Engineer Magazine

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An Engineer Magazine is a literature item with 2 volumes.

Usage

The Engineer Magazines can be read, teaching the player crafting recipes about engineering various traps.

These recipes can also be learned during character creation by choosing the engineer occupation. Three of the recipes for engineered traps can only be learned by choosing the engineer occupation.

Learned recipes

Engineer Magazine Vol. 1

Make Noise Maker

Engineer Magazine Vol. 2

Make Smoke Bomb

Crafting

Engineer Magazine Vol. 1

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Noise Maker	Amplifier ×1 Scrap Electronics ×7	none	Electrical 3 (and) Engineer Magazine Vol.1	none	none

Engineer Magazine Vol. 2

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Smoke Bomb	Cold Pack ×1 Newspaper ×2 Ripped Sheets ×1	none	Engineer occupation (or) Engineer Magazine Vol.2	none	none

Distribution

The loot distributions can be found in the table(s) below.

EngineerMagazine1 distribution Show / Hide

Effective chance calculations are based off of default loot settings, and median zombie density. The higher the density of zombies in an area, the higher the effective chance of an item spawning. Chance is also influenced by the lucky and unlucky traits.

Containers
Building/Room	Container	Effective chance
Electrician	crate	6.29%
Electrician	metal_shelves	6.29%
all	postbox	0.71%
all	shelves	1.87%
all	shelvesmag	3.98%
bedroom	crate	3.98%
bookstore	shelves	6.29%
closet	crate	3.98%
closet	crate	6.29%
electronicsstorage	shelves	19.27%
electronicsstore	counter	19.27%
electronicsstore	shelves	19.27%
garagestorage	crate	3.98%
garagestorage	crate	6.29%
hall	shelvesmag	3.98%
kitchen	crate	3.98%
library	shelves	3.98%
livingroom	crate	3.98%
livingroom	shelves	1.87%
livingroom	sidetable	1.87%
office	shelves	1.87%
poststorage	crate	3.98%
poststorage	metal_shelves	3.98%
storageunit	crate	3.98%
storageunit	crate	6.29%
toolstore	counter	6.29%
toolstore	shelves	6.29%

Vehicles
Type	Container	Effective chance
Electrician	Glove Box	6.29%
Electrician	Trunk	6.29%
Postal	Trunk	2.81%

EngineerMagazine2 distribution Show / Hide

Effective chance calculations are based off of default loot settings, and median zombie density. The higher the density of zombies in an area, the higher the effective chance of an item spawning. Chance is also influenced by the lucky and unlucky traits.

Containers
Building/Room	Container	Effective chance
Electrician	crate	6.29%
Electrician	metal_shelves	6.29%
all	postbox	0.71%
all	shelves	1.87%
all	shelvesmag	3.98%
bedroom	crate	3.98%
bookstore	shelves	6.29%
closet	crate	3.98%
closet	crate	6.29%
electronicsstorage	shelves	19.27%
electronicsstore	counter	19.27%
electronicsstore	shelves	19.27%
garagestorage	crate	3.98%
garagestorage	crate	6.29%
hall	shelvesmag	3.98%
kitchen	crate	3.98%
library	shelves	3.98%
livingroom	crate	3.98%
livingroom	shelves	1.87%
livingroom	sidetable	1.87%
office	shelves	1.87%
poststorage	crate	3.98%
poststorage	metal_shelves	3.98%
storageunit	crate	3.98%
storageunit	crate	6.29%
toolstore	counter	6.29%
toolstore	shelves	6.29%

Vehicles
Type	Container	Effective chance
Electrician	Glove Box	6.29%
Electrician	Trunk	6.29%
Postal	Trunk	2.81%

Code

Code snippet! This section contains source code from Project ZomboidShow / Hide

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_literature.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item EngineerMagazine1
    {
        DisplayCategory = SkillBook,
        Weight	=	0.1,
        Type	=	Literature,
        DisplayName	=	Engineer Magazine Vol. 1,
        Icon	=	MagazineMechanics,
        TeachedRecipes  =   Make Noise Maker,
        ReplaceOnUse    =   EngineerMagazine1,
        StaticModel = Magazine,
        WorldStaticModel = MagazineEngi1Ground,
    }