Aluminum

Aluminum is a rare crafting material found in Generation Zero. It can be obtained from looting tanks, recycling ammunition, equipment, attachments and weapons and by dismantling certain building at the home base. Aluminum is used in crafting certain ammunitions like G79 Smoke Grenades, Smoke Rounds, and HCDP rounds. Additionally, it is used in crafting portable turrets and companion concussive plate armor. Aluminum is also used when building defenses, a station, or decorations at the home base.

Aluminum
Statistics
Weight	0.010
Weight	0.010
Type	Rare Crafting Material
Type	Rare Crafting Material

Recycling

Recycling ammunition

• Recycling the following items grants 1 aluminum each:
  • 1 G78 Smoke Grenade
  • 1 Smoke Round

• ? aluminum is granted when recycling:
  • ? Highly corrosive dual-purpose round?

recycling equipment

• 2 aluminum is granted when recycling:
  • 1 Portable Machine Gun Turret

• 5 aluminum is granted when recycling:
  • 1 Portable Homing Turret

recycling attachments

• Recycling the following grants 1 aluminum each:
  • vision modules
  • A ?-5 crown flamethrower tank (4-5 crown)
  • A ?-5 crown Volkov extended magazine (3-5 crown)
  • A ?-5 crown AG 5 extended magazine
  • A ?-5 crown 1-4x rifle scope

recycling weapons

• Recycling a COM-10 SMG (3 for 5 crown) yields ?-3 aluminum.
• Recycling a Vintovka 1891 (4 for 3-5 crown) yields ?-4 aluminum.
• Recycling a M/46 "Kpist" SMG (4 for 6 crown) yields ?-4 aluminum.
• Recycling a Resistance Heavy Bow (4 for 6 crown) yields ?-4 aluminum.
• Recycling a Kvm 89 Squad Automatic Weapon (4 for 5 crown) yields ?-4 aluminum.
• Recycling a Klaucke 17 (2 for 5 crown) yields ?-2 aluminum.

Looting

Tanks may drop aluminum.

Uses

Crafting

Crafting ammunition

• 2 Aluminum is used to craft:
  • 1 G79 Smoke Grenade
  • 1 Smoke Round
• 8 Aluminum is used to craft:
  • ? Highly corrosive dual-purpose Round?

Crafting equipment

• 4 Aluminum is used to craft:
  • 1 portable Machine Gun Turret
• 10 Aluminum is used to craft:
  • 1 Portable Homing Turret

Crafting apparel

• ?

crafting companion armor

• Aluminum is required to craft the standard, improved, superior and exceptional variants of the concussive plate armor. the amounts are 9 for the standard-, 11 for the improved-, 14 for the superior- and 19 for the exceptional variant.

Building

• 1 aluminum is used to build:
  • The Hunter War Trophy decoration
  • The Tank War Trophy decoration
  • The Runner War Trophy decoration
  • The Tick War Trophy decoration
• 2 aluminum is to build:
  • The Recycling Station
• 4 aluminum is used to build :
  • The Resistance sniper tower