Are scavenging stations bugged or just useless?

[Climhazzard]

So I'm trying to build a large castle in game without cheating to gain resources, I've just about scrapped every tree from every settlement in the game (Including spectacle island) but it's only halfway done. http://imgur.com/a/Gpod8

To combat this problem my settlements were set up with scavenging stations and connected by supply lines. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=564406537

I have around 70 scavenging stations connected to the network in all, yet I'm gaining little to no resources from them. I have mostly been watching my steel and wood supplies to monitor the effect, there are plenty of junk items with both materials. I have seen my steel supply go up a few times, but very little.

When testing if they work I take all the items out of a workshop. Sleeping 24 hours, traveling back and forth across the commonwealth, leaving the game running for an hour while I go do irl stuff, none of these add items to the workshop.

Anyone else find that the scavenging station is completely useless? As it stands I would have been much better off just using the resources on my castle directly. Here's hoping they get fixed soon...

[CrUsHeR]

Same like the Supply Lines, according to the in-game loading screen they are supposed to make the settlements share their water+food supply.

[Climhazzard]

For me the supply lines are working, just not the scavenging stations.

[The_Pastmaster]

I get junk items from time to time.

[Spocks Toupee]

Here's my hypothesis of what the scavenging stations do...

Once you establish a settlement, instead of running around and scrapping all the trees, junk cars, etc, if you build a scavenging station and assign a settler to it, THEY will go around and scrap all of the stuff in the new lot for you.

That's what I think it's for anyway, I'm going to have to build one in the next settlement a take over, and see if I build a scavenging station if the Settlers will go around and clear the area for me

[McDubie]

not worth the man power... better off doing it yourself or just buying shipments of what material you need.

[Climhazzard]

Unfortunately wood shipments are entirely inadequate, I'm using 1k at a time and they're 50 at a time.

[Reverend Belial]

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Here's my hypothesis of what the scavenging stations do...

Once you establish a settlement, instead of running around and scrapping all the trees, junk cars, etc, if you build a scavenging station and assign a settler to it, THEY will go around and scrap all of the stuff in the new lot for you.

That's what I think it's for anyway, I'm going to have to build one in the next settlement a take over, and see if I build a scavenging station if the Settlers will go around and clear the area for me

They don't. Settlers assigned to scavenging stations produce slightly higher amounts of random junk from time to time, as opposed to the rate that totally unassigned ones gather.

[Reverend Belial]

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Unfortunately wood shipments are entirely inadequate, I'm using 1k at a time and they're 50 at a time.

Moe Cronin in Diamond City sells shipments of 100 (he's the guy in the baseball uniform yelling about "swatters")

[Climhazzard]

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Unfortunately wood shipments are entirely inadequate, I'm using 1k at a time and they're 50 at a time.

Moe Cronin in Diamond City sells shipments of 100 (he's the guy in the baseball uniform yelling about "swatters")

Oh nice, missed that, thank you.

[Mringasa]

From what I've seen, the scavenging stations aren't going to cut it for what you want. They don't bring in massive amounts of resources, but they provide a better chance for your Settlers to bring you some of the rare stuff like ballistic fibers and oil.

About the only way to do that legitimately would be to buy/wait/buy, and from what you are saying about your resource needs, good luck having enough patience to do that. If you weren't too concerned about being completely legit, maybe setup a workbench in one of the wooded areas and harvest there. Less "cheaty" than just filling your base up with wood, but it would be a whole lot faster than buying it all.

[Reverend Belial]

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Moe Cronin in Diamond City sells shipments of 100 (he's the guy in the baseball uniform yelling about "swatters")

Oh nice, missed that, thank you.

Yup. And if you need steel the general goods trader in DC sells the large shipments.