The only way to survive the rough Fallout 76 Items and inhospitable landscape of Fallout 76 is with a healthy amount of crafting. Throughout your entire appalacian adventure, there's no crafting material you're going to need more of than adhesive. Used in everything from weapon upgrades to furnature, you'll constantly be in need of this precious resource.
You aren't resigned to relying on RNG loot, though. While adhesive may not grow on trees, it still can be farmed! Here is both the best way to find more naturally in the word, as well as an easy to maintain method of producing your own adhesive from vegitable starch.
Where To Find Adhesive.
Adhesive related scrap items are found all over Applachia. It can spawn in everywhere from residential buildings to industrial factories and military complexes. The two most common scrap forms are Duct Tape and Wonderglue. each one comes in different varieties, all of which result in different ammounts of adhesive when scrapped.
Generally speaking, no spesific locations that will be more outstanding for adhesive items than others. The most effective sites will be military buildings and camps. These will have increased chances to contain military grade duct tape (which is also a great source of ballistic fiber). If looting is your only option, try the various camps around the map.
If combat is more up your alley, fighting Honey Beasts would work. These beasts have a chance to drop excess adhesive when defeated.
Buy Adhesive Junk.
If you have the caps to support it, buying adhesive from vendors is a quick and easy way to get more. Train Station vendors are the most reliable stores, often selling bulk adhesive, duct tape, or wonderglue. The prices will vary based on your stats and any perk cards you have equipped. So consider putting together a bartering build before trading.
It's easy, it's passive, and it's free; farming your own adhesive in Fallout 76 is the best way to get more adhesive. The idea is to craft vegetable starch at a cooking station. The process requires a few items, all of which can be made renewably at your camp. The resulting vegetable starch can then be used or scapped into one adhesive.
The corn, mutfruit, and tato can all be grown on your camp direcly. Found in the food category of the building menu, each plant can be created with one of that item and some fertalizer. It can then be harvested for more of that item. As time passes, it will regenerate for another harvest.
The purified water can be generated by building a water purifier in your camp. Once given an appropriate ammount of power, it will passively generate purified water over time.
If you don't want to grow your own, or you aren't growing them fast enough, there are some points of interest that have a lot of lootable crops. While all these crops can be found all over, we've noticed that these spots are the easiest and most reliable.
The General's Steakhouse, located on the east side in the Cranberry Grove, has a large number of both corn and tato plants in the Cheap Fallout 76 Items garden behind the restaurant. Watch out for the floaters that like to spawn there, though.