Junk Jet (Fallout 4)

The Junk Jet is a weapon in Fallout 4.

Characteristics
Similar to the Rock-It Launcher, the Junk Jet fires any junk item loaded into its hopper, such as a wrench. Items must be loaded in manually, and fired items can be picked up after being shot, making this a ranged weapon with theoretically unlimited ammunition. In practice, however, items will (about 10% of the time) be lost upon contact with the enemy as they are no longer interact-able. This sometimes results in flung items floating in the air with no support, unable to be picked up or moved.

The damage per shot and damage per second values are uncertain as the Junk Jet does much more damage if the shot is charged for approximately 1 second. It is unclear whether 40 damage is the base damage per shot or the charged damage. The statistics block is currently reflecting the base rate of fire of very nearly 1.666... shots/sec, times the listed damage. The time to charge up a shot is very close to 1 second, so the charged shots/sec is 0.625, but again, the exact damage is unclear.

The range limitations on the weapon are largely irrelevant as projectiles follow a parabolic trajectory, dropping significantly beyond effective pistol range. This makes the weapon impractical for long-range fire unless the shooter can 'lob' shots and still hit the target.

The weapon has no hard limit to its 'magazine' capacity. When reloading, the game pauses and a container interface is opened. Any junk item can be loaded into the Junk Jet. There does not seem to be a container limit (tested with approximately two thousand pieces weighting over five hundred weight units of junk), but the contained junk still counts against your weight. Therefore, the practical ammunition capacity is highly subjective, as it is only dependent how much weight in junk you are willing to carry, and you can fire the weapon indefinitely without any reload needed until the hopper is exhausted. The ammunition counter will never show more than 999 no matter how much is loaded into the hopper.

One effective strategy for the Junk Jet is to use a common, light item. Steel works well, as you can quickly refill by scrapping near-worthless weapons at a workbench. Another strategy is to use something with zero carry-weight, such as Pre-War money. Another humorous yet helpful solution is to load up on as many Synthetic Truth or Boston Bugle papers and restart the news system in Fallout 4 with fast effective and accurate paper delivery!...imagine the headlines...or the heads...

Locations

 * In ArcJet Systems on the table in the rocket control room. Accessing the room requires accessing a terminal that needs Advanced hacking to crack, however, the Sole Survivor can find a way to access this terminal without having to hack it. Found during the quest "Call to Arms". If you have Nick Valentine as a companion he will unlock the terminal for you.


 * Dropped by Manta Man in a random encounter.

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