Crafting materials | Fallout 4

Almost all the items you find in the wilderness can be used as crafting components in Fallout 4. Due to limited space in your inventory you’ll have to increase your inventory. Many of these components are parts of other items, while a small number of them, like seeds and vegetables (mostly cooking and chemistry items), cannot be obtained by means other than looting them.

These basic items are used for crafting building structures (like concrete, wood, steel…), weapon mods (adhesive, gear, screw, spring, fiberglass…), armor mods (leather, cloth, adhesive, screw, cork, plastic, ), cooking (vegetables, seeds…), at the power armor station (aluminum, adhesive, circuitry…) or chemistry station (acid, plastic, antiseptic, glass, bone…).

Crafting / Inventory Tips

• In your workshop you can use the transfer option. You’ll be able to select the option “Store all junk”. This one click option gives you the ability to put all junk from your inventory directly into the workshop, where it can be used for crafting.
• Open your Pip Boy and head to inventory-> junk -> component view. This reveals the option to mark materials like: Adhesive, Aluminum, Ceramic, Glass and Steel. Once you mark one of them, the game will show a magnifying glass next to the names of items that contain this material in the world. This mark remains next to the name of any item that has this material no matter where you see them – in your inventory, in the wilderness, etc.
• The level 5 Intelligence perk unlocks a two-point skill called Scrapper. This skill allows you to salvage uncommon components (screws, aluminum, copper, circuitry, nuclear materials, fiber optics) from scrapping weapons and armor.
• If you want to scrap some junk loot in Fallout 4, just drop it from your inventory, open workshop menu, point your weapon on dropped loot and press scrap button.

Crafting ingredients

Name	Found in/from
Aluminum	Alarm Clock, Aluminum Can/Canister, Cake Pan, Tin, Pulser, Recorder, Tray, some Toys.
Adhesive	Adhesive, Tape, Wonderglue.
Asbestos	Asbestos, Biometric Scanner, Chalk, Carton, Pot, Extinguisher, Pack of Cigarettes, Rat Poison.
Antiseptic	Abraxo Cleaner, Antiseptic, Empty Blood Sac, Solvent, Toothpaste, Turpentine.
Acid	Abraxo Cleaner, Anti Freeze Bottle, Bloatfly Gland, Makeshift Battery, Antifreeze, Undamaged Abraxo Cleaner.
Bone	Bones, Deathclaw Hand, Femur, Molre Rat Teeth, Spine, Tibia, Skull.
Ballistic Fiber	Military Grade Duct Tape.
Ceramic	Ashtray, Bowl, Plate, Coffee and other Cups, Cops, Vase.
Concrete	Concrete, Bag of Cement.
Circuitry	Circuitry, Card, Pulser, Recorder, Module.
Cork	Baseball, Clean Globe.
Copper	Beaker Stand, Lamp, Broken Light Bulb, Fuse, Magnifying Glass, Power Relay Coil, Module, Tube.
Cloth	Cloth, Boston Bugle, Cigar Box and Cigarette, Carton, Pillow, Duct Tape, Cloth Toys, Paintbrush, Pre-War Money, Bugle.
Crystal	Camera, Magnifying Glass.
Fiber Optics	Biometric Scanner
Fiberglass	Fiberglass, Abraxo Cleaner, Aluminum Canister, Cigar Box, Toys, Rat Poison, Undamaged Abraxo Cleaner.
Glass	Glass, Alarm Clock, Bottle, Lamp, Jars, Bottle, Flask, Fuse, Bulbs, Tube.
Gear	Fan, Camera.
Gold	Gold, Camera.
Leather	Leather, Baseball, Deathclaw Hand, Molerat Hide, Hide.
Lead	Makeshift Battery
Oil	Oil, all sorts of Canisters, Cans, Lighter, Fuel, Soap.
Plastic	Plastic, Anti Freeze Bottle, Baby Rattle, Bread Box, Tray, Carton, Clean Globe, Balls, Card, Hairbrush, Bag, Toys, Pack of Cigarettes, Pen and Pencil, Salt Shaker, Scissors, Baskets, Antifreeze, Toothbrush, Toothpaste.
Rubber	Rubber, Extinguisher, Kickball, Large and Small Baby Bottle, Plunger, some Toys.
Screw	Clean Globe, Fan, Handcuffs, some Toys.
Spring	Spring, Alarm Clock, Clipboard, Camera, Flip Lighter, Handcuffs, Toaster.
Steel	Steel, Wrench, Hammer, Scissors, Canisters and Cans, Pot, Wrench, Rods, Fan, Fork, Plate, Dog Tags, Bucket, Extinguisher, Flip Lighter, Handcuffs, Solvent, Power Relay Coil, Scalpel, Screwdriver, Module, Baskets, Shovel, Knife, Spoon, Toaster, Wrench.
Silver	Silver, Card, Hairbrush.
Nuclear Material	Nuclear Material, Alarm Clock, Biometric Scanner, Board Game, Pulser, Recorder.
Wood	Wood, Hammer, Clipboard, Board Game, Cigar Box, Frame, Makeshift Battery, Paintbrush, Plunger, Screwdriver, Shovel