Jar Lid
| Jar Lid | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Cooking |
| Condition | 10 |
| Weight | 0.1 |
| Crafting Skill | None |
| Crafting | See How to Craft |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.JarLid
|
| Crafting XP | 50 XP (Blacksmithing) |
A Jar Lid is a metal lid that seals a glass Jar of preserved food. It is one of the parts needed to jar fresh vegetables, along with a Jar, vinegar and salt. A lid weighs 0.1. The Jar Lid comes back empty at the end of Open Box of Jars.
Lids can be used more than once, but they wear out. Each lid has a condition of 10, and making a jar can cost it a point. A skilled cook wears lids down far more slowly.
Lids are found in closets, attics and storage rooms, often next to empty jars. A Box of Jars holds 6 lids, and a blacksmith can forge new ones. 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
The Make Jar of Preserved Food recipe needs one Jar Lid for each jar. Once the jar is filled, it is cooked to seal it. A cooked jar stays fresh for 730 days and rots after 1560.
Making a jar may take 1 point of condition from the lid. The chance depends on the Cooking skill. At Cooking level 0 the lid always loses a point. Each level lowers the chance by about 9 percent. At Cooking level 10 the chance falls to about 9 percent.
How to Craft Jar Lid
Each recipe that makes the Jar Lid is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.
Forge Jar Lids
The Forge Jar Lids recipe makes the Jar Lid. It needs Blacksmithing level 5. It is made at a Primitive Forge. The recipe has to be learned first.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charcoal | 
|
2x | No | /additem Base.Charcoal
|
| Steel Sheet - Small | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.SmallSheetMetal
|
| Ball-peen Hammer | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.BallPeenHammer
|
| Tongs | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.Tongs
|
| Metalworking Chisel | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.MetalworkingChisel
|
Used in Crafting
These recipes take the Jar Lid as an ingredient or a part.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Station | Skill | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Make Jar of Preserved Food | Jar of Bell Peppers | 
|
- | Cooking: 0 | /additem Base.CannedBellPepper
|
| Pack 6 Jars in Box | Box of Jars | 
|
- | None | /additem Base.BoxOfJars
|
Locations
Jar lids are a fairly common find in homes, in the same spots as empty jars. Closets are the best place, holding them most of the time. Attic boxes and crates, bedroom crates, garage storage and halls hold them now and then. Laboratory desks and university storage rooms carry them too. Survivor safehouse bins and school classroom shelves can also turn up a lid.
The Open Box of Jars recipe gives 6 lids along with 6 jars. The Forge Jar Lids recipe makes 5 lids at a forge. It needs Blacksmithing level 5, a small steel sheet, 2 charcoal, a ball peen hammer, tongs and a metalworking chisel. The recipe must be learned first.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Closet | Other | 64.5% |
| Attic | Cardboard box | 12.9% |
| Attic | Crate | 12.9% |
| Bedroom | Crate | 12.9% |
| Garage storage | Other | 12.9% |
| Hall | Other | 12.9% |
| Attic | Other | 3.2% |
| Bedroom | Cardboard box | 3.2% |
| Living room | Other | 3.2% |
| Living room | Counter | 2.1% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Laboratory | Desk | 10.2% |
| Laboratory | Other | 10.2% |
| University storage | Other | 9.6% |
| Storage unit | Other | 3.2% |
| Classroom | Metal shelves | 1% |
| Elementary classroom | Metal shelves | 1% |
| Elementary classroom | Wardrobe | 1% |
| Secondary classroom | Metal shelves | 1% |
| Lobby | Counter | 0.8% |
| Derelict | Other | 0.4% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor safehouse | Bin | 6.8% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Bin | 3.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Bin | 3.1% |
| Survivor cache (large building) | Counter | 2.1% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Plazastore1 | Other | 0.8% |
| Any building | Small box | <0.1% |
Notes
- Raise Cooking before jarring a big harvest, since a skilled cook wears lids down far less.
- A lid with condition left can seal another jar.
- Forging lids needs Blacksmithing level 5 and makes 5 lids at once.
- Six jars and six lids can be packed back into a Box of Jars.
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