Fallout 4 Gameplay - Purified Water Farming vs. Melon Farming - How to Make Big Money!

Here are two of the best methods to make big money in Fallout 4 and a showdown of the pros and cons of each...

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[ervnd]

Water farming pros & cons : 7:19
Melon farming pros cons : 13:55

[skylerhamblin]

Fallout 3.
Whole game spent purifying the water.
Fallout 4.
i have enough water for everone in the continent.

[Plunz]

I have a water farm because I like to you know... play the game.

[jorgearg]

Imagine this two choices to play fallout 4:
1) go hunt Kellogg

2) go harvest melon.

[HelghastTrooper]

"Drink. Some. Water." -- The Sole Survivor.

*He who controls the water, controls the Wasteland.*

[RainaEmms]

Just found this video. The problem with the melon farm plan is that you have to make sure not to complete the "Return the Favor" quest because if you do you lose the ability to trade melons with Lucy.

[jasonotto]

Forgot that, murder farming. Build a ton of cages to capture gunners, wipe them out, sell their gear and get a bunch of levels.

[DragonsinGenesisPodcast]

If you start with Int 6 and pick science the first time you level, you can have a large purifier before the Minutemen are escorted to Sanctuary Hills. This gives you starting income and completes the water mission.
Once you can build shops, place a row of them beside your workbench and you can load up and sell every time you fast travel back home. No need to waste time playing with plants. You can spend more time playing.

[skavies]

1. No tech is required for a water farm, you can use hand pumps which only cost steel and concrete.
2. Charisma is not required, 1 water is 7 caps for a 1 charisma.
3. Maybe you can get to 1k caps with a melon farm before I can get to 1k caps with a water farm, but water farm will win out over time and barring speed runs, I tend to put in 30+ hours in a play through (usually much much more). I can harvest all the water from every settlement through 1 inventory if I have local leader and supply chains, or all the water from one settlement without them vs you spending time with each harvest manually collecting them.
4. Sure, you can have a larger caps count than I will since I'm limited by shop keeper respawns of caps, but I can buy them out of inventory every single day with water and fast travel. Your follower can carry an infinite weight if you drop that huge stack of water on the ground and tell them to pick it up.


Money farms are about efficiency. it's not efficient to manually harvest money, even at 5 caps per thing picked up, it's simply not worth the time invested when you can instead spend up to an hour once filling the drive in with a few hundred hand pumps and have a thousand caps worth of water spawn every hour or so. You can build an unlimited number of items in an area if you have something to scrap for each item built, minus the original limit. Simply build up to capacity, drop some looted (I like guns, but I think any scrapable item works) on the ground and scrap it, now you can build something else. Drop 20 guns and scrap them all, now you can build 20 more pumps. The only real limit on building in each settlement is your computer's ability to deal with that much crap.


So no, the melon farm is hot trash, not because it doesn't work, or isn't profitable (debatable), but because it's a constant time sink. You are most likely better off with a smallish water farm, even if it's only 30 hand pumps, or a couple basic purifiers and a few cheap generators because once it's set up, you can harvest them all with one inventory instead of spending however long it takes to manually harvest a field.

[streetradio]

Not sure if anyone mentioned it, just fast travel to pass time. go out, sell your water to all the businesses, come back *shock* there's more water! the fast travel passed the game time. Sure it takes longer to set up, but it earns you way more real time than melons.

[bluelightning]

It is not a scam.. It is a built in game mechanic.. It's called realism.. Extra water goes to settlement and they sell it to other... Hmm. So when I go buy. 24pk of water for $4.99 and sell each bottle at the concert I host for $1.00 each.. Oh no I've scammed my fans..

[ievgeniiromenskyi]

one additional con to melon farm is that you're harvesting melons so this settlement can't produce tatoes, corn and mutafruits for adhesive

one additional Pros for water farming is that you have additional, almost unlimited source of healing from purified water

[carrcorp]

The market is over saturated with pure water but somehow prices are not dropping

[fg]

So the choice is go crazy collecting 120 melons to sell for 600 caps or install 4 industrial purifiers for 120 water by just opening the Sanctuary work bench and sell for 1200 to 1800 caps depending on charma. Charma to start should be 6, then with clothing adding 4, and cap collector adding better prices selling and buying. All for a total of 12 caps per gallon. That's 1440 caps for just opening the work bench

[annefranklymydearidontgive]

The Institute just messed with the wrong Melon Farmers... *Loads Fatman with mini Nuke* Thug Life

[jessicalee]

You made valid points about the cons of water farming, but it was really disingenuous to leave out the cons of melon farming (listed throughout the comments).

[landonfrigault]

Yeah you ABSOLUTELY do not need to wait 72 mins real time, just leave by fast traveling around. run to red rocket, sleep, etc. I get over 500 water like every 10 mins real life time

[zCopyCatz]

Or build the melon farm at Lucy's farm?

[Etbp]

Water is better for alot of reasons. Here's how you set this up, seek out materials that you need to build water purifiers and fill up the entire Creek and keep them close/tight together . I prefer to clear an area for scrap and return to my base to store scrap and items then get my water out of the workshop put into a container or sell it immediately whichever . Have shops set up at your base, one of each type . Being able to invest in shops to increase their cap count will also be useful . You will make around 5-10k every time you return to your base if you do this right . I personally just trade water for shipments of junk. ( my main character has 300k caps on hand, enough scrap to build a mega base at all settlements, and around 20k purified water in a chest .) Melons are limited because you need settlers to farm them and the productivity is less. Just do water.

[jeremypitts]

Take a shot every time he says extensive testing or money scheme.