Marker - Black

Marker - Black

Class	Household
Weight	0.2
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.MarkerBlack`

The Marker - Black is a felt-tip marker with black ink. It is a writing tool, used mostly to mark up maps.

Any survivor who keeps notes on a map can use one. It adds notes and symbols to the world map and to paper maps. The game also counts it as a pen, so it serves in recipes that call for one. It weighs very little.

Black markers turn up mostly in workshops and factories. It comes in four colours, each with its own page: black, blue, green and red.

Using

With the marker in the inventory, a map can take notes and symbols. A writing tool is needed to add, edit or move a mark. Editing or moving a mark also needs an Eraser. Black marks stand out well against the map, which suits route lines and danger warnings.

Because the black marker counts as a pen, it can stand in for one in crafting. The Make Blank ID recipe accepts it, giving an ID Card - Blank. A spare black marker saves hunting for a pen when that recipe comes up.

The blue, green and red markers write in their own colours. Having several colours on hand lets a map use one colour for loot, one for danger and one for safe routes.

Used in Crafting

These recipes accept the Marker - Black by its type rather than by name.

Recipe	Output	Image	Station	Spawn ID
Make Blank ID	ID Card - Blank		-	`/additem Base.IDcard_Blank`

Locations

Factories and workshops are the best places to look. Golf factory metal shelves, knife factory tool cabinets and factory counters hold one about one time in six. Wire factory shelves and cabinets come close behind. Mechanic lockers, metal fabrication shops and metalshops turn them up about one time in ten. Carpenter workshops, farm bedroom dressers and wardrobes, and school classrooms hold them now and then. It is a fairly common find in those places.

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

Location	Container	Chance
Golf factory	Metal shelves	17.8%
Knife factory	Tool cabinet	17.7%
Factory	Counter	15.9%
Wire factory	Metal shelves	14%
Wire factory	Tool cabinet	14%
Mechanic	Locker	11.3%
Metal fabrication	Counter	9.9%
Metal fabrication	Tool cabinet	9.9%
Metalfabrication storage	Tool cabinet	9.9%
Mechanic	Metal shelves	7.7%

Location	Container	Chance
Metalshop	Counter	9.9%
Metalshop	Tool cabinet	9.9%
Carpenter workshop	Small box	6.5%
General store	Shelves	5.5%
Electronics store	Metal shelves	5.1%
Gigamart	Shelves	2.7%
Book store	Counter	2.6%
Plazastore1	Other	1.6%
Burger joint dining	Counter	0.2%
Dining crepe	Counter	0.2%

Location	Container	Chance
Inside a bag or case	Pencil case	5.2%
Inside a bag or case	Toolbox	3.2%
Inside a bag or case	Bag skill maintenance duffel bag	2.4%

Location	Container	Chance
Any building	Side table	4.6%
Any building	Office drawers	1.4%
Kitchen	Other	1.3%
Kitchen	Shelves	1.3%
Living room	Overhead cupboard	1.3%
Any building	Shelves	1%
Attic	Cardboard box	0.9%
Attic	Crate	0.9%
Attic	Other	0.9%
Closet	Locker	0.9%