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Weapon mods & Fabricator

The Fabricator is a workbench that puts a mod on a melee weapon: an electric cable, poison leaves, a lighter, an ice pack or a box of nails. The mod is drawn on the weapon itself and gives its hits a chance to shock, poison, burn, chill or stun. Some weapon + mod pairs are signature combos with a bonus of their own.

How to use the Fabricator

1. Place it

Hold the Fabricator item and right click a free spot on the ground: the workbench (2 blocks wide) appears facing you, with a welding arm and a projector. Sneak + right click it with a wrench to pack it up again.

2. Open the panel

Right click the workbench with a weapon that takes a mod in your hand: an amber hologram opens above it, one card per mod, plus Reinforce and Remove Mod, with your weapon turning in 3D.

3. Press a button

Under the card there are 3 big buttons: < PREV, the action (BUILD or REMOVE) and NEXT >. Look at one (a frame shows which) and right click. Punch also goes back one card.

4. Build

When the card says READY, press BUILD: the welding arm works for 2 seconds, then the parts are used up and the mod is on your weapon (its name and description change).

5. Change or remove

A weapon holds one mod: a new one replaces the old one. Removing a mod is free, but the parts are lost.

6. Build blocks

Right click the workbench with anything else in your hand: the cards are blocks and gadgets made from parts (Glue Puddle, Sprinkler, Electric Fence, Barbed Wire, bombs, flares, shurikens). BUILD puts them in your inventory.

7. Shuriken mods

Right click it with shurikens in your hand: Electric, Toxic or Fire for up to 8 shurikens of the stack (1 part + 2 scrap). Every hit shocks 2 s, poisons 5 s or sets on fire 4 s; a shuriken you pick up again keeps its mod.

8. Close

The last card of every panel is CLOSE. The panel also closes when you walk away (6 blocks) or put the weapon away.

What the panel shows

You have the lighter and the scrap: READY. Look at BUILD and right click.

A part is missing: the strip tells you which one and BUILD stays dark.

Building: the welding arm works for 2 seconds.

On the Electric Guitar the Electric card shows its signature combo on top.

Reinforce: each level costs more duct tape and scrap.

Remove Mod: free, but the parts are lost.

Without a weapon that takes a mod in hand: the build cards, here 4 Glue Puddles.

Getting a Fabricator

Traders

25 scrap Tinkerer · Deployablesin stock 85% of the time

Craft it

Crafting table: 6 Scrap, 2 Duct Tape, 1 Electric Cable.

Signature combos

These weapon + mod pairs get a bonus of their own.

Electric Guitar + ElectricPower chord shocks every zombie

Sledgehammer + ElectricGround slam leaves a shock ring

Frying Pan + FireHot pan: always burns

Hockey Stick + FrostShots freeze zombies solid

Skateboard + FireFire trail when you ride

Tennis Racket + ElectricReturned shots shock

Combat Umbrella + ElectricLightning rod in storms

Weapons that accept a mod

Baseball Bat

Golf Club

Katana

Frying Pan

Shovel

Traffic Sign

Skateboard

Electric Guitar

Combat Umbrella

Tennis Racket

Fire Axe

Hockey Stick

Sledgehammer

Boxing Gloves

ShurikenElectric, Toxic, Fire only

Reinforced weapons

Reinforce makes a weapon last longer: +50% durability per level, 3 levels, no change to its look. It stacks with the mod.

Reinforced I+50% durability2 duct tape + 4 scrap

Reinforced II+100% durability3 duct tape + 6 scrap

Reinforced III+150% durability4 duct tape + 8 scrap

REPAIRSWorn weapons are repaired with a wrench (3 scrap + 1 stick): right click it to choose a worn weapon. It uses up the wrench and 1 duct tape (2 if the weapon is more than half worn). Tank weapons (sprays, flamethrower...) are refilled with canisters instead.

The 5 mods

Electric mod

Effect: 50% chance: shocks 2 s, x2 if wet.

Cost: 1 Electric Cable + 3 scrap at the Fabricator.

Where to find the Electric Cable

Boss loot

The Wardenbonus item

The Zombotbonus item

Containers and finds (chance each time)

Distress drop crate20%

Toolbox (search)14%

Santa Bloater's gifts4.3%

Supply crate2.2%

Duffel Bag (search)1.7%

Vase (search)1.5%

Cardboard Box (search)1.3%

Lucky Coin bonus on your kills0.8%

Trash Can (search)0.7%

An ally's bag (per zombie it kills)0.3%

Dropped by

The Live Wire40%