Fallout 4 Game Guide & Walkthrough

Explore the Wasteland! This unofficial Fallout 4 game guide offers a complex description of all of the game's content and a very thorough explanation of its mechanics. The guide has been divided into three big parts.

Last update: 22 April 2024

This unofficial Fallout 4 game guide offers a complex description of all of the game's content and a very thorough explanation of its mechanics. All of this should be very helpful in achieving a 100% completion without any unnecessary troubles. In the guide you will find useful tips and tricks, answers to the most frequently asked questions, such as how to level up fast or how to collect bottlecaps. We also provide the best builds and recommended perks. In the guide you will also find a full walkthrough of the main quests, along with side missions and companion quests. In addition, we described the secrets and collectibles and made maps of all sectors. The guide has been divided into three big parts.

• Fallout 4: Guide content
• Fallout 4: Tips and tricks
• Fallout 4: Basics
• Fallout 4: Best Builds
• Fallout 4: Combat guide
• Fallout 4: Weapons and Upgrades
• Fallout 4: Unique weapons
• Fallout 4: Perks
• Fallout 4: FAQ
• Fallout 4: Power Armor
• Fallout 4: Creating settlements
• Fallout 4: Trophies, Achievments
• Fallout 4: Walkthrough
• Fallout 4: All Main quests
• Fallout 4: All Factions quests
• Fallout 4: All Minutemen faction quests
• Fallout 4: All Brotherhood of Steel faction quests
• Fallout 4: All Railroad faction quests
• Fallout 4: All Institute faction quests
• Fallout 4: All side quests
• Fallout 4: World Atlas
• Fallout 4: All sectors maps
• Fallout 4: Bobbleheads
• Fallout 4: Magazines

Fallout 4: Guide content

The first part contains a strategy guide. The strategy guide chapters offer info on topics such as creating and developing a character, engaging in combat, exploring the world or interacting with other people. We have also given suggestions regarding the best builds for, among others, Universal soldier, Tinkerer or Shooter. In the guide you will also find descriptions of all perks, divided into specializations such as strength, intelligence or luck. In addition, we provide a complete list of companions, along with information on where to find them, whether you can be romance with them and what their pros and cons are. We have also devoted some space in the guide to describing weapons, weapon upgrades and weapon modifications. You'll also find advice on power armor - types, locations, modifications and information on the Fusion Ccore. We have also included a subsection in the guide that talks about creating and managing a settlement, where you will also find information on crafting and resources. At the end of this section, we have included a trophy guide, with a full list of all trophies, their descriptions and tips on how to unlock trophies.

The second large part of the guide is a walkthrough with detailed descriptions of all main and optional quests, as well as companion quests and faction quests. Each quest has descriptions of all of its available outcomes, as well info on how to unlock it and what types of rewards it has in store.

The final third part of this guide is the world atlas. This enormous chapter contains primarily a high quality world map along with smaller maps of certain areas. Each map has a lot of icons informing mostly about the locations the player can unlock while exploring the world. Some of the more important locations (cities, outposts with friendly NPC's etc.) have been described in greater detail on separate pages.

Another big part of the world atlas are the collectibles. The guide tells where the player should look for the bobbleheads, unique books and other items of great value. Fallout 4 is the next installment of the famous cRPG franchise set in the postapocalyptic world. This time around the players can visit the wastelands around the American city of Boston. The game is filled with tons of interesting things to do and it's also non-linear since many of the choices can lead to different outcomes.

Fallout 4: Tips and tricks

1. Thoroughly plan your character development. Think about what gameplay style you prefer and check all available perks. Later in the game it could be too late to change some decisions. If you don't have any idea how to develop your character, use one of our example builds.
2. Save your game frequently. You don't have to always remember about that, simply set the Pip-boy to automatically save the game every five minutes. This will allow you to avoid the frustrating necessity to repeat the same part of the game if you die.
3. Don't wait with distributing your skill points. Try to do it whenever you gain a new level. Even a single new skill can greatly strengthen your character.
4. Explore. Don't be afraid to walk off the main road. In Fallout 4 you will find great number of places which you can check and quests that you can complete. You will see only a small fragment of the game by completing only the main storyline.

More useful tips you'll find on the page: Tips and tricks.

Fallout 4: Basics

1. S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
2. Equipment and Pip-Boy
3. Interactions with other characters
4. Hacking
5. Lockpicking
6. Sneaking up and pickpocketing
7. Companions
8. List of companions
9. World exploration
10. Location types in the game world
11. Factions and smaller groups

Fallout 4: Best Builds

1. Universal Soldier
2. Shooter
3. Peddler
4. Sniper
5. Berserker
6. Tinkerer
7. Tactician

Fallout 4: Combat guide

1. Combat techniques
2. V.A.T.S
3. Boosters and addictions

Fallout 4: Weapons and Upgrades

1. General Information
2. Upgrading
3. Modifications - Resource List

Fallout 4: Unique weapons

1. Melee weapons
2. Guns - light
3. Guns - heavy
4. Energy weapons

Fallout 4: Perks

1. Strength
2. Perception
3. Endurance
4. Charisma
5. Intelligence
6. Agility
7. Luck

Fallout 4: FAQ

1. How to get Dogmeat?
2. How to return to Vault 111?
3. How to unlock Cryolator early?
4. How to gather a lot of bottlecaps?
5. How to level fast?
6. How to protect from high radiation?

Fallout 4: Power Armor

1. Basic Information
2. Types of Power Armor
3. Locations of Power Armors
4. Power Armor Crafting
5. Fusion Cores
6. Where to find core fusions at the beginning?
7. Resources

Fallout 4: Creating settlements

1. Location of settlements
2. Settlement management
3. Crafting - basics
4. Advanced crafting
5. Crafting - all resources

Fallout 4: Trophies, Achievments

1. How to get all achievements in a single run?
2. List of Trophies, Achievements

Fallout 4: Walkthrough

Maps:

1. World map
2. Sanctuary
3. Malden
4. Salem
5. Fort Hagen
6. Cambridge
7. Center of Boston
8. The Castle
9. The Glowing Sea
10. Southern Boston

Fallout 4: All Main quests

1. Prologue
2. Out of Time
3. When Freedom Calls
4. Jewel of the Commonwealth
5. Unlikely Valentine
6. Getting A Clue
7. Reunions
8. The Glowing Sea
9. Hunter Hunted
10. The Molecular Level - beginning
11. The Molecular Level - selecting faction
12. The Molecular Level - constructing the signal interceptor
13. Institutionalized
14. Endings and branching of main quests

Fallout 4: All Factions quests

1. General information
2. The Minutemen
3. The Brotherhood of Steel
4. Railroad
5. The Institute

Fallout 4: All Minutemen faction quests

Major quests:

1. Sanctuary
2. Taking Independence
3. Old Guns
4. Inside Job
5. Form Ranks
6. Defend the Castle
7. The Nuclear Option

Minor quests:

1. The First Step
2. Raider Troubles
3. Taking Point
4. Mama Murphy
5. Ghoul Problem
6. Clearing the Way
7. Greenskins
8. With Our Powers Combined
9. Other Minutemen quests

Fallout 4: All Brotherhood of Steel faction quests

Major Quests:

1. Reveille
2. Fire Support
3. Call to Arms
4. Semper Invicta
5. Shadow of Steel
6. Tour of Duty
7. Show No Mercy
8. Outside the Wire
9. Liberty Reprimed
10. Blind Betrayal
11. Tactical Thinking
12. Spoils of War
13. Ad Victoriam
14. The Nuclear Option
15. A New Dawn

Minor quests:

1. The Lost Patrol
2. From Within
3. Duty or Dishonor
4. A Loose End
5. Quartermastery
6. Cleansing the Commonwealth
7. Learning Curve
8. Feeding the Troops
9. Leading by Example
10. Obtain the documentation for proctor Quinlan
11. Find good quality blood samples for scribe Neriah
12. Obtain the reactor coolant for proctor Ingram

Fallout 4: All Railroad faction quests

Major Quests:

1. Road to Freedom
2. Tradecraft
3. Boston After Dark
4. Underground Undercover
5. Operation Ticonderoga
6. Precipice of War
7. Rockets' Red Glare
8. The Nuclear Option

Minor quests:

1. Butcher's Bill
2. Butcher's Bill 2
3. Mercer Safehouse
4. Concierge
5. Jackpot
6. Memory Interrupted
7. Broken Monorail
8. Randolph Safehouse
9. Burning Cover
10. Variable Removal
11. Lost Soul
12. To The Mattresses

Fallout 4: All Institute faction quests

Major quests:

1. Synth Retention
2. The Battle of Bunker Hill
3. Mankind-Redefined
4. Mass Fusion
5. Pinned
6. Powering Up
7. End of the Line
8. Airship Down
9. Nuclear Family

Minor quests:

1. Building a Better Crop
2. Plugging a Leak
3. A House Divided
4. Reclamation
5. Appropriation
6. Pest Control
7. Hypothesis
8. Political Leanings
9. Banished from the Institute
10. Companions' quests
11. Story of the Century
12. Long Time Coming
13. The Gilded Grasshopper
14. The Disappearing Act
15. Emergent Behavior
16. Long Road Ahead
17. Benign Intervention

Fallout 4: All side quests

Vault 81:

1. Vault 81 quest
2. Short Stories
3. Here Kitty, Kitty
4. Hole in the Wall
5. Dependency

Diamond City:

1. Painting the Town
2. Out in Left Field
3. Confidence Man
4. Diamond City Blues
5. In Sheep's Clothing
6. Smaller quests in Diamond City

Goodneighbor:

1. Memory Den
2. Silver Shroud
3. Public Knowledge
4. The Big Dig
5. Trouble Brewin'
6. Bring HalluciGen canister to Fred
7. Storage cleaning

Cabot House:

1. Special Delivery
2. Emogene Takes a Lover
3. The Secret of Cabot House

Bunker Hill:

1. Find traces of Brent Savoldi
2. Clear the National Guard training yard of ghouls
3. Kill Zeller and free the remnants

Other locations:

1. Random events
2. Pull the Plug
3. Order Up
4. Returning the Favor
5. Out of the Fire
6. Mystery Meat
7. Report to the Director
8. Human Error
9. Vault 75
10. The Devil's Due
11. Find the toy repair parts for Arlen Glass
12. Troubled Waters
13. Cambridge Polymer Labs
14. Last Voyage of the USS Constitution
15. Pickman's Gift
16. Curtain Call
17. Kid in a Fridge
18. Activate turrets in Salem
19. Fix the water pump
20. Here There Be Monsters
21. Pillars of the Community
22. Combat Zone
23. Quality Assurance
24. Find the Treasures of Jamaican Plain
25. Cure for Virgil

Fallout 4: World Atlas

1. World map - sectors
2. Enemy levels map

Fallout 4: All sectors maps

Sanctuary:

1. Map of Sanctuary
2. Vault 111
3. Sanctuary
4. USAF Satellite Station Olivia
5. Concord
6. Abernathy Farm
7. Thicket Excavations
8. Walden Pond

Malden:

1. Map of Malden
2. Outpost Zimonja
3. National Guard Training Yard
4. General Atomics Galleria
5. Lynn Woods
6. Malden Middle School
7. Covenant
8. Saugus Ironworks
9. Taffington Boathouse

Salem:

1. Map of Salem
2. Mahkra Fishpacking
3. Dunwich Borers
4. Kingsport Lighthouse
5. Longneck Lukowski's Cannery
6. Libertalia
7. Croup Manor
8. Sandy Coves Convalescent House
9. Lynn Pier Parking
10. Revere Satellite Array

Fort Hagen:

1. Map of Fort Hagen
2. Graygarden
3. ArcJet Systems
4. Federal Ration Stockpile
5. Weston Water Treatment Plant
6. Fiddler's Green Trailer Estate
7. Fort Hagen
8. Boston Mayoral Shelter
9. Mass Pike Interchange
10. Forest Grove Marsh

Cambridge:

1. Map of Cambridge
2. Corvega Assembly Plant
3. Superdupermart
4. Watz Electronics
5. Collegiate Administration Building
6. College Square
7. Cambridge Police Station
8. Brotherhood Outpost 115
9. Cambridge Polymer Labs
10. C.I.T. Ruins
11. Kendall Hospital
12. BADTFL Regional Office
13. Bunker Hill
14. USS Constitution

Center of Boston:

1. Map of Center of Boston
2. Goodneighbor
3. Combat Zone
4. Cabot House
5. Custom House Tower
6. Faneuil Hall
7. The Shamrock Taphouse
8. Old North Church
9. HalluciGen Inc.
10. Hubris Comics
11. Trinity Tower
12. Massachusetts State House
13. Boston Police Rationing Site
14. Hardware Town
15. Vault 81
16. Secret Vault 81
17. Back Street Apparel
18. Diamond City
19. Boston Public Library
20. Big John's Salvage

The Castle:

1. Map of The Castle
2. East Boston Preparatory School
3. Easy City Downs
4. Prydwen
5. Fort Strong
6. Four Leaf Fishpacking Plant
7. General Atomics Factory
8. Andrew Station
9. The Castle
10. Spectacle Island

The Glowing Sea:

1. Map of The Glowing Sea
2. Poseidon Energy
3. WRVR Broadcast Station
4. Vault 95
5. Federal Surveillance Center K-21B
6. Sentinel Site

Southern Boston:

1. Map of Southern Boston
2. Egret Tours Marina
3. Gunners Plaza
4. Suffolk County Charter School
5. Quincy Ruins
6. Poseidon Energy
7. Wreck of the FMS Northern Star
8. Atom Cats Garage
9. Jamaica Plain
10. West Roxbury Station
11. Fallon's Department Store
12. University Point

Fallout 4: Bobbleheads

1. Introduction
2. All Bobbleheads

Fallout 4: Magazines

1. All magazines
2. Sanctuary - Sector 1
3. Malden - Sector 2
4. Salem - Sector 3
5. Fort Hagen - Sector 4
6. Cambridge - Sector 5
7. Center of Boston - Sector 6
8. The Castle - Sector 7
9. The Glowing Sea - Sector 8
10. Southern Boston - Sector 9

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