A practical guide to what matters across CDDA’s scavenging, crafting, equipment, and specialist systems.
Introduction history determines newest order. Undated objects follow dated additions; download dates do not make an object new.
A commercial hand fishing reel. It is a short rod with a section on one end with fishing line wrapped around it, with a rotating guard around that. It is not as effective as a normal fishing pole, but is much more compact.
A plastic lantern that is painted to look like a pumpkin with a face. It has a tiny LED light inside, which is currently off. It's mostly for seasonal decoration and doesn't provide very much light.
An old-fashioned pocket watch. Tells the time and looks good doing it. Can also be disassembled into some useful parts.
A lumbering tool intended for trimming hedges and tree branches at a distance. If loaded with gas, using this item will cause it to turn on, making it into an unwieldy polearm.
This pole saw is on and making a lot of noise. Use it to turn it off.
A large natural stone with a flat surface to grind against.
A container for holding the remains of a loved one. Its prior owners must have taken good care of it, as you can see your face reflected clearly upon its surface.
A portable external hard drive, the best in affordable mass storage. Useful for holding lots of electronic data.
This defies easy description, it feels solid but the surface is yielding. Looking at it you have a strange desire to call it a shelter.
A foldable wood stove to safely lit fires while camping in the wilderness. Activate it to deploy.
A rare, bizarre, and arcane device of an otherworldly nature. It's giving you a headache just looking at it. It is covered in alien markings.
A cooking pot, useful for boiling water and making all kinds of food.
A power cord, like you've seen many times before: it's a short multi-stranded copper cord with a power outlet at the end.
A black power drill with a selection of bits. Uses a power cord, so it will have to be plugged into a power grid or vehicle to function.
Dummy item. If you see this description, it is a bug.
A sealable pot, designed to cook food at higher pressures and temperatures. Useful for all kinds of cooking, and it can also be used for pressure-sensitive chemical reactions.
A professional fishing rod with a matching set of weights. With this, you should be able to catch 'em all.
A 35 mm digital SLR (single-lens reflex) camera with optical and digital viewfinders, a zoom lens with auto-focus and stabilizer, and flash. You can look at your photos on the digital screen or transfer them with any standard electronic device. Before the Cataclysm, you could have taken professional-grade photos using this.
A small propane-powered lantern. It does not provide much light, but it lasts a long time. It is turned on. Use it to turn it off.
A compact tool kit intended for heating metal, this portable propane torch includes a torch handle and accessories in an easy-to-carry tote. It needs to be connected to a pressurized propane cylinder before use.
Dummy item. If you see this description, it is a bug.
A piece of filter paper for separating solids from liquids. This filter paper has a rating of 2 microns, separating more solids out than quantitative filter paper, but the process takes longer. It's intended to be disposable, but you could probably use it for some time before it's unusable.
A piece of filter paper for separating solids from liquids. This filter paper has a rating of 20 microns, separating less solids out than qualitative filter paper, but the process is much faster. It's intended to be disposable, but you could probably use it for some time before it's unusable.
A portable radio that is turned on and continually draining its batteries. It is playing the broadcast being sent from any nearby radio towers.
A remote-controlled toy car. It is turned on and draining its batteries just like a real electric car! Use a remote control to drive it around.
A little clip-on LED light, meant for reading books in the dark. This one is turned on.
A battery-powered tool, commonly known by the generic trademark Sawzall, that uses an electric motor to push a straight sawblade back and forth to rapidly cut wood or metal. It is useful for heavy demolition and construction work, but poorly suited to precision tasks.
A disposable ballpoint pen, offers a smooth writing experience on paper. Has the same logo as those disposable lighters. This one is red.
A large lighter with a trigger and a safety, reloaded by fitting a can of butane inside the base. Allows you to use various drugs like cigarettes, light explosives like Molotov cocktails, or light nearby items on fire.
A stylish lighter featuring a flip-top cover and a refuelable tank, capable of creating a small flame with the flick of a finger. Allows you to use various drugs like cigarettes, light explosives like Molotov cocktails, or light nearby items on fire.
A stylish lighter featuring a flip-top cover and a refuelable tank. It is lit.
A complete robotics engineering system, for learning the basics of building and programming robots. Using sensors, motors, a core controller, and hundreds of snap-together building pieces, you can follow the instructions to assemble 12 different robots. The versatile parts also allow you to make robots according to your own designs.
A sheet of foam which can be rolled tightly for storage. It insulates you from the floor, making it easier to sleep. Use it to unroll and place on the ground.
Just looking at this thing makes you feel like a proper mad scientist. It's a series of glass tubes and round flasks, connected to a central motor and a heating element. The heating element warms one flask, kept rotating by the motor, evaporating the contents. The vapor is then condensed in the tubes and collected in another flask, in case you wanted to save it for later.
A flexible rubber hose. It could be used for crafting or siphoning fuel from a vehicle.
A plastic bucket holding a small spade and rake, perfect for building sand castles!
A medium mold for casting molten metals into different shapes.
A sheet of rough paper. It is commonly used in metalworking and carpentry.
A metal pole saw covered in faded orange paint and warning labels written in an unknown language. The circular blade at the end is over an inch thick, its deeply dished grooves suggesting its purpose as a digging implement rather than a cutter. The Exodii use these to chew through reinforced walls like concrete or solid steel, and it's been retrofitted to run on their bionic power.
A printout displaying a string of numbers, the passcode to access the elevator in the hazardous waste sarcophagus.
A brass alto saxophone with a neck strap, so you can wear it while playing.
This is a crafting_pseudo_item if you have it something is wrong.
A USB thumb drive. Useful for holding software. This one seems like it could get run over by a truck and be fine.
seeing this is a bug