Shop or containers so far. I guess I will give the game a couple of days to spawn new stuff before more drastic measures.

[Greg]

The copper distillery is unfortunately more of a long term goal, you should stick with the cheaper ones for the time being until you scrounge up enough copper to make it

[Apok]

One stop shop has had them for sale in my game a few times.

[kelsi]

one stop shop and every time you go into Deekula A to see sam and submit materials go up to the very top and there's a good chance to find copper shavings as loot there.

[H e r r F u c h s]

Okay, many more hours and in-game days later, the dumpster at the top of Deekula A is still the ONLY place that SOMETIMES spawns a few copper shavings. Visited One Stop Shop almost every day, not a trace of copper other than wire was being sold.

I get difficulty, gradual build-up, etc, but this is slightly ridiculous. I might just make myself a little mod to inefficiently get copper from waste electronics or brass if that's how difficult this is going to be.

[ItalianStallion]

Copper shavings are everywhere. Just don't go looking for them and you will find stuff everywhere. It was only after I gave up looking that I found 3 copper bars in a trashcan in the mines. It's all random just stop trying to go after making it and it'll come.

[H e r r F u c h s]

I did that a long time ago, medium distilleries are good enough for my purposes. It seems like my save file might have some slight issues after migrating from version 0.3.36, so maybe the item tables for spawning items or something just didn't update properly for me. I'm checking dumpsters, bags, those red containers in the mines regularly, and yet I've never found shavings, much less an ingot of copper anywhere other than Deekula A attic.

[jbm]

There are three dumpsters I'm aware of that can contain copper shavings: the one in Deekula A, and two in the mines. One of those will always contain stolen items. Copper bars can appear in certain containers, but are extremely rare.

I've made the still on both an imported game and a new one, and both times the bars were about 50% from the One Stop Shop and 50% from shavings.

[H e r r F u c h s]

Originally posted by jbm:

There are three dumpsters I'm aware of that can contain copper shavings: the one in Deekula A, and two in the mines. One of those will always contain stolen items. Copper bars can appear in certain containers, but are extremely rare.

I've made the still on both an imported game and a new one, and both times the bars were about 50% from the One Stop Shop and 50% from shavings.

Those are some really in-depth, helpful observations and I respect that

I will look around in the mines, and I visit One Stop Shop frequently, anyway, so we'll see if I manage to get lucky :)

[H e r r F u c h s]

Okay, it does seem like there was some weirdness going on with my game - a lot of the dumpsters didn't seem to be respawning stuff correctly, but they do now. I was even able to find some shavings down in the mines, wowzers ;) A friendly reminder to shut down your game from time to time, I guess

[PanzerKadaver]

You can make Copper Bar by smelting Cable or Copper Wire in the Furnace

[Trogladonis]

Originally posted by PanzerKadaver:

You can make Copper Bar by smelting Cable or Copper Wire in the Furnace

Yep, made my distillers off of purely melting down copper wiring. This is the way.

[H e r r F u c h s]

This wasn't the case before the most recent update. Glad to see that the devs are on the same wave-length as me though, since I was gonna mod that recipe in, anyway if I ever needed copper again.