Where do you get mechanical parts from when you're starting a new game ?

[Grolbu]

You need a wrench to get mechanical parts from things you take apart. But you need mechanical parts to make a wrench. Are there any common hiding places for mechanical parts ?

 

I've checked every sink I've found but no sign of a wrench yet, and I can't find any mechanical parts. I've found a full set of working crafting tables in my travels and I have the skill so I could make one if I had mechanical parts, but ..... I have however accumulated almost a full chest of things worth selling so I'll head to the Trader when he opens and I'm not leaving until he finds me a wrench, but surely there is a better way ?

[ricp]

It'll be more of a problem without a wrench. In A18 I rarely find mechanical parts in "common loot" and as far as I know nothing scraps to them.

 

My tip, and it's indirect, is to keep looting houses and you'll find a wrench. They seem in even more plentiful supply (albeit of low quality) than A17, imo.

[Grolbu]

Yes, the very next house I went through, one of the sinks had 2 wrenches. Tier 1 but they will do the job. I thought they were more common to so it was really weird that I wasn't finding any !

 

Cheers

[blugold1]

Loot garbage piles and search cars too. You’ll eventually find a wrench. The best source of mechanical parts, IMO, is wrenching cars.

[Synvastian]

wrench those swiveling leather office chairs instead of picking them up and scrapping (place em back down and wrench em if you grab and go from a POI) Also the filing cabinets

[ricp]

wrench those swiveling leather office chairs instead of picking them up and scrapping (place em back down and wrench em if you grab and go from a POI) Also the filing cabinets

 

Half the fun of a wrench is the "does this wrench or does this pickaxe" game.

[Gamida]

Also wrench shopping carts.

[Boidster]

Half the fun of a wrench is the "does this wrench or does this pickaxe" game.

 

And A18 added a twist (at least I don't recall this being in A17) where if you're a bit too far away, the wrench attacks (and hits) on left-click. Get closer and it wrenches. So make sure you're close enough for the test before you break out the pick-axe!

[balls-ofyre]

One of the real charms of 7DtD is just luck. On one game you might encounter a crucible early on, in another, a simple wrench is maddeningly hard. Normally, it's not terribly hard to encounter a wrench, and that leads to vital parts.

[ricp]

And A18 added a twist (at least I don't recall this being in A17) where if you're a bit too far away, the wrench attacks (and hits) on left-click. Get closer and it wrenches. So make sure you're close enough for the test before you break out the pick-axe!

 

Yeah, that happened in previous alphas too.

[Feycat]

There are brown stacking boxes in a lot of the POIs - they're not lootable, they just look like stacking boxes, obviously intended as clutter. If you break those, a lot of time we've found plastic and mechanical parts.

[Laz Man]

Also wrench shopping carts.

 

Fire axe engines and wrench landmines.

[Roland]

Fire axe engines and wrench landmines.

 

*hands the scepter over to Lazman*

[Jugginator]

Fire axe engines and wrench landmines.

 

Nah nah nah, You gotta fire axe cars and you get more resources using a claw hammer or stone axe on landmines. Wrenching landmines just gives you the landmine.

[Limdood]

to the original point of the thread, if someone else comes looking for the answer:

 

Easiest way to get mechanical parts is with a wrench, which are BEST found in sinks or working stiffs boxes.

 

It is possible to just find mechanical parts, but they're MUCH rarer...working stiffs boxes can have them.