Any trick to getting more shell casings?

[DethBringa]

Been stuck on this mission for around 6 or 7 hours so far. I'm at 32/50 just am not getting them any more.

[Caerbannog]

O_O TIL i should be keeping the shells!

[DethBringa]

keep 2 trash bags of shells and 2 trash bags of anything. If only I had known when I started.

[WOBLZ]

accept more missions to get more shells / casings. also place the shells into a box 1 by one instead of bagging them, Large box works well as its harder to push over ;)

[Khaligor]

i placed some dice´s yesterday for decoration. when i load my save today the dice´s are replaced with other random trash. i belive you cant store trash because it changes everytime you load your save file

[DethBringa]

oooooohhhhhhh
ok I'm going to try lay a heap of trash around and see if I can get it to change to shells.

[DethBringa]

ok so it seems there are categories of junk and items will spawn as a random item within that category.

Plastic is 1 category like keycaps and dice and pink plastic scrap.
Paper ribbons, cardboard strips and paper strips is another category.
Shells is another.

I arranged a heap of paper rubbish in 1 square and a heap of plastic rubbish in the square beside it and then saved and reloaded 10 times to test this.

Reloading could change shotgun shells to rifle shells or vice versa but it seems you cant get items to change categories like dice to shells.

[Eddiero]

you can also use the scanner to see everything you can use on the quest. it will be highlighted yellow
for example instead of shell casings you can also use the thin crossed marked bills. not sure about the faction.