PC Nails? Where are you?

fluffyrizzo

fluffyrizzo

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Simple question … Is there any place to get nails without crafting them, other than hoping to find them randomly? For instance, is there something I can take apart to loot nails?

Thank you for any feedback.

 
You can find them in trashbags, trashcans and working stiff crates.

The best way to get a lot of nails is to loot a working stiff or a building with a lot of working stiff crates in it.

 
I have enough nails but after 4 days I only found only 3 ducktape after searching every trashbag I came across.

 
Making the Forge need three ingredients that can, through RNG, each be elusive. That's some professional designing right there.

 
I have enough nails but after 4 days I only found only 3 ducktape after searching every trashbag I came across.
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Harvest bones from kills. Then you can make glue in the campfire. All the ducktape you'll ever need that way.

 
i dont use nails or duct tape but have always found plenty in the various trash bags/heaps, inside working stiff crates, here lately quite a few in sink cabinets and of course the traders.

now if i needed those nails, then i would probably be in same boat as you... but try the others i mentioned and good luck.

 
i dont use nails or duct tape but have always found plenty in the various trash bags/heaps, inside working stiff crates, here lately quite a few in sink cabinets and of course the traders.
now if i needed those nails, then i would probably be in same boat as you... but try the others i mentioned and good luck.
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You do need those nails now, unless you luck out and the prefab you are using came with a working forge.

 
Traders sell them and they are in trash and working stiff boxes. Glue/duct tape is super easy, harvest the gore piles and kill animals and harvest their bones, cook it into glue.

 
Harvest bones from kills. Then you can make glue in the campfire. All the ducktape you'll ever need that way.
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Traders sell them and they are in trash and working stiff boxes. Glue/duct tape is super easy, harvest the gore piles and kill animals and harvest their bones, cook it into glue.
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I know but I prefer not to waste bones until I got a chemistry station. The ratio on the campire it 2 to 1 and in the chemistry station is 1 to 1. Bones are now much to precious to me to waste them.

 
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I know but I prefer not to waste bones until I got a chemistry station. The ratio on the campire it 2 to 1 and in the chemistry station is 1 to 1. Bones are now much to precious to me to waste them.
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The kicker now is that space is precious - I find myself tossing aside or scrapping things I used to hold onto early game.

 
Seriously, we are complaining about nails and duct tape? They are literally everywhere. You might try actually putting some effort in and look a little.

Unless of course you expect TFP to just put some in your backpack for you when you start the game....smh

Seems there are alot of people who actually want to play creative but are ashamed to admit it.

 
Seriously, we are complaining about nails and duct tape? They are literally everywhere. You might try actually putting some effort in and look a little.Unless of course you expect TFP to just put some in your backpack for you when you start the game....smh

Seems there are alot of people who actually want to play creative but are ashamed to admit it.
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+1. The time people spend to come here and whine would be better used in opening trashbags and finding what they need. Seriously, nails ? They are everywhere and maybe even planted in your eyes :)

 
I know but I prefer not to waste bones until I got a chemistry station. The ratio on the campire it 2 to 1 and in the chemistry station is 1 to 1. Bones are now much to precious to me to waste them.
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Bones are not that precious, I can see what ya mean, but if you need that 5 duct tape for your first forge, its probally worth it to use the 10 bones. Earlier you get a running forge the better for you in the long run I find. As for nails, I find them a lot in trash bags, usually have more than I need before I even can even unlock the forge recipie. I just keep 5 nails and scrap the rest I find usually.

Most of the people who have issues with a17 are the lazy ones, like one guy is whining about lack of cooking pot or meat, when he is bascally sitting like a turtle in the same chunk insted of exploring places he hasn't been, I mean the grey fog of war on the map is a good indication of where you haven't been yet. By day 6 I usually have 50+ bacon and eggs, a ton of spare meat, pretty much unlimited water. It just blows my mind how much trouble people seem to have. Especally when more often than not it just boils down to the player being lazy and expecting zombies to deliver the stuff to them. You gotta get rid of that mentality, zombies have a 3% chance to drop a loot bag, and stuff like nails, cooking pots, and simmlar things usually aren't in them.

My current game in a17 stable has been going so-so, Still lacking a sledgehammer and fireaxe on day 4, but I did find a pickaxe, and compound bow. I also found a Bobs-Boars and a carls-corn combo prefab, that has a TON of boars just sitting in it for you to kill, and not to mention the super corn from the other side. It nets enough super corn to make 3 seeds in the poi, assuming you have the perk to make it, if you don't I suggest you not eat them and save them to turn em into seeds. Fyi super corn is 20 food/max stamina, 20 health healing, 0 water, and 0% chance of food poisioning. If you can get a farm of that going from the 3 seeds from that Poi, your pretty much set for food.

 
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+1. The time people spend to come here and whine would be better used in opening trashbags and finding what they need. Seriously, nails ? They are everywhere and maybe even planted in your eyes :)
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lulz.....

I'm like a damn hoarder. I open EVERYTHING... 2 minutes into the game, and I am THE SLOWEST person on the server. I always scrap things I dont need.

Things you need, when you are a just starting:

Cans - for water (no need for a pot right away)

Snow - can make water out of it in cans

Nails - for forge and boxes

Leather - for forge

Canned food (to eat, obviously)

Scrap iron - to make an iron reinforced club so bashing zombies gets easier and cheaper.

Feathers - for arrows

Rocks - to repair your stone axe.

Skills, especially from starter quest, use them on miner 69'er, pack mule and mother load. more materials, more weight and hit harder when materials farming. you can also add a point into intelligence. higher durability on tools.

 
Bones are not that precious, I can see what ya mean, but if you need that 5 duct tape for your first forge, its probally worth it to use the 10 bones. Earlier you get a running forge the better for you in the long run I find. As for nails, I find them a lot in trash bags, usually have more than I need before I even can even unlock the forge recipie. I just keep 5 nails and scrap the rest I find usually.
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The forge is not that really important to me in this playthrough because I was lucky to find a trader with a working forge, workbench and even the cement mixer works. And I lootet some iron tools level 2 on day 3.

Most of the people who have issues with a17 are the lazy ones, like one guy is whining about lack of cooking pot or meat, when he is bascally sitting like a turtle in the same chunk insted of exploring places he hasn't been, I mean the grey fog of war on the map is a good indication of where you haven't been yet. By day 6 I usually have 50+ bacon and eggs, a ton of spare meat, pretty much unlimited water. It just blows my mind how much trouble people seem to have. Especally when more often than not it just boils down to the player being lazy and expecting zombies to deliver the stuff to them. You gotta get rid of that mentality, zombies have a 3% chance to drop a loot bag, and stuff like nails, cooking pots, and simmlar things usually aren't in them.
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I had no cooking pot until day 2 and now I find them everywhere. :)

The most difficult thing to find was acid. Took me nearly 2 days on a 120 minute day to find 2 cans of acid. But now I have my bicycle and this helps me a lot. Next thing on my list is a beaker.

 
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lulz.....
I'm like a damn hoarder. I open EVERYTHING... 2 minutes into the game, and I am THE SLOWEST person on the server. I always scrap things I dont need.

Things you need, when you are a just starting:

Cans - for water (no need for a pot right away)

Snow - can make water out of it in cans

Nails - for forge and boxes

Leather - for forge

Canned food (to eat, obviously)

Scrap iron - to make an iron reinforced club so bashing zombies gets easier and cheaper.

Feathers - for arrows

Rocks - to repair your stone axe.

Skills, especially from starter quest, use them on miner 69'er, pack mule and mother load. more materials, more weight and hit harder when materials farming. you can also add a point into intelligence. higher durability on tools.
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+ Ammo

+ Trading stuff (and i mean a ton of them)

+ All Food (well most you can eat right away)

+ Tools

+ Weapons

+ Bones

+ Glue

+ Duct Tape

+ Wood

+ Stones

+ lcb

+ ....

Encumberance affect you too early and too harsh. Thats why dont even start a game on a bad spot.

Since a few days i start only a game if my startpoint is good enough to have all i need until Minibike

Sure you can place lootboxes. Too many of them disturbing me

 
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Not having any problems with nails.

Found plenty right away.

I can see, however, how that might be frustrating to some players who just don't have any luck.

 
Not having any problems with nails.Found plenty right away.

I can see, however, how that might be frustrating to some players who just don't have any luck.
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Thats the whole point. RNG and luck. Some games start nice and some horrendous.

This game

- 10+ Foodcrates = 1 can of food

- No nails

- Local Trader no (startgame) Tools or weapons

- No Jacket (still freeze in Snow biome)

+ Coat and clothes for Desert biome

+ Q2 Auger on day 6

+ Q5 Sledgehamer on day 2

and understand m right this is no rant, only a "statusreport" ^^

 
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The forge is not that really important to me in this playthrough because I was lucky to find a trader with a working forge, workbench and even the cement mixer works. And I lootet some iron tools level 2 on day 3.


I had no cooking pot until day 2 and now I find them everywhere. :)

The most difficult thing to find was acid. Took me nearly 2 days on a 120 minute day to find 2 cans of acid. But now I have my bicycle and this helps me a lot. Next thing on my list is a beaker.
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If the most difficult thing took two days then I'd say NOTHING is difficult...

 
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