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To expand on the reply above me:

Specialist components like hardened metal, treated wood and heavy fabric can only be found through weapons and gear. Try searching for these in the Stadium, Canal, and Trenton areas and recycle any gear or weapons you find that aren't useful. Hardened Metal will be found in any gun or melee item that is green or above. Treated Wood will be in wood-based weapons like cricket bats or guitars. You can find these in residences in the Stadium area. Heavy fabric will be found by recycling any clothing item or cloth gear like vests, bandoliers and harnesses.

For regular components, you can search in Offices and Warehouses. These will give you junk items you can recycle or the components themselves, and in very large quantities.

For building resources:
All these locations will be given a rating of 1-10 on the abundance of resources. 1 means very little, either in recycling or very rarely. 10 means a guaranteed find and heavy amounts of it, both raw and recyclable:

Large Hardware Store: Wood-9, Metal-10, Cloth-7
Department Store:

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Department Store: Wood-2, Metal-2, Cloth-10
Construction Site: Wood-8, Metal-8, Cloth-3
Office: Wood-2, Metal-2, Cloth-1
Residence: Wood-2, Metal-3, Cloth-5
Store: Wood-3, Metal-4, Cloth-4
Street: Wood-2, Metal-3, Cloth-1
Highway: Wood-1, Metal-2, Cloth-1
Hospital: Wood-1, Metal-2, Cloth-5

For food and water, try:

Large Supermarket: Food-10, Water-10
Hospital: Food-5, Water-5
Residence: Food-7, Water-5
Store: Food-4, Water-4
Streets/Subways: Food-3, Water-3
Anywhere Else: Food-2, Water-1

For weapons and gear, try:
Gun Stores, Police Stations, Security, Military Bases, Streets, Subways, Highways, and sometimes Hospitals and Residences.

Now for some tactics.
-Try to give your scavengers something to improve their skills, like a vest or gloves.
- Always try to give them a high RoF weapon with decent damage, so they can move quickly and attack quickly as well.
-Don't give them heavy weapons as they will be easily interrupted when scavenging and a liability on your other survivors.
-If you are running a mission to an area that is close to the level of your survivors or higher, give your survivors green weapons/gear or higher. Unless you are farming XP, don't use grey or black weapons.
-In these scenarios, have 3-5 survivors on the mission to back up your scavenger. My recommended is: 1 medic, 1 scavenger, 1 combat based (fighter,engineer,recon), and one or two back up scavengers or medics.
- Tell your scavenger to search as quickly as possible. Clear out zombies and loot the containers nearest to the spawns first so you don't get overwhelmed at the end of the mission, when you find that one container really far away with loads of zombies near it. Also do this to avoid being hit by zombies when your guy is searching, so he scavenges before the spawn. (If that makes sense)
Group your other survivors near him but not next to him so zombies don't attack him but not so far that he has no back up.
-Let your other survivors do the shooting so noise will attract spawned zombies away from your survivor and to them instead.
-In case your scavenger is attacked, leave the searching for later, first make him run away and to a survivor that can shoot the zombies down. You don't want an injured scavenger not allowing you to run missions. Scavengers can fight well if they must, but fighters don't scavenge well.
-If your scavenger is overwhelmed or there is a red rush and he can't move, rush a survivor near him to clear a way for him to escape, but do it fast, or he's dead. Vests are recommended, especially the scavenger subtype.
-Keep a scavenger spare if you have any. So if one is busy and there are many containers to search, you can search faster, and have more firepower. No point in retraining others to become extra scavengers if you only have 1 or 2.
-If a medic or combatant is incapacitated, don't wait for everyone else to run out of health. Go ahead if you can handle the mission or you are nearly done anyway, but if a red rush occurs or your guys are dropping like flies, get out as quick as possible.
-If there are too many to let you move, at least get one survivor to the exit zone so you don't fail the mission.

Hope this helps, and sorry if this is stuff you already knew or it doesn't help. And sorry for the wall of text.

Guys... soz for different subject... but don't you think con should make trading free... I played for 2 days straight... 13 hours a day, I started to like the idea of trading... then it costs fuel, which sucks. Fuel for trading is the worst idea Con could have EVER had D: it completely ruins the game.......... The game would be more fun if you could trade freely, people would get what they want and build their compound up to its peak with trading for free... why oh why do you make it cost.

@goodbody02 if trading were free, other problems could arise. For example, if someone made an alt account with their main at level 50, they could constantly send resources to their alt account to give them an advantage. Low level players get much less fuel, so this restricts their trading. Also, at high levels, it's incredibly easy to get more than 500+ fuel per week if you are constantly looting daily, generating fuel and raiding, so it doesn't become an issue later on.

Any recommendations on where to look for insulation? Thanky

I've been targeting the following, but only finding a low % in them.. Maybe need certain zones or something:
Hardware Store
Large Hardware Store
Small Warehouse
Warehouse

Hi. Looking specifically for rags. Also the other small items needed in research. Any ideas would be appreciated. Rags appear to be random, and why I would need junk to perform research in production and other areas I don't know, but what is, is.

how do you get rushes cause i dont know how to get one

why i don't get loots when i am back after achievement of a mission ???!!!