In 7 Days to Die, you will spend plenty of your time crafting and scavenging. From tools and weapons to vehicles and structures, you will run into unfamiliar items. Mechanical parts are one of these items that you seem you come across here and there but ultimately you fall short on what you need. In this guide, we will be running you through how to get a good supply for all the crafting you want.
Find Mechanical Parts
Randomly finding mechanical parts is not the best way, but it is a way to do it. They can be randomly found in things like broken workbenches, toolboxes, mo power crates and shelves and working stiff crates. However, finding them will only give you a handful each time and it’s not an overly reliable source. If you want a more reliable source to build up quite many mechanical parts, you need a wrench.
Using a Wrench to Get Mechanical Parts
Getting mechanical parts in 7 Days to Die using a wrench tool is simple. There are many different objects you can use the tool on to receive mechanical parts. Go up to the object and destroy it using the tool. Some of these objects are listed as follows:
- Fridges
- Trucks
- Cars (mostly intact)
- Mechanical gym equipment (treadmills, bikes, etc)
- Vending machines
- Gas pumps
- Ovens
- Air conditioning
- Safes
- Office chairs
These are the most common you can come across, if it’s something you think is mechanical, just take a shot with it and destroy it to see if it’s another item that may give you mechanical parts.
How to Obtain a Wrench
Wrenches can be crafted, which we will talk about more later, and they can be found. Wrenches can be found in the loot bags that drop from some zombies, working stiff crates and the traders can also sell them.
7 Days to die has different tools in the same class. A wrench is the base level tool for that class. The better version of a wrench is the ratchet and the better version of that is the impact driver. All three tools will work, the higher tiers are better but a wrench is still a viable option, especially early on. They all need skills, or schematics to build and all require mechanical parts.
A wrench is crafted using 12 forged iron, 4 mechanical parts and 2 duct tape. Having the skill Salvage Operations, under the perception tree, is required for crafting the item. You can also read the wrench schematic which will allow you to craft the wrench without Salvage Operations. Higher-level wrenches can be crafted using the Miner69’er skill. Put a few levels into that and you will be crafting some very trusty tools to support you during your 7 Days to Die playthrough and will help to get more resources, like mechanical parts,
What Are Mechanical Parts Used For in 7 Days to Die?
Mechanical parts are used in a rather large amount of recipes, all of them are as follows:
- 4×4 truck accessories
- 4×4 truck chassis
- bicycle
- bicycle chassis
- bicycle handlebars
- blade trap
- cement mixer
- crucible
- dart trap
- desk safe
- garage metal door
- generator bank
- grenade
- gun safe
- gyrocopter accessories
- gyrocopter chassis
- impact driver
- jail door
- lockpick
- minibike chassis
- minibike handlebars
- motion sensor
- motorcycle chassis
- motorcycle handlebars
- nailgun
- office chair
- ratchet
- reinforced drawbridge
- reinforced wood drawbridge
- sinks and toilets
- switch
- trigger plate
- vault door
- vault hatch
- vault hatch v3 (powered)
- vehicle reserve fuel tank
- vehicle supercharger
- wall safe
- wire tool
- workbench
- wrench
You can see from the list, that mechanical parts are used in a vast amount of recipes and are required for you to progress further in 7 Days to Die.
