Best places to scavange materials?

[Dizzyfatpigeon]

Any suggestions as to where the best place to scavange raw materials such as scrap electronics, metal, or just about any other useful tool for making bullets? Playing a character the is heavily reliant on being self sufficient. All selling and speech skills are nerfed to hell (1 Chr,speech,barter etc)

[TentacleMayor]

Best thing is to find some merchants that sell these and fast travel to each one once a week when they have new stock. All those materials are cheap, so barter doesn't matter. Freeside/gun runners being the main sellers.

[R5CYA]

look at the names of the places on the map. it's easy to tell on some. like if you go to h&h tool, you should certainly expect to find metal and helios one's probably a good location for electronics. if you really want to narrow it down and not have to look, i bet the New Vegas wiki lists what has which materials in them.

[ronr42]

The Repconn test site west of Novac has a ton of crafting supplies

[Ninjabutter]

Off the top of my head, Cerulean Robotics has a crapload of spare materials. Scrap metal, scrap electronics, conductors, fission batteries, pilot lights, and duct tape are all abundant.

[Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical]

Pretty much anywhere where robots are big. Also, check EVERY container you find, since it's a random loot drop.

Generally, what you'll want is Duct Tape, Scrap Metal/Electronics, Wrenches, and Wonderglue, since those will make WRKs which will get you a ton of ammo from vendors instead of scavenging for it, though. ;D

[=CrimsoN=]

Why not the Gibson Scrap yard near Novac?

["lil" poon]

Depending on your level, you can enter the OWB and LR areas. Both have an absolute TON of useful materials. The Sink in OWB can be upgrade so that you can convert mudane items like cups, mugs, pencils and clipboards into useful material like scrap and lead.

[Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical]

Originally posted by ♥Pink_Fury♥:

Why not the Gibson Scrap yard near Novac?

It's about as useful a place as the Hidden Supply Cave; it's not stuff you can take, just static game objects.

[=CrimsoN=]

^ I don't know. I've found quite a bit of scrap around the area, not to mention old lady Gibson sells lots of scrap materials.