Recover full materials from player made items

[LebowskiGrande]

I apologize if this has been covered before. A google search and forum search turned up nothing.

 

I would like to see a mod that returns more (if not all) of the components when scrapping a player crafted item.

 

For instance, if I make a wooded staircase I would use 7 wood and 2 steel. If I scrap that staircase I would only get back 3 wood and 1 steel.

 

I don't think that it would be too game-breaking to have this percentage set much higher. It may not make much difference in the example above but when you consider scrapping a set of small generators because you are upgrading your grid you are taking a huge loss.

Small generator:
2 x gear
4 x steel
2 x rubber
2 x copper
1 x ceramic

When scrapped it will return:

2 x steel
1 x rubber

All of the rare and valuable resources are gone.

 

From what I've read, the Scrapper perk will allow you to get the rarer components when breaking down weapon and armor mods but as far as I can tell it doesn't affect other categories.

 

I would ideally like to see it applied to the Scrapper perk in the same fashion. It would make it more attractive as a perk and seem less like a "cheat."

 

Thanks for reading!

 

 

[seekingthesun]

You could do it yourself. It would require a lot of work, going through each of the constructables and adding a custom one that directly matches all the components. I'd really recommend that you learn how to do this yourself if you want it done.

[LebowskiGrande]

Yes, well I guess that could be the answer to every post in this forum. Hopefully there is someone who already knows how to do it that is interested in doing it.

[Kanegasi]

Unofficial Scrap Patch in Bethesda's mods fixes this. The author does not use Nexus so you have to install it from Bethesda.

 

Mo Betta Scrap in the Nexus also does this along with other tweaks. I am unaware of the exact differences between the mods, but both should satisfy your basic needs for this request.

[LebowskiGrande]

Awesome, Thanks Kanegasi. I will look at those.

[skubblebubble]

You would have to go through every scrappable recipe and change what is returned.

It's not hard to do, just tedious. (open the build recipe and matching scrap one. increase/add the things you want to the scrap)

 

Or, just give yourself a stupid amount of building materials to start with. :)

 

Oh, and changing the scrap recipe will also affect ALL items like that.

eg: a bed. The game can't tell if you made it, or it was already there for scrap purposes.