Too little concrete and copper

[Fack XD]

Concrete and copper are way too hard to find!

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Concrete sure. Copper is actually really easy to find once you know what has it. Go Robot Hunting for Copper.

[ironhead1969]

Hot plates!

[Fack XD]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

Concrete sure. Copper is actually really easy to find once you know what has it. Go Robot Hunting for Copper.

Thnx

[jeffy]

well.............if you had a supply route made

all junk from every settlement is combined into everthing that is connected

concrete blocks - scrap them for concrete

bag of concrete

you can find these near consctruction sites anywhere

[Ruin]

Originally posted by Small Sausage:

Concrete and copper are way too hard to find!

Buy bags of concrete from traders, only way to ensure you get any as it is very limited otherwise, outside of the concrete blocks you can scrap in settlements...

As for copper, pretty much anything electrical will have copper in it such as hot plates, light bulbs, lamps, fuses etc...

I'd seriously recommend the Scrapper perk too, at level 1 you can scrap any sort of pipe rifle and get a small amount of copper in doing so, I found I was struggling for copper before getting this...

Also at rank 2 it allows you to tag materials which then highlight junk that contains them out in the world...

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Scrapper_%28perk%29

[ChemicalBacon]

Concrete can be found really easily on building sites and industrial factories, in many cases, you can find a couple of bags laying in the same spot

[RIVEIR]

You can buy concrete on the abernathy farm and the finch farm just to name two locations.

[MissingUserID]

For copper just get the scrapper perk and scrap all pipe rifles you find. (you will never need copper again)

[Charlemagne]

Not only concrete and copper, practically anything can be scarce if you don't pick it up. I always pick up copper-containing junk no matter what the weight. Most merchants regularly sell a few items containing copper. Every time you see a vendor, sweep it up. Along with everything else that is scarce. Adhesive!!! Aluminum, circuitry, screws (until you get the perk that lets you recover them from scrapped weapons). There are items that seem so inane, but if you stop picking them you will run out> cloth, ceramics, sometimes even wood!

[BevvRatBites]

Eh just buy concrete from abernathy farm for cheap and copper is easy to find.

[Nuee]

Telephones are good too. Anytime I go to unload after a run I try to buy the resources most scarce. Usually you unload more than the merchant has caps for anyway... so trade the excess for things you need in settlements. Glue and duct tape anytime you find it for one. Ballistic weave is scarce early. Cork (those globes are useful). Telephones and hotplates. If your scarce on cloth mops and rags are cheap as well.

Especially good to buy the heavy stuff from myrna when shes in sanctuary then you can immediately dump it into your crafting station bin.

Also you can tag the thing your short on in your workbench. Then when you go to buy junk you see that it is annoited as a desired item.

[Kasane Randell MFer]

I never made a whole lot of stuff with concrete, I find that people make some awesome stuff out of the concrete foundations, but to me, it's not really lore friendly. I just wish they added concrete walls like covenant.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Originally posted by RIVEIR:

You can buy concrete on the abernathy farm and the finch farm just to name two locations.

This is probably the best way to get Concrete.

Bags of concrete are very heavy, and even scrapped concrete is very heavy.

Originally posted by lewislemitar2:

I never made a whole lot of stuff with concrete, I find that people make some awesome stuff out of the concrete foundations, but to me, it's not really lore friendly. I just wish they added concrete walls like covenant.

Yeah, personally I've always tried to make my stuff look boring, in the sense that it doesn't stick out against what's already in the wasteland. I'm not trying to build an airship made out of concrete, or a gigantic penis...

[Kasane Randell MFer]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

Originally posted by lewislemitar2:

I never made a whole lot of stuff with concrete, I find that people make some awesome stuff out of the concrete foundations, but to me, it's not really lore friendly. I just wish they added concrete walls like covenant.

Yeah, personally I've always tried to make my stuff look boring, in the sense that it doesn't stick out against what's already in the wasteland. I'm not trying to build an airship made out of concrete, or a gigantic penis...

They look cool, don't get me wrong, it's freaking awesome. But I just think it wasn't suppost to be exploited like that. to make a freaking building out of concrete foundations.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Originally posted by lewislemitar2:

I never made a whole lot of stuff with concrete, I find that people make some awesome stuff out of the concrete foundations, but to me, it's not really lore friendly. I just wish they added concrete walls like covenant.

There's also no practical reason to go concrete-heavy, since structures you build are indestructible regardless of material. You can build a massive fortress supported only by a single staircase (or nothing at all, if you delete the staircase), and even opponents with mini-nukes let alone Molotov cocktails and flamers can't damage a basic wooden wall.

Originally posted by Nuee:

Especially good to buy the heavy stuff from myrna when shes in sanctuary then you can immediately dump it into your crafting station bin.

Carla, right? Myrna stays in Diamond City as far as I know. Her store is convenient, though -- it's open 24 hours since a Mr. Handy operates it when she's away, and it's very close to one of the doors to your possible home at Home Plate.

If you can build a caravan trading post, so Carla and other merchants visit, place it near a crafting station so you can easily pick up anything you want to sell (purified water, say) and easily dump any junk you buy.

Eventually it can become possible to have Bunker Hill as a settlement, so building a crafting station inside the main room where merchants will often hang out (Deb, for instance) is similarly useful.