Boston Bewilderings, The Fallout 4 "Where are you now?" thread Options

[SubRosa]

Have you been to the Drumlin Diner yet? It is on the road between Concord and Lexington. There is a merchant there, assuming you side with her against the drug dealers who are threatening her. Also not far away on the same road is a traveling merchant - Trashcan Carla - who will begin to make regular stops at Sanctury once you meet her the first time.

There is a way to craft ammo by building an Ammunition Plant, which you need the Contraptions DLC for. I never bothered with it. It seems like a big hassle with little to really show for it. It was easier just to make a mod that allows you to craft bullets from steel. Just look at how the other constructable objects work, and it is simple enough to do.

[Renee]

Not sure if Jenn's been there, I'm not seeing it on the map, however Jenn did meet a chems dealer named Slash or Shade or some such, near Med-Tec Research.

See, I'm spoiled by PC gaming here. On PC I would just jump into the GECK and make the merchant I need, give him or her plenty of rotating stock (including junk) so it doesn't feel like I'm blatantly cheating, voila. 🍷

I don't have the Contraptions DLC, at least I think I don't, not sure... I did just find this mod, however, which promises ...



1. (1) Lease one per owned settlement [ workshop crafting menu ].

Ammo put into the machine is scrapped in blocks of 10 or 20 to produce standard base game scrap components which are used to make boxes of 50 new ammo. on Xbox I'm somewhat limited; this seems the best I could find.

I'll let everyone know if this works.

This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 25 2026, 01:19 AM

[SubRosa]

Here is my Ammo Crafting Simplified mod, on my Google Drive. Anyone should be able to download it. With it you can create all forms of gun ammo with steel, and energy ammo with acid.

[Kane]

@Renee, since you mentioned not seeing a lot of Protectrons, I figured I'd mention that very few roam free. Most are in charging pods controlled by terminals. The benefit is that sometimes you can program them to defend you via the terminal and then release them.

There is actually one in Corvega, in the final room with the raider boss that you can do that with. I like releasing it and watching it take out the raiders for me.

This post has been edited by Kane: Jan 26 2026, 01:39 PM

[Renee]

We did fight one Protectron yesterday actually. It was free-roaming with some Mister Gutsies, forget where we were at the time, though
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December 23, 2287, Midnight: Jenn X discovers Cambridge Diner, but is too afraid to go in. This is ghoul country after all. It's the Night before the night before Christmas Jenn X is in not in the holiday spirit at all though. Her life is grim, never know where the next trauma or danger will happen next, but she knows when; usually every five minutes or so. She misses the days of 210 years ago, when all she had to worry about were some bills, what to have for lunch and make for dinner. Back then her life was also sort of grim; stuck in a dead-end marriage with that lowlife Malcom. Grim, but not dangerous. She would've been in the holiday spirit at least, not constantly about to get killed!

This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 27 2026, 12:10 AM

[Lopov]

I don't think I've ever encountered former neighbors in a random encounter. But I remember encountering the guy from the Vault-Tec that visits you at home. He's also ghoulified of course.

So Jenn is pondering, whether living a boring life with her husband was better or worse than getting killed almost twice every day?

I expect to return to the Commonwealth soon enough too.