As far as I can see right now, it was never possible to obtain junk or electronic parts in the outpost hq.
I thought that the barrel was usable for junk, maybe I got that one confused with the slightly cheaper base.Still. You can pay 50k for a base with just a couple less storage containers, and it also has fruit and fiber in it. Meat is useless to get since you can get it in Modoc, and you have to bring it all the way there anyways just to turn it into jerky. :/So, yeah. With the new 50k base it feels like people who buy the 130k base have wasted 80,000 caps.
And you can't have a whole gang go there, so no.
Damn that'd be hard since there's like 30 of us...