Things NOT to scrap?

[HammerHand]

Hello - i'm pretty new to Fallout4.

Should I keep these things or scrap them?


Lightbulbs
Makeshift Battery


Any other items to keep and not scrap?

[raubrey]

Originally posted by cooperman:

Dont scrap pre war money the game list's it as junk its literary burning money you get cloth from money?

Quoted for emphasis. I hate when that happens.

[HammerHand]

woah awesome, thanks !

[EolSunder]

Items i find useful and i never scrap. Build a container next to your Workbench and store all these items in them, you can use them later.

Prewar money... valuable to sell

5 types of tools.. Adjustable wrenches, Ball-peen hammers, Combination wrenches, screwdrivers, wrenches. Calvin in vault 81 will buy these for 15 caps each. That's a great deal. Usually by the time i reach Vault 81 i have about 5k worth of those tools. You usually don't have a money problem in the game anyway, vet players can rake in money easy, but new players always a bonus.

Items used in crafting other items, even if you don't use the other items you can get experience by crafting if your not worried about selling stuff.

Crafting: antifreeze bottle, abraxo cleaner, pencils

Normally what i do is once in a while just craft stuff between adventuring, use up your meats and the few items to make drugs, syringe ammo, food, explosives, etc. Even if you don't use those items much you still get experience with the crafting and later on you might use the drugs when you get the perks to make drug-use better (longer durability, no addiction, etc). 4 ranks of drug duration plus chest armor with drug duration boost BioComMesh really makes drugs super powerful.

Also what I do is on some downtime, i craft items in my settlement when i get a large supply of resources. Instead of selling them i just craft items for more experience and to use them up. of course you can do the quick way on PC and console up some experience and just dump the resources, but thats the lazy way.

For instance if i have a lot of glass, i'll make tons of disco balls to use it up and then scrap them. Plastic for lawn flamingos, ceramic for bath/brahman tubs, copper for almost anything, stuff like radios, settlement and alarm towers, give great crafting experience and use up items. dual airplane seats, very nice for aluminum/cloth i think, Totems for bones/steel, just almost anything to use up wood and steel, you get the idea. Filling up with 2000 ceramic? Nothing to use it on really, craft a lot of items for experience and scrap them, repeat.

When your scrapping a settlement, a new one, etc. there isn't really anything you shouldn't scrap other than any basic items you want to use, like keeping 1 bed in empty settlements for you, in your main settlement workbenches (keep a doghouse for dogmeat), etc. Most other things scrap them all and clear out everything, nothing you shouldn't scrap. Scrap the junk fences, build walls instead with those old fences. You can shoot through fences, you can't shoot through walls. Scrap everything.

[Doombringer]

The following Junk items are used in crafting:
Abraxo Cleaner (Mentats, Mindcloud Syringe)
Anti Freeze Bottle (Berry Mentats, Berserk Syringe, Yellow Belly Syringe, Mirelurk Jerky)
Blood Sac (Skeeto Spit)
Bloatfly Gland (Bloatfly Larva Syringe)
Bowling Ball (Modified Bowling Ball - ammo for 'The Striker')
Coffee Tin (these are rare - Slocum Joe's Buzz Bites)
Condensed Fog (all the sludge recipes)
Pencil (Endangerol Syringe)
Radscorpion Stinger (Radscorpion Venom Syringe)

Pre-war money is weightless, can be used in Nukaworld and sells for decent $.
Wrenches/Hammers/Screwdrivers can be sold to the guy in Vault 81 for $ if you don't need the steel/wood.


If you have the Creation Club donuts: Clean Coffee Tin, Coffee Tin, and Slocum Joe's Espresso Tin are used to make coffee.

[Broken War Horse]

Originally posted by LittleBlueDuneBuggy:

Originally posted by cooperman:

Dont scrap pre war money the game list's it as junk its literary burning money you get cloth from money?

Money is made of 75% cotton, and 25% linen. So yeah, you get cloth from money.

Unless you are a country that use money that is made of plastic (not credit cards). :)

[ronr42]

Originally posted by Broken War Horse:

Originally posted by LittleBlueDuneBuggy:

Money is made of 75% cotton, and 25% linen. So yeah, you get cloth from money.

Unless you are a country that use money that is made of plastic (not credit cards). :)

Oh but, there is a charge card. You can't use it as a credit card, but you can sell it for 100 caps.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Parker_Quinn

[ronr42]

Originally posted by Doombringer:

The following Junk items are used in crafting:
Abraxo Cleaner (Mentats, Mindcloud Syringe)
Anti Freeze Bottle (Berry Mentats, Berserk Syringe, Yellow Belly Syringe, Mirelurk Jerky)
Blood Sac (Skeeto Spit)
Bloatfly Gland (Bloatfly Larva Syringe)
Bowling Ball (Modified Bowling Ball - ammo for 'The Striker')
Coffee Tin (these are rare - Slocum Joe's Buzz Bites)
Condensed Fog (all the sludge recipes)
Pencil (Endangerol Syringe)
Radscorpion Stinger (Radscorpion Venom Syringe)

Pre-war money is weightless, can be used in Nukaworld and sells for decent $.
Wrenches/Hammers/Screwdrivers can be sold to the guy in Vault 81 for $ if you don't need the steel/wood.


If you have the Creation Club donuts: Clean Coffee Tin, Coffee Tin, and Slocum Joe's Espresso Tin are used to make coffee.

They can't have my pencils! I'm saving them for Willow when she comes to visit from the Mojave. :)

[Sisohiv]

I usually have cigar box, packs of smokes, cartons of smokes, pre-war money in a container. They work better as barter over junk. There are gold bars in the bunker in Sanctuary, 3 of them that will end up being bartered as well.

I also have a thing for comfy pillows but I don't know if they have a value higher than their scrap. I just keep them.

[LittleBlueDuneBuggy]

Originally posted by cooperman:

Originally posted by LittleBlueDuneBuggy:

Money is made of 75% cotton, and 25% linen. So yeah, you get cloth from money.

Money is made from plastic here

This game is set in the United States....where money is 75% cotton, and 25% linen.

[Los.Injurus.Bob.Blunderton]

I keep things like cig cartons, cig packs, gold watches/lockets, silver watches/lockets, pre-war money, early game completed giddy-up-butterball toys are worth a little bit of cash, though heavy. These 'kept' items sell for decent money when they add up, though you still have to haul it.
By contrast you can break them down for scrap, but honestly, I can generally buy more in shipments with selling them than I can using them as resources.
There's surely a few other things I hold on to, but in mid-game (past level 10) or sometimes even before then, lots of pipe rifles (you'll find these everywhere) can be broken down into many different things such as steel/gears/screws/copper etc and can yield many good useful parts for building turrets or new weapons. They don't sell for much.

[showler]

Originally posted by LittleBlueDuneBuggy:

Originally posted by cooperman:

Money is made from plastic here

This game is set in the United States....where money is 75% cotton, and 25% linen.

This game is set in the United States....where cars are 15% nuclear material.

[LittleBlueDuneBuggy]

Originally posted by showler:

Originally posted by LittleBlueDuneBuggy:

This game is set in the United States....where money is 75% cotton, and 25% linen.

This game is set in the United States....where cars are 15% nuclear material.

You can take this that direction if you want. Guy asked why you get cloth from money, and I told him.

[jonnan.west]

Originally posted by LittleBlueDuneBuggy:

Originally posted by showler:

This game is set in the United States....where cars are 15% nuclear material.

You can take this that direction if you want. Guy asked why you get cloth from money, and I told him.

This game is made in the Fallout United States, where friggin' Alarm Clocks contain useful amounts of nuclear material.

[Doombringer]

because atomic clocks best clocks ;)

[Experiment149]

Originally posted by Doombringer:

because atomic clocks best clocks ;)