Fallout 4 Crafting

Basics
It is possible to craft a variety of in-game items like consumables or grenades using workbenches located throughout The Commonwealth. As opposed to crafting in Fallout: New Vegas, it is not possible to craft your own ammunition or ammunition subtypes in Fallout 4 in the vanilla game, with the exception of grenades and syringer ammo for the Syringer rifle. Modding is carried out by applying pre-defined components to armor and weapons, like e.g. adding lead to armor parts for enhanced radiation resistance or equipping several types of barrels on firearms. Modding or crafting does not generally require schematics, but certain active player perks affiliated to the type of modding, e.g. Science! for modding energy weapons or Armorer for Armor.

The basis for all crafting and mods is the gathering of raw components listed below. Scrapping is commonly required to harvest these materials and can only be done while in "Workshop Mode". Some items will outline in yellow while other items will outline in green while in Workshop mode. This seems to only indicate whether the item is able to be moved and has no other purpose. Green items can be moved while yellow items are fixed in place. None of these items will respawn after scrapping.

Crafting stations include:


 * Chemistry station For crafting drugs, medicine, grenades, mines, Syringer ammo, and Cutting Fluid
 * Armor workbench For scrapping, repairing, and modifying Armor and clothing
 * Power armor station For repairing and modifying Power armor
 * Workshop For scrapping and building buildings, furniture, and various equipment for settlements.
 * Cooking station For preparing scavanged edible items.
 * Weapons workbench For scrapping and building weapon mods using parts from a variety of weapons.

Crafting components

 * Collapsed buildings, cars, street lamps, almost anything lying about within a workstation area can be scrapped for building materials. While you are in the structures/crafting screen, point your sights towards one of these objects and it will light up. To scrap an item, press the square button for PS4, X for Xbox One or R for PC.
 * NOTE: All items in scrapped containers will be moved to the workshop's storage, accessible from any crafting station, or from the workbench itself.
 * When creating an item with a piece of junk like, say, Duct Tape that has multiple raw components, the junk item will be consumed. Any unused raw components are supposed to be deposited back into Workshop storage automatically, but it has been observed that this feature of the game does not always function properly leading to a rather substantial loss of raw components.  Manually placing junk items on the ground and scrapping them seems to correct this issue.
 * Scrapping an object such as a table, wooden crate, shelf, etc. will cause any objects on or touching to disappear from the game. Scrap those objects first before scrapping the table, etc.