You’ll spend a lot of your time in 7 Days to Die in the crafting menu making a large range of different items. Everything you need to craft is made up of different items. One crafting item you will need a lot of if you plan to build a base or fix up a vehicle is mechanical parts. This guide will show you how to get mechanical parts easily in 7 Days to Die, even if you are just starting out.
What Are Mechanical Parts?
Mechanical parts are one of the crafting items available in 7 Days to Die. This item is used to craft a range of different other things from weapons to furniture. The in-game description for the Mechanical Parts is: Small parts like sprockets, nuts and bolts.
Mechanical parts are mostly used in crafting vehicle parts and also furniture that requires moving parts like garage doors and traps.
The Best Way to Get Mechanical Parts in 7 Days to Die
The best way to get mechanical parts requires a tool. This tool is the wrench. It will be in your best interest to find a wrench anyway as that way you can find a bunch of other helpful resources such as springs. To find a wrench, search sinks inside houses and apartments. They are fairly common so your shouldn’t have too much trouble getting one. Now that you have a wrench, to get mechanical parts go and use the wrench to take apart broken down vehicles, air conditioners, washing machines and even office chairs. Basically any appliance you see can be broken down with the wrench to get mechanical parts.
Due to the fact that there are just so many car wrecks available you shouldn’t have too much trouble with mechanical parts once you go and venture out on the roads. You will have to stand pretty close to whatever you are taking apart. Just equip the wrench through the inventory window and hold down the left mouse button. you will see in the bottom left the items that you manage to get when you use the wrench on things. These will be immediately placed into your inventory.