Pencil (Fallout 4)

The pencil is a junk item in Fallout 4.

Gameplay
An orange pencil with a pink eraser. It is identical in size to the reporter's pencil but is hexagonal and orange instead of cylindrical and brown.

Crafting
The pencil can be broken down into its individual components for use in crafting:

The pencil can also be used to craft endangerol syringes at a chemistry stations.

Variant

 * Reporter's pencil

Locations

 * Four pencils can be found on the table in the Railroad HQ.
 * Two in the Cambridge Polymer Labs.
 * Sold by vendors.
 * Sometimes found on the corpse of feral ghouls.
 * Inside or around desks, near terminals, or clipboards.
 * As a random collectible from Vault-Tec lunchboxes.
 * As a random collectible from Nuka-Cola lunchboxes.

Behind the scenes
The "lead" in real pencils is made with graphite, which was originally believed to be a variant of lead and was historically referred to as "plumbago" (Latin: lead ore) or "black lead." Pencils have never been made with actual lead, even though lead is an in-game component of pencils in Fallout 4.