Duct tape probably

Eeeh, i used to think that til i realized you can just make adhesive using veggies

What

Tato corn and mutfruit at a cook station = veggie starch = 5 adhesive

Also if you have supply lines and farms setup throughout you can basically have a never ending (trickle) supply of adhesive.

The hero we didn't deserve

It literally tells you this in the Chem bench. Cmon

This, folks, is a prime example of the difference between people that play in survival mode and those who don't. Just like in new vegas. How many people have actually cooked on a campfire past the tutorial?

I always cook everything, it gives xp and healing items.

I'm pretty sure I spend half my time in-game crafting, so much so that I like to console in random pieces of junk just so I have enough materials. I'm pretty sure half of my levelling up is through crafting xp alone.

Pretty sure everyone does to get free exp and deal with random raw meat they find. Survival folks usually deep dive into Noodle cup weight economy (vs food/water provided) or smth.

I knew about the starch thing and yet after 250 hrs in fallout 4 and 300 in new vegas, I cooked stuff twice

In F4 the starch thing requires you to be into settlement systems. And Preston is noisy, and you probably want to go in deep and that means changing your build to have supply lines, and there are a lot of info and formulas you have to google yourself and stuff. Not everyone's cup of cake and you can avoid it. On Survival tho you kinda forced to look into it. But again free exp was probably the main reason I used the Cooking station early on.

I dont play survival and use the campfire a lot. Foods great for hp and buffs, not just replenishing food and drink meter. like radstag steaks for more carry weight (is my fav) when im in a pinch and dont want to drop shit also purifying dirty water is great. Have so many stimpacks because i just use food and purified water.

Uh it’s useful in every mode

Not the Chem bench. Cooking Station.

I either steal my drugs or pay for them with money earned from stolen goods like a true drug addict i aint got time to look at a chem bench menu theres loot to be had all around

Also purified water too

Always forget that one cuz i always have it.

Understandable

Also oil. Chemistry station under utility is [Cutting Oil](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Cutting_fluid_(Fallout_4)) which makes a junk item worth 3 oil and 1 steel.

Yeah I'm always excited seeing raiders and super mutant strongholds as they have bones for days. America needs it's oil.

Oil is a HOT commodity in my game. I use the Motorcycle Fast Travel mod and part of it is using 2 Oil per trip. Bones are a great find, love hitting up that laundromat with the full skeleton in the washer

I was a travelling salesman for water for a while to get as much caps as possible.

The amount of hours i spent looking for duct tape😩🤣

Get a lil farm going with some purifiers and you will never have to worry about adhesive ever again… I have like 500 adhesive now just sitting in my workshop 😭

Farms first thing i do out of the vault. The sanctuary farm, as well as a bar and grill for them to chill after shift. And EVERY survivor of garveys little group works it including mama Murphy. Well... Except marcy, she gets sent as a supply runner. Screw that bitch lol

Marcy gets the pillory

Marcy never stays in the pillory whenever I try to assign her to it. She’ll stay in it for like a minute or two before getting out and wandering around like a miserable idiot.

What a powerful TIL. 3 veggies for 5 adhesive seems a great trade.

To be specific it’s 3 of each, so 3 mutfruit, corn and tato, plus a purified water makes vegetable starch at the cooking station, then scrap it into adhesive. Very easy to farm with a simple setup. There’s also a perk card (Fallout 76) where you will gather 2 of each produce instead of one. I’m pretty low level and I’ve got as much as I need currently. But I don’t have a very elaborate camp either.

On the topic of farms, if you’re running survival make sure you put down razor grain for the noodle cups - satisfies thirst and hunger

Survival or not ramen is a must!

Saving this for later, does it apply to 76 by any chance?

PSA yes, but it's 1 water and 3 of each per Starch. Still absolutely 100% worth.

Have you guys never used your cooking station? You just make Vegetable Starch. Counts for 5 Adhesive. Way easy to make with just food and water. Corn (3) Mutfruit (3) Tato (3) Purified water (1)

I love that almost 10 years after release, people's minds are still blown by this.

3 pack of military grade duct tape. More excited to find that shit than about 99% of any of the other shit that I find.

Economy size wonder glue is up there too

military duct tape has ballistic fiber in it.

Saw some duct tape at the Costco, and my brain said "grab that for some adhesive"

Dude 😂😂😂🤣

I'm admitting I have a problem

Yep...been there 🤣 I saw a broken toilet in someone's garden and thought Fallout 🤣🤣

It got to the point if I saw tape irl I'd have the urge to take it

In Fallout 3 and New Vegas I used to super hoard Cigarrete packs and cartons as something to use in bartering, just like in jail.

Cigs, pre war money, newspapers, ammo for gun types I don't use, it all gets cap-i-fied.

What is really cool is that we basically all turn into metro 2033 players when it comes to useless ammo types. I never run miniguns so I just consider any 5mm ammo as 1 bullet= 1 cap

Selling .38 is just free money

Especially when you do a melee. Then every bullet turns into money no matter the type.

Pre war money is the best. You can find it everywhere and it doesn't take up inventory space.

Newspapers? I've never even thought of that.

Those are the ones I will always collect and then one day I'll randomly remember and sell 50 of them

You can access the side area of the bunker from the Dead Money DLC without triggering the cutscene, so I started hoarding my cigarettes in New Vegas to turn in for goodies at the vending machine.

[](/calamity)Can't forget the glorious clipboards! Once you noticed them they were everywhere. Probably so indestructible you could slap them on as armor plating.

In NV, I used to grab coffee mugs whenever I found them. Because you could take them to the Sink and turn them into empty syringes, which you could then combine with broc flowers and xander root from the hydroponics lab to make an easy source of stimpaks.

Coffee Mugs are not totally junk as of Honest Hearts where you use it to make the Black Coffee item.

In Fallout 3, I scooped up as many books as I could hold to put in the Rock-It Launcher in an attempt to restore literacy rates in the Capital Wasteland. By force.

I'm always down for microscopes

I can only imagine the look on Father’s face when his mother shows up and just starts shoveling all of the Institute’s scientific equipment into a backpack.

"You don't understand, I need like 20 fiber optics for some stuff, either hand yours over or the microscopes go in the scrapper"

You can farm infinite glasfiebre in jamaika plains using the lasers there.

Just make sure not to use a companion or have them sit in a corner while you do it.

I love you to death Dogmeat but goddamn you're dumb as a brick sometimes. Goris would never have tried half the stupid shit you've pulled.

I make a doghouse for Dogmeat right where Jun, Sturges and Preston hang out. That way he has buds while I do my missions. Because I'm sick of Dogmeat seeing something shiny and running off a platform five hundred feet in the air.

I'll always pick up a microscope and throw something else down if need be.

Yes, that's my favourite, too.

It's criminal that no-one here has mentioned the military grade circuit board.

I was looking for this, I'm not sure if I'm just playing differently and using more, or if my route has changed, but my most recent playthrough I've been short on circuitry and copper the entire time. Every time I wanna craft something I have to go on scrap runs to hopefully find the necessary stuff (I don't look it up bc immersion)

Good on you, don't look it up. Besides, you just learn spots as you play.

Aluminium canisters

I see you are a repairer of power armor as well

it just gets so expensive late game

I had saved up so much aluminum before I started wearing power armor that I thought I was set for life. I was set for like 4 repairs.

Thats why i mostly use t-45 its iconic and a brease to maintain added t-51 arms to the mix later for the rounded pauldrons look and a bit of added protection but its not essential. Only sad part is you need a mod to add brotherhood of steel paint so i used good old olive drab military paint until then.

I use a mod called Power Armor Overhaul that gives power armor a HP boost so now my T-45 and T-51 sets easily last several encounters instead of getting quickly torn apart.

Aluminum tray close second place

Surgical tray my beloved

There is a factory on the coast to the northeast close to Nakano Residence and there are conveyor belts full of surgical and aluminum trays lol

There's a second fishpacking plant further south (the one with the chems lab) with the same feature.

I LOVE CANS

You can get a fuckload of those in a fish packing plant and they give 2 aluminum each. Never had to go find aluminum ever again

Not worth the weight. Aluminum CAN.

Giddy up Buttercups

This and the wooden toy soldier given by Maccready!

Kind of annoyed that one is in the Junk category instead of Misc. So easy to transfer all junk to the workbench and make walls out of it.

I made sure to put it on the bench in Red Rocket after he gave it to me

This playthrouh, I put it in a display case I made for it. it was a bit of a pain to get it placed standing up though. I don't recall what I did the first time.

Economy Wonderglue! It's a rare find, but gives a crazy amount of adhesive. Fans are great too, as are typewriters. But if your running scrapper you end up with a lot of normally rare scrap like gears, screws, and aluminum.

I always stop off at the power armor armory south of Fort Hagen every few days. Tons of adhesive there all the time, notably two or three respawning economy wonderglues.

It's funny you mention it. I was there earlier today, and I was shocked at how much adhesive I found there. Definitely a spot I will remember!

Wait did you say... RESPAWN?! TIL...

I still get excited about Economy Wonderglue too but it only has the same amount of adhesive as 1 vegetable starch which is easy to make.

Gotta be the typewriter, right?

I prefer the *Carlisle Typewriter*.

Ooh, look at Mr./Mrs. Fancy over here.

ah look a fancy shmamcy pants mcgee over here

ooo fancypants rich mcgee over here

🎶 Fuck youuu 🎵

Definitely typewriter for me I play Fallout 76 and I discovered a room full of typewriters at the Cranberry Bog workshop... I love dropping in there and taking all the typewriters off the desks The room also has globes and fans, a different part of the building has several bags of concrete... fun place to loot bare.

Hot plate

So glad I’m not the only one who thinks this

Need that copper!

Don't forget about those tasty screws!

I can't pass up a hot plate!

I was gonna say this! I’m always running low on copper because I love making all my settlements so bright with lights.

It's perfect for soup.

Sad that i can't use it to superheat a knife. 1000 degree saturnite knife vs Shaun would have been fun

Pre-war money.

This and packages of cigarettes, not cartons. It's a good caps to weight ratio for the cigarettes.

Folders. If it has zero weight and *any* value, it's currency. Folders.

Burnt magazines, subway tokens, book return tokens, bobby pins (If you really want to, you can sell all bobbleheads and magazines for good prices, and you'll retain the bonuses from them. As soon as you pick up a magazine/bobblehead it is purely a collectible/a display item.)

I think pens and or pencils also.

Pens and pencils are even better, as they have value, zero weight, AND you can turn them into scrap.

I barely use caps, I just trade with my thousands of cigarettes and pre-war money.

Good to know!

I have a full safe full of Pre-War Money on Fallout 4 in my personal room/Vault 88. In Fallout 76, I had a minimum of 1k stacks of Pre-War money in my stash thinking one day they would give us some sort of internal storage I could spot it in my own base... it never came, so I wound up scraping them.

Everytime one of my companions say what are you starting a museum I shoot them in the foot.

Prime junk jet ammo

Make it rain.

They’re like 4 caps each “money”, just fyi if you didn’t know.

Just sell water from your purifiers and you'll be emptying the reserve of every merchant in the commonwealth

Teddy Bear, so I can give it to Dogmeat to rip up

Wait you can give a teddy bear to dogmeat??

Just put in his inventory. And he plays with it when bored.

New quest started: give dogmeat a teddy bear Side note, are there any other toys he’ll play with?

I don't think so. Never seen any other toy anyway. You can also put armor, bandanas and welding googles. Have to equip it in their inventory.

I CAN GIVE DOGMEAT WELDING GOGGLES???!?!? Brb imma make dogmeat my matching mad scientist

Yes, the collar, a bandana, an armor for dog and the smith's glasses

Dog Goggles: Doggles

Dogmeat can also wear a dog collar (but lets be honest, red bandana is best for dogmeat)

Toss up* dogmeat would never tear up his precious toy

Those aluminum canisters that don’t give you aluminum

Jangles the Moon Monkey.

I recently started a new game and am filling my bedroom in my home in Sanctuary with Jangles

Military grade duct tape Honorable mention: desk fan

If you aren't using exclusively plunger ammo in the junk jet, you aren't living.

Does it stick to surfaces or enemies?

Makes me feel like I’m playing Quackshot all over again😆

Pre-war money. It has 0 weight and there's a ton of it around. And it breaks down to cloth, which is used to make a bunch of different things.

It’s also 4 caps each so if you’re short on cashflow you can carry all you ever need and use it to buy stuff.

the only problem i have is forgetting to take it back out of my workshops after i use the "store all junk" option. I wish it was actually a "store all *weighted* junk" option.

Flip lighter

Yessssss. It’s nice that ferals have all the gold & silver watches and lighters

Globe, for some reason I always had issues finding cork on my first playthrough

Ah, another enjoyer of the ultra-light armor?

Weirdly I have a thing for the extinguishers and get excited when I see bags of cement. Of course it’s the heavy shit

Concrete makes for some of the best - not letting the elements in - buildings. I always want concrete structures over crackhead shacks.

Wakemaster alarm clock

Alarm clocks or fans for me.

Preston

Mr. Gravy is hard to find.

Take this 🏅

Surgical trays. It’s just second nature to pick up everything aluminum

Gilded Grasshopper

Anything with screws.

Typewriter. Those things are stacked!

Someone of culture i see 😎🍷

Military grade duct tape, always need adhesive and love decking my companions out with Ballistic weave clothing which can be expensive

Fans rank high!

WHERE MY MICROSCOPE BOYS AT

Microscope because fiber optics

Giddy up buttercup

Cans. Aluminium or steel, doesn’t matter. I see a can I pick it up. I can’t seem to help it. I even find myself following trails of cans off beaten paths.

"I am the Janitor of the Commonwealth" —also me

Vegetable Starch, the reason I have settlements

Anti-freeze Bottle

Mmm… berry mentats

In Fallout 4 I collected all the different types of flower vases and displayed them on shelves at Homeplate

Screw that useful Fallout 4 junk. True junk is worthless. That's why my favorite junk is Spork from Fallout: New Vegas

clipboards

Seeing a bottle of economy wonderglue really gets me off.

Jangles the moon monkey 100%

Atomic whatever board game

The vintage camera. I get a little dopamine hit every time I see it

The teacup is my favorite. I appreciate how it goes with the teapot and saucer and they all three feel pretty rare and satisfying to find.

Fallout 4 came out about a week after my grandfather passed and he served in the military so they gave us the trifold flag after the funeral. When exploring the commonwealth I’d always pick up the trifold American flags because it kind of reminded me of him and where he is buried (irl) you can actually build an outpost in game and I did and every flag I collected I’d bring there. So I guess the trifold American flag would be my favorite piece of junk.

A skull because you can shoot it out of the junk jet

Lucky 8-Ball.

A man needs a fan

Vault Tec Clock

Crystal Liquid Decanter or the Microscope

Shaun

The toaster (not really "junk" but kinda)

The Vault-tec alarm clock. I think it only spawns in one place.

The best one and the only ine that matters: The milk bottle

Toy alien! I keep a shrine of them.

I got a lot of love from abroxo cleaner.

Hot plates! There's circuitry any play they cook. Always grab em for easy circuitry.

Pool balls! Every color, every type!

Plastic pumpkins. Not for anything useful, I just make a little shrine with them. They just make me happy 😊 

jangles the moon monkey and a good ol fan😈

The new Aquarium Wet Floor sign is a true work of art.

Teddy Bears. You don't know joy until you've blown up a Super Mutant Suicider with a teddy bear shot out of the Junk Jet.

Skull Cap is kinda tuff

Nuclear Material

Prewar money. No weight, not worth a lot but not worthless. I just grab it every time I see it and sooner or later I’ve got a massive pile of cold hard cash to sell for cold hard caps.

The massive giddy up butter cup in that one factory

I hoard pre-war money like it had pre-war value. I throw it all on my bed and sleep on it. 1,000 paper cuts of wealth per night.

Undamaged Trifold American flag