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La Criatura Espada Jun 23, 2018 @ 11:13pm
What's some important junk items to keep for crafting?
I asked this question before, and that was a while back.
Yes, I know that all the junk is used for building. I'm not a plebian.
All I need to know is what specific junk to keep for any quests or crafting, like Abraxo cleaner for mentats, or a bunch of items for making something for the Prydwen.
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Originally posted by ghpstage:
Anti Freeze Bottle for Berry Mentats, Yellow Belly Syringes, Beserk Syringe (which is needed and, for a post story BoS radial quest. Reactor Coolant. These are sacattered around but are rare, the reactor coolant is a waste of one in my opinion.

Tarberry for Berry Mentats, Lock Joint Syringes (which are fun!), and Mirelurk Jerky.

Baseballs for Baseball Grenades. Not exactly a stand out item I know.
Vault Tec Lunchboxes for bottlecap mines. These are fairly uncommon, but can be made with the 'Builder' for just 3 steel each so with the Contraptions DLC they are extremely spammable.

Hubflower for Grape Mentats and Psycho.
Nuka Cola for Overdrive.
Bloodleaf for ultrajet
Irradiated blood for glowing blood packs (these don't cause dehydration in survival yet function like a stimpak and rad-x in one. Very nice)

Syringes are a group that needs a lot of these.
Bourbon and Anti Freeze bottles for Beserk syringes
Bloatfly glands for Bloatfly Larvae syringes
Stingwing barbs and Tarberry for Lockjoint syringes.
Abraxo cleaner for Mind Cloud syringes
Nuka Cola for Pax syringes
Radscorpion stingers for Radscorpion Venom syringes

Brain Fungus is another you need for basic Mentats. Though Mentats are so common you don't really need to worry about this, nor Abraxo Cleaner for this purpose.

Pretty much all of the wild plant types found in the commonwealth are used in the recipes for herbal disease blocking items on Survival mode.

HalluciniGen Gas Canisters for HalluiniGen Gas Grenades. I don't think these respawn either.

Whiskey for Dirty Wastelander drinks

Fever Blossom for all three of Fury Grenade, Persuasion Grenade and Predator Grenade. Fury ones need Anti Freeze Bottles too.

Various nuka cola varieties (particularly quantum) for crafting new varieties of the cola, as well as weapons and ammo types in Nuka World.

Condensed Fog for the Sludge recipes in Far Harbour.

I don't know much in the way of quest specific ones, and this probably isn't a complete list of the crafting ones.


A lot are niche or pretty pointless, and none are necessary.
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bigdale Jun 23, 2018 @ 11:32pm 
Here is every material and items that contain them.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_4_junk_items
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Swagmaster Love 🇪🇺 Jun 23, 2018 @ 11:43pm 
What I found out:
Whenever I specifically considered something worth more than something else, I ran out of the latter. Even if it was common ♥♥♥♥.

Pick up everything boye.
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watchdog79 Jun 23, 2018 @ 11:50pm 
You totally need all junk:

https://img.memecdn.com/inventory-management-through-bethesda-games_o_6640907.jpg
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alicerinz Jun 23, 2018 @ 11:54pm 
Listen Closely :

Desk Fans,Cameras,Military-Grade everything,Duct Tape,Ash Tray,Handcuffs,Abraxo.Cleaner.

These are the best ones imo.
Last edited by alicerinz; Jun 23, 2018 @ 11:54pm
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Swagmaster Love 🇪🇺 Jun 23, 2018 @ 11:56pm 
Originally posted by Drunk Android:
Listen Closely :

Desk Fans,Cameras,Military-Grade everything,Duct Tape,Ash Tray,Handcuffs,Abraxo.Cleaner.

These are the best ones imo.

Quest failed, you ran out of nuclear material and wood.

D:
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alicerinz Jun 23, 2018 @ 11:57pm 
Originally posted by Mercy:
Originally posted by Drunk Android:
Listen Closely :

Desk Fans,Cameras,Military-Grade everything,Duct Tape,Ash Tray,Handcuffs,Abraxo.Cleaner.

These are the best ones imo.

Quest failed, you ran out of nuclear material and wood.

D:

Wood can be scrapped from the workshop and nuclear material often drops from enemies.
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Itsgungrave(Tvirus)(Rich) Jun 24, 2018 @ 12:51am 
"everything has a use "
Last edited by Itsgungrave(Tvirus)(Rich); Jun 24, 2018 @ 12:51am
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Hobo Misanthropus Jun 24, 2018 @ 1:11am 
Screws and Copper are always at the top of my list.

adhesive if you're not making a glue farm so all the local kids can still get high at school even in the Apocalypse.
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Eisbär Jun 24, 2018 @ 1:15am 
Everything.
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Tavman (4) Jun 24, 2018 @ 1:24am 
Originally posted by Mercy:
Originally posted by Drunk Android:
Listen Closely :

Desk Fans,Cameras,Military-Grade everything,Duct Tape,Ash Tray,Handcuffs,Abraxo.Cleaner.

These are the best ones imo.

Quest failed, you ran out of nuclear material and wood.

D:

Just look for alarm clocks and biometric scanners for nuclear material.
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Tavman (4) Jun 24, 2018 @ 1:25am 
Originally posted by Drunk Android:
Originally posted by Mercy:

Quest failed, you ran out of nuclear material and wood.

D:

Wood can be scrapped from the workshop and nuclear material often drops from enemies.

Just scrap boards and double barrel shotguns for wood.
Last edited by Tavman (4); Jun 24, 2018 @ 1:26am
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Hobo Misanthropus Jun 24, 2018 @ 1:30am 
I just buy my wood and steel personally. I don't like doing too much damage to the environment unless it's an object that's ugly.
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Borrolan Jun 24, 2018 @ 1:50am 
In my current play through I built water purifiers and pumps at Sanctuary immediately after the start of the game. Upgraded the purifiers to industrial scale once the required perk became available. Augmented the water output by sticking 10-20 pumps into Red Rocket and moving the water they produce to Sanctuary.

Regularly harvested the purified water output into containers and used it to buy every scrap item, and bulk shipment, Carla sells. Being overburdened with hundreds of units of water wasn't an issue because she was close to the containers where I stored the water. I also built up my ammo supply by regularly buying from Carla.

I did the same at Starlight - water purifiers in the pool and pumps in the ground - and bought most of the supplies at the nearby Drumlin Diner.

By level 10-12 I had a huge amount of scrap materials. Note - I did not populate settlements at these levels, because I wanted a lot of materials before I decided whether settlements was a route I wanted to take.

The proximity of traders at Sanctuary and at Drumlin might be deliberate. Allows players to accumulate water that can then be bartered for supplies.

Might not suit everyones style of play but it facilitates building up a lot of supplies and quite quickly. The only issue I encountered was occasionally watching Carla saunter off, when I was waddling over while over burdened with tins of water...come back...come back...waddle waddle waddle...Caaaarlaaaa!
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La Criatura Espada Jun 24, 2018 @ 2:27am 
Not the common stuff. Like, Physical things I NEED to keep intact for crafting like Abraxo or stuff for quests.
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La Criatura Espada Jun 24, 2018 @ 2:27am 
I can sure as hell get a ton of the basic stuff for building.
Does no one read? Like I appreciate people being helpful but at the same time there's a reason why I asked this question twice...
Last edited by La Criatura Espada; Jun 24, 2018 @ 2:28am
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