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Copper Cup


Copper Cup
Copper Cup
Class Cooking
Weight 0.5
Crafting Skill Blacksmithing: 3
Crafting See How to Craft
Location Containers
Spawn ID /additem Base.CopperCup
Crafting XP 25 XP (Blacksmithing)

A Copper Cup is a small metal drinking cup from the Cooking class of items. It weighs 0.5 and holds up to 500 millilitres of liquid. It works as a water container, a cup for brewing coffee and a supply of scrap copper.

Placed on the ground outside, a Copper Cup collects rainwater. It can also be heated, since it counts as a cookable container.

Copper Cups are rare finds, mostly in Wild West buildings. A cup can also be forged at a forge with some Blacksmithing skill. The Chef is the best occupation for cooking. It starts with the most Cooking skill. The Burger Flipper also starts with some Cooking skill.

Cooking


A Copper Cup works as the cup in the Brew Coffee recipe at a Coffee Machine. The recipe takes 5 portions of Coffee and 0.2 litres of water. It gives a Hot Drink served in the cup.

The cup can be heated on a stove or over a fire, which warms whatever it holds.

The Forge Cup recipe makes one at a Simple Forge or better. It needs Blacksmithing 3, charcoal, a small metal sheet, a smithing hammer and pliers or tongs. A Copper Sheet gives a Copper Cup. Steel, gold and silver sheets give a Metal Cup, a Gold Cup or a Silver Cup.

Recipes


Hot Drink takes up to 3 ingredients. It can also start from a Mug or a Teacup or a Ceramic Teacup. Every ingredient the game allows is listed with the hunger it restores, one kind of food per tab.


Name Image Hunger Restored Note Spawn ID
Mushrooms Mushrooms 6 - /additem Base.MushroomGeneric1
Dandelions Dandelions 2 - /additem Base.Dandelions
Name Image Hunger Restored Note Spawn ID
Strawberries Strawberries 5 - /additem Base.Strewberrie
Name Image Hunger Restored Note Spawn ID
Candy Cane Candy Cane 10 - /additem Base.Candycane
Honey Honey 2 - /additem Base.Honey
Lemon Lemon 2 - /additem Base.Lemon
Lime Lime 2 - /additem Base.Lime
Nettles Nettles 2 - /additem Base.Nettles
Rose Hips Rose Hips 2 - /additem Base.Rosehips
Thistles Thistles 2 - /additem Base.Thistle
Violets Violets 2 - /additem Base.Violets
Bouillon Cube Bouillon Cube 1 - /additem Base.BouillonCube
Brown Sugar Brown Sugar 1 - /additem Base.SugarBrown
Chamomile Chamomile 1 - /additem Base.Chamomile
Chamomile (Dried) Chamomile (Dried) 1 - /additem Base.ChamomileDried
Cinnamon Cinnamon 1 - /additem Base.Cinnamon
Four Leaf Clover Four Leaf Clover 1 - /additem Base.FourLeafClover
Ginger Root Ginger Root 1 - /additem Base.GingerRoot
Lavender Lavender 1 - /additem Base.Lavender
Lavender Petals (Dried) Lavender Petals (Dried) 1 - /additem Base.LavenderPetalsDried
Lemongrass Lemongrass 1 - /additem Base.LemonGrass
Marigold Marigold 1 - /additem Base.Marigold
Marigold (Dried) Marigold (Dried) 1 - /additem Base.MarigoldDried
Mint Mint 1 - /additem Base.MintHerb
Mint (Dried) Mint (Dried) 1 - /additem Base.MintHerbDried
Rose Petals (Dried) Rose Petals (Dried) 1 - /additem Base.RosePetalsDried
Roses Roses 1 - /additem Base.Roses
Sugar Cubes Sugar Cubes 1 - /additem Base.SugarCubes
Sugar Packet Sugar Packet 1 - /additem Base.SugarPacket
White Sugar White Sugar 1 - /additem Base.Sugar
Name Image Hunger Restored Note Spawn ID
Cocoa Powder Cocoa Powder 5 - /additem Base.CocoaPowder
Coffee Coffee 5 - /additem Base.Coffee2
Tea Bag Tea Bag 5 - /additem Base.Teabag2
Canned Evaporated Milk (Open) Canned Evaporated Milk (Open) 2 - /additem Base.CannedMilkOpen

Best Hot Drink Recipes


Each recipe fills every slot with a different ingredient, which gives the most hunger and the full variety bonus. A spice can go on top without using a slot. A higher Cooking skill adds more from every ingredient.


This hot drink uses the most filling ingredients the dish takes. Its 3 ingredients restore 16 hunger in all. They are all different, so each one also takes about 5 off boredom and unhappiness.

Name Image Hunger Restored Note Spawn ID
Mushrooms Mushrooms 6 - /additem Base.MushroomGeneric1
Cocoa Powder Cocoa Powder 5 - /additem Base.CocoaPowder
Coffee Coffee 5 - /additem Base.Coffee2

This hot drink uses only canned, dried and packaged food that keeps. Its 3 ingredients restore 15 hunger in all. They are all different, so each one also takes about 5 off boredom and unhappiness.

Name Image Hunger Restored Note Spawn ID
Cocoa Powder Cocoa Powder 5 - /additem Base.CocoaPowder
Coffee Coffee 5 - /additem Base.Coffee2
Tea Bag Tea Bag 5 - /additem Base.Teabag2

How to Craft Copper Cup


Each recipe that makes the Copper Cup is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.

Forge Cup

The Forge Cup recipe makes the Copper Cup. It needs Blacksmithing level 3. It is made at a Simple Forge. The recipe has to be learned first.

Name Image Amount Kept Spawn ID
Charcoal Charcoal 1x No /additem Base.Charcoal
Copper Sheet - Small Copper Sheet - Small 1x No /additem Base.SmallCopperSheet
Smithing Hammer Smithing Hammer 1x Yes /additem Base.SmithingHammer
Metalworking Pliers Metalworking Pliers 1x Yes /additem Base.MetalworkingPliers

Locations


Copper Cups are an uncommon find. The bar counter in the Wild West buildings holds one now and then. Bedroom dressers, side tables and wardrobes in the same buildings turn one up less often. A comic store counter can hold one by luck. Closets, garages, sheds, attics and survivor safehouses hold them only very rarely.

The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.

Location Container Chance
Wild West bar Counter 15.7%
Comic store Counter 1.5%
Location Container Chance
Wild West bedroom Dresser 5.5%
Wild West bedroom Side table 5.5%
Wild West bedroom Wardrobe 5.5%
Wild West living room Locker 5.5%
Closet Other 0.6%
Garage storage Crate 0.4%
Shed Other 0.4%
Garage storage Other 0.1%
Attic Cardboard box <0.1%
Attic Crate <0.1%
Location Container Chance
Survivor safehouse Cardboard box 0.1%
Survivor safehouse Crate 0.1%
Survivor safehouse Small box 0.1%
Survivor safehouse (late game) Cardboard box 0.1%
Survivor safehouse (late game) Crate 0.1%
Survivor safehouse (late game) Small box 0.1%
Survivor safehouse (mid game) Cardboard box 0.1%
Survivor safehouse (mid game) Crate 0.1%
Survivor safehouse (mid game) Small box 0.1%
Location Container Chance
Storage unit Other <0.1%

Notes


  • A Copper Cup left outside collects rainwater.
  • It holds 500 millilitres and can be drunk from directly.
  • It serves as the cup for brewing coffee at a Coffee Machine.
  • An unwanted cup can be scrapped into Copper Scrap.
  • The Wild West bar is the likeliest place to find one.


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