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Fallout 4made settlement building a large part of the franchise.All that junk in the wastelandcan be used to make a fortified base or a town bustling with trade. You can also use junk components to upgrade your armor, weapons, and power armor.
Crystal is one of the crafting components you can scavenge from junk. It’s useful for many settlement objects, including the Recruitment Radio Beacon that you can build to attract more settlers. Crystal can also be used in energy weapon modifications. Here is where you can find crystal while exploring the wasteland inFallout 4.
Junk Items
Junk items found in the wasteland can be broken downinto their base components. The scrapper perk will give you double the number of components if you get it to Level 3. Crystals can be found incamerasand other items that contain lenses. The Institute has many microscopes and cameras in its laboratories.
One of the best sources of crystals will be laser tripwires. Make sure to carefully disarm any that you see. These are all the items that contain crystals and some locations where you may find them.
Five can be found in Greenetech Genetics
Two can be found in the Cabot House
Two in the Vault-Tec Regional HQ
Laser Tripwire
Crouch and get close to laser tripwires to disarm them for crystal parts
Jamaica Plain has many traps you can disarm
Two can be found in Greenetech Genetics
Nine in Vault 81
One in Vault 75
Undamaged Camera
Four can be found in Vault 81
You can trade 36 Book Return Tokens to the Book Return Terminals in Natick Police Department and Shaw High School to get undamaged cameras.
Shipments
You can also purchase shipments of junk components from vendors all over the Commonwealth. This is a way to buy components in bulk. Prices can be steep, but it’s very convenient if you don’t want to dig through pre-war junk.
Once you buy the shipment, a note will be in your inventory. Bring this note and store it in yourworkshop to redeem it.Here are the vendors where you can purchase crystal shipments.
