Pacific Drive Resources Guide

Our Pacific Drive Resources Guide will show you where to get all of the important resources in the game and that best ways to farm them quickly when you need a lot of them in a hurry. 

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There are a whole bunch of resources in Pacific Drive that you need to have your hands on, so we've listed them all out below, as well as the various places you're most likely to get them and any tools you'll need. 

Scrap Metal

Scrap metal is the most basic resource in the game, and can be found in a variety of places. The easiest way to get it is to use a scrapper on random car parts that you come across, but you can also get it from the dumpster at the back of the workshop or in many early-game containers. 

• Abandoned Cars (use scrapper)
• Dumpster and Vehicle behind the Workshop
• Civilian Containers and Trunks

Duct Tape

Duct Tape is also essential to your survival in Pacific Drive, but it's not always easy to find. While your friendly dumpster can provide some when you're low, it's more reliable to find it out in the world. You can also get it from chopping up car parts with your scrapper, though it's rarer than scrap metal is. 

• Abandoned Cars (use scrapper)
• Dumpster and Vehicle behind the Workshop
• Civilian Containers and Trunks

Fabric

Another very basic resource. You can find fabric back at your base in the usual locations or in low-tier containers around the world in civilian structures like homes and gas stations. 

• Dumpster behind the Workshop
• Civilian Containers and Trunks

Rubber

Like many of the earliest available resources, Rubber is found in civilian locations all over the game, but can also be found when breaking down tires into their constituent parts with a Scrapper.

• Abandoned Cars (use Scrapper)
• Dumpster and Vehicle behind the Workshop
• Civilian Containers and Trunks

Plastic

Plastic takes the form of a cluster of square grey shapes and is another relatively easy find in most civilian locations. There's also a chance you'll get some from scraping car parts but it's a pretty rare drop. 

• Abandoned Cars (use Scrapper)
• Dumpster and Vehicle behind the Workshop
• Civilian Containers and Trunks

Glass Shards

Luckily, Glass is pretty common, and can be found anywhere you'd normally expect to find glass. Smash that glass tube with your impact hammer? Glass time. You can also get it from car parts like doors, and find it in most civilian containers around the game. 

• Scrapping Car Doors
• Dumpster and Vehicle behind the Workshop
• Smashing Plasma Generators with an impact hammer

9v Battery

Easily the rarest of the basic items, 9v Batteries are semi-rare drops in most civilian containers, but aren't typically available through scrapping of items (which makes sense.) That said, if you scrap important-looking ARDA equipment like receivers or computer terminals, you might find a few spitting out. 

• Civilian Containers and Trunks
• Scrapping ARDA Computers and Terminals

Electronics

Electronics are necessary for making advanced repair kits, so keep your eyes peeled. They appear in a lot of different ARDA containers, like the ones you'll find in outposts or research trailers. 

• ARDA containers and trunks (rare)
• Scrapping ARDA Computers and Terminals

Chemicals

Another key ingredient to various items you'll constantly require, chemicals can pretty reliably be found inside of those chainlink boxes inside ARDA trailers, but may also spawn rarely in other containers around the world. 

• ARDA chain lockers inside Research Trailers
• Rarely in other ARDA containers 

Gas Cylinder

Much like chemicals, the main place you can find Gas Cylinders is the ARDA research trailers that you find around the world, specifically in those same chain-link lockers. We've not come across these things anywhere else so far, but we'll keep looking. 

• ARDA chain lockers inside research trailers

Pressurized Cartridges

Making up the trifecta with Gas Cylinders and Chemicals, you'll find Pressurized Cartridges in those chain-link lockers inside ARDA resarch trailers. It's also possible you'll get these from the dumpster or other random containers, but so far they've not appeared for us. 

• ARDA chain lockers inside research trailers

Copper Wire

Copper Wire is mostly necessary for electronic development, but you can still find some relatively easily. Scrapping major electronics is one great way to get this item, but so is asking the friendly dumpster and smashing up Plasma Generators. 

• Scrapping ARDA Computers and Terminals
• Smashing Plasma Reactors with Impact Hammer
• Interact with the Friendly Dumpster

Plasma

Probably one of the easiest resources in the game to find, you can get plasma from any plasma generator (those blue glowing tubes that power trailers and spark towers.) If you see a spark tower or a trailer with a working generator, just smash it with your Impact Hammer and reap the plasma-based rewards. 

• Smashing Plasma Reactors with Impact Hammer

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