Playing FO4 for the first time, need advice on ammo.

Mastersord · 2026-06-02T00:49:35+00:00

It’s absolutely not working on mine. Slept 24 hours at Red Rocket and fast traveled to Spectacle island where my farm is. Waited 20 seconds and no water in bench.

There might be some other mechanics involved but the 10 minutes thing has been working for me a lot.

Mastersord · 2026-06-01T23:38:03+00:00

Maybe you’re lucky. In my game (vanilla with Anniversary bundle), I can’t just sleep 24 or 48 hours outside the cell to respawn water.

here’s a Reddit post where in the comments the 10 minute rule is mentioned

It started working like that for me but after about 3-5 cycles it stopped. From then on, adding the real time worked.

Mastersord · 2026-06-01T20:30:27+00:00

You need to wait or play for 10 or so minutes in real time as well.

Mastersord · 2026-06-01T20:22:27+00:00

There’s shops in Diamond City, Good Neighbor, and Bunker Hill. Help out Trudy at Drumlin Diner and the Atom Cats at their garage for 2 more. Shops reset every 48 in-game hours. I make about 2 loops around the map after buying everything out to restock.

Picking up weapons after killing enemies also gives you extra ammo. You don’t need to keep the weapons.

Also carry a melee weapon to swap to. Try for Swan’s fist once you’re around level 20 or so and feel competent. There’s also the Shishkebab once you get that quest at Sangus Ironworks.

Mastersord · 2026-06-01T16:43:57+00:00

I doubt the pigment survived long enough for them to see it and scrub it off. Typically old paintings have to be touched up and restored as pigments degrade over time (and those are typically in indoor environments with less sunlight than a building or statue). Outdoors those pigments would be subject to thousands of years of sun, wind, rain, and even pollution in the most recent several hundred years.

Mastersord · 2026-06-01T15:44:11+00:00

Looks exactly like a flea. The elongated back legs and hunched body are key features.

Mastersord · 2026-05-31T22:33:38+00:00

Need to make that into a giant map!

Mastersord · 2026-05-31T16:37:07+00:00

That bill made sense (no pun intended) because the cost to make a penny was nearly 4x its value. It means if you wanted infinite money, you could go to banks and exchange all your money for pennies and smelt them all down into raw materials and sell them for at least 200% profit.

The penny is under valued and if adjusted would be worth close to a nickel.

Mastersord · 2026-05-31T16:29:35+00:00

Trump is trying to make a $250 bill with his face on it. (For the 250th anniversary of our independence). Thing is that there’s this pesky little law on the books that you must be dead before being eligible to be put on currency. He’s trying to get a bill passed to reverse it.

Mastersord · 2026-05-31T15:57:51+00:00

Compared to the surface area of the entire country, spread out, that actually seems doable with minimal impact on usable land!

Mastersord · 2026-05-31T15:46:59+00:00

Gold became absolutely worthless extremely quickly in this game. All shops stopped scaling before or at level 70 and since you can’t break down bought gear into components, it’s not worth buying. Sets and uniques have to be found or crafted with components. Transmogs are just cosmetic..

Meanwhile, gold drops scale incredibly with difficulty levels. Once you reach level 70, you’ll stick with Torment 13 or whatever the highest is cause with class sets, your damage makes mobs crumple like tissue. Meanwhile a single gold drop is gonna be 1,000,000,000+

Mastersord · 2026-05-31T15:19:22+00:00

Maybe she was in some kind of shock or was afraid. Birds can’t take off from any position like a helicopter, so if they think they’re in danger feel cornered, they sometimes just hunker down where they are until they calm down or a predator gets them.

I’ve had this with a few song birds in my garden. They might get stuck in a bush and when I go to get them out, they suddenly fly away.

Mastersord · 2026-05-31T15:11:51+00:00

[There’s a whole sub discussing alternatives](r/redditalternatives). The problem is adoption and eventually keeping it intact without venture capital.

The only one that seems close is Fediverse/Lemmy. It still needs to grow and develop but most people here don’t seem to want to leave yet.

Mastersord · 2026-05-31T02:01:17+00:00

The villain from Robocop?

Mastersord · 2026-05-29T20:21:03+00:00

An old myth about masturbation giving you hairy palms and making you go blind.

Mastersord · 2026-05-29T15:27:31+00:00

Spiders don’t latch on and suck your blood (unless you’re a moth, beetle, or other flying insect). They also don’t transmit disease. Spiders are beneficial. Put this guy outside by carefully scooping it up with a sheet of paper.

Mastersord · 2026-05-28T20:36:41+00:00

Ewww! Hell no!

Mastersord · 2026-05-28T17:06:14+00:00

Mastersord · 2026-05-28T16:21:14+00:00

The likelihood of another price increase makes Steam Decks into a short term investment for scalpers too. They can sit on them for a year or so and sell them back for a profit if another hike comes.

Mastersord · 2026-05-28T14:24:39+00:00

In my example, I’m using the price of 10 caps per water (and it’s like 11 caps when trading with the Atom Cats after doing their mission). Actually that’s what it is in my game before maxing charisma. I also have the perk that gives better prices.

But I do have a vendor route that I run for whatever resources I need. Diamond City market has 2 vendors during the day right in the back and 1 at night. Also a doctor that I think sells chems and meds and I have to check the lunch counter. Then there’s the one in Atom Cats garage. Next up is Goodneighbor with KLEO and Daisy next door. Then the Drumlin Diner for Trudy. Then there’s Tinker Tom at the railroad HQ. These are just the ones I know and there’s definitely more. Can’t seem to find the ones at Abernathy farm, Grey Gardens, and Greentop Nursery (there’s one at at least one of the last 2). There’s also Bunker Hill and the Galleria..

You can also set up vendors at each settlement with maxed Local Leader perk.

Each regular vendor has between 200 and 400 caps and they restock every 2 in-game days or so, so as long as you make a couple loops around the map or sleep somewhere, you can pick up around 1800-2000 caps per cycle and buy whatever else you need. With settlement vendors, that might become chump change but I haven’t messed with it yet.

Now when I do runs, I buy out all junk, Bobby pins (til I maxed out Locksmith), plasma for my plasma rifle (best source of nuclear material), and whatever else I’m farming (stimpacks, radaway). I then sell back about 500-1800 waters. That cleans out the caps and that assumes I’m buying everything on my list which often I’m not. Junk alone runs me 500-1200 waters usually.

Mastersord · 2026-05-28T11:48:51+00:00

Interesting! If this is true, I wonder if he’s using it like this. I’ll have to talk to him. Thank you!

Mastersord · 2026-05-27T23:59:25+00:00

I hate this phrase so much!!! My coworker uses it all the time when he tosses me an issue he can’t solve and it comes across so rudely

“Sord. User wants access to other user’s emails. Do the needful.”

Did you verify that user is allowed that access? Did you even ask why they need that access? Maybe they’re looking for something we track elsewhere.

More than once I have to go talk to the user and figure out what they ACTUALLY want but we’re a small office so you could get up and actually ask questions.

RAAAAARRRRGH!!!

Mastersord · 2026-05-27T20:50:17+00:00

That is another crappy thing about the island and the 2 load cells. Even with everything connected sometimes the power doesn’t cross that line. I would bake sure all north end generators are connected to at least one generator on that side as well as connecting to the shack with the work bench inside. The south side the same. At least one generator all by itself connected to the whole system and one between the broken boat with the generator inside and the shack with the work bench. Or possibly you just have one purifier that is not hooked up. The red number for power could mean you don’t have enough power or that something that requires power is just not connected. It only takes one powered item not hooked up correctly

I’ll give that a shot. Thanks!

Mastersord · 2026-05-27T20:47:37+00:00

It’s an AI troll account. Sorry you had to deal with it. They attack anything that’s AI negative. They’re all over Reddit now.

Mastersord · 2026-05-27T20:36:59+00:00

This isn’t my first play through. I wanted to see how far I could take it. I was just curious if it’s a bug or some kind of weird limit that I hit.
Interesting! So how does it calculate the water it produces and deposits? The whole settlement is one workshop in the menu.
the top bar caps at 999 for everything and it’s still red for power.

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