Car Battery

Car Battery
General
Item Type	Tool
Wintermute	No
Statistics
Weight	15 kg (33 lbs)
Harvest	30 min 6 x Scrap Lead with a Hacksaw

"Useless in the abandoned vehicles around Great Bear Island, car Batteries can still be Harvested for Scrap Lead."

— In-game description

Car Batteries are a crafting item in The Long Dark.

Overview

Car Batteries may be harvested for 30 minutes with a Hacksaw for Scrap Lead, which is an ingredient to craft ammunition with the Gunsmithing skill. One Car Battery will always yield six Scrap Lead; each piece of Scrap Lead may be crafted into six Bullets, so one Car Battery always allows the crafting of 36 Bullets.

They are the heaviest object in the game, weighing 15kg (33lbs). Their weight can be greatly reduced by harvesting them with a hacksaw for 6x Scrap Lead, required for crafting bullets at the Ammunition Workbench. It takes 30 minutes to harvest a car battery.

For players that have the Tales from the Far Territory DLC installed, one car battery will be needed to fix each Transmitter. These batteries sometimes spawn near the transmitting stations, but may have to be looted from nearby vehicles.

Products

												Item	Skills	Materials
												Scrap Lead	None	1 ×  Car Battery

Tips

Eventually all Hunting Rifle and Revolver ammunition will become depleted; crafting is the only way to obtain more ammunition.

• Car Batteries may be found by lifting the hoods of cars and trucks. Not all vehicles have batteries, only ~50% will have one. At least on Interloper mode you should be prepared to haul car batteries from other maps to transmitters you want to repair.
• They weigh 15kg, but can be harvested with a Hacksaw into 6 pieces of Scrap Lead weighing just 1.5kg. A convenient and safe way harvest Car Batteries is inside of their vehicle.
• In prior versions, Car Batteries and Scrap Lead were useless on Interloper difficulty because firearms never spawn. This was changed with the introduction of Transmitters.
  • They are still useless in Wintermute episodes 1, 2, 3, and 4 because there is no Ammunition Workbench.
• Car Batteries and Scrap Lead are finite and non-renewable.

Trivia

• The Errant Pilgrim update introduced Gunsmithing.
• 12-Volt Lead-acid car batteries have 6 cells inside (2 volts per cell), which is why a car battery can be harvested for 6 pieces of scrap lead (one per cell).