Magazines Guide

When read in abundance, Skill Magazines allows you to unlock new crafting recipes and increase weapon and tool quality in 7 Days to Die. Though these valuable items appear randomly, it's worth trying to track down as many as possible. With that in mind, here's our guide to Skill Magazines including information on how to find them, and what they do.

• How and Where to Find Magazines
• Perks that Improve Magazine Spawn Rate
• List of All Magazines

How and Where to Find Magazines

Unlike Perk Books, Skill Magazines offer only a single point placed toward a Crafting Skill. You start each game with one skill point already in a skill. You need to find and read Magazines to increase your Skill Level over time. Some skills max out at 100 or 75, meaning you'll need to track down a lot of Magazines.

Skill Magazines appear randomly in lootable items. Trash piles, crates, cabinets, and other containers, for example, can have Magazines.

There are ways to increase your chances of finding Magazines. As with books, try searching areas where you'd normally expect some kind of reading material.

Magazines are commonly found in:

• Mailboxes
• Bookcases
• Book piles
• Filing cabinets
• Desks
• Newspaper Dispensers

There are many places to find Magazines. Crack-A-Book stores found in cities typically contain many Magazines and Books to loot. You can also find more magazines in pawn shops and schools. Magazines will also be offered as quest rewards from Traders.

You may also find a Crafting Magazine Skill Bundle, which appears as a crate. They give you three random Skill Magazines and can be found while looting or offered as quest rewards.

Some Magazines are also more common based on the magazine type and the respective area in which they're found. For example, Home Cooking Weekly, a magazine that unlocks food recipes, is more common in kitchens. Forge Ahead, a magazine that unlocks workstations such as the Workbench, is likely to be found in containers in garages or gas stations or Destroyed Workbenches and Destroyed Forges.

Perks that Improve Magazine Spawn Rate

Leveling up and placing points into certain Perks can improve your odds of finding respective Skill Magazines. The Advanced Engineering perk, for example, increases your chances of finding the Handy Land, Forge Ahead, and Wiring 101 magazines while looting.

List of All Magazines

There are 23 Skill Magazine series in 7 Days to Die. Reading a magazine will add a point to a related Crafting Skill and then be removed from your inventory.