Tongue Depressor
| Tongue Depressor | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | First Aid |
| Weight | 0.1 |
| Crafting Skill | None |
| Crafting | See How to Craft |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.TongueDepressor
|
The Tongue Depressor is a flat wooden stick from a doctor's supplies. It sits in the First Aid group of the inventory.
In play its main use is as fuel. The thin wood lights easily. It serves as tinder or as a small piece of fuel for a fire. The stick weighs almost nothing, so a few are easy to keep in a bag for a campfire.
Tongue Depressors come twenty to a Box of Tongue Depressors. Loose ones are found in clinics, dentists and pharmacies. 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 Tongue Depressor
A Tongue Depressor goes into a fire as tinder or fuel. It burns for only a short time, so it works best to get larger wood going.
The Unpack 20 Tongue Depressors recipe opens a Box of Tongue Depressors into twenty loose sticks. The Pack Items in Box recipe does the reverse and packs twenty sticks back into a box. A packed box is tidier to store and also burns as fuel.
How to Craft Tongue Depressor
Each recipe that makes the Tongue Depressor is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.
Unpack 20 Tongue Depressors
The Unpack 20 Tongue Depressors recipe makes the Tongue Depressor. It needs no skill level.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box of Tongue Depressors | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.TongueDepressorBox
|
Used in Crafting
These recipes take the Tongue Depressor as an ingredient or a part.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Station | Skill | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pack Items in Box | Box of Tongue Depressors |
|
- | None | /additem Base.TongueDepressorBox
|
Locations
Tongue Depressors are a common find in medical places. Dentist side tables hold them a bit less than half the time. Counters and shelves in medical storage rooms do the same. Pharmacy counters, pharmacy storage and dentist counters hold them fairly often. Kennel counters and old medical rooms are also worth a look. Hospital rooms, hallways, offices and nurse bodies turn them 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dentist | Side table | 40% |
| Medical | Counter | 40% |
| Medical storage | Counter | 40% |
| Medical storage | Metal shelves | 40% |
| Dentist | Counter | 29% |
| Medical storage | Other | 29% |
| Kennels | Counter | 23.2% |
| Old medical room | Other | 20.3% |
| Medical | Other | 19.7% |
| Medical office | Counter | 15.9% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmacy | Counter | 29% |
| Pharmacy storage | Counter | 29% |
| Pharmacy storage | Other | 29% |
| Pharmacy storage | Desk | 13.4% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Nurse | Body | 16.3% |
| Inside a bag or case | First aid kit camping | 0.3% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Hospital hallway | Counter | 15.9% |
| Hospital hallway | Bin | 14.5% |
| Hospital hallway | Metal shelves | 14.4% |
| Hospital hallway | Desk | 13.4% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor safehouse | Medicine cabinet | 12% |
| Medical cache | Medical box | 11.8% |
| Survivor safehouse | Counter | 9.6% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Medicine cabinet | 8.3% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Counter | 3.3% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Medicine cabinet | 1.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Counter | 1.3% |
Notes
- A few sticks make light, easy tinder for a campfire.
- Twenty loose sticks pack into one box.
- Dentists and medical storage rooms are the likeliest places to find them.
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