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pokoko on 02 January 2016
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Nate4Drake said:

I just started Fallout4, and it's the first Fallot Game that I play.
One question : it's very easy to find wood, steel, cement, but not so easy to find copper, and I need it to build several
connectors for electricity, so that lights in the vicinity of my line of connectors and electricity cables are powered. So, where can I find good amount of copper ?

Also, once you get more weapons, how can you assign a slot to them ?

Also, why it's so laborious to put a simple door into the door frame of an existing house ? I should just select the door and place it into the door frame. Easy as that. But look at that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4Oq3-6jjw
 

Am I missing something? I can't believe that.

Thanks in advance !

Copper is your life's blood if you work on settlements.  You can buy it in Goodneighbor and Diamond City, though you'll want to have high Charisma and/or clothing that boosts it as much as possible unless you've been playing long enough that caps don't matter.  As for finding it in the wild, I remember a few electronics stores that had a good amount.  Watts Electronics was somewhere below the Boathouse settlement, if I remember right.  Factory type places often have a fair amount.  

Beyond that, there is a Perk that lets you scrap guns and armor.  Pipe Rifles almost always give you copper when you scrap them, if you have that Perk.  Also, switch to raw materials mode in your inventory and tag copper so that anything that contains copper will have an icon next to it when you mouse over.  You see anything with that icon, you grab it.

Copper is definitely the most scarce resource.  I value it over anything else when I'm scrounging.  I buy up everything with copper in it from the traders, like hot plates and fuses.  I've spent more caps on copper than everything else in the game combined.  Of course, it's easy to become rich so it's not that big of a deal.

Oil and adhesive can also be hard to find but you can make items that contain those in cooking and chemistry stations so they soon become no problem.

I don't know what you're playing on but on PC pressing Q lets you assign a weapon or a healing item to a slot.

Building settlements can be ... tricky.  You get a lot better with practice but there are things that will frustrate the heck out of you even after 100 hours.  Personally, I don't use doors because they can be a pain and the NPC leave them open anyway.  I also tend to ignore existing houses and build my own, as existing houses can cause some buggy behavior.