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Fallout 4: Where and How to Get Copper

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Copper is incredibly crucial for building some of the more imperative structures in Fallout 4. Not to mention that it’s also really important for certain mods. So, of course, Bethesda made it incredibly difficult to find. Or so it would seem.

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If you already know how to dismantle and scrap junk thanks to our other guide, here’s a list of all the items that will give you copper. The number next to them represents how many units of copper you’ll get back.

  • Beaker Stand (1)
  • Blue Table Lamp (1)
  • Bone Cutter (1)
  • Broken Lamp (1)
  • Broken Lightbulb (1)
  • Bunsen Burner (1)
  • Cooking Pot (1)
  • Copper Bar (10)
  • Flight Data Recorder (1)
  • Fuse (1)
  • Copper (1)
  • Fusion Pulse Charge (1)
  • Gilded Grasshopper (10)
  • High-Powered Magnet (3)
  • Hot Plate (1)
  • Lightbulb (1)
  • Magnifying Glass (1)
  • New Power Cables (2)
  • Power Relay Coil (2)
  • Pre-War Lamp (4)
  • Sensor Module (2)
  • Shadeless Lamp (1)
  • Shadeless Table Lamp (1)
  • Stew Pot (1)
  • Telephone (1)
  • Vacuum Tube (1)
  • Yellow Table Lamp (1)
  • Magnifying Glass (1)
  • Telephone (1)

Keep your eye out for these items and be sure to hoard them all up once you find them! You’ll be building generators in no time.

Need help with more Fallout 4 stuff? Check out other guides over at our wiki!


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