Fallout 4
84 Achievements
1,600
108-139h
Mass Production
Produce 100 objects from your builders
20
0.84%
How to unlock the Mass Production achievement in Fallout 4 - Definitive Guide
The Builder requires 2 Circuitry, 3 Gear, 4 Rubber and 10 Steel and is what will be producing your items.
Once built it requires 8 Power to operate. This can be achieved with 3 Small Generators (remember to attach all the wires to the builder).
Once powered simply stand on the side of the Builder and press to transfer items. Transfer as many junk items as you can and the Builder will automatically produce new items.
I built 3 Builders to run simultaneously and the achievement took about 10 minutes to unlock. You can build as many Builders as you like to unlock this achievement quicker, but if you are running low on resources 1 Builder should take approximately 30-40 minutes.
As always you can make a save before attempting this achievement to reload from, minimising wasted resources. You can also scrap the items that the Builder makes and put them back in the Builder.
Once you have built the builder you need to build 3 small generators and a monitor around it so you can power it up. You don't need to attach the monitor to the builder just to a power source that is attached to the builder. You now need to pick what you want to build, you can do that by opening up the computer and I would recommend building what ever you have the most resources in for example I picked the ball because I had loads of rubber.
Now all you need to do is sit back and relax and wait for your machine to build you 100 items, if you run out you can choose something else to build or just refill the machine with the items it just made. It took about 20 minuets in total for the machine to build all of the items but you can speed this up by building more builders to work at the same time but that is up to you as it isn't necessary
If you would like a guide of how to build the builder or a video guide for the whole achievement I have included my video guide below.
I used Plastic Pumpkins.
Plastic Pumpkins require 4 plastic to produce and create 2 plastic when scrapped.
By placing your builders in a series, every other pumpkin created by the first builder will be turned into a new pumpkin by the second, and so on.
This saves you from having to place materials in multiple builders.
Have as much steel as you can possible get.
(There's a lot of steel you can scrap from Sancutary)
Put steel in building machine.
Program terminal to make steel balls.
A steel ball takes 5 steel to make.
When builder is all outta steel to make more balls.
Take all the steel balls.
Drop them on the ground in your settlement.
Scrap them indivualy one by one.
After all of them have been scraped.
Go to settlement's work bench and take out all of the steel that you scraped from the balls.
Put the steel back in the building machine.
Rinse and repeat till you have made 100 steel balls and achievement unlocks.
I hope this method helps, it worked for me.
When you create the builder, also build a terminal next to it.
You need 1 rank in the Hacker perk in order to be able to have access to a terminal from your workshop.
Once you do that, enter the terminal and you will see multiple options of products (junk items) you can build, that needs various types of materials, making things easier. I created bowling pins and teddy bears.
If your builder is not doing anything after you have chosen a new item to be produced, then disconnect the builder from power and connect it again to start producing.
Good luck :)
Materials Needed: 4 Aluminum, 4 Circuitry, 2 Copper, 3 Gears, 6 Rubber, 510 Steel and generators to create 9 Power. Alternatively, 500 Steel can be replaced with 400 Rubber or Plastic or 300 Steel (see "Alternatives" paragraph.)
Hello Sole Survivors,
This achievement is ultimately pretty easy. There are several different builders you can create, each with a different item type focus. For this achievement though I recommend making the "Builder" which is the most basic one and 1 of 4 that does not require any skills to be unlocked, 6 others require different skills.
To make the "Builder" you'll need 2 Circuitry, 3 Gears, 4 Rubber and 10 Steel and it's located in the Power > Manufacturing > Machinery workshop section. It also requires 8 Power so you'll need the appropriate generators as well - 2 Medium generators will suffice and require no additional skills.
You will also need a Terminal to be able to tell the Builder what to make. To make this you'll need 2 Rubber, 2 Copper, 2 Circuitry and 4 Aluminum and it's located in the Power > Miscellaneous section. It also requires 1 Power.
Once everything is hooked up access the Terminal and set the Builder to manufacture "Steel Ball". Put 500 Steel into the Builder and it'll start creating Steel Balls. You do not have to stay around for it to work. The Steel Balls can roll a lot so you might want to build a small fence around the Builder, or one of the other machines this DLC added, to contain them.
Alternatives: I picked Steel Balls because Steel seems to be the easiest material to come by. You can salvage the Steel Balls and get 4 Steel back, possibly more if you have the level 40 Scrapper perk. However there are 2 alternatives that do not use Steel should you prefer. The first one is "Kickball" which uses 4 Rubber each, and gives 3 back, and the other is "Plastic Pumpkin" which uses 4 Plastic each, and gives 2 back. You could also select the "Vault-Tec Lunchbox" which uses 3 Steel each, however they can only be sold, but since they are weightless they're a good way to carry around emergency funds.
If there is any way that I can make this solution better please don't hesitate to let me know.
No need to spend materials on useless junk, use it to build useful items instead.
Once you got that taken care of, next pull up the workshop menu and look for a Builder. It would be under Power > Manufacturing > Machinery. Build that, but it requires 8 power to operate so either build three small generators or the fusion core generator. Dealer's choice.
When you have that all completed, dump all the steel into the Builder and wait for about 10 - 15 minutes for the achievement to unlock. If you want, you could setup another Builder to make faster progress. Again, dealer's choice. When done, LOAD up your SAVE if you want or continue on.
Any questions and/or concerns, leave a friendly comment.
Builders are found under "Power" => "Manufacturing" => "Machinery", require 8 power and cost:
- Circuitry x2
- Gear x3
- Rubber x4
- Steel x10
Once the Builders have been placed and hooked up to a power supply, you also need to make and hook up a Terminal so you can tell each Builder what to make. Do note though, that rank 1 of the Hacker Perk is needed before a Terminal can be built.
I used the tip linked below to create 3 builders then loaded them up with 1 "Shipment of Steel - 100" each and once they stopped producing, I reloaded the produced "Steel Balls" into the 3 builders and the trophy popped shortly after. The whole process took just over 5 minutes. Source: LINK
Each of the different manufacturing machines can be found in the Workshop Mode menu under "Power > Manufacturing > Machinery." For this achievement, you'll want to focus on using the "Builder." Each of these machines require 2 Circuitry, 3 Gear, 4 Rubber and 10 Steel to build.
To expedite this achievement, it's best to build at least four of these machines next to each other. They will each require eight power to operate, so build however many generators necessary to have all four machines up and running. Once they're powered, you will need to interact with each Builder and transfer over a good amount of "junk items" into each. These junk items are what will automatically produce newly crafted items.
After you've loaded up each of the Builders with junk, simply sit back and wait for ten to fifteen minutes until the achievement unlocks. The more Builders you have loaded up with junk, the quicker this will unlock.
The machine worked when I was in the settlement; while I was waiting on a chair, the machine did not work.