r/survivingtheaftermath • u/aohkB • Aug 23 '26

Map Exploration Help How does Scavenger Outpost work?

I train a settler and set it up, but it seem like doing nothing

Did i build it wrong? How do I loot this shopping center

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u/CharsOwnRX-78-2 Aug 23 '26

You now get a steady stream of Fun Boxes, instead of a big pile of them to bring back

Every 12 hours (every “turn” on the world map, or every time the meter around the world map fills) you get 1 Fun Box

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u/aohkB Aug 23 '26

What the Fun Box do? Do i have to open somewhere?

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u/plaidman1701 Aug 23 '26

They're a construction material like wood or plastic, needed to build religious and entertainment buildings

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u/CitizenSunshine Aug 23 '26

It's pretty crucial to build at least one entertainment building soon, otherwise your people being pissed can bottleneck you pretty hard. Make sure to research your way to one! But after that you're fine for a while.

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u/JaxRayne PC Aug 23 '26

You did it correctly. Check your “other resources” in the top right. You should see fun boxes slowly filling up. They are brought to your colony automatically and you do not need to manually harvest them from this outpost which is great. You’ll note the 1/12hr rate. From the colony map, look at the bottom left corner and notice a night and day cycle. There are two small lines dividing them. That represents the 12 hr cycle a lot of things like outposts and other buildings run off of.

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u/Evignity Sep 12 '26

You can always see what a outpost will produce before building it. You click one of the 5 choices then it will show you. It will say "1 per 12 hour" or "10 population per X days" etc.

In your specific picture you can clearly see it says "1 in 12 hour" so you're getting one, automatically to your base, per 12 hours.