Questions about stashing junk items in workbenches...

[SkepticJoker]

Can I store junk items in the Diamond City workbenches, too pick up or use later...? They won't get stolen or disappear? And what about random workbenches found around the map, is it safe to stash items in them?

[Bored Peon]

All workbenchs in the game are immune to cell resets.

I would assume NPCs could steal weapons and ammo from them.

[Shadowrun]

you can't link the home plate house in diamond city with another settlement using a trade route, so junk you put in the workbench there won't get used or taken. you also can't send settlers / NPC's to diamond city, so i've actually found it a good safe place to store guns, armor and power armors.

stuff that you leave in any container, workbenches included, can be looted by your settlers. usually they will only take what they need, a weapon, or some ammo for that weapon, or some water or food.

for the most part, items you stash are safe, but if you want to be sure, always store items where there are no settlers or NPC's, and always take the fusion cores out of power armor when not in use.

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

All workbenchs in the game are immune to cell resets.

I would assume NPCs could steal weapons and ammo from them.

They are? Good to know i never really dwelled on this subject or stashed any stuff in workbenches in resetable cells.

So i was wondering about OPs question.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

All workbenchs in the game are immune to cell resets.

I would assume NPCs could steal weapons and ammo from them.

They are? Good to know i never really dwelled on this subject or stashed any stuff in workbenches in resetable cells.

So i was wondering about OPs question.

Yep. I first tried it and tested it with the Far Harbor, by stashing everything in the power armor station.

Then later I ended up using the work stations around Lexington and Cambridge Red Rockets.

Plus if you talk with people who play without using settlements at all they use them as well.

[wtiger27]

The safest container to store stuff in you do not want to lose is Mannequins. I have watched video game plays of settlers and enemies looting weapons from other containers and the workbench. But I have never had anything looted from the mannequins.

This is a tip Doug on here gave. Thanks to him, it works great.

[DouglasGrave]

Regarding workbenches, the crafting ones generally aren't vulnerable directly, but the ones inside a settlement are linked to the main settlement workbench, and that is vulnerable. So crafting workbenches out in the wasteland are a safe place to store things.

[The Inept European]

All workbenches are perfectly safe storage for junk. The only thing that is ever stolen is matching weapons and ammo - one weapon and (usually all) matching ammo. Junk will disappear for only two reasons - 1. Used for crafting, potentially over supply lines, including settlement auto-repair after settlement attack damage to settlement objects; 2. Settlement attack loss automatic damage applied directly to settlement workshop inventory.

Player created containers are also immune to cell reset so these may be the safest places to store anything other than weapons and ammo, apart from an Armor Mannequin.

The advantage of non-settlement and unowned workbenches is that in such locations you cannot create a player-owned container, so the workbenches are the safest place to stash junk or in fact anything, protected from a cell reset.

[The Inept European]

In fact any item used in a crafting/building recipe can disappear from workshop inventory, and potentially be remote to the crafting/building location (via supply lines). So this includes not just Junk but unusually things like food and water, chems, ammo and maybe even caps, provided they are needed for a recipe.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by SkepticJoker:

Can I store junk items in the Diamond City workbenches, too pick up or use later...? They won't get stolen or disappear? And what about random workbenches found around the map, is it safe to stash items in them?

Yes, No, Yes.

[SkepticJoker]

Best answer yet.

[The Inept European]

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