Top 5 Strategies for Collecting Building Materials in Fallout 4

[@dragonggw5843]

Don't overlook the usefulness of Old World Money as a barter item either. It's completely weightless and worth as much as 6 caps each.

[@everythingstrength1485]

I have over 5000 in prewar money. I use it to buy all my power armor frames

[@kevinmeyers7821]

Poison caltrops are also an easy way to convert steel into exp and caps.

[@jamesanderson7243]

That stuff is my lifeline

[@everythingstrength1485]

@@jamesanderson7243 I've got almost 3000 old world money stored in a safe at my castle. It's strictly my power armor fund 👍

[@justinkimberlyrowley4465]

That's what I always used it for, that and cigarettes. But I need beds for my army and matching uniforms so I don't mistake them for raiders. So now I keep them for cloth

[@mailleweaver]

Pick up every pencil you can find. They weigh nothing but have both wood and lead. Build your house from the pencil sticks and line your armor with the lead. Totally makes sense.

[@iloveowls90]

lol 😂

[@summit-development]

pencil scrap dupe

[@fallout101-nx5pp]

That's recycling in the post apocalyptic for you

[@SaShA6572]

Normal people pick up anything worthing they saw and repeat process 2-3 times if need, not waste time watching hours for pencils only 🤦

[@jaketopia1]

Same with old world money. Weightless cloth. Put sleeping bags at every settlement

[@joshuadoll9000]

DO NOT combine drugs if you intend to sell them. They are significantly more valuable when kept in their separate drug forms. Also, using radium rifles are an easy way to get nuclear material from killing literally anything.

[@JadeDude1973]

I mostly combine drugs for the XP.

[@greenspiraldragon]

and plasma weapons.

[@RealBradMiller]

​@@JadeDude1973 I do it for the head rush and precognition!

[@S0ulGh0st]

You could have mentioned that the Corvega Assembly Plant has a lot of alluminum for such an early game location, because of the hubcaps.

[@edmartin875]

Each of the small discs weigh 1.0 have 1 aluminum.

[@OscarGomez-hg8cb]

@@edmartin875you can make a second visit after clearing it out and carry a lot of them though, not really great for later but early game it’s a decent haul

[@stormcry8202]

Putting points into scrapper is also really nice, since you can then tag certain materials, like bone or my favorite cloth. When you tag them, they glow so all those lovely bones glow brightly, but so does cloth when you tag it, really helping you to find safes hidden away, since pre-war money is cloth!!! :)

[@bacd-nn2lg]

This perk is probably one of the best in this game.

[@jimcalhoun361]

@@bacd-nn2lg I always spec 5 into Intelligence so I can use scrapper right from the get-go. Combat armor and leather chest armor are excellent sources of adhesive at early level.

[@GrimDarkness1972]

I tagged everything (just use a bench with nothing in it and in your inventory) so now almost every collectible object glows 😂

[@vhirtue0594]

Gotta love scrapper

[@BliskDeather]

Yea i have like half of the materials tagged which is somewhat useless but i pick everything that doesn't glow anyway lol, and if you have too much weigh you can just ask any of your companions, they have infinite space in their inventory if you directly ask them to pick up something instead of giving it to them

[@Speed-Of-Light-By-Meter]

I know this isn't a "location" for resources, but it helped me a LOT. I'm a hardcore weapon/armor modder, so the lack of adhesive was getting to be really annoying. If you go to a cooking station, you can combine tato, mutfruit, corn, and purified water to create vegetable starch which I believe gives you 5 adhesive.

[@FrankSpank-Ya-Nans-a-Skank]

Just build 3 water farms and fast travel emptying them. You get 20k purified water in about 2o mins.

[@eleanornelson5810]

Plant a ton of Mutfruit!

[@Speed-Of-Light-By-Meter]

@@eleanornelson5810I always do! 🙂

[@bryanohara5872]

The secret ingredient for separating oil-based paint into oil and pigment is time. 200 years is a long time that allows for settling out even colloidal particles (the aforementioned pigment in paints for example.)

[@edmartin875]

Yeah, the mixer in Hardware Town shouldn't even be able to mix them up again.

[@solo-pro]

if you complete the cabbot house story line, you can take what you want from the house and it has an insanely fast refresh time and the widest variety of goods to collect in any one place in the game.

[@JadeDude1973]

Oh snap, TY for reminding me to loot that place now that I have Strong Back maxed out!

[@raielle]

@@JadeDude1973 What have you been doing with Strong, and why is his back maxxed out?!

[@toakongu1]

So true. I did the questline and it seemed like every time I fast travelled back the place had reset

[@sherrykathman3309]

I didn't think it would reset. I literally just finished it for the first time today and didn't want to take everything if the house would look super empty next time I visit. Lol.

[@solo-pro]

@sherrykathman3309 I'm not sure if it matters, but i always like to free lorenzo. i can competely clear the place out and a few hours later its completely restocked. its how i keep up my ammo and crafting supplies early on.

[@edendoesfallout5767]

I'm an absolute hoarder in this game, I always want to lug everything I see with me! Amazing video as always!

[@Skarrz72]

LOL, I have so much junk every time I play. Keeping all that stuff, because you never know what ideas will pop up for building stuff.

[@thomasaitken7495]

I heard that! Fast travel while encumbered is necessary. 😎

[@edmartin875]

Me too. After my last encounter, it took me and Piper 4 trips to take it all home.

[@captainobvious90]

@@edmartin875 companions, minus Dogmeat, basically have infinite carry capacity right? As long as you ask them to pick the items instead of giving it to them

[@peridot675]

@@captainobvious90 Every companion unfortunately has a carrying capacity from what I can tell on PC

[@stephancoetzee319]

Scrapper perk, maxed, is essential. Scrapping highly modded weapons and armor is a great way to get Copper, Rubber, Crystal and Aluminum.

[@xorphana]

Super useful way to get rid of all the extra weapons too. I don't even scrap any guns until after unlocking scrapper.

[@Therake2602]

Normally i save weapons for my settlers and settlements in a future .

[@hotdognl70]

It is also a great way to increase your building limit.

[@UteChewb]

Institute weapons are weaker than normal equivalents, but have a lot of valuable resources if you have points in Scrapper. Same for the lowly automatic pipe rifle: steel, screws, and copper. As valuable as knowing how to make oil and adhesive.

[@MikeForce111]

For Nuclear Material, another potential source is if you happen to have a Plasma weapon or use a Plasma-Infused legendary weapon, then once you gooify an enemy they will drop some. It's a small source that isn't significant on it's own, but every little bit counts!

[@Dennis-c1w]

Trade water for nuclear material at a few of the inhabited vaults,the one by Diamond city and one at the Hotel on Far Harbor.

[@ObeyCamp]

Radium rifles do the same thing but super frequently.

[@Generalphoenix8438]

I did some of these for my minutemen settlements. I turned spectacle island into a massive production line for farms and water. I just used robots mostly for labour to save on beds and made a private office for myself with a view of the production. I rarely went to it but it was a challenge to get done when planning but was worth it.

[@stormcry8202]

If you are looking for telephones. The police stations is a great place to search for them. There are always phones for the taking. Honestly, most office buildings are great for phones, and ceramic coffee cups(for power armor).

[@edmartin875]

Hot plates also have circuitry.

[@immortalsofar5314]

Ceramic is also used for power lines.

[@NoForksGiven]

I always loot dead creatures for parts to cook. You can make a lot of money from clearing out mirelurk or molerat nests, especially if you get the magazine from Sunshine Tiding's Co-op that doubles anything you loot from creatures

[@rubenmahrla9800]

Anything that generates caps plus XP is always a good thing to spend a little time on.

[@robertaylor9218]

The oil in oil based paints naturally separates if left to settle. If you don’t mix the paint you can pull the oil off of the top easily. Don’t know that I’d try to lubricate my auto turret or salvaged power armor with it, but it might due in a pinch.

[@geraldlamb9587]

I always set up Coastal Cottage and Outpost Zimonja as water farming colonies. I don't ever bring settlers in to those locations. I just build a personal residence and load the places up with water pumps. I also put storage containers next to the fast travel point to collect water and store them. The other thing I usually do is put Trader Rylee alone in a location like Hangman's Alley, and just build her a residence, shop, and a healthy amount of defense. Rylee is the best resource trader in the game by far (with the Vault-Tec rep being a distant second), selling more junk than any other merchant and offering triple the shipments of the usual resources that the Vault-Tec rep and other normal traders provide. Clean out her stock of junk and shipments, wait or sleep 2 days, then repeat...preferably after harvesting a few thousand purified water from the water farms.

[@cjimmersive6955]

For making cutting fluid (oil), mole rat teeth provide bone, and bloodbug proboscis provides acid. Heading east from Starlight Drive-in, you could hit that scrap yard for mole rats, then wildwood cemetery for bone, then Taffington Boathouse and the ravine nearby for bloodbugs, then Medford Hospital for bone and probably some abraxo cleaner.

[@TwistedMe13]

For a farming setup, you can build Molerat traps (require radroach meat), Insect Traps (require molerat meat) and Radscorpion (require stingwing meat) traps side by side. Along with the proboscises, their ichor sacks and bloatfly glands will scrap for acid, radroach meat feeds the chain and stingwings can lead to more nuclear material.

[@StillJustBob76]

I like your style, no unnecessary BS, just the facts. Keep up the good work.

[@ethanhafford7621]

I don't know if it respawns, but there is an unmarked boxing gym next to the old north church that has a good amount of lead (in the form of weights) and no enemies inside. This is great for an ammo factory if you have the dlc required. Pencils also contain 1 lead and are not only common but near weightless. Edit: the best places to find pencils would be in schools like the Suffolk County charter school, though it might not be enough to make the trip worth it.

[@edmartin875]

The Atom Cats also have a bunch of weights at their location.

[@WUZLE]

There's also a LOT of lead at the gym in the General Atomics Galleria, and some flamer fuel on disabled Mister Handys too.

[@fredhurst2528]

I use that gym for ammo mats all the time and it does respawn, however I believe the respawn is triggered by actual in game play time and not just sleeping or fast traveling.

[@silkaverage]

hardware town as soon as you enter the front door on the floor are some lifting weights, a lot of them, about 5-20 lead per weight.

[@geraldlamb9587]

Also, once you clear the gauntlet in the Nuka World DLC and visit the arcade, there is an exploit that lets you create Nuka World Arcade basketballs for 2 rubber...and then scrap them for 3 rubber. This is a great way to build XP and quickly generate more rubber than you will ever need for vault style settlements.

[@Dudeman89038]

does it still work?

[@geraldlamb9587]

Yep

[@RageyRage82]

Poisoned caltrops are easy to craft, weight very little, and sell for a great amount of caps, especially if you max your charisma with chems, and your trading perks. I like to spam craft the. I find steel far too often, so it works perfect for me.

[@stormcry8202]

I always grab any microscopes, and biometric scanners, since they have fiber optics. You need 6 of those for those lovely rad-removing decontamination showers. I have those in every settlement as soon as I can, since you then don't really need to worry about anti-radiation drugs. I only keep 2 Rad-X, and 3 Rad-away on me whenever I play after building a few showers. Then at that point, I just sell all my extra drugs for specific ammo or building supplies. All Fuel for the Cause!!!! :)

[@GremlinSciences]

There's actually a few other really good ways to get aluminium and rubber. Namely, scrapping weapons and armor. Pipe weapons tend to contain a fair bit of aluminium and rubber even early on, but in higher level areas you can expect most weapons to contain a fair bit of both. You can even get crystal and circuitry by scrapping energy weapons. They aren't the best source, but they're abundant and you can break them down using the numerous workbenches scattered around, if you have the Settlement Defense CC pack then you can even just set up a lure and let the resources come to you.

[@Xahnel]

Just set up a mostly humane Gunner cage farm.

[@DaZebraffe]

Oh, also! A bonus tip for if you're planning to convert various "useful" items into junk items at vendors: Visit Sunshine Tidings Co-op as early as you can! If you turn directly due south upon exiting Vault 111 and just move straight ahead for just a few minutes, boom! You've found STC! In one of the cabins next to the grain silos, there's an issue of Wasteland Survival Guide sitting on the floor next to a steamer trunk. Picking this up as early as possible is *invaluable* when it comes to keeping you rolling in either healing items, or stuff to convert into whatever you need to purchase. How so? Well, it bestows a perk upon the player, that makes it so any creature killed in their presence that has the chance to drop a piece of meat, now has one piece of meat added to their inventory. This is regardless of whether or not they're already guaranteed to drop one piece of meat. So, most animals will drop TWO pieces of meat, and every bug will drop at least one! Seriously, it's so good, you get so much meat! I've had characters who snatched the magazine right after leaving the Vault, and was able to hoard an ever-increasing amount of stimpacks simply because they (almost) never needed to use them until they started hitting levels in the forties or fifties.

[@DaZebraffe]

The one exception is mutant hounds. Not sure whether it's a bug, or intended coding, but for whatever reason, a mutant hound always drops exactly one meat, even *with* this magazine perk.

[@ohiograssman1564]

I accidently just grabbed this last night. First time all play through

[@PoeticTwist]

The best item for weight to caps ratio is actually cigarette cartons. 27 caps to 1 carton. Keep your cigarette cartons to sell, and you will end up with enough caps to buy what you need. Best thing to do is set up a junk store near your workshop, pull out the cartons, sell, and cash in.

[@jon6car]

If playing on hardcore mode it is most effecient to dedicate a single settlement to one of the crops necessary for vegetable starch. Say you use Sanctuary Hills for mutfruit, Tenpines Bluff for tatoes and Abernathy Farm for corn. You can empty the workshops from any settlement that is linked by provisioners so they can restock their food supply everyday since the amount of food that a workshop settlement can hold is very modest. They will not restock their food or water for that matter if they have an excess of either resource which is really easy to hit. So say you have 50 pieces of radroach meat and 20 units of dirty water stored at Sanctuary Hills. The workshop will no longer produce purified water or mutfruit since the limit has already been met. This makes it so it is better to have a resource dump settlement like Red Rocket where you can keep like a player home only and maybe just have turrets and a few bots (that wont steal your favorite weapons from your workshop) as guards for your stuff. The same is also true for scavenger stations if you have 100 junk items plus 5×settler in the workshop they will no longer produce junk. The 100 junk item limit is per unit. So if you have 200 pieces of wood in your workshop (at that particular settlement) the scavengers will no longer produce junk. Note that this only takes into account items that are actually in the workshop and not stored elsewhere in the settlement like a fridge or steamer trunk.

[@edmartin875]

I didn't know that about the junk item limits. In Sanctuary in the carport near the Workshop I have 18 red toolboxes with specific stuff stored in each. It looks like I need to build another to store random junk that is not stored elsewhere. In Sanctuary I grow 6 of each produce type for a total of 24 food. Only Purified water from my 2 water purifiers in the river and 2 water pumps are stored in the Workshop, after the settlers have taken what they need. No Farm produce is stored in the Workshop. That is the only Settlement that makes that distinction. It's been like that for years and multiple character builds.

[@jon6car]

@@edmartin875 If you have any food in the workshop that goes over the settlement cap (which is really low) like cram, instamash etc then that particular settlement will not produce its crops in the workshop since it has enough food for the settlers already. Best to empty any settlements of all aid items that you want to produce their crops so they can continue to deposit them in the workshop. Settlers eat tatoes before anything else so that is another thing to keep in mind. If building a starch farm at one settlement then it is necessary to over produce tatoes to keep them balanced. This is why I suggest dedicating a particular settlement to a particular crop. If there are three settlements each producing just one crop you can empty their workshop from any other connected workshop by crafting vegetable starch.

[@Skarrz72]

I had no idea you could re-arm the lasers in Jamaica Plain. I will have to try that. I tend to use Fiber Optics also. You can also buy Fiber Optics from the Mechanist if you don't kill her as well.

[@baird5682]

You should never kill her, as she is useful merchant, and a lair can be used as a factory location or power armor/storage vault.

[@karatemancometh]

I constructed the duplicating conveyer belt and went on a mission to procure every Shipment I could. I keep one of each shipment type in a footlocker, pulling them out and duplicating them as necessary. I just make sure to save one to put back in the footlocker. The gun vendor in Doamond City Market sells aluminum shipments. And the junk vendor in Vault 81 occasionally sells nuclear material shipments.

[@mr.anderson3369]

My best early game advice is to sell most of the steel thats at Sanctuary, Red Rocket, and Starlight Drive In, and the first shipments I buy are fertilizer and plastic to craft/sell Jet. I become a Jet/Jet Fuel dealer, once you start the cycle of buying fertilizer/plastic and selling Jet, it more than pays for itself. I also start with a high charisma of around 7, and I agree, perking up Strong Back can be very profitable, and its a necessity for me when I'm farming attacks from The Settlement Ambush Kit, I'm overencumbered the whole time Im doing it

[@PetrenkoYuri]

The best way , in my humble opinion for collecting building materials, like some companions are saying most of the time when you are scavenging is : scraping weapons and armors . I guess is the most easy way to get what you need . The hardest material to get is ballistic fiber , I think . Word ! And , the way to get more of the stuff you need is almost based on the difficulty level that you are actually playing . Why ? Simple ! If you are playing on very hard setting you mostly encounter more skilled and more powerful enemies and ... legendary characters ! The harder to deal with those , the more goodies you get after you eliminate the enemies . This , is an opinion . And, by the way , I think the very important thing is how do you want to deal with your enemies : bullets , explosives, laser or melee ... and ,... , it will be amazing if you get hands on explosives guns , such are : spray and pray , explosive minigun ( I think is the best weapon in the game ) , all the explosive variants of the guns that are using bullets ; and so on for other weapons for melee and so on . This means that you don't have to carry so many weapons with different kind of ammo . In my humble experience weapon using bullets are better than energy weapons especially if are legendary or/and explosive .Check the damage for each one of them. My point is , 4 example : using bullets based guns , a good melee weapon ( duelist disciple cutlass my favorite for melee ) , a big gun with good splash damage such is penetrating missile launcher , a minigun for the dps , frag grenades is all that I need.This allows me to scrap all energy weapons and sell all the energy ammo that I get from my enemies . Some of the rarest materials you get from weapons with scopes , most of them energy weapons . You can get , from scraping armors , a lot of lead , rubber and fiberglass etc..

[@nihtgengalastnamegoeshere7526]

6:55 It's actually pretty easy to remove (at least some) oil from oil based paints- just let them sit for a while and the oil separates, floating in a layer at the top. It's a pain in the ass having to mix it back together before painting, but if you're trying to salvage oil, then... yeah, it'd be great. And having been laying around for 200 years, safe to say these paint cans would be VERY well settled.

[@SwearWoolf]

With the local leader perk I store all of my junk items in a single uninhabited settlement workshop and periodically clear out the workshops of my other settlements. As long as there are less than I think 150 items in a settlement workshop settlers assigned to scavenger stations produce 2 random junk items per day and unemployed settlers produce one. If you have 2-5 scavenger stations per settlement and clear all the junk to a central hub regularly, you get a solid consistent supply of junk. I only occasionally have to purchase rarer items.

[@edmartin875]

I build 3 scavenging stations at each settlement and assign a settler to that job. I knew they produced random junk but never bothered to find out how much. Likewise I build 3 Bramin feed troughs for the fertilizer of 3 Bramin per turn.

[@hotdognl70]

On PS the game starts crashing when accessing settlement inventory full with too many different items, since I start using the Mechanists Liar as central dump I don't have to worry about this anymore in other locations. The robots made there are also great to maintain trading routes for you can build them with lasers as you please and no worry about their ammo count.

[@edmartin875]

My strategy is to pick up everything, take it all home and head out for more. I'm not as picky as some players. If I missed something it was an honest oversight unless it was glass or plastic. I get enough glass and plastic in items with multiple components so I will skip all glass and all plastic items of loot.

[@davidlz830]

I feel like that is the best technique, it has worked way too well for me. My character is level 84 and still has stuff from the first hours of the game

[@fredhurst2528]

In my playthroughs, the listed resources in the video are much like my experience. The one standout item that really cannot be scavenged in the wasteland in the quantities I like to use it is balistic fiber. Buying it seems to be the only option, and it's not cheap. Just for information, I do use armorsmith extended mod so I tend to craft a lot of armor and armored cloths.

[@thomasaitken7495]

9:45 Suicider tip... Pray and Spray works great for detonating those mini nukes. Or any other weapon with explosive bullets.

[@edmartin875]

I like to try killing the suicider without the nuclear detonation so I can loot the mini-nuc.

[@jamestaylor9677]

Thanks!

[@Theegreygaming]

whoa, thank you so much James. it means a lot.

[@renaigh]

after playing in survival, seeing so much ammo in your inventory almost gave me a heart attack.

[@edmartin875]

LOL. Too right.

[@HermanBogaers]

5:35 All materials are available on shipments. All shipments are available again every two ingame days. Alexis sells Nuclear material, fiber optics oil or circuitry. So she has only one of those. BEFORE you speak to her save game. Look what shipment she has. Buy if the right one. Load if you need another one. This can take awile if you need one specific. But its a proven methode. If you want to take a step further. Save and wait/sleep two days next to the vendor. Had a playthrough spaning one centurie ingame time using this methode.

[@TheInsaneShecklador]

My first playthroughs I would do the wait 48 hour thing. I never tracked how many years it was but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a century. Around 2019 after playing the game since just after launch I finally decided to give in and started using the duplication glitch on my building characters. I haven't looked back since.

[@HermanBogaers]

@@TheInsaneShecklador Lol yeah the dogmeat glitch. Duping shipments. Until they patched it.

[@TheInsaneShecklador]

@@HermanBogaers The scrap/store glitch while in building mode still works on shipments or materials.

[@HermanBogaers]

@@TheInsaneShecklador yep. Same counts fore the dogmeat glitch. Only now let him pick it from a conveerbelt. If I spel it correct. But if you wanna glitch you better of modding. Unless you need trphies.

[@edmartin875]

@@TheInsaneSheckladorYeah. I have a save in Vault 111 before I go into the elevator where I can start over with a new character and change what needs changing before getting into the elevator with my new character ready to go.

[@sherrykathman3309]

Something i recently did was start using the scavenger stations at settlements. Smaller settlements that cant easily be built up, i turn into an artillery and scavenging post. Periodically, i drop by and grab all the just and transfer it to my main home at The Castle so that the collection never stops. While the junk items generated are random, they do get quite a bit of valuable materials like copper, aluminum, and nuclear material. Two items per day per station is a great way to get both a passive income and passive reaources.

[@ye4thorn]

I use a combination of chems from Pick-me-up stations, purified water, Vault-Tec Lunchboxes from builders and ammunition if I need to buy stuff, don't carry caps for SCAV! 5 perk. I also use Scavenging stations often.

[@jimcalhoun361]

I build a lot of scavenger stations. They also make a great place to store settlers so that you can find them when you need to build a supply line or need to send someone to a strategic location like the castle. Settlers are a resource too.

[@edmartin875]

I build 3 scavenger stations at each settlement. Also I never scrap furniture that is a container (unless it is yellow/orange) as random spawns like original containers where they never do that to any container I craft. P.S. Some mailboxes are containers too.

[@edmartin875]

Settlers assigned to a scavenger station spends a lot of time away from their station. Just craft a bell on a post that becomes a recall station for all settlers in the settlement. Ring the bell and wait for them to run to the bell.@@jimcalhoun361

[@tamphex]

Very helpful vid, been running low on oil for the longest time so this info will turn that around.

[@clinternet1774]

The biggest problem for me was finding the glass, only three sellers sell it, and they sell only 25 at a time, I just like building glass houses mainly!

[@ogrebattler]

Look for empty bottles(they are everywhere) nukaworld dlc has lots of nukacola bottle full or otherwise, if you got the power armor with the upgrade that filters rads out of consumed food and water, just drika all that nukacola and boom glass for days

[@Theegreygaming]

beantown brewery, and most of your tavern/bars have lots of empty bottles around. I forget what it's called, but there's the bar modeled after the one on Cheers right next to Swan's Pond... I seem to recall it had a pretty decent load of bottles. but I agree, ever since I started building greenhouses at my settlements, glass has been an issue... how didn't it make this list?

[@edmartin875]

@@Theegreygaming I never found much use for glass in normal unmodded play. Except when I played Suicide difficulty (I'm old and forget names, so sue me.) where I collect bottles.

[@derekpostoak9634]

for the loot hoarders like me, the scrapper perk is useful in getting rid of endless generic weapons. laser & institute weapons will give you rare components like crystal, fiber optics, and nuclear material.

[@hyperbolicechochamber]

👍Thanks for making this. A bunch of pre-War lamps (4 copper each) can be found at the Cabot House, and all the loot respawns when the cell is loaded. I would like to see a video dedicated to finding meat for the wasteland workshop cages. The meat bags in mutant dungeons can have random meat, but softshell mirelurk meat is the most important since cats give a big boost to settlement happiness.

[@toakongu1]

Feel like I see more softshells when Im along the coastline, especially up north in and around Salem. place is crawling with Mirelurks during the quest for Barney Rook

[@imzesok]

Vault 114 - if you pay attention while going to rescue Nick, you'll find it has tons of bags of cement absolutely everywhere. check along the walls, in corners. it's far harder carrying them all back than it is to find them. TBF though concrete shipments is way cheaper than it should be considering how little of it is actually used. There's also a decent amount of gas cans lying around 114 as well. the one gas can respawns frequently outside of the molerat cave next to red rocket as well. otherwise? There are steamer trunks everywhere you can raid reliably for things to scrap. One in the water on a boat in the lake next to sanctuary, one in a grave next to the water tower between redrocket and abernathy's, and then the one with the DC guards and super mutant encounter. of course you also have all the various safes around concord as well. unfortunately the concord sewers never respawns, so that's one less thing to loot in the easiest loop ever. That's really heavily reliant on the scrapper perk though. Alternatively, you can just cheat using the scrap 'n store glitch. It's a thing that people that spend a lot of time focusing on settlement builds exploit all the time. you have to be careful though as sometimes... junk components will just fall through the ground... because of course it did. It's a tedious pain in the rear to get the timing right, but it will sadly always be the best way of getting material. It's not legit, but hey, it's free, and you don't need to leave the settlement. Wonder if this is a thing that can be done to dup shipments. . .

[@someguy0089]

Between 3 settlements I produce about 450 purified water and I fast travel to the castle and the merchant there has 820 caps and cheaper ammo for sale. I start with her and then I travel to good neighbor and buy oil and crystal from the gun merchant and sell more water, and then I finish it off at diamond city and sell the remaining purified water for about 1,900 caps between those merchants.

[@ItzArmadillo]

super good video for people who dont want to use the scrap/store glitch

[@45Gunner556]

5:51 Damn I was by there the other day 😂

[@dk9619]

I learned a lot from this video. I got great tips from the comments as well! Thank you all

[@BigJohnno66]

Thanks for the tips, finding resources in Fallout 4 is infinitely more challenging than in Starfield. I scrap various rifles and pistols mainly to get screws. You can sell them, but at times the screws are worth more to me than caps.

[@scarletrain2818]

Also, if you're really into crafting and have the time to do it, you can craft stimpaks, which are weightless in normal and weight 0.1 in survival, with 2 antiseptic, 1 blood pack, and 1 steel on normal or 3 antiseptic, 2 blood packs, and 1 steel on survival. There are 39 known blood packs with greater mass blood clinic being the best, 13 blood packs and a various amount in the refrigerators and doctors around the wasteland usually having a good bit in stock.

[@followednose71]

Here in 2024. Just started playing fallout for about a month or two because of the show. This video just blew my fucking mind on so many levels, so much stuff i would've never even thought about, great video!!

[@1212354a]

Thanks Grey! I wound up visiting Vault 95 for the aluminum I desperately need in settlements. Having a blast with this game!

[@genetic9679]

I love how one of the way to get more materials in is to manufacture and sell drugs

[@PalleRasmussen]

Not much new here, but I have a lot of hours in this game. But good summary. A small tip for a ton of chems early; Diamond City Blues. 40 of each IIRC, which is a ton of money even if you keep some for your own use.

[@majinnbuu9363]

Far Harbor they included a lot of items with adhesive, after playing I had a ton of it, as found tape like everywhere in that dlc (also if you don't care about using a glitch, if you can make an item/mod you can also get the thing above or below it, by pressing right/down or up it'll ask if you want to make the first item but make the that's highlighted, but will use any resource you have that's needed to make the highlighted item, and doesn't need the skills as long as you can make the 1st item & have it's resources, works on any crafting station*) (*at least it did they last time I played the game, but that was a couple of years ago idk if they ever patched that)

[@Pachi_Fuda]

very helpful video. personally i think one of the biggest issues of this game, are getting all the materials for crafting and building.

[@southsidediy]

another good way to get aluminum is if you have the scrapper perk and scrap modified guns. You will get like 15 units of aluminum per gun

[@LordRunolfrUlfsson]

The Scrapper perk is also a great way to get resources. You can get many useful resources by scrapping the assorted guns you'll be picking up from fallen human enemies, and the resources you can get improve as you get more ranks in Scrapper and as the quality of the enemy weapons improves with level.

[@Davidsladky135]

Making Jet to sell, now I am a chem dealer lol, great tips did not know about cutting fluid!

[@Jamick98Geass]

Don’t forget to setup up shops like a bartender and other vendors in your settlements. Not only does it give you give you vendors that supply junk and you can sell water to, but also they passively generate caps in your workbench. My 5 shops in Sanctuary generate 4500 caps every couple of hours. It’s a great source of income.

[@Limrasson]

I play on survival. And I was too late to realize this, because I thought the robots should get some time deciding if they want to get changed or not but the best move I could have made the moment I was able is to upgrade Codsworth to maximum mule ability. Robots are the best for muling because they can have an otherwise empty inventory and fuction fully and they carry the most. Just remember to to giv them the huge tracks or they'll get stuck everywhere. I also use one location (red rocket) as a dropoff for all the crap so the rest of the locations keep producing stuff.

[@hotdognl70]

Buy shipment of fertilizer, make jet. Sell Jet, buy junk. Not just any kind of junk but things like telephones that give high resources for little caps, rule of thump used to be if it gives a wanted resource and more than 1 resource per cap and it's worth buying and scrapping it. Resell the unwanted. When using dlc, build a concrete bunker on top of a hopper and use a baseball pitcher to throw in 200 or 300 lunchboxes. Once the pitcher is running, put 1 grenade in it. After the grenade has exploded, select a wall or floor for pick up so everything will fall into the hopper then cancel pick up. Hopper is now full with lunchboxes, simple junk and nuka cola bottles. Lunchboxes are resetted when going through contraptions so can be re-used in the pitcher.

[@Ricardo_Rick]

Also there is the scrapper perk so that you can scrap guns you find for resoruces

[@celestwarrior]

Scrapper perk is must have, and then scrap everything you can.

[@UteChewb]

If raiders etc attack a settlement I strip the bodies, then drop all the stuff I picked up. Enter Workshop mode and scrap all the dropped stuff: clothes, weapons, armour. Everything. Works really well with the Scrapper perk.

[@carlj12]

Ive been grinding out the rogue robot missions. Every one gives you a back pull of junk and weapons you can trade in

[@DaZebraffe]

Another decent option when you're seeking aluminum, is to go to hospitals. They tend to have a lot of surgical trays, each of which weighs only half a pound, but scraps for two aluminum each! Also, if you know any respawning locations that have a lot of aluminum cans, farming those is a good idea. Only a tenth of a pound per can, and they scrap for two aluminum! The Corvega Assembly Plant is also a...decent aluminum source, due to having lots of respawning coolant caps and hubcaps. The trouble being, those items weigh one pound and three pounds, respectively, and only give two aluminum each. Not a very good weight-to-yield ratio. But at least there's a lot of them!

[@edmartin875]

The fish cannery east of Coastal Cottage has a ton of aluminum trays. I know nothing of their respawn rate. When the synths respawn I would guess.

[@dwarf_nz483]

Very useful tips, thank you.

[@stevenpeterson8582]

I also look for Pre-War Money. It has no weight, and is more valuable than caps to any vendor.

[@edmartin875]

I make frequent stops at Super Duper Mart in Lexington for the 4 oil cans out front (and random junk in the icebox). There is a bank across the street. It was in the process of being robbed when the bombs hit. With the cash registers, a little in the bank vault and that on the ground and duffle bag outside the hole in the bank vault wall, I can come up with a tidy sum (130-160) of pre-war money. And it all respawns fairly quickly.

[@jcohasset23]

Pre-war money is probably also the easiest source of cloth in the game. There is nothing like making a bed out of money.

[@taylordiamond]

I found myself lacking on aluminum until I hilariously discovered that I can scrap BOS vertiberds I call down for a buttload of scrap, including the pilot using only the Scrap that settlement mod! If you're playing modded Fallout you might be interested in mats for days for the low low price of a signal grenade.

[@gr3yh4wk1]

If your scavving, dont forget you can pick up certain items using E and drop them in your settlements from outside. Like tyres, trashcans, shopping carts and the red and white road barriers.

[@veranicus6696]

Pearl from the hotel with the robo brains sells shipments of nuclear material.

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

Design a suit of power armor for maximum carry weight. Military or Brotherhood of Steel paint job, motion-assist servos in the torso, and calibrated shocks for the legs. After you've cleared a location, empty your inventory and return to the location in this suit and clear the place out.

[@eas2252]

Adhesive- grow corn, mutfruit and tatos. Mix those with purified water at a cooking station, which creates vegetable starch, used for multiple Adhesive. Oil- collect skeleton parts. Use bone and I believe solvent to create cutting fluid at a cooking station (maybe chemistry table?) These create multiple oils. Fertilizer is also good if you build an ammo factory or explosives. Using these tips correctly and you will never want for Adhesive again.

[@djgongral]

Drugs, Grenades, Purified Water, Starch, and Shipments are all definitely tactics I use constantly. I also oversell ammo I don't use but pick up, emptying out merchant's caps for the day each time I go to them for supplies (And by oversell, I just mean bring it as close to their cap limit as possible, probably not the best word I could use hahaha)

[@edmartin875]

Yeah, I don't like leaving a trading session, with the vendor having any caps left.

[@djgongral]

@@edmartin875 same!

[@flexiblenerd]

Scrapper perks are essential for anyone who does a lot of crafting; you have no idea how much weight it saves you carrying around desk fans and other things that have screws and what-not. You don't even have to carry a lot of wood or steel if you can pick up a lot of weapons and get to a weapons workbench. Problem is that's a lot more weight. I'm constantly overencumbered for being such a lootwhore, lol.

[@elmo1639]

One of my material hot spots is the same location as that 2076 baseball bat. ( Jamaica Plains ) by deactivating & reactivating some laser trip wires you'll get like 50 fiber optic+50 crystal. Rinse & repeat because it keeps respawning

[@mahoganydoughnut6082]

I always get scrapper early on. There is a surprising amount of resources in guns.

[@TheTrueSpyroManRemixes]

I’ve been playing Fallout 4 for years, always avoided Chems, and never really thought to sell them. That ends today!

[@hotdognl70]

This game turned me into a drug dealer and a caps millionair.

[@anthonydanaher2146]

this makes me wanna re install this on xbox one such a great game

[@edmartin875]

Stand by for game crashes. Especially downtown Boston. My crashes started there a year or so ago. Now I get random crashes all over the map. An uninstall and reinstall helped but I lost a mod in that process. My backpack mod just disappeared, never to be found anywhere.

[@edmartin875]

Many KZbinrs produce high quality videos like yourself. When I pick one of these, I immediately "Like" it before the video even starts. After watching the video, I will often comment and if not over 200-300 comments will read ever comment, commenting on many. I also "like" many of the comments. Except haters or complainers. Sometime these latter tics me off and let's just say I can get a little sarcastic.

[@theDARKWOLF151]

Pro tip: Despite the carry limit of your companion, you can still make your companion pick up items. After a good haul, my companion comes home with between 1000-1500 lbs of junk. I'll load up a box or dead body with junk/weapons/armor and keep spamming the companion pick up. It's tedious as they will take one item (or 1 stack of the same item, like 10 cans counts as 1 item) at a time, but its better then making multiple trips.

[@hotdognl70]

Have you used bodies as suitcases? Stuff a corpse with all your overweight and drag it with you without being overencimbered. This helps early game before you have strong back maxed out.

[@raielle]

@@hotdognl70 Especially if its a small corpse, like a roach/fly

[@niatasoulguard9595]

Squirel bits best used for squirel stew = 2x exp gained. Once you can make it refreshing beverage (remove addicts removes rads +mass hp) and mirelurk cake (+140hp)are best healing items. Keep stimpacks for broken bones. Irish pride boathouse has mass bags of concrete. Plus mirelurk meat.

[@raielle]

squirrel bits reads as 2% in my game, not 2x. typo ?

[@Comicsluvr]

When looking for Aluminum, don't forget the Corvega Plant. The conveyor belts in the basement are covered in car parts made from Aluminum.

[@misterbones5981]

How do you get tier 4 settlers?

[@krypex7958]

I mostly get junk by buying it of of merchants I just stuff my pockets full of water and fast travel to diamond city and other locations

[@armorhand3332]

I learned something! woo! 😊 Good job sir!

[@jamesdurant8771]

I play exclusively on survival mode, so for me, power armour with calibrated shocks and access to vertibirds are the most helpful things for me to get junk. Oh and cap collector rank 2 is also uber helpful.

[@bacd-nn2lg]

Respect my friend. I can never finish up any survival mode playthrough since I get a lot of random crashes in this game.

[@jamesdurant8771]

Random crashes? Yeah I have had more then my fair share of those. Still I have been play survival since the mode dropped. God know how many hours/play throughs I have in it now. Oh if you want a tip for it, sleep often. Sure it kills your adrenalin bonus but the frequent saving helps with the crashes. To that end building up settlements can help as you have more places to save.

[@DylansPen]

Get an armor suit so you can carry a lot more stuff and then pick up everything there is, return to Sanctuary to deposit it, fill up your sidekicks inventory as well and dump that at sanctuary as well. Soon enough you'll have a ton of wood, steel, and other essentials. The rare items will still need to be found like adhesive etc...

[@sungarcia421]

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

[@oldundead]

For aluminum I grab the cans. Or the container.

[@Ericcartman69420]

Galactic zone in nuka world has a ton of circuitry and military boards because of all the robots there

[@hotdognl70]

Last play I did Nuka World before saving Preston. Build many settlements with raider gear, this give a steady and high supply of drugs in their fridges and lootbox. Then I go back, save Preston an become the good guy of the wasteland again, all paid for by drugs money. Am I the Escobar of the wasteland now?

[@michaelproctor8100]

If you have the unofficial patch installed you won't be able to farm the laser turrets at Jamaica Plain more than once. For some reason it prevents the lasers from turning back on.

[@jcohasset23]

Probably for that exact reason as laser tripwires are an excellent source of rarer components that normally take awhile to acquire a reasonable amount.

[@edmartin875]

After I've removed all the loot from the Treasure Room I've never gone back there to see if the trip beams or turrets turn back on/respawn. I'll have to revisit the Jamaka Plain Treasure Room to see what I can see.

[@GrimDarkness1972]

Not a very “high IQ” tactic but picking up everything I find and give it to my companion to bring along bought me a pretty decent stash of, well, everything 😂

[@barbiescrackhouse]

awesome video!

[@Dem3ntia-Gaming]

I would just duplicate your materials in your workshop to save the hassle of mass building or armor/gun mods. But if you do it for the fun then just continue and follow the tips in this vid.

[@NobodyDungeons]

Corvega assembly plant also has lots of aluminum.

[@gingershrimp4024]

There is also an unmarked laundrymat in lexington across from the red rocket fill of abraxo and has a full skeleton in a machine so plunty of bone

[@petanistardew]

When scavange for material always bring companion. There's a glitch that companion can bring item above their weight limit. Just drop the item and command companion to pick it up.

[@geomodelrailroader]

Here is what I do when you get out of The Vault talk to Codsworth and kill all the bugs then scrap Sanctuary and go to Nexus or Bethpesda Mods and install the fallowing : Manufacturing Extended, Converging Conveyers, Better Manufacturing, Solvent Green, Sorters, and the Invincible machine gun mod. Next build a cage out of the concrete you collect from Sanctuary, Red Rocket, and Starlight and build some Gunner cages and some Raider cages and place them on the empty foundations also build some Mutie cages and some Ghoul cages. Gunners have good weapons and armor take their armor and weapons scrap the rest. Raiders sometimes have good weapons the rest are junk keep the rifles and pistols scrap the Pipe Guns. Muties will be armed with heavy weapons and sometimes junk scrap the junk and take the heavy weapons. When you get to the Institute install the mod to let you build synths and use them as your traders also if you have a synth show up kill them and build the robot disassembler to get rid of them.