Helpful and timely video, even for a level 470 player like myself. 😅 I like your philosophy: if you aren't using it, get rid of it. I need to consider this more.
@@user-dz3sq9bf6s if you still need to know, if you’re on console than while in pip-boy push your select button. (You can only see what buttons do what at the bottom of your screen as long as you didn’t remove this in settings.)
must be the worst cloud storage plan ever. gdrive premiun with 2TB for 9,99€ /month is the same price point. A Fallout 4 savegame is between 4-25 MB accoring to bing gpt. In a worst case scenario that'd be 80.000 Savegames. Alltime concurrent players where 73368 on on 21 April 2024. After people sending Tod Howard boby pins to weigh them, please someone gift him a gdrive account and suggest to 'store there'
Tip from a new player: don't let power armor pieces fill up your inventory. I didn't actually use the armor, so I wasn't sure how it all worked. Stick those pieces on a free power armor frame! I didn't know you could do that, I kept getting all these legendary armor bits and they were taking like half my inventory. Power armor frames baby! Literally turned like 600lbs into 30lbs.
Don't forget to rename frames; that way you don't waste time searching for what you need. ie T65, T45, Ultricite if you have a frame that's mixed pieces 😊
Yes. The frame weighs the same with our without the armor pieces on them. If there are pieces you don't like, you cans scrap them for a fair bit of resources per piece if you have the scrapper perk. The molded plastic is worth it if you like to bulk.
@@CookieMonster.2. You actually can take stuff back out of your stash/ammo boxes if you cancel FO1st. You just can’t put more stuff into it. I personally grabbed a month when my stash box was full & just looted everything I saw for a month so I don’t have to worry about looting/storing basic materials anymore.
@@bigimportantman1544 I know, I just wish I would’ve known that before when I had the FO1st trial. Because some of my ammo weighs me down. Mostly my 3926 308. Rounds
@@bigimportantman1544 anytime I have to do some Stash Management I usually grab all my weaker or unused weapons and sell them or turn them into script. I usually take the weapons that don’t sell for anything more than 10 caps and scrap them. I scrap all my armor except power armor because I use the power armor quite a lot and I wear the Chinese stealth suit so no extra armor necessary. I don’t ever use grenades or mines so I usually sell them or give them away in Donation Boxes. I also have so much junk that sometimes I will craft a bunch of stuff so that I lose the materials and then sell whatever I crafted for caps. Mostly because I have a insane amount of steel now.
had fallout first before not playing for year got back online a few days ago and I lost all my scrap, ammo, my whole camp is gone my and a few atom shop items I bought are gone thanks Tod. There is no transactions history in my account and support won’t help get me atleast my atom shop items back
I find it funny you mentioned getting rid of non use/needed weapons with my stash box looks like a chipmunk prepared for the winter but with ammo, weapons, and junk
@@denmanfite3156 Because how could they make you buy fallout 1st if they made it simple for people that didn't want to spend there money on the game lol it crazy fr
just another useful tip on 1st membership. You can still draw from the 1st member's scrap/junk box even after ending the subscription, you just can't deposit more scrap into the box. So if you are on a budget like me, what you can do is buy one month of membership, then during that month, load up on as much junk as possible, and cancel after that one month. From there just keep drawing until you feel like your personal stash box is getting full again, then repeat and rinse. I probably buy 1 membership month every quarter. Just a little penny saver.
the thing about 76 that is one of it's worst features is the limitations of the stash box. they truly limit everything in the game so you're unable to truly be a hoarder which is a staple of the series.
@@MrWestTek oh believe me i know. i exclusively play 76 daily, the game isn't ruined by any means, but it should would be nice to be a true hoarder in game. :D
@@MrWestTek but it does ruin the game. One point of the game is collecting achievements in the form of treasure. Welcome to the Brotherhood, here's a cool gun. Thanks, I'll just drop that level 25 trash on the ground because I'm managing my stash box.
My biggest issue is the caps limit from NPC vendors. Haven’t really had issues with the Stash Box limit, but I also don’t have issues getting rid of items I don’t use.
Kinda wish there was a CAMP house display item that lets you toss perk cards onto it that would benefit your camp. Such as ammo crafting, armor crafting weapon crafting etc. so we dont have to keep flip flopping back and forth for crafting.
I think the Perk Cards do not affect your stash box. It's just a bug. You can try to remove the items and you'll see the real numbers. That's why you're better off having all items on you if you have a perk card or a backpack with weigh reduction.
I just sort each tab in my stash by stack weight then pick out all of the heaviest stuff that I don't need. Thank you for explaining all of the junk items, it was very helpful! ❤
Watch your boiled water accumulation. It's probably the most common loot. I had 150 lb of it on me yesterday and didn't even realize it. Holy Moly. You know I took a big boiled water dump, right there in the road. =D
Ive discovered a lot of weight can be removed by drastically reducing the amount of chems and stimpacks i hold onto. In addition to whatever food i take, along with a few nuka-cherrys cuz damn are they helpful with the perk, i never carry more than 5 stims. Chances are really good you'll find plenty while you're exploring and its a really common reward for quests. Get them caps instead
Thanks for the video. I've been hoarding cloths like nurse uniforms and those darn hats. I know maps aren't much but I have way too many and I only went farming maps one time. I try to keep at least 1 of each plan so when I start a new character, I can move everything over and learn them right off the bat then store them again. But yeah it's past time for spring cleaning.
I would usually store junk which is hard to get. The rest which is easy to get, I would just go farm them when I need them. The bulking thing was new for me. I did not know that it did not make any difference and I was wasting my precious molded plastics. Thanks for the tip.
This type of instructional video is always welcome, a bastard for newbies that can take a long while to figure out. I didn’t figure it out until level 70 or so. Good work West Tek dude, I am certain a lot people will benefit from this. Have a good day all and will catch up in the wasteland……
As a long time Fallout player but new 76 player this is so helpful! I have been storing my power armor in pieces because I had no idea you could store it with the pieces on, especially since I can't wear armor with the pieces yet. Thanks for all the tips!
Thanks for the great video. I confess i do FO 1st once or twice a year( usually as a B-day present to myself) so i can fill my scrap box and now my ammo stash now that thats a thing which helps a lot , you can still pull from it after you lose FO 1st you just cant store it anymore ( pretty sure you can't store it ).
great video...i'm a dummy, didn't realize until watching this that weight was eating up my stash space. i have a bunch of power armor i don't use that i see is eating up a ton of space
The most important thing to remember with inventory management: item weights differ depending on your active perks, and body/power armor special effects. Stacking these % bonuses (like Traveling Pharmacy with a -20% food/chem weight, or Pack Rat and -20% junk weight), so your stash box should really just be for items with weight you can’t reduce, items for sale, and items you absolutely cannot carry. Make or look for deep-pocketed 3* Legendary body armor pieces that have different % reductions. This is how you carry around more than your stash box can hold.
My personal favorite combo is Batteries Included and -20% ammo weight, so I can easily carry around 50+ fusion cores on the first rank of the perk card.
The most useful might be Bear Arms and -20% weapon weight, making my heavy weapons weigh about 2-3lbs each. I’ll just remain a walking arsenal indefinitely to avoid them switching back to like 20lbs in my stash.
@@Joeljaboy I'm guilty of carrying around 60+ weapons on my main. He hasn't been able to fast travel for 6 months because I'm such a hoarder. lol. Fun though. I'm just starting to vendor items I haven't touched in a while and getting used to selling things in order to fund my new interest in Aristocrats weapons and Overeater's armour.
westy thanks for always making quality content and not filler bullshit for newbies and veterans alike. straight to the point easy to digest and informative. cant stand the idiots who make clickbait titles. keep it up hermano
Plastic is useful for shotgun shell ammo. I use armor perks and spent quite a bit rolling a few but you can get 20% reduction on ammo or weapons or the best one I like is food, drink AND chems. Power armor also can get these legendary perks. Plus if you are real lucky you can get plus 1 strength on them. Weapons and armor if you happen to get the 90% weight perk more with heavier guns those work so nice. Last but not least it may take a while but getting the scout large backpack and then the mod for the expanded that’s an extra 120 carry weight. There are other mods but a universal one works for me.
I had no idea. I've been trying to figure out how to manage my power armor. I had moved every thing to an alt but that's such a hassle. This is great. Soon as I get home I'm doing this. Thank you for the tip
Funny thing regarding canned dog food, during the beta and after launch I took the triple benefit from dog food perk, friends laughed and joked, but I wasn't the one that was always hungry
I picked up 76 three weeks ago, your informative videos are a huge help thanks brotha. 🔥I challenge you to put together an updated build video, maybe some combos of PA and non-PA. TIA
I don't store ANY weapons (except grenades/mines I find, so I can sell them once the vendors caps restock) I don't store ANY armor (except the one power armor frame) I don't store ANY apparel (except a Hazmat Suit) I have a handful of foods (and my extra Purified Waters) I have barely any "aid" (never use any except RadX, RadAway and Stimpacks) I don't store any Misc (because most of 'em can't be stored to begin with) I toss in any HoloTapes I can I toss in most Notes I can (but I sell any plans/recipes I already know) I never keep any Mods, because they're for things I don't have/use (so far) I have a fair amount of ammo, but I try not to have too many (especially things like the missiles) Junk is the bane of my existence. I barely have more than 100-200 of everything (with a few being in the 10's, and a handful being nonexistent) and yet I'm always stuck around 1100/1200
Such a useful video! I've omly been playing 76 for a few weeks and have been struggling with my stash box being full when I need to dump stuff accumulated at an event.
Thanks for this video. I hit the 1200 lbs from hoarding and forgetting about the items. This video helped me knock it down to 650 lol. Had 200 lbs of legendary stuff collected and forgotten about
Hi, for our new friends who'd like to manage their stims and rads alternatively to stashing. Equip luck stim/rad find perk when needed. (Rinse and repeat perks when appropriate)
Thank you @MrWestTek I stumbled across your RU-vid channel/videos recently, and I really appreciate your content Sir, and you have been a BIG help to me and my Fallout 76 level 58 power armor build character. I'm kinda stuck at the moment, I have 4 unused perks from leveling up that I don't know how to get used for perks and what not atm. Thanks again for your help Sir
One of my characters has 16 power armor frames all full of PA pieces of script. Also useful to carry an empty frame out on your adventures in case you get some PA drops.
@@TheHellsAngel666 thru hiker has the same 90% less food weight so I essentially use three star perk to get 60 more carry weight. In the end they achieve the same goal.
Awesome video! Something I noticed you don't really touch on is the use of mules. If you have a friend, then its not hard to swap items between characters. I have an account literally just called mule, who's stash and inventory has hit max. Which is just all the stuff I never want to get rid of or scrap. I think you can have 1200 space in your stash and then 1650 pounds for your maximum inventory space.
Thanks for the help, my stash was suffering. Very helpful vid! Also I can't help but notice what sounds like a remix of Theater from Jak X music in the background, nice. 😄
Thru hiker and travelling pharmacy are really good perks. I wouldn’t bother putting food in my stash box. Especially nuka cola. Since they weigh like 1.
One thing I will say about ammo is to invest in an ammo converter don't just drop it.... if you put all the low selling and unusable ammo in there gain points over time and get the ammo you use.... save you a little bit on crafting ammo materials... and you can replace your high sellers in the vendor with that if you choose also
This'll be super useful, thanks for making this video! I think of things I'm likely to hoard, it'll be important materials (Once I figure out what I need) and Apparel, because I want to look stylish when wandering the wasteland!
thanks for the vid even with Fallout 1st I'm a hoarder. As far as I've seen bulking only saves weight on a couple of the scrap types and also then wastes the plastic (so I would give that a miss unless its steel or lead I think)
If you’ve got items in the vendor that don’t get sold, usually power armor or weapons with no legendaries, then it’s best to scrap them or sell them at an npc vendor. I had 2 power armor sets that took up around 200 lbs of space in my vendor that never got sold, plus it opened the doors for more caps to be made with additional vendor slots.
Nyke is in a tough predicament here. He can either fix his grammar mistake & lose mrwesttek’s like on his comment or continue to get bad spelling comments under his original comment 😂😂😂
Great motto.... if you dont use it, sell it or drop it. Good video. Covered it well. I just got FO76 First and it cured my inventory problem. Plus it has encouraged me to keep a tighter reign on things. I am a Fallout explorer and hoarder from Fallout 3 onward. Just the piece of mind First gives me is immeasurable.
I've been playing for about a month now, and after a couple weeks decided, I'm going to be using rifles, while keeping 1 good melee in my personal inventory with 1 pistol and 1 shotgun as a backup, and made a choice keep a couple heavies in my inventory just incase. So no energy weapons. So getting rid of all of my energy weapons, and fuel cells, lightened up my stash by almost 300. So I think the biggest thing, is to decide what you want your armor type and weapon type to be and theb scrap all the rest or just leave it and don't pick it up, and it has made me be able to manage my inventory and stash without Fall1st. it's for sure manageable.
Im level 120, have fallout 1st with all my junk and ammo stored for free, and use the aid carry weight perks so I don't store any meds in stash and 1200 lbs is still not enough storage if you want to be able to keep more than one set of gear and still have a vendor. An increase to 1500 would be extremely appreciated but id prefer 2000.
Why do i feel like he made this video sound way more simple than the reality lol. Especially trying to keep a nicely stocked shop the space is just a non stop struggle
At around 20 mins in your video, when discussing Junk, I expected you to bring up making scrapped junk bulk, a la bulk lead, bulk steel, via the Tinker’s Workbench. As a non FO1st player, that saves even more weight in your stash, and you can sell bulk to vendors. I find after you are done with your camp, you really don’t need concrete, and repair kits take care of actually repairing things at workbenches.
Are there good places to set up my camp so that people will come by and actually look at my store and buy things? I find that when people come by they usually buy a few things no problem but its just that they dont check me out very often.
Even though I thought I was managing my stash pretty well at around 900-950 LBS I was actually able to reduce to about 820 with the video. Great watch even if you aren't a new player!
My stash has been full since I started playing. Today I decided to create a second account on my ps4 and just pick everything up, tired of hoarding legacies.
Next of backpack guy please. New player here looking for something better than + 5 carry weight. Horror video for best places to farm for plans in general.
Once I have three 3 star weapons and armor I toss everything 2 star and 1 star. Too long to sell compared to 3s that I price low anyway. I dont rename anything at all I have one set of ss armor I use and swap PA frames (all rolled exactly how I want) but most are just display. I never stash explosives or food or chems. Im always holding free room. Is your stash box so low because you have an ammo box and scrapbox? Because I dont.
as for not bulking you can sell lot of balk at a good price only if its in balk like steel has 0 selling price but in balk you can sell it . a way to make good caps
In ESO you can pay in game currency to upgrade your bag and your bank, plus stuff on sale doesnt take up spqce, dont see why its significantly more annoying here when the whole point of the game was having people be the traders.
After a week of playing, you don't really need to stash any food, there are more than enough places that you can fast travel and kill some Brahmins, the NPCs will not attack you. With the extra meat from animals you can get from SPECIAL cards, it really shouldn't be a biggie. Except if you wanna use get the buff stats. But if I'm not mistaken, both Radstag and Brahmin (when cooked) will net you +20 carry weight for like 30min or something.
Some tips from a Level 200-ish player. This is how I keep my stash box clean and have around 100 pounds of breathing room for emergency situations WITHOUT Fallout 1st: 1. Like MrWestTek says in the video, if you aren't using it, get rid of it. Sell it or drop it 2. There's 5 major things that will put alot of weight in your stash box: Weapons, Armor, Medicine, Junk, and ammo 3. Only keep up to 5 of each type of medicine that isn't stimpaks. As for stimpaks, keep as little of them as your build will allow. Stimpaks especially will weigh you down FAST 4. Only keep up to 200 or less of each type of junk no matter what it is. At least this is what I find alot of success with as a melee build user. Other builds might need more junk. Essentially, try to keep as little junk as possible. It will help keep your weight under control
One of these but for new players would be very helpful. I'm only level 26 and my stash is already above 1100 lbs. Being lower level, I can't really do certain things like base my decisions off of stars.
Yes dude! Nice advice. Didnt know hardly any of this last year when i started. YES- it is load bearing… CLAIM TOKENS!!!! You can trade them in outside the entrance of the mine.. they give you junk and random ammo I believe. THEY WEIGH SO DAMN MUCH. So yeah, there are better ways to get scrap and ammo without holding 5k lbs of tokens!
Regarding ammo, I refuse to pickup/keep missiles because they weigh so much. With mini nukes I sometimes keep just one to have to shoot now and then for fun if I stumble across a fat man launcher.
I have started posting these videos in a fallout group on FB, I noticed a lot of new players asking questions about the game, so i intended to guide them to you to gain their answers lol, hope you dont mind dude.. i can remove them all if required, but your videos could attract alot of fallout 76 skeptics from the group too, as you make the game look tasty, even to me with 3k hours in the game.
Wow, thanks so much for doing that! Just make sure it's ok to post that stuff in the specific group ;). Really appreciate it, and of course I'll gladly welcome anyone to the channel and try to get to all their questions. Thanks again
It's probably a good idea if you're keeping weapons in the stash box and not using them to take off the extra mods and break them down to the simplest form.
Tip: Have 2+ characters made. Have a friend stay on a world while you use a box somewhere in the world to stash stuff you dont need in your box, remember that location and then switch to your second made character, then have them pick it all up. Ininfite stash capacity
