Elevator (Fallout 4)

The elevator is a constructible settlement item added in the Fallout 4 add-on Contraptions Workshop.

Characteristics
Elevators are compact and efficient ways to traverse floors of player settlements. Elevators can reach either two, three or four stories depending on the elevator created and cost 5 power to use. To craft a 2 story elevator, one needs 16 steel, 2 copper, 4 wood, 3 gears and 2 circutry. The materials required increase by 50% per additional floor, so a 3 story elevator would cost 24 steel, and a 4 story would cost 32 steel.

The distance between elevator stops equals to the taller floors of the later add-ons (warehouse, barn and vault variants) and pre-War buildings, as opposed to the core game and earlier add-ons (wood, steel and concrete building kits). This needs to be considered if the elevator is constructed as part of a building. Additionally, no flat structural component (floor or roof) can be placed on top of an elevator frame - not even another elevator, - making it difficult to build additional floors on top of it (inclined roofs can be snapped to it). A floor, however, can be placed under an elevator, provided that another floor piece is adjacent, to which the new piece can snap to.

Bugs
Upon returning to a settlement with an elevator, the buttons in the cab will appear to be missing. They may be found on another floor or above or below the shaft.
 * Storing and replacing the elevator will fix the issue but as the elevator does not snap, replacing them is problematic.
 * Using the command to move the object has a similar effect.