How Scavenging Stations Work - An Experiment

Time to make a scavenging station sweat shop settlement

You only need one

Jamaking mi scavenge man!

We need a property experiment with consistent and repeatable tests.

1. We need a control.
Do a test with no Scavenger Stations. Exactly 24 hours ingame hours away from the settlement.


2. A test with 1 Scavenger Station. Keep note of every item scavenged.

3. A test with 2 Scavenger Stations. Is the yield double that of test 1? Are the items scavanged the same?
Maybe multiple settlers can find more rare items.

4. 10 Scavenger Stations.
Is the yield 10x test 2? Better items?

5. Test if there's a cap.
Be away from the settlement for 5 days, then 10 days, then 30 days. Is the yield consistent every day?


The important thing with an experiment is to always have a control. Testing with no Scavenger Stations first is vital. Some items might get into the workbench for other reasons. Brahmin on site produces fertiliser, water purifiers produces water bottles.

Thank you for the video !

Thanks for the video I just wanted to see if this scavenging station was worth or not and it seems to me the scavenging stations is not that effective

Altough it was 7yrs since you have post this video, It helps even today in 2023! YOU´RE THE MAN OX! And you deffinetly deserve every single Thumbs Up in every of your videos more than you have already! Maybe even a cheeky SUB wont hurt ;) Thanks mate and keep up doing what you do best! Cheers!

...but this did not prove that you have to actually play for those twenty-four hours. You, yourself, pointed out a third possibility, but never tested it in this video. You still need to provide footage of you using the wait function somewhere outside of the settlement in question, then coming back to check whether or not there's scrap. Because you spent all of that playtime outside of the settlement, it's still possible that the only requirement is you not being there.

I set up 8-10 scavenging stations not knowing what they do and now that I know I really needed this

Bro is using McDonald's wifi to play fallout 4

Bro's playing on his smart fridge

Is there some newer film on this subject ?

Never in my life would I see fps in the negatives

the video quality sucks

His settlement must have a pop of 100

thanks for making this. oxhorn is the best when it comes to fallout questions and interests.

Can't this just be an afk passive method to obtaining supplies? Since it goes off in game hours.. like leave fallout afk when you sleep or go to work type 🤔

I know this is old, but I’ve never used Scavenging stations until recently, and I seem to remember settlements already producing scrap after a period of time. Do these Stations really do anything? Is there any concrete way of proving they work?

7 minutes to explain that??