From a young age, we are taught that everything has intrinsic value, both to society and to individuals.\u00a0We spend our entire lives in pursuit of more of it, whether it be the mighty dollar, the skills to make more dollars, or the knowledge to use others\u2019 dollars to make ourselves wealthy.\u00a0It\u2019s not the most glamorous of ambitions, often bringing out the worst in us as we edge closer and closer to poverty or prosperity.\u00a0In RUST, especially on vanilla servers that wipe blueprints every month, Scrap is King\u2026\u00a0at least for the first few weeks.<\/p>\n
This topic is one of the most frequently searched subjects across the RUST community \u2014 \u201cHow can I make Scrap fast, easy, and safe?<\/strong>\u201d On the surface, it\u2019s a fairly straightforward question, and just about everyone who\u2019s seen a streamer or YouTube video on the subject could rattle off any number of ways. However, we\u2019re not content with just a few methods; this guide aims to cover them all. Yes, we are setting ourselves up for failure with such a goal, but in the end, at least we can say that we failed spectacularly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As a preface, we must temper the scope of ridiculousness. nyone can say \u2018loot\u2019 and then add any container type afterward. The same is true of the words sell, steal, PvP for\u2026 Instead, we will cover all of these topics but narrow down the possibilities to a select few per topic for simplicity\u2019s sake.\u00a0Not to say that we won\u2019t be inclusive of legitimate modes and methods, but you see how it could get out of hand quite fast if we didn\u2019t use discretion.<\/p>\n Additionally, we will outline some contingencies before moving forward.\u00a0They are below;<\/p>\n While no guide is precise because no instance-to-instance payout is the same, we have done our research based on a sample size instead of what we got from a single Trainyard monument run\u2026 We\u2019ll instead combine the results from the three runs and provide a median Scrap output.<\/p>\n This Scrap guide<\/strong> aims to inform and instill confidence in the reader in any given scenario. We aren\u2019t here to blow wind up your orifice of choice and give new players the indication that they can solo the Nuclear Missile Silo with a bow and burlap.<\/p>\n Instead, we\u2019re going to lay things out in layperson\u2019s terms, using phrases like Low, Medium, or High risk to describe not only the content itself but the chance that other players are going to counter you. Links will be provided to monument-specific content that we cover, offering a better sense of what you\u2019re getting into and even what gear to bring.<\/p>\n For everything else, a simple description of what we used will be given.\u00a0If you take one thing away from this Scrap guide, we hope it\u2019s that foresight and preparation are all that you can control and that sometimes the best you can do is good enough.<\/p>\n Some things are out of our control, and it doesn\u2019t do any good to get upset about getting knocked down. Get back up, and go make gains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This will chiefly showcase a duality of RUST situations\u00a0and what a solo can expect compared to a group, especially for more conditional modes such as PVP or raiding, as a solo historically has considerably more hurdles than a group would for these things.<\/p>\n All information herein was gathered over three months on two separate US East and West RUST Official servers. These servers had an average mid-wipe population of 337 and 344 during peak hours.\u00a0This number increased by several hundred at the beginning of the wipe and decreased by the same amount towards the end.\u00a0All good things come to an end, of course. For perspective,\u00a0only one month of data was collected on Premium servers, as they didn\u2019t exist before the start of our research.<\/p>\n The group composition used to gather this data was, as mentioned, either solo or in a group of 3 in total.\u00a0Altercations with Steam accounts that utilized cheats (proven over time) that impacted outcomes were excluded altogether, and instances in which Zerg activity skewed results were left in but given outlier consideration when our final numbers were tabulated.\u00a0They\u2019re a part of the game, after all, and should<\/strong> impact this subject.<\/p>\n Due to the nature of the overlap, some data points are intentionally merged.\u00a0For example, if you are running the roads, you are inevitably going to loot junk piles, but also things like electric power stations or roadside blue scientists that get in your way.\u00a0In instances where this is the case, we will consolidate these items into an umbrella category.<\/p>\n Finally, we accomplished all of these things with gear typical of their type; we ran the roads in burlap and leather but tackled higher monuments with kits and AKs. We didn\u2019t utilize teas or other stat-affecting tools.\u00a0Could you run Underground Train Tunnels with a complete metal kit and an M249?\u00a0Absolutely.\u00a0But for our purposes, these results need to reflect those that do them and project realistic values.\u00a0With this in mind, let\u2019s get to it.<\/p>\n In no particular order, we will begin with land-based Scrap acquisition methods.\u00a0These are historically the most prevalent modes, but Facepunch has made frequent yearly updates to aquatic features that give these a run for their money.<\/p>\n Best done either naked or with very rudimentary clothing, just enough to mitigate potential radiation zones around starter monuments. 11 Radiation protection is generally viewed as enough to do any of these things, and contrary to the notion of looting the road for a solid 30 minutes, we instead did three sets of 9-minute runs, with 1 minute travel time on average, to achieve our 30-minute benchmark. This is also advised for all players regardless of experience, as it reduces how much you stand to lose if you run into those more geared.<\/p>\n Acting as our first umbrella topic, barrel, and crate looting includes any of the following things;<\/p>\n Running the road in Rust is an excellent early-game strategy for farming Scrap, as it has a low barrier to entry; no keycards or special gear are required. While direct Scrap gains are modest, the sheer volume of lower-tier scrapable items makes recycling highly profitable. Loot respawns fast, offering a steady flow of resources, all the while granting a low-risk option with a strong potential for quick loot-and-scoot gameplay.<\/p>\n On the flip side, being a road runner comes with significant risks that players should be aware of before they run out of their front door sporting valuable kits. Junkpile Scientists guard some roadside loot, while frequent player traffic makes inattentive survivors easy targets. Compared to other loot locations of similar risk, road loot quality is lower, often consisting of junk items that take time to sift through.<\/p>\n Newer players compete heavily for scraps, leading to more fights over barrels and crates. The terrain, dependent on the biome, favors ambushes, with roadside shrubs providing perfect cover for hostile players and animals. Additionally, barrels require melee weapons, and breaking them takes time and makes noise, potentially revealing your position.<\/p>\n All this stated, here were our rough averages.\u00a0Timing yourself while being shot at is an interesting experience.<\/p>\n Median 30-minute Scrap haul:<\/p>\n G<\/strong>ambling in RUST is definitely a hit or, more often, miss proposition, but one that many players turn to at any point during a wipe. The reality is that we can\u2019t tell you how much you could gamble, win, or lose by doing any of the following.\u00a0That being said, we have included links to our assorted guides on the subject.\u00a0Best of luck with this one.<\/p>\n The Junkyard monument is probably one of the hidden gems of the RUST world\u2026\u00a0and I could go on for hours about the specifics, but that isn\u2019t what this guide is about. Brass tacks, the highly underutilized Junkyard Magnet Crane can be used with the help of Low Grade Fuel to convert anything with wheels into quick, raw Scrap.<\/p>\n Below, find a complete list of all known vehicles and entities that can be scrapped in this way, along with their outputs. For this guide, we are only including those items that directly yield Scrap.<\/p>\n T<\/strong>he RNG Gods sometimes smile at us, and as such, we should use these gifts to our advantage.\u00a0While the act of finding, researching, and crafting in itself is a mostly safe venture, selling such items through any number of forums like advertising in trade and selling at Bandit or Outpost (less risk), using a vending machine near your base (moderate risk), or installing one where you live (high risk) is a gamble.\u00a0While this isn\u2019t an all-inclusive list, we include some of the wipe-day favorites that groups and solos alike will pay above-average prices for, often even a few weeks later, all of which are player-craftable<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Even if you\u2019re freshly spawning naked on a beach, depending on the population of the server you\u2019re starting, we all have the capacity to do one thing with virtually nothing:\u00a0Scavenge. The wise player, even if they aren\u2019t comfortable with PVP, knows to mark relative locations when they hear a distant raid or nearby gunfight.<\/p>\n Whether through being raided or through the natural course of decay, some of the best loot jackpots of all time were found rather than earned.\u00a0The range here is literally up to your imagination, with most finds being as small as a few tools and light scrapables, to the largest being enough to finish all of your blueprints via tech tree from absolute zero.<\/p>\n As the wipe continues, the dynamic pricing system on default safe zone vendors kicks in.\u00a0As this proceeds, the price to purchase things like Variable Zoom Scopes decreases while the direct sale value of resources like High Quality Metal increases.\u00a0A properly motivated player with a knack for entrepreneurship can make quite a profit with a minimal amount of startup Scrap.<\/p>\n Purchasing the Variable Zoom Scope from Bandit Camp at a maximum of 50% off will cost 150 Scrap.\u00a0Recycling this scope at a non-safe-zone recycler yields 48 High Quality Metal.\u00a0Selling this HQM back to the Bandit Camp monument merchants while at 100% value will pay out 192 Scrap.\u00a0This is an immediate Scrap turnaround of 42 Scrap per scope.<\/p>\n Of course, as the danger increased, so too did how we armed ourselves for the following modes.\u00a0Each was done within the bounds of how the developer intended, so we didn\u2019t go overboard, and Zerg Mining Outpost with AKs all wipe to achieve higher outputs.<\/p>\n F<\/strong>or the sake of this experiment, we took most of the guesswork out of what you can expect if you enter an otherwise completely unlooted Monument and loot everything therein.\u00a0The totals reflect the average yield of recycled Scrap before converting byproduct materials at resource exchanges (like cloth for Scrap).\u00a0Monuments with keycard rooms will have those values listed separately. We have included even low-tier monuments in the Mid category because, as the population grows, so does the danger, making something like an Oxum\u2019s Gas Station recycler more dangerous than a Military Tunnels recycler.<\/p>\n This section is another one of those \u201cpig and a poke\u201d scenarios, far more contingent on the commitment of resources, luck, and persistence than anything else.\u00a0If you\u2019re running out with double barrels only, you have a really high chance of eventually making a profitable play.<\/p>\n Still, it is very easy to get caught up in a sunk-cost fallacy situation.\u00a0If you\u2019re spending 80 Scrap in pipes over an hour to bring back 80 Scrap in resources, you are breaking even on Scrap and losing an hour\u2019s worth of profit otherwise.\u00a0This method is also a great way to get yourself raided.<\/p>\n That said, mad gains are just a shell away.<\/p>\n Sometimes, the best way to make Scrap is to spend it, especially early in the game.\u00a0These modes are more of a springboard than a tangible Scrap-making venture in that they allow players to have an RNG-based chance to purchase weapons minutes into the wipe, as well as get valuable teas and blueprints like the medical syringe.<\/p>\n Often, those with the best technology are the most financially secure. The big opportunity for profit here is the resale of RNG Advanced Ore and Tree teas that can appear on the Waterwell Vendor\u2019s inventory. Ranging from 30-40 Scrap each, either one of these could be turned around and resold immediately for 2 to 3 times that amount to other players.<\/p>\n R<\/strong>unning diesel in smaller quarries quietly or at night and selling resources (HQM at Bandit, etc) can be pretty lucrative.\u00a0The issue you encounter here is that, especially on higher-population servers, large groups often attempt to take over the Sulfur and HQM Quarries to corner the market.<\/p>\n Offering farming, building, and electrical services to groups, especially those more oriented toward the FPS portion of the game, can be pretty lucrative.\u00a0While this requires quite a bit of trust on both ends, players who excel at any of these subsystems can make both friends and profits, especially if you garner a reputation in the community for such a thing.<\/p>\n Specifically for wholesale, while we\u2019ve mentioned that diesel is quite valuable for its intended use, groups are more than happy to pay reasonable prices for this black gold.\u00a0As these transactions are often conducted through vending machines, this could be on the lower end of the danger spectrum if you\u2019re selling to a machine, or a guarantee of a raid if you sell from your machine.<\/p>\n Early game, Diesel Fuel on our test servers averaged around 80-100 each (slightly skewed to the positive by larger groups), while later in the wipe, Scrap offers seemed to disappear, replaced by HQM.<\/p>\n While not the most conventional mode of making Scrap, the occasional self-serve garage does pop up.\u00a0The basic premise is a standalone roadside structure that sells Keys. The structure itself has a vending machine for these transactions, and each key sold opens a garage door with a vehicle inside. Players make the purchase, find and open the door, and drive off.\u00a0While sample sizes were limited, full armored camper setups were retailing for 350 Scrap with a half tank of fuel.<\/p>\n Like the diesel trade, crude sales are perhaps even more critical.\u00a0Large groups consume an ungodly amount of Crude Oil and Low Grade Fuel daily, as it is used to make Meds, Explosives, and, of course, to get around.\u00a0Blowing Bandit Camp\u2019s offers away, Crude Oil can range from as low as 2 Scrap each all the way to 25 Scrap at its height.\u00a0When you consider how much Crude Oil you can get from running the Dome monument or even roadside barrels, this can get profitable in a hurry.<\/p>\n This method of acquiring Scrap is a crossover Land and Sea entry, but for our purposes, you don\u2019t necessarily ever have to leave the Harbor monument to pull this off.\u00a0By that same token, depending on what you choose to wear and the weapon you carry, this can range from low to high risk.<\/p>\n Since the Cargo Ship event docks at all Harbors on the map, these become prime opportunities at which to camp to scoop up almost forced PVP profits.\u00a0Those doing the event have to wait a considerable amount of time before those crates both spawn, begin opening, and finally crack.\u00a0This method provides ample window for the highly motivated to sneak onboard, make a hot lead delivery, and skedaddle with the goods.\u00a0It may sound simple, but this is a highly competitive <\/strong>market with stiff competition around every corner.<\/p>\n D<\/strong>ue to its high spawn rates and built-in mode of transit, the Underground Rail Network is not just a host to a series of trains but to seemingly infinite numbers of Tunnel Dwellers.\u00a0The amount that you earn is based on your skill, gear, and speed.\u00a0Luck also plays a small role, as a like-minded, larger, better-geared team can quickly turn your adventure into a Fast Travel back to your base.\u00a0Risk, then, is also contingent on what you choose to wear.<\/p>\n With a primitive kit, a Hunting Bow, and Bandages, you might average a few hundred to a thousand Scrap per hour.\u00a0Moving up to a Hazmat Suit or mid-tier kit and something like a SAR, that number could increase to 1-2 thousand Scrap per hour.<\/p>\n If an experienced player goes down (or several) and encounters little to no outside player resistance, using top-tier guns like AKs, it is possible to pull in over 4,500 Scrap in an hour.\u00a0This number is not an exaggeration and is completely RNG-based.\u00a0Bring a backpack, plenty of meds and ammo, and a backup gun.<\/p>\n It has the same protocols as the lower to mid-tier monuments list.\u00a0Assuming ideal conditions and outcomes. Monuments with Keycard rooms will have those values listed separately.<\/p>\n Like Giant Excavator Pit, taking down the Bradley APC is fairly announced, with everyone within earshot hearing both your means of attack and the explosion when it blows up.\u00a0In addition to all that mess, similar to Patrol Helicopter crashes, a large explosion icon appears on the map, baiting players to the scene.<\/p>\n As far as Scrap output goes, Bradley is a mixed bag. It can drop large bundles of Tech Trash, Cameras, and Laptops, as can the Scientists that he spawns, and you can walk away with 800-1000 Scrap potential.\u00a0Conversely, he can drop a Square Ladder Hatch and an MLRS Rocket\u2026 All for nothing if you can\u2019t make it away with the loot.<\/p>\n W<\/strong>as a coin toss whether or not to include Patrol Helicopters in this list.\u00a0From a pure Scrap perspective, this event is honestly terrible.\u00a0However, since it has the potential to drop large amounts of explosives, some would argue that converting a few bullets into raid supplies is more than enough reason to both take him and your neighbor\u2019s possessions.\u00a0As is with the Bradley, it is all for nothing if you don\u2019t have the capability and numbers to defend against the crash.<\/p>\n A Patrol Helicopter was the perfect segway into this hit-or-miss proposition.\u00a0There are times when you will breach a single wooden door and find thousands in Scrap and scrapables.\u00a0Then again, you might go through 10 armored doors and find an empty tuna can.\u00a0This is the nature of the beast in RUST.<\/p>\n There is no 100% guaranteed payout with raids.\u00a0That being said, there isn\u2019t quite any other activity that equals the thrill of taking the work of others away from them, especially if they deserve it.<\/p>\n Not to put too fine a point on it, but sometimes you offer a loot tour and tithe to your local Zerg to not pay with your life for building \u2018too close.\u2019\u00a0Sometimes, you\u2019re the Zerg.\u00a0This racket doesn\u2019t occur everywhere in RUST, but it does happen.<\/p>\n Sometimes, it\u2019s done in a joking sense as an introductory act of trust, while other times, the Zerg takes your Gunpowder and raids you overnight with your resources anyway.\u00a0This is the one we couldn\u2019t put a price on because the test group wasn\u2019t massive enough to extort any of our neighbors, all of whom typically outnumbered us 4:1.<\/p>\n Made popular in some rather infamous YouTube videos, offering cab services in global chat is a great way to both make and lose Scrap.\u00a0Sometimes, the customer is sincere, tips well, and genuinely appreciates the ride.\u00a0Other times, you\u2019re met with turrets on switches, HV rockets from rooftops, and a swift bullet to the head.\u00a0Not for the weak-willed.<\/p>\n Almost every good Rust revenge story hits the same old snag:\u00a0how can a Trio take down an eight-man?\u00a0And just about every such tale ends the same way:\u00a0by hiring other teams that mutually hate the eight men, of course!<\/p>\n Usually, it isn\u2019t a direct Scrap transfer that facilitates this sort of transaction, but rather the promise of splitting the non-boom loot after the deed is done. If you, the hired party, pull through and impress, this can lead to gargantuan payouts in Scrap and components.<\/p>\n This once-popular RUST pastime has all but fallen to the wayside on Official and Community servers, but has made quite the resurgence on modded multiplier (2x, 3x) servers. Because of the rise in grubbing, the addition of quick-deployment barricades, and the rampant cheating that still takes place, most teams opt to save their hard-earned loot in their base and take out limited kits to do just about anything.<\/p>\n For those who still want to get the gang together and go out to terrorize the neighborhood, there is profit potential.\u00a0Everything else we\u2019ve named so far happens outside the base, thus presenting the opportunity for a group of players to stumble upon the odd solo or duo that just happens to be moving their valuables to a main base or from a raid.\u00a0You never know until you try.<\/p>\n Do you know all those Waterwell vendors we talked about earlier, along with Bandit Camp being the literal hub of economic potential?\u00a0Well, in the case of the first, there is no protection from other players, and these can be pretty profitable locations to camp in a bush.<\/p>\n In the case of the second, the aim of the guards is laughable at best and can also be a great place to bush-wookie it up.\u00a0As with all \u2018skummy\u2019 actions, this is listed under high risk because of the potential blowback.\u00a0If you happen to kill the wrong person, some teams will employ unfair methods to find you and recover those resources.<\/p>\n Facepunch, in their infinite wisdom, has invested many hundreds of thousands of hours and updates into making the ocean a more hospitable, resource-rich environment while simultaneously making it a terrifying hellscape that no one would ever willingly venture into that wasn\u2019t already borderline insane.<\/p>\n Once upon a time, there was a Scrap farming method that was dull yet safe.\u00a0A vast underwater oasis, free from threats except for the occasional fellow diver.\u00a0The seas were clear, the boxes plentiful, and the water\u2026 moist.<\/p>\n Then the Sharks came, along with the Underwater Labs monument and a slew of other reasons to entice the masses into the deep blue.<\/p>\n Honestly, so long as you don\u2019t dive at night, bring adequate oxygen tanks, use proper gear, and bring along a Combat Knife to speed the process, you\u2019ll be fine.\u00a0If you see sharks, go to the next dive site, made evident by the new buoys.<\/p>\n The small crates are relatively garbage, similar to a lower-quality barrel, but the large boxes are full of goodies.\u00a0Depending on the distance between sites, we averaged out to 211 Scrap per 10-minute tank, but ended up with a lot of high-quality metal to sell.<\/p>\n F<\/strong>ishing system, following its most recent updates, is quite extensive in its own right. It is chiefly broken into two categories, one being manual rod and reel and the other being passive trapping; instead of breaking that all down in this already extensive guide, we are going to take the more comprehensive approach and link to our How to Fish in RUST guide for those who want to learn more.<\/p>\n TL; DR<\/strong>, read the fishing guide; the Scrap gains are potentially massive.<\/p>\n Ocean float farming is quite popular among the solo crowd, but it presents its own set of problems. Unlike the slightly safer dive sites, there isn\u2019t anywhere to hide when going from float to float on a boat.<\/p>\n Honestly, if you are snuck up on by another boat, the best thing you could do to mitigate the risk is to wear a scuba set.\u00a0If you\u2019re in a rowboat, you can\u2019t escape an RHIB or any helicopter\u2026 If any of these things arise, you\u2019d be smart to dive.\u00a0Scrap output is comparable to diving after you negate the ascending and descending times.<\/p>\n We averaged right at 194 Scrap per 10 minutes, but that was due to luck and no loot falling to the bottom of the ocean.<\/p>\n There are few things in the game as perilous to a solo as doing Cargo alone. It is a fan-favorite event that anyone serious about PvP loves to participate in.\u00a0Before continuing, if you skipped to this part of the guide, we recommend scrolling back up and referencing the Camping Harbors section.<\/p>\n Grubs being able to intercept Cargo when the ship docks notwithstanding, there is nothing quite as terrifying as being below deck and hearing a boat pull up or, worse, a Scrap Transport Helicopter.\u00a0But you\u2019re not here for the warning; you\u2019re here for the loot spread.<\/p>\n To put it bluntly, throughout 41 successful full Cargo Ship lootings, our investigators averaged 1,293 Scrap per event, without recycling items that could have yielded more components, such as Auto Turrets.\u00a0This is all-in-the-figure and excludes a few instances where Counters were killed with the loot they brought from shore.<\/p>\n Underwater Labs is quite similar to the Underground Rail Network, particularly in its use of scientist AI.\u00a0The difference here is the method of reaching it. Players must scuba dive and approach the moonpool or use a submarine.\u00a0What puts this into our High-Risk tier is that these moonpools give unilateral advantages to players already at the monument, camping at the entrances.\u00a0Once the population of a server reaches a certain level, it is nearly impossible to board Underwater Labs without getting a shotgun to the face.<\/p>\n Because they\u2019re procedurally generated, it is unrealistic to expect each lab to pay out the same amount.\u00a0We were averaging roughly 220 Scrap per 10 minutes without doing the keycard puzzles, with that number increasing to 410 Scrap if we remembered to bring them with us.<\/p>\n L<\/strong>umping these two together because they are relatively similar in design and identical in AI, with small numerical pluses or minuses.\u00a0Each guide unto themselves, literally;\u00a0check out Small here and Large here.<\/p>\n Much like the Cargo event Keycard, the reason that rigs are High Risk stems from needing better-than-average armor and weapons to do the content, and then the community\u2019s obsession with \u2018Controlling Rig\u2019 in chat.<\/p>\n We had fewer full clears to gauge from because these monuments are often permanently camped. From our data, what you can expect to rake in fluctuates greatly depending on RNG.<\/p>\n For the Small Oil Rig, breaking every barrel, doing every card room, killing every scientist NPC, we averaged a mere 648 Scrap.\u00a0There were outlier instances where we obtained as few as 399 Scrap and as many as 1121 after recycling, but these were low and high RNG instances, where we either received no Tech Trash yielding components or a large amount.<\/p>\n The Large Oil Rig monument was surprisingly similar, despite its upscale appearance, with a range as low as 512 and as high as 1233 Scrap. We excluded the probability of reselling or converting the diesel gained from each, as well as the profit that could be made from recycling the Miniguns we received from heavy scientists, which have numerous components.<\/p>\n Like traditional raiding, there is no 100% guaranteed payout with raids.\u00a0Unlike conventional land raiding, submarine raiding has considerably more stringent conditional requirements but takes a heap less Gunpowder to do correctly. Torpedoes are a superior raiding method if they can hit their target at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n We did attempt some submarine raids for completionist\u2019s sake, but they were fraught with tragedy and failure. Bases have to be deep in the water for this to be efficient, and when they are, it works like a charm.\u00a0But if you\u2019re trying to hit barely submerged foundations on the coast, you might save yourself the hassle and do something else.<\/p>\n Side note:<\/strong> It isn\u2019t challenging to blow yourself up if you misgauge your depth or directionality.<\/p>\n Finally, we come to the last topic in our guide.\u00a0No long-winded intro, just the facts.\u00a0This is why we have seen such a marked increase in farm bases and river rats.\u00a0Because we\u2019re focusing on Scrap making, we are going to stick mostly to things that can be directly sold at Bandit Camp vendors or that other players will buy repetitively.<\/p>\n B<\/strong>eekeeping isn\u2019t especially profitable, with Honey selling to Bandit Camp at 4 Scrap each under optimal conditions. The primary reason we\u2019re including it is its passive nature.<\/p>\n Just like Beekeeping, Chickens and their offspring Eggs don\u2019t hold a lot of value.\u00a0Their passive nature is key to their worth, and harvesting chickens for Chicken Pies can bring marginal gains, around 100 Scrap per pie<\/p>\n\n
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Grubbing<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Traveling and Waterwell Vendor Deals<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Hired Hand <\/strong><\/h5>\n
Diesel Acquisition <\/strong><\/h5>\n
Garage Services and Vehicle Sales<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Wholesale Crude<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Camping Harbors<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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Bradley APC Kill <\/strong><\/h5>\n
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Roaming<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Camping Vendors \/ Monuments<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Water-Based<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Lower-Risk<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Diving for Sunken Crates<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Mid-Risk<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Ocean Floats<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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