Is there a safe place to store things?

[arthasbg]

If so how can i make one? For example red rocket. What do i need to do to make sure my things arent going to be pillage by raiders if they attack

[Szito86]

Well nothing......I store my sttuff there all the time and most of thime I never have anything built there.

[SuperSledgeNY]

Home Plate - 100% safe, no attacks, no settlers to take your stuff.

[Vinnie Mack]

i am not sure raiders are the problem. Most of the time settlers tend to be more problematic. At least that is my experience. What i would do is build a safe and put the stuff you want to keep safe in there. The settlers will use whatever is in the workbench. I don't think they go into containers you make.

if you have gotten far enough along, buy the house in Diamond city. I make periodic trips here to store my best loot. I know no raider or settler will get anything i put in here. Thing is, it is a bit spendy. It has been a while, but i think it costs 2000 caps.

I have also had good luck storing things in the building outside of diamond city. The one where the guard is constantly sleeping. The one that has the work bench in it.

And if you are in-world and don't have enough space to take everything with you, but you want it to be safe, find a fire or work bench and dump it there. These don't reset, whereas random containers will respawn and you lose everything you put in them.

[arthasbg]

Originally posted by Vinnie Mack:

i am not sure raiders are the problem. Most of the time settlers tend to be more problematic. At least that is my experience. What i would do is build a safe and put the stuff you want to keep safe in there. The settlers will use whatever is in the workbench. I don't think they go into containers you make.

if you have gotten far enough along, buy the house in Diamond city. I make periodic trips here to store my best loot. I know no raider or settler will get anything i put in here. Thing is, it is a bit spendy. It has been a while, but i think it costs 2000 caps.

I have also had good luck storing things in the building outside of diamond city. The one where the guard is constantly sleeping. The one that has the work bench in it.

And if you are in-world and don't have enough space to take everything with you, but you want it to be safe, find a fire or work bench and dump it there. These don't reset, whereas random containers will respawn and you lose everything you put in them.

How long it takes to get to diamond city? Roughly quest amount/time. I guess i can store things there and take them out if i need.

Can raiders pillage materials? Or just usable items?

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

No need to save anything in Fallout. Except maybe rare items...

[Szito86]

Originally posted by arthasbg:

Originally posted by Vinnie Mack:

i am not sure raiders are the problem. Most of the time settlers tend to be more problematic. At least that is my experience. What i would do is build a safe and put the stuff you want to keep safe in there. The settlers will use whatever is in the workbench. I don't think they go into containers you make.

if you have gotten far enough along, buy the house in Diamond city. I make periodic trips here to store my best loot. I know no raider or settler will get anything i put in here. Thing is, it is a bit spendy. It has been a while, but i think it costs 2000 caps.

I have also had good luck storing things in the building outside of diamond city. The one where the guard is constantly sleeping. The one that has the work bench in it.

And if you are in-world and don't have enough space to take everything with you, but you want it to be safe, find a fire or work bench and dump it there. These don't reset, whereas random containers will respawn and you lose everything you put in them.

How long it takes to get to diamond city? Roughly quest amount/time. I guess i can store things there and take them out if i need.

Can raiders pillage materials? Or just usable items? [/quote}

I don't even think raiders will take anything........most of the time when I go back to a settlement (if I do a settlement build) an attack may start when I am there. I do not think they will attack when you are not at your settlement.

[Zee_]

Originally posted by SuperSledgeNY:

Home Plate - 100% safe, no attacks, no settlers to take your stuff.

^ This. Its the only 100% safe space, nobody will ever take anything stored there.

However, it is possible to store things safely in settlements as well, its not a 100% guarantee, but its possible. To do it you have to build a small building with storage chests (or cabinets, or whatever you want) in it, and use a powered door for the entrance. Make sure to store guns and ammo in seperate chests, and make sure there is NOTHING in the room that settlers can interact with, no chairs, no crafting benches, just storage chests. Settlers won't open powered doors, and with nothing in the room for them to use they won't teleport in either.

For power armor, simply remove the power cells and store them in the locked room. Make random power cell checks on your settlers (they'll occasionally loot them from rust devil corpses), and buy any cells that any traveling merchants visiting that settlement may have as well.

But... the easiest and 100% safest storage option is Home Plate.

[Sid Pokey]

I keep my bounty in the root cellar at Sanctuary Hills. As a natural born hoarder, I like to keep one of everything. :)

[arthasbg]

Beside rare weapons and armor are there any rare or super rare junk items that are worth storing in a safe place if they happen to get stolen?

[Albino Noodle]

You could use a mod called locksmith, lets you lock any containers/doors. That's what I use
to keep those pesky sticky fingered settlers from helping themselves to stuff.

[sdack]

Put a box on a high scaffolding. High enough for you to reach but without a ladder to it.

Places with an over-head road such as Graygarden and Finch Farm are great for putting stuff out of reach. In Hangman's Alley can you put boxes on the roofs. And so on.

[Xyzzy]

Never had anything stolen from my container at red rocket. it has all my surplus weapons in it and armor, ballistic fibre, Golden Grasshopper, Radaway. That's the default container next to the Workbench.
[Vanilla, no Cons. no mods].

[Shahadem]

Give your companions the rare items to hold. Then store your companions in your Settlements.

[Eadrick Tudoria]

HOME PLATE is probably the safest, as people have said.

But if you must use another settlement like I do, I recommend building a storage room off the ground that has no walkways to it, maybe something you can climb in the game but NPCs can't walk to. That seems help, but not a guarantee. If you have the DLCs, the elevator works well.

Also, a settlement that has no settlers won't get settlement attacks (and therefor no hostiles looting), and the no settlers means no residents looting crates, as they seem to do. So if you make one Settlement a Home Base with no settlers, you're pretty safe. But that includes NOT having DLC robots at your Home Base. Robots count as settlers, so you'll get attacks.

However, even in an unpopulated Home Base, the rare hostile will possibly spawn in or nearby your home base and possibly take things.

In over 1200 hours of this game, I've primarily used Red Rocket as a Base without settlers, and have had only 1 or 2 weapons of mine show up on a hostile enemy. So it's pretty rare.

The bigger problem I see is something that Home Plate can't help with; storing multiple sets of power armor.

I've had 5 or 6 Power Armor sets "stolen". They didn't disappear, luckily, but I came back to Home Base to find either a trader wearing a suit of MY power armor, or a hostile in a suit of MY power armor, attacking me. And I know for CERTAIN that there was no fusion core in the Armor. I have seen hostiles with Fusion Cores in their inventory, so I am guessing one of those enemies came by and stole the Power Armor. But if you have the penatrator perk, it's easy to shoot the fusion core in VATS, which makes the enemy bail out of the armor, which you can then retrieve, Power Armor Frame and all.

Still, THAT is frustrating. Home Base is again safe from that, but after a while, you accumulate MANY sets of Power Armor, and Home Base can't store them all.

Spectacle Island is usually my "Home Base" besides Home Plate. But even there sees the occasional Gunner.

Still, it's very rare.

[WimpyTheWarrior]

Originally posted by sdack:

Put a box on a high scaffolding. High enough for you to reach but without a ladder to it.

To confirm sdack's suggestion, I've had sucess placing a wooden crate on the edge of a roof. I can look up and the transfer item menu appears, but settlers don't seem to look up.

If there is no suitable roof, the elevated shack foundation also works.

I place all the ammo and throwables in the crate. Settlers seem to not take the guns from the workshop if there is no ammo available.

I originally placed the crate in the middle of the roof and placed/removes a wooden staircase to transfer items. It was a hassle getting in and out of build mode, and by accident I noticed that I could get the transfer dialog if I placed the crate at the edge of the roof. So I've been using that for ~40 hours since and I haven't noticed any lost items.