Copper cable is a resource you need Pacific Drive to make electronics and things to charge the car battery. Copper Wire is also not found in the same places as most other resources when exploring the Wet Forest and Bubble Forests of the Outer Zone.
Our Pacific Drive The Copper Wire Guide tells you where to look for copper wire (and electronics and 9V batteries) and what you’ll use it for.
How to get copper wire in Pacific Drive
Copper cable and most other electronics-related resources don’t typically appear in the places you normally collect resources, like dumpsters, car trunks, or storage containers. And it is not immediately clear where to get it.
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You collect copper wire with your scrapper on things like Radios, Telephones, computersAnd TV. There’s even a computer and radio on a shelf next to the wrecked car outside the garage, which you can scrap each time you return to your base.
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Outside your base, you’ll find consumer electronics in the buildings – look at the counters in ARDA trailers for radios and computers, and in the houses for telephones and radios. In rare cases, radios can even be found outside buildings or in shipping containers.
Other resources that are disappearing from consumer electronics are things like plastic, electronicsand occasionally 9V battery.
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Another good place to start is the small ARDA research outposts. They are not shown on the map, but you can identify them by the distinctive lead shielding racks and blue-violet sodium lamps. If you scrap the lamps, receivers, and lab computers at these locations, you’ll get a lot of useful materials, including copper wire and electronics (and that lead will come in handy later).
Copper Wire Recipes in Pacific Drive
The first time you’ll need copper wire you’ll probably notice while crafting Battery jumper (4 9V batteries)., 2 copper wires, 1 electronics) – These are all resources that you can collect in the field of consumer electronics. Battery jumpers load 30 kW into your battery.
Both Light bulbs (2 pieces of glass, 1 print cartridge, 1 copper wire) And Light replacement kits (1 copper wire)., 1 light bulb) To repair your headlights, you will need copper wire. Then do it rough headlights (2 plastic, 1 adhesive tape, 1 copper wire, 5 street flares) And Headlight (2 pieces of glass, 3 copper wire, 1 electronics, 1 light bulb).
You also need it in one Electrician’s kit (1 9V battery)., 2 copper wire, 1 electronics) This repairs electrical damage to things like headlights.
A little later in the game you’ll need more copper wire for things like this LIMpulse emitters (4 scrap metal, 4 copper wire, 4 Electronics, 2 plasma) to ward off rabbits etc Autoparker (4 print cartridges, 2 copper wire, 2 electronics, 4 gears) This will prevent your car from rolling away every time you forget to put it in parking mode.
For more resource guides on how to introduce chemicals, click here Pacific Driveand how to expand your inventory.
