Scavenging Station limit?

[Artrysa]

On the wiki it says the limit of junk they can collect is 100 + (population × 5). Do they mean 100 of a certain material or 10 total? Meaning, if there is over a 100 pieces of wood in the workshop it won't be able to collect anything else. Or do they mean a 100 pieces of each type of junk?

[The Inept European]

Total.

[The Inept European]

That's a scavenger limit not specific scavenging station limit. It applies even if you have people scavenging without stations.

Don't do settler scavenging. It's a waste of time.

[zaphodikus]

Scavenging? What settler job assignment is more profitable? (vanilla, no DLC)

[The Inept European]

Farming will consistently produce more caps value, with which you can barter for the items you actually need, rather than playing a lottery.

Edit: and I mean actual farming, not 'water farming'. Water farmers might as well just console themselves a huge stash of caps, or just console themselves the shipments they want.

[zaphodikus]

Thanks, will do.

[sdack]

Originally posted by zaphodikus:

Scavenging? What settler job assignment is more profitable? (vanilla, no DLC)

There is nothing wrong with scavenging stations. These simply produce random junk items.

It is that some players are not content with the way the game challenges them. So does the game provide a lot of wood and a fair amount of steel when building settlements, but the amount of available concrete is limited, for instance. So when players then want to build with a lot of concrete do they have to overcome the shortage. Hence do some farm water, or find other ways to make a lot of caps, and then use the caps to buy concrete shipments.

However, when one is content with the limits set by the game and plays with a long-term goal in mind then one can get by with scavenging stations very comfortably. Scavenging stations will produce all kinds of junk and one gets all components from it including ballistic fibre, fibre optics, and gold. Simply include a few scavenging stations at each of your settlements and by the time you are ready to equip your settlers with upgraded combat armour and Gattling lasers will you also have the resources for it without having to farm caps or to buy shipments.

[zaphodikus]

Originally posted by sdack:

Originally posted by zaphodikus:

Scavenging? What settler job assignment is more profitable? (vanilla, no DLC)

There is nothing wrong with scavenging stations. These simply produce random junk items.

It is that some players are not content with the way the game challenges them. So does the game provide a lot of wood and a fair amount of steel when building settlements, but the amount of available concrete is limited, for instance. So when players then want to build with a lot of concrete do they have to overcome the shortage. Hence do some farm water, or find other ways to make a lot of caps, and then use the caps to buy concrete shipments.

However, when one is content with the limits set by the game and plays with a long-term goal in mind then one can get by with scavenging stations very comfortably. Scavenging stations will produce all kinds of junk and one gets all components from it including ballistic fibre, fibre optics, and gold. Simply include a few scavenging stations at each of your settlements and by the time you are ready to equip your settlers with upgraded combat armour and Gattling lasers will you also have the resources for it without having to farm caps or to buy shipments.

This is what I was kind of hopeing, slow and steady progressing without relying on shipments. In my first playthough I only built up settlements in the late-game. My character had a low charisma anyway, so I had low settlement max settler count. And I did rely on selling water to make money, which felt a bit nuts.

But now that I have re-started, I want to boost raw materials early so that I don't spend a entire day scavenging/farming the wasteland for steel and wood.

[=EGC= kansasterry]

I once built a settlement with 20 scavenging stations with assigned settlers it did not seem to bring in anymore scrap than the ones that had far less stations. While it was a fun experiment I am pretty sure I just wasted the resources building so many stations.

[The Inept European]

16-17 stations would hit the cap in 3 days so unless you were right on top of it emptying the workshop all the time it would be inefficient yes.