Newb Question: CBM's

[ZombiesBeReady]

I have been playing this game for only a couple of hours altogether and I was wondering what the common place(if there is any)to find cmb’s was. I was also wondering about the power and such. I watched a youtuber and he found like all of the cbm’s in the same location in a mine. Thanks for the help

[Infotater]

I’ve always found most of my CBM’s in underground labs. But I have to say, as of version .3 I’ve not gotten ANY labs to spawn at all on my maps. I don’t know if this is a bug or if they were taken out.

[Caconym]

Labs, Military Bunkers, and Shocker Z’s (in 0.4 and with a high survival skill for butchering the corpses ) are the best sources.
Best to have High int(possibly boosted with drugs), high electronics, first aid and mechanics to have any reasonable success chance to install them.

[Soron]

Yeah, butchering shocker zombies is the main source I’ve found of CBMs. You’ll want survival at 3 or 4 before doing so, though.

Some CBMs are unpowered, so they’ll just work (armor plating, diamond cornea, that sort of thing). Other CBMs are powered, and will require both a form of internal power storage, and a way to charge that storage.

Shocker zombies are supposed to give you CBMs that increase your internal power storage, but due to a typo in 0.4 and earlier, they instead drop CBM: Battery System (which lets you eat batteries to charge your power). That’s been fixed in the git version, though, and the power storage/internal battery CBM has been renamed “CBM: Power Storage” to avoid similar issues in the future.

[KA101]

I don’t suppose they enabled the lightning-bolt CBM to go with the new CBM source? /whataretheodds

Yeah, Labs are by far the best source for CBMs as they can have both common stores and rare storage (rares only in the Finale, though, and that’s roughly a 1:3 chance). Mines, Sewage/Toxic facilities, and science corpses are other possible sources.