Good place to farm Nuclear material / Screws / Fusion Cores?

[Peter Griffin]

Title: Lacking in all 3 of these departments significantly, does anyone know where I could consistently pick up good amounts of these? Thanks!

[cougarshamn]

Screws: kill the windigo spawns at Earle (Colossal Problem)
Nuclear Material: carry a plasma weapon and melt things. They will drop nuclear material
Cores: Craft gatling lasers, you'll get a fresh core with each weapon made (unless they nerfed this). The other option is taking the powerplants on a private world and just collecting them

[Meynolt]

Hmm melting mobs with plasma based weaponry often yields Nuclear Material on the corpses (well puddles of green goo really). For screws you'll want to scavenge things like desk fans, typewriters, antique globes etc.

Oh there is a little trick to "tag" resources you really need, basically go into your inventory then "examine" the resource you're after and there should be an option there to tag the resource. Whenever you open a container or look at a corpse, any items with the resource you want will have a little magnifying glass next to it.

Fusion Cores? Can get those fairly easily from Fusion Reactors out in the open but usually they're only filled 25% of the way. I usually get my 100%ers from events, you're guaranteed to get at least 1 fully charged core from the "Line in the Sand" event. Make sure to use the "Electric Absorption" Legendary Perk, basically there's a % chance to partially recharge your core whenever you get hit by energy weapons, always handy when you're fighting robots for example.

Hope this helps a bit!

[Drache]

Nuclear Material, kill things with Plasma/Energy weapons, and/or do Radiation Rumble whenever it pops.

Screws, drop nukes on Earl, loot the Windigo Adds, loot, profit. Alternately, loot every fan you see, crawl through buildings and scrap.

Fusion Cores, do the repair XX nuclear facility mission, or build your own reactors after you capture Poseidon, Monongah, and/or Thunder Mountain to power the Fusion Core "Processor". You should get enough doing that. Alternately, you can just bounce to all the fusion core spawns, like The General Steakhouse et al or the existing world reactors like those at the rail yard.

[Dr. Nim Saj]

build laser gatlings
1 each time

ah cougar was first

[ronr42]

All I can add to the above is making Fusion cores works well as long as you have a good supply of Flux on hand. It takes 1 of each Flux to make a core. Add in the Super Duper card under Luck and you stand a good chance of getting 5 to 6 cores(Total) for each 4 you make. Also, Fusion Cores you make last a little longer. I think it's about 8% longer.

[sascomander]

For fusion cores I usually take two powerplants and then go do something else for a while.

[ronr42]

Originally posted by sascomander:

For fusion cores I usually take two powerplants and then go do something else for a while.

That is definitely the way to do it on a Private server, but the OP didn't mention if he has FO1st or not.

Edit; That way gets a little risky for a newer player on a Public server.

[sascomander]

Originally posted by ronr42:

Originally posted by sascomander:

For fusion cores I usually take two powerplants and then go do something else for a while.

That is definitely the way to do it on a Private server, but the OP didn't mention if he has FO1st or not.

Edit; That way gets a little risky for a newer player on a Public server.

I guess its different on Pc. I primarily play on Xbox and have only had someone kill me in a workshop once since 2018. I have gotten private messages of people asking if they can take the workshop from me more than actual fights.

[Vic Evicerator]

The workshop risk is probably variable depending on who's on at the time, but I've been playing a year and only been killed once for a workshop and contested once (I was getting an achievement for 'defend workshop', the guy tried to claim it, I finished defending it and let him have it). The risk can be minimal if you handle it right, though.

One of my toons had a camp on the south side of the lake beside Thunder Mountain, in sight of the workshop. When I logged in I would run the "Power Up" event, claim the workshop, hook it up, then just go about getting my dailies. Since I'm back at my camp every 20-30 (real-time) minutes, that's just enough time for the core maker to fill up with 3 cores - go empty it, run back to camp, repair and refuel, then back out on the next event/daily. I could clear 12 cores a night, easy. Since my camp was on the back side, where the core maker is right near the water and thus the workshop border, I'd be in and out in about 10 seconds. I haven't ever built near Monongah, but I know you can build near the train stop outside of Poseidon and have a similarly close camp and supply run.

[ronr42]

I mean no offence to anyone;

I'm in the US in Pacific Time and late at night here players sometimes run out of things to do and taking Workshops from other players is a little more common than you would think.

[Dr. Nim Saj]

if you keep track of the status of each core then you can go into that asm thing in watoga
electrical absorption
laserfest a gogo

[Peter Griffin]

All this advice is pretty good! Thanks all! Just gotta get to level 50 and figure out a way to stop running out of ammunition lol. Do Laser rifles drop nuclear material or just Plasma weapons?

[cougarshamn]

Originally posted by Chad Thundercock:

All this advice is pretty good! Thanks all! Just gotta get to level 50 and figure out a way to stop running out of ammunition lol. Do Laser rifles drop nuclear material or just Plasma weapons?

Ultracite lasers do, I don't think normal laser rifles do though

[Blade2k9]

therefor i am 1st since 2 years now, means i have 100k of each res, i could just give you what you need.

[Eldrick]

Add me 'Eldrick' ign and use my private server if I am on. You/we can take the power plants and you can have all the cores it makes during the session. I may have ammo spare too.