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. Cut up the sheet.
• 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
• springs - disassemble car seats
• nails - burn down a house. Nails will survive.
• antibiotics (weak/strong/normal) - the back room in pharmacies will fairly-reliably have these.
• books - libraries/bookstores. Houses.
• 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
• tailor kits - clothing stores have a chance to have these