Taking from workshop loses stuff?

[Macaw!]

I haven't tried it with other objects yet, but if there's steel (or another pure resource) in a workshop, say because you've scrapped items (including a shipment to get around the bug of using 1 bit and discarding the rest), and you take it, it vanishes. It doesn't go into your inventory. how do I work around this?

[Fake]

Did you check your Junk tab? Because, I've moved materials from one settlement to another and never ran into missing materials.

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

If you have supply lines set up with other settlements and those settlements may have damaged items but no materials ( for repairs ) in their own workshop, they will use the materials as soon as you deposit them.

[Macaw!]

Originally posted by PEACE:

If you have supply lines set up with other settlements and those settlements may have damaged items but no materials ( for repairs ) in their own workshop, they will use the materials as soon as you deposit them.

I wasn't aware settlers fixed stuff themselves. I did wonder why only rarely do I encounter busted defences.

[Macaw!]

Originally posted by Fake:

Did you check your Junk tab? Because, I've moved materials from one settlement to another and never ran into missing materials.

Yes I did, I took 50 steel from shipments I'd just scrapped, then was immediately unable to build stuff requiring steel. It seems to be intermittent, I'll just have to check every time I move a large amount of stuff to watch what causes it to happen.

[The Inept European]

When you break up an item the remainder of its components are likely found in the workbench you are using. If the item came from a remote settlement via a supply line - could get interesting. Even more so if you are using a shipment that's in a remote settlement.

It would be interesting to know the results if you test this systematically.

[Macaw!]

Originally posted by The Inept European:

When you break up an item the remainder of its components are likely found in the workbench you are using. If the item came from a remote settlement via a supply line - could get interesting. Even more so if you are using a shipment that's in a remote settlement.

It would be interesting to know the results if you test this systematically.

I wasn't doing anything complicated when it happened (on quite a few occasions, but never when I'm testing!) All I did was buy a shipment of something, take it to Sanctuary, drop it on the ground, use the workshop to scrap it, take it from the workshop to my inventory, then start building with it. It ran out long before it should have done.

[The Inept European]

Why scrap a shipment on the ground? That seems weird.

[Macaw!]

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Why scrap a shipment on the ground? That seems weird.

Because of the well known bug. You buy a shipment of 50, use 2 of it to build, and the other 48 vanishes. If you scrap first you get 50 individual pieces and nothing is lost.

[The Inept European]

I've never seen this apart from the bug with one of the Aluminum shipments. Apart from that one I've never lost anything from a shipment and never scrapped a shipment on the ground.

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

Originally posted by Macaw!:

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Why scrap a shipment on the ground? That seems weird.

Because of the well known bug. You buy a shipment of 50, use 2 of it to build, and the other 48 vanishes. If you scrap first you get 50 individual pieces and nothing is lost.

Originally posted by The Inept European:

I've never seen this apart from the bug with one of the Aluminum shipments. Apart from that one I've never lost anything from a shipment and never scrapped a shipment on the ground.

I have seen this bug and thoroughly tested it myself, altho it was a long time ago. I quit having the workshop scrap items because of this.

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by Macaw!:

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Why scrap a shipment on the ground? That seems weird.

Because of the well known bug. You buy a shipment of 50, use 2 of it to build, and the other 48 vanishes. If you scrap first you get 50 individual pieces and nothing is lost.

It doesn't actually vanish tho.
When testing custom made shipments i noticed this : While the raw resources don't appear anywhere in the workshop inventory because of this bug you still can use those "missing" materials from said shipment. They are not gone you just can't loot them out of the workshop inventory.

It's one of those Fallout 4 oddities..
I think reason for this is the shipment actually adds the component instead the scrap compoment.

Compoments entries cannot be looted while scrap copoment entries still contain the raw materials but can be looted.

It's a bit confusing but that's how scrapping works in this game for example :

Desk Fan > Screws scrap > Screws component

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

Originally posted by Macaw!:

Because of the well known bug. You buy a shipment of 50, use 2 of it to build, and the other 48 vanishes. If you scrap first you get 50 individual pieces and nothing is lost.

It doesn't actually vanish tho.
When testing custom made shipments i noticed this : While the raw resources don't appear anywhere in the workshop inventory because of this bug you still can use those "missing" materials from said shipment. They are not gone you just can't loot them out of the workshop inventory.

It's one of those Fallout 4 oddities..

Right - thanks for the reminder. This is a display-only bug. The inventory contents display fails to update promptly, but in the underlying game data the items are in fact there.

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Originally posted by ⎛ Alucard ⎞ ✟:

It doesn't actually vanish tho.
When testing custom made shipments i noticed this : While the raw resources don't appear anywhere in the workshop inventory because of this bug you still can use those "missing" materials from said shipment. They are not gone you just can't loot them out of the workshop inventory.

It's one of those Fallout 4 oddities..

Right - thanks for the reminder. This is a display-only bug. The inventory contents display fails to update promptly, but in the underlying game data the items are in fact there.

Be sure to read the edit cause i think i know why it might be like that.

[The Inept European]

I saw your proposed explanation. I wasn't going as far as the underlying explanation, just mentioning the phenomenon. But your explanation is plausible and I've actually never heard an explanation proposed before so that's useful.

[Iron Knights]

Components DO show up in Junk.
However, supply line carriers might take them too.