Fallout 4 crafting

 

BasicsEdit

It is possible to craft a variety of in-game items like consumables or grenades using workbenches located throughout the Commonwealth. As opposed to crafting in Fallout: New Vegas, it is not possible to craft your own ammunition or ammunition subtypes in Fallout 4 in the vanilla game, with the exception of grenades, syringer ammo for the Syringer rifle or Nuka-nukes for the Nuka-nuke launcher from the Nuka-World add-on. Modding is carried out by applying pre-defined components to armor and weapons, like adding lead to armor parts for enhanced radiation resistance or equipping several types of barrels on firearms. Modding or crafting does not generally require schematics, but certain active player perks are affiliated with some types of modding, e.g. Science! for modding energy weapons or Armorer for armor.

The basis for all crafting and modding is the gathering of raw components listed below. Scrapping is commonly required to harvest these materials and can only be done while in "Workshop Mode". Some items will outline in yellow while other items will outline in green while in Workshop mode. This seems to only indicate whether the item is able to be moved and has no other purpose. Green items can be moved while yellow items are fixed in place. None of these items will respawn after scrapping.

Crafting tablesEdit

Crafting stations include:

• Armor workbench: For scrapping, repairing, and modifying armor and clothing.
• Chemistry station: For crafting drugs, medicine, grenades, mines, Syringer ammo, and cutting fluid.
• Cooking station: For preparing scavenged edible items.
• Power armor station: For repairing and modifying power armor.
• Weapons workbench: For scrapping and building weapon mods using parts from a variety of weapons.
• Workshop: For scrapping and building buildings, furniture, and various equipment for settlements.
• Robot workbench: Used to build and modify robot companions by equipping them with various robot mods, including Codsworth and Ada.
• Ammunition plant
• Armor forge
• Auto-loom
• Builder
• Energy weapon forge
• Explosives mill
• Food processor
• Heavy weapon forge
• Pyrotechnics mill
• Weapon forge
• Nuka-mixer station: Used to mix Nuka-Cola drinks and create new flavors.

In a controlled settlement and with the exception of the machinery stations added by the Contraptions Workshop add-on, all crafting tables have their inventory connected.

Crafting componentsEdit

All junk items consist of one or more "components,” a general term for the materials that make up each junk item. When crafting anything out of junk, the most readily available junk is broken down to its base components, and whatever ingredients needed for the recipe are consumed to make the crafted item. Any components not used are stored in either the player character’s inventory or the settlement workbench, depending on where the player character is crafting and where they are storing their junk. There are 31 base components total, that cannot be broken down further into anything else.

Although some instances of the following items exist in the game world, they are more commonly obtained by scrapping other items. Additionally, shipments providing larger quantities can be bought from several vendors and are weightless.

When scrapping other junk items, one will always receive the components specified. However, when scrapping other items such as...

• Weapon mods, but only when attached to weapons
• Armor mods, but only when attached to armor
• Static objects created in the workshop

The player character will only receive a fraction of the components which were originally used to craft the item. The types and amounts of components received in these cases are determined by two factors: rarity and scrap scalar.

Rarity has four possible values:

• Common: These components are always received.
• Uncommon: Scrapper rank 1 is required to receive these components.
• Rare: Scrapper rank 2 is required to receive these components.
• Zero yield: These components are never received (only applies to adhesive and oil).

Additionally, the original amount of components used to craft the item is multiplied by the scrap scalar, rounding down, when determining the number of components received.

General informationEdit

Name	Value	Weight	Rarity	Scrap scalar	Craftable Source	Base ID	Shipment of ... - 25		Shipment of ... - 50		Shipment of ... - 100
							Value	Base ID	Value	Base ID	Value	Base ID
Acid	2	0.1	Rare	0.25		001bf72d	250	001ec133
Adhesive	8	0.1	Zero yield	0	Vegetable starch	001bf72e	1000	001ec135	2000	001ec134
Aluminum	3	0.1	Uncommon	0.25		0006907a	375	001ec137	750	001ec136
Antiseptic	3	0.1	Rare	0.25		001bf72f	375	001ec139
Asbestos	6	0.1	Rare	0.25		000aec5c	750	001ec13a
Ballistic fiber	5	0.1	Rare	0.25		000aec5b	625	001ec138
Bone	1	1	Common	0.5		000aec5d
Ceramic	1	0.1	Common	0.25		000aec5e	175	001ec13b
Circuitry	5	0.3	Rare	0.25		0006907b	625	001ec13c	1250	001ec13d
Cloth	1	0.1	Common	0.5		000aec5f	100	001ec13e
Concrete	1	3	Common	0.25		00106d99			150	001ec13f		xx000e7f*
Copper	4	0.1	Uncommon	0.25		0006907c	500	001ec140	1000	0024a06c
Cork	1	0.1	Uncommon	0.25		000aec60	125	001ec141
Crystal	4	0.2	Rare	0.25		0006907d	575	001ec142
Fertilizer	1	0.1	Uncommon	0.25		001bf730	300	001ec143
Fiber optics	6	0.1	Rare	0.25		00069087	850	001ec145
Fiberglass	5	0.1	Uncommon	0.25		000aec61	700	001ec144
Gears	3	0.2	Uncommon	0.25		0006907e	450	001ec146
Glass	2	0.1	Uncommon	0.25		00069085	325	001ec147
Gold	9	0.1	Rare	0.25		000aec62	1125	001ec148
Lead	1	0.3	Uncommon	0.25		000aec63	200	001ec149
Leather	2	0.1	Common	0.25		000aec64	250	001ec14a
Nuclear material	10	0.1	Rare	0.25		00069086	1250	001ec14b
Oil	4	0.1	Zero yield	0	Cutting fluid	001bf732	500	001ec14c
Plastic	1	0.1	Common	0.25		0006907f	75	001ec14d
Rubber	2	0.1	Common	0.5		00106d98	250	001ec14e
Screw	2	0.1	Uncommon	0.25		00069081	400	001ec14f
Silver	6	0.1	Uncommon	0.25		000aec66	750	001ec150
Spring	3	0.1	Uncommon	0.25		00069082	375	001ec151
Steel	1	0.2	Common	0.5		000731a4			150	001ec132	300	001ec131
Wood	1	0.2	Common	0.5		000731a3			100	001ec152	200	001ec153

* Concrete shipment also has a shipment of 200 with ID xx000e80

The unit price of a component, when bought as a shipment, is several times its "base" unit price, sometimes even overpricing the value of a simple source item containing the component. Also, the game does not offer any rebate for large shipments (= no quantity rebate). Therefore, it is not necessary to spare money waiting for the opportunity for buying big shipments over small ones. For example, two shipments of 100 concrete yield the same overall price as a single shipment of 200. Buying small shipments also allows building defenses gradually for settlements that are not yet connected between each other and at a lower cost.

The concrete, steel and wood components constitute the three base building components for all the major craftable structures in the settlements (e.g. floors, walls, roofs, stairs). Their values, although claimed to all be 1, are respectively 1, 2 and 3 when considering their respective shipments. For this reason, the cost for building each craftable structure can vary largely and can affect or determine which structure is favored over the others, especially when the amount of caps is currently limited and there is a hurry for building up the defenses for a given settlement.

Component sourcesEdit

Settlement objectsEdit

NotesEdit

• Collapsed buildings, cars, street lamps, almost anything lying about within a workstation area can be scrapped for building materials. While you are in the structures/crafting screen, point your sights towards one of these objects and it will light up. To scrap an item, press the square button for PS4, X for Xbox One or R for PC.
• All items in scrapped containers, or attached items will be moved to the workshop's storage, accessible from any crafting station, or from the workbench itself. The exception is locked containers where the contents will be lost.
• Scrapping an object such as a table, wooden crate, shelf, etc. will cause any objects on or touching to disappear from the game. Scrap those objects first before scrapping the table, etc.
• Scrapping a crafted item when another crafted item is attached will not scrap both items; only the highlighted item is scrapped. The other item will be moved to the workbench.
• Movable items located outside the boundaries of a settlement (e.g. the engine under the bridge near sanctuary) can be carried into the settlement and scrapped.

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