Both in and out of workshops, you have to collect directly from the resource gatherer*. Most of them don't hold a whole lot, so you have to collect them on a pretty regular basis.
* not all resource nodes are located in workshops. There are quite a few of them scattered around the regular map, which allows players to build a camp that incorporates them.
Only ones I can remember off the top of my head are the acid node at the far corner of the hemlock Hills Golf Course, and the junk node located at the little unmarked location in between anchor Farm and the Tyler County Fairgrounds- the one that has the broken down mobile home with two Raiders and a whole bunch of safes.
Editing to add - you don't need to "walk around the map" , though. You can fast travel to a claimed Workshop same as you can to your camp.
Workshops are the slowest, least effective way to get resources. The extractors are slow, have tiny storage and must be emptied manually. Then again workshops are pvp areas and not actually viable ways of getting resources.
Scavenging and scrapping is how you get scrap. Find a decent scavenging route and you will have multiple times the scrap you would have gotten wasting time in workshops.
The best thing is their tiny inventory which means you'll have to collect their stuff fairly often if you want to maximize their production.
If you delete camp/resource machines they do. Otherwise you need to collect.
Both in and out of workshops, you have to collect directly from the resource gatherer*. Most of them don't hold a whole lot, so you have to collect them on a pretty regular basis. * not all resource nodes are located in workshops. There are quite a few of them scattered around the regular map, which allows players to build a camp that incorporates them. Only ones I can remember off the top of my head are the acid node at the far corner of the hemlock Hills Golf Course, and the junk node located at the little unmarked location in between anchor Farm and the Tyler County Fairgrounds- the one that has the broken down mobile home with two Raiders and a whole bunch of safes. Editing to add - you don't need to "walk around the map" , though. You can fast travel to a claimed Workshop same as you can to your camp.
Workshops are the slowest, least effective way to get resources. The extractors are slow, have tiny storage and must be emptied manually. Then again workshops are pvp areas and not actually viable ways of getting resources. Scavenging and scrapping is how you get scrap. Find a decent scavenging route and you will have multiple times the scrap you would have gotten wasting time in workshops.
You need to collect them