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7 Days to Die
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How to Farm Mechanical Parts in 7 Days to Die

Salvaging everything for parts.

Mechanical parts are an essential resource in 7 Days to Die to craft vehicles for traveling and traps to defend your created fort. Here is how to farm Mechanical Parts in 7 Days to Die.

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How to Get Mechanical Parts in 7 Days to Die

7 Days to Die Wrench
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7 Days to Die players can get Mechanical Parts by harvesting various metal objects with a Wrench. The Wrench is absolutely required to specifically get Mechanical Parts from harvesting.

Players can farm the resource by always having a Wrench handy and searching areas that are high in mechanical objects. Some of the areas include Parking Garages, Junk Yards, and Gas Stations. Here are all the objects that players can farm Mechanical Parts from:

  • Air Conditioner
  • Auto Turret
  • Blade Trap
  • Car Wreck
  • Cement Mixer
  • Dart Trap
  • Desk Safe Insecure
  • Destroyed Cement Mixer
  • Destroyed Generator Bank
  • Empty Shopping Cart
  • File Cabinet
  • Garage Door Metal
  • Gas Pump
  • Generator Bank
  • Office Chair
  • Pole Top 01
  • Reinforced Drawbridge
  • Sedan
  • Shopping Cart
  • Wall Safe Insecure
  • Workbench

All Mechanical Parts Recipes in 7 Days to Die

7 Days to Die Mechanical Parts recipe
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Mechanical Parts can be used in a variety of crafting recipes, including the Wrench needed to dissemble objects for the parts themselves. While you may be able to gather a lot of Mechanical Parts, some recipes require specific magazines or the two skills, Grease Monkey and Advanced Engineering, before you can start crafting. Here are all the tools and objects you can build with Mechanical Parts:

  • 4×4 Truck Accessories
  • 4×4 Truck Chasis
  • Bicycle
  • Bicycle Chassis
  • Bicycle Handlebars
  • Blade Trap
  • Cement Mixer
  • Contact Grenade
  • Crucible
  • Dart Trap
  • Desk Safe
  • Garage Door Metal
  • Generator Bank
  • Grenade
  • Gun Safe
  • Gyrocopter Accessories
  • Gyrocopter Chassis
  • Impact Driver
  • Iron Knuckles
  • Jail Door
  • Lockpick
  • Minibike Chasis
  • Minibike Handlebars
  • Motion Sensor
  • Motorcycle Chassis
  • Motorcycle Handlebars
  • Nailgun
  • Office Chair
  • Ratchet
  • Reinforced Drawbridge
  • Reinforced Drawbridge (Powered)
  • Sinks and Toilets
  • Steel Door 01
  • Steel Hatch
  • Steel Hatch (Powered)
  • Switch
  • Trigger Plate
  • Wall Safe
  • Wire Tool
  • Workbench
  • Wrench

For more on 7 Days to Die, check out how to sleep and whether you actually need to do it in this survival game.


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