PC Brass?
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Ghostlight
Refugee
2 player co-op we fired 2000 rounds on day 21 horde (some Shotgun but mostly 9mm and AK rounds). Traps were not set up yet so we had to manually kill but it was still ~2000. That's the kind of Brass numbers we need. It's still a bottleneck despite all the new sources.
Hek Harris
Refugee
Seems like "everyone" have a beard and in smiling in his a boat
Scyris
Survivor
Yeah i'll probally do that. Going to want at least 2 chem labs minimum I think. In my current game I found the chem lab schematic on day 1, but took till day 12 before I finally found the 2 beakers. Getting the schematic early IS nice, but if your missing the beakers the hardest part of it to find, your kinda SOL lol.
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Not really, 1 t4 quest will get you more than 2000 dukes to turn into 2000 brass.
Hek Harris
Refugee
Day 17. I have 5 beakers and no chem lab schematic. Let's trade dude !
3 forges for me (one for iron/steel, another for ammos and the last one for armored glass). I used to craft 4 forges but now, cement is everywhere...
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Hek Harris
Refugee
No, RNG wants me to stay with a campfire. All the chem stations I have emptied gave me everything but schematics. Of course I found plenty of workbench & cement mixer schematics, without that it wouldn't be funny. But I love that. In a few days it will be resolved by a trader or a lucky loot...
Scyris
Survivor
Yeah its 25% chance for a workstation to drop its schematic, but rng can still decide to be a pain and screw you over even with that decent of a drop chance. I got very lucky getting the workbench and chemlab schematics super early that game. The big hospital poi is good for beakers, there is TONS of those medical piles there tat destroy when you loot them and each can drop beakers, that or a pop n pillz store is usually my best bet to find them.
Also not using turrets on horde night will save you a ton of ammo, I never use turrets.. why? their damage is garbage compared to what a player can do, I'd rather fire off the ammo myself doing triple (or more) the damage per shot. Shotgun turret does what 12x8 like a t1 shotgun? my T6 shotgun does 22x8, and thats before my lv 4 shotgun perk and the book that gives 10% on top of that. So its more closer to 28 or 30x8 for buckshot. I'd just have junk turrets setup, they can hit about 20-24 damage at t6 with mods, but the ammo is a joke to make, and have several setup and just move around when one runs out of ammo. You can also put the drum magazine from the machinegun book series in a junk turret, I have a t5 junk turret with a clip size of 176 on it.
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PPanda0421
Refugee
Agree. Brass is super easy to get now in A18. T1 items aren't worth much so I just recycle them into parts or melt them in my forge. The other tiers I just repair them fully and sell back to the trader. T6 items I keep 1 or 2 and sell the rest.Brass is SUUUPER easy.
Take all your junk weapons and sell them to traitor joel.
Take all your tokens and smelt them
1 token = 1 brass
I got THOUSANDS of bullet casings ready for me
To OP, you need to find trader quests that point to POIs which have high quality chests. You'll get tons of things to sell and the best part is a lot of the times, the quests are repeatable (that is they point to the same POI). I find that T4 quests is just right.
1 duke/token = 1 brass.
2 brass = 1 bullet casing.
Even better is when you finish the book series and can make bulk ammo eg. box of 7.62 ammo. I can make boxes of all ammo in the game. In fact, I'm 7/7 of all the (book) series in the game, except for 1 (6/7). Can't remember at the top of my head which book I'm missing. I found 6 traders and check for the books there every 3 days.
Hek Harris
Refugee
RNG looking at you :
"Ok he just bought it. 8000 coins."
Murphy :
"It's a broken one, isn't it ?"
RNG :
"No I can't do that. But wait : now I can put chem station schematics in the loot. Let's see his face in 3...2...1..."
Murphy :
"You're such a female dog. I'm in love."
Ghostlight
Refugee
How the heck do you have spare dukes to melt down?? What are you selling? We have no Brass (and no Dukes either). 50k Gunpowder though. That part was easy peasy.
50k gunpowder? that's 50k coal and nitrate...did you know you can sell coal and nitrate? and lead?
Did you know you can turn scrap iron into brass at about 2-3 iron to 1 brass? Turn 3 scrap iron into a junk turret ammo. Sell junk turret ammo for ~1.5 dukes each.
Do you guys do quests? that's a thousand+ dukes at quest level 3+ plus the item which, as long as it's above Q1, will likely sell for 200-1000 dukes.
Did you know you can turn scrap iron into brass at about 2-3 iron to 1 brass? Turn 3 scrap iron into a junk turret ammo. Sell junk turret ammo for ~1.5 dukes each.
Do you guys do quests? that's a thousand+ dukes at quest level 3+ plus the item which, as long as it's above Q1, will likely sell for 200-1000 dukes.
Hek Harris
Refugee
I agree. It's very difficult to be poor in this game, I don't know how you manage to run out of money. Stop buying fergetin' elixirs!
Synvastian
Refugee
don't scrap knobs and trophies...or the sink bits...or radiators...melt em down, I know you're encumbered but if you struggle with brass, maybe toss something else before you lose out on bullet casings by scrapping brass objects