⚡ Island Power Grid
Power Plant can now be restored using Heavy Fuses found as loot.
Once powered:
- Roadside power poles provide free electricity for player circuits.
- Power poles are climbable without ladders.
- Green recyclers improve from 50% to 60% efficiency.
- Recyclers operate faster at maximum power.
- Power Plant gets a 75% efficiency red recycler.
- An additional Power Plant loot room becomes available.
🛰️ Satellite Crash Event
A new high-value event can be triggered from Launch Site.
Players can manipulate a satellite’s trajectory and choose its crash location. The satellite’s descent is visible across the server, and the crash site contains new satellite loot crates after they cool down.
Expect heavy PvP around the crash site.
🛢️ Dome Crude Oil Production
Once Power Plant is active, Large Oil Rig can pump crude oil toward Dome for 20 minutes.
You’ll need a vehicle with the Tanker module to collect it and a car lift to extract the cargo.
Small Oil Rig can also pump at half speed. Running both provides 1.5× crude production.
💧 Water Treatment & Farming
Water Treatment Plant can restore roadside water supplies when the island power grid is running.
Players insert gears into two gearboxes to pressurize the system. The gears are gradually consumed.
Maintaining enough pressure provides water from pipes around the map, creating another useful water source for farming and survival.
🍖 Supermarket Food
Abandoned Supermarket now has a powered freezer.
When electricity is available, it continuously generates chilled food and can occasionally produce a larger food cache.
🚗 Oxum’s Garage
Oxum’s Gas Station gets a functional garage when electricity is available.
It includes:
- A working car lift
- Powered garage door
- Underground cave with a chance of higher-quality car parts
🚁 Airfield Events
Airfield now has two powered terminals.
One increases the frequency of airdrops across the map.
The larger terminal can call in a Chinook resupply crate near Airfield.
Both depend on the island power grid and need time to recharge.
🧱 High Wall Upkeep
High external walls now have a static 20% upkeep cost.
Large compounds and external-TC wall networks will therefore cost more to maintain.
🐺 Wolf Headdress Nerf
The Wolf Headdress now requires a Tier 1 Workbench.
This makes one of the strongest early-wipe helmets less immediately accessible.
🌱 Water Well Vendor Nerf
Water Well vendors have been heavily limited to slow early progression.
- Stock: 10 → 2
- Restock: 2 min → 10 min
This makes buying large quantities of items such as jackhammers and advanced teas early in wipe significantly harder.
🎒 Respawn & Looting Improvements
Beds and sleeping bags can now be marked on the compass.
Favorite respawn points also appear first on the death screen.
Hover-looting corpses now handles armor swapping better, including situations where your inventory is full.
♻️ Other Survival Changes
The Recycle Bin Workbench upgrade now has dedicated storage where bonus items accumulate automatically.
Ore nodes and wood piles can also no longer spawn inside safe zones, preventing inaccessible resources from consuming resource spawns elsewhere on the map.
TL;DR
Power Plant is now a major island-wide objective. Keeping the grid running improves recycling and enables or enhances electricity, water, food, crude oil production, loot opportunities, and events at monuments across the map.
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