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About this mod
This mod adds 34 Advanced Smithing Stations around the wasteland, with a MODUS flavoring to most of the terminal text. These Advanced Smithing Stations allow you to create various foods, brews, melee weapons, firearms, crafting materials and ammunition. They also let you break down junk and firearms into base materials. See pictures for all uses.
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
Big thanks to Coldfire360 for his version of the mod uploaded in 2010, it's what I started with and ironed out as I felt many of the options to build advanced heavy weaponry and all ammunition costing the same 5 scrap metal was a bit version 1. With that being said it's quite a fun mod and far easier to create things with only scrap metal, so go check it out if you're looking for that.
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/14495?tab=description
Check out the Trello to keep up on the mod's status!:
https://trello.com/b/ZToFsFWM/modus-v05-advanced-smithing-station-overview/
As stated in the original description, this mod adds 34 of these MODUS V0.5 - Advanced Smithing Stations to the Capital Wasteland. You can find one in each of the player houses, and then other are placed near workbenches. It's best to go out and explore for them, this mod incentivizes exploration, scavenging, and hunting.
While I was editing the values for what each weapon and bundle of ammunition cost, I decided I wanted to sprinkle some Fallout 76 lore into Fallout 3 to help with my own immersion while playing. You can read up on the added lore on the terminals themselves, the basic rundown is that the developers of the MODUS AI in Appalachia created these 34 AI chips containing a prototyped MODUS AI, compartmentalized from one another existing as copies of one another but their own entities. The AI on these chips wasn't perfect like the true system that would be installed into the Whitesprings Bunker, but it was superior to ZAX and SODUS systems. They were sent to D.C. by military convoy before the bombs dropped once they perfected MODUS and had no use for the chips, where they were then confiscated by Enclave forces for production in the Advanced Smithing Stations. The MODUS V0.5 would serve as the brains of the machine, being able to produce most desires of it's "Commander", but not all. It can't produce most Food, Chems, Armor or Apparel. If that all sounds neat, I promise there's more on the terminal!
I've included a large list of sample pictures in the images tab so you can see what everything looks like.
There are 3 small unmarked quests, one of which is easy to pick up on. If you're an explorer chances are you'll be able to pick up on them pretty quick, just head to any of the MODUS terminals and read through, take mental or physical note of any interesting spots.
I recommend any mods that improve the way you gather Scrap Metal. You'll find 8 scrap metal in each bin that sits besides each MODUS Terminal to help you along in your smithing. Beyond that, good luck. The rewards for the Advanced Smithing Station are great, but they aren't handouts. Explore and scavenge well, and you might find yourself in possession of a brand new Laser Gatling Gun, or even a Fat-Man and some Mini-nukes. With the addition of menus like the canning station, the meat pie bakery, the milling program, the turpentine creation program, and the junk scrapper you're heavily encouraged to get out there and scavenge for many more materials you normally would pass by and mark them as useless like mutilated limbs, cans, toasters, lots of things. With the canning program, hunting is encouraged for dog meat, brahmin steaks, ant meat, and mole rat meat. Tin cans are also used for canning, so there's still a reason to scavenge while you're out.
With the Medical Creation Station, there's now a way to create Stimpacks, Med-X, and RadAway from the comfort and snide of a MODUS machine.
Firearm scrapping system is able to scrap most of the creatable firearms in the machine at the moment. This function should help you get more value out of all those .32 pistols you leave behind on raiders. I know it does for me. There's now an additional Melee Scrapping system located just under the firearm scrapping system.
Brewing Function that was previously "locked off" to users of the machine. Modus was designed to brew high class items (Yes he's a classist, what did you expect?) and as such can brew Wine, Scotch, or Nuka-Cola for you provided you have the proper materials. It's unclear if the ingredients are real ingredients in the actual recipes, but MODUS is able to synthesize the true ingredients from what you bring.
I started this mod to improve with immersion, help give some more meaning to scavenging junk while trying to maintain "realistic" recipes as far as crafting and scrapping went. With the new changes you'll need a range of junk from Crutches to Paperweights, to Vacuum Cleaners and Leaf blowers, Wonderglue and Steam Gauge Assemblies. And much, much more. I've included a full recipe breakdown here just below. There's also a shorthand guide in the terminals themselves that you can use to help you in game. Please enjoy the mod, there's been many updates and I hope to provide more content for it as I can.
Ammo
.44 caliber round x28 (Scrap Metal x5, Turpentine x3, Box of Detergent x2)
.308 caliber round x10 (Scrap Metal x5, Turpentine x2)
.32 caliber round x30 (Scrap Metal x5, Turpentine x2)
5.56mm round x30 (Scrap Metal 6, Turpentine x3)
10mm round x25 (Scrap Metal x5, Turpentine x1)
5mm round x500 (Scrap Metal x20, Turpentine x10)
Railway Spike x16 (Scrap metal x5, Leather Belt x1)
Shotgun Shell x24 (Scrap Metal x5, Turpentine x3, Large Burned Book x3)
Mini-nuke (Scrap Metal x10, Abraxo Cleaner x5, Ice-Cold Nuka Cola x2)
Missiles x3 (Scrap Metal x10, Abraxo Cleaner x3, Pressure Cooker x1)
Energy Cells x40 (Scrap Metal x10, Fission Battery x4)
Microfusion Cells x40 (Scrap Metal x8, Stealth Boy x1, Jet x2, Purified Water x3)
Mesmetron Power Cells x20 (Energy Cells x40)
Flamer Fuel x50 (Scrap Metal x10, Motorcycle Gas Tank x5, Turpentine x1)
Electron Charge Packs x15 (Scrap Metal x15, Fission Battery x5, Wonderglue x5)
Ranged Weapons
Fatman (Scrap Metal x30, Leaf Blower x1, Vacuum Cleaner x1, Conductor x6)
Gatling Laser (Scrap Metal x25, Leaf Blower x1, Pilot Light x4, Sensor Module x4)
Minigun (Scrap Metal x25, Leaf Blower x1, Steam Gauge Assembly x2, Wrench x2)
Flamer (Scrap Metal x20, Leaf Blower x2, Fission Battery x5)
Sniper Rifle (Scrap Metal x20, Firehose Nozzle x1, Wrench x2, Steam Gauge Assembly x3)
Laser Rifle (Scrap Metal x20, Vacuum Cleaner x1, Steam Gauge Assembly x 2, Surgical Tubing x3)
Plasma Rifle (Scrap Metal x20, Fission Battery x3, Pilot Light x2, Paint Gun x1)
Assault Rifle (Scrap Metal x15, Steam Gauge Assembly x1, Wrench x2, Wonderglue x3)
Chinese Assault Rifle (Scrap Metal x15, Steam Gauge Assembly x2, Wonderglue x4)
Hunting Rifle (Scrap Metal x15, Steam Gauge Assembly x2, Crutch x1, Leather Belt x2)
Combat Shotgun (Scrap Metal x15, Steam Gauge Assembly x2, Wonderglue x2, Wrench x3) Sawed-off Shotgun (Scrap Metal x10, Wrench x2, Crutch x1)
10mm Submachine Gun (Scrap Metal x10, Wrench x2, Toy Car x2)
Scoped .44 Magnum (Scrap Metal x10, Toy Car x2, Wrench x2, Bonesaw x1)
Plasma Pistol (Scrap Metal x10, Paintgun x1, Pilot Light x2, Fission Battery x1)
Laser Pistol (Scrap Metal x10, Steam Gauge Assembly x1, Surgical Tubing x2)
10mm Pistol (Scrap Metal x5, Wrench x1, Toy Car x1)
Silenced 10mm (Scrap Metal x5, Wrench x1, Toy Car x1, Teddy Bear x1)
Chinese Pistol (Scrap Metal x5, Wonderglue x3)
.32 Pistol (Scrap Metal x5, Wonderglue x3, Toy Car x1)
BB Gun (Scrap Metal x5, Crutch x2, Wrench x1)
Melee Weapons
Super Sledge (Scrap Metal x25, Lead Pipe x1, Leather Belt x3, Iron x2)
Ripper (Scrap Metal x20, Wood Chipper x1, Rake x1, Surgical Tubing x1)
Chinese Officer Sword (Scrap Metal x5, Iron x1)
Lead Pipe (Scrap Metal x3, Paperweight x1)
Tire Iron (Scrap Metal x3, Steam Gauge Assembly x1)
Spiked Knuckles (Scrap Metal x2, Fork x2)
Brass Knuckles (Scrap Metal x2)
Combat Knife (Scrap Metal x2, Whetstone x1)
Switchblade (Scrap Metal x1, Toy Car x1)
Knife (Scrap Metal x1)
Brewing Function
Wine (Bottlecap x1, Empty Soda Bottle x1, Purified Water x1, Blood Pack x1)
Scotch (Bottlecap x1, Empty Soda Bottle X1, Purified Water x1, Junk Food x1)
Nuka-Cola (Bottlecap x1, Empty Soda Bottle x1, Purified Water x1, Jet x1, Ant Nectar x1)
Bakery
1 Strange Meat Pie (Mutilated Arm x1, OR Mutilated Leg x1, OR Mutilated Skull x1, OR Mutilated Organs x1)
2 Strange Meat Pies (Mutilated Torso x1
3 Strange Meat Pies (Deathclaw Hand x1)
Grain Milling Program
4 Flour (Sugarbombs x8)
Mod recommendations:
Be sure to check out my other mod, FO3 - Better Messages if you want to further immerse yourself into fallout 3 -
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/24833
Check out RetralRX's new mod Capital Scavenger for females, as the name suggests it goes great for immersing yourself as a scavenger if you've got a female character and there's a MODUS station there in Moira's shop already so you'll be visiting Craterside Supply much more often! It requires the Pitt and Point Lookout DLCs. -
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/24815
These are 2 of the mods I use in the screenshots;
FO4 Cursor Mod - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/22163
HD Terminal Mod - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/16364
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/14495?tab=description
Check out the Trello to keep up on the mod's status!:
https://trello.com/b/ZToFsFWM/modus-v05-advanced-smithing-station-overview/
As stated in the original description, this mod adds 34 of these MODUS V0.5 - Advanced Smithing Stations to the Capital Wasteland. You can find one in each of the player houses, and then other are placed near workbenches. It's best to go out and explore for them, this mod incentivizes exploration, scavenging, and hunting.
While I was editing the values for what each weapon and bundle of ammunition cost, I decided I wanted to sprinkle some Fallout 76 lore into Fallout 3 to help with my own immersion while playing. You can read up on the added lore on the terminals themselves, the basic rundown is that the developers of the MODUS AI in Appalachia created these 34 AI chips containing a prototyped MODUS AI, compartmentalized from one another existing as copies of one another but their own entities. The AI on these chips wasn't perfect like the true system that would be installed into the Whitesprings Bunker, but it was superior to ZAX and SODUS systems. They were sent to D.C. by military convoy before the bombs dropped once they perfected MODUS and had no use for the chips, where they were then confiscated by Enclave forces for production in the Advanced Smithing Stations. The MODUS V0.5 would serve as the brains of the machine, being able to produce most desires of it's "Commander", but not all. It can't produce most Food, Chems, Armor or Apparel. If that all sounds neat, I promise there's more on the terminal!
I've included a large list of sample pictures in the images tab so you can see what everything looks like.
There are 3 small unmarked quests, one of which is easy to pick up on. If you're an explorer chances are you'll be able to pick up on them pretty quick, just head to any of the MODUS terminals and read through, take mental or physical note of any interesting spots.
I recommend any mods that improve the way you gather Scrap Metal. You'll find 8 scrap metal in each bin that sits besides each MODUS Terminal to help you along in your smithing. Beyond that, good luck. The rewards for the Advanced Smithing Station are great, but they aren't handouts. Explore and scavenge well, and you might find yourself in possession of a brand new Laser Gatling Gun, or even a Fat-Man and some Mini-nukes. With the addition of menus like the canning station, the meat pie bakery, the milling program, the turpentine creation program, and the junk scrapper you're heavily encouraged to get out there and scavenge for many more materials you normally would pass by and mark them as useless like mutilated limbs, cans, toasters, lots of things. With the canning program, hunting is encouraged for dog meat, brahmin steaks, ant meat, and mole rat meat. Tin cans are also used for canning, so there's still a reason to scavenge while you're out.
With the Medical Creation Station, there's now a way to create Stimpacks, Med-X, and RadAway from the comfort and snide of a MODUS machine.
Firearm scrapping system is able to scrap most of the creatable firearms in the machine at the moment. This function should help you get more value out of all those .32 pistols you leave behind on raiders. I know it does for me. There's now an additional Melee Scrapping system located just under the firearm scrapping system.
Brewing Function that was previously "locked off" to users of the machine. Modus was designed to brew high class items (Yes he's a classist, what did you expect?) and as such can brew Wine, Scotch, or Nuka-Cola for you provided you have the proper materials. It's unclear if the ingredients are real ingredients in the actual recipes, but MODUS is able to synthesize the true ingredients from what you bring.
I started this mod to improve with immersion, help give some more meaning to scavenging junk while trying to maintain "realistic" recipes as far as crafting and scrapping went. With the new changes you'll need a range of junk from Crutches to Paperweights, to Vacuum Cleaners and Leaf blowers, Wonderglue and Steam Gauge Assemblies. And much, much more. I've included a full recipe breakdown here just below. There's also a shorthand guide in the terminals themselves that you can use to help you in game. Please enjoy the mod, there's been many updates and I hope to provide more content for it as I can.
Ammo
.44 caliber round x28 (Scrap Metal x5, Turpentine x3, Box of Detergent x2)
.308 caliber round x10 (Scrap Metal x5, Turpentine x2)
.32 caliber round x30 (Scrap Metal x5, Turpentine x2)
5.56mm round x30 (Scrap Metal 6, Turpentine x3)
10mm round x25 (Scrap Metal x5, Turpentine x1)
5mm round x500 (Scrap Metal x20, Turpentine x10)
Railway Spike x16 (Scrap metal x5, Leather Belt x1)
Shotgun Shell x24 (Scrap Metal x5, Turpentine x3, Large Burned Book x3)
Mini-nuke (Scrap Metal x10, Abraxo Cleaner x5, Ice-Cold Nuka Cola x2)
Missiles x3 (Scrap Metal x10, Abraxo Cleaner x3, Pressure Cooker x1)
Energy Cells x40 (Scrap Metal x10, Fission Battery x4)
Microfusion Cells x40 (Scrap Metal x8, Stealth Boy x1, Jet x2, Purified Water x3)
Mesmetron Power Cells x20 (Energy Cells x40)
Flamer Fuel x50 (Scrap Metal x10, Motorcycle Gas Tank x5, Turpentine x1)
Electron Charge Packs x15 (Scrap Metal x15, Fission Battery x5, Wonderglue x5)
Ranged Weapons
Fatman (Scrap Metal x30, Leaf Blower x1, Vacuum Cleaner x1, Conductor x6)
Gatling Laser (Scrap Metal x25, Leaf Blower x1, Pilot Light x4, Sensor Module x4)
Minigun (Scrap Metal x25, Leaf Blower x1, Steam Gauge Assembly x2, Wrench x2)
Flamer (Scrap Metal x20, Leaf Blower x2, Fission Battery x5)
Sniper Rifle (Scrap Metal x20, Firehose Nozzle x1, Wrench x2, Steam Gauge Assembly x3)
Laser Rifle (Scrap Metal x20, Vacuum Cleaner x1, Steam Gauge Assembly x 2, Surgical Tubing x3)
Plasma Rifle (Scrap Metal x20, Fission Battery x3, Pilot Light x2, Paint Gun x1)
Assault Rifle (Scrap Metal x15, Steam Gauge Assembly x1, Wrench x2, Wonderglue x3)
Chinese Assault Rifle (Scrap Metal x15, Steam Gauge Assembly x2, Wonderglue x4)
Hunting Rifle (Scrap Metal x15, Steam Gauge Assembly x2, Crutch x1, Leather Belt x2)
Combat Shotgun (Scrap Metal x15, Steam Gauge Assembly x2, Wonderglue x2, Wrench x3) Sawed-off Shotgun (Scrap Metal x10, Wrench x2, Crutch x1)
10mm Submachine Gun (Scrap Metal x10, Wrench x2, Toy Car x2)
Scoped .44 Magnum (Scrap Metal x10, Toy Car x2, Wrench x2, Bonesaw x1)
Plasma Pistol (Scrap Metal x10, Paintgun x1, Pilot Light x2, Fission Battery x1)
Laser Pistol (Scrap Metal x10, Steam Gauge Assembly x1, Surgical Tubing x2)
10mm Pistol (Scrap Metal x5, Wrench x1, Toy Car x1)
Silenced 10mm (Scrap Metal x5, Wrench x1, Toy Car x1, Teddy Bear x1)
Chinese Pistol (Scrap Metal x5, Wonderglue x3)
.32 Pistol (Scrap Metal x5, Wonderglue x3, Toy Car x1)
BB Gun (Scrap Metal x5, Crutch x2, Wrench x1)
Melee Weapons
Super Sledge (Scrap Metal x25, Lead Pipe x1, Leather Belt x3, Iron x2)
Ripper (Scrap Metal x20, Wood Chipper x1, Rake x1, Surgical Tubing x1)
Chinese Officer Sword (Scrap Metal x5, Iron x1)
Lead Pipe (Scrap Metal x3, Paperweight x1)
Tire Iron (Scrap Metal x3, Steam Gauge Assembly x1)
Spiked Knuckles (Scrap Metal x2, Fork x2)
Brass Knuckles (Scrap Metal x2)
Combat Knife (Scrap Metal x2, Whetstone x1)
Switchblade (Scrap Metal x1, Toy Car x1)
Knife (Scrap Metal x1)
Brewing Function
Wine (Bottlecap x1, Empty Soda Bottle x1, Purified Water x1, Blood Pack x1)
Scotch (Bottlecap x1, Empty Soda Bottle X1, Purified Water x1, Junk Food x1)
Nuka-Cola (Bottlecap x1, Empty Soda Bottle x1, Purified Water x1, Jet x1, Ant Nectar x1)
Bakery
1 Strange Meat Pie (Mutilated Arm x1, OR Mutilated Leg x1, OR Mutilated Skull x1, OR Mutilated Organs x1)
2 Strange Meat Pies (Mutilated Torso x1
3 Strange Meat Pies (Deathclaw Hand x1)
Grain Milling Program
4 Flour (Sugarbombs x8)
Mod recommendations:
Be sure to check out my other mod, FO3 - Better Messages if you want to further immerse yourself into fallout 3 -
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/24833
Check out RetralRX's new mod Capital Scavenger for females, as the name suggests it goes great for immersing yourself as a scavenger if you've got a female character and there's a MODUS station there in Moira's shop already so you'll be visiting Craterside Supply much more often! It requires the Pitt and Point Lookout DLCs. -
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/24815
These are 2 of the mods I use in the screenshots;
FO4 Cursor Mod - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/22163
HD Terminal Mod - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/16364