Best way to farm 2mm and plasma cartridges?

[Saris]

Got a great Gauss minigun the other day that made me wanna use it more, but it eats ammo.
Tried it in dailyOP but left with less ammo than I entered with
It's easy enough to craft but I use lead and steel for other things, so if there's a better way to farm ammo, would anyone be kind enough to share?

Same goes for plasma cartridges, I got a plasma caster that I wanna try using more, but only got about 300 ammo atm

[Mrs. Vampire]

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Below is me farming 2mm EC in Expeditions. My Two-Shot gauss pistol can one-shot most Fanatics, and each of them drops 4 to 16 rounds back to me, and there are about 100 enemies in an Expedition, maybe more. So you do the math. The ammo gain can be tremendous. I've crafted 2mm only once in the lifetime of my character. All extra ammo has been gained from Expeditions and Daily Ops.

https://youtu.be/m4EVEz0Rwl0

Exactly!!! I was only doing daily ops and now with the pit....that's double ammo farming.

I've been thinking of going back to my gauss shotgun and mini...now,for sure I'm gonna switch back.especially now that I'm currently a bloodied built.(was high health).
By the way...nice video!
Edit: I will need to try the pistol one too.

[ReadyToPlay]

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Below is me farming 2mm EC in Expeditions. My Two-Shot gauss pistol can one-shot most Fanatics, and each of them drops 4 to 16 rounds back to me, and there are about 100 enemies in an Expedition, maybe more. So you do the math. The ammo gain can be tremendous. I've crafted 2mm only once in the lifetime of my character. All extra ammo has been gained from Expeditions and Daily Ops.

https://youtu.be/m4EVEz0Rwl0

Dont like having to use a different gun in those situations just to get a bit if ammo i can craft in a few seconds. Its a method you can use. But I personally wouldn't use it.

But you don't gain just a bit due to the high number of enemies in Expeditions. With good sniping that can one-shot most enemies, you can gain 1000 rounds of ammo or more, as I have done. That's not easy to pass up. Good sniping guns can be: plasma caster (plasma), gauss rifle and pistol (2mm EC), combat rifle or The Fixer (.45), sniper rifle or hunting rifle (.308), alien disintegrator with high-power receiver (AB ammo), and maybe others too. So you can farm a variety of ammo, and their ultracite versions too. Because of this, I hardly have to craft any ammo nowadays.

Expeditions also give you XP and rare plans.

[Razer]

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Dont like having to use a different gun in those situations just to get a bit if ammo i can craft in a few seconds. Its a method you can use. But I personally wouldn't use it.

But you don't gain just a bit due to the high number of enemies in Expeditions. With good sniping that can one-shot most enemies, you can gain 1000 rounds of ammo or more, as I have done. That's not easy to pass up. Good sniping guns can be: plasma caster (plasma), gauss rifle and pistol (2mm EC), combat rifle or The Fixer (.45), sniper rifle or hunting rifle (.308), alien disintegrator with high-power receiver (AB ammo), and maybe others too. So you can farm a variety of ammo, and their ultracite versions too. Because of this, I hardly have to craft any ammo nowadays.

Expeditions also give you XP and rare plans.

No I know, but that requires you to use a different gun than I like to play with was more my point. And you'd use way more than 1000 rounds in an expedition if you use the gauss minigun. So for me personally it wouldn't be a good method of getting ammo. Taking a decent amount of time doing the expedition vs just grabbing some lead and steel and craft several times more than the expedition.

If you enjoy using the shotty and enjoy expeditions then for sure it's a good method to hit two birds with one stone. But just for getting the ammo it's not efficient. Crafting ammo is way faster. I personally don't like using the shotty, nor doing expeditions.

[Mooman]

Become like the homeless and collect (tin) cans, lots and lots of (tin) cans.

Pleasant Valley has many can chimes. Nuka World and Sunday Brothers Cabin have ball toss games with cans. Sons of Dane Compound has shooting range. Many locations have (tin) cans scattered around. Mole Miners have them often as loot.

While collecting the (tin) cans at many of those locations keep an eye out for green containers (ammo cases, duffle bags etc.) and loot with scrounger perk for contextual ammo.

After awhile it'll become second nature to prioritise those precious (tin) cans and you'll be familiar with their spawn locations around the world. Only issue is you'll end up with more lead than needed but a scrap of all the Miniguns at an Eviction Notice will right the balance (or other sources of steel).

[Saris]

okii so plasma ammo was easy to grind in dailyOP, I just assumed they were hard to come by but they weren't, my bad
It's just the 2mm then haha, I know they're super easy to craft, and that's my main way to get them, just hoped they were easier to grind haha

[Bored Peon]

I use nothing but 2mm Ultracite Ammo, and do not craft it.

If you go into a Daily OP with a Gauss Rifle or a Gauss Shotgun you will use maybe 40-50 rounds. However you get like 2-12 per mob and the end boss gives like 50, and the completion reward gives like 400 ammo. So you end up gaining like 800-1200 per completed Daily OP.

If you have Fallout 1st ammo box it gets even easier to store 1000s of excess ammo.

[paganSK]

2mm ? most cheapes ammo for craft.
steel + lead.
equip Excavator PA and search for steel and lead.
most of them are found near HORNWRIGHT TESTING SITE 4.
i did this just 1 hour ago it took me around 5min of searching and i found 242 iron ore and 150 lead ore.
and of course use perks with double/triple/quad quantity of ammo created