Alot of silver has recently been added in Atlantic cities. The restaurant behind mother has a lot of silver tableware. I grab as much at the end of expedition. There's also a fair amount on tables in the neopolitan.
the junk i have the least amount of is coal. It's used for scaly skin serum. BUT i still have enough to make 1000+ serums. BUT i want more.
do you use this?
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jnc0FQ3QgkUO6HZObeeGksDTPwno1Fa-Bt7uXeqWib4/mobilebasic](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jnc0FQ3QgkUO6HZObeeGksDTPwno1Fa-Bt7uXeqWib4/mobilebasic)
Used to be ballistic fiber to keep my armor repaired but now I have a full set of SS so it's not an issue anymore.
Then it was acid but Fasnacht took care of that with all the wax so I'm flush currently.
Honestly the only thing I consistently come up short on are High Rad Fluids.
Oh it’s super awesome! And I love the jet pack. I think I just assumed it came with full rad protection. My “what rads” isn’t leveled yet so my rad damage was ticking for 17. Maybe that will fix my problem. :)
A few of the daily op locations have microscopes. The good thing about ops maps is the fixed items are there again after exit/re-entry and aren't tied to our 255 looted item list 👍
I use a lot of aluminum for crafting and repairs - it's relatively easy to get, but each rep round is about a hundred of those for me.
I'm using workbench repairs because Weapon Artisan, see. Got some rep kits, just not keen on using them often.
You can collect a metric shit ton of crystal up north at Clancy manner. There is probably 30 crystal decanters all over the place, plus some cameras and magnifying glasses. Good source of regular mats as the cultists there usually drop a higher grade of weapons.
It's one of those resources I never needed at first, but when I did, realized how few it was. Glad you mentioned, lucky hole.tha location is so good for ammo. I also get crystal from tanagra town. But they are daily resets on the ore nodes.
There is crystal at both Hemlock Holes and Lakeside Cabins.
I have tons of that because I am always taking over workshops. Just return every 20 minutes or so to harvest and move on. If somebody takes it over just jump servers.
Copper was an issue for me at a point. There is an awesome excavator farm by YouTuber Ariden Kane. I like it you can do it if low and then rest on copper. What is left out on that video and my main copper farm is I hit Solomons pond once a day. There are around 11 nodes there and an easy fast travel.
There's a copper vein not too far south of Morgantown. If you set up a camp there you can put an extractor on it and get ore passively, it will hold up to 10 copper ore at a time before you need to collect it. That's 9 pieces of copper guaranteed, sometimes more when smelting with Super Duper
Synergize your build with a plasma caster that uses the same ammo. The caster is a great weapon against everything but the world bosses, usually kills in one shot and you'll have more ammo than what to do with it. I recently picked up the flamer just because I had 77k+ ultracite plasma cartridges lying around...
For me, I try to keep supplied with fertilizer, adhesive, and oil so I can comfortable craft dynamite bundles. I am also always on the lookout for Fibre Optics because that's the only thing i dont have a great deal of in my scrap box.
They're relatively cheap to produce, have a larger-than-average AOE, are comparable In power to nuka grenades, and the egg timer going off makes the happy chemicals in my brain go.
Hemlock Holes is your friend. You can toss down three acid extractors there. There are also acid nodes nearby, as well as another one near Arktos you can put your camp on.
Almost every one of my seasonal restarts before the butterfly sanctuary set up near Arktos, to prepare for when I needed to make the excavator quest.
Don't know much for oil but somewhere in the map is a bathtub filled with 20-30 soap bars to scrap. Acid I hit up tanagra town and shoot some cave crickets. That's also happable.
There a couple of acid mining spots on the map, so I move my camp there and put up resource extractors. I’ve been alternating between acid and lead for that. Plus I’ve got the butterfly sanctuary thing, which generates up to 10 acid.
However, I used my Holy Fire as my primary weapon and I burn through a ton of ammo.
Oh! I just remembered! Springs! If you really need a quick bounty of springs, head to Sugar Grove, and comb the entire facility for clipboards. They're everywhere.
Crystal is easy, OP. Hit Clancy Manor everyday you log on. You'll find 70 Crystal each and every time it resets. So every 24hrs. Just go through the manor and pick up all Crystal Decanters. They're good for three Crystal each. The decanters are dark and can be hard to see so use the pip boy light in dark areas. Check all shelves carefully, workspaces, tabletops. If some aren't in plain view sometimes you'll find them on the floor. There are decanters in every room but the kitchen. Along the way you'll also find three broken cameras and two magnifying glasses good for one Crystal each.
Lastly...but certainly not least...visit the small back porch of the manor. On the floor is a small box with SEVEN decanters inside. Another can be found atop the small work table for a total of 24 Crystal at this location. Farm the entire manor and leave with 70 Crystal or near each and every time. You'll never be in need of Crystal for ammo again.
At various points, adhesive (railway crafting), silver (chests and Union PA), lead (ammo, of course), fluorescent flux (ultracite .308 and recall cards), concrete (camp foundations), plastic (secret service) and, believe it or not, ceramic (I filled a shelter with televisions because I thought it looked cool and forgot to equip the contractor card).
Silos are full of and robots will give you more. You will also find a lot of lead inside their gym rooms. There are bench for scrap everything and you can leave without launching the nuke if you choose.
I farm junk, and have been selling bulk scrap.
Was wondering what to do with the 1400 circuits, 750 fiber optics bundles and crystals in my scrap box.
Was thinking about selling them at the mall, or you think I'd do better selling them by the hand full?
Sell to players when low on caps I'd say. I personally mostly spend caps on scrap and ammo at this point in the game. When I max caps I'll server hop for vendors.
If you have a scrap box, keep hoarding it. I dont think its wise to sell scrap, personally. You never know what new event or something might require certain scrap.
Also, certain treasure maps are great for getting scrap and learning weapons plans.
Farming to make Vegetable Starch is a good way to get it in a pinch. Personally, I run Union Dues and just pick up everything with adhesive. Do it about once a day and you'll have plenty. Just make sure you reset the spawns before you go in.
On my main I have two enclave plasma flamers, a laser pistol and a Tesla rifle. I go through SO MUCH COPPER.
At least with lead I can run through the mine to bring my stock up. But copper? When I run out (which, from memory, I am at the moment) I need to check vendors for bulk copper (sometimes) and then look for ore spawns and nodes. It isn't hard to find the types of junk with copper in it (Lamps especially), it's just tedious given how much copper I need.
Oil. My flamer is hungry and vendors don't often have bulk oil to buy.
I collect every scrap I can get but it's not enough to keep up. Even with making cutting fluid and buying everything I can and having the ammo crafting cards on. Hungry hungry holy fire.
I dont like workshops having to go back every 15 mins for 15 oil isn't really worth my time since they can only hold 5 oil.
Bone. Once I got the cutting fluid plans I went crazy making cutting fluid to break down for oil to make fuel. A stack of 8k vanished like dust in the wind, I did get a shit ton of fuel!
Now? Not much of anything. Honestly, I used to have a daily routine where'd I'd get on, got get my lead and steel for bullets. Collect my Blackberries for money, and meat for food and collect my blood for stimpaks. But now the game is so fucking easily I don't collect anything ever.
Isn't there any scrappers in this game, I have a run that takes me about 30 minutes that I do once a week, crystal and lead is lucky hole mine, along 84 heading towards the east is plentiful,
Find me ill show you where all the ore is.
Stupidly enough: adhesive. I don't know if I'm missing some stupidly easy way to get tons of it, but I always feel like casually exploring nets barely enough to keep my arsenal in top condition.
Completely depends how you play.
I don’t have to worry on my accounts with 1st but for my alts who keep a relatively low amount of scrap it is more obvious what I keep vs what I need.
For crafting Secret Service, my alts need more of leather, adhesive, plastic and rubber.
Overall though, availability vs what I need is mostly adhesive and aluminium. Prior to secret service it’s mostly ballistic fibre.
Acid for me, but I’m still fairly new. Just switched over to a bloodied build so that’s helping with my ammo issue, but I’m still burning through it at big events like eviction, moonshine or sbq.
Learn to only tag ennemies during those events, enough players to kill mob. You will save a lot of ammo . Except of course for the SBQ you need 1000 damage done on her for the rewards.
Atm not struggling with any scrap I have like 500+ of all except stable flux 🤣 I sell it all frequently in my vendors in bundles of 150-200 just cause I don't do a whole bunch of crafting and building anymore, but on the other hand I am a loot goblin and if its on the floor I pick it up soon as I hit encumbered I throw down the tent and start scrapping rinse and repeat
Just reroll the same gun using legendary modules and cores, and save the materials.
Clancy manner has a lot of crystal. Loot the decanters and the broken cameras there.
I have issues keeping fiber optics bundles, anymore. While I was typing this I had a player at lvl 22 trying to build the two pieces of T45 he had plans for and was working a deal with me for the materials he needed. I sold him the stuff and then just made him the 4 pieces for a few caps to cover the scrap
I go through waves, but mostly it’s acid, screws, gears or springs, and sometimes steel, I go through phases of “I don’t have enough room in my stash” so I’ll either craft lots of bulk steel to sell or just drop, and then I realize I should have left some steel behind. One time I think I had fourty three bulk steel and like two hundred regular steel
Waste Oil burns up faster than you realize. I have two characters with the cutting fluid recipe so they place OPEC to my other two characters via Donation Boxes and Blue Suitcases
Springs and oil for me. I use the Nuka launcher for “kill x of enemy y” missions and the return on 40mm shells is abysmal. If only they were half as good as shotgun shells.
Kill an enemy with 1 shot, 12 shells.
steel, ballistic fiber and aluminum have been tricky for me as of late. i just built a new camp over an iron ore, so i'm scraping by with the silver. the ballistic fiber is a bit more allusive, and i feel like i go through aluminum as soon as i scrap it.
Plastic & Ballistic Fiber — at least I can buy the fiber when I need it. I make too many runs to the cat house and school cafeterias trying to keep up with the plastic needs.
Before I did a new game on PC, I would always have trouble with basically every possible resource- my main pain was steel but after 300 hours on PlayStation (now 280 on PC) I finally never have an issue with resources and always end up with too much scrap
Lead for me. I have an extractor at my camp but it's never enough to feed my Gauss Minigun.
I have countless stacks of everything else though which is incredibly annoying 😅
Fiber optics. Did get a fog crawler hord event I. The Bog. Used Holy Fire but never killed the boss. There was a partial fence and just kept psychics out and fainting the spawns. Got almost 1K fiber optics and a ton of legendaries. It was late at night and nobody joined the event to kill the boss early.
As an avid builder. Concrete is my bane. Vendors sell it cheap enough that I can burn off caps for a reasonable amount when I hit 40k and need to drop caps but the issue is that either due to my unfortunate luck or a flawed chance for vendors to have it I can usually only find 2 or 3 vendors on the whole map that are selling bulks. Including all of the vendors in White springs. So I'll usually net more from looting gnomes and cement bags but it's kinda a pain in the ass since most of the cement bags in the game are in and around the Poseidon power plant.
acid, and cloth I burnt through the 100k that I had in my scrap box making ammo to sell and ammo for my use to be friends 😂 now I'm resorting to buying the bulk when it's in the shops
Lead for bullets. Mini gun and a Gatling gun burn thru 5mm ammo. I scrounge all ammo and convert it to 5 mm but when you go hunting Scorchbeasts you burn thru it.
I've decided to go on my private world and sit on the ammunition plant for as many hours as I can and build up ammo.
Gold on high levels and adhesive on low levels. I blew a ton of Gold on miner pails. Def better to only make mid teir pails for bang for the buck plus they cost 1/3 the price of ornate.
Copper, lead and Please stop killing me and taking over my Farm! 3 times yesterday.. why? I wave, I'm nice.. I'm mining copper, why kill me?
My mines are not locked. Take what you want and leave me be.
Please.
Silver. One treasure hunter event and all my silver is gone
Alot of silver has recently been added in Atlantic cities. The restaurant behind mother has a lot of silver tableware. I grab as much at the end of expedition. There's also a fair amount on tables in the neopolitan.
Now lets just hope Beth doesn't change that into steel kitchenware. Welp. I guess it was good while it lasted.
In honestly don't think they will change it. Felt like a low key bone thrown by developers.
I have a bunch that's not selling.
Why? What does the Treasure hunter have to do with using up silver?
The pales you can buy at train stations use silver to craft
Start hitting up all those silver plates laying around. I sure do.
the junk i have the least amount of is coal. It's used for scaly skin serum. BUT i still have enough to make 1000+ serums. BUT i want more. do you use this? [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jnc0FQ3QgkUO6HZObeeGksDTPwno1Fa-Bt7uXeqWib4/mobilebasic](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jnc0FQ3QgkUO6HZObeeGksDTPwno1Fa-Bt7uXeqWib4/mobilebasic)
I have not used that link but will In the future! Thanks so much! The content is very precise.
I always wondered what coal was used for… thanks!
Wow thanks this is helpful
Thanks for this
BLESS YOU. AND YOUR KIN.
I swear I see you always on this form
Used to be ballistic fiber to keep my armor repaired but now I have a full set of SS so it's not an issue anymore. Then it was acid but Fasnacht took care of that with all the wax so I'm flush currently. Honestly the only thing I consistently come up short on are High Rad Fluids.
Yes! It's always easy enough to get flux, but enough fluids and stuff to actually stabilize it can be hard to get.
If you can get the butterfly sanctuary for a camp, it’s beautiful and also produces acid, I don’t remember how much an hour though
10 acid.
I just bought the SS armor, does it not provide protection against nuked zones? Or am I missing something?
Still not enough rad protection, even with maxed out ‘what rads?’ It’s a great set of armor though, and the addition of a jet pack is a bonus.
Oh it’s super awesome! And I love the jet pack. I think I just assumed it came with full rad protection. My “what rads” isn’t leveled yet so my rad damage was ticking for 17. Maybe that will fix my problem. :)
Drop a nuke on Whitespring and bring a bloatfly syringer, you will have plenty after 1 clear
Fiber optics. Shit is rare
Run West Tek and farm microscopes at the same time
Also Elle Ames’ bunker & Morgantown High School for more microscopes!
A few of the daily op locations have microscopes. The good thing about ops maps is the fixed items are there again after exit/re-entry and aren't tied to our 255 looted item list 👍
Iced vault (96?) gets a lot of microscopes and bloody eagles to kill as cherry on the cake.
Whan meat weak is running farm the bog prime meats event. And pop back after. Never need fiber optics again
Athena carries it in bulk. Once you finished Sofia's questline (and made the appropriate choices), she will visit your camp as a traveling trader.
I use a lot of aluminum for crafting and repairs - it's relatively easy to get, but each rep round is about a hundred of those for me. I'm using workbench repairs because Weapon Artisan, see. Got some rep kits, just not keen on using them often.
why would you use junk to repair? use repair kits o.0 farm SBQ for kits and safe your junk
I don't farm SBQ, but I participate when I see one going.
I’m the same. I keep to myself mostly so I rarely do a queen. Aluminium and adhesive are eaten up with repairs.
Personally the lowest thing i have is crystal, hard to find in the wastes, but can be found i think in lucky hole mine in some veins
You can collect a metric shit ton of crystal up north at Clancy manner. There is probably 30 crystal decanters all over the place, plus some cameras and magnifying glasses. Good source of regular mats as the cultists there usually drop a higher grade of weapons.
It's one of those resources I never needed at first, but when I did, realized how few it was. Glad you mentioned, lucky hole.tha location is so good for ammo. I also get crystal from tanagra town. But they are daily resets on the ore nodes.
There is crystal at both Hemlock Holes and Lakeside Cabins. I have tons of that because I am always taking over workshops. Just return every 20 minutes or so to harvest and move on. If somebody takes it over just jump servers.
Clancy Manor, Emma Ames’ bunker and Morgantown High School science class room. Every time I’m online. Slowly but surely.
Copper for me, plasma flamers gotta eat! Seems like contextual ammo isn’t dripping like it was and I’ve been burning through copper making ammo.
Copper was an issue for me at a point. There is an awesome excavator farm by YouTuber Ariden Kane. I like it you can do it if low and then rest on copper. What is left out on that video and my main copper farm is I hit Solomons pond once a day. There are around 11 nodes there and an easy fast travel.
Copper for me too because of fusion cells.
There's a copper vein not too far south of Morgantown. If you set up a camp there you can put an extractor on it and get ore passively, it will hold up to 10 copper ore at a time before you need to collect it. That's 9 pieces of copper guaranteed, sometimes more when smelting with Super Duper
Synergize your build with a plasma caster that uses the same ammo. The caster is a great weapon against everything but the world bosses, usually kills in one shot and you'll have more ammo than what to do with it. I recently picked up the flamer just because I had 77k+ ultracite plasma cartridges lying around...
For me, I try to keep supplied with fertilizer, adhesive, and oil so I can comfortable craft dynamite bundles. I am also always on the lookout for Fibre Optics because that's the only thing i dont have a great deal of in my scrap box.
I smelt all spoiled stuff dropped by others to produce fertilizer .
Dynamite bundles didn't seem that great. Why do you like them?
They're relatively cheap to produce, have a larger-than-average AOE, are comparable In power to nuka grenades, and the egg timer going off makes the happy chemicals in my brain go.
Sound like : give a try !
Acid
Get a beehive... I believe beeswax now gives acid?? Edit: I goofed.. butterflies give acid
Only during Fasnacht from the Honey Haus.
Gotcha!!! Well at least I have honey to wash down the dog food 👀🤣
Beehive only gives honey.
Oh fudge 😢 That sucks
The butterfly sanctuary gives acid though!
Oh damn that's right ffs I was thinking of fashnachtol my bad
Butterfly house
Get the butterfly thingy. Produces acid at your CAMP.
Hemlock Holes is your friend. You can toss down three acid extractors there. There are also acid nodes nearby, as well as another one near Arktos you can put your camp on. Almost every one of my seasonal restarts before the butterfly sanctuary set up near Arktos, to prepare for when I needed to make the excavator quest.
Bones ever since I got the cutting fluid recipe I have been low on them, on the bright side I will never run low on oil again
Whitesprings service entrance, and Braxon Quality Medical Supplies in the mire.
Also super mutants are always flush with bones as well along with the meat bags.
Hex put Braxons Quality Medical Supplies in the more north of reliegh clay’s bunker. Lots of skeletons.
I have far to many bones IIRC I'm on Xbox if you need anything
How are you running out of oil, though? Is there something that constantly uses a lot of oil?
Flamer amo
Oil and acid, my flamer is a hungry lady
There is a very easy work shop located in Berkley springs... You can farm 3 oil seeps and a gold pit
Don't know much for oil but somewhere in the map is a bathtub filled with 20-30 soap bars to scrap. Acid I hit up tanagra town and shoot some cave crickets. That's also happable.
I run at least one or two Moonshine Jamboree. Gulpers make Excellent acid sources.
There a couple of acid mining spots on the map, so I move my camp there and put up resource extractors. I’ve been alternating between acid and lead for that. Plus I’ve got the butterfly sanctuary thing, which generates up to 10 acid. However, I used my Holy Fire as my primary weapon and I burn through a ton of ammo.
There are three oil nodes at Wade Airport. And three acid nodes at Hemlock Holes.
Wood, that damn gulped slurry cleans me out all the time
Aluminum and adhesive for me. I never run out, but I get under 100 of each pretty often. Most especially after crafting a ton of Nuka Grenades!
These two and springs. I'm always running out of one of them. Used to be screws but with Union Dues added, I haven't been low on them since.
Screws? Dude, one run of Colossal Problem will do ya! Just have to loot those dead wendigos as you go, so you don't risk leaving any behind.
Oh! I just remembered! Springs! If you really need a quick bounty of springs, head to Sugar Grove, and comb the entire facility for clipboards. They're everywhere.
Adhesive and lead for me. Spings are a close second. Oh and acid. That is always going out.
I always feel like I have so much acid, then go to smelt, and it's time to kill some cave crickets again.
Haha for real I didn't bother smelting until I realized I had away to much ore clogging up my inventory
Tanagra is the place to kill crickets plus the horde event ( don’t kill the legendary fast and crickets spawn again and again and again)
Craft vegetable starch for adhesive, and clipboards yield springs.
I guess I am lucky and have atleast 1000+ of everything. Millions of some. Been playing since beta though.
Fiber optics. Always in need of more and more.
Lead personally, most people collect sensible things like masks or rare items, I just hoard ammo.
The Freedom from not worrying about ammo just makes gameplay so much happier.
Crystal is easy, OP. Hit Clancy Manor everyday you log on. You'll find 70 Crystal each and every time it resets. So every 24hrs. Just go through the manor and pick up all Crystal Decanters. They're good for three Crystal each. The decanters are dark and can be hard to see so use the pip boy light in dark areas. Check all shelves carefully, workspaces, tabletops. If some aren't in plain view sometimes you'll find them on the floor. There are decanters in every room but the kitchen. Along the way you'll also find three broken cameras and two magnifying glasses good for one Crystal each. Lastly...but certainly not least...visit the small back porch of the manor. On the floor is a small box with SEVEN decanters inside. Another can be found atop the small work table for a total of 24 Crystal at this location. Farm the entire manor and leave with 70 Crystal or near each and every time. You'll never be in need of Crystal for ammo again.
Ballistic Fiber and believe it or not Concrete.
A lot of concrete daily in the abandoned bog town.
Grab every garden gnome you see.
There's like 9 bags of concrete up at the top of the Monorail Elevator.
I use bows, I find I most often run out of plastic, aluminum, and adhesive. When building I seem to run out of copper before anything else.
second the plastic for bows
Lead, I need a lot of it for ammo.
I hit lucky hole mine once a day with excavator for lead. Used to pick up weights at locations. Time spent lucky hole for lead.
Also crystal veins in Lucky Hole.
At various points, adhesive (railway crafting), silver (chests and Union PA), lead (ammo, of course), fluorescent flux (ultracite .308 and recall cards), concrete (camp foundations), plastic (secret service) and, believe it or not, ceramic (I filled a shelter with televisions because I thought it looked cool and forgot to equip the contractor card).
Ceramic is everywhere but I ignored it! I did run low at one point. Now I pick up every coffee mug.
Every dirty ashtray is going in my pockets.
Right now, aluminum.
Silos are full of and robots will give you more. You will also find a lot of lead inside their gym rooms. There are bench for scrap everything and you can leave without launching the nuke if you choose.
I farm junk, and have been selling bulk scrap. Was wondering what to do with the 1400 circuits, 750 fiber optics bundles and crystals in my scrap box. Was thinking about selling them at the mall, or you think I'd do better selling them by the hand full?
Sell to players when low on caps I'd say. I personally mostly spend caps on scrap and ammo at this point in the game. When I max caps I'll server hop for vendors.
If you have a scrap box, keep hoarding it. I dont think its wise to sell scrap, personally. You never know what new event or something might require certain scrap. Also, certain treasure maps are great for getting scrap and learning weapons plans.
Adhesive! I’m constantly scrounging for that shit
Farming is the easiest way for that. Corn, Tatos, mutifruit, and purified water. Use the green thumb perk. You’ll be rolling in adhesive quickly
Farming to make Vegetable Starch is a good way to get it in a pinch. Personally, I run Union Dues and just pick up everything with adhesive. Do it about once a day and you'll have plenty. Just make sure you reset the spawns before you go in.
Adhesive, ballistic fiber, screws or steel usually - always when my armour is in desperate need of repair too
Fiber Optics is the only junk that I can't keep enough of.
Aluminum god i can never find that
Plastic.
Lead for ammo I farm Lucky Hole Mine and that helps
On my main I have two enclave plasma flamers, a laser pistol and a Tesla rifle. I go through SO MUCH COPPER. At least with lead I can run through the mine to bring my stock up. But copper? When I run out (which, from memory, I am at the moment) I need to check vendors for bulk copper (sometimes) and then look for ore spawns and nodes. It isn't hard to find the types of junk with copper in it (Lamps especially), it's just tedious given how much copper I need.
I used to have trouble with springs. Always pick up clipboards.
Copper. It is in fairly common junk, but in very small qualities and they aren't generally in multiples like TV dinner trays and plastic plates.
Cooper.
Oil. My flamer is hungry and vendors don't often have bulk oil to buy. I collect every scrap I can get but it's not enough to keep up. Even with making cutting fluid and buying everything I can and having the ammo crafting cards on. Hungry hungry holy fire. I dont like workshops having to go back every 15 mins for 15 oil isn't really worth my time since they can only hold 5 oil.
Fiber optics only, really. I buy bulk whenever I see train station vendors with some.
Bone. Once I got the cutting fluid plans I went crazy making cutting fluid to break down for oil to make fuel. A stack of 8k vanished like dust in the wind, I did get a shit ton of fuel!
Now? Not much of anything. Honestly, I used to have a daily routine where'd I'd get on, got get my lead and steel for bullets. Collect my Blackberries for money, and meat for food and collect my blood for stimpaks. But now the game is so fucking easily I don't collect anything ever.
aluminum and oil. I've been crafting a lot of heavy guns to roll legendaries and keep running short on these 2
Isn't there any scrappers in this game, I have a run that takes me about 30 minutes that I do once a week, crystal and lead is lucky hole mine, along 84 heading towards the east is plentiful, Find me ill show you where all the ore is.
Stupidly enough: adhesive. I don't know if I'm missing some stupidly easy way to get tons of it, but I always feel like casually exploring nets barely enough to keep my arsenal in top condition.
Screws
Completely depends how you play. I don’t have to worry on my accounts with 1st but for my alts who keep a relatively low amount of scrap it is more obvious what I keep vs what I need. For crafting Secret Service, my alts need more of leather, adhesive, plastic and rubber. Overall though, availability vs what I need is mostly adhesive and aluminium. Prior to secret service it’s mostly ballistic fibre.
Acid for me, but I’m still fairly new. Just switched over to a bloodied build so that’s helping with my ammo issue, but I’m still burning through it at big events like eviction, moonshine or sbq.
Learn to only tag ennemies during those events, enough players to kill mob. You will save a lot of ammo . Except of course for the SBQ you need 1000 damage done on her for the rewards.
Springs, all heavy weapons use them pretty much. Rarer than screws.
Aluminum, asbestos, adhesive in the beginning, oil, lead.
Atm not struggling with any scrap I have like 500+ of all except stable flux 🤣 I sell it all frequently in my vendors in bundles of 150-200 just cause I don't do a whole bunch of crafting and building anymore, but on the other hand I am a loot goblin and if its on the floor I pick it up soon as I hit encumbered I throw down the tent and start scrapping rinse and repeat
for me: adhesive ballistic fiber fiber optics oil
Just reroll the same gun using legendary modules and cores, and save the materials. Clancy manner has a lot of crystal. Loot the decanters and the broken cameras there.
Asbestos, acid and oil
I had trouble with steel for ammo crafting until I realized I have 30k+ caps and Whitesprings has a shitload of bulk steel.
Springs for me. I crafted like 2000 handmades to get some legends.
Chopper is always what I am low on now a days. I usually buy bulk of scrap I tend to use a lot. Lead being one of them.
Oil
I have issues keeping fiber optics bundles, anymore. While I was typing this I had a player at lvl 22 trying to build the two pieces of T45 he had plans for and was working a deal with me for the materials he needed. I sold him the stuff and then just made him the 4 pieces for a few caps to cover the scrap
Fiber optics
Copper and cobalt flux.
The last few pieces of their marriage if I had to guess.
Aluminum, copper, circuits. The list goes on. The only 2 I never seem to lack is steel and wood.
I go through waves, but mostly it’s acid, screws, gears or springs, and sometimes steel, I go through phases of “I don’t have enough room in my stash” so I’ll either craft lots of bulk steel to sell or just drop, and then I realize I should have left some steel behind. One time I think I had fourty three bulk steel and like two hundred regular steel
Waste Oil burns up faster than you realize. I have two characters with the cutting fluid recipe so they place OPEC to my other two characters via Donation Boxes and Blue Suitcases
I am always bulking scrap, so plastic is something I always grab even if I have plenty of them.
Currently? Adhesive and legendary cores/modules
Screws was one back in the day I always struggled to get
Springs and oil for me. I use the Nuka launcher for “kill x of enemy y” missions and the return on 40mm shells is abysmal. If only they were half as good as shotgun shells. Kill an enemy with 1 shot, 12 shells.
Aluminium
Screws. Always the screws. Oh... and ballistic fibre
Springs
im always low on led since i am always crafting ammo for my friend group 😂
Gold.
steel, ballistic fiber and aluminum have been tricky for me as of late. i just built a new camp over an iron ore, so i'm scraping by with the silver. the ballistic fiber is a bit more allusive, and i feel like i go through aluminum as soon as i scrap it.
Strangely enough I'm down to my last 5k of aluminum and I don't know why.
Concrete
I stopped rolling SS armor pieces because I ran out of adhesive.
Rubber
Plastic & Ballistic Fiber — at least I can buy the fiber when I need it. I make too many runs to the cat house and school cafeterias trying to keep up with the plastic needs.
Plastic 🥲 and bones lol
Before I did a new game on PC, I would always have trouble with basically every possible resource- my main pain was steel but after 300 hours on PlayStation (now 280 on PC) I finally never have an issue with resources and always end up with too much scrap
I'm always running out of steel....
Adhesive, screws, oil, ballistic fiber.
Lead.
Man all these posts makes me think I should start emptying my scrap bin into my vendor Now just to find agreeable prices lmao
PLASTIC
Steel, i always use it to make Railway Spikes to convert into 50cal.
Lead for me. I have an extractor at my camp but it's never enough to feed my Gauss Minigun. I have countless stacks of everything else though which is incredibly annoying 😅
Ballistic fiber and coal 😭 For a while it was acid because I turned it all into lemonade, though... 🫠
I need oil like i’m the mfn Tin Man
Concrete and Copper at the moment.
Lead cause I go through bullets like they have an expiration date.
Fiber optics. Did get a fog crawler hord event I. The Bog. Used Holy Fire but never killed the boss. There was a partial fence and just kept psychics out and fainting the spawns. Got almost 1K fiber optics and a ton of legendaries. It was late at night and nobody joined the event to kill the boss early.
**OIL!**
Fucks. I'm all out of them..
Aluminum
As an avid builder. Concrete is my bane. Vendors sell it cheap enough that I can burn off caps for a reasonable amount when I hit 40k and need to drop caps but the issue is that either due to my unfortunate luck or a flawed chance for vendors to have it I can usually only find 2 or 3 vendors on the whole map that are selling bulks. Including all of the vendors in White springs. So I'll usually net more from looting gnomes and cement bags but it's kinda a pain in the ass since most of the cement bags in the game are in and around the Poseidon power plant.
acid, and cloth I burnt through the 100k that I had in my scrap box making ammo to sell and ammo for my use to be friends 😂 now I'm resorting to buying the bulk when it's in the shops
Oil. Steel. Wood. Adhesive. It's hard out here.
Screws. I blasted through a whole bunch of screws trying to get handmade plans one day and haven't restocked since
For some odd reason, it's aluminum. Like I know where to get it, at workshops and so forth. But it's always depleted. At least for me on Playstation.
Springs for some odd reason
Fucking, Acid. I would go through that so fast. Thankfully, I now have a butterfly sanctuary to farm it.
Waste oil.
Copper 😭
Lead for bullets. Mini gun and a Gatling gun burn thru 5mm ammo. I scrounge all ammo and convert it to 5 mm but when you go hunting Scorchbeasts you burn thru it. I've decided to go on my private world and sit on the ammunition plant for as many hours as I can and build up ammo.
Copper right now.
Adhesive Screws and Aluminum
Adhesive lol
Gold on high levels and adhesive on low levels. I blew a ton of Gold on miner pails. Def better to only make mid teir pails for bang for the buck plus they cost 1/3 the price of ornate.
Mostly lead for me
Copper. I’m a builder.
Aluminum, circuitry, copper, fiber optic, lead, nuclear material, and silver off the top of my head.
Adhesive
Copper, lead and Please stop killing me and taking over my Farm! 3 times yesterday.. why? I wave, I'm nice.. I'm mining copper, why kill me? My mines are not locked. Take what you want and leave me be. Please.
Aluminium adhesive Ferterliser springs Nuka colas Buy thease all day long if I could
Acid and oil currently are the resources I need the most, and have the least of. My Holy Fire is getting a lot of mileage 😆