Building Materials & Supplies Guide 🔩 Fallout 4 No Mods Shop Class

Today's lesson answers a frequent question I get asked, "Where do you get all the building supplies you use in your settlements without mods?"
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[@SkooledZone]

Couple of quick notes: ❶ You can scrap weapons and armor through their respective workbenches without increasing the settlement size limit. This option isn't available in the regular workbench, which is why I forgot to mention it. ❷ If you see some colored flashes during the tips, those were supposed to be cool title cards that I built in After Effects. They didn't render properly in Premiere Pro for some reason and I didn't notice until the video had already been posted. Oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@MrNight-dg1ug]

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[@Dirtbag-Hyena]

Skooled Zone Also,mid-game,when you have decent money(for me anyway)Id buy all Moe's bats,especially bats that are upgraded,so you get wood,& other components, & the benches are right there to break them down.Also,when "shopping",especially in survival with no fast travel....Bring a companion. Who likes shopping alone anyway😉 Just my thoughts. And,did i mention,you'd make a great teacher🤔......Just say'n....Just say'n...... Take care, & good stuff as always

[@defechan7486]

I don't know about all platforms but on PC the auto scrapping when you want to craft, you don't always get all of those materials. Sometimes the excess is lost forever. Example would be if an item as 4 cloth and 1 asbestos and all you need is the asbestos as a material sometimes you get the cloth in the workshop sometimes when checking after the cloth just wasn't added after the use. Where as if you broke it down yourself the work shop will increase 1asbestos and your cloth would increase by 4 aswell. and then craft so you retain the 4 extra cloth. Late game probably no one cares, early on tho you may want to be that a.nal and make sure to break the stuff down beforehand.

[@zlungbutterz3307]

It's been shown that it takes some time for the unneeded components to show up in your stash, but they do eventually get there - not wasted.

[@reapergaming4563]

School zone helps me a lot when I'm playing Fallout 4

[@oaksparoakspar3144]

(1) All settlers are immortal to anything except your friendly fire. They better their weapons, the more damage they do. The better their armor, the longer it is before they "sit down." They don't use ammo, so only put one round in their inventory. Their aim is terrible. Full autos, miniguns and gatling lasers, and flame/plasma throwers work best. (2) For supply chains, you only need one connection to each settlement to connect them all. I normally hub them out of settlements that you cannot build up well. If you can wait until you finish the Mechanist Lair, you can connect every settlement you have from robots created in that one. This also prevents you from getting a Minuteman Quest that links to a settler you have moving around the map that you have to chase down. (3) Specific junk helps Adhesive - Get your glue factory going. Tato, Mutfruit, Corn, and the extra purified water you get from overbuilding water at your settlements. This becomes a great way to have more adhesive than you will ever use and generate XP. Antiseptic - sold by most doctors, this one is worth buying (along with blood bags and regular raids on the blood bank for blood bags). Crafting Stimpaks is much cheaper than buying them. Ballistic Fiber - Military Ammo Bags are commonly created by scavengers at scavenger stations. Worth buying for Lucas/KLEO to get your undergarments up to LV5. You won't need much, unless you are aiming for super-settlers. That said, your companions will be much more useful in some LV5 Army Fatigues/Baseball Uniform and a LV5 hat. Tons of protection and the ST boost from the garments increases their carry weight slightly. This is particularly true in Survival where keeping them up is more important. Circuitry - Hot Plates, Telephones, and the cards you often find on robots and in turrets. Playing through Automatron will likely add a lot. This is one worth having tagged if you have the perk that highlights them. Cloth - scrap piles of clothing, rags, hats, etc Concrete - After one of the expansions, almost every merchant carries shipments and it is one of the cheapest things to buy that way. Build more using concrete if you want your caps to go as far as possible. Crystal and Fiber Optics - go through the Jamaica Planes Treasure's laser grid disarming every one. Then reset them and do it again. You also get steel, but a few times through and you will be golden for your laser turrets forever. Save often. Fertilizer - you can get up to 3 fertilizer per settlement per day with 3 brahmin. Put down the tubs to keep them from wandering off and you can use cages to get them quick (better than buying them from the wandering girl). You can also put them as settlements with no settlers (normally they only show up if you have a beacon going). Glass - raid the brewery over and over to stack up glass fast. I've only ever ran out when building big greenhouses, however. In survival you will have less glass due to using bottles to create dirty water with (dirty is better than pure, because pure is free from overproduction and dirty has more crafting uses). Lead - Look for the boxing gyms. There is one in the robco galleria and another near Pickmans/The Old North Church. The Atom Cats also have a lot of weights sitting around. If you get the imrpoved scrapping perk, you will drown in lead scraping lead armor (one of the most common mods for armor to carry). Leather - scrap piles of leather armor, raider leathers, road leathers, etc. Nuclear material - Vault 88. Oil - Keep an eye out for bones as well as objects with oil, since crafting cutting fluid is the short way to plenty of oil and some XP as well. Rubber - you can carry loose tires into settlements and scrap them if you need just a little bit more. Steel and Wood - Scrap more in settlements. You will never get more wood at a lower price. Keep your settlements connected and the low wood ones will borrow from the high wood. Scraping usually gets you plenty of steel. Pipe weapons get you steel and double barreled shotguns, hunting rifles, and several melee weapons give you wood. There are usually low value weapons, so scrapping them at weapon benches in dungeons can help you get the value out without the weight.

[@Inflames420]

i can't believe this didn't get 1000 likes. Thanks for the info Oakspar! I've justed started a new play through and this will help a lot!

[@petergreenwald9639]

There is one lady in the Slog who is definitely not immortal and she is the vendor there. I've found her dead body every one of six play through times. Deirdre. And for me the happiness goes in the toilet and is unrecoverable.

[@Johnnyy832]

I’m surprised no one mentioned aluminum.

[@oaksparoakspar3144]

@@Johnnyy832 My bad. Aluminum is certainly worth tagging if you are playing a power armor character - since it is regularly consumed in repairing the better kinds. Mishra Fishpacking is the best place to raid for that. The processing line is covered in trays that provide it. Also, just get used to looking for the shiny tin cans and pick up every tray you see (not all will be aluminum) and you will find plenty. I also didn't mention copper, but apart from one game where I was playing with the ammo factory for a copper using caliber, I have never run out as a side effect. It is in many electronics as a byproduct of more useful things. Lightbulbs and lamps are good sources, but lamps get heavy fast. Gold and silver are basically worthless for crafting - you will need them only a little if you are playing with costly energy weapons. If you are running out it is because you are equipping entire settlements with them. Opening safes is usually the best route to find those materials - especially gold in the bank behind Backstreet apparel once you have LV3 for the Hack/Pick perks. Cork is something that you might find valuable in the early game when lightening up your armor (going for the lighter armor ability is usually better than deep pockets because you still gain capacity by removing pounds and you get extra AP if you ever sprint or use VATS. Obviously, you can but a ton from Moe in shipments or in baseballs. Otherwise, just keep an eye out for piles of balls. The gym in the Mayoral shelter and the field next to the raider filled police station near Bunker Hill both have several.

[@zacherybutter7349]

Thank you for this! However gold isn’t useless if you’re playing with lots of automatrons. They need gold for their weapons and other parts.

[@GlendonPerkinsgp]

A maxed level Scrapper is a settlement builders dream tool. From one automatic assault rifle you can nearly equal a shipment of screws and aluminum. Rank 4 of Strong Back is also amazing as you can fast travel while over encumbered. That means a fully looted Gunners Plaza can completely overhaul a settlement.

[@SkooledZone]

Great tips!

[@xanbs503]

Settlement Supply lines: Since Automatron, I stopped using settlers and have been using bots with the mechanists lair as the hub to every settlement including Far Harbour. My Mech lair is always busy and full of Brahmin. Yeah, you can take that anyway you like and I fully imagine it would smell it. End result is that I have mechanized army roaming Boston so perhaps I should stop wearing Silver Shroud Garb and start wearing the Mechanist Garb as I realized her dream in toto. To make it a bit more organic and stop the Burgeoning Bot and Brahmin Bottlenecks Billowing out to the Boston Basin, invariably I envisioned visiting vault-tec as the vaunted vehicle to facilitate brisker bovine velocity. Verily, it.... sucked cow bells. Awesome Video skooled Zone!

[@SkooledZone]

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[@chrisrigney507]

Just thought I'd add something about the Charisma boost. Clothing and other stat boosting stuff does nothing past 10. I've gone in with 10 natural Charisma, remembered to then change clothes, gaining several more points, and noticed the prices are exactly the same as at 10. Only thr Cap Collector perk and Grape Mentats can help after that. The boosted Charisma from GM doesn't help, but it still makes the prices 10% better.

[@timnichols5811]

Hey, love the channel it's getting me back into FO4! One huge thing I noticed in the video is you recommend putting junk to scrap into settlement storage. This is not ideal if you want to get all the components from items. If you put any item that has multiple component pieces of scrap into settlement then it gets broken down while building something, instead of the other components being added to storage they just disappear. To make sure you get all the components you have to drop inside the settlement build area then manually scrap in build mode. Hope this helps, no telling how much I lost not knowing that over the years.

[@Rajesh-Koothrappali]

Your tips are actually always amazing, i use mods and i STILL use your tricks, keep them up man

[@birdsofprey3312]

Hello I know this game and videos are old but, I use the same method as you when I settlement build. Though I scrap all junk to maximize the materials for example a telephone has multiple materials and if you say build a metal wall it may use the telephone metal and waste the others. Another difference I use is that I sell all weapons and armor I don’t need in order to buy the shipments and all the junk a vendor may have. You warned on scraping rare items which unfortunately I have done by mistake.

[@ActionPink17]

I’m one of the new comers! I just got Fallout 4 for Christmas this year and the Skooled Zone has been an AMAZING help! Thank you for all the work you do to put out such great content!

[@SkooledZone]

Hi Ashley, you're not alone. A lot of people just picked up the game recently. Hopefully you got the Game of the Year edition. Glad the videos are helping! 😊

[@kenewhybrew9643]

Paul, Alexis in Vault 81 also has shipments of Ceramic, Concrete, Copper, Nuclear Material, Rubber, Steel, and Wood.

[@SkooledZone]

Definitely Kene! I didn't mention her because it's such a hassle getting to her (so many loading screens and running around) and she doesn't always carry a full stock. She was one merchant I was thinking of when I made the note at 6:20

[@XoRandomGuyoX]

She's a shipment roulette wheel though. You never know what she'll have when you show up. It's a shame too, since Shipments of Nuclear Material are rare indeed.

[@johnstockman2026]

I inadvertently made peace with the Mechanist; I have other friends who had to kill her because their persuasion attempt failed, but I had my Charisma-increasing suit on and accomplished it. She has some great shipment choices that other vendors don't have. A valuable asset for fiber optics, etc. I didn't know Alexis has nuclear material though, checking that out today!

[@mostwantedgrim6303]

You can also scrap weapons (and armor I think) in the weapons/armor workbenches

[@kaxin1367]

Does it affect the settlement size if done from the workbenches?

[@mostwantedgrim6303]

K. A. Xin not that I know of. I think it only works if you drop it

[@besinji2000]

Still just picked it up a month ago. Just got the platinum trophy. Building and doing dlc now

[@manueltellez9460]

You can also get glass from white chapel Charly un the 3rd rail, and you can get alluminum with Arturo un dimond city and I think Rufus

[@Veroxzes]

Manuel Tellez Most bartenders sell shipments of glass. Makes sense since, Well That’s what liquor is in :)

[@manueltellez9460]

Veroxzes well yea, you're write, but it's a Good location to find it in good neigboor

[@f4lloutgaymer]

You don't sound too bad. Glad you are healing up. I have a Supplier to add to your list: After you do the quest 'Taking Independence', if you are able to keep the female Minuteman alive, she will assign herself to the kitchen. Once there she becomes a shopkeeper. She sells Shipments of Ceramic, Concrete, Copper, Rubber, Steel, and Wood. As well as the regular odd and ends.

[@SkooledZone]

Good add for the list! 👍

[@Bear-Knight]

Tired of companions and settlers picking up weapons/armor? Download "Amazing Follower Tweaks FO4 Edition". It has an option to turn off "Allow autonomous Item Pickup". There are so many features, but it also has things like dejunk- one touch button for a companion to take all junk/scrap out of your inventory. Dedupe does the same, but with duplicate armor, clothing and weapons (i.e. anything in inventory with 2 or more).

[@mechametalhead]

To avoid the settlement glitch when scrapping, use the workbenches that go according to the item you're scrapping. I.e. Minigun at the weapons workbench.

[@SkooledZone]

Indeed. I mentioned that in Tip #1 of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJ2Qmpd6q95ghqc

[@mechametalhead]

Ohhh I mean when you're scrapping for resources. So like say you need resources, but you've already reduced the settlement size. Doing it at the workbenches prevents the size from going down.

[@Roman-vg2tm]

I remember my first settlement; It's the ugliest thing I've done..., but i'm still proud :D

[@The-Raven-0v-Abyss]

Hey bud! Tid bit for ya, scrap weapons and armour in their workbenches and it won't effect your settlement size. Help save the frames :)

[@SkooledZone]

Indeed! Haha #SavetheFrames

[@weptbigfoot892]

Get well soon! love the channel

[@SkooledZone]

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[@arielvega6344]

I just got into building in FO4 a couple weeks ago. I should add i picked the game back up.

[@SkooledZone]

Very cool, and there are a lot like you.

[@namebn]

Bookmarked for latter. Time to build a tree fort in Sanctuary.

[@reyliramirez3347]

I hop you get better

[@acompy]

Happy Hollidays

[@Coco-oz9ko]

I'm sick right too man, strep throat and the flu lol rip

[@SkooledZone]

Ouch, hope you feel better too!

[@emanuelsommar7243]

I got this down. Junk goes in the workshop in the beginning and weapons and armor get sold Once I get the scrapper perk almost everything gets scrapped .. LOL Even the junk jet got scrapped. I always scrap at one settlement because I never do a real build there .. Actually I never build there and it has the perfect floor at the airport . All it has is a good place to scrap shit and because I never build there I have no issues with size . once Im like level 70 and all my water settlements have multiple water purification plants then I have multiple reliable sources of caps to spend at my leisure .. Also by this time I only buy long range and up close ammo so ammo is rarely bought

[@Mr_Skeletal]

As soon as maccready gives me the toy soldier, I slap it back in his face and tell him to keep it.

[@gatorwilson6927]

Have fun with your family

[@catyes7632]

Me in my head when I saw daisy was selling adhesive, 'WHAT, DAISY SELLS ADHESIVE!?!?!?!?!'

[@firestar4402]

I luv your videos they have helped alot

[@SkooledZone]

Awesome. Thanks for watching!

[@sayethvexus8332]

Can't you scrap weapons and armour through workbenches and thus avoid the settlement size glitch?

[@SkooledZone]

See my pinned comment :)

[@an_avidpanda_lover8349]

Is Lucas Miller supposed to be essential? Cuz while I was exploring earlier I found him dead on the side of the road, stripped naked.

[@TheNagualZone]

this the first time I've heard of scrapping being glitched to settlement size? is that still a thing now or been patched?

[@TankZappa]

Does scrapping weapons on the weapons work bench cause the settlement size glitch as well? Or does it only happen when you drop the weapons and scrap them the way you would regular junk?

[@illogicalparadox]

I'm quite late, but the settlement size glitch will only occur when scrapping/storing items in workshop mode. This is because weapons and armor aren't features of the settlement while they're in your inventory.

[@poetsave]

If you scrap weapons and armor via the respective work benches does that also lower the build limit? I usually scrap weapons and armor I won't use via the armor and weapon work bench.

[@Farzlepot]

No, it doesn't affect your settlement's build limit one way or the other if you use a weapons/armour workbench to scrap items directly from your inventory. It only affects the build limit if you use the settlement workshop to scrap them after dropping them on the floor.

[@debbiebaker1085]

which dlc to get for warehouse supplies to rebuild homes in fallout4 ps4?

[@SkooledZone]

You'll need the Contraptions DLC for that. :)

[@tapstapera940]

He thinks he got it bad.. Every ducking morning I get a hay fever attack then my nose stays blocked for half the day it is very painful

[@josephscottadams39]

You want to do KZbin fulltime? It that really a valid line of work? I though people just did it as a hobby : ) Are you in school or do you currently have a job?...just curious. I did subscribe because your videos are informative and since I watch this with my 5 year old, I do appreciate that lack of vulgar language on your channel. A far cry from most gaming videos. God bless!

[@SkooledZone]

Thanks my friend. And yes, the Skooled Zone is a family-friendly channel (except for maybe the choice of games). You can see that addressed on my FAQ page: SkooledZone.com/faq As for making KZbin a full-time job, plenty of KZbinrs make it a career and get paid really well actually. It's just a matter of subscribers and views. It's a long-haul to get there, but I'm not too far off. Maybe another year. In the meantime, I have another day job which I mention here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYPKgISJbLCIbLMm3s

[@SadSoupP]

2024 here im trying to make the minutemen the goat

[@Noob-gi9cf]

Fiber Optics ?

[@SkooledZone]

15:05

[@rachcannon6482]

Starting fallout 4 for the first time in 2020 and this is so useful, thank you!!

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

Be prepared to be playing it for years to come, happy travels. 😎

[@bluffkirschman599]

It do be a great game

[@MaryJane-tp3qd]

Just started with DLCs!

[@mysteryguy3290]

@@MaryJane-tp3qd The DLC's are so much fun!! I still need to get Far Harbor and Nuka World

[@helix5988]

Same🙂

[@fumblerooskie]

I use the Mechanist's lair as a supply hub from which a robot army of provisioners emanates spoke-like. This frees up settlers to run stores, etc. It also means that I can create very powerful robots that keep those supply lines open.

[@treygracen7867]

Myrna: "none of it is scrap. Just don't call it junk." Promptly go to the junk tabs for items to scrap...

[@radarrider7469]

I watched this a day or two after you posted it but didn't have a chance to post a comment. I wanted to mention that even though I have a lot of caps I still scrounge everything and then scrap the most useful stuff and sell the rest. I also make a habit of selling ammo quite often too. At time I've had 13,000 or more rounds of more than one caliber. These being the ones that go with the weapons I don't like to use. My favorites being the assault rifle, the shotgun and the combat rifle. So in addition to this, the 308 shells are worth 2 caps. Although these are not that common to find so I sell them only occasionally. After obtaining the DLC's, I build almost exclusively with cement. These building are the nicest looking of anything available. So with this I have to purchase shipments of cement quite often. I mean what is the point of the settlers hammering away on the building all of the time if the building never improve? I also like using the glass walls and roof sections that you find in the warehouse group. They are a little more difficult to run power in since you have to run it low on the wall but it looks so much nicer and it's very bright inside during the daytime. I like to place my stores in these buildings. Another thing I've figured out is if you use some of the new rugs, some are very light in color and you can use them to cover the floor in your existing buildings and it will make the interior much brighter. With at least one scavenger stand in each settlement you will then have a good source of junk items in each workshop. If you build an ammo factory you will then have a very good source of lead, fertilizer, plastic and any of the other items required to manufacture your favorite ammo.

[@SkooledZone]

All good tips man 👍

[@patrikhjorth3291]

KL-E-O

[@patrikhjorth3291]

"I have weapons for every occasion: hunting, protection, cold blooded murder, *hot* blooded murder..." "Purchase a variety in case of boredom"

[@Veroxzes]

Have you read her terminal upstairs? What do you mean ”why does a robot need a terminal?” Why so other people know what she’s planning.

[@John-gm8ty]

my current play through, once I did the mechinist quest I built bots with a freeze gun and auto laser so that they can take on pretty much anything and ran supply lines all from the lair so that I have one extra person per settlement for production and super fighters for provisioners. it's working quite well. I really wish the automation mod had an auto weapon scrapper, would make life so much easier.

[@niefmer]

I keep thinking I'll put out a list of the best things to buy as far as cost vs scrapped component value. Here are a few of the ones I like to buy because they are cheap, but yield valuable resources: Hot plates, military ammo bags, telephones, typewriters, teapots, alarm clocks, various aluminum trays, cake pans, fans, globes, cooking oil, oil cans, brahmin skulls, paint, baseball gloves, coffee cups, ashtrays, vases, pencils... They are often heavy, so you don't always tote them back from a mission, but if you have settlement vendors or if Carla comes to town, they are a gold mine of cheap crafting/building materials - SOOOOO much cheaper than shipments, which is great for early stages before you have a lot of money, and will get you the components you need to make turrets, power and light your settlement, modify weapons and armor, etc.

[@radekrydzewski8474]

Here's a tip for increasing settlement size and breaking down junk; instead of putting junk items into the workshop and letting them break down as you build, drop them all out of your inventory and scrap them in the workshop menu; I've gotten in the habit of doing that, and apart from having a clearer view of what components I have, it also decreases the settlement size a little bit every time. It's a way of saving two birds with one stone if you're going to be using the settlement size glitch anyway, so I hope this can help someone who comes across this comment.

[@ward9]

Thanks so much Skooled Zone for this tip. I've got another solution that I'd like to share with the class! Some consider the Creation Club part of this game a "mod" but I consider it DLC content since it can be purchased from the developer and it's over all, WAY more stable and polished then a "mod." Sometimes they can be expensive like $10 or more so I'd wait for them to have a sale and then buy yourself the Settlement Ambush Kit from the Creation Club. Tip: In Vault 88 leave the things called "Barricades" over the doors in Vault 88 when you are clearing the place out. This will make it so no enemies will ever spawn at any other location except from the front door of the vault. Set up a Distress beacon that will make raids of mobs spawn and try to take over your settlement in waves. The waves of enemies get progressively more and more difficult and will eventually drop very expensive loot and several legendary items. You can then sell the loot you collect to vendors and trade it in for all the supplies you could ever want or need. Warning: Even on Very Easy difficulty these enemies on the Teir 6 level can absolutely steam roll your character if you are not well geared. Also, Even a settlement with 300+ defense will not stand a chance against these guys on Very Hard mode so keep that in mind.

[@outdateduser7036]

When you said "Fallout 5" at 1:38... I felt that 😔

[@ViolentPayload]

really cool series man. subbed

[@xoniec9272]

Game Clips, PS4, other Idk why but nice profile pic. I know it’s a peregrine falcon because I done a project in grade 6 about how they are the fastest animal in the world 😂😂 just something cool/funny I noticed 👍

[@SkooledZone]

Game Clips, PS4, other Thanks bro and welcome to the Zone!

[@sinistersurfer9249]

Beat the game probably 3 times before but never really got into the settlement building. Started a new run through a couple months back and man, your videos have got me building some awesome stuff! So helpful, much appreciated!

[@daawesomepredator5555]

April 2024, and I just decided to make my second play through, and you were right, my first play through I barely got into settlements and now that’s the only thing I’m interested in

[@An0therR0gue]

my fav way to get circuitry in the institute faction is the synth grenades. through them into easy combat as they always die and just collect the circuits. cheaper then buying if i remember correctly.

[@brentbeers3469]

Played the game for years but, there’s always something to learn from someone. Never bothered to go in Fallon‘s basement till now.

[@toddabbott781]

A note on supply lines... They not only share scrap, but they also share food that can be planted (corn, carrots, watermelon...). When arming them settlers typically are horrible shots so give them flamethrowers and 1 fuel (just one and then they never need more). There are lots of flamethrowers at Sturgis Ironworks and they respawn. Plasma guns can be modded to flamers too later on and do massive damage. Also on scrapping... learn would is worth picking up. You want stuff that is either aluable and light, like all ammunition and meds, or things that that have lots of scrap for the size. You will learn what scrap you really need to keep an eye on. If you take science and gun and armor modding then you will find things like copper, crystal, and aluminum will be hard to come by. If you have the money at vendors then get things like hot plates, cameras, microscopes... collect bones and dirty water and grow crops as you can make adhesives and oil this way. Pick up anything with adhesives and oil too. You will find that shipments are usually really expensive and it is better to just buy junk that has it, but sometimes you need more so it is good to know which merchants have the shipments you need. It might be worth having merchants at your settlements... especially general (for scrap) and weapons (for ammo). They also let you sell things like cooked food and purified water along with ammo and meds you don't typically use. Also if you want to scrap weapons and armor then get the scrapper perk (under luck) as it will let you get back a lot more stuff like screws and gears and not just wood, plastic, steel, and leather.If you collect guns and armor to scrap though they are usually pretty heavy. You can sell some of the more expensive ones for quite a lot and the more addon they have the more valuable they are, so an assault rifle might not be worth it for something like 14 pound when you are likely only going to get $100 or so for it, one with a ton of mods on it might weigh only a few pounds more but might be worth almost $500. Always fill up before you return to your home base... You can also give stuff to followers (including dogmeat) to carry stuff and power armor and some perk let you carry more too. Also note that the fish packing plants tend to have a lot of aluminum (trays), hospitals have microscopes and trays, offices and police stations have fans, typewriters, pens pencils, coffee cups, and ash trays. If you take scrap anything mods to clean up the garbage in the settlements you also get a lot of extra scrap this way while making your settlements cleaner. Do not be a cheater and take mods to give you piles of loot. I ran across one that gave settlements 25 water and 25 food for each water pump you put in. that is just cheesy and should never be done. You will get bored of the game if you make things too easy... or by using console commands to get stuff. Just don't do it.

[@toddabbott781]

I've played through the game 7 times now and have watched a lot of videos, so I think I got the hang of it.

[@stycks32]

I was wondering about food had just built in starlight drive in and food was 0 but wasn't red so I thought this might be the case.

[@christopherconard2831]

My settlements tend to get whatever I have a lot of on hand. After I rescue Valentine, some settlement is going to have most people walking around with submachine guns. After Ft Hagen, Institute weapons and synth armor. Not much damage per shot, but when 14+ people open up at once, they chew up any that comes near.

[@patrikhjorth3291]

A thing I like to do, particularly when I know that I will be building extensively in a settlement, is to set up a junk vendor in that settlement. That way I can start by buying stuff directly from them before travelling around. It requires Local Leader 2 and a few other perks, as well as a lot of caps, but it's worth it.

[@saltypakoda5333]

Patrik Hjorth agreed, had done the same, they do lack on aluminium however

[@patrikhjorth3291]

a potato That's what Makhra Fish Packing Plant is for ;-)

[@Veroxzes]

Meanwhile I’ve got all ranks of strong back and loot the entire commonwealth, coming back with 7000 pounds of junk. Oh and I have max agility and endurance so I pretty much never run out of ap.

[@alanmoore8022]

I know its a glitch but duplication is the way I go about it , I will duplicate all 32 components like steel , wood etc until I have 10,000 of each. All by scraping and storing at the same time. This does the size glitch too but after ive got my 10k I will duplicate it again and store 10,000 in a container and just duplicate when I run out. Very handy when using components on settlements like vault 88 which needs sooo much rubber and steel

[@Novasky2007]

Your videos always so helpful five years later still settlement building

[@whiterabbit75]

Is it bad that I was looking away from the screen until you got to the Wall of Fame, and I instantly recognized which settlement you were at?

[@johnstockman2026]

Love the provisioner aspect! I learned to "chain" each settlement together, so I don't have the runners going all the way across the map, like from Sanctuary down to say, Jamaica Plain or Murkwater. I found that some provision routes would go through some tough areas, like the Fallon's Dept. Store area, which has a bunch of high-level super mutants. I lost that connection more than once and it never returned. If I wasn't such a dunce with computer stuff, I'd put up a pic of my trade routes. Just from one settlement to the next closest, then direct another settler from that one to next closest, and so on. The Quincy area is especially difficult for provisioners, but when I got the Vault Tec add-on/location, I was able to link some of the southeast settlements so all are tied together now and the runners are able to skirt that area better. Keep up the terrific tips and ideas!

[@SkooledZone]

If you figure out how to screen cap, feel free to post your routes on the subreddit: AfterSkooled.Club

[@johnstockman2026]

I'll get there with the details of how to do this stuff. Just one guy who loves the game, didn't occur to me that others would be interested in some of the unique things I do and have done. Some of the tricks I learned were from trial/error, incorporating them into the next play-through, learn, then next etc. Nothing new under the sun cliche', I know that many others who play and enjoy in obscurity have accomplished similar, maybe even exactly the same. I'm always intrigued at how different things happen each time I begin a new game. Once I got the explosive gauss rifle, haven't found it since. Huge thanks for keeping this game interesting with all the cool stuff you come up with...I know the "community" has a big hand in it too, offering their own ideas and work-arounds. I never imagined a game could have such a high value of re-play-ability. Haven't got bored with it yet! Off to figure out how to get the photo from the PS4 to where I can post it...

[@distantwanderer3440]

Great Video..All good things to know..Thanks for the Info.

[@SkooledZone]

👍

[@learoynotjenkins5514]

Shipments are great, especially with a cap making industry. I have rank 4 of strongback perk that allows me to fast travel while over encumbered. Great for looting everything. Also if you take all the junk out of your workshop your settlers that already have a job will give you junk each day, even without any scavengers assigned. I keep all my junk for building in only one settlement and they are all linked by supply routes. That way the other settlements bring in random junk and food. Even food that the settlement is not growing.

[@badgamer5086]

Love your videos, very useful tips! I just got the game for Christmas, and even though I'm 2 years "late", I absolutely love it...

[@SkooledZone]

There's actually a lot of people in your shoes. :)

[@jefflegate952]

Ok this is long , but worth it ! First I gather everything you can scrap from sanctuary and red rocket (where dogmeats at) , then I go to sanctuary and scrap everything using the glitch where you hold the square and slide to the circle button , you can do this over and over on items until you’ve got a hundred or so of each material ! Then you one by one drop and do the glitch on the materials to build each one up , it will take a little while to do , but done right you will end up with 70,000 or more of each material in you work bench (do not go past 100,000 or your might lose it ) ! Then every settlement you have all you have to is link them to your main settlement and they can access this vast loot ! I do this and then start building a crap load of grenades and other stuff, and build up my player ! I’m level 150 before I ever meet up with momma Murphy and the gang at the museum ! It works , but it takes a little time !

[@TheMoke1976]

the robot workshop was my god send for supply lines , I make cheap low end bots to be supply line runners instead of my settlers, and I put it in a settlement that I use for my personal home so they don't drive down settlement happiness, it works great!! that is just my opinion but maybe itll help some of you :D

[@SkooledZone]

Great tip. In fact, at one of my settlements I figured out how to make the fastest robot possible. It looks like a mini-tank on treads and it zooms by the settlement, beeps a little, and zooms out. Pretty funny.

[@johnstockman2026]

Wow, never thought about the robots for supply lines! I have something new today to try out, thanks!

[@xanbs503]

Also, for high powered weapon mods and to continue upgrading to better bots: GOLD - Bunker Hill

[@WarBringerRedBeard]

I'm the same way. I get sick once a year with something terrible. Feel better soon.

[@Veroxzes]

C.M. Seamster It’s almost 2 years since I was last sick, I almost forgot what a cold feels like.

[@kdawg2446]

I went 2 years once without also got a summer cold after that hit me like a truck was not fun.

[@finncampbell3953]

C.M. Seamster same

[@georgelink9388]

I've been watching your manufacturing videos the last few days (great info). I also had an idea that I'm going to try on a smaller settlement (maybe County Crossing); build a concrete wall around the settlement and set up a conveyor system on top and line it with heavy machine gun turrets and let them continuously circle the settlement.

[@ericswenson7504]

Brilliant

[@sneezyfido]

I'm curious about this. Did it work out?

[@francescoragnoni8042]

You sound like Fantastic from Helios One😆

[@copperhamster]

About scavenging stations, if there are more than a certain number of junk items in your workbench (wiki says 100+5 per settler) nothing gets added.

[@XoRandomGuyoX]

Yeah, they're best for small Settlements that you want to forget about and then return to a month later in the game. It's a shame that there are so few jobs available to Settlers. Hopefully Bethesda takes a cue from mods like Northland Diggers and provides a full suite of occupations for Settlers when Fallout 5 releases in 2026.

[@senhowler]

Good way to earn early caps is to save every tool you find and buy every tool that vendors sell, then sell them to the maintenance guy at Vault 81. You can buy most tools for one cap and sell them for between 5 and 15 if I recall correctly. And tools are very common.

[@jaychewinonmetal2912]

That's cool, I never knew that. Great tip.👍☺

[@patrikhjorth3291]

Have a cow, man. As in, have a brahmin. Use the fertilizer it produces to make Jet. Sell Jet to vendors. Profit!

[@senhowler]

I did that last playthrough. Since I use Scrap Everything, Jet production is super broken. Plus I felt bad about it.

[@patrikhjorth3291]

Sen Howler You mean you didn't like funding your building projects by becoming a Wasteland drug lord? Can't image why ;-)

[@jaychewinonmetal2912]

I agree, I often make jet and sale alot at once. Cooked Queen Mireluk and Deathclaw steaks, if you have a good barder skill, and collect over time will make some caps.

[@LynnieFleegleJr]

Still the best fallout 4 youtuber. Super doopper ally ooooppper lmao

[@souljat1131]

Here for the first time 2023. This game rocks.

[@justfine8551]

Hey,can you tell me the name of the song that you use for the majority of the video??

[@HeadDropProductions]

I'm late to this amazing series. Awesome job so far. My question is how long did it take you to amass so many caps? Was it game months of going through the static vendors, buying their steel, plastic, and fertilizer, making poisoned caltrops and jet and rinse repeating?

[@buckleupbuttercup7442]

You know if you scrap armor or weapons at the crafting benches it doesn't affect the statement build size

[@damianbrumfield3626]

yeah, he does, he said that in the video

[@striderominus7127]

“The fallout 5 building system” :,) if only

[@SkooledZone]

One can hope :)

[@mrmystery9496]

I got the game, and barely beat it, now I’m trying to learn to build. You’re vids are awesome!!

[@tootz1950]

Yeah I just got the game too. (June 2019) Never played any of the other Fallouts so I'm slooowww. I'm being thrown to the Castle and killing Kellogg without a decent weapon.

[@solouno2280]

i liked the game in the end for the same reason i loved saint's row 4: it's not what says on the tin but a bunch of other games blended together, Fallout 4 is: The sims Rimworld (with Nuka world add on) a crossover of Miss adventures of tron bonne and plants vs zombies (with far harbor, sadly it's just the box puzzle part) Life is strange (dialogue stuff not really mattering and just being stupid and grimmy for no reason) Recettear But is not fallout

[@skyknight6215]

These videos have open new styles of building .

[@RedwoodTheElf]

2:45 "In single player games, you're supposed to pick up every random piece of garbage you come across, like a hobo version of Mario." - Cracked TV's "The Seven Deadly Sins of Online Gaming"

[@joethompson61]

Also when you're in Diamond City sleep and then buy from the robot then buy from the robot it instantly resupplies That vendor

[@sifusonic7965]

Is that Connor Maynard the sort of KZbin singer celeb on your wall of fame? Not super important, his name just popped out at me when you put them up. His voice is as awesome as your vids are, love your work bro. Many thanks

[@badcodzombieplayer2168]

And who disliked the vid

[@RedwoodTheElf]

a note on supply lines: It works like wiring on a generator. Anything connected to the network needs only one connection. so you don't need a dozen supply lines to Sanctuary, for example. Just one will do. Usually when I access a new settlement, I check the supply lines, find the closest other settlement and send one of the local settlers there as a provisioner. This way, I don't wind up with a confusing spiderweb of supply lines going every which way. I also always build a scrapping station at each settlement and make sure it's staffed, so every settlement is contributing to the builds.

[@vincentandrade3302]

Thank you for helping me find better ways to find materials for my settlements really appreciate it thank you sorry your sick I hope you feel better and thank you for making videos before you go visit your family I hope you have fun with your family and feel better

[@SkooledZone]

Thanks Vincent!

[@Veroxzes]

Yesterday I had to kill some L&L raiders in that place south of Jamaica plain... forgot the name. Anyway I had to kill the last one, Captain Sally and my Vault 88 provisioner just wrecked them before I could even do anything lol. I just see Captain Sally check! Automatic laser rifles!

[@Grm_999]

6th like your the best fallout channel

[@THESLICKNESSEDM]

Get well soon brother

[@SkooledZone]

Much appreciated!

[@CoNtAiNeR93]

I wasnt able to afford a console until i got my bonus end of 2023..i got myself an cbox one and first game fallout 4..so yeah 6 years behind 😅

[@papaAJ88]

Just got the game a week ago on sale with Skyrim! Already watched a ton of your videos, they're awesome man. A bit advanced as I'm only level 16 and have focused on combat perks so far, but I'm scraping everything and looking forward to some sweet settlements.

[@izokido]

Took Starlight Drive In for Nuka Raider, back to Nuka World to talk to Shank, return to Commonwealth to shake down Tenpines Bluff, make a pit stop at Starlight and found out all but one of my building material missing. Anyone know if I can get it back? Got thousand of them before, only my 2500 oil left. I play on PS4 no mod , survival mode and I dupe material.

[@Knallbart]

Oh SHIT!!! I didn't realise I did a glitch thing when I scrapped weapons! :O Is leaving the weapons in the workbench enough to get the components, please? :O Thank you so much for saying that. I really don't want to fuck up my game :S Edit: watching another of your videos now... It is possible you've mentioned it before and I have completely missed it. So... Haha! I had a brainfart, I think XD

[@missingrighty]

It doubtful you'll see this message but oh well. I just got the game two days ago (April 2024) mainly due to the show coming out. These videos are really helpful and entertaining

[@WWGG76111]

starting fallout 4 right now (June 2022) and I've played some of it before (usually used mods but i want to do a run-thru without mods all natural) and ive played a whole bunch of fo3 and fo76. but always great to learn some more stuff!

[@Razi5131]

Really cool videos. Do you plan any Survival game? Settlement building is very usefull there :)

[@jadiusanderson2930]

Hey, I’m super new to your channel but so far I have really enjoyed them. I’ve found that fallout is one of my new favorite games to play but there’s so much to it that I can’t keep up. I have noticed that you have so many things unlocked in your workshop but I can’t find any videos on how you got all those unlocked. Could you make a video on how you got all those things unlocked? For example the concrete walls and the neon signs. I’m really into building my base but I want it to look better than just wood and steel. If so that would help so much. Thanks!

[@LinuxJedi]

PURIFIED WATER lol if you farm the shit out of water purifiers you can bring those to trade for shipments I usually wait till I collect 300 :P

[@caseyhall5297]

You can also scrap armour and weapons at the work bench if you used the size glitch too much

[@elrondorio]

Surprised you didn't pop ib to buy frum Trudy at Drumlin Diner when visitinh Trasgcan Carla right outside of it - Trudy is very conveniently placed near the Drive-in!

[@kuribo1]

Killed Lucas Miller a long long time ago and now regretting it for the ballistic fiber he sold......

[@SkooledZone]

That's a bummer. But you can buy ballistic fiber from KLEO in Goodneighbor. I think Tinker Tom also sells premade ballistic weave.

[@joshuahurley1957]

Spam water production +100. Find a settlement with a lot of water to place water purifiers. A lot of water purifiers and sell it. Believe me its the best way to make easy caps. Water is great just make sure to take it out of your workshop and store it in a container. Buy whatever you want then use the water to get your caps back and then some. There will be a lot of waiting for the water to replenish in your workshop (at least 24 hrs) and for shops to open. A companion helps to carry extra water. I have the water circuit Sanctuary to diamond city to bunker hill and back to sanctuary.