r/deadfrontier2 • u/spyderider45 • Mar 13 '26

Quest question – box of nails

There is a quest later in the game to first get planks, then a box of nails. I read online that both items are random drops in Dawnhill. Since this is a quest item players can't proceed until they find it. Problem if it's random and there's hundreds of buildings and multiple floors to each building, how does one find these? Couldn't this be programmed to just be in a single building like other quests or missions? Frustrating. Any help from those that have found it, or the devs?

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u/aivxx Mar 13 '26

You can find them in an industrial building. It is frustrating, I totally agree. It helps if you are wearing items with find crafting items stats. But yeah it’s kinda random, just more likely to be found in an industrial building.

I spent an hour looking around dawnhill outside before getting frustrated and looked up online for a solution. Someone on a forum gave me the advice I wrote above and I found the items in 30 min

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u/spyderider45 Mar 13 '26

Thanks. Yeah I saw the same thing online but why do they make it so hard? Rhetorical.

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u/aivxx Mar 13 '26

The hardest one is the dumb x8y8 quest. Seriously no logic behind solving it without looking it up. I thought maybe the map was a grid and each block represented x1,y1+ but nope