Hey guys!

Since quite a while i dont have any automatic junk generation in the settlements anymore.

Although i got quite a few scavenging stations with settlers working on.

Dont have any mod enabled that could mess with this. Any ideas whats wrong?

greetings

I know with settlement water and crop production any daily excess doesn't accumulate in the workshop storage. The new production over writes the old production which means if you want to stockpile stuff you have to remove it from the workshop and store it in other containers.

Perhaps the game writers have also put a limit on junk collection by settlers.

Some arbitrary amount that when reached new collection is overwritten.

Have you tried emptying a settlement Workshop of junk and storing it in a container to see if collection continues?

I am pretty sure Pugsley is correct. I read that someone cracked the code on some settlement things and you HAVE to go around and clear out the work benches to get more junk. This means you can either keep one settlement full of junk "Covenant" or be like me and have Oberland Station, Country Crossing, Sanctuary, and Castle are my junk piles. Problem is.. I find that having scavenging benches there are useless so I have a bunch of people doing really nothing.

I turned Sanctuary into my stockpile-o-everything workstation. Then I planted only tatos there since they never pick them and I have to do it manually anyway. Whenever I visit another settlement I grab everything and fast travel to Sanctuary and dump it. (Strong Back rank 3)

See.. I would do that.. but I try to do "no fast travel." Maybe when I get vertibirds it will be different. Lugging everything to Sanctuary every time would be tedious

Based on a Reddit post that anolyzed many of the formulas in Fallout 4, unassigned settlers and setters assigned to the scavenging station will only add junk to the workbench if the amount of junk in the workbench is below a certain threshold. The formula is as follows:

100 + 5 * settler population

That means if the settlement population is 15, once the amount of junk in the workbench equals 175 unassigned settlers (1 junk) and your scavengers (2 junk) will stop added junk to the workbench. The way around this is to move all the junk from the workbench to another container, but to me that is really annoying. If you want to have access to that junk in build mode, then you will need to move that crap back to the workbench. Then when you are done building you need to move 'em all back to the container so that your settlers can gather more junk.

If the junk is not in the workbench, then that also means if you have supply lines set up between all your settlements, that junk will not be accessible. I simply do not bother building any scavenger stations because I know that in each of my settlements there are at least 500 pieces of junk in the workbench.

I break all my junk down manually even though I pick up everything. I have 4 scavenging stations only at Abernathy Farm and I never see any junk in the workstation.


Edit: After reading the wiki, it seems they don't produce actual junk, they produce materials such as wood and steel

Really?

I call this a Bug instead of balanced Feature. First we need to scrap all Things on Ground instead of a Auto-Function in the Workbench and now this? Nice Bethesda. Why i should Store Junk/Materials in a Container and this in every Settlement. When i need it to repair or whatever i have to replace it in the Workbench? By the less Amount of Junk you got the Supply Line become useless. What do you Guys smoking up there?

Does this mean if you have alot of materials in the workbench the scavenger stations won't produce anything?

As was mentioned above in another post, there is limit how much scrap, food and water can be stored in a workbench. It's based on number of settlers. Once that limit is exceeded, no more scrap, food and water will be deposited.

So if you have alot of scrap materials in your workbench the scavenger stations are worthless?

I never saw even one Request in this Forum for this kind of "Feature". What is the Reason for this?

Technically yes? But what else do you want your civies to do? They have to have a job to keep happy. So either you have them farm, which stops at a certain point (unless you turn everything into adhesive). Scavenging bench will stop after awhile unless you do what I do and use those 4 check points as a place dumb. Even if you have a bunch of stores.. the cap count is limited. I am sure it has something to do with stability of the game but it really svcks. In fact, I spend most of the time going around now and emptying work benches.

So i tried to empty my workbenches as suggested and now it works again. Thanks alot