Removing Weapon Mods?

[Nogrul]

Is it possible to remove weapon mods from found weapons and mod them into others ?

[Cookie]

Good question...I don't think so. Not that I've found anyway, seems weird not being able, tho.

[Butter Sawse]

you can. dont know exactly how though. they show up under your pip boy inventory

[Legion]

I think you can only replace them

[TheBlueFox]

Heres what you do:

Have 1 gun with the mod you want, say, Long vision scope!

Have a second gun you want to put it on.

On the first weapon, you have to build a NEW scope, to replace the long vision scope, then, you now have a long scope in your inventory!

Access the second gun, hover over the long vision scope, Instead of "Build" you will get the option to "Equip" or place, I forget what it's called.

All weapons must be complete, so you have to give it a replacement to remove it.

Keep in mind you can only swap weapon pieces of the same type, A 10mm sight won't work on a rifle

[Nogrul]

thx

[Mazdek]

Originally posted by TheBlueFox:

Access the second gun, hover over the long vision scope, Instead of "Build" you will get the option to "Equip" or place, I forget what it's called.

Could you tell us what the keybind is for that? I'm not being shown that option, and I have plenty of the correct form of mods for the weapon type I'm working on.

[The Safe and Sterile Bread-Tan]

Originally posted by TheBlueFox:

Heres what you do:

Have 1 gun with the mod you want, say, Long vision scope!

Have a second gun you want to put it on.

On the first weapon, you have to build a NEW scope, to replace the long vision scope, then, you now have a long scope in your inventory!

Access the second gun, hover over the long vision scope, Instead of "Build" you will get the option to "Equip" or place, I forget what it's called.

All weapons must be complete, so you have to give it a replacement to remove it.

Keep in mind you can only swap weapon pieces of the same type, A 10mm sight won't work on a rifle

Also some weapons can have "blank" spots like the muzzle

[nocforweb]

I think I must be doing something wrong.. I tried this - so I went and picked something with 'glow sights' and swapped it for 'standard sights' (built from materials) - went to another pistol and tried to add 'glow sights' and it is asking me to build it and it takes nuclear materials (still only 2/1). I can also see when I scrap an item it tells me what materials I get back, and its not all the stuff that goes into making it - eg. scrapping the gun w/ glowsights didn't list nuclear materials as something you'd get back... so kinda looking like changing to a standard [whatever] causes you to lose the previous mod?

Am I missing something? I would be so annoyed if there was no way to consolidate mods into one or two guns unless I built everything from scratch :(

[EDIT]
Scratch that - so it appears in my inventory now and the button over the correct kind of weapon (even though it keeps saying what it costs to build on the left) - now gives the option of 'E to attach a mod'

[Marlfox]

Kinda weird having weapon mods in seperate part of inventory and still taking up weight.

[Joel]

weapon mod aren't universal the parts you need to make them for the most part are it might work but I haven't tried. if you change a weapon with mods on it to standard you might get a refund on the pats but I doubt it.

[o]

This is like Bethesda giving the Nexus modding community something to do.

[Zourin]

In order to detach a mod, you need to replace that mod.

This can mean constructing new 'Iron Sights" or a few other basic parts, but once you replace a mod with a cheaper version, you now have the better mod to apply to your main weapon.

[Hera]

WAIT. To remove, say, a scope out of a weapon - you have to spend materials to replace the scope with something basic? Really?

[Mormacil]

Yes, indeed.

[Zourin]

iron sights is usually 1 adhesive and 2 steel, nothing major compared to, say, a NV scope or autotracker.