If you’re looking to farm plastic in Fallout 4, there are a few things you’ll need. The first is a tool, like a hoe or shovel. The second is some plastic waste, like bottles or cans. The third is some water, and the fourth is some fertilizer. To start farming plastic in Fallout 4, you’ll need to gather all of the materials listed above. Once you have them all, place them in a designated area and start planting the plastic waste. You can either plant it directly on the ground or use a fertilizer to help it grow. Keep an eye on your plastic farm and make sure it’s doing well before continuing to add more material!
There, you will find an abundance of bowling balls and bowling pins, containing 7 plastic and 2 plastic, respectively. This adds up for a total of over 300 pieces of plastic.
Alternatively, you can also buy plastic from NPCs if you’d prefer to buy your own.
Method 1: Collecting Junk Items From The Wasteland
This is a list of all the items that can be scrapped into plastic:
Note: Items in Fallout 4 take around 7 days of game time to respawn.
And these are the top locations to find them:
Tip: The heavy back perk is highly recommended, bowling balls are very heavy, and you might want to fast travel with them, while overencumbered.
This is their location on the map of the Commonwealth:
Extra Tip #1: Checking If An Item Contains Plastic
Start crafting in one of your crafting stations. Choose an object/structure to craft that requires plastic. If you don’t have enough plastic to craft it, the TAG FOR SEARCH option will be available. If you activate it, all the items you find that contain plastic will show a small magnifying glass before their names.
Extra Tip #2: How To Scrap Junk Into Plastic
Find an item that contains plastic and pick it up. Transfer the item to a crafting station. When you craft something that requires plastic, the crafting station will break that item down and use it for crafting.
Tip: Be careful when you select the STORE ALL JUNK option. You might not want to store some precious junk items and get rid of them for crafting.
Method 2: Buy Plastic From NPCs
You can find shipments of 25 plastic from Myrna (dayshift) and Percy (nightshift) at Diamond City Surplus in Diamond City Market.
Buying plastic from NPCs is easy, fast, and you don’t have to carry the weight of the plastic because you buy it as a shipment.
It’s a great method while you’re waiting for junk items to respawn, but not worth it if you don’t have a few extra bottle caps to spare.
To use the shipment, store it in a workshop just like any other junk item. And once you start crafting it will be converted into single pieces of plastic.
Alternatively, you could buy junk items that contain plastic from an NPC, and scrap them in a crafting station. This method is more time consuming, but you will get more plastic for your bottlecaps.
