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The best way to farm aluminum in Fallout 4 is to head to Vault 95 and look for aluminum cans, TV dinner trays, and surgical trays.
You will obtain over 100 aluminum after looting all junk items in the vault. The only downside to Vault 95, is that its items don’t respawn.
Alternatively, you can also buy shipments of aluminum from an NPC.
Farming Aluminum In Vault 95.
Method 1: Looting Junk Items That Contain Aluminum
Vault 95 is a great place to start, but there are many other great locations to farm this abundant resource:
Location
Items
Where To Look
Total Aluminum
Vault 95
TV dinner trays, surgical trays, aluminum cans.
All-around
115
Fort Hagen Command Center
Aluminum cans, surgical trays, TV dinner trays.
The exit tunnel on the west side.
108
Corvega Assembly Plant
Coolant cap, aluminum can, TV dinner trays, hubcap, aluminum canister.
Inside and outside the assembly plant.
104
Mahkra Fishpacking
Aluminum trays
Lower levels
80
Mass Pike Tunnel
Aluminum cans
All-around
50
Vault 81
Surgical trays
In the Secret area of the vault
40
Federal Ration Stockpile
Aluminum cans
Shelves
20+
Four Leaf Fishpacking
Aluminum trays
West side of the factory
24
Medford Memorial Hospital
Surgical trays
All-around
20+
Note: Most items take around 7 days to respawn in Fallout 4.
Here’s all the previous locations on the map of the Commonwealth:
The location, on the map, of the best spots to farm aluminum
This is a list of all the items that can be scrapped into aluminum:
Item
Yield
Cake pan
3
Surgical tray
3
Sweeper
3
TV dinner tray
3
Alarm clock
2
Aluminum can
2
Aluminum canister
2
Carlisle typewriter
2
Coolant cap
2
Hubcap
2
Inactive distress pulser
2
Industrial oil canister
2
Ring stand
2
Wakemaster alarm clock
2
Applicator
1
Cauterizer
1
Ear examiner
1
Sensor
1
Spanner
1
Toy rocketship
1
Tray
1
Tri tool
1
Tweezers
1
Note: Without level 1 of the Scrapper perk, nothing will be gained from scrapping junk items.
Extra Tip #1: How to Know If The Items You Find Contain Aluminum
The “Tag For Search” option allows you to tag certain materials. Once you find an item that contains one of those materials, it will display a small magnifying glass before its name.
Follow these steps to activate Tag For Search:
Open a workshop, from one of your settlements.
Try to craft something that requires aluminum.
The Tag For Search option will be available if you lack the materials to craft the object/structure you have selected.
Activate it, and from now on, it will be much easier to find what you are looking for.
How tag for search works.
Extra Tip #2: How To Transform Junk Items Into Aluminum
Pick up an item that contains aluminum.
Store the item in a workshop.
When you start crafting, and lack the raw materials to build, the workshop will automatically scrap the items.
Storing a surgical tray inside the workshop.
Tip: Don’t use the Store All Junk option. You might store something valuable that the workshop could scrap, and you will never get it back.
Method 2: Buy Shipments of Aluminum From NPCs
Buying a shipment of 50 aluminum from Arturo Rodriguez, Diamond City Market.
If you don’t mind paying a price for your aluminum, this is the easiest and fastest way to get it.
NPCs sell aluminum in the form of shipments. This way, you don’t have to carry the weight of the aluminum.
To use shipments of aluminum, store them in a workshop, just like any other junk item.
Here’s a list of all NPCs that sell shipments of aluminum:
NPC
Location
Shipment’s Amount
Arturo Rodriguez
Diamond City Market
50
Rufus Rubins
Goodneighbor
25
And this is their location on the map:
The location of all NPCs that sell shipments of aluminum
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