VHS - Home
| VHS - Home | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Electronics |
| Weight | 0.5 |
| Fire Fuel | Yes |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.VHS_Home
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The VHS - Home is a home-recorded video tape for watching on a television. Each tape holds one recording, such as a birthday party, a wedding, a ball game or a family message. Many of them also show small pieces of everyday life before the outbreak.
Watching a tape eases boredom. A few home tapes also give skill experience or teach a recipe. That makes them worth a look for any survivor with a working television. The tape is light and burns as fire fuel when it is no longer wanted.
Home tapes are found on living room shelves, in motel rooms and on survivor safehouse shelves. The Electrician is the best occupation for electronics. It starts with the most Electrical skill. The Engineer also starts with some Electrical skill.
Using
A tape plays in a Premium Technologies Television or a ValuTech Television. The Antique Television is too old for tapes. The television needs power from the grid or a generator.
Each home recording appears only once in a world. A found tape is therefore a unique title, unlike the retail tapes that can turn up many times.
Most home tapes only pass the time. A few teach skills that the retail tapes leave out. Basic Gun Handling (Officer Use Only) gives Aiming and Reloading experience. Combat Wound Management gives First Aid experience. Muldraugh AV Club and TV Repair give Electrical experience. Muldraugh AV Club also teaches Make Makeshift Radio. Tailoring 101 gives Tailoring experience, and the Tree Planting Guide gives Agriculture experience.
By default, tapes alone can raise a skill only to level 3. Sandbox settings can change that cap.
Locations
Shelves in living rooms, motel rooms and survivor safehouses are the best places to look. They hold a home tape about one time in seven. Joan's Studio shelves are just as good. Hoarder homes and living room wardrobes turn one up less often. Garage storage, attics, halls and closets hold one only rarely.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor safehouse | Shelves | 14.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Shelves | 14.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Shelves | 14.7% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Joan's studio | Shelves | 14.7% |
| Hoarder | Other | 3.6% |
| Hoarder office | Other | 3.6% |
| Storage unit | Other | 0.2% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Living room | Shelves | 14.7% |
| Motel room | Shelves | 14.7% |
| Hoarderbed room | Other | 3.6% |
| Hoarder kitchen | Other | 3.6% |
| Living room | Wardrobe | 3.3% |
| Garage storage | Other | 1.4% |
| Attic | Cardboard box | 0.7% |
| Attic | Crate | 0.7% |
| Attic | Other | 0.7% |
| Hall | Other | 0.7% |
Notes
- Only the Premium Technologies and ValuTech televisions can play the tape.
- Each home recording exists only once in a world.
- A few home tapes give skill experience that no retail tape gives.
- Tape skill gains stop at level 3 unless sandbox settings change it.
- A spare tape burns as fire fuel.
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