I wanted to test this on my 2nd playthrough. I have already moved all items from all workshops to my main base and I plan to build 3 or more scavenging stations at every settlement all with empty workhops to test this.

I will have at least some results tonight, but I think at the very least having 3 at each should generate some very significant crafting materials, and I plan to do a lot of crafting this playthrough =)

all I know is I have over 20 settlements all linked by provisioners and I almost never run out of any material.

except Aluminum! usually looting containers for Cores, ammo and cans! like some dang post-apoc bum!

If scavenging, both with and without station is random (both amount and quality), which it seem indeed is, then your test is hardly representative. You would need to consistently run many tests over extended periods and then extrapolate results to at last come to something close to how it really works.

I did a 14 day sleep for a laugh in sanc,travelled to abernathy where i had 3 settlers on my benches again.

1 cloth,1 fertilizer 1 gear and 3 wood.

Beyond ridiculous.I have some theorys on this(barring the install thing) I have no idea how big cells are,so if sanc and abernathy share a cell perhaps that's something to do with it?I also have seemed to get more stuff in workbenches at a faster rate by fast travelling around the map for long periods rather than waiting or sleeping in my previo9us game(i can't say for certain though as i never looked at it closely)The only other thing i can think of is,junk collection works the same way as food and water,you won't exceed the days production,so you need to manually go to each settlement and empty out the workbench before more accumulates.

Whatever's happening,it's bloody stupid.

In my previous post i state how i did a 14 day sleep before looking this time.Look at what i collected,i'm sure you can now agree something is broken with the system or it's just a very stupid system being used(Like the foodstuffs never exceeding their daily production in a workbench)Right now i don't care if there is some randomness or even if scav benches give less than settlers just going normal scavenging,i just care(and this is very clear to me now) that the amounts you get over longer periods of time are ridiculously low.

Imo you should have a high chance of getting at least 1 piece of junk or raw mat per scavver per day and you should not have to travel to each settlement to empty the bench(or use up all your linked benches materials in building somewhere) to stay under some artificial limit so more can accumulate again

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say i spend nearly as much time looking at these loading screens as i am actually playing the game =/

*If you or anyone else wants to do better testing(which wouldn't be hard),by all means go for it,i'd be interested in reading it.I won't be anymore,because not only is sleeping a pain in the behind on console for me due to several hours of sleep taking absolutely ages to pass each day(usually the dawn period)but i keep getting attacks to defend.

That proves nothing. It just show that on that particular single test you got that much. Nothing else. Again, if output is random, it proves nothing.

It's as if you have threw a dice got 2 as a result and claim that that's how dice works, always giving 2.

I did not run any extensive tests but I can confirm, that resources does appear in the workbench on daily basis. However amount is relatively small. Number of materials or objects appearing daily is in low single digits. It's possible that you get nothing on a particular day, although I am not sure about that.

It exceeds daily production in my game.

If you fast travel across the whole map and back more hours may pass than if you just sleep and you stare less at the loading screen instead of sleeping and watching hours go by. If you have installed Fallout on a SSD of course.


I'll test this when I get home to be sure.