Stop Eating Scrap Redux
⚪ Last updated 2024⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 3.9% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #18 of 55 Immersion mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Recommendations: Since this mod adds scrap back to the player, below are a couple of mods that pair nicely with Stop Eating Scrap!:
Let Me Use That (Zzyxzz) - Use items off the floor
Fill That Bottle! (Me!) - Fill bottles in any difficulty
Immersive Animation Framework (GloriousWarrior) - Animations!
Fusion Cores 76 (Me!) - Drained Cores Return + Crafting
TLDR - This mod aims to make all consumable food, drink, and medical items in the game to return "scrap" to the player that matches their container upon consuming them.
In the Main version:
Packaged food items like Cram, Potato Crisps, and Sugar Bombs will now return the empty box back to you, to be used as extra scrap, because who doesn't want an inventory full of empty boxes! All Nuka-Cola variants now return an empty Nuka-Cola bottle, and now consuming any Gwinnet alcoholic beverage will return the corresponding bottle: Pale, Stout, Brew, Ale, Lager or Pilsner. All Spirits return their empty bottle, and certain bottles with a cork now return cork back to the player! Immersion! Nuka-Cola and various alcoholic beverages have also been tweaked to Decrease or Increase player thirst in Survival mode. Kick your alcohol addictions or become extra susceptible to dry mouth! Along with this are new crafting recipes at any cooking station, these will give you the option to combine dirty water and certain Junk containers into Purified Water that can be used more than once until your container is empty. Waste not, want not!
Optional "Chem Recipe" Main file:
For the optional "Chem Recipe" version of the mod, I've added a "Refill" category to the Chemistry Workbench that will allow you to use up your newly acquired empty chem vessels! These recipes allow you to use the corresponding empty chem container in place of the usually required scrap, an Empty Stimpak now replaces the steel usually required in the recipe. These recipes DO NOT replace the original recipes, however as above they are now under the new "Refill" tab!
Also added in this optional file is a craft-able "Empty Syringe". Under the Utilities tab at any Chemistry Workbench, the Syringe can be crafted and used. Once used, you will be returned a "Filled Syringe", this can be used in a new Recipe to craft a Bloodpack! You can also use the Filled Syringe to regain a small amount of health, and using the Empty Syringe in-turn will also make you lose a small amount of health.
Below is every consumable this mod edits, as well as the components they return to the player, this includes consumables added with Far Harbour and Nuka World:
Ice Cold Newka-Cola - Nuka Cola Bottle
Ice Cold Nuka
Stop Eating Scrap Redux is an immersion mod for Fallout 4 that returns empty bottles, bowls, cans, and chems to your inventory when you consume items. It also adds new recipes for larger, multi-use Purified Water containers that grant junk upon final use. With 211 endorsements and recent updates, it's a solid quality-of-life addition for survival players.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-approved with 211 endorsements and over 5,400 downloads.
- Fixes a common immersion-breaking issue in survival mode where containers vanish after use.
- Adds practical new water container recipes that give junk, making resource management more interesting.
⚠️ Cons
- May conflict with other mods that alter container consumption or add similar recipes.
- Only affects bottles, bowls, cans, and chems—other consumables like food are not covered.
- The junk granted on final consumption might be unbalanced for some playthroughs.
For Fallout 4 survival players who hate losing empty bottles and want a more immersive scavenging loop. Also for crafters who appreciate new water container recipes. Skip if you prefer minimal inventory clutter or use mods that already handle container returns.
💡 Beginner Tips
- If you're on PC, use a mod manager like Vortex or Mod Organizer 2 to install and manage this mod easily.
- Check your load order to ensure this mod doesn't conflict with other settlement or crafting mods.
- In survival mode, the returned empty bottles are essential for crafting purified water—use them wisely.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Fallout 4 Mods
- Author
- SkyrimSloot
- Version
- 2.0
- Downloads
- 5,463
- Endorsements
- 211
- Category
- Immersion
- Created
- 6/24/2023
- Updated
- 8/4/2024
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