Scrapping Things From Inventory?

[ShotBot]

Like the title says, how do u scrap things from ur inventory. Need some adhesive and I have a ton of glue 4 it but I don't know how to scrap it to get the materials.
Thanks

[Rowdy Ronny]

Usually I dump "junk" (R) in the workbench in the playertowns and it gets scrapped when needed. I don't think you can scrap it outside of towns. There is no option to scrap when not at a workbench. Armor and weapons must be scrapped manually (one by one) at their respective workbench.

[Muh macht die Kuh]

you only can srap items from ur inventory at workbanks (armor and weapon workbannks)

[McNabbo]

Go to Transfer your inventory at any work station. Press T to transfer all your Junk. When you go to build something, it should automatically use that Junk. No need to scrap it beforehand.

[Keyserfu]

At a settlement, drop the items you want to scrap. Go onto workshop mode, <Ctrl> on PC then put cursor on the item you want to scrap. Press 'R' then confirm by pressing 'E'. It will go directly into your workshop inventory.

[Spocks Toupee]

It's better to scrap your inventory by dropping it on the ground, as others have said, if you use the bench to automatically scrap the items when you build something, it WILL ONLY SCRAP THE ITEM YOU NEED FROM IT, and NOT the other items

I.E. A globe has screws, wood and other things, if the item you're making only needs screws, the bench will scrap the globe FOR THE SCREWS ONLY, but not scrap the wood and other parts into inventory

From other posts, people have said the best way to make sure you get ALL the components of an item, is drop them all on he ground, enter the build menu (Hold down V) and highlight the items one by one and scrap them.

Then, once you're done, you can "store Junk" at the workbench

[AlexMBrennan]

No need to scrap it beforehand.

Unless you want need, say, oil to build at a different settlement - have fun going through the list and grabbing each piece of junk that contains oil. Clearly, automatically scrapping each part you transfer to the work bench would have made the game too easy.

Or get the supply lines perk to fix this part of the game (as in, the game is intentionally designed to be cumbersome and annoying to force you to waste one level up reward on basic funcationality)

I.E. A globe has screws, wood and other things, if the item you're making only needs screws, the bench will scrap the globe FOR THE SCREWS ONLY, but not scrap the wood and other parts into inventory

Huh, I hadn't even considered that anyone could conceive such a dumb system (if it's true)

[RedHerbs]

You don't need to manually scrap junk to use the components within them, the game will do this for you once you try and craft something using that component. It will also check the contents of the craftsbench/workbench you are using for items with the required components. If you really do want to scrap it into its raw components it can be done by dropping the junk item on the ground and then scrapping it through the workshop menu (Hold V/mouse3 hover cursor over the item and press 'R').

A little more info, there us a current bug which may lead you to think raw components are lost when an item of junk containing that component is scrapped for a different use; such as using a desk fan for screws and it appearing that the steel has been lost. This is not the case, the raw component is in the workbench inevtory, it is just hidden and will update once the number of that component is changed (add a piece of steel and the number will go to what it should be).

Hope this helps

[Grifman]

Originally posted by Spocks Toupee:

It's better to scrap your inventory by dropping it on the ground, as others have said, if you use the bench to automatically scrap the items when you build something, it WILL ONLY SCRAP THE ITEM YOU NEED FROM IT, and NOT the other items

I.E. A globe has screws, wood and other things, if the item you're making only needs screws, the bench will scrap the globe FOR THE SCREWS ONLY, but not scrap the wood and other parts into inventory

From other posts, people have said the best way to make sure you get ALL the components of an item, is drop them all on he ground, enter the build menu (Hold down V) and highlight the items one by one and scrap them.

Then, once you're done, you can "store Junk" at the workbench

Actually that's not true. It's been verified on Reddit that you do get all of the components. If you go out of the menu and come back in you will see that the unused components are there.