At work or would try it.

More than a few times been in a quest area and get the message that I'm overloaded, and my companion also full.

Just wondered, rather than leaving and comimg becam to start my looting again. Could I dump everything into say a contai er that's convenient to me.

Search more, dump...etc. then when I'm done searching. Leave the building...fast travel, go back and fill up from the container. This saves going though a second or third time of looting.

Or, will the items in the container disappear once I leave? Sure they will over time, but wondering if that would work?

I use the strong back perk, very useful.

Not personally tried containers so not sure.

vertibirds are a good way round the overburdened problem until you get strong back 4

Try it then come back here and tell us all.

I've done this since FO3. I've never seen a container contents stolen. Even in the open world. Not just in a loadable area.

I can confirm that it works, as I used this exact method when I was clearing an area, until I got strong back level 4. One thing I would suggest is use a save that you overwrite each time you go back to the container just to make sure if anything goes wrong you can reasonably easily go back to before.

It will always work if you return soon enough for the loot you left in the container(basicly its safe until the location as whole respawns-that will respawn lockers as well)

Putting your loot in containers should be safe enough as long as you go back to it to collect them before the area respawns which will instantly delete all your loot.

I believe an area respawns after 72 game hours which starts at the point when you leave the area. Not sure if the timer resets when you go back before the area respawns.

Yeah I literally should be able to get of the ground sometimes being so overloaded for my vertibird travel back to base.......the only problem with this is if you are in the city centre it can be hard to find a clear area to call in the vertibird.

One tricks from Skyrim is to drop stuff on the ground and ask companion to pick up.

good to know I'm not the only one who's spent a while slowly trudging along underneath a vertibird waiting for the sod to land

I used a Tool Box inside Hardware Town after making sure it's uninhabited to store my Junk during my first few days in Diamond City and didn't lose a single item. It also took several turns to clear Fort Hagen too, so you should be okay.

One important note: the respawn rate of the lockers / loot and enemies seem to be way off at least a few locations. Bedford Station is a prime example, once you cleared it you can re-loot the place numerous times in the upcoming weeks.

Another one: recently, I gave my heavily modified T-45 Helmet to my companion through this method, and it not only switched back to the default model (!) but later I found it again (!!) at the same place where I dropped it. So it works, but not fail-proof.

Some locations I've found respawn everything in a short space of time. Corvega Factory as an example. I got a Quatermastery mission to go there and after completing it, went to get a learning curve mission and was straight back there and everything was respawned.

I wouldn't consider containers remotely safe there.

On the other hand, I've found a few locations that don't seem to respawn at all

yes! that's the infinite carry loot trick =)

That works in settlements just make sure the settlers do not randomly take your stuff.

One of them, the other one is player.setav carryweight 9999999

At the national guard training facility the power armour frame behind the security door has respawned for me twice

huh now I know why Strong says "you strong as Bahemoth"

i think this is only where a new missions is assigned to that location (I believe), so using this is a temporary storage while you ferry junk/loot from the location to your settlement should work fine.

Yes, its also an danger of it getting kicked away so I only use it on stuff I will scrap, sell or give to settlers. Not quality stuff. I would also not use stacks it did not work in Skyrim.
Telling them to loot containers don't work.

There is a time factor and a risk factor. Nearly all containers, with the exception of crafting benches, restock periodically. It's pretty obviously a Random Number Generator that decides just when a given container will restock, with percentage modifiers for special circumstances. Whenever a container restocks, whatever is already in the container is overwritten -- it poofs out of existence. The longer you stash items in a container, the greater the probability that the stash will get overwritten.

Last night when I was playing, it was after hours there with no traders (Trashcan Carla) or my local booth traders active. So I stashed a couple thousand caps worth of stuff in a dresser. Then I ran across the map to Big John's Salvage where I had a loot stash, and picked that up. By the time I returned to Sanctuary the next day, the contents of that dresser had been replaced by a few caps and a paintbrush.

In contrast, there are several people here that insist that after a couple hundred hours of gameplay, they have NEVER seen any of their containers restock. So it seems it is just a matter of Luck whether or not it happens. So, as Dirty Harry asked, "Do you feel lucky?"

I'm assuming containers in settlements are more permanent

(never had an issue with those)

And containers in the wild seem to help stuff

'long enough'...