Medical Shears
| Medical Shears | |
|---|---|
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| Class | First Aid |
| Weight | 0.3 |
| Condition | 10 |
| Wear Chance | 1 in 10 |
| Hotbar | Screwdriver |
| Metal Value | 6 |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.ScissorsBluntMedical
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Medical Shears are a pair of blunt tipped scissors from a hospital supply. They work as scissors in every recipe that calls for them.
They suit any survivor who sews, cuts cloth or builds armour. Shears handle tailoring jobs, such as cutting clothing into strips and trimming tarps. They also stand in for metal snips in some forging and scrap armour recipes. Their strength is wide use. Their cost is slow wear over many jobs.
Medical Shears are found as loot in clinics, dentists and medical storage rooms. The Doctor is the best occupation for first aid. It starts with the most First Aid skill. The Nurse and the Park Ranger also start with some First Aid skill.
How to Use Medical Shears
The shears count as scissors in crafting, and they are kept after each recipe. Cut Up Denim/Leather Clothing turns old jeans and jackets into strips. Cut Tarp makes six Tarp Piece, and Cut Up Belt gives a Buckle and Leather Strips. Make Sheet, Sew Pillow and Sew Bear accept them. So do the sewing recipes for shirts, pants, dresses and skirts.
The shears also serve when shortening clothes. Shorten Sleeves, Shorten Trousers, Shorten Skirt and Shorten Socks all take them. Several of these give back a Rag or Denim Strips as well.
In metalwork, the shears count as light metal snips. They go into Forge Codpiece, Forge Metal Neck Guard and Forge Fingerless Metal Gloves at a forge. They also go into the scrap metal armour recipes. Make Scrap Metal Mask and Make Scrap Metal Body Armor are two of them.
The shears can ride in a hotbar slot made for a screwdriver.
Upkeep
Each use has a one in ten chance to cost the shears a point of condition. A fresh pair can take many jobs before it breaks. Sharpen Blade restores the edge, and a grindstone or a file can sharpen them too. Fix With Epoxy repairs them with Maintenance level 3. A broken pair can be scrapped for some metal.
Used in Crafting
Any recipe that asks for a scissors accepts it as the tool, such as Forge Codpiece, Forge Metal Neck Guard and Forge Fingerless Metal Gloves.
Locations
Clinic counters, dentist side tables and medical storage rooms hold a pair about two times in five. Dentist storage and hospital storage rooms hold them fairly often. Medical caches and medicine cabinets in police stations, security rooms and waiting rooms are good places too. Nurses keep them in their boxes, crates and counters. Kennel counters, hospital shelves, coroner offices and morgues hold them now and then.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Dentist | Side table | 40% |
| Medical | Counter | 40% |
| Medical storage | Counter | 40% |
| Medical storage | Metal shelves | 40% |
| Medical | Other | 39.4% |
| Dentist storage | Other | 31.5% |
| Hospital storage | Other | 31.5% |
| Police SWAT room | Medicine cabinet | 22.8% |
| Security | Medicine cabinet | 22.8% |
| Waiting room | Medicine cabinet | 22.8% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Medical cache | Medical box | 23.7% |
| Survivor safehouse | Medicine cabinet | 12% |
| Survivor safehouse | Counter | 9.6% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Medicine cabinet | 8.3% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Counter | 3.3% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Bin | 3.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Bin | 1.9% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Medicine cabinet | 1.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Counter | 1.3% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmacy storage | Other | 16% |
| Nurse | Small box | 15.8% |
| Any building | Small box | <0.1% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Hospital hallway | Metal shelves | 14.4% |
| Garage storage | Other | 1.6% |
| Closet | Other | 0.8% |
| Attic | Cardboard box | 0.4% |
| Attic | Crate | 0.4% |
| Attic | Other | 0.4% |
| Closet | Locker | 0.4% |
| Hall | Other | 0.4% |
| Living room | Locker | 0.4% |
| Living room | Other | 0.4% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Inside a bag or case | Alice belt sus | 2.9% |
| Inside a bag or case | First aid kit | 2.4% |
| Inside a bag or case | First aid kit camping | 0.7% |
Notes
- They count as scissors in every tailoring recipe.
- They also count as light metal snips in some metal armour recipes.
- A sharpening recipe keeps the edge in shape.
- They fit a screwdriver hotbar slot on the belt.
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