Best Spots to Farm Screws in Fallout 76

Knowing the best spots to farm screws in Fallout 76 means you’ll never run out of the crafting component, no matter how many items you make. But finding those locations yourself can be a task, and there’s no reason to explore the Appalachian wasteland without a destination in mind. If you aren’t keen on the Ring of Fire and want to play the base game, then you’ll need to spend time scavenging — just in the right places.

Best Spots to Farm Screws in Fallout 76

These are the three best spots to farm screws in Fallout 76:

• Purchase them for caps from the vendor at the Charleston Fire Department
• Loot and then break down items that contain screws
• Scavenge them off corpses from specific enemies

If you’re short on caps and want to farm screws through those latter two methods, we can show you exactly where to go for the best hauls.

Where to Find Screw Material Locations

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Let’s start off with the second option. Screws can be obtained after breaking down a variety of items, but your best bets are breaking down desk fans, globes, and typewriters. Toy cars also offer up a single screw but aren’t usually found as often in the locations I list below.

All four of those items can be found all over the Fallout 76 game map, and pretty much any building with desks will usually have desk fans, but all the aforementioned items can typically be found in abundance at these locations in particular:

• Sugar Grove (Northeast of the National Isolated Radio Array).
• National Radio Astronomy Research Center (east of the National Isolated Radio Array).
• A wharf at the Toxic Dried Lakebed (southeast of Wavy Willard’s Waterpark).
• The office building inside Abandoned Bog Town (Northeast of AMS Corporate Headquarters).
• The Whitespring Bunker (beneath the Whitespring Resort and south of the New Appalachian Central Trainyard).

Don’t forget that if you need springs instead of screws, you can get them by breaking down clipboards, which are often found in the exact same locations as desk fans and globes.

Scavenging Screws From Wendigo

Striking out on the search for desk fans? A more surefire (but dangerous) way to farm screws in Fallout 76 is to head to Freddy’s House Of Scares (east of the Red Rocket Mega Shop in the Mire region) and look for a Wendigo. That enemy typically has five or more screws on its corpse, and I can confirm it has as many as 16 in some cases.

• Kill the Wendigo.
• Loot its corpse.
• Return to the lobby.
• Load a different server.
• Hit it again to acquire as many as you need.

Note that any of the various Wendigo variations will have loose screws in their inventory, like the ravenous wendigo, glowing wendigo, progenitor wendigo, or scorched wendigo.

The number of screws is randomized, so if you hit a hot streak with plenty of screws, you may want to also head to the Wendigo Cave in the Savage Divide region found to the south of the Atlas Observatory. As the name implies, you’ll usually find wendigos here, although this area is more difficult to survive as you may get attacked by multiple creatures at once.

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Those are the best spots to farm screws in Fallout 76. For more on the long-lived MMO set in Bethesda’s retro-futurist universe, consider checking out our other Fallout 76 guides here, with tips on where to find cryptids, make Disease Cure, and more.