How to safely store equipment and items?

[ChequeMate]

I have been storing my items in that box near the Power Armour station in Sanctuary and someone said the items will disappear if I saty away for long time. Is there a safe way to store things so that they may not disappear, mostly unique junk and Aid items.

[15543641354361]

it's always been said that the manequin is the safiest storage which can't be looted so i use the manequin, you can even dress it.

[steventirey]

Items shouldn't just disappear from a container in settlements. Weapons and ammo (stored anywhere in the settlement) can be taken by NPCs should a fight break out. Food/drink items in the workshop can be consumed by your settlers if you aren't producing enough, and junk items in the workshop can be taken in you fail to defend the settlement. No other item should disappear from containers or the workshop.

The only 100% safe way to store something in a settlement is to use an armor rack (Added by one of the DLCs). As far as the game is concerned, those are actually a static NPC which means no one but you can ever take things from it. And despite being an armor display rack, it can hold any item in its inventory that you can.

[Ffabbia]

I have been playing Fallout 4 since 2017 and have never, in my entire life, had an item disappear from a storage crate within a settlement.

I've read comments from people who say that if you leave a weapon, along with the right ammo for it, in a crate and the settlement is attacked, one of your settlers may grab it from the crate and use it, but as I have never stored weapons and ammo in the same crate I've no first hand experience of it.

[SkinGravel]

I've seen this said before too. I haven't played a minute of survival where ammo has weight, so take that into account.

Right off the bat, I plop down six toolboxes for storage in Sanctuary until I get things going. One is for weapons. One is for armor... etc. I don't have a box for ammo, so as I said keep that in mind. Never had anything disappear.

[Sofi]

Originally posted by ChequeMate:

How to safely store equipment and items?

It probably isn't what you want to hear, but... Pick a settlement. Don't put any settlers in it. And store all your good stuff there where it won't be touched.

If you want to be extra safe, just build a box at this "Private Settlement" and don't put your things in the workshop.

Have a side box just for your junk/crafting items just in-case you don't intend to come back for a long time and the place gets attacked.

Even if you don't defend it, I don't think items in random containers are stolen. Just stuff that would have been in the workshop.

It's tedious, certainly, but if you're into sorting your junk like I am, it's something you look forward to after romping around for a few hours.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Ffabbia:

I have been playing Fallout 4 since 2017 and have never, in my entire life, had an item disappear from a storage crate within a settlement.

I've read comments from people who say that if you leave a weapon, along with the right ammo for it, in a crate and the settlement is attacked, one of your settlers may grab it from the crate and use it, but as I have never stored weapons and ammo in the same crate I've no first hand experience of it.

You might just be lucky. I have 4300+ hrs in the game and it has happened to me on more than one occasion. Until I started placing any items I wanted to keep safe, in the Mannequins ( Armor Racks ) They are the only 100% safe storage method in the game in a populated settlement that is.

Not sure of Home Plate or any other non settlement dwelling area used only by the player. I don't use those.

[✿⊱oLadyGamer⊰✿]

I usually store special weapons on a weapon rack, and it seems Dogmeat is the only one who will go over and grab one or bark at me and say look!

It never fails and I don't know why he does that.

But yeah armor dummies are good and I place them atop a roof just in case. LoL

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by ✿⊱oLadyGamer⊰✿:

I usually store special weapons on a weapon rack, and it seems Dogmeat is the only one who will go over and grab one or bark at me and say look!

It never fails and I don't know why he does that.

But yeah armor dummies are good and I place them atop a roof just in case. LoL

Lol. You can safely put them any place you want. Nothing will disappear from them.

Settlers are known to teleport to the top of buildings, on the roofs. :p

I like to dress them up to represent what I have stored in them.

[Varanus]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Originally posted by Ffabbia:

I have been playing Fallout 4 since 2017 and have never, in my entire life, had an item disappear from a storage crate within a settlement.

I've read comments from people who say that if you leave a weapon, along with the right ammo for it, in a crate and the settlement is attacked, one of your settlers may grab it from the crate and use it, but as I have never stored weapons and ammo in the same crate I've no first hand experience of it.

You might just be lucky. I have 4300+ hrs in the game and it has happened to me on more than one occasion. Until I started placing any items I wanted to keep safe, in the Mannequins ( Armor Racks ) They are the only 100% safe storage method in the game in a populated settlement that is.

Not sure of Home Plate or any other non settlement dwelling area used only by the player. I don't use those.

I can attest, from personal experience, that I too, have never had a settler take anything out of storage. Loot bodies? Yes. But never have they taken anything out of a container, with the exception of the tribute chests in raider settlements. Which, mind you, will crash the game. O_O

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Varanus:

Originally posted by wtiger27:

You might just be lucky. I have 4300+ hrs in the game and it has happened to me on more than one occasion. Until I started placing any items I wanted to keep safe, in the Mannequins ( Armor Racks ) They are the only 100% safe storage method in the game in a populated settlement that is.

Not sure of Home Plate or any other non settlement dwelling area used only by the player. I don't use those.

I can attest, from personal experience, that I too, have never had a settler take anything out of storage. Loot bodies? Yes. But never have they taken anything out of a container, with the exception of the tribute chests in raider settlements. Which, mind you, will crash the game. O_O

I have did and will continue to do, Open Season shortly after arriving at Nuka World. So I don't know about the raider settlements. As my char has said, " Raiders are scums. They don't deserve to live."

[Cirith]

I tend to keep most of my items in another settlement where it's no one there at all, but i keep it well defended.

[Ffabbia]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Originally posted by Ffabbia:

I have been playing Fallout 4 since 2017 and have never, in my entire life, had an item disappear from a storage crate within a settlement.

I've read comments from people who say that if you leave a weapon, along with the right ammo for it, in a crate and the settlement is attacked, one of your settlers may grab it from the crate and use it, but as I have never stored weapons and ammo in the same crate I've no first hand experience of it.

You might just be lucky. I have 4300+ hrs in the game and it has happened to me on more than one occasion. Until I started placing any items I wanted to keep safe, in the Mannequins ( Armor Racks ) They are the only 100% safe storage method in the game in a populated settlement that is.

Not sure of Home Plate or any other non settlement dwelling area used only by the player. I don't use those.

Very odd. I've fully completed this game, I'd say, around 14 times so far over the years, and the run I did before this latest one was well over 300 hours. In all of those times I've been keeping weapons and armor in chests within various settlements, Sanctuary for non-Survival runs and Hangman's Ally for Survival runs. Never once have I lost so much as a single pipe pistol from one of those chests, and have honestly never heard of it happening - save in the aforementioned scenario of having ammo and the weapons in the same container.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Ffabbia:

Originally posted by wtiger27:

You might just be lucky. I have 4300+ hrs in the game and it has happened to me on more than one occasion. Until I started placing any items I wanted to keep safe, in the Mannequins ( Armor Racks ) They are the only 100% safe storage method in the game in a populated settlement that is.

Not sure of Home Plate or any other non settlement dwelling area used only by the player. I don't use those.

Very odd. I've fully completed this game, I'd say, around 14 times so far over the years, and the run I did before this latest one was well over 300 hours. In all of those times I've been keeping weapons and armor in chests within various settlements, Sanctuary for non-Survival runs and Hangman's Ally for Survival runs. Never once have I lost so much as a single pipe pistol from one of those chests, and have honestly never heard of it happening - save in the aforementioned scenario of having ammo and the weapons in the same container.

It's not just weapons and ammo. I have lost resources from containers and the work bench from a "failed to defend a settlement attack". So the ones hard to get, such as Aluminum and Fiber Optics, I store some extra in the Mannequins. Just in case.

[Ffabbia]

It's not just weapons and ammo. I have lost resources from containers and the work bench from a "failed to defend a settlement attack". So the ones hard to get, such as Aluminum and Fiber Optics, I store some extra in the Mannequins. Just in case.

OK to be honest, I bulk-horde scrap as I'm a prolific builder and so I'm spending hours of my time going on scrapping expeditions, and ransacking merchant's supplies of scrap, buying shipments etc.

So I honestly could not tell you how much I have of even rare ingredients in my current game and if some went missing It would be a miracle if I even noticed. There must be thousands upon thousands of wood, metal and concrete in my workbench right now, along with hundreds and hundreds of other ingredients.

Maybe if my entire stash of aluminium went missing I'd notice, but never had that happen. I've been buying shipments of it every single time I visit Diamond City and grabbing every tray, can and cake pan I encounter, so there's probably at least a thousand aluminium in there.

[Pherdnut]

Junk and aid items? Aside from raiders, are you aware that linked settlements share workbench resources for crafting?