Survival stock up

[MoonC A T]

Been a couple years since I played survival, don't remember what I needed the most. What stuff should I stock up on before enabling it? I'm not doing any console codes, I'd like to gather the ingredients legit.

Other than, IIRC, razorgrain, bottles, stuff to make antibiotics, etc...

[Evan]

There really isn't much to save up before going on survival.

Save up all of that meat and cook it I guess. It's always nice to have it sitting a workshop so you can get it whenever. Set up some farms at your settlement so you can get some easy food.

Water should be very simple.

I would say stimpaks but I honestly don't use them that much. I either don't need them or I get 1 tapped, lol. I remember I used to stimpak all the time, now not so much.

I find enough of the other meds.

Save some extra ammo in the workbench I guess?

[ZarahNeander]

alot of ppl like to go to sunshine tidy early to get the x2 meat magazine. Which makes food a non-issue pretty much

[MoonC A T]

Originally posted by ZarahNeander:

alot of ppl like to go to sunshine tidy early to get the x2 meat magazine. Which makes food a non-issue pretty much

Yeah I already collect meat and have that mag so set there.

[Evan]

If you're with the brotherhood, get some signal grenades. Those are useful.

[MoonC A T]

Originally posted by Evan:

If you're with the brotherhood, get some signal grenades. Those are useful.

Danse and his friends are in pieces at the police station thanks to my minigun.

[MoonC A T]

Originally posted by Evan:

There really isn't much to save up before going on survival.

Maybe I'll just wing it in the true spirit of survival's intentions.

[Zes]

you need cooked food, clean water and antibiotics mostly.

and a nearby base to your operations. to sleep.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by MoonCAT:

Originally posted by Evan:

If you're with the brotherhood, get some signal grenades. Those are useful.

Danse and his friends are in pieces at the police station thanks to my minigun.

That's too bad. For Survival, the vertibirds I found to be extremely useful. One big draw back to them however, is not being able to use them in Far Harbor or Nuka World. Far Harbor esp, begs for something like that to use.

[The Inept European]

Don't bother with the razorgrain unless you are planning to make Noodle Cup (with the bottles). It's basically useless in Survival apart from that recipe.

It's hard to think of things you would need to stock up on before enabling Survival, rather than just collecting them once Survival starts. You can't stock up on antibiotics or (useless) herbals, as they don't exist until you enable Survival.

It might be good to move ammo where you want it, especially heavy ammo like missiles, fusion cores, shotgun shells, .50, since it will have weight once you start Survival, and you will have less carrying capacity. (And no Vertibirds, apparently.)

[VindictiveQuaker]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Originally posted by MoonCAT:

Danse and his friends are in pieces at the police station thanks to my minigun.

That's too bad. For Survival, the vertibirds I found to be extremely useful. One big draw back to them however, is not being able to use them in Far Harbor or Nuka World. Far Harbor esp, begs for something like that to use.

(flyable personal vertibird) https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/47187 works pretty well, usable in DLC areas.

Survival is really easy, just hop into it. If you're looking for a challenge, look at "frost" or "horizon". I enjoy zombie runs using mods like "rebalancer", "survival settings", and "zombie walkers". Throw in "darker nights", "true storms", and "boston natural surroundings" and you won't even recognize the game. YOLO runs are good too, MATN on youtube has many series if you are looking for inspiration.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by VindictiveQuaker:

Originally posted by wtiger27:

That's too bad. For Survival, the vertibirds I found to be extremely useful. One big draw back to them however, is not being able to use them in Far Harbor or Nuka World. Far Harbor esp, begs for something like that to use.

(flyable personal vertibird) https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/47187 works pretty well, usable in DLC areas.

Survival is really easy, just hop into it. If you're looking for a challenge, look at "frost" or "horizon". I enjoy zombie runs using mods like "rebalancer", "survival settings", and "zombie walkers". Throw in "darker nights", "true storms", and "boston natural surroundings" and you won't even recognize the game. YOLO runs are good too, MATN on youtube has many series if you are looking for inspiration.

Thanks. But I do not use mods. And I like the combat in Survival. Most of the rest, sucks.

And I do not find it hard. The combat can be challenging, which is why I like that part of it. the rest is just a bunch of unrealistic and unnecessary restrictions which do not add anything to the game I like.

I am happy playing the game on Very Hard.

[omegazeda]

Play with Horizon 1.8 and get shredded by random raider wielding Vindicator minigun in under 2 seconds, even if you have 300 armor