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Slice a pearl in half, and you’ll find thousands of layers of precious materials formed around a core. Break one of these apart, and who knows what’ll pop out?
Found in
Dumpster Pearls can be found in containers (Pneumatic Deposit Boxes, the trunks of Abandoned Squires, Box Trucks, ARDA Investigators, Payloads, and mundane Dumpsters), harvested from Beach Balls, or dropped by Friendly Dumpsters. They are more common in the Mid Zone and Deep Zone and are also more likely to spawn as larger varieties there.
Use
This item can be put into the Matter Deconstructor to dispense a large amount of semi-random resources. Scrapping it with a Scrapper or Impact Hammer or their upgraded versions does work, but significantly reduces the amount of items dropped and takes a very long time (enough to deplete the durability of multiple tools).
Loot Manipulation
The items a pearl drops is affected by its status. The bigger the pearl, the more items it drops. All pearls can drop Scrap Metal, Steel Sheets, Paints, Decal Kits and Car Cosmetics.
| Pearl Status | Unique Drops | Obtained |
|---|---|---|
| Unreliable | Duct Tape, Plastic, Glass Shards, 9v Batteries, | Found (common), or by using the correct repair kits on Burned Out, Cracked, or Oxidized pearls |
| Peculiar | Tools and Repair Kits, plus Unreliable drops | Found (rare) |
| Burned Out | Special Drop Table | Found (uncommon) |
| Charged | Plasma, Rubber, Gas Cylinders, | Drop any pearl near an arc emitted by a Spark Tower (other electrical anomalies do not work) |
| Cracked | Copper Wire, Pressurized Cartridges, Bulbs | Use Impact Hammer on any pearl (may cause Oxidized instead) |
| Oxidized | Fabric, Chemicals, First Aid Kits, Repair Putty | Expose a pearl to an explosion, such as from a Liberator or Tourist (may cause Cracked instead) |
| Wet | Electronics, Circuit Boards, Copper Wire, Bulbs | Drop any pearl in a body of water (rain does not work) |
Burned Out Drop Table
Burned Out pearls can drop any of the following: Plasma, Lead Platelets, ThermoSap Crystals, Marsh Eggs, Tree Candy, Swamp Coral, LIM Magnets, Explosives, Red Balloons, Olympium Fragments, Gears, Bulbs, Circuit Boards, Carbonfiberglass, and LIM Chips. However, they will only start dropping a resource once the player has been to the biome in which it can naturally be found (i.e. you cannot receive Red Balloons or Olympium without going to the Deep Zone first).
Sources
- Steam Guide by Melalo
- Reddit Post by DaftMav
- Research By Pacific Drive Discord user Ax1007