how to find lots of concrete?

[Swag Messiah]

On my current playthrough, im having a serious shortage of conrete which is getting in the way of building up my settlements. Any suggestions on where to loot or farming techniques?

[Zekiran]

Rocks. To be fair I think Scrap Everything is how I do those. Bags of cement are everywhere, but I'd still highly recommend using scrap everything mod if you're actually wanting to build things in this game.

Otherwise, info on where to loot!

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Concrete_(Fallout_4)

[Chaosium]

One of the DLCs made it easier to acquire as you can buy shipments with a lot of concrete, otherwise it's hard to find except by scrapping stuff in settlements

Vault 114 is an okay source because there are a dozen cement bags, but you'll need companions or Strong Back because they'll weigh 75045204 pounds

[Death Approaches]

if you're going to resort to gimmicks and farming lists, why not just give it to yourself?

one single command: player.additem 1ec66a 100, gives you 100 of those shipment certificates Chaos is talking about, except without buying one, sleeping for 3 days til they restock or speeding up the regen with a console command, and buying 1 more... this will give you 100 of *EVERY* certificate, all possible components, and of course they weigh nothing so when you craft with them, the remainder of the heavy supplies go into the workbench.

Is it cheating? no. yes. maybe? who cares, exactly? it's a single player game.

if you're ok with it, we're ok with it.

[Relic62]

That console command saves a ton of time searching and buying the damn stuff lol

[Stardustfire]

in survival i have this glitch that the railroad station east of starlight respawns at a very fast rate, what means you can get rapidly a bigger number of concete sacks there, its not a big ammount, but when you cant get the bulks at vendors it will help i guess.

[DouglasGrave]

Shipments really are the best way to go when it comes to standard gameplay, especially for concrete which is both rare and heavy (in its normal form) and cheap (as a shipment).

[Ceredh]

I use console commands for wood and steel without much regret (as there are trees and lots of cars around which you cannot scrap) but I'm hesitating for using it for concrete which may be a more rare material in the C. Nevertheless a valid action, as many mechanics and restrictions are purely artificial.

The most concrete I always get from totally scrapping Sanctuary. I never do the Minutemen quest (or any other major questlines), so Sanctuary is empty anyway and is only a point for a caravan connection.
Then there are more than usual concrete blocks found in Taffington boathouse, you also don't need to do a quest to get access to the workbench there, just kill the bugs.

Other than that, as said, buying shipments is the only way for getting bigger numbers.

[Blinkybubs]

I would also use the console command. Alternatively, if you would prefer to retain a measure of immersion you could also pick up a mod that allows you to configure your respawn timer. Such as this one,

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/4649

[Death Approaches]

lol so the immersion is, as long as you do the heavy editing *before* the graphics start, it's all good?

Also I'd suggest one that's at least configurable, and supports a bunch of mod-provided vendors too, very few gamers are running vanilla this many years down the line...

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/64017

y'know you can always 'tcl' and look behind the walls/floor and find the nearby vendor container and manually reset it as you want, but yeah, that's not any more immersive than just giving yourself the certificates, so nevermind.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

if you're going to resort to gimmicks and farming lists, why not just give it to yourself?

one single command: player.additem 1ec66a 100, gives you 100 of those shipment certificates Chaos is talking about, except without buying one, sleeping for 3 days til they restock or speeding up the regen with a console command, and buying 1 more... this will give you 100 of *EVERY* certificate, all possible components, and of course they weigh nothing so when you craft with them, the remainder of the heavy supplies go into the workbench.

Son of a........ I've been using a batch file with all the material IDs... Spawning an absolute obscene amount of junk into my inventory and having to dump it at a workbench...

Is it cheating? no. yes. maybe? who cares, exactly? it's a single player game.

if you're ok with it, we're ok with it. :radiationsymbol:

It absolutely is, but who gives a damn...? I've spent many many many hours building things in this game before. If I'm starting a new play through, I'm going to take a couple of shortcuts to skip the boring bits...

[Blinkybubs]

Originally posted by funkynutz:

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

if you're going to resort to gimmicks and farming lists, why not just give it to yourself?

one single command: player.additem 1ec66a 100, gives you 100 of those shipment certificates Chaos is talking about, except without buying one, sleeping for 3 days til they restock or speeding up the regen with a console command, and buying 1 more... this will give you 100 of *EVERY* certificate, all possible components, and of course they weigh nothing so when you craft with them, the remainder of the heavy supplies go into the workbench.

Son of a........ I've been using a batch file with all the material IDs... Spawning an absolute obscene amount of junk into my inventory and having to dump it at a workbench...

Is it cheating? no. yes. maybe? who cares, exactly? it's a single player game.

if you're ok with it, we're ok with it. :radiationsymbol:

It absolutely is, but who gives a damn...? I've spent many many many hours building things in this game before. If I'm starting a new play through, I'm going to take a couple of shortcuts to skip the boring bits...

Time is a valuable thing in life and some people don't have enough of it.

https://falloutcheats.com/items/material

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by funkynutz:

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

if you're going to resort to gimmicks and farming lists, why not just give it to yourself?

one single command: player.additem 1ec66a 100, gives you 100 of those shipment certificates Chaos is talking about, except without buying one, sleeping for 3 days til they restock or speeding up the regen with a console command, and buying 1 more... this will give you 100 of *EVERY* certificate, all possible components, and of course they weigh nothing so when you craft with them, the remainder of the heavy supplies go into the workbench.

Son of a........ I've been using a batch file with all the material IDs... Spawning an absolute obscene amount of junk into my inventory and having to dump it at a workbench...

Obviously the developers felt enough of the same issue in testing to add a code for easily working around it.

It's not my personal method, but it's certainly convenient.

[gregnewman2022]

Why not just use the mods '' Cheat Terminal '' and '' Dr Mobius Infinite Stash - available on Nexus ) . You can manipulate the game with first one and the second one , all the materials you'll ever need fro building stuff .

[Blinkybubs]

+1 on the cheat terminal, I use it for testing.

[Anvos]

Originally posted by DouglasGrave:

Shipments really are the best way to go when it comes to standard gameplay, especially for concrete which is both rare and heavy (in its normal form) and cheap (as a shipment).

This is the best legitimate answer if you want to make massive concrete works in your settlements.