Barbed Wire
| Barbed Wire | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Material |
| Weight | 1 |
| Metal Value | 20 |
| Made With | 1x Wire |
| Research | Barbed-Wire Wrap Weapon |
| Crafting Skill | None |
| Crafting | See How to Craft |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.BarbedWire
|
Barbed Wire is a coil of twisted metal wire set with sharp points. It is a material for base defence and improvised weapons.
Its best known use is the Barbed-Wire Wrap Weapon recipe. Wrapping it around a Broom, Ice Hockey Stick or Plunger makes a nastier melee weapon. It also builds a Barbed Wire Fence with Carpentry level 5. The Make Sawblade Table Leg recipe uses it too.
Barbed Wire is found in sheds, closets, farm storage and wire factories. It can also be made from plain Wire with pliers. The Carpenter is the best occupation for materials. It starts with the most Carpentry skill. For Welding, the Welder starts strongest.
Uses
The Barbed-Wire Wrap Weapon recipe takes one Barbed Wire and a Broom, Ice Hockey Stick or Plunger. Pliers are needed and kept. It needs Maintenance level 1. The results are the Broom with Barbed-Wire, the Ice Hockey Stick with Barbed Wire and the Plunger with Barbed Wire.
The Barbed Wire Fence recipe takes one Barbed Wire and a hammer, which is kept. It needs Carpentry level 5. The fence is a building piece for the outer edge of a base.
The Make Sawblade Table Leg recipe binds a Circular Sawblade to an Antique Table Leg. It takes one Barbed Wire, five Nails and Nuts and Bolts. A hammer, saw, wrench and metal drill are all kept. It needs Carpentry level 5.
The Make Wire from Barbed Wire recipe strips the barbs off with pliers. It gives one plain Wire. Twelve coils stack into a Barbed Wire Bundle with the Stack Items recipe.
The Research Craft option teaches the Barbed-Wire Wrap Weapon recipe.
How to Get Barbed Wire
The Make Barbed Wire from Wire recipe turns one Wire into one Barbed Wire. Pliers are needed and kept. The recipe must be learned first. Researching a Barbed Wire Bundle is one way to learn it.
The Unstack recipe opens a Barbed Wire Bundle into twelve coils.
Research
The Research Craft option in the inventory menu studies the Barbed Wire and teaches the recipes below.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbed-Wire Wrap Weapon | Ice Hockey Stick with Barbed Wire | 
|
/additem Base.IceHockeyStick_BarbedWire
|
How to Craft Barbed Wire
Each recipe that makes the Barbed Wire is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.
Make Barbed Wire from Wire
The Make Barbed Wire from Wire recipe makes the Barbed Wire. It needs no skill level. The recipe has to be learned first.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pliers | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.Pliers
|
| Wire | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.Wire
|
Unstack
The Unstack recipe makes the Barbed Wire. It needs no skill level.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbed Wire Bundle | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.BarbedWireStack
|
Used in Crafting
Everything made with the Barbed Wire, with how much each recipe takes, the other materials it needs, the station and the skill.
| Item | Image | Recipe | Amount | Other Materials | Station | Skill | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antique Table Leg with Sawblade | 
|
Make Sawblade Table Leg | 1x |
|
- | Carpentry: 5 | /additem Base.TableLeg_Sawblade
|
| Barbed Wire Bundle |
|
Stack Items | 12x | - | - | None | /additem Base.BarbedWireStack
|
| Ice Hockey Stick with Barbed Wire |
|
Barbed-Wire Wrap Weapon | 1x | - | Maintenance: 1 | /additem Base.IceHockeyStick_BarbedWire
| |
| Wire |
|
Make Wire from Barbed Wire | 1x | 1x Pliers (kept) | - | None | /additem Base.Wire
|
| Barbed Wire Fence | - | Barbed Wire Fence | 1x | 1x Claw Hammer (kept) | - | Carpentry: 5 | /additem Base.Hammer
|
Locations
Barbed Wire is a fairly common find in rural and industrial storage. Wire factory shelves and tool cabinets give the best odds, at about one in seven. Closet crates, farm storage shelves and shed shelves and counters hold it about one time in nine. Studio and warehouse shelves hold it less often. Garage crates, tool stores, barns and storage units turn it up now and then.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Wire factory | Metal shelves | 14% |
| Wire factory | Tool cabinet | 14% |
| Farm storage | Metal shelves | 11% |
| Studio | Metal shelves | 6.6% |
| Warehouse | Metal shelves | 6.6% |
| Farm storage | Other | 2.2% |
| Storage unit | Other | 1.1% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Closet | Crate | 11% |
| Closet | Other | 11% |
| Shed | Counter | 11% |
| Shed | Metal shelves | 11% |
| Shed | Other | 11% |
| Shed | Shelves | 11% |
| Garage storage | Crate | 4.4% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Warehouse | Small box | 6.6% |
| Tool store | Counter | 2.7% |
| Tool store | Other | 2.7% |
| Tool store | Shelves | 2.7% |
| Tool store | Small box | 2.7% |
| Tool store storage | Other | 2.2% |
| Barn | Metal shelves | 1.1% |
| Barn | Other | 1.1% |
| Barn | Crate | 0.1% |
Notes
- Research Craft on a coil teaches the Barbed-Wire Wrap Weapon recipe.
- Plain Wire and Barbed Wire convert both ways with pliers.
- Sheds are the most common place to find it outside a wire factory.
- A coil melted for scrap gives a fair amount of metal.
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