This used in conjunction with Backpacks of the Common wealth allows you to craft all the backpacks yourself.

Two versions: One with Perk requirements and one without. The one with perk requirements is the recommended version, so that they are still more of a challenge to be able to produce. Thus early game you still get to come across them in the world and it makes sense that it would be difficult to make many of these packs.

Backpacks can only be crafted from a Chemlab. Unfortunately they cannot be crafted from an armorer as FO4 only allows mods to be crafted through that workbench, unlike Skyrim.

Because these have to be crafted through the Chem bench and these backpacks themselves can be modded (colors etc) on the armor work bench the game thinks you are trying to mod it on the chem bench and tweaks out a bit. Thus when you finish crafting a backpack you have to exit the chem menu in a special way before crafting more or scrolling through the backpack menu or it will crash your game. This is simple:

When you finish crafting a backpack press Select [E] (A on xbox controller) which should pull up the craft screen again then press back [TAB] (B on controller) then back [TAB] (B) again and possibly back [TAB] again if needed.

After making a backpack:
select [E]-->back [TAB]-->back [TAB]-->back [TAB]

You can also go in this order: back-->select-->back

It's really not that complicated, you'll get it quickly. Just remember to do this everytime, otherwise your game will crash. Maybe save before making a backpack just in case. I haven't had any issue with it so long as I follow the proper exit as stated above.


I may add perks as a requirement eventually, but for now to keep it as compatible as possible with other mods I'm leaving it like this.
As the backpacks themselves are quite valuable I tried to make the required material to reflect each backpacks value while making them plausible.
Do let me know if you think anything should be adjusted.

P.S. Yes, the image is meant to be funny...