PC Where to find acid in A20?

Rusrec00

Rusrec00

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Having trouble finding acid in A20.  At some point I have found a bit and was able to make bicycles for the crew (4 of us playing together).  Now we are ready to make the chem station, which would allow us to craft acid, but ironically, we cant find the acid to craft the chem station.  Anyone have tips on finding acid?

 
I've found plenty of sewing kits in trash piles, haven't been an issue at all in single player though a bit tight in multiplayer with 3 people. Acid though has been rough even in single player. I made one wheel so far, found or bought the rest of the wheels for the vehicles I've made. Now can't find any acid to make a chem station despite having the book for getting acid from salvaging and stuff.

 
I've been checking garbage the entire time. My observations are that they've added a bunch of building materials to the garbage loot and removed other stuff so it seems like its changed to me. I'm not big on diving into xml files for the loot lists so maybe someone can do a little confirming?

 
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In the release notes, it was stated that they decreased the odds of finding acid and it is really uncommon. You can always hope to find the book where you can wrench cars for it.

 
Acid and Wheels are the gate for vehicles it seems.  In the old days you could chop up cars and tires for wheels and it solved that problem, now with the scarcity of wheels we have people who still have not gotten a motorcycle at 50 days into the game.

 
Urban Blackbear said:
I've been checking garbage the entire time. My observations are that they've added a bunch of building materials to the garbage loot and removed other stuff so it seems like its changed to me. I'm not big on diving into xml files for the loot lists so maybe someone can do a little confirming?
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Ask and you shall received.  Here are all the lootgroups with acid in them (trash only) -  I kept all of the items so you can see what they are competing with

<lootgroup name="groupCraftingUncommon" count="1">
    <item name="resourceSewingKit" count ="1,2"/>
    <item name="resourceGunPowder" count ="1,10"/>
    <item name="resourceDuctTape" count ="1,2"/>
    <item name="resourceOil" count ="1,5"/>
    <item name="resourceSpring" count ="1,2"/>
    <item name="resourceHeadlight" count ="1,2"/>
    <item name="resourceElectricParts" count ="1,2"/>
    <item name="resourceMechanicalParts" count ="1,2"/>
    <item name="resourceAcid" count ="1" loot_prob_template="low"/>
</lootgroup>

<lootgroup name="groupJunk02" count="1">
    <item group="groupScrapUncommon" loot_prob_template="med"/>
    <item group="groupCraftingUncommon" loot_prob_template="med"/>
    <item group="groupBuildingUncommon" loot_prob_template="med"/>
    <item group="groupAmmoResourcesSmall" loot_prob_template="low"/>
    <item name="resourceFeather" count="1,5" loot_prob_template="low"/>
</lootgroup>

lootgroup name="groupJunk" count="all">
    <item group="groupJunk01" count="1"/>
    <item group="groupJunk02" loot_prob_template="low" force_prob="true"/>
    <item group="groupJunk03" loot_prob_template="veryLow" force_prob="true"/>
</lootgroup>




Some containers only have groupJunk, others have additional groups besides groupJunk

Additional information

"low" probability - prob=0.2

"med" probability - prob=0.5

 
I don't know why a lot of people don't know this, but with the acid book, there's a 50% chance of getting acid everytime you break a white medical cabinet.

Why do people only think it applies to cars? (it's in the description)
Also, green acid barrels have a chance of acid too when wrenched!

 
Orclover said:
Acid and Wheels are the gate for vehicles it seems.  In the old days you could chop up cars and tires for wheels and it solved that problem, now with the scarcity of wheels we have people who still have not gotten a motorcycle at 50 days into the game.
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Which why I skip the motorbike and go straight to the motorcycle. Either by buying parts from the trader or pointing enough points into building one. 

 
Breaking a perfectly good loot container just doesn't seem right to me. Especially for a small chance at getting an acid. The loot respawns eventually. I'm more concerned with sewing kits anyway. I can't make any iron or steel armor because I can't find the damn things.

 
seagas said:
Which why I skip the motorbike and go straight to the motorcycle. Either by buying parts from the trader or pointing enough points into building one. 
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We had people on our server who had gotten motorcycles and suddenly wanted 4x4's before other people had even gotten motorcycles (groups not big on hand me downs).  So there were silent groans as the wheels and acid went toward making 4x4's for some people.  It was pretty funny.

 
I have looted 1 acid in 30 days. I have found most of the tires and bought acid from the traders to build the chem station. I had to bounce between 5 traders on every respawn day to just find those.

I built my minibike and my motorcycle and now have 7 wheels in storage. All those wheels are from looting, not crafting. (Default settings solo)

edit: no issue with sewing kits though. I've crafted 2 complete armor sets and sold a full stack to the trader.

 
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Urban Blackbear said:
Breaking a perfectly good loot container just doesn't seem right to me. Especially for a small chance at getting an acid. The loot respawns eventually. I'm more concerned with sewing kits anyway. I can't make any iron or steel armor because I can't find the damn things.
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See I had the same issue too, so I took the choice away by setting loot respawn to never  🙂

 
Maharin said:
What?  No mention of going out for an acid trip?
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It was college 1999. The snow was falling and me and my buddies had just dropped 2 hits each. We decided that while we waited we'd walk down to the Sheetz station and grab some sandwiches. We were poor college kids and back then Sheetz policy was you could order food before you paid for it. It took us so long in the store that the snow that was falling had piled up and somehow my dumb friend Tom had lost his shoes so we wrapped his feet in sandwich paper and walked back. It snowed 16" the first hour that night and the whole town was out sleigh riding in the streets or racing their 4x4s.


I either had a good run of luck or loot stage 50 is some sort of breaking point. I found 6 sewing kits and 4 acid just doing my normal trash diving.

 
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