Good sources of items

This page lists good places in the game to obtain items. These are easy to access, reliable, or have enough of something to make them a particularly-useful source of the thing.

• Rags - Smash or tear down windows of houses with curtains, and cut up the sheet. Smash couches and beds.
• Thread - Smash or tear down windows of houses with curtains. You'll obtain a long string. Disassemble this into small strings, and small strings into thread. Disassembling strings into thread is much faster than disassembling rags into thread.
• Rope - Remove seat belts in cars. Smash hay bales in farms for cordage.
• Springs - Disassemble car seats.
• Nails - Burn down a house, the nails will survive. Smash furniture made of wood. Also check abandoned houses or hardware stores.
• Rocks - Smash boulders in the wilderness. Burn down a house, the rocks will survive.
• Antibiotics (weak/strong/normal) - The back room in pharmacies will fairly reliably have these.
• Books - Libraries/bookstores. Houses. Textbooks can be found in schools.
• Salt water (useful for oxidizer powder for mutagen) - Some swamp map tiles will have pools of salt water; each is an unlimited source of salt water.
• Alcoholic beverages - Liquor stores often have kegs of various types of alcohol in their back room, plus what's out front. Bars.
• Tailor kits - Clothing stores have a chance to have these.
• Blades - Disassemble lawnmowers.
• Leather - Cut up leather clothing from clothing stores, or closets in houses.
• Nomex - Cut up firefighter gear.
• Kevlar - Cut up solider gear.
• Pipes - Smash Lockers, outdoor clotheslines, as well as certain furniture like display racks.
• Planks - Smash or disassemble wooden furniture. Cut down and saw trees into planks.
• Rubber hose - Smash refrigerators.
• Chunk of Steel - Smash (or have zombies smash) cars or smash metal furniture.
• Sheet Metal - Disassemble car parts, or smash certain metal furniture such as ovens.
• Copper Tubing - Smash toilets and sinks.
• Lead - Disassemble a car battery. Disassemble unwanted ammunition.
• Wire - Destroy chainlink fences.