Any way to turn gold into normal currency?

[owman1]

Pretty much this, I've accumulated a bit of gold (~100) and was wondering if I could transfer it into whatever the normal currency is to contribute to buying a new weapon?

[ParasiteX]

You do know you can use all items of value as a currency when trading things at vendors?

So just take em to nearest trader and trade it for either caps or some other item.

[Ruin]

In short, yes you can, as per ParasiteX's post, but don't... Gold is one of the rarer materials to find, and it's used in alot of high-level Power Armour and Energy Weapon upgrades...

[Pant]

You can trade pretty much anything with traders gold included, but you shouldn't as it's used in a lot of higher level upgrades for weapons.

[Doombringer]

Gold is rare, and if you want to ugrade a bunch of high end energy weapons you probably want to save it...
(Only ballistic fiber is harder to find.)

[Zulu]

Originally posted by Doombringer:

Gold is rare, and if you want to ugrade a bunch of high end energy weapons you probably want to save it...
(Only ballistic fiber is harder to find.)

I have got a ton of ballistic fiber, especially in those military ammo bags. I don't think i have that much gold - except a couple gold bars from that Shem Drowne quest which was forever ago. I didn't want to spend the bars as they just seemed to unique.

[Ruin]

Originally posted by Zulu:

Originally posted by Doombringer:

Gold is rare, and if you want to ugrade a bunch of high end energy weapons you probably want to save it...
(Only ballistic fiber is harder to find.)

I have got a ton of ballistic fiber, especially in those military ammo bags. I don't think i have that much gold - except a couple gold bars from that Shem Drowne quest which was forever ago. I didn't want to spend the bars as they just seemed to unique.

Best source is gold watches... You can find them semi-commonly if you look hard enough, but still not common enough to consider selling...

[Zulu]

Originally posted by Ruin:

Originally posted by Zulu:

I have got a ton of ballistic fiber, especially in those military ammo bags. I don't think i have that much gold - except a couple gold bars from that Shem Drowne quest which was forever ago. I didn't want to spend the bars as they just seemed to unique.

Best source is gold watches... You can find them semi-commonly if you look hard enough, but still not common enough to consider selling...

That's true. But sometimes you don't have enough time to use them or you just plain don't want to pick them up OR the weapons you use don't require gold because you are to 'late game'.

[Nite69]

You can sell them to traders but they won't be much value, gotta remember a trader is like a pawn shop they have to make money on it too.

[Ruin]

Originally posted by Zulu:

Originally posted by Ruin:

Best source is gold watches... You can find them semi-commonly if you look hard enough, but still not common enough to consider selling...

That's true. But sometimes you don't have enough time to use them or you just plain don't want to pick them up OR the weapons you use don't require gold because you are to 'late game'.

Yeah, also true... But, given there are plenty of other items that can easily be sold in their place, I personally would rather not sell gold, as I can gaurantee when I need it, I'll be otherwise running short...

[Zulu]

Originally posted by Ruin:

Originally posted by Zulu:

That's true. But sometimes you don't have enough time to use them or you just plain don't want to pick them up OR the weapons you use don't require gold because you are to 'late game'.

Yeah, also true... But, given there are plenty of other items that can easily be sold in their place, I personally would rather not sell gold, as I can gaurantee when I need it, I'll be otherwise running short...

I don't sell any junk items. I just stockpile them in my forever growing fortress. After some point it's not a good idea to have a huge amount of items in one place though; it can start to get some pretty bad lag when trying to load it all in one go.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Zulu:

Originally posted by Ruin:

Yeah, also true... But, given there are plenty of other items that can easily be sold in their place, I personally would rather not sell gold, as I can gaurantee when I need it, I'll be otherwise running short...

I don't sell any junk items. I just stockpile them in my forever growing fortress. After some point it's not a good idea to have a huge amount of items in one place though; it can start to get some pretty bad lag when trying to load it all in one go.

Thats why I buy shipments from traders, and ONLY stock up on filtered water at 1 settlement to trade for it, it cuts down on the junk stored at the settlement

[Doombringer]

The only places to get reasonable amounts of gold are:
Root Cellar (3bars, does not respawn)
Bridgeway Trust (4bars+watch+16 safes which sometimes have watches/lighters) 7day reset (non-survival)
Bunkerhill (merchant has a gold shipment)
Trader Rylee (level 4 junk merchant; if you set her up in a settlement she has 3x normal junk merchant inventory)

Gold is more common than ballistics fiber, but not by a lot (fiber is way more useful).
(3merchants sell shipments, 2 merchants have 20% chance of selling a shipment, tinker tom can provide 14/shop reset with scrapper rank2)

[LAZERFACE]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=747970633
I make traps for caps, you can go from lv10-100 and never kill anything. You can see by the snapsnot, I will never need caps again.

[Doombringer]

Or you can set up rediculous water farms and generate >500k caps worth of purified water per day ;)
Fun fact: if you place or remove stacks of more than 65535 you will lose 65535*INT(stacksize/65535) from it.
For some reason item transfer uses a 2byte stack size even though containers aren't limited in that way.

[LAZERFACE]

The water trick works, i am just to anal to do that.