Manufacturing ammo

[Saul Tink]

So! I am wanting to try Manufacturing ammo, and I was wondering if there was a way to connect a container that has access to everything in the workbench, so that I don't need to manually add things into it and search through everything I own?

I was thinking maybe a crafting station would work, then the Vacuum Hopper feeding into the Ammo Plant, then into storage.

Would that work? or would I need a specific container, or does it not work like that, and I'll need to do it manually?

*edit* Without mods, as I am going through a mostly vanilla run (Creation Club)

[Lucifer69]

Not possible without mods, well... it would be a problem.

Vacuum hoppers can pull items out of the settlement's workbench, but one item at a time and you cannot control which one it picks (alphabetical, I believe). The only way around this is limiting what you store to the components you need in the workshop, but it would be easier to just walk up to the builder and store all in it than building some vacuum hopper setup.

Edit: You can try building a bunch of vacuums on the workbench to pull multiple items at once, but it's still easier/ faster to manually dump items in the builders.

The only use of the vacuum hopper is using it to clean out builders, imo.

Note, the vacuum cannot pull items out of crafting stations, only the main workbench and containers.

[Saul Tink]

Originally posted by Lucifer69:

Not possible without mods, well... it would be a problem.

Vacuum hoppers can pull items out of the settlement's workbench, but one item at a time and you cannot control which one it picks (alphabetical, I believe). The only way around this is limiting what you store to the components you need in the workshop, but it would be easier to just walk up to the builder and store all in it than building some vacuum hopper setup.

Edit: You can try building a bunch of vacuums on the workbench to pull multiple items at once, but it's still easier/ faster to manually dump items in the builders.

The only use of the vacuum hopper is using it to clean out builders, imo.

Note, the vacuum cannot pull items out of crafting stations, only the main workbench and containers.

well thank you for that, but gahdamnit... Was hoping to not have to do that lol

I remember when I played it on Xbox I had one on top of my Sanctuary settlement, as it was, and always has been, my main. I hated having to sort through and read everything, just to find the specific components...

Maybe I'll just build a small box room that I can toss all junk items into, to break them down into components, to limit my searching needs...

[Lucifer69]

Better Manufacturing is what you are looking for. It's the updated Manufacturing Extended (you can use them together if you want).

It's a mod, yes, but the only thing cheaty about it is some of the recipes are bit cheap and the auto butcher tends to give too many resources. The hopper it adds pulls directly from the workshop and it can be customized to pull only certain items (up to 4 items per pull as well).

You get the missing belts, like merging two lines into one (vanilla only has a splitter). As well as some other useful additions.

Otherwise, I'm sorry but what you want isn't really doable in vanilla.

[Sybarine]

Originally posted by Saul Tink:

I hated having to sort through and read everything, just to find the specific components...

Maybe I'll just build a small box room that I can toss all junk items into, to break them down into components, to limit my searching needs...

Another method is to use the Component View in your inventory and tag the components for searching, or take all the items from your workbench, use component view in your inventory and note the items you have that provide the particular component. Not the best solution but it's a little less frustrating than going through each junk item.

[Saul Tink]

Originally posted by Sybarine:

Originally posted by Saul Tink:

I hated having to sort through and read everything, just to find the specific components...

Maybe I'll just build a small box room that I can toss all junk items into, to break them down into components, to limit my searching needs...

Another method is to use the Component View in your inventory and tag the components for searching, or take all the items from your workbench, use component view in your inventory and note the items you have that provide the particular component. Not the best solution but it's a little less frustrating than going through each junk item.

I play a little cheatsy, in that, I have all of them, everything, in my search list so that they glow when I'm near, because I'm blind sometimes lol

[Heimdall313]

I put a large cabinet in front of the vacuum hopper, and fill the cabinet with what I need. You can hook hopper to a switch to keep it from constantly pulling. I put a crafting bench next to or near the cabinet so I can pull what I want instead of watching hundreds of water bottles or mutfruit flow down to storage.