Gunpowder

[scheidsgate]

Whats the best way to farm large amounts of gunpowder?

[Mandalorian Deathknight]

super mutants
west tek

[Major Mario]

Well, it'd be better for you to make it yourself, as you'll be swimming in cloth to make gunpowder in the first place. Outside of that, you'll often find the stuff on dead raiders, and Supermutants. I've found 6 units in ammo boxes, so keep a look out for those too!

After getting your gunpowder, you'll need lead I assume. You can keep an eye out for mining opportunities and events in the Ash Heap, or you could go to the Lucky Hole Mine just south of 'Fort Defiance'.

I'd rec' that you get 'Ammosmith' in AGL equipped and 'Super Duper' in LCK also so you can get much more ammo whenever you craft it yourself.

[Similar]

Check train station suitcases. Yesterday I found 3000+... Some player probably had a slight miscalculation when crafting.

Maybe Moonshine Jamboree for acid. Cloth should be pretty easy to come by.

Of enemies, supermutants probaby drop the most gunpowder, but it's still only like 2 per mutant, and not every mutant at that.

I just search every container I see and I haven't had to craft any gunpowder on this character (level 118) yet.

[OranTruk]

Raiders and Super Mutants have it so kill them. Moonshine Jamboree you can get a lot of acid or go to Hemlock Holes maintenance by Wavey Willards and claim the workshop because it has 2 acid resources for you to extract. Summersville is cloth town. The house with the Mirelucks in it has a ton of books (+>150) on the North side. Then head down to the lake and get Super Mutant's then up the hill to the Airport for more Super Mutant's. You will be dealing with a lot of weight so claim the workshop and craft the ammo.

[slippingsnake]

The "colossal Problem"event is another chance to farm Acid (from Wendigos).

The Area just north of "Top of the world" (pleseant valley?) has a lot of death raiders who carry gunpowder.

Daily OPS enemies drop Ammo for the gun the Player holds when they get killed; use Grenades or even better Molotows to tag them, still get the proper Ammo (tested for Ultracite-Microfussion-cells and got ~780 in 8 minutes).

Ammo converter: The player can produce Railwy spikes (only need steel) at the tinker's workbench, convert then into ammo-points and then buy the desired Ammo at the Ammo Converter.
Can be in another players camp and is annoying, but with someroutine doesm't take much time.

[scheidsgate]

Thanks guys, I havent had too much problem till recently. A good player dropped a ton of it some time back so I stored most of it and only recently ran out. I dont lack cash so I buy it when I see it but thats unreliable. I need acid so as suggested I can maybe get a lot from moonshiners.

[scheidsgate]

I tried to take the workshop but the game kept kicking me out. I got a lot of acid so far so I will see if I have super duper with luck tomorrow as I have the other ammo card up already. Miniguns use so much if you do a lot of events.

[Ojikori]

Originally posted by scheidsgate:

I tried to take the workshop but the game kept kicking me out. I got a lot of acid so far so I will see if I have super duper with luck tomorrow as I have the other ammo card up already. Miniguns use so much if you do a lot of events.

Not sure if you know but if your crafting the ammo you can also get a ton of lead at the lucky hole mine if you bring excavator powe r armor. I tend to walk out with well over 1000 lead in a single run if I get all the deposits. Though you will need acid to smelt it.

[Similar]

Originally posted by scheidsgate:

I tried to take the workshop but the game kept kicking me out. I got a lot of acid so far so I will see if I have super duper with luck tomorrow as I have the other ammo card up already.

There's also the legendary perk card Ammo Factory, just since it hasn't been mentioned.

Originally posted by scheidsgate:

Miniguns use so much if you do a lot of events.

oh yes. It can end up feeling like a full time job gathering stuff for ammo. I usually use the gatling gun, especially at longer ranges, and then maybe switch to minigun when up close. The gatling gun uses a lot less ammo, and they both use 5mm.

[m142]

additional advice.
sell purified water to bot vendors , it's 1400 a day you can spend on cloth & acid bulk's.
same goes for most materials in game , you have to much just drop it on ground or sell it , space in stash is to limited to waste it.
as a weapon minigun is bad decysion you should go for gattlingun or use it at last to get more amo with it on spec ops or the pit.

[morikaane]

Originally posted by scheidsgate:

Whats the best way to farm large amounts of gunpowder?

Best way to farm it is by farming cloth and acid to craft it using the relevant perks. Collision Course tends to be a quick and easy source of free cloth, and the flooded trainyard and etc can get you a useful amount of acid.

Also, if this is about feeding thirsty guns, limiting your use of weapons that chew through ammo--like opting for a gatling gun instead of a minigun--is a good way to accumulate a decent amount of ammo to occasionally whip out the thirstier ones (my being a person that doesn't like farming materials too frequently).

[scheidsgate]

Thanks, a lot of useful suggestions. I do have the perk card and recently as of yesterday updated it so I now get 100% more ammo. I love the vampire minigun but I will see if I can fine a vamp gattling gun too. I would have to upgrade str I think too