Loot Absolutely Everything
This normally goes without saying in games like Fallout 4. After all, you’ll want all the weapons, food, and ammunition you can get your hands on. However, there has always been those odd knick-knacks in Bethesda games that never really served a purpose. Plates, brooms, cups, radios, pieces of wood, kickballs, whatever it is, pick it up.
Fallout 4 has a new crafting system that is used for both upgrading weapons and armor, as well as building necessary items for your settlements. Naturally, in an irradiated wasteland, raw materials are extremely difficult to come by, which is where all of those previously useless items come into play.
Every single item can be broken down into different materials (which you can see if you view the item in your inventory). Steel, wood, rubber, plastic, oil, cloth, and more will provide everything you need to build an impenetrable fortress or a sweet set of armor.
