Death Stranding 2: How To Farm Metal

If you wish to craft most of the powerful gear and equipment in Death Stranding 2, you need to farm Metal.

Death Stranding 2 balances its traversal and combat loops perfectly, allowing you to indulge in both gameplay elements in equal measures. To help improve your performance in both, the game provides you with a ton of tools and enhancements, a good chunk of which require you to engage with the game’s crafting system. 

Death Stranding 2 has a detailed crafting system that allows you to craft weapons, skeletons, back protectors, backpack accessories, vehicles, and more. As you go about crafting all of these tools to get stronger, you’ll find yourself in need of Metal. No, not the music. Actual Metal, which can be difficult to obtain, especially when you take the lack of handholding the game does. 

If you take a peek at your inventory, you’ll find Metal in it, but you would probably have no clue how it got there. If you’re looking to farm this precious resource to craft new gear, we’re here to help.

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How To Farm Metal in Death Stranding 2

You find Metal in a multitude of ways in Death Stranding 2. The first of these ways is through MULE and Brigand camps in the game. As you go about exploring the map, you’ll find tons of these camps scattered about. Clear out the camps and you’ll find stocks of Metal inside. 

When you’re inside the camps, also take a peek inside the camp postboxes. These are large cubicle-like structures that hold cargo. Interact with the postboxes and you can see their inventory. You’ll find a good supply of Metal inside all of these, which you can then load onto your vehicle. Make sure to keep inventory space free in your vehicles to carry as much of the Metal cargo as you possibly can. 

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What Is Metal Used For in Death Stranding 2

As stated earlier, Metal is an essential crafting resource used for crafting a variety of items. If you have sufficient metal, you can use it to craft equipment such as the Assault Rifle Lvl 1, Machine Gun Lvl 1, Machine Gun Lvl 2, Shotgun Lvl 1, Shotgun Lvl 2, the Tri-Cruiser, and much more. Each of these resources will require you to invest about 100 Metal on average, so make sure to raid as many enemy camps as you can to stay sufficiently stocked up at all times.

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