Now and then, I've started tossing all of my junk on the ground and scrapping it manually. Yeah, that's a lot of [censored]. Yeah, it's a time consuming pain, especially when, no matter where I drop it, settlers, NPC's, and Brahmin find it and traipse through it.

But here's the thing. I just get tired of sifting through all of it when I want a "big picture" of how I'm doing on supplies. I know I can get that by changing the view in the pipboy inventory, but what I really want is just a nice, neat pile of "here's what I've got" in the junk category of the workbench. I don't want to see, for example, all of the stuff in my junk list that could be converted to oil. I want to see an actual AMOUNT of oil. That I have, ready to go.

As with scrapping weapons and armor, it's silly that you've got to drop it on the ground and go to workbench mode to scrap stuff. I'd really like an option to take care of that from within the inventory, either piecemeal or a "scrap all" option. On second thought, no matter how many warnings were provided, we'd probably all come to grief using a scrap all command...

Both, i'm sure several people do this and you are crazy

Well, I play on PC and there is a scrap option both in weapons and armour bench. R-button if I don't remember wrong. Just open the (weapon/armour)workbench and you see the list of items you carry. Scrap away.

As for the normal workbench, wanna know the tally? Open up the work bench and then select items with requires the most components and you'll get a good summary. Missing something? Just choose an item that require the missing component and you'll see how much you have of that one.

Yea, what wkstrm said, it really does give you the big picture.

Every few game days, I grab a bunch of armor and weapons and scrap it via the workbench, lotta steel in pipe weapons and raider gear.

I just deposit everything into my workbench and use it accordingly.

Is that not a good way to do it?

Store all junk. If you use that item, any leftover components not used on that item are treated as if you scrapped them and sent back into the workshop storage.

Same for me, everything is pooled into the workbench.

You are crazy.

I've done that, so I can confirm you *ARE* crazy.

Yes, scrap it manually. It makes Todd happy.

Plus it makes your settlement rod expand. I mean, if you could in real life make your rod get longer just from scrapping stuff on the ground, wouldn't you do it? Habitually even?

I do this myself.

And on my honor as an angry, drunken, Forum Clown, you are absolutely NOT crazy.

I do the same thing, so at least you're not alone. I mean, I do eventually reach a point where I'll put SOME common "junk" in the workbench, but I absolutely cannot stand having 5000000000 named items in any single container, whether it's a workbench or a locker. I'll end up with tons of containers, each with a specific storage purpose.

I don't know about crazy, but I am an organizing control-freak/sorta OCD, I suppose.

You should see my PC directory/folder system.

I've often thought that maybe part of the "enjoyment" a video gamer gets out of the hobby is just a certain form of OCD. I'm not really surprised that I'm not the only one, lol. It's not that I love doing it, or the time it takes, it's like you said- bugs the @#$! to have all that slop in the workbench, and no firm idea of what, exactly, I've got to work with.

Well, I might ALSO be crazy. But not because of this, maybe.

I've often thought that maybe part of the "enjoyment" a video gamer gets out of the hobby is just a certain form of OCD. I'm not really surprised that I'm not the only one, lol. It's not that I love doing it, or the time it takes, it's like you said- bugs the @#$! to have all that slop in the workbench, and no firm idea of what, exactly, I've got to work with.

It does give you the big picture if you're looking at your inventory while modding or building.. There's no reason to go scrapping everything manually. It shows you how many of each item you can build right next to the name of the item.

Example.. (I have all junk stored in only one workbench as I haven't done anything with settlements yet.)

Workbench shows that I have 78 cloth... but then when I look at something that needs cloth to build.. like the first Airplane Seat, it shows that I have 1352 cloth.. It also shows how many of those airplane seats I can build (104)..

I toss all the stuff on the ground and scrap it. I'm not fond of the workbench and tossing it in there and "hoping" that the other components will show up. I'll see a "oil can removed" but I don't see a blip that says "steel added" so it makes me wonder if I'm actually getting everything out of that item.

Personally I would like to see something like a chipper/shredder you could hook up to a generator that you actually toss stuff into (animation and all) and watch it get scrapped and then those items added to the workbench.

done that too, not implying any statements about my state of mind

i originally thought this was the only way to recycle clutter at all.

and i still kind of have the impression that, if that settlement doesn't have a recycling station with an assigned recycler, the materials won't be available at all settlements -

at least, that's my only explanation how i can have 1 bio screwdrivers in one workshop and 0 wood in it's neighbour that's well connected via supply line

...which leads me to another question, but i just started http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1571694-what-and-how-are-settlers-actually-supposed-to-use-now/ for that one, just in case

I keep on seeing people insisting that items can be scrapped from either the Pip-Boy Inventory screen and/or from the work benches/crafting benches. That is NOT the case in my PC game.

Pip-Boy Inventory options:

X - Inspect

R - Drop

C - Component View

Z - Sort

T - Perk Chart

If you choose C - Component View, the choices are:

C -Item View

Q - Tag foe Search

T - Perk Chart

For ALL benches:

E - Store

R - Take All

T - Store All Junk

X - Inspect

Tab - Exit

Z - Sort

Anyone see a Scrap option in there anywhere? I certainly don't.

Since there IS a scrap option in the workbench menu, I have hope that it won't be too big a deal to mod that in somewhere down the road. No idea how to do it myself...

That's true, but only for the resources a given item needs. There's also the resource view in the pipboy, and flagging items. I think I know all of the ways the game allows us to handle junk and scrapping.

I think there are two glaring omissions- 1) You have to dump weapons and armor on the ground and look at them in workbench mode to scrap them manually, a piece at a time. 2) there is no way to just have the game show you, in raw resources, the full, big picture of everything you've got to work with.

No idea why that'd make a difference. You are either going to break down an item or not. .. I also have no idea why you're dropping things on the ground to look at them to break them down. That makes no sense.

At any rate, the only time you will be hurting for junk to build with is in the beginning of the game and there's really no reason at all to need to build or mod a thing in the beginning. You can remove mods from anything you find and stick them on anything you have without any perks at all and building is just an extra thing you can do in your spare time.