VHS - Retail
| VHS - Retail | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Electronics |
| Weight | 0.5 |
| Fire Fuel | Yes |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.VHS_Retail
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The VHS - Retail is a store-bought video tape of a movie or a television series. Most titles are playful takes on films and shows of the early nineties. Others are skill shows that teach cooking, carpentry, mechanics or survival.
Watching a tape eases boredom, and the skill shows also give experience. A set of the right tapes can raise several skills without a single book. Some tapes even teach recipes. The tape is light and burns as fire fuel when it is no longer wanted.
Retail tapes are very common in movie rental stores, corner stores, gas stations and homes. 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.
Every skill show from the television schedule can be found on a retail tape. Those include Carzone for Mechanics and The Cook Show for Cooking. Woodcraft covers Carpentry, and Exposure Survival covers outdoor skills such as Fishing. Unlike home recordings, the same retail title can turn up many times.
Several tapes teach recipes. Growing Fruit and Veg at Home 1 and 2 and Growing Herbs at Home teach crop growing seasons. Better Fishing With Jason Master teaches Make Fishing Rod and Fix Fishing Rod. Controlling Nasty Crop Pests and Diseases teaches the crop cures. Making Sushi at Home teaches sushi dishes. Adefope Fencing Special teaches metal fences and gates.
By default, tapes alone can raise a skill only to level 3. Sandbox settings can change that cap.
Locations
Retail tapes are a very common find. Movie rental stores, home cinema rooms and pawn shops keep them on shelves. Convenience stores, corner stores, general stores and gas station shelves stock them too. Bedroom boxes, closets and kids' bedrooms hold them in homes. Attics, halls and living room lockers often have one. Survivor safehouse shelves hold them too.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Bedroom | Small box | 100% |
| Convenience store | Shelves | 100% |
| Corner store | Shelves | 100% |
| Fossoil | Shelves | 100% |
| Gas 2 Go | Shelves | 100% |
| Gas store | Shelves | 100% |
| General store | Shelves | 100% |
| Pawn shop | Other | 100% |
| Pawn shop | Shelves | 100% |
| Pawn shop office | Other | 100% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Closet | Other | 100% |
| Kid's bedroom | Other | 100% |
| Attic | Cardboard box | 80% |
| Attic | Crate | 80% |
| Attic | Other | 80% |
| Closet | Locker | 80% |
| Hall | Other | 80% |
| Living room | Locker | 80% |
| Living room | Other | 80% |
| Living room | Shelves | 73.7% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Homecinema | Shelves | 100% |
| Movie rental | Other | 100% |
| Movie rental | Shelves | 100% |
| Joan's studio | Shelves | 73.7% |
| Recreation | Shelves | 13.5% |
| Storage unit | Other | 0.2% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor safehouse | Shelves | 73.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Shelves | 73.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Shelves | 73.7% |
| Survivor safehouse | Cardboard box | 10% |
| Survivor safehouse | Crate | 10% |
| Survivor safehouse | Small box | 10% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Cardboard box | 10% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Crate | 10% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Small box | 10% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Cardboard box | 10% |
Notes
- Only the Premium Technologies and ValuTech televisions can play the tape.
- Skill shows give experience while the tape plays.
- Gardening and fishing tapes teach recipes, not only experience.
- Tape skill gains stop at level 3 unless sandbox settings change it.
- A spare tape burns as fire fuel.
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