Last Updated on by Samuel Franklin
This comprehensive Fallout Shelter guide details junk use and which junk to keep or sell. Despite its name these junk items are vital to crafting powerful weapons and armour for dwellers or can be sold for extra caps.
I recommend players keep all legendary or rare junk and common junk that is useful crafting which are detailed in in my priority keep list below based on thousands of gameplay hours. All other junk can be sold for caps to clear inventory space.
Table of Contents:
– Junk Keep/Sell Guide
– Junk Overview & Use
Junk Uses/Keep/Sell Guide
For junk management I recommend:
- Keep all legendary and rare junk items.
- Keep approximately 30 of each common item depending on your storage space with higher priority given to items with important crafts detailed below.
- Keep all legendary and rare outfits or weapons that you don’t currently need for your dwellers. These can be useful as your vault expands or saves storage space compared to scrapping them.
- Scrap all common outfits or weapons that you don’t need for current dwellers.
| Junk Item | Junk Tier | Notable Uses | Priority To Keep |
|---|---|---|---|
 Alarm clock |
Common | Plasma Rifle | High |
 Baseball glove |
Common | Advanced Jumpsuit (+5A), Sturdy vault suit (+5P) | High |
 Desk fan |
Common | Low | |
 Duct tape |
Common | Naughty nightwear (+5C) | Low |
 Magnifying glass |
Common | Sturdy wasteland gear (+5E), Advanced lab coat (+5I) | High |
 Toy car |
Common | Sturdy wasteland gear (+5E), Officer fatigues (+5S) | High |
 Yarn |
Common | Advanced Jumpsuit (+5A), Naughty nightwear (+5C), Advanced lab coat (+5I), Fancy formal wear (+5L), Sturdy vault suit (+5P), Officer fatigues (+5S) | High |
 Brahmin hide |
Rare | Advanced Jumpsuit (+5A), Sturdy wasteland gear (+5E), Lucky nightwear (+7C), Heavy vault suit (+7P) | High |
 Camera |
Rare | Low | |
 Globe |
Rare | Plasma Rifle, Dragon’s Maw, Heavy wasteland gear (+7E), Commander fatigues (+7S) | High |
 Microscope |
Rare | Plasma Rifle, Vengeance, Advanced lab coat (+5I) | High |
 Shovel |
Rare | MIRV | Medium |
 Teddy bear |
Rare | Naughty nightwear (+5C), Fancy formal wear (+5L), Sturdy vault suit (+5P), Officer fatigues (+5S), Expert jumpsuit (+7A), Expert lab coat (+7I), Lucky formal wear (+7L) | High |
 Wonderglue |
Rare | Low | |
 Chemistry flask |
Legendary | Dragon’s Maw, MIRV, Heavy wasteland gear (+7E), Expert lab coat (+7I) | High |
 Giddyup Buttercup |
Legendary | Vengeance | Medium |
 Gold watch |
Legendary | Low | |
 Military circuit board |
Legendary | Dragon’s Maw, Vengeance | High |
 Military duct tape |
Legendary | MIRV | Medium |
 Tri-fold flag |
Legendary | Lucky nightwear (+7C), Lucky formal wear (+7L), Heavy vault suit (+7P), Commander fatigues (+7S) | High |
 Yao guai hide |
Legendary | Expert jumpsuit (+7A), Heavy wasteland gear (+7E) | High |
Junk Overview & Use
- Junk is available from quest completion rewards (such as the Gauntlet Game Show), finding items from the environment or enemies, from dwellers while exploring the wasteland, scrapping weapons or outfits and opening lunchboxes. If you’re wondering how to scrap items this is done from the storage screen and selecting the recycle icon.
- Junk has three tiers; common, rare and legendary which impacts where it can be acquired and chance to obtain. There are 7 junk items of each tier and the majority of junk items are inspired by the Fallout 4 crafting system.
- The primary use of junk is to craft weapons or outfits which requires the appropriate crafting room and blueprint. These craftable items have the same three tier system and will generally require junk from their equivalent tier and below to craft.
- Junk can also be sold for caps which scales with the rarity of the junk item which is 2 caps for common, 50 caps for rare and 200 caps for legendary junk.
- Each item of junk uses one storage space which can be expanded by building Storage Rooms. It can sometimes be more space efficient to retain rare or legendary weapons or outfits as they only take a single slot but if scrapped may turn into multiple junk items.
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