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Vending Machine

ItemsCondition 100
Vending Machine

Trade your goods with other players safely by creating sell and buy orders. If a raider gains access to the rear panel, they will have free reign over all of your goodies. Keep it safe.

Shortname: vending.machine

Item ID: 198438816

Despawns after 20m on the ground

Craft recipe
High Quality Metal20xHigh Quality MetalGears3xGearsVending Machine1xVending Machine
Workbench tier
T1
Craft time
30s
Recycling yields

Radtown Recycler

High Quality Metal12xHigh Quality MetalGears1xGears(+1 at 80%)

Safe Zone Recycler

High Quality Metal8xHigh Quality MetalGears1xGears(+1 at 20%)

Approximate — recyclers return a share of an item's crafting cost (60% at monument Recyclers, 40% at Safe Zone Recyclers), not a fixed table.

Repair cost
Current condition
%
High Quality Metal4xHigh Quality MetalGears1xGears

A repair bench restores 20% condition per click, at 20% of the recipe cost per point missing.

Placed entity
Health
1250 HP

Health once placed in the world — not to be confused with the item's own condition/durability while held.

Raid cost
ExplosiveDamage / chargeCharges needed
Timed Explosive ChargeTimed Explosive Charge5503
Satchel ChargeSatchel Charge4753
Beancan GrenadeBeancan Grenade11511
F1 GrenadeF1 Grenade2256
Molotov CocktailMolotov Cocktail3536
FlashbangFlashbang2063
Bee GrenadeBee Grenade2063

Assumes no damage resistance — unlike building tiers, this entity has no separate protection multiplier, so raw HP is divided by raw damage per charge.

Loot sources
★Barrel (Better Loot)<0.1%Generic<0.1%

Chance the item is included whenever that container rolls, resolved through nested loot tables. Approximate — doesn't account for seasonal or event-restricted rotations.