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Fallout 76 CAMP: plan locations and storing junkHow to take over workshops
How to take over workshops
Building your own base inFallout 76requires you to use your “C.A.M.P.” or the “Construction and Assembly Mobile Platform” (henceforth abbreviated to CAMP). As long as your CAMP is on a flat surface and not near any established buildings, you can build anything you have a recipe for. Workbenches are used to make and repair items, while boxes can be crafted to store all that junk you’ve picked up all around Appalachia.
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Fallout 76 CAMP guide
Some locations to build your CAMP are better than others, so you may wish to move your base at short notice. ThisFallout 76 CAMPguide will show you how to move your CAMP in a time of crisis, goes over all the workshop locations, and list the essential buildings you should make for your base.
Those looking for a beginner’s guide to Fallout 76 should have a look at ourFallout 76 guide.
Compared toFallout 4, building stuff has a greater emphasis on crafting. As such, you will also need to defend its contents from other players and enemies alike.
Essential buildings to make in Fallout 76
To set up and move your CAMP, you need to open up the inventory and press the corresponding button on screen. You’ll then see in the game’s world a highlighted version of the CAMP which will be green if the location is a valid place to plonk your CAMP down, or red if it isn’t. You can only place it on semi-flat surfaces that are nowhere near established buildings.
Once you’ve built your base, you can then build stuff around it. I’d highly recommend that youmake a floor first. This acts as the foundations of your base, ensuring that your stuff can be constructed no matter where you try to place it.
After making the floor, and possibly some walls, here are some other things it’s a good idea to set up:
As of the Wastelanders update,there are now companionsyou can bring along to your base. To learn more about how to get them, you can have a look at ourFallout 76 allyguide.
How to use blueprints
There is a cap as to how many parts you can save in one blueprint, but this is a rather generous limit for small bases and you can make multiple blueprints. You do need toselect every single piecein a room to save it to the blueprint.
It’s worth putting down a tailored foundation to put your blueprints on as not every location is created in the same way. This may take some time, but making foundations in advance is worth it in the long run.
Managing storage
As your base of operations, your CAMP can house various different workbenches to make and repair items. However you will need somewhere to store all the scrap. The best thing to do is make yourself a storage box, however there is a huge caveat you need to be aware of: you can only store a certain amount of scrap.
The storage limit has been upgraded constantly, but there have been controversies surrounding how much storage you have if you haven’t paid for theFallout1st subscription service.
So you’ll need to be conservative with how much you’re storing, contemplating bundling up scrap with plastic to make bundles that aren’t as heavy. Thestorage limit is currently 800lbs, which is double the initial limit of 400lbs when the game first launched.
Powering your facilities
When making certain items for your base, you may find that you need to find a power source to run them. You’ll need tocreate Power Generators and connect them upto the various equipment such as drills or lights via cables.
You may need to extend the reach of the cables with extenders. This requires extra resources, so make sure you grab more than you need just in case.
What are drill spots?
There are a few drawbacks. Drills are noisy devices and will attract a lot of attention from enemies and other players. Monsters will try to destroy your drills, while other players may just steal your mined materials while you’re gone. You’ll need tobuild sufficient defences to protect them, such as turrets.
You can find the following materials in craters:
As for where to find those drill spots, I can’t recommend enough using theFallout 76 interactive mapfrom “Map Genie”.
Fallout 76 plans and recipes
Scattered throughout the region of Appalachia, there are multiple recipes and plans that allow you to make things. These range from food recipes to plans to make new facilities and defences. Their locations are mostly randomised, but the good news is that once you’ve discovered a plan or recipe, you don’t need a second copy.
However, and I can’t stress this enough for newer players/those who didn’t really experiment with crafting in Fallout 4, make sure you actuallygo into your inventory and use the plans or recipes. You won’t learn a recipe or plan unless you read them.
The game will conveniently tell you if the recipe or plan you have picked up is a duplicate. If that is the case, you can store it in your storage box or flog it to other players for a few caps.
Here are some locations of some of the plans to get you started:
Gathering raw materials
So what should you keep an eye out for when looting? Wood is perhaps the most useful material you can gather and it is found everywhere inThe Forestregion. You’ll also find a lot of random tat in the thousands of lockers, dressers, tables, and every other storage container in the game.
Then it’s just a simple case of fast-travelling back to your CAMP to scrap all the junk items at crafting tables and then storing scrap in the storage box. If you want to track which junk items in the world have the required materials, you can press the track button indicated on screen when attempting to construct an item or building facilities that you don’t have enough materials for.
How to get workshops in Fallout 76
Dotted around the land are workshops that can be taken over in order to build a separate base of operations. In order to take over a workshop, you’ll need to kill all the enemies in the local vicinity. Some will be the normal enemies in the game, but you may find you also need to deal with other players vying for control of the workshop.
Once you’ve done so, you can spend around 25 caps to begin the takeover process. You’ll need to stay in the area to take it over, but once you’ve done so, you’ll be able to build on the land the same way you’ll build a CAMP.
How to move your CAMP in Fallout 76
Once you do place your CAMP, it will be placed on the map and will be able to be fast-travelled to for no cost. Sometimes though it may be very far from where you want to be, so you may need to relocate your camp. To counter the fact thatfast-travelling to your CAMP is free, while fast-travelling almost everywhere else requires caps to fast-travel to, you will need to pay a small amount of caps to relocate it.
Aside from just being inconvenient, you may find that upping sticks and moving house may be inevitable if you provoked a vindictive player with nuclear codes. Find out how to get even in ourFallout 76 nukesguide.
Fallout 76 guide series
These should be enough information on theFallout 76 CAMPto get you started on making your own base. We hope you’ll check back soon as there’s the many quests that the game has throughout the ruined world of Appalachia, what each perk card does, and what you need to craft certain weapons. But for now, do check out the rest of our guides below:
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