Faction

A Faction is a player-run group that shares progression, production, storage, activities and raids. It allows members with different Skills to specialise, work together and contribute to group goals.

Joining or creating a faction

Use the faction area in the City to browse factions, view their profiles and apply. Creating and managing a faction requires more resources and responsibility than joining one, so a new player may find it easier to learn within an established group.

Faction pages

The faction menu is divided into several areas:

• Base contains the faction's buildings, shared production and upgrades.
• Activities lists cooperative faction activities for members.
• The Raids page lets members form teams whose combined skills determine their chance of success.
• Legacy provides a permanent faction specialisation once its requirements are met.
• Bulletin Board is the faction's private forum.
• The Logs page records faction actions and is also where authorised members handle applications.

Open the Camp building on the Base to see members, roles and each member's current Worker Efficiency. Roles control permissions such as managing individual buildings, accepting applications and handling shared resources.

Faction workers

Faction workers are players assigned to a faction production building. They are not the survivor NPCs managed from your Stronghold. Buildings such as the Farm, Distillery and Large Furnace have worker slots that members can join.

Worker slots begin locked on many buildings. Upgrading the building unlocks or increases its displayed worker capacity. When a slot is available, open the building and select Join. Your assignment remains in place between production jobs until you leave or an authorised member removes you.

You can only hold one faction building assignment at a time. To move to another building, leave your current assignment first. You cannot leave, or be removed by a manager, while that building has a job in progress. Raid team slots use a separate assignment group, so joining a raid does not replace your normal faction-building job.

Workers and skills

Each worker building is linked to one player skill. That skill controls how much the worker contributes to the building's Team Efficiency.

Faction building	Worker role	Skill used
Distillery	Distiller	Distilling
Refinery	Refiner	Refining
Farm	Farmer	Farming
Brick Factory	Crafter	Crafting
Quarry	Miner	Mining
Large Furnace	Forger	Forging
Temple	Refiner	Refining

A worker's contribution is calculated from their current level in the building's skill and their Worker Efficiency:

Skill level × Worker Efficiency ÷ 10 = individual Team Efficiency bonus

For example, a member with level 60 Farming at 100% Worker Efficiency contributes +6% in the Farm. At 60% Worker Efficiency, the same member contributes +3.6%. The contributions from all assigned workers are added together and displayed as the building's Team Efficiency.

Team Efficiency shortens the building's crafting timer. A +10% team bonus reduces a one-hour base job to approximately 54 minutes. It does not reduce the recipe's material cost.

Gaining skill XP as a worker

When a qualifying timed production job completes, every member assigned to that building receives skill XP in its linked worker skill. The award is based on the job's base duration and number of completed iterations: approximately 1 skill XP per minute, rounded up.

This means it is useful to match members to buildings that train skills they want to develop. Improving that skill also increases their contribution to future jobs in the same building.

Worker Efficiency and activity

Worker Efficiency measures recent player activity and scales both the skill contribution and Scrapnote contribution of an assigned worker. It is shown in the Camp's member list.

Full days inactive	Worker Efficiency
Less than 1 day	100%
1 day	80%
2 days	60%
3 days	40%
4 days	20%
5 days or more	0%

An inactive member remains assigned and continues to occupy a worker slot even when their contribution reaches 0%. Returning to the game restores their efficiency.

Scrapnote multiplier

Worker skill level affects job speed, but the Scrapnote Multiplier is based on Worker Efficiency instead. The building starts at 1× and adds up to 1× for each fully efficient worker. For example, three workers at 100% efficiency produce a 4× Scrapnote multiplier. An 80% efficient worker adds 0.8×.

This multiplier applies to Scrapnotes produced by the faction job; it does not multiply the other recipe outputs.

Managing workers

Members can remove themselves with the × button beside their name when the building is idle. A role with permission to manage that specific building can also remove other workers. Good worker management means:

• Assigning members whose linked skill is high or who want to train it.
• Keeping worker slots filled with active members.
• Moving workers between buildings when the faction's production priorities change.
• Avoiding a worker change immediately before a needed job, because assignments are locked while production is running.

Raids

Raids are instant faction jobs completed by a full team of faction members. They can award Influence to the faction and loot and skill XP to every participant. The Raids page groups the available targets by their skill requirements and shows each raid's team size, cooldown, setup cost, combined skill targets, possible rewards and current failure risk.

Setting up and joining

• A member with the Manage Raids permission can set up a raid. Any setup items are taken immediately from faction storage.
• The member who sets up the raid is added to its team automatically if they are not on raid cooldown or assigned to another raid.
• Any eligible faction member can open a pending raid and select Join. A player cannot join while on raid cooldown or while assigned to another raid.
• A participant can leave before the raid starts. A member with Manage Raids can remove participants.
• The raid owner or a member with Manage Raids can cancel a pending raid. Cancelling returns its reserved setup items to faction storage.
• When every required team space is filled, the raid is Ready and can be started.

Success chance and failure risk

For a skill-based raid, the team members' levels in every listed skill are added together. The contribution of each skill is capped at that skill's requirement, then all covered levels are divided by all required levels to calculate the success chance. Failure risk is 100% minus that success chance.

For example, a raid requiring Hunting 50 and Farming 50 has 100 required levels in total. A team with Hunting 50 and Farming 25 covers 75 levels, giving it a 75% success chance and 25% failure risk. Extra Hunting cannot compensate for missing Farming after the Hunting requirement has been fully covered. Raids with no skill requirement have a 100% success chance once their team is full.

Outcomes and cooldowns

On success, the faction receives the displayed Influence roll. Every participant receives the same rolled item loot in their main inventory and each displayed skill XP award. A successful raid also has a one-in-three chance of a critical result: one randomly selected participant receives 2× or 3× the normal skill XP.

On failure, no Influence, loot or skill XP is awarded. Every participant is hospitalised for the raid's rolled recovery time. A raid cooldown is applied to every participant after either a success or a failure; it does not prevent other faction members from raiding. The report records the result, chance, team skill totals, participants, rewards and any critical XP recipient.

Current raids

Raid cards show exact item chances; possible loot is a summary.

Raid	Team size	Participant cooldown	Combined skill requirements	Influence reward	Skill XP per participant	Possible item loot
Raid Farm	2	1 hour	None	20–50	35 Farming XP	Barley Seeds Dirty Water Water Mixed Vegetables Animal Meat
Raid Hospital	3	5 hours	None	120–300	200 Refining XP	Bandage Morphine Small Med Kit Med Kit Tincture
Raid Store	4	20 hours	None	440–1,100	350 Distilling XP	50–150 Canned Food Beer or Vodka
Raid Homestead	3	1 hour	Hunting 50 Farming 50	30–55	40 Farming XP	2–4 Barley Seeds
Raid Grain Silo	3	1 hour	Hunting 100 Farming 100	35–60	45 Farming XP	4–8 Barley Seeds Cement
Raid Granary	3	20 hours	Hunting 100 Farming 150	500–1,150	500 Farming XP	50–100 Barley Seeds Brick Rebar
Raid Workshop	4	1 hour	Hunting 50 Refining 50	20–50	40 Refining XP	25–100 Scrap Salvaged Tech
Raid Refinery	4	20 hours	Hunting 150 Refining 100	500–1,150	350 Refining XP	50–100 Scrap Oil
Raid Factory	4	20 hours	Hunting 150 Refining 150	500–1,150	600 Refining XP	100–250 Scrap Car Parts Fuel Container
Raid Bar	4	1 hour	Hunting 50 Distilling 50	30–55	40 Distilling XP	2–3 Dirty Water Beer or Vodka
Raid Supplies	4	1 hour	Hunting 100 Distilling 100	35–60	45 Distilling XP	3–5 Dirty Water Beer or Vodka
Raid Brewery	3	20 hours	Hunting 200 Distilling 200	440–1,100	350 Distilling XP	Beer Vodka, ZedBull or Water
Raid Weapons Depot	4	20 hours	Hunting 125 Scavenging 100	440–1,100	75 Hunting XP 75 Scavenging XP	Revolver L96 Sawnoff
Raid Infested Prison	4	20 hours	Hunting 150 Scavenging 150	550–1,250	150 Hunting XP 150 Scavenging XP	25–50 Zed Juice
Raid Military Stronghold	3	20 hours	Hunting 300 Scavenging 300	650–1,300	1,000 Hunting XP 1,000 Scavenging XP	Zed Juice weapons Lead Lined equipment

Setup costs: Raid Infested Prison: 1 Mechanic Wrench from faction storage. Raid Military Stronghold: 2 Mechanic Wrenches from faction storage.

Faction Legacy

Faction-wide decision

Accepting or switching a legacy spends 10% of the faction's current Influence. Switching also removes the current faction-wide perk immediately, so confirm the choice with your faction first.

A legacy is one permanent faction-wide specialisation at a time. The Legacy page unlocks when the faction has at least 50,000 Influence and 10 members. Only the faction leader can accept or switch a legacy.

Accepting a legacy costs 10% of the faction's current Influence—5,000 Influence when first available at exactly 50,000. Switching uses the same rule, removes the old perk and immediately activates the new one. The selected legacy is displayed in the faction header, and its stat bonus applies to faction members while it remains active. Every legacy also unlocks Scrapnotes as an available production reward.

Legacy	Faction-wide benefit
Hunters	+25% Hunting XP gain
Industrialists	+10% Worker Efficiency
Survivalists	+20 Max Rad Immunity
Traders	−2 percentage points Market Tax
Warlords	+5% Strength and +5% Defense

Faction buildings

Open a building in-game to see its recipes, worker capacity and upgrade costs.

Image	Building	Purpose
	Large Furnace	Smelt and shape advanced materials
	Camp	Rest and regroup with fellow faction members
	Temple	Gather for religious activities and rituals
	Distillery	Distil and brew useful supplies
	Refinery	Salvage, refine and reuse valuable materials
	Storage	Stockpile and share faction supplies
	Farm	Grow crops and keep the faction supplied
	Brick Factory	Produce materials for construction and defence
	Quarry	Extract raw materials from the earth

Contributing effectively

• Ask which resources, buildings and worker roles the faction currently needs.
• Develop a production or gathering skill that complements other members.
• Check your Worker Efficiency and change assignments if another building would benefit more from your skills.
• Read activity and raid requirements before joining.
• Treat shared storage as a group resource and follow the faction's rules.