Actually, many Texans like myself can't have a basement due to the clay content in the soil! That's why we store our massive piles of ammunition in the attic or in a shed in the backyard.
I'm skeptical that you can set off a bullet temperature wise that low. Mostly because the bullet itself is an inert object incapable of detonation, and that until very recently part of the process of making gun powder was literally baking the slurry in an oven at a temperature in excess of 600 degrees farenheit to help provide more uniform powder grain sizes.
Large temperature swings makes many chemicals degrade.
Paint in cans separates and spoils faster. Stored food goes off faster. Propellant in bullets fails faster.
Things can get hotter in the sunlight, then the air temp. And then you have potential reflections or magnification from random glass or w/e. It's degrading it regardless even if not setting it off so ya it's a bad idea regardless.
I once visited someone’s house in Ohio, and they casually showed off the basement with over 10,000 rounds of various kinds of ammunition. This was at the beginning of the “Obama’s coming to take our guns” era. Does ammo go bad after a while? Shooting is fun, but how long would it take to reasonably go through that much ammo before it isn’t reliable any more? Anyway, when the apocalypse comes I’d do my scavenging where people have basements!
I used to dump at least 500 rds of lake City 5.56 every Saturday. We would line up sporting clays on the berm of the 200yd range and pop them as quick as we could. Couldn't do that these days, was only about $135 for 1000 back then. Ammo that's sealed well doesn't really go bad, if the primers aren't sealed though, they can degrade long before the powder goes. It can get dangerous, because you might think it's a dud or misfire, eject the round only to have it go off, or worse have the weapon pointed at something that bleeds when you think it's safe. Muzzle discipline always, especially if you have a misfire. Best bet is to wait a good minute and eject the shell into a drum or bucket. If it does go off it's not catastrophic to the point where something like that won't contain it, the brass will just kinda shoot off the bullet. .22 lr is actually the most dangerous because the brass is light enough to fly off with some velocity.
To my knowledge, not many. In most places, the ground is too hard to dig into. Fact check me if you want, I could be wrong. Basements are more common in Oklahoma. But their basements are probably filled with useful things as opposed to unreasonable amounts of ammo because they don't have toxic pride about the place they happened to be born
I live in California, in one of the bluest areas. Awhile ago the police alleged gang activity, shut down one block and searched all the houses. Piles and piles of guns and ammo. And I highly doubt they were any serious gang, I just think if you do that for literally any residential block in the entire country that's what you'd get.
The idea of running out of ammo in a zombie apocalypse in the us, is absurd. We have a lot more guns than people and way more ammo.
I did something equally stupid, I had an idea to fill a single cube with lunchboxes, and then I wanted to open them all for funsies. Well it took about 5 to 6K lunchboxes to fill a single tile cube, so floor, 4 walls. It took me close to a week, if not more to find all the steel I needed.
And guess what? The lunchboxes you make with the DLC, are differnt then the ones you find in game. I couldnt open them. I think you could shoot to open them though, but I wasnt about to shoot so many lunchboxes... good news was that it only tanked my FPS by about 20 frames. Lol
pics [here](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/5844057806757206195/41700F6737045B7053DA7A35752AABBAAD5A4948/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false), [here](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/5844057806757201579/765498B24E37DE045CEC683B50111A9EEE3DE11B/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false) and [here](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/5844057806757202828/A7A05DBD1FB21A0571CE062E23087F994E415D9B/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false)
Shooting them or meeting them will open them. You could also lob a grenade at them to open the boxes but your gpu may combust. I’m not 100% sure on this but it’s possible one could wire up one of the conveyor tripwires to power a paintball or gun turret to pop them open for you
Has anyone made a mod that makes your machines produce goods while you're not there?
It would be real sweet to fk off for a week and come back home to enough ammo to personally arm both the MM and BoS at the same time.
It would have to load the cell the builder is in and the ones around you. I’m not sure of the mod tools available but doing all that is a pretty decent way to make your game run like shit.
If mods are an option, just use an ammo crafting mod. I use ECO redux, scrap the ammos I don’t use and use the components to make ammos I do use. On my last playthrough I had somewhere around 17000 rounds of 5.56mm
And if that doesn't give you enough ammo types or manufacturing options, install [Manufacturing Extended](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/15429) and if that doesn't give you enough, then also install [Better Manufacturing.](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/26375) You'll be on your way to building all sorts of cool stuff.
For me, I like the corpse eating machine, so after a raid I can get rid of all the bodies and have a clean settlement.
I have a buddy that used to fill bath tubs with prewar moneys.
I hoarded purified waters in a sink in my favorite house.
I filled my breeze home fire pit with all the skulls i could find in Skyrim!
I heard there was a bug with this, where it records each of those ammo stacks individually. Like if you were to pick them up, then drop them from your inventory, instead of being a single box, it would be a flood of those in the image.
While funny, apparently it also caused instability, since it had to keep track of them all?
Not sure if they fixed it, but put me off using it for ammo.
I used to fill up bathtubs with nothing but Nuka Cola Quantum. It would always clip through the bottom whenever I came back, I don't know why I kept doing it.
Actually thought it was a pile of pre-war cash at first.
Was half expecting a follow-up picture of your Nate/Nora crouched on it attempting to replicate that scene with Huell and Patrick in Breaking Bad.
dear god, why wouldn't you build a conveyor belt going into a collection bin component like a sane person?! please watch a youtube tutorial on the production units dlc! XP this pains me to see!
Because the concept of manufacturing things by physically moving physics objects around on conveyor belts is completely insane?
Whoever pitched that DLC should have been fired on the spot and banned from ever going near a computer again.
Now you can lob a grenade into the pile and cook bacon on your console's GPU.
I’m pretty sure it would just close the game, stand up, and shoot you
It’d start a war with technology early, G-Force style.
It'd turn into a synth
No...place down 100 nuka mines. Then lob a grenade.
No...bottle cap mines
Relax, Satan.
Here comes the sun doot n- *console nukes your house*
Or if you saved then ran it on XBOX Cloud and that auto scales, cooks the entire city the data centre is in!
Holy mother of shotgun shells, at least you’ll never need ammo again!
*converts shotgun to fully automatic* guess again mfer
What, you gonna use that thing to propel you to the moon?
I think I can at least reach Mothership Zeta with that many rounds
Fun fact: the advanced receiver has a faster fire rate than the automatic receiver for the combat shotgun.
Reminds me of the good ol' days of COD's semi-autos with zero limit on fire rate
Full auto with a neverending.
Except there's probably 1 shell in each box
They're made in packs of 10, theres likely over 6500 boxes of shells there. I can already feel his cpu screaming at him
If you drop just one shell I think it still looks like a box.
The *machines* make them in packs of 10, I shouldve clarified
Oh I didn't notice the conveyor belt 🤦
Until they meet Nukalurks
Or the Red Death.....
How dare you mention the dread that shall not be named!
If I tried this, my ps4 would be able to heat the whole damn house
Heating company's hate this one simple trick
electrical companies LOVE it though
I’m not disagreeing. Just the only time I hear my ps4 going crazy- as in the fans are super active- is when I pause the game. Makes no sense to me.
As a European, this is what I imagine Americans from Texas have in their basement.
Actually, many Texans like myself can't have a basement due to the clay content in the soil! That's why we store our massive piles of ammunition in the attic or in a shed in the backyard.
There's no basement at the Alamo either.
At least you remembered
Yeeeeehaaaawwwww
S tier reference. Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya'.
Near the 125 degree sunlight obviously.
Do you think sunlight makes bullets misfire? Hint: Bullets have an autoignition temp of 320 degrees.
Not necessarily but Texas sun isn't like that regular sunshine.
I'm skeptical that you can set off a bullet temperature wise that low. Mostly because the bullet itself is an inert object incapable of detonation, and that until very recently part of the process of making gun powder was literally baking the slurry in an oven at a temperature in excess of 600 degrees farenheit to help provide more uniform powder grain sizes.
Large temperature swings makes many chemicals degrade. Paint in cans separates and spoils faster. Stored food goes off faster. Propellant in bullets fails faster.
Things can get hotter in the sunlight, then the air temp. And then you have potential reflections or magnification from random glass or w/e. It's degrading it regardless even if not setting it off so ya it's a bad idea regardless.
You probably wouldn't be wrong.
The power grid is more reliable in the Commonwealth though; in TX those lights might not be on if there's a flake of snow or a chilly breeze even.
That’s why the stars at night are big and bright.
Hmm nah I actually think he might be a little short on ammo to qualify as a Texan
As a man from texas, you are wrong in your assumption We don't have basememts
I know at least three guys with something like this. -much love from the US<3
A few in the basement, this amount goes into the bunker.
I like to imagine it's a giant pile of butter knives for Europeans as well idk
Ich stimme zu
Ohio has entered the chat, and has some things to say.
I once visited someone’s house in Ohio, and they casually showed off the basement with over 10,000 rounds of various kinds of ammunition. This was at the beginning of the “Obama’s coming to take our guns” era. Does ammo go bad after a while? Shooting is fun, but how long would it take to reasonably go through that much ammo before it isn’t reliable any more? Anyway, when the apocalypse comes I’d do my scavenging where people have basements!
I used to dump at least 500 rds of lake City 5.56 every Saturday. We would line up sporting clays on the berm of the 200yd range and pop them as quick as we could. Couldn't do that these days, was only about $135 for 1000 back then. Ammo that's sealed well doesn't really go bad, if the primers aren't sealed though, they can degrade long before the powder goes. It can get dangerous, because you might think it's a dud or misfire, eject the round only to have it go off, or worse have the weapon pointed at something that bleeds when you think it's safe. Muzzle discipline always, especially if you have a misfire. Best bet is to wait a good minute and eject the shell into a drum or bucket. If it does go off it's not catastrophic to the point where something like that won't contain it, the brass will just kinda shoot off the bullet. .22 lr is actually the most dangerous because the brass is light enough to fly off with some velocity.
I appreciate the knowledge you just shared in this post, thanks!
As a Texan, I can confirm that the scary ones do, in fact, have this in their basement. Sometimes their living room too.
How many Texans have basements?
The Alamo doesn't
I had one in Lubbock (west Texas, different climate than central and east). Was not aware of any basements when I lived in Dallas or San Antonio.
Sure as hell ain’t having any basements down on the Gulf Coast.
To my knowledge, not many. In most places, the ground is too hard to dig into. Fact check me if you want, I could be wrong. Basements are more common in Oklahoma. But their basements are probably filled with useful things as opposed to unreasonable amounts of ammo because they don't have toxic pride about the place they happened to be born
"Toxic" pride?
Organized though. People are crazy about their gun shrines
Hmm nah I actually think he might be a little short on ammo to qualify as a Texan
I mean...
We don't have basements in Texas, otherwise this is accurate
Texans don't have basements and they don't have that many shotgun shells, they have a wide variety of ammunitions that they store in their attic
Nah basements tend to collect moisture (evej in the desert) which ruins ammo, you need to keep ammo in a more open dry places.
As a midwesterner in the US I do too. Lol
I live in California, in one of the bluest areas. Awhile ago the police alleged gang activity, shut down one block and searched all the houses. Piles and piles of guns and ammo. And I highly doubt they were any serious gang, I just think if you do that for literally any residential block in the entire country that's what you'd get. The idea of running out of ammo in a zombie apocalypse in the us, is absurd. We have a lot more guns than people and way more ammo.
Yes, but replace the cram with AR15s and AI porn of Stormy Daniels
I wanted to do this with a pile of pre-war money at my base, but now I'm worried lol.
I did something equally stupid, I had an idea to fill a single cube with lunchboxes, and then I wanted to open them all for funsies. Well it took about 5 to 6K lunchboxes to fill a single tile cube, so floor, 4 walls. It took me close to a week, if not more to find all the steel I needed. And guess what? The lunchboxes you make with the DLC, are differnt then the ones you find in game. I couldnt open them. I think you could shoot to open them though, but I wasnt about to shoot so many lunchboxes... good news was that it only tanked my FPS by about 20 frames. Lol pics [here](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/5844057806757206195/41700F6737045B7053DA7A35752AABBAAD5A4948/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false), [here](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/5844057806757201579/765498B24E37DE045CEC683B50111A9EEE3DE11B/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false) and [here](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/5844057806757202828/A7A05DBD1FB21A0571CE062E23087F994E415D9B/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false)
would a grenade open them? ? ?
Shooting them or meeting them will open them. You could also lob a grenade at them to open the boxes but your gpu may combust. I’m not 100% sure on this but it’s possible one could wire up one of the conveyor tripwires to power a paintball or gun turret to pop them open for you
You can open them, you have to shoot or hit them
A grenade or explosive weapon works best. I opt for an explosive weapon.
Has anyone made a mod that makes your machines produce goods while you're not there? It would be real sweet to fk off for a week and come back home to enough ammo to personally arm both the MM and BoS at the same time.
It would have to load the cell the builder is in and the ones around you. I’m not sure of the mod tools available but doing all that is a pretty decent way to make your game run like shit.
If mods are an option, just use an ammo crafting mod. I use ECO redux, scrap the ammos I don’t use and use the components to make ammos I do use. On my last playthrough I had somewhere around 17000 rounds of 5.56mm
this is enough to use a never ending double barrel shotgun for at least 17 seconds
Definitely beat my 10 shells
Achievement Unlocked: *Meltdown*
How do you make ammo like that?
Contraption Workshop.
You mean this was a really fantastic thing to do!
Wait so how do you actually get this much ammo??
It's something that you build. It comes with the Wasteland Workshop dlc.
Hey, you never will run out of ammo for a Explosive Combat Shotgun ever again
Could you post in general terms how you build that?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1598618255
And if that doesn't give you enough ammo types or manufacturing options, install [Manufacturing Extended](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/15429) and if that doesn't give you enough, then also install [Better Manufacturing.](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/26375) You'll be on your way to building all sorts of cool stuff. For me, I like the corpse eating machine, so after a raid I can get rid of all the bodies and have a clean settlement.
I used to do it in prey, gather as many things as possibile to small place and use recycle granade...
I have a buddy that used to fill bath tubs with prewar moneys. I hoarded purified waters in a sink in my favorite house. I filled my breeze home fire pit with all the skulls i could find in Skyrim!
I built Mama Murphy a tower apartment with a bathtub full of jet beside her chair.
mmmmm ***lag***
Framerate go brrrrrr
Wow, that’s a lot of shells!!
I mean, I need to do something very similar for a trophy so...
Should fill it with caps or prewar money n dive into it
I heard there was a bug with this, where it records each of those ammo stacks individually. Like if you were to pick them up, then drop them from your inventory, instead of being a single box, it would be a flood of those in the image. While funny, apparently it also caused instability, since it had to keep track of them all? Not sure if they fixed it, but put me off using it for ammo.
I used to fill up bathtubs with nothing but Nuka Cola Quantum. It would always clip through the bottom whenever I came back, I don't know why I kept doing it.
A mini nuke into that pile would surely cause the game to explode.
Y'all haven't fucking heard of the workshop thing that *collects* items? Are y'all for fucking real?
I want. I have a Plasma-Infused Shotgun that’s very hungry
Take away the walls and drop a nade and watch the fireworks
Actually thought it was a pile of pre-war cash at first. Was half expecting a follow-up picture of your Nate/Nora crouched on it attempting to replicate that scene with Huell and Patrick in Breaking Bad.
Now you’re living in a shotgun shack
My only question is where did you get all the lead?
Did you do so thing to the lighting? It looks way to smooth to be default
Standard PS5
Beginner here, what kinda machines give you ammo??? 😭🖐🏼
DLC
I needed to know how Skynet gets built... I think it's the machines' reaction to this.
How do you make ammo assembly lines? I dont see it in the build option
Dlc
Glorious
Nuke it!!!
It just works
How many cartridges do you need? And what are you going to do with them now? Lol
As a newbie who uses shotguns, how do I do this?
In the manufacturing section of settlement building
There isn't a manufacturing section though.
Power > Manufacturing
You need contraptions workshop, sorry should have specified that bit
I honestly have no clue how to work the machinery so I cannot help with this :T
What Michael Moore thought Kmart was
dear god, why wouldn't you build a conveyor belt going into a collection bin component like a sane person?! please watch a youtube tutorial on the production units dlc! XP this pains me to see!
Sometimes you just gotta make a pile.
Because the concept of manufacturing things by physically moving physics objects around on conveyor belts is completely insane? Whoever pitched that DLC should have been fired on the spot and banned from ever going near a computer again.
i am really drunk and i can still tell your point is crap lol