Resources in Fallout 76 are materials useful for many things, from crafting gear to building up your base. The game offers various resources such as acid, steel, junk, silver, and more. While some resources are more rare than others, all are important to have on hand when you need them.
You can find resources by looting, scrapping items you’ve gathered during your adventures, or by using extractors at natural resource deposits. These natural deposits litter the Appalachian landscape, and we are here to help you find the best resource locations so you can have all you need.
The Best Acid Spot
Acid is used in smelting ore into useable materials, in producing gunpowder, flamer fuel, and even in making lemonade. The best location for extracting acid is at Hemlock Holes Maintenance in Toxic Valley. This location allows you to place three acid extractors which will grant you 30 waste acid every half-hour.]
The Best Aluminum And Nuclear Material Spot
Aluminum is used as a base resource for many crafting projects. If you’re looking to extract the maximum amount of aluminum, then the Red Rocket Mega Stop workshop in the Savage Divide is your best option. With three aluminum deposits, you can extract up to 45 ore every forty-five minutes once you have taken over the workshop.
This workshop also has a Uranium deposit which allows you to collect up to 25 nuclear material per hour. Nuclear Material is used to make plasma cores, power armor, weapon mods, and certain weapons like the Tesla Rifle.
The Best Black Titanium Spot
A rare but useful resource, Black titanium can be found at Gorge’s Junkyard workshop, where you can place an extractor to collect up to 20 black titanium per hour. Gorge’s Junkyard also offers junk and concrete resource locations if you’re needing those additional resources.
The Best Concrete Spots
If you’re going to be building up your base, you’ll need plenty of concrete to do so. You can earn up to 99 concrete per hour by taking over the Abandoned Bog Town workshop in Cranberry Bog and putting down three extractors on the concrete resource sites.
Just be careful of the Goliath Behemoth and the Super Mutants protecting the workshop when you first arrive. Additional resources available at this workshop are silver, acid, oil, gold, food, and water.
The Best Coal Spots
Northeast of the Mount Blair workshop is a great coal deposit where you can place your camp. This gives you easy access to the resource you need earning you around 25 coal per hour, plus it puts you right at a great workshop where you can obtain many other ores as well.
The Best Copper Spot
Dabney Homestead is located in the dark area of The Mire swamplands. This little farm is a great resource location if you’re seeking copper. With three copper resource extractors you can place, each producing up to 20 copper ore per hour, you will be able to quickly build up your supply.
The Best Crystal And Gold Spot
A great location for placing an extractor to obtain crystal and gold is Billing’s Homestead, where you can extract crystal, copper, gold, fertilizer, food, and water.
Crystal is a unique resource used in the crafting of high-end and more complicated modifications for weapons, such as laser devices and scope mods. It is also used in crafting power armor, some types of ammunition, camera mods, and camera film. Gold is useful to have when adding to your camp and when crafting weapon mods.
The Best Fertilizer Spot
Fertilizer is an important resource for those looking to plant crops at their base camp and workshops. A great location to collect fertilizer is from Sunshine Meadows Industrial Farm where you can collect up to 75 per hour with the three available resource extraction sites. Additionally, you can gather junk, concrete, aluminum, and packaged foods from this workshop.
The Best Iron Spot
One of the most essential resources to gather in Fallout 76 is steel. Collecting iron will allow you to smelt the resource down into steel scrap. The best location to farm iron extractors is in Toxic Valley at Grafton Steel. Grafton Steel has four iron deposits, allowing you to extract up to 80 steel scraps every thirty-six minutes.
The Best Lead And Junk Spot
If you want to slay enemies, you’ll likely want to use some ammunition to do it. The primary ammo resource in the game is lead. Junk piles give you just that, a bunch of random junk that you can scrap to turn into various different components you’ll need for crafting. To the right of Black Bear Lodge, you can set up camp and extract not only up to 25 lead per hour but also up to 10 pounds of junk per hour.
The Best Oil Spot
Oil is essential in order to craft almost anything in the game. It is used in crafting many gears, mods for weapons and armor, chems, explosives, power armor, and more. The Beckley Mine Exhibit grants you three oil extraction locations to collect up to 25 oil per hour.
This location also has a crystal and gold extraction spot so you can add even more valuable resources to your collection. Beckley Mine Exhibit is also close to Welch Train Station which allows you an ample opportunity to sell items to the vendor to collect caps.
The Best Silver Spot
Silver is an important component in crafting energy weapons such as plasma and laser weapons. If you’d like to gather up to 90 silver scrap every hour and a half you can take over the Tyler Country Dirt Track workshop where there are three extractor locations available.
In addition to these silver resources, there are also fertilizer, junk, iron, and aluminum extractor resources inside the dirt track. This location also gives you a convenient free travel location to the Northwest region of the Forest.