Junk missing from workshop?

[Andvari2297]

So I've been massing items in Sanctuary since I started playing, almost all of the junk I've collected and stored in the workshop is now gone. Thousands of scrap worth..especially the adhesive.

Does anyone know what causes this? I have no supply lines set up and Sanctuary has never been successfully raided. On PS4 by the way.

[CellNav]

I don't have the PS4 so I don't know if you guys can run mods yet. A settlement mod might be conflicting with the ID of the workshop at Sanctuary, in other words, your junk is being deposited in a workshop ID that you cannot access.

Have you tried looking in your other crafting benches? They share the same list of items so perhaps creating a new crafting bench (i.e. cooking station) might have it look at the correct ID and list the items you are missing (idk).

[Mewfii]

Maybe the settlers are using the stuff? Have you assigned them to do jobs?

[Andvari2297]

We do have mod support but I am not running any mods, nor have I ever. And the only jobs I have assigned are 2 traders, rest are defense/food. It's only 12 population total. It's really possible for the settlers to take so many materials?

After looking at my junk list in the workshop more closely, it's a lot of items missing. For example desk fans it says I have two. I've been collecting them since I started and have not crafted much. I have 48 screws available to me when I know I had around 400

[CellNav]

Originally posted by Andvari2297:

We do have mod support but I am not running any mods, nor have I ever. And the only jobs I have assigned are 2 traders, rest are defense/food. It's only 12 population total. It's really possible for the settlers to take so many materials?

I've had the game since launch and ran mostly vanilla for 8 months and I've never seen your problem ... :/

Junk items only disappear if they are stolen during a failed raid (not your case), and junk items will transfer to a linked settlement to be broken down and the left over ingredients deposited into the current settlement workshop (again, not your case).

If you have to, exit to the main menu, then reload a prior save and see if that clears up and glitches ... Frankly I don't know what else to suggest ... :/

EDIT : If you craft or build at Sanctuary then those "junk items" will be broken down into basic ingredients, so that "junk" that contains several ingredients will be removed and left over ingredients will show up as basic parts (wood, glass, plastic, rubber, etc).

[Andvari2297]

Yeah I think it's just gone :/ I am in the process of moving everything that is left to the island, where I'll make a base and not get any settlers. If things still disappear it has to be a bug in the game. If not, then it was indeed the settlers taking it all. Sucks to lose such a massive amount of materials.

[CellNav]

Originally posted by Andvari2297:

Yeah I think it's just gone :/ I am in the process of moving everything that is left to the island, where I'll make a base and not get any settlers. If things still disappear it has to be a bug in the game. If not, then it was indeed the settlers taking it all. Sucks to lose such a massive amount of materials.

Well, settlers don't take junk, so you have a glitch somewhere, sadly ... :/

[UnableRogue]

Check all your female settlers. I heard they have a lot of junk in their trunks.

[Andvari2297]

Originally posted by UnableRogue:

Check all your female settlers. I heard they have a lot of junk in their trunks.

When I inqured about said amount of junk residing in their trunks, I was immediately slapped.

[Gnarl]

Did you build a factory?

Do you make lots of weapon mods? They pull from workshop and use the most adhesive.

Do you have supply lines? Other setlements will build from whatever resourses are in all linked workshops.

[UnableRogue]

Originally posted by Andvari2297:

Originally posted by UnableRogue:

Check all your female settlers. I heard they have a lot of junk in their trunks.

When I inqured about said amount of junk residing in their trunks, I was immediately slapped.

That's an admition of guilt right there.

[Andvari2297]

Originally posted by Gnarl:

Did you build a factory?

Do you make lots of weapon mods? They pull from workshop and use the most adhesive.

Do you have supply lines? Other setlements will build from whatever resourses are in all linked workshops.

No to all of these, I had much more materials than I could have burned with weapon mods, and I've not modded as I've had the same weapons for a while now. No supply lines, No factory.

[CellNav]

Only suggestion I have left is for you to run a test by linking Sanctuary with Red Rocket...

Save the game first if the test doesn't work ... Start at Red Rocket and go into build mode and pick something to build and note the number of materials on hand (write those numbers down). Create a supply line between RR and Sanctuary. Then, go back into build mode at RR and see if your building materials have increased in quantity, that will tell you if the junk is actually missing at Sanctuary (no change to quantity) or the quantity had increased because it is now adding Sanctuary's lost items (that you can't view otherwise).

[Erudaki]

I ran into this issue as well. http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/23878/? Made this to fix it. Hope it helps!

[European Fox]

This happened to me too but I realised what went wrong.

Apparently, my power generator and water purifier were destroyed along with some other things. Of course, I did not have the resources to fix them. In all likelyhood, a raider attack took place and they stole all my stuff.

I loaded a save game from 10 minutes ago, my junk was still there and I was just in time for a raider attack. During the attack, I noticed one of the settlers taking my power armour and just leaving it lying around after the battle.

I also noticed they all tend to loot the dead raider bodies and then swarm the workshop to (I assume) take or leave stuff?

In conclusion, build plenty of defense to reduce the likelyhood of raider attacks and do not leave precious junk, armour or weapons in poorly defended workshops.

Edit: sorry for the necro but I figured this thread needed closure.

[Nellvan]

Originally posted by European_Fox:

I figured this thread needed closure.

It kinda does, concerning that mod though.

Anyone reading this now and thinking about using the mod: Always look through the comments on a mod's page. And maybe just don't use this one.

Seems like it modifies vanilla scripts, which has potential to seriously backfire.