Crafting Pointless Early On?

[Inzu]

Really enjoying the game, but crafting armor and weapons seems pointless early on.
By time you can build the rooms ( and in the time it takes to craft the items) you've already scavenged a ton of low level weapons and armor.

I can see it possibly being useful for special recipe items later in the game, but there seems to be no reason to craft all the low level recipes. You can explore or quest better items faster.

Or am I missing something?

[Ryuu]

One reason may be for objectives

[Drysyn]

i didn't craft until i got high end legendary schematics namely the X-01 Mk VI and Dragonmaw (22-29 damage) now those two are all i craft save the caps use the guns and rare armours like sturdy combat armour etc, and guns with 15+damage.Level your Special stats on Dwellers to max then send them out into the wasteland to level them up, my first floor of my vault is fortified door, overseers desk(nobody in it) and storage room(also no one in it), on the second floor i got a water room with 4 level 50's in it all use 17+ guns and just any old armour, in the second room i have 6 level 50's built up just the same.... this is where the Death Claws die lol, rad scorpians are tougher, the main thing is taking time to train those specials and use high end guns the rest will fall into place

[Inzu]

Thanks for replying. Appreciate the suggestions. Having a lot of fun with the game.

[Prey]

In Fallout Shelter is only a few weapons worth to craft:

Plasma Rifle
Excited Institute rifle
Pressurized Flamer
MIRV (support, because is horribly low RoF. Sometiems you can use x2 Vengeance and x1 MIRV for quest, and give Dwellers in rooms some MIRVs)
Vengeance (Absolutely best weapon in game! Wasteland, quest and all other things)
Lead Belcher (A litle worst than Vengeance, but still can be good for Wasteland and cryp defend)

Depend what print/resources you have. Rest of weapons are completly garbage.

[Tetsuri]

yep, crafting garbage is pointless =3

[jgtogi]

Some missions require specific items. Also you can't be guaranteed to get certain stat equipment. So it can be used for people that want to min/max. It also helps fill out your base when spamming children. I welcome the crafted equipment to be honest. It at least helps during initial ramp up especially if you play the game casually and don't spam quests or buy boosts.

[ReadyToPlay]

No point to craft outfits early on either.

[kingjames488]

cut a couple day off crafting my first legendary with some of my rare outfits, doesn't seem useless.

[BaharrothBluu]

When I got my weapon workshop, some of my dwellers were still using .32's. I replaced those with laser pistols.

[Raptor]

Originally posted by John Silver:

In Fallout Shelter is only a few weapons worth to craft:
Excited Institute rifle

- Virgils Rifle is better stats.