Hey, Iv set up a supply line between the Castle and Sactuary. My thought was to completely tear down Sanctuary and rebuild in the Castle. But none of the walls, chairs, ect show up in the workbench in the Castle after Ive set up the suppply line. In face, the only items that appear to be shared are "Junk" items. Nothing else, bobbleheads, ammo, ect show up.

Is this by design or is this a bug?

I really dont want to go back to erecting walls and tearing them down for half value just to get the stuff into the Castle.

I believe it's a feature. You have to 'scrap' the items to basic junk, then they are shared between settlements.

I REALLY WISH we had a 'Scrap All' function on any of the inventory menus so we wouldn't have to drop everything on the ground and scrap each piece one at a time.

I agree. I have 25 steel walls I may need to break down.

I just didnt want to have to build another bobble head stand and pool table for my new settlement. I guess that stuff isnt easily transportable. But in that same fashion, my character can carry no less than 15 guns, 50 mines, 46 grenades, and 12 missles, and a mininuke.

Only junk items transfer. Anything that doesn't get autoscrapped stays where ever it is stored.

Yeah, I figured that out. The real question is this a feature or a bug?

I just found this out -

Hold down activate (Cross/A) in Workshop view to highlight multiple objects at once; then scrap or store them all in bulk.

How much time have you wasted highlighting and scrapping objects one by one? Try not to bite through your smartphone in frustration, okay?

I'll have to try that, but there isn't a SCRAP option when viewing things in the inventory so even if I highlighted them all I could transfer them (which I already do) but can't scrap them. I can scrap guns and armor in their modding menus, but that's it. If I want to scrap a Desk Fan I have to drop it on the ground, enter Edit Settlement mode and the hit [R] and [E] to scrap it.

ohhhh I see what you mean now.

I didnt think you had to do that tho. I thought storing the junk in the workshop automatically scrapped the items at their time of need.

It does, but initially we were talking about being able to transfer non-junk items through the trade routes.

Maybe I'm crazy (well, I am) but I thought when you scrapped something you built, you get less out of it. EX. you get less "junk" scrapping a wall than it took to build it in the first place. Was I just too high?

There are still a lot of mysteries concerning the whole settlement and scrap/build/mod/etc. Thanks to Bethesda being to damn cheap to even give us a manual some things we may never know. It's been up to player to test things out to try to nail down some facts on how things work. Maybe someday Bethesda will give us a proper tutorial or manual for how all this works. In the mean time your guess is really as good as mine.

The problem with scrapping as you need them is they only scrap the base materiial needed in the thing you are creating. So lets say you have a watch that if you scrap when on the ground you would get gears and steal added to the bench. Whereas if you just leave the watch in the bench and create something that needs just steal the gear gets lost. So the only way to make sure that you don't wast any parts is toss it on the ground and scarp it that way.

I really do believe this is a bug, no way they intended you to have to do that so I expect to see it fixed in a patch.

Not true! When you build things in town, scrap is broken down and the spare materials not used are stored right back in the workbench. This works also if the scrap is in your inventory. The excess is still stored in the workbench.

To test this, go to a new/unused settelement and clear the workbench then store all your junk that isn't needed for the experiment in some random container. Grab a few pieces of junk you need for parts to build something and either keep it with you or store it in the workbench. Build something that won't use all the material. Check the workbench. All the excess material is shoved into that. If you used a spring from a gold watch, you'd find 'gold' in the workbench among the excess.

I've tested it and it does work. However some have noted that the extra parts do not show up right away. They actually have to leave and come back for it to 'suddenly' appear in the bench inventory. Either way, it's buggy as hell for sure. All would be made easier if there was just a 'Scrap All' option when viewing your Junk inventory.

EDIT: My issue lately has been I want to add some turrets to a location with no supply line. I have the junk to make the parts, but not the parts. So instead of just grabbing some steal, gears and circuit boards, etc. I have to instead grab the Junk that I can break down into steal, gears and circuit boards, etc. It would just be a lot easier if I could just take the items I know I needs instead of stuff I know I have to scrap to get the parts I need.

I'd like a scrap all junk feature as well, as it would tidy up the workshop inventory and make it easier to move required materials to a new settlement without getting a supply line involved. I didn't hit any bugs the times I've explicity tested the feature, but that could just be luck. At least it sounds like the bug is only a temporary display issue rather than actual missing materials.

I'll have to try this hold A to select all and then scrap it thing... if that works, awesome!

But you can't scrap from the Junk inventory. If you could then you would never had to drop things on the ground to scrap. You can select them and transfer them, but no Scrap option. Scrap is what we need.

You get half the resources back if you scrap something that you made. E.g. a plain wooden shack wall takes 4 wood and 4 steel to build, and it returns 2 wood and 2 steel when you scrap it. Unfortunately odd numbers are rounded down, so an angled steel fence that takes 5 wood and 5 steel to build only returns 2 wood and 2 steel for scrap.