Hi everyone!!

I was wondering if someone could explain the ammo crafting process to me...

I had a look at it and i messed around and ended up with 3000 lead, with a value of nothing.
I dont know what to do with the lead.
or anything else to do with crafting to be honest.
I figured the drained energy cells and the 5.56 cases and what not are used for this, but i just cant figure out how!!
any help appriciated!

I know theres another post about this recently, but i'm more specifically wanting a description of how it works and also what 'components' i need to make specific ammo.

Look at the ammo crafting bench and move your mouse over each type of ammo it tells you what you need.
Break down ammo you dont want and use it to make ammo you do want.
Its all there just look at it.

You can also buy components at various vendors. It seems that when you buy a box of primers or jar or powder you have to drop it on the ground and pick it back up to actually open the box though. For example, if you buy a box of primers it will stay in your inventory as a box of primers until you drop it on the ground and pick it up, it will say 25 primers added. Same with the jar of powder.

Well to make a bullet you need primer, powder, lead, and a case. There are various different powders and you need different ones for each bullet. If you mouse over the ammo types it will tell you the required repair level and exactly what you need. For example, a 5.56 bullet would need at least one 5.56 case, 12 lead, 4 Powder, Rifle, and 1 Primer, Rifle. You can buy all of these at vendors, break down existing ammo you have to get them, or find them in various places in the wasteland. Once you have all of them just go to a reloading bench and click on the ammo type that's highlighted and it'll show you how many of the bullets it'll make.

I wish I had a dollar every time this has been asked and answered.

In case the second response was not clear enough, let me explain further.

To make 9MM you need

1 9MM casing
X Powder
X Lead
1 Small pistol primer

You CAN NOT make AP ammo, you can make JHP, JSP, SWC and for shotguns. Slugs, Magnum and coin shot as well are normal shot.

JHP = Jacked Hollow point. Its a hollow point bulet with a jacketed casing.
These rounds are good for punching through light armor (jacked) and killing whats inside it (hollow point)

JSP= Jacked soft point is similar to JHP

SWC= Semi wad cutter. Functions like a JHP round AFAIK.

AP Armor piercing, more armor (DT) mitigation, less damage.

Incendiary, Sets things on fire. .50 only.

12/20 G Slug. A sold shot from a shot gun, considering that 12 guage is pretty large, thats about like a .50 from a shot gun.

Magnum, more powder, same shot. Longer range + more damage.

Coin shot, Uses coins. (never used before personally)

It's best to move the mouse off the one you want to breakdown on the list by moving it to the side of the list...doesn't seem to want to 'select' anything specifically me for me and the list keeps scrolling. Hope that helps.

Thanks guys! that pretty much covered everything i wanted to know!