re: **Official Fallout 4 Thread** (Links and videos in OP)

Basically to have everything you want for tight settlements, you need Bars and Traders in every settlement for the cash. Then once you have a nice pile of cash you need to hit as often as possible Carla, the Good Neighbor traders and Diamond City Traders.

End game, Aluminum becomes a pain so Arturo in Diamond city satisfies your aluminum needs if you hit him on the way home from missions.