yes, when a pencil is giving you a wood it starts to get confusing

but seriously, yes, those things hurt my brain as well....

I've never noticed an increase in ammo from just picking up a gun. Am going to have to watch for that.

You'll acquire any ammo that is in the current magazine for that weapon. So if the enemy had 20 rounds in a pistol and 32 in inv you'll see the 32 picking up but also get the 20. So, if enemy had a mini nuke loaded you'd aquire it but if not you wouldn't get anything unless they had one in inv

Oh, nice clarification !

this gave me an idea: How about scrapping AMMO!? Would be a better use of ammo than either selling it if you do not plan to use it at all.

hmm... what you should get out of it when scrapping?

could be very unbalancing even if it was only one steel per round...

lead? Nuclear material with mini nukes?

it's an option.... but i'd still prefer to sell the ammo and buy shipments (and i don't even need to sell ammo to buy shipments).

at some point the only problem with money is that you have nothing to spend it on....

It contains a nuclear power source, like cars, terminals and basically everything. That power source isn't, and shouldn't be confused with, a mini nuke. Mini nukes are purpose made to generate reliably large explosions. Those power sources can explode, but on a scale depending on the size of the power source which for Fatman would be a small portable battery like thing.

1 steel every 10 rounds... 1 lead every 100 rounds.


You'd have a ratio like these for balance. Going too high like 1 steel every 100 rounds seems excessive given how easy it is to acquire otherwise. Lead's harder to get in bulk, so having the ability to convert ammo would be handy even at a high rate.

i never ran out of lead... so i can't even tell what it is used for

Then I guess both my PC and Xbox One are bugged since I have never got ammo from a weapon only. I got the ammo if there was ammo i=on the corpse and this was on multiple characters at least 20. I love creating new characters and starting over.

I guess I will try again on a new character.

Scrounger is awesome on the hardest difficulty settings... you need to put a lot more bullets in things in order to kill them.

Scrounger is bugged in 1.3, apparently fixed in 1.4.


You can only get a few ammo types from it, and it doesn't work with even some common types like 10mm. That's why I've avoided it until now.

Tested again on a new character on the PC with no mods and I got no ammo for picking up a gun. Only got ammo if the container has ammo in it.

In FO, ammos r not manufactured anymore.. they should be more precious than gold after 200 years. lol

Huh... I only ever get steel from scrapping the Fat Man weapon. I thought I had all the scrapping perks.

Except for The Pitt, which produces steel and ammo... and The Gun Runners in the west. Ammo is still being produced.

Oh dang ! I didnt realize !