Caps versus crafting

[RattleAndGrind]

 

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Do not let the game scrap things for you during crafting. Throw everything on the ground and scrap it yourself. There is a bug which does not put the residual materials from items scrapped during crafting into the work bench.

 

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Not sure exactly what you're referring to, whether it's when you take an item and upgrade it's components(in which case the specific item you upgraded is removed and placed on your character under the Mods category) or if you mean something else, as in when you scrap something using the crafting workbenches(if that is the case, then not everyone experiences this bug[otherwise there's no way I'd have 20K steel in my shared workbench inventory).

 

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"Throw everything on the ground and scrap it yourself." If you drop a Carlisle typewriter onto the ground and scrap it, you get two aluminum, six gears, five springs and four screws placed in the workbench.

 

"Do not let the game scrap things for you during crafting. There is a bug which does not put the residual materials from items scrapped during crafting into the work bench." If you are crafting a doohickey which needs a screw and the crafting mechanic uses a Carlisle typewriter to obtain that screw, the residual materials (the aluminum, the other screws, the gears and the springs) are NOT placed in the workbench. These residual materials are just gone This is a known bug which has been documented several times in these forums, on Bethesda.net and on reddit.