WARDOGS Mechanical Parts: What the Supply Type Is Actually For

Of WARDOGS’ four FOB supply types — build, ammo, fuel, mechanical — the last one is the least understood, because the game never tells you what it does. New players see “MECHANICAL SUPPLIES” in a shop list, assume it is a spare-parts flavour item, and leave it at zero. It is not decoration: it is the resource the repair station runs on, and an FOB with an empty mechanical counter cannot heal a single vehicle.

This page is the item-level answer. The hauling route — how a crate physically travels from the main base to a forward FOB — already lives in our logistics guide; what follows is what the counter is for, what it says on the card, and what it costs.

Source and Verification Card

Quick Tips — How To Get Mechanical Supplies in Wardogs (52-second menu walkthrough) — YouTube

Quick Tips — How To Get Mechanical Supplies in Wardogs (52-second menu walkthrough)

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Step 1: Read the Item Card — It States the Purpose

This is the single screen that settles the question, and it is buried two menus deep.

Step 1 (Timestamp: 0:38) — Three lines that answer the whole search query: it is a resource, it is required to repair vehicles, and it only works inside an FOB radius. The $0 per item is the test-range price, not the real one.

Two things worth noticing. First, the card calls it a resource, not an item you ever hold in your hands — you cannot “use” mechanical supplies the way you use a wrench. Second, the 0.03 kg weight is why a backpack run is viable at all: 50 units ride along in one inventory slot.

Step 2: Open the Logistics Tab of a Supply Vehicle

The shop is not the equipment vendor. It is the garage/vendor screen of a vehicle that can carry cargo, opened inside the friendly base radius.

Step 2 (Timestamp: 0:13) — The prompt is on the vehicle, not on a building. SAFE ZONE is printed at the top of the screen: this only works inside the friendly circle.

The same screen carries the vehicle’s own state: ROTARY VEHICLE / seat count / LOCKED with the owner’s name, exactly as on our vehicle purchase page.

Step 3: Buy It as a Crate or as a Pallet

Inside the vendor, the LOGISTICS header splits into CRATES and PALLETS — two different delivery vehicles for the same resource.

Step 3 (Timestamp: 0:28) — The card states the business model outright: “Small deployable supply crate that allows the owner to sell its contents to others.” 24 slots, unarmored, and it bursts on a hard fall. On the right, the LOGISTICS SLOTS FULL warning — the truck needs room before a crate is worth buying.

Step 3 (Timestamp: 0:33) — The CRATES sub-tab and its eight-step panel: buy a crate, load stock into it, set a markup, drive to the control zone, deploy, and let your team buy the contents back out of you.

And this is where all of it has to end up:

Step 3 (Timestamp: 0:23) — And this is the destination: build supplies stacked under the arch, the truck’s BUY AMMO / SUPPLIES prompt on the tailgate, the FOB marker on the open map. Mechanical supplies do nothing outside this circle.

Watch the crate and pallet tabs (0:23) · Watch the pallet row (0:33)

Step 4: Understand the Gate — Support Level, Not Cash

The same Logistics screen shows why beginners cannot buy everything they see.

Step 4 (Timestamp: 1:04) — Two locks in one screen: a large hammer behind Support level 3 and another Logistics item behind Support level 8. The cargo panel on the right counts CRATE SLOTS and prints a POTENTIAL PROFIT figure for the load you are configuring.

Filter chips across the top: RECOMMENDED · TACTICAL · BUILDING · RECON · VEHICLE · MEDICAL. Prices in this recording are discounted figures — every card carries a −50% badge, so treat the printed number as half of a list price at best.

Step 5: Get It Into the FOB Stockpile

Buying is the easy half; the resource has to physically arrive.

Step 5 (Timestamp: 0:44) — This is the object the whole supply system hangs off. You place it once, and every counter in this article is read from its screen.

Step 5 (Timestamp: 0:30) — “LARGE HAMMER // BUILDS SUPPLIES // ON BUILDINGS” with a live supply tally: construction spends the build counter, which is why the four supply types are tracked separately.

Delivery is documented step by step in the FOB building guide and the logistics guide. The short version: crates are bought out of by anyone who reaches them, pallets are handed in by holding F inside the circle, and both explode if you drop them too fast or too high.

Step 6: What the Stockpile Buys You

Two sinks, one confirmed and one reported:

Mechanical Supplies Reference

Rules of Thumb

1. Stop treating it as a spare-parts prop. The card names a job: vehicle repair.
2. Fill it to a floor, not to a cap. The counter exists to keep the repair station and the drone launcher alive — see the vehicles guide for what runs on both.
3. Buy crates if you want paying, pallets if you want volume. The economics are worked through in the money-making guide.
4. Drop slow and low. Both our crate and pallet tooltips carry the same warning: destroyed by high-speed impacts, roughly 60 km/h.
5. Do not trust a $0 you saw in a shop. Neither the ammo page nor this page can price its item, for the same reason.

The mechanical supplies card, the crate and pallet tabs, the small crate tooltip, the Support-level locks, the cargo and profit panel, the FOB laptop and the construction HUD were read off screen in three Quick Tips recordings — the 52-second mechanical supplies clip, the FOB build walkthrough and the repair-station walkthrough. Prices per unit, the $10-for-50 conversion, pallet totals, the four-type priority ranking and the drone’s parts bill come from Mattzila 999’s 22-minute supplies commentary, used as a text source only because that video carries burned-in captions and none of its footage appears here. Early Access rebalances supply costs without warning — re-read the Logistics tab after each patch.