Crafting materials guide

Listed here are the main crafting materials required for building armor, weapons, ammo and other related gear in Fallout 76. This quick guide will give you a run down of each material, suggestions on what to look for during exploration for certain items and what creatures to farm to gather bulk.

• Acid - primarily needed for fertilizer, gunpower
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Abraxo Cleaner
    • Bag of Fertilizer
    • Bloatfly Gland
    • Coolant
    • Makeshift  Battery
• Adhesives - used for repairing and modding items
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Duct Tape
    • Wonderglue
    • Vegetable Starch
      
      • Can be created via cooking station, create a farm of corn, mutfruit, tato and also make a water purifier.
• Antiseptic - required for making healing items.
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Abraxo Cleaner
    • Blood Sacs
    • Turpentine
• Asbestos - used in weapon, armor and chems
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Chalk
    • Pack of Cigaretts
    • Coffee pots
    • Rat Poison
• Aluminum - many items and base building plans need lots of aluminum.
  • Many robots drop as loot aluminum, one of the best areas to farm robots is at the RoboCo in Cranberry Bog.
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Aluminum cans
    • Aluminum Trays
    • Alarm clocks
    • Coolant caps
    • Sensors
    • Toys
• Ballistic Fiber - required to repair armors
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Military Grade Duct Tape
    • Military Ammo Bag
    • Power Armor Chassis
• Black Titanium - used to craft special items such as the excavator power armor
  
  • This item can be obtain easy via the workshop in Gorge Junkyard.
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Mole Miner Suits
• Ceramic - used in many building related plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Cooking pot
    • Cups
    • Mugs
    • Plates
    • Teapot
    • Vases
• Copper - used in many building related plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Beaker Stands
    • Cooking pot
    • Lamps
    • Light Bulbs
    • Fuse
    • Hot Plates
    • Orange Canister
    • Sensor Module
• Circuitry - used in many building plans like turrets, also in some power armor items
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Circuit boards
    • Targeting Cards
    • Sensor Modules
    • Telephones
    • Hot Plates
• Cloth - used in armor and building plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • American Flag
    • Oven Mitts
    • Pillows
    • Teddy Bears
    • Pre-War Money
    • Pack of Cigarettes
• Concrete - used in building plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Bags of Cement
• Fertilizer - used to create farms in camps or workshop areas.
  
  • Can be created via the chemistry station from spoiled fruits, vegetables and meats.
• Fiber Optics - used in item modification plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Biometric scanners
    • Microscopes
• Fiberglass - used in armor modification plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Abraxo cleaner
    • Cigar boxes
    • Rat poison
    • Telephones
• Gears - used for weapons, modifications and building plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Adjustable Wrench
    • Cameras
    • Desk Fans
    • Giddyup Buttercup
    • Microscopes
    • Typewriters
    • Watches
• Glass - used for item modification and building plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Alarm Clocks
    • Bottles
    • Fuse
    • Lamps
    • Microscopes
• Gold - used for energy, laser type of weapons and modification plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Gold Watch
    • Gold plated flip lighter
• Lead - used to make ammo and item mods
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Battery
    • Can
    • Combination Wench
    • Pencils
    • Weights
• Leather - required for armor gear and modification plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Battery
    • Baseball
    • Mole Rat Hide
    • Radstag Hide
    • Fox Hide
    • Teddy Bears
• Nuclear Material - use for weapon modifications and building generator plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Alarm clocks
    • Biometric scanners
    • Blast Radius board game
    • Petrified corpses
    • High-Powered Magnet
• Oil - required for many building plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Blowtorches
    • Cutting fluid
    • Flip Lighters
    • Gas cannisters
    • Lanterns
    • Mr Handy Fuel
    • Portable Fuel Tank
    • Paint can
    • Oil can
• Plastic - used for bulking resources, making some ammo types and weapon modification plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Cafeteria Tray
    • Cigarettes
    • Cooking Oil
    • Coolant
    • Globes
    • Hairbrush
    • Toy Alien
    • Toy Rocketship
• Rubber - required for many weapon, armor modifications and building plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Bonesaw
    • Basketball
    • Plunger
    • Saw
    • Spatula
    • Tire
    • Toy Alien
• Screws - required for item modification plans
  
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Clipboard
    • Desk Fans
    • Globes
    • Handcuffs
    • Hot plates
    • Toy cars
    • Typewriters
• Springs - required for item modification plans
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Alarm Clocks
    • Battered Clipboard
    • Cameras
    • Fishing rods
    • Flip Lighters
    • Handcuffs
    • Toasters
    • Typewriters
    • Watches
• Wood - used in cooking stations and building related plans
  
  • Exploration around the game world for fallen trees or wood piles provides one of the best ways to getting wood in bulk.
  • Can be scrapped from the following:
    
    • Pencils
    • Screwdrivers
    • Test Tube Racks