Luxuries

Luxury items are scavenged from houses, buildings, stores, etc. and are stored at the Shelter as a way to offset morale losses. They are creature comforts and distractions, items that make allies forget about the horrors of survival.

Overview
All luxury items or morale bonuses contribute to a “stockpile” of positive morale that can balance any negative mood going around. Days where morale turns up negative can be offset by any “surplus” of good will from the player’s actions or collection of luxury items.

You can think of it like this – while having food should be enough to generate good will, it’s not – people expect to eat, it’s an imperative. As gross as it sounds, people don’t need to bathe to live, but after a few days of hiking to the nearest towns and being covered in zombie gore, a bar of soap is going to be more valuable to your allies than gold. However low the morale is at the Shelter that day, just having the small luxuries we’re used to can put things in perspective for the survivors – all might be lost, but at least you can still grab a cup of coffee and a hot shower, and that’s one less thing to worry about. Luxury items give people a way to forget about the horrors outside or their losses, so as long as they have toilet paper, a paperback, and a cigarette, their stress is kept to a minimum and the illusion of society is preserved for another day.

One great thing about luxury items is that if you have enough of them, you can take risks or make decisions that otherwise might cause people to get upset. In a way, they can “buy off” the negative reactions that people might have if someone you have a problem with “met an untimely end” in the field. As long as people have stuff, they generally placated and less likely to have a problem with your leadership. Of course, like all things, luxury items are going to take effort and risk to procure, and unlike food, they do not grow on trees. There are many types of luxury items with various levels of worth.

Luxury Item List
All values should be updated to reflect the changes in the Reanimated update.