How To Repair Gun Fallout 76

Fallout 76 isn't like the Fallout office-playing games preceding it, in that the first several hours are rather linear every bit players complete a long series of introductory missions. Afterward creating a character, players go out Vault 76 and may get anywhere. In that location is a chief quest line to pursue, only there are more places and encounters in the rest of the world vying for players' attention, distracting them from a less obvious chief goal.

This guide sheds light on what is worth doing in the firsthand surroundings outside Vault 76, and what new players should focus on developing and edifice upwards at lower levels before moving on to more advanced missions and content. Fallout 76 is much more than survival-oriented than its predecessors, so scavenging, conserving ammunition and maintaining supplies of clean (or at least acceptable) food and h2o take on greater importance in Appalachia.

Fallout 76 - playing banjo — Finding and playing instruments (for 30 seconds) will requite you the Well-Tuned result, which regenerates Action Points 25 percent faster for ane hour.

General tips

As an online multiplayer game, Fallout 76 has no interruption part. You tin all the same be attacked while you're hunting for an item in a menu, for case. So you should always have a melee weapon favorited, and a firearm with a lot of ammo helps too. When you're surprised by enemies, one or two taps left on the D-pad will give you the emergency weapon you need (and borer right will use a Stimpak). Whatsoever other weapons should be assigned to the weapons bicycle, not favorited. Furthermore, when bringing up the Pip-Male child, toggle it to the overlay (the View push button/touchpad on console controllers) so that you lot can continue to see the world around you while navigating the menus.

Keep that melee weapon favorited and set at all times. Ammunition is a lot more scarce in Fallout 76 than in by games. Mongrels and Feral Ghouls movement apace and are best dealt with using a machete, knife or hatchet. Killing Docile Radstags or Brahmins for food and hide is also best done with a melee weapon as opposed to a firearm.
The push you utilize to bring up your Pip-Boy is besides the one that turns on/off your light. You'll need your calorie-free a lot in Fallout 76 . Hold this button down to turn it on. X/Square both readies (tap) and puts away (concur) your weapon (or fists). RB/R1 is a bash assail with the weapon in your mitt (the barrel or stock of a gun if you lot're out of ammo). The best bash attack to have is a gun with a bayonet affixed. Bayonets are either found or crafted.
Scavenge everything. Until you attain level five, you should exist picking clean every building, dwelling or site you encounter. Then break down the junk at whatever workbench (10 or square when you step to it) and store all the junk in a stash box. (Raw materials have up less space than junk items; also, when you dice, you lose all your junk and have to backtrack to get it before someone else does.) While yous may trade with other human players, and there are robot vendors (in places like the Morgantown Airport, or the railroad station in Sutton), caps are harder to come by than in past Fallouts — and anyway, you will likely need your currency more for fast travel or relocating your Army camp site. Yous should expect to craft and modify, or notice and repair, what you lot need rather than buy information technology. Seriously consider increasing your strength (to increase carry weight) or taking Luck Perk Cards that improve the condition or the quantity of items you find.
Nutrient and water volition be a greater concern than in past Fallout games. This volition also increment your exposure to radiations. Consider taking Perks that either increase the nourishment/hydration you lot receive from drinking and eating, or Perks that reduce the rads you absorb from eating impure food. Being careless about food or water will mean emergency side trips to find and/or cook some, or eating raw or irradiated things out of desperation. It can go in the style of what yous really want to exist doing, so programme ahead.

Food and water will be more than of import than in past Fallouts, sort of like hardcore mode in *New Vegas* or survival mode in *Fallout four*. Purified water is then useful and rare it virtually shouldn't be used equally a thirst quencher.

Both RadAway and Stimpaks may now be diluted, using purified water, at a chemistry station. While this halves the healing gained from a total dose, it too lets yous take half doses when y'all're trying to heal bottom amounts of damage, and save a full Stimpak or RadAway bag for when you lot are gravely injure or seriously suffering from radiation poisoning. For this reason, purified water is and then valuable it should rarely be used every bit a thirst quencher. Drink impure water instead, taking the minimal radiation hit (or mitigating it with Rad-X) and flushing that out with a diluted RadAway dose once it accumulates to about a quarter of your health bar.
Yous tin can have radiation only from gathering dingy water (from a stream, a pump or a tap). When you are stocking upward on water supplies, popular a Rad-10 and then also employ this time to fully hydrate yourself (and eat any irradiated nutrient).
Diseases play a greater role, and with enough radiation you tin acquire mutations — some of which are helpful, and nearly all of which comport drawbacks. Mutations can be cured (along with radiation) past taking RadAway, but notation that RadAway also significantly lowers your disease resistance for a good chunk of fourth dimension. The Starched Genes Perk, which we oasis't seen through level x nonetheless, will allow you to keep beneficial mutations later on a RadAway flush.

It might exist a good thought to take a nap in your bed before leaving Vault 76, to get the Well Rested effect for the next 2 hours of game time.

Sleeping on bare basis (a mattress or sleeping pocketbook) as well significantly increases your chance of contracting a disease. This is why the beginning base of operations-building plan you find is for a standing bed (it'south on a bench at the Overseer's Campsite). There are standing beds inside the church in Flatwoods, which serves every bit a Responders' hospital. Sleeping on the basis after taking RadAway is a sure way to contract a disease.
Scrap duplicate weapons rather than keeping them for resale or trade. When you fleck a weapon, you will unlock a mod recipe for that weapon. This includes knives; scrapping a combat knife (found at the Overseer'south Campsite) gives yous the serrated border mod to upgrade the machete. It'south also a good thought to have merely ane weapon per blazon of armament — for instance, a commodities-action pipe pistol, unmodded, is redundant alongside a short hunting rifle (both use .308 ammo). Bit the one that's in worse status.
At crafting benches, you can click the left thumbstick to see the available recipes (that is, all the items for which yous have ingredients or components). But pay attention to the condition of your weapons, as repairing them will usually crave the same components (adhesive peculiarly). Farther, some weapons will be in worse shape but have a college potential condition (represented by the condition bar adjacent to it in the Pip-Boy menu). One item may be in improve condition than a duplicate detail but have a lesser optimal status.
Avert the "Events" (marked on your map by a yellow hexagon) when you lot are early on in your adventure (through level 5, at least, if not longer). They will automatically be added to your listing of quests if you enter the area where one is going on, so just ignore it or unfollow it within your Pip-Boy or map. Events are chorelike experiences that waste ammunition and don't provide plenty of a reward in weapons, gear or other items, especially if fought solo.
Avoid claiming Workshops early on, for the same reason every bit you should avert Events. Once claimed, Workshops will accept to be defended confronting waves of enemies that also swallow upwards ammo and dethrone the status of your weapons for little return.

What about leveling upward?

We've made a guide about that already. Advancement, attributes and Perks work differently in Fallout 76. Don't agonize also much over your choices early. Remember that you lot can swap Perks in and out equally necessary, which is very handy for skills like hacking and lockpicking.

Have fun making your Vault-Tec ID carte, but once you lot get out the Vault, yous're not going back inside information technology.

Starting out

Inside Vault 76

After the opening cinematic, you begin in your apartment within Vault 76. This is where you create your character name them, and take a flick representing your Vault-Tec ID.

Yous can alter your appearance at any time in the game. Go to the map and, from at that place, the primary menu (LB/L1 on consoles); the appearance options volition be in the list there. But yous can't change your character'south name. If you're wondering how y'all volition appear to other players, they'll run into your user ID.

When yous leave Vault 76, that'south it; yous cannot reenter. And so information technology might exist a good thought to nap on the bed in your flat to gain the Well Rested effect (5 percent bonus to XP earned) for the adjacent two hours (real time).

Inside Vault 76, you'll see a lot of useful-looking junk, in your apartment and exterior. The merely stuff you can pick upwardly is the Nuka Tapper tape (from the Vault-Tec terminal inside the apartment), a love notation on a table in the diner (not a quest item), and the Overseer's log from her office terminal. Null else within the vault can exist picked up except for the items left for you on a series of tables in the brusk onboarding path that is upstairs leading toward the exits. Then don't waste time trying to scavenge here.

This corpse is located at the bottom of the get-go set of stairs upon leaving Vault 76. Take that machete. It volition exist your best friend early in your adventures.

The Overseer's function is the simply "undercover" (though not really) expanse. It's behind the table with the water supplies on it. Logging in to the Overseer'due south terminal will cheque off an optional goal; the holotape on information technology explains the larger story of what'southward at stake in Fallout 76.

Pick up all of the items left on the tables. At the "Get A Chore" table, don't forget to pick up the Perk Cards scattered on the table. These will give you lot (at random) the first bonuses you tin utilize to your SPECIAL attributes, all of which outset out at 1.

Outside Vault 76

Immediately in front of you is a Responder's corpse with a pipe gun and a pocket-sized amount of ammunition. Have it and annihilation else y'all find. Don't go exploring to the right. Two Liberator robots are there. Though they're little more than nuisances, they still aren't worth wasting the ammunition, and there isn't anything that style to scavenge.

Go downwards the steps to the lower level and scavenge some other Responder corpse, taking the machete. Every bit mentioned to a higher place, melee weapons will be critical in your early adventures.

Moving south along the path, if you lot venture off to the left/west you'll encounter a pond and, almost it, what looks like an elevated shelter or deer stand. This is non marked on your map and is not a discoverable location. Within are some useful supplies and scrap items. There is likewise a banjo and a mouth harp on the 2 chairs here. Play either for 30 seconds, and you lot receive the Well Tuned effect, which regenerates Activity Points 25 percent faster for the next hr (real time).

The Woods, the starting location in Fallout 76, with discoverable locations highlighted. The unnamed shack with the instruments in information technology is roughly near where the cow is.

Wixon Homestead

Continuing south toward the quest icon that is the Overseer's Camp. Stop by Wixon Homestead, but be prepared to fight several of the Scorched. These are humanoid foes like Ghouls, except they can (and practice) wield weapons, including firearms. Use your machete on as many every bit y'all can to conserve armament. The Scorched here are low-level and probably won't kill y'all, but you can all the same take enough damage to require a Stimpak after information technology's all over. There are petrified Scorched corpses in the area, too. If you stumble into or otherwise disturb one, information technology will disintegrate and shed radiation (about ten RADs) for a short while.

Scavenge everything from this site — the farmhouse, the barn, plus a shed and a storage building on top of a colina a little to the west. We found an armor mod in here. Importantly, in that location is a ton of fertilizer lying effectually. That can exist scrapped (broken down) into acrid at the Tinker's Workbench in the shed. Acid plus scrap cloth creates gunpowder (though you lot will need a chemistry station to mix it). Gunpowder plus lead and steel flake creates ammunition. (As well, if you hang on to raw food or vegetables for too long, they will spoil.)

Gilman Lumber M

Gilman Lumber Yard to the north of Wixon Homestead offers free wood, which might be useful to pick up before departing for the Overseer's Campsite to the south. The Overseer volition have left you a cache of supplies in her trunk, and there will be other items lying around here, too. Have all of the junk, break it downwardly at the armor or weapons bench, and shop information technology in the Stash Box. Anything y'all put into a Stash Box is attainable from any Stash Box yous find elsewhere in Appalachia.

By the time you get in at the Overseer's Military camp, you should have plenty raw material to craft a full gear up of leather armor (even modding some or all of the pieces to boiled leather) and either modernistic your pipe pistol or create a pipage revolver. Get to crafting pronto, cook any raw food yous have, and get moving southwest to Flatwoods, keeping your machete out to deal with the mongrels and Mister Handy you encounter on the route there.

Flatwoods. Inside that church are standing beds for you to get some rest.

What's to do in Flatwoods

Flatwoods is southwest of the Overseer's Campsite, and information technology contains a broad array of materials, consumables, items and missions to assistance build your character up before adventuring elsewhere. There is a chemistry station in the church (information technology's part of the "Thirst Things Thirst" mission), a cooking pit backside the tavern and a Tinker'due south Workbench behind the Ruby Rocket south of boondocks. These utilities, plus the Stash Box at the Scarlet Rocket and the weapons and armor benches back at the Overseer's campsite, will help you maximize the junk yous scavenge before setting off north for the Morgantown Airport to continue the principal quest line.

The Light-green County Lodge is midway between the Overseer's Army camp and Flatwoods. Information technology contains a lot of useful junk, specially in the weight room on the bottom floor. Y'all can lug it back to the Overseer's campsite in one overencumbered shot, simply just notation yous can't use fast travel when you are overencumbered, like in past Fallouts.

Flatwoods has a lot of Brahmin cattle roaming around, useful for both leather and food. It volition also see a lot of interference from Mister Handies and Securitrons from the nearby "Fertile Soil" event centering around the Vault-Tec Agronomical Inquiry Center.

Across the creek in Flatwoods and up the very steep hill to the west, you volition notice Relay Tower EM-B1-27 guarded by a minimal robot presence. If you have plant a regime requisition holotape elsewhere (we did at Wixon Homestead), loading information technology into the concluding within here will trigger a supply driblet filled with useful items. (Look for a circumvolve icon on your minimap, and heed/wait for a sizzling flare mark the drop.) At that place is also a requisition tape inside this facility, and then hike upwardly here even if you don't have one yet.

The chief quest line is an elaborate tutorial upwards through the missions at Morgantown Airport, where y'all will ultimately be given instruction in how to set up your mobile Campsite and be given a lot of useful cloth for doing so.

Simply take your time in Flatwoods, inspecting all of the homes and sites that are available, listening to holotapes, completing these depression-level missions, and gaining an understanding of what has happened here in the 25 years since the bombs fell. Apply Flatwoods to build upwards your inventory of weapons, armament, food and aid before setting off.

Fallout 76 - Vault-Tec University — Vault-Tec University in Morgantown.

Where to go from hither?

Later on completing the missions Flatwoods has to offer, and loading up on useful gear and items, the most obvious side by side pace is to turn back north for Morgantown Airport to go on the main quest line there. The Morgantown Railroad train Yard on the manner has a Power Armor Chassis (and at least a couple of pieces of armor) inside 1 of the abandoned box cars, along with ane Fusion Cadre to run it.

The Gorge Junkyard is on the way to Morgantown Airport. While it contains useful weapons and resources to scavenge, it'south also a Workshop, which in Fallout 76 costs caps to merits so must be dedicated against waves of pestlike enemies. The upside is that a claimed (and defended) Workshop will produce resources for the owner as long as they concord it. A Workshop is non essential to your adventuring at very early on levels, simply an easy i to take and defend (if you have plenty ammo) is here at The Gorge Junkyard.

You've probably as well gotten notices to keep searching for your Overseer'south holotapes, which will accept yous to her childhood home in Sutton (and that contains a continuing bed, among other useful items and resource). The Sutton railroad train station has a robot vendor, Stash Box and Chemistry Station. From there, the side by side tapes are in Morgantown High School so Vault-Tec Academy, both of which offer plenty of scavenging and combat encounters to level up.

Fallout 76 - a barn/garage marked 'The Devil's Pitchfork'

A note about your CAMP

The Military camp is a base that you build from scratch after selecting a location. Your CAMP is movable, but information technology costs caps to do and then. The reward in making a CAMP is to have all of your basic needs met in one place (residuum, food, storage, gun and armor repair, and modification), even though you volition find the same resources in scattered locations effectually Appalachia. Fast travel to your CAMP is e'er free. Moving a CAMP will cost caps relative to the distance you are moving it.

If you're well-nigh level 6 or lower, pick a CAMP site if you come up beyond an aesthetically pleasing expanse in your early adventures. Otherwise, wait until after you accept finished the missions (including the Military camp tutorial) at Morgantown Airport. Don't worry about picking a geographically advantageous location withal, equally the map is vast and you lot will be spending a lot of fourth dimension in one place before moving on to another. Later on you've explored all of the regions in Fallout 76 and gotten an idea for what resources are where, then it might be a good fourth dimension to start thinking nigh a permanent CAMP with elaborate structures and amenities.