Take the following perks as early as you can: Scrounger: This perk allows you to find more ammo in containers. Some ammo such as 10mm rounds are pretty hard to find early on. Fortune Finder: This perk allows you to find more caps in containers. With the final rank of this perk when you kill an enemy with a critical hit, bottlecaps will explode from their bodies when they die. Awareness: This perk will give you additional information on an enemy when you target them in VATS, such as what level they are. Scrapper: This perk lets you collect more resources from the weapons and armors that you scrap. Pro tip: Avoid enemies with a skull next to their names. You'll be be dead so fast you won't know what hit you.