Best Way To Get Steel?

[gasoline guzzler]

I'm trying to build but have next to no steel :(

[Rim Carrey]

Cars, caved in houses (like the ones in Sanctuary), mail boxes, a lot of stuff uses Steel. Granted to get most of it you need to be in workshop mode.

[BoydofZINJ]

Once you un out, look for wrenches in random areas, cans, anything metal... and learn to adventure and pick up EVERYTHING!!! I mean it... pick up everything run abck to your base and drop it off and then repeat.

I also found out if you get the scavenger perk and you start to scrp weapons and armors.. you can pick up rare materials and common materials like steel and leather.

[WingsOfGryphin]

cars, track, ruined houses, furniture that looks like it's made of metal. All that gives insane amount of steel, but you can only scrap them in the zones where workshop is available. It's the best method out there to get both steel and wood and there are plenty of objects to scrap for that.

Other than that? well just pick up garbage and store it in the workshop, eventually you will have enough resources to go by.

Besides that? There are also shops where various garbage are sold that breaks down into resources or you can even buy those shipment orders, but i have no idea how they are used.

[Koba]

nearly everything gives steel... tin cans, anything metal etc. I built quite a large base from just the ruined houses around sanctuary... Scrap everything

[Tom Cupboard]

The federal Ration stockpile has a lot of cans inside, its taken over by raiders and can be found south from 'sunshine tidings co-op'

[Straybow]

Guns are alright as well.

[Zourin]

steel is easy. Track down a good raider base. Corvega Assembly is prime real estate.

- do a sweep, kill the bad guys, take their guns.
- Reprocess the guns into steel
- Go back and do a salvage run, grabbing all the metal bits and bobs you can get your hands on.
- Ignore the leather, metal, and clothing (at your leisure). Armor doesn't repurpose well and is heavy. Clothing doesn't at all, so unless you're looking for more harnesses for your stripper colony..

That's pretty much the end all. These areas respawn periodically, but reprocessing sh*tty pipe rifles and finding both new and respawned places to run will keep you in the steel quite a bit. I advise a two-pass run, just so you're not trying to do too much at once. The second time feels a little bit like janitorial duty, but you don't have to worry about being overloaded in the middle of a gunfight because you picked up one broom and pipe rifle too many.

[snak]

cars, scrap houses.

[†Cross†]

Breaking downm weapons and gear helps as well, to bad you can break down unneeded power armor parts

[Straybow]

Originally posted by †Cross†:

Breaking downm weapons and gear helps as well, to bad you can break down unneeded power armor parts

Sacrilege :)

[Zourin]

sell metal armor, but break down weapons. If you get he first level of Scrapper, you can get copper from upgraded pipe weapons (anything other than a basic model, even 'automatic' will net a bit).

[Juzt_Lernin]

Diamond City from the vendors. Shipment of Steel 100 Go through and shop at Diamond City Surplus during the day and the womans shop to the right. Then go sit on a chair and hit T to wait until after 11 pm and buy from the Robot. Then sit down again and wait 36 hours to reset them and do it again. And as others have said, scrap entire houses that let you in Sanctuary, Mailboxes and Light Poles are great too. And make sure to pick Cap Collector perk to sell for and get more for your loot.

[Hide-A-Ninja]

If you want to make money to get extra materials build water in your base(s). I have 574 water production in Sanctuary. Every couple of days I get around 400 things of purified water. If I need extra components I can just buy shipments of the stuff.

Thanks for the heads up about buying steel from diamond city surplus.

[Sue D. Nim]

I'm leaving a reply just to bookmark this thread. It's full of useful information, and I needed it! Thanks.

[Praxic Loop]

These are all great ways of farming or scavenging steel; however, if you need a considerable amount all in one go, proceed to Spectacle Island and lay it to waste. Spectacle Island has a lot of steel. The place is virtually covered in it, and I used it all to finance an epic Bungalow at the Mirkwater Construction Site. Good luck, and good hunting.