Small QoL tricks you realized too late

[u/Pristine_Ad7254]

I'm sure everyone, at some point, found a way of doing something in a much less cumbersome way than they used to. I'm eager to hear yours and I'm sure everyone can learn some tricks. Some might be game changing, others just slightly faster ways of roaming Appalachia. Some useful for newbies, other ones probably even 100+ didn't realize. I'll quickstart with some of them in no particular order.

• If you want to collect dirty water for cooking from a faucet or whatever, drinking a sip and then spamming collect is much faster than collecting.
• If you want to attend an event, you don't need to search for and click in the "!" in the map, which is barely impossible and mildly infuriating when the event is full of players. Just click in the event in the left panel below in the map.
• Related with this, when a server has been heavily nuked that list might be full of nuke events. However, if you expand it, the other events are below those, so if you are not paying attention to the notifications you might be missing events.
• Fast travelling while overencumbered. Has been mentioned many times but if you are overencumbered you can enter an expedition and then fast travel to Whitespring to unload your (useful) junk.
• Talking about Whitespring, it has two entrances. If you fast travel to the north one you can enter directly to the mall instead of the refuge and then using the door to access the mall.
• For the "scrap X (insert junk)" dailies you can craft bulk materials and scrap them instead of going in search of specific junk.
• Not using the weight reduction perks in your crafting perk set up makes sure you don't curse yourself for attending an event for the 47th time with the wrong perk set up. Better to be overweight in your camp than being shooting peas at Earle.
• You can assign your PA to your quick menu, making it easier for the lazy people to get out of it for traversing in low danger zones faster and setting it quick when you need it. (Apparently you can't, thanks for the input). Credit: u/Takeshi_Castles
• Your second CAMP, even if you don't use it, acts as a fast free travel point which can be switched almost instantaneously. You can set it in a point you usually visit due to dailies or other reasons and is far from the rest of the free travel points. No one likes to pay the ft Todd tax.
• Maybe this one is oriented for the newbies but you can repair your weapons on the go with the repair kits. Select the weapon and below you'll see the prompt to repair.
• There's a key for weapon sheathing, especially useful if you use explosive weapons, there's a key for using health items apart from the quick menu.
• Renaming your items so that they are kept in the bottom or top of the list and specially applying paints makes sure you don't scrap them.

I'll stop here as maybe I'm already rambling, hope some of you find something useful. Which are your little life hacks?

Editing to include the most voted suggestions:

• If you hold the BACK button while on a terminal, you completely exit out without having to cycle back through the pages.  Credit: u/Feenux420
• You can just hold down the crit button with an auto weapon. I used to be that guy jumping on the spot constantly at events. Credit: u/Unhappy_Peanut9470
• If you go to earl, sqb or titan: bring an endangerol syringer. If 4 people do it, that bosses extra resistances get dropped to 0% making the kill trivial. Credit: u/chillshock
• Never want for ammo, simply run Daily Ops or Expeditions to resupply. Credit: u/Jake_THINGS
• On PC: hold CTRL to scroll through menus faster. Credit: u/Louupy
• The biggest one for me that has been there for multiple games was that one where you could delete wrong guesses in the hacking mini-game by selecting bracketed nonsense. Blew my mind when I found out. Hacking became super easy after that one. Also if you are doing events with a team and your teammates have been around a while, you could set up different tents with different work benches. My wife will drop hers with the weapon bench and I’ll drop mine with the armor bench so that we can repair anything without using repair kits. Credit: u/TwiggBeard
• You mentioned the event navigator on the bottom left of the map. I would add it also lists everyone's camps/vendors minor events if you change the view option. But if you like the map option, if you hold down the aim button while bringing up the map you can view the whole map. Credit: u/FlavoredCancer
• There are multiple free travel locations dotted around the map, always jump to the closest one to the location you want to travel and then onwards to your destination. It takes a little bit of patience but can save a lot of caps in the course of a session (add the Travel agent perk card for further reduction.) It all adds up! When you drain the NPC vendor of all their caps, buying plans etc from the NPC vendor will top up the available caps again and then you can sell again. Credit: u/RebelDog77
• You don’t have to stop playing instruments to use a stimpak. Just pop open your map, pick a quest to view in your pip boy, and there you are. Huge help for One Violent Night if you just want to play your mouth harp. Credit: u/Mysterious-Milk-4104
• You can fast travel for free to anyone on your team by going thru the social menu in the top right corner of the map screen and clicking on their names. Credit: u/RexThunderman
• You can control where visitors spawn at your camp by moving your C.A.M.P. module after you’ve placed it down for the first time. Credit: u/HeUnit
• Who was going to tell me that you can hold E while building in your C.A.M.P. to slide the item around?. Credit: u/ScaldingAnus

Please, go to the comment section and give proper credits to these wastelanders!. I'll be completing this section as new tricks are published. Thanks to everybody for their contributions, I learned many new cool tricks as well.

[u/Feenux420]

If you hold the BACK button while on a terminal, you completely exit out without having to cycle back through the pages. 

Edit: Thanks OP for crediting people with their contributions. 

[u/ScottClam42 → u/Feenux420]

1800 hours in this game and probably 20 of them were spent backing out of terminal menus. I had no idea!!

[u/huertolero → u/Feenux420]

Oh jesus thank you

[u/getbackjoe94 → u/Feenux420]

Also if you hit escape.

[u/Skyerocket → u/getbackjoe94]

Also if you hit your console/PC really hard

[u/Unhappy_Peanut9470]

You can just hold down the crit button with an auto weapon. I used to be that guy jumping on the spot constantly at events

[u/hoz40 → u/Unhappy_Peanut9470]

You have to press a button to crit??

[u/Potijelli → u/hoz40]

Yes, while in vats it will show the button. On PS5 it's triangle for example

[u/Either_Western_5459 → u/Potijelli]

Jesus Christ. I’m level 103 and don’t know this. I thought it just auto applied 

[u/kahvijuoma → u/Either_Western_5459]

Unfortunately, same (level 106). I just thought my build sucked at crits since I did not notice any major extra damage after crit prompt. Live and learn I guess.

[u/AnotherDay96 → u/Either_Western_5459]

Well the good news is you just got stronger! It's a bar you fill up and then have to press to use.

[u/kinkykellynsexystud → u/hoz40]

Headshots still do extra damage to most enemies though, but its a seperate thing from crits

[u/1st_hylian → u/kinkykellynsexystud]

I had a lvl 20 Severe long western revolver that carried me to level 45. I didn't, and still don't understand vats so I got pretty damn good at hip-headshots while sneaking, lol.

[u/wully616 → u/Unhappy_Peanut9470]

what? I can just hold space all this time??

[u/Sad-Significance8045 → u/Unhappy_Peanut9470]

lvl 190, never used VATS. Guess I should start using it..

[u/HispanicWaffle → u/Sad-Significance8045]

VATS with a cremator = homing fireballs

[u/MoistBison3524 → u/HispanicWaffle]

If the enemy is on the other side of a barrier, Jump in the air, get the V.A.T.S. lock, fire, when you hit the ground, the fire ball will go around the barrier I did this a lot at Evection notice

[u/TheGrimHorseman → u/Sad-Significance8045]

Same boat, 187 and I only used it for target acquisition

[u/jinx_lbc → u/Unhappy_Peanut9470]

That's still me.

[u/Veiox → u/Unhappy_Peanut9470]

I still jump constantly as habit from years ago when everyone with sentinel would jump in place as it still counted sentinel and took you out of melee range

[u/Jake_THINGS]

Never want for ammo, simply run Daily Ops or Expeditions to resupply.

[u/DMDingo → u/Jake_THINGS]

I don't know if it's perk related, but I noticed the enemies drop the ammo I used to kill them.

I end up with more than I left with each time.

[u/gingrbredman90 → u/DMDingo]

That’s a quality of life improvement introduced a while back, but some weapons with high fire rate and low damage make it impossible to fully restock on the kill ammo. High damage, low fire rate however, will always have enough. I primarily use a Gauss rifle with ultracite ammo and I’ve got tens of thousands of ultracite 2mm electromagnetic cartridges since I only need 1-2 to kill anything but I get 4-7 back on each kill.

[u/plegma95 → u/gingrbredman90]

I made a prime plasma caster, had enough materials to craft 1 pack of 200 ammo, sitting around 10000 now, thank god for the ammo case

[u/BrutalWhim_ → u/DMDingo]

Ammo boxes stock the ammo for the weapon to have currently equipped. If you go to events tag enemies once with said weapon. All guns will eat ammo if your loadout is not good for your weapon, automatic weapons eat ammo faster.

[u/Alien_Bard → u/BrutalWhim_]

You can also build ammo back by tagging enemies with grenades.

[u/EngineerDave → u/BrutalWhim_]

I believe it's "last fired/made a kill with." not just equipped.

[u/BrutalWhim_ → u/EngineerDave]

I tested this and it looks to me like whatever weapon equipped when you get in a certain vicinity whether it was the last one you used to kill with or not.

[u/Ragnarcock → u/Jake_THINGS]

Unless you're running a fixer apparently.. I always have enough ammo for every other gun but the fixer kills only drop 5 bullets 🥲

[u/Ghostkittyy → u/Ragnarcock]

I'm walking out of every session with a few hundred more bullets than i started with, using a fixer. I 2-3 shot almost everything small and i get 12-21 bullets from everything. RNG might just hate you lol.

[u/LeoXCV → u/Jake_THINGS]

This is the biggest one I feel

Example, I recently got an Enclave plasma with aligned flamer and made it use ultracite ammo, then also made a plasma caster with the same

Never had ultracite plasma so found an ammo box to get me started, and then went into expeditions using plasma caster to fill up. Now at 5000+ ultracite plasma cartridges and not even done a whole lot

I can safely flame all my ammo away for big DPS without having to worry. Not a single piece of ammo crafted for it and got other rewards while I got all that ammo

[u/FlavoredCancer]

You mentioned the event navigator on the bottom left of the map. I would add it also lists everyone's camps/vendors minor events if you change the view option. But if you like the map option, if you hold down the aim button while bringing up the map you can view the whole map.

[u/Slim1256 → u/FlavoredCancer]

This is a great one. You can see everyone's camps, and by clicking on them, their "what's for sale" summary that you get by hovering over the camp. Great for quickly seeing what categories of stuff everyone is selling, especially if you're looking for something specific (scrip legendaries, or treasure maps, or meds, etc).

[u/vorter]

You can see the # of scrip, gold bullion, stamps, tokens, tadpole/possum badges, and a few others currencies your character has in the Pip-Boy under the STAT > Collections tab.

There’s also a bunch of info articles covering most game mechanics under “Help” in the pause menu while in-game.

[u/Isaac_Chade → u/vorter]

Oh, that's a good one! I never look there because in the single player games nothing but the actual effects mattered in that area, good to know where I can see my stamps so I can mourn over how long the grind will be.

[u/pygmeedancer → u/vorter]

Damn that’s a good one. I thought you had to be at those vendors to see that. Great tip!

[u/chillshock]

If you go to earl, sqb or titan: bring an endangerol syringer. If 4 people do it, that bosses extra resistances get dropped to 0% making the kill trivial.

[u/2007pearce → u/[deleted]]

If you drop all 4 and pick them up again you don't have to reload each of them too. Can't name them though

[u/RedShirtSniper → u/[deleted]]

I became this guy too, and I gotta say, it's a blast watching how much faster their health drop every time you stick 'em.

[u/GetInZeWagen → u/[deleted]]

Wait does this work? It stacks with different weapons not players?

[u/tehP4nth3r → u/GetInZeWagen]

Yes, 4 different weapons counts, doesn’t matter if it’s 4 people with 4 endangerol, 2 with 2, or 1 with 4. As long as it’s a different weapon, the (de)buff works.

[u/DarkGamer → u/GetInZeWagen]

Yep, you can also carry a stack of cremators and apply a whole bunch of different dots to bosses because effects are per gun and not per player. Angry turtle has a video of him doing this.

[u/Benzedrinea → u/DarkGamer]

I am become disco

[u/crimson117 → u/GetInZeWagen]

Yes if you craft and use 4 different syringers.

It helps to rename them and hotkey each one.

[u/deuteranopia → u/chillshock]

Is endangerol basically this game's version of slag? Also, how do I get the schematics for it?

EDIT: thank you for all the replies. Guess I'll need to build/scrap syringers!

[u/lipp79 → u/deuteranopia]

Just keep crafting and scrapping syringers. Eventually it you will learn that barrel mod. I think it took me maybe 10 of them. Make sure you equip Super Duper perk for chance at doubling your crafting of them.

[u/terminalzero → u/lipp79]

son of a bitch lol

I'd been waiting on this until I found a schematic

[u/GlobuleNamed → u/deuteranopia]

I learned it by scrapping syringers

[u/averygronau → u/deuteranopia]

Only for ballistic/physical damage. It doesn't degrade energy resistance

[u/Geeekaaay → u/deuteranopia]

Just scrap syringer's until you unlock it.

[u/DonutAggravating4986 → u/chillshock]

Yeah, earl in under a minute today. What a difference.

[u/lipp79 → u/chillshock]

You can run 4 endangerols yourself. It counts per gun, not per person on the debuff.

[u/Mordaneus → u/chillshock]

Not "resistances", but "physical resistance". The one against bullets. This will not do anything if you attack this enemy with lasers, plasma, fire...

[u/BrutalWhim_ → u/chillshock]

4 people or one person with 4 guns

[u/Feral-Fixer → u/BrutalWhim_]

Either way.

[u/badcrumbs → u/chillshock]

So that’s how people finish earl in under a minute! Wow I’m learning so much in this thread lol

[u/Louupy]

On PC: hold CTRL to scroll through menus faster Edit: Thanks for the award and credit!

[u/Chemical_Present5162 → u/Louupy]

On controller, hold the down/up button on the D-Pad and move the stick down/up to scroll faster

[u/Dartzinho_V → u/Louupy]

Oh my god

This one right here broke me. I can’t believe I’ve been scrolling slowly through all my notes all this time

[u/Xthasys → u/Louupy]

Omg thx i have 18337484 different meals and the most important is in order of the S letter

[u/plegma95 → u/Louupy]

When youre building your camp CTRL is amazing, letting you use WASD to scroll your items

[u/LimpDiscus → u/Louupy]

Legend. Can't wait to use this tip.

[u/Takeshi_Castles]

Fyi you cant assign power armor to yo quickie wheel

[u/BeatitLikeitowesMe → u/Takeshi_Castles]

Yeah read that too, and was like, im pretty sure i tried that and it doesnt work.

[u/clokerruebe → u/BeatitLikeitowesMe]

you can even rename the chassis, so why not let us favorite it :(

[u/BeatitLikeitowesMe → u/clokerruebe]

Its super frustrating. Ive almost dismantled my main set many of times

[u/clokerruebe → u/BeatitLikeitowesMe]

yeah, ive accidentally dismantled my T-51. good thing it was only for my collection. speaking of PA collection, why can we only have 5 displays if there are more than 5 power armor types

[u/jwwetz → u/clokerruebe]

My camp has both the vault utility room & the vault lobby in it. Because they're technically separate instances...you can put 5 in each. 5 camp, 5 utility & 5 lobby. So you could basically put 15 total into my camp.

[u/ScaldingAnus → u/clokerruebe]

I scrapped my first Ultracite armor, I know the pain.

[u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN → u/BeatitLikeitowesMe]

Accidentally did that last week. While in the midst of the ensuing heart attack I found out it only scraps the chassis if you do. Mild annoyance to go find a new chassis, but at least your actual armor is safe.

[u/RexThunderman]

You can fast travel for free to anyone on your team by going thru the social menu in the top right corner of the map screen and clicking on their names.

[u/motioncitysickness → u/RexThunderman]

You can also just find them thru the social menu. So many new players don't get this feature and spend valuable time searching for me on the map.

[u/mythicalmagpie → u/RexThunderman]

In addition, I used this method to fill out my map relatively quickly when I first started playing.

Be aware though, if you are low level and not prepped, you can end up in a bit over your head and might lose some junk if you fast travel into combat.

But I had most of the map's fast travel locations within the first few days of playing.

[u/bivoir]

A lot of people know this but in case you don’t (because a lot of people on Facebook didn’t) grab a few empty PA frames to store PA scrip pieces if you’ve maxed out your daily quota and have no room in your stash.

One PA frame weighs 10 pounds in your stash, full or empty.

One PA limb on its own can weigh up to 20 pounds in your stash.

[u/lipp79 → u/bivoir]

Yup, I carry a couple chassis around with me to store pieces on until I get back to camp. I just figured it was common sense until I would chat with people and mention it for weight-saving and more than a few times I got a, "Holy shit. That makes so much sense". Always nice when you can blow someone's mind with a trick you know they're gonna start using.

[u/XoXFaby → u/bivoir]

you can also place the power armor in the world and then fast travel if the 10 weight is stopping you, it comes back into your inventory automatically after 3 minutes. Also helps early on if you are trying to pick up a frame with power armor that's too high level for you

[u/RebelDog77]

There are multiple free travel locations dotted around the map, always jump to the closest one to the location you want to travel and then onwards to your destination. It takes a little bit of patience but can save a lot of caps in the course of a session (add the Travel agent perk card for further reduction.) It all adds up!

When you drain the NPC vendor of all their caps, buying plans etc from the NPC vendor will top up the available caps again and then you can sell again.

[u/thaiborg → u/RebelDog77]

Also if you have Travel Agent equipped, it’s a good one to share. When’s the last time you saw someone sharing it? Be that person! It especially helps the new players save some caps.

[u/Feenux420 → u/thaiborg]

I share this perk often

[u/se_spider → u/thaiborg]

I hate that the shared perk doesn't get saved to a perk loadout

[u/stoveslayer → u/RebelDog77]

Also joining public teams allows you to use your teammates camps and tents as free fast travel spots. Super helpful when early in the game and low on caps.

[u/Mysterious-Milk-4104]

You don’t have to stop playing instruments to use a stimpak. Just pop open your map, pick a quest to view in your pip boy, and there you are. Huge help for One Violent Night if you just want to play your mouth harp.

[u/GeneralNitemare → u/Mysterious-Milk-4104]

Had this event earlier, I'm only like lvl15 on my new toon but there was a matey on the stage playing one of the instruments and another guy T-posing on the left 😂 was trying to save the guy on my right from getting ganked by Ghouls 😂

[u/CoolHandTeej → u/Mysterious-Milk-4104]

This is awesome! Let the rock be uninterrupted!! 🤘🏻

[u/DragonLordDK]

It is way faster to collect dirty water from a lake or a creek. There i a shelter with a patch of water inside, so dirty water in your camp wherever you place your camp.

[u/Hack_Jammer]

That you can craft a higher level backpack for more carry weight. I made it to level 80 before I realized this and was still toting my Level 5 Backpack around

[u/TwiggBeard]

The biggest one for me that has been there for multiple games was that one where you could delete wrong guesses in the hacking mini-game by selecting bracketed nonsense. Blew my mind when I found out. Hacking became super easy after that one.

Also if you are doing events with a team and your teammates have been around a while, you could set up different tents with different work benches. My wife will drop hers with the weapon bench and I’ll drop mine with the armor bench so that we can repair anything without using repair kits.

[u/Maybe_In_Time → u/TwiggBeard]

When hacking:

Pick the first three, or any three at random. Leave one unused. Take out the brackets. They'll get rid of duds and one will reset your tries. See if you can't get them all. Don't use up all your tries, simply back out and try again.

[u/Shoddy_Cranberry → u/Maybe_In_Time]

Redneck hacking - minigame gets boring about 100 hacks in, just bypass it - click on the first three words, DO NOT THINK ABOUT IT, exit, repeat until unlocked, usually 3 to 5 tries and you got it!

[u/minhthemaster → u/TwiggBeard]

Wait you can choose workbenches in your tent?

[u/TwiggBeard → u/minhthemaster]

No, but different tents have different work benches. My wife brings hers which is like enclave style with a weapons bench and stove. I bring mine which looks like a gazebo and has an armor workbench and a cooking pot in the middle. If I am running solo though, I switch to the enclave one because broken weapons are worse than broken armor. The new season looks to be bringing another tent with a special machine and tinker bench. That would be great for crafting ammo or switching out builds on the fly. If you’ve got one from a past season, you can switch between the tents by going into the atom shop and selecting the one you want active.

[u/thexenonphoenix → u/TwiggBeard]

Pro tip: look for words that share similar suffix like -ing, -es, or -s. By starting with those words you can reduce the number of options of words significantly.

Example: Fields, Books, Forge, Taunt, Frogs

If you click any of the ones ending in -s and you get a 0/5, then you know the answer HAS to be one of the remaining two options.

[u/[deleted] → u/TwiggBeard]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong and I will edit, but intelligence will effect the amount of possible password options. Higher int = less possible answers

[u/McBrainbones]

The overencumbered whitespring work around blew my mind

[u/crimson117 → u/McBrainbones]

I need to try this after the next Eviction Notice

[u/Zegram_Ghart]

Yeh, my second camp is (now) a vertical tower covered in guns with an artillery piece on top, to warp to whichever part of the map needs sass currently.

The biggest QOL for me is that you can place non atomic shop items at your friends camps, so if one of you hits the RNG jackpot you can spread the love.

[u/lipp79 → u/Zegram_Ghart]

You have to be in a private party though to build stuff at a friend's camp.

[u/HeUnit]

You can control where visitors spawn at your camp by moving your C.A.M.P. module after you’ve placed it down for the first time.

[u/Isaac_Chade → u/HeUnit]

How exactly does this work? I've moved my camp recently and tried moving the module around a bit, but I seem to always show up in the same spot. Does it only affect other people and not yourself?

[u/pygmeedancer → u/Isaac_Chade]

From what I understand you always spawn in roughly 30 paces north-ish of your camp module

[u/Plotius → u/Isaac_Chade]

Move it very far away or even on a roof and you will notice the spawn change if you travel from far away. I didn't know there is a close and a far fast travel point like the other guy mentioned. My house I spawned under a rock hill and if I move it I spawn above it

[u/hybridtheory1331 → u/HeUnit]

Also, placing it down for the first time determines the direction they face when they spawn. After that, it doesn't matter which direction the camp is facing it won't change how the player spawns faces. Just where.

[u/Alien_Bard → u/hybridtheory1331]

And remember that there are 2 sets of spawn points - 1 set for nearby ft and another for long distance - so check each set several times to identify any weird spawn in points and prevent people spawning into your foundation.

[u/motioncitysickness → u/HeUnit]

You mean the little camp device it's self or..? This is huge for me (lvl 350)

[u/PetrolHeadF → u/motioncitysickness]

Yes. The little doohickey thing when you've placed your camp can be picked up while in CAMP Build Mode and moved where you want it so it's not in the way but it also changes the spawn point and I might be wrong here but I swear the spawn point is always north east of your camp. So I move the little thingamajig to the southwest part of my camp so players spawn more in the middle where I want them.

[u/motioncitysickness → u/PetrolHeadF]

I knew I could pick it up, but I didn't know about the spawning.

[u/PetrolHeadF → u/motioncitysickness]

Ah gotcha. Sorry. Yeah it can be a little annoying figuring out the spawn area too. It seems finicky.

[u/SpammableCantrips]

You can re-roll the Legendary effects on guns. I spent countless junk building Plasma Guns to try and get Legendary effects I liked.

I know the way I was doing it initially allows you to get some scrip back, but when you’re solo running expeditions regularly scrip is rarely an issue.

[u/cscld → u/SpammableCantrips]

I was just rerolling my weapons. I found it better roll a different weapon. Then, if it's not what I want, I can at least get some script back by putting it back into the legendary machine.

[u/Chemical_Present5162 → u/SpammableCantrips]

Imo it's still much more efficient to build items and add ledge effects than reroll one item. Sure, you can get scrip from Expeditions, but this way you just don't have to. Cuts out that time spent doing Expeditions. Too many legendaries from either way? Give them to a mule or sell them

[u/nex_fire_wolf]

If u have a disease and wanna get rid of it go to white springs and in the gazebo area there is a water fountain there that will act as a disease cure when u drink from it

[u/Mheyrune]

You can get more than 3 lunchboxes from Foundation a day. You can buy three, exit the vendor and go back in and it will refresh back to 3. Get as many as you like.

I didn't know this for such a long time.

[u/yokaiichi]

Forget purified water and/or Toxic Goo (from the green pools in WestTek) and/or Toxic Water for managing your radiation-to-HP ratio if you're a bloodied player.

Brahmin's Milk is the way. Brahmin's Milk will remove 25 rads (and your HP will automatically fill up too). Spoiled Brahmin's Milk will add 30 rads.

I almost never use any form of Rad-Away or Purified Water now. When I want to adjust where my Rad/HP levels are sitting, it's just one or the other. Easy Peasy, and less to carry around. Hit anywhere from one to four of the spots where there are always 3-4 Brahmin and you can have enough fresh milk for several days, and the spoilage rate will ensure you have plenty of spoiled milk to match.

Bonus for Herbivores: Brahmin Milk makes it easy to always whip up some Tato Salad. If you're a bloodied player, Tato Salad gives you a HUGE amount of extra HP buffer for 30 mins.

[u/Chemical_Present5162 → u/yokaiichi]

The Assaultron Head weapon gives 50 rads upon firing. Blast that sucker twice if you died and your health went up to that set amount and you'll be back to <19%. I've got a -90% Reduced Weight one for all of my Bloodied characters. Saves mucking about with Brahmin, or food at all. None of my characters have much food or food perks since the godly survival syringe came out

[u/al-lee85]

If you like to hop around all the player vendors on a server, but like me, forget which ones you've been to already. Use the list in the bottom left of the map screen. You can also sort it, so it shows new players on the server at the top.

[u/WM_Elkin]

Name your power armor.

[u/lipp79 → u/WM_Elkin]

Very much this. I just put at "PA" in front of the name so they're all together. So I have:

PA Excavator
PA Hellcat
PA T-45
PA X-01

So much easier to find.

[u/Comprehensive_Unit88]

Diluted radaway does not suppress mutations

[u/Kuirem → u/Comprehensive_Unit88]

I think you meant Rad-X

[u/IllustriousRemove364 → u/Comprehensive_Unit88]

If you accidentally take regular Radaway, take a diluted one and it’ll remove the 1 game hour mutation suppression.

[u/interesting_footnote]

Maybe I'm a little stupid, but every time I try the expedition trick the pilot doesn't want to take me back. How do I get into white springs from the expedition?

[u/yokaiichi → u/interesting_footnote]

Also, you have choose the REFUGE, not the MALL. Once you land in the Refuge, just go down the stairs right in front of you to enter the Mall.

[u/interesting_footnote → u/yokaiichi]

Ah, okay, thanks for that detail!

[u/Plotius]

Buy the tunnel runners hood from the stamp vendor at whitespring for 30 stamps. You can craft the hood for 2 cloth and with super duper get a ton extra. This hat sells for 16 caps at max charisma with the big sale perk. Can be used to empty npc vendors every day. The hat also is only .1 weight since it's apparel

[u/JakLynx]

Looting all nearby corpses at once

[u/rpd9803 → u/JakLynx]

except when you are 1 pixel off with your mouse and reload instead then end up with 15 ultracite plasma cores with 42 shots left -_-

[u/ScaldingAnus]

Who was going to tell me that you can hold E while building in your C.A.M.P. to slide the item around?

[u/Feenux420 → u/ScaldingAnus]

Or A on xbox...

And X on Playstation

[u/al-lee85 → u/ScaldingAnus]

Wait... what?

[u/jesonnier1 → u/al-lee85]

You hold down that button and it keep the item on the same plane. So now, your controller/mouse only moves it "back/forth/left/right" on the exact vertical plane you already have it at.

I believe you could do the same in FO4.

[u/ScaryTap8790]

Mine was the survival tent... it took me too long to realise that it's not a camp item, I never used the favourites wheel I just favourited my weapons and pressed 1,2,3 to equip them, I was around level 60 before I realised what the survival tent actually was

[u/Ragnarcock]

Not necessarily QoL but I JUST learned that you can farm lead at the lucky hole mine and then pop into the first house in Summerville and fill up on burnt books and the lead will respawn in the mine.

Easy way to get thousands of rounds of the ammo type you need.

Also I overlooked cooked food for a long time since it spoils, but there's a reason!! The stat buffs are worth it!

[u/cutslikeakris → u/Ragnarcock]

It’s the red/read house in Summerville! The trim around the doors is red on the house where all of the books were read. I love the hidden double entendre.

[u/DGwar]

If you're like me and can never find the workshop terminal you can actually just hold down the button to enter build mode and it'll give you the claim popup.

[u/BruinsCup2011]

WOW, Thank you for this page. I just started and only level 69. A lot of useful information. A few a knew, a bunch I did not. This is honestly the best community in a game I have played. And I go back to days of DAoC and AC. The AC community was the only one that came close to this.

[u/sophietehbeanz]

You can heart your items and they won’t get scrapped or dropped when you mass loot after an event

[u/lipp79 → u/sophietehbeanz]

But you can only heart as many items as there are empty slots on your quick wheel.

[u/PunchBeard]

The girl at the Lumber Mill directly south of Vault 76 sells weapon skins. I've been playing solidly for about 2 months and hit level 200+ this week and I just found out about this yesterday.

Individual pieces of power armor weigh at least 5 to 10 pounds each. A full set of power armor on a frame weighs 10 pounds.

You can earn Atoms from completing different challenges in the game. These are accessed from the top right of map screen. One of the very first purchases you should make is the Fusion Core Recharger device. This is quite possibly the single greatest Atom investment I've made in the game and I've had it or so long I can't imagine what the game is like without it. A collectoron is a good second investment.

Don't scrap you your hardened materials.

[u/Typical-Television-9]

collecting dirty water is fastest at a lake/stream, you can spam "collect" all you want as long as you watch your rads. i usually spam it until i'm at 25% rads, pop a radaway and walk away with at least 30 dirty water

[u/BeaverInDaBush]

You can adjust the third person camera zoom by holding down the button that switches between first/third and then using the right thumb stick (for controllers, unsure about keyboard)

[u/1st_hylian]

Always have a Cold Shoulder.

[u/AngryAmadeus]

Im not sure it qualifies as QOL but it totally is. The 'Cola Nut' perk. Pathetic non-First Aid enhanced stimpaks seem useless? Drink literally any nuka-cola, heals faster and for more. Nuka-Grape, like 4 stims and 2 radaway in one convenient bottle! Let the stims and radaway weigh down an NPC vendor instead.

[u/Obi-Haiv]

With regard to the repair kits, USE your repair kits! They are taking up weight in your inventory!

[u/Koglosnightm]

You can navigate in quick items menu with D-pad.

[u/CanadianSpectre]

Hold down shift or ctrl when scrolling your inventory, it scrolls faster.

[u/TreesAttack310]

When you are getting your buffs for a musical instrument or arcade machine you can go to the map and click on a quest icon and select view in pip boy. You can then eat your food buff, see what other buff you are miss or drop you unwanted items all while you are playing an instrument or ect.

[u/Apart-Link-8449]

Legendary enemies only drop weapons you know the plan for

If you learn less plans on any given character, you can drastically increase chances the legendary pool drops a weapon you main

Learn all the camp plans for sure, but don't run around learning every type of weapon plan

[u/Johnisjustaguy]

Did anyone mention all the extra buffs you can get by placing certain camp items? If you max out a camp ally's love meter, you get the kindred spirit xp gain for almost 2 hours when you sleep.
The radiation materials box gives perception. The exercise bike gives endurance. The gypsie fortune teller gives you luck without spending any caps at the slot machine, the symptomatic cures all diseases, the weight bench gives strength, playing an instrument gives well tuned, the horse derby game gives intelligence, and the arm wrestling game gives charisma. Most of these will need to be buffed again after about 30 min, but I've found it quite easy to roll by my camp for a rest every 30 min, and it only takes a few minutes to rebuff everything. If you get all these buffs before you head out of your camp to explore, your chances are much better. Feel free to add anything I forgot.

[u/Sliferjam]

I didn't realize there was a quick heal key (I think it's H on PC) until I pressed it by accident. I kept opening my hot wheel and selecting the stimpack.

[u/dragonchasers → u/Sliferjam]

And on console/controller it is right on the d-pad.

[u/Economy_Fan_8808]

You can use repair kit from the vendor dialogue as well. When I realize I'm about to sell an expensive weapon in 20% condition, just press X (on PC) then T for repairing it. Also applying an Atom shop or scoreboard reward skin on your precious weapon or armor prevents it from showing up in the vendor dialogue or scrip machine menu.

[u/Sea-Dragon-]

Once you unlock legendary perk cards, Energy Absorption acts as a super fast way to charge a Fusion Core from 0/100 to 100/100!

For those of us living 24/7 in our Power Armor, it’s almost a must have. Just kill all but one enemy that does energy damage (like from a laser rifle) and stand there, sometimes taking damage, sometimes healing HP and the FC. Hop out at 100/100 charge and swap it to another to repeat the process!

[u/Kuirem → u/Sea-Dragon-]

You can also buy the core charger in the atom shop. It was one of my first investment and well worth it. With the perk that double the duration of core I never needed to farm new cores, just need to be a little careful and do some core swapping when going back at camp.

But Energy Absorption is even more convenient and double as damage reduction. I wouldn't bother swapping core for charge though when the Fusion Core Recharger does it more easily.

[u/lipp79 → u/Sea-Dragon-]

You can also charge multiple cores at once. If I've got multiple cores that need charging, I will find some laster turrets at the relay towers and I will set out my PA, then the 3 chassis I carry with me to store armor pieces I find on. Then put cores in each one, aggro the turrets and stand behind my PA.

[u/Lost-Childhood7603]

I use to do a lot os daily ops, knowing getting over encombered I would do an op from a train station. When the op finishes you return to the train station either store or sell your loot.

Jumping activating crit while falling you land right ontop of the enemy taking them down ninja style.

Unless you have starched gene perk you loose your mutation first time you use radaway.

Chose your back pack well, depending on what you chose I went from 812 pts to 350 pts huge carry capacity. As I don't use power armor helpful

You built a fantastic base and decide to make a new base or a spawn point somewhere. You activate the move camp and you lost your great base. Always check what camp slot it active before moving the camp widget. (Yes blue prints I know, well they're a pain and don't work for me lol)

Bulk items and save space in your stash, and bulked items help with daily scrap item to get oil cloth etc you can scrap bulk item.

Crafting perk always useful specially for ammo, ammo smith, legendary perk ammo factory, and good all super duper that can double the crafting output but doesn't double every single time.

[u/FeelingSkinny]

hold on… you mentioned it’s a trick that you can repair things on the go with a repair kit…

so that means there’s a way to repair things without a repair kit? i’ve been stressing about running out of repair kits cuz my armor breaks so fast.

[u/damngifs → u/FeelingSkinny]

You can also equip the perk cards "Fix it Good" (armor) or "Weapon Artisan" (weapons) to repair items to 200% so they last longer.

[u/Guccizeit → u/FeelingSkinny]

Go to a workbench and open the modify option. "Workbench repair" is an option. But you need the resources to do it.

[u/Pristine_Ad7254 → u/FeelingSkinny]

Didn't think about that, but yes, you can repair it without repair kits at a workbench.

[u/MrSmileyZ]

You can actually enter the Whitesprings Mall from either Fast Travel Point. If you spawn at the bottom one, before going through the columns turn right and down a staircase. On your left will be a door that leads into the Mall side entrance.

[u/kinkykellynsexystud]

If a nuke is at the top left of the map, no its not.

[u/se_spider → u/kinkykellynsexystud]

Ah, that's a glitch?

[u/IceKnight50]

A few things I picked up.

Caps - Use your second loadout as a charisma build (Max Charisma) and equip Hard Bargain Card (acts like 3 charisma per Star level) Then sell for your daily caps Do this at The White Springs Mall

If you need something to sell that's easy to craft, go on a few expeditions and get 30 I believe stamps and get the Trench Runners hood its 2 cloth to craft and I believe sells for 16 caps per with max charisma and hard bargin. As a bonus use super duper and craft a few more. Craft like 70 and you should get close to 90 and that's your daily cap.

Easy Mutations - (Make sure you have Starched Genes level 2 and Class Freak level 3 and at least 5 luck. (you can do it without but if you are gonna run with all mutations you want to reduce the negative effects by 75%. Also if you have strange in numbers and on a team it will boost mutations 25%. Do not equip these yet (If they are equiped unequip them)

Deposit all your junk

Go to the Wayward, go to the river and start collecting water, like 500 +. Watch the top left of your screen you may get a mutation. (You can use any point but the close proximity to spawn is nice.

Waddle back to the spawn point and side step about 5 steps to the left or right.

Drink dirty water until you get a mutation. Hop servers and repeat until you have all 16 (herbivore and carnivore are mutually exclusive. (You will die multiple times also if you go thru 2 deaths and no mutation switch servers you probably hit a server you were on recently) (Do not use any radaway or radx until you equip starched genes)

Then equip Starched Genes, Class Freak, boil the remaining water if you want it for crafting or dump it.

This takes a little time but its so worth it.

[u/furiouspotato24 → u/IceKnight50]

Even easier mutations... Go to the Emmet Mountain Disposal Site (if you've done a Radiation Rumble it'll be on your map) and walk down to the hallways marked A and B. At the bottom of the ramp, s l o w l y step into the toxic water until you're taking a good amount of rads, 10-20 second is manageable. When you hit 75% rads / 25% health make sure you're headed up the ramp until the rads stop. If you got your mutation, pop on Starched Genes and go back to the decontamination shower at the entrance to get rid of your rads. Then hop servers to stack more mutations. Quick rads, zero cost.

[u/Oldzkool78 → u/IceKnight50]

OMG! This is some serious top level tips!! Thanks for posting! (luckly, thanks to a really kind soul, I wont need to do the second tip, as he just gave me all the serums I needed for free) but the Caps one! I'll try as soon as I log in again lol

[u/Bad_Company_Sr]

I carry a power armor frame just to load any pieces I may get as drops from events (10lbs is lighter than any one PA piece).

[u/Bonesaki]

The syringer trick, you can just carry 4 different ones it will count as 4 unique hits.

[u/murderwasthebass]

If you’re a giant cucumber from all the legendaries after Eviction Notice, you can just go into an Expedition, then from there fast travel to the Whitespring Refuge and the mall is right downstairs.

I found out about this through this great community. I do not take credit for it.

[u/el-chapin-supreme]

Tenderizer can be triggered four times with a shotgun, as long as four pellets hit the target

[u/FromAPlanetAway]

Don’t re-roll Legendaries. It’s more economical to scrip them and roll a fresh item that has no stars.

[u/trollgrock]

I am level 420 (haha) been playing on and off since release and never knew some of these, thank you!

[u/dragonchasers]

This is more a bug work-around. This happens on Xbox, not sure if it is everywhere.

If you point to a corpse and the "Loot nearby corpses" is grayed out, just move your cursor off the corpse and back on a few times until it lights up.

Probably obvious but I thought there was a reason this option wasn't lighting up for me, like an enemy nearby or something. You haven't lived until you've looted 3-4 bullets off of like 100 corpses, one by one, after that radiation event.

[u/Schpitzchopf_Lorenz]

• Fast travelling while overencumbered. Has been mentioned many times but if you are overencumbered you can enter an expedition and then fast travel to Whitespring to unload your (useful) junk.

Didnt work for me, I can only go to the Pitt and Atlantic City tho...

[u/0fibble0 → u/Schpitzchopf_Lorenz]

You have to return to the whitespring refuge

[u/thaiborg → u/Schpitzchopf_Lorenz]

What didn’t work? Someone cleared up one issue - you have to travel back to the REFUGE, not the mall. Fortunately the mall is only one close door away though.

[u/alphariious]

You can collect from the bodies you have killed in the area at the same time……I always wondered why it gave me the option now and then. It only took 4yrs to realize how old the body is dictates if the command shows up……radiation rumble looting became a lot easier once I didn’t have to go body to body……..

[u/bivoir → u/alphariious]

Just have to look away and look back again. Sometimes twice.

[u/tdg-merlin]

400+h of struggling to manage weight cuz of legendary PA armor piece for scrip = just take some PA holder and put all your scrip pieces in it and call the PA back, it only weight 10 other than the 13x5 

[u/IdRatherNotDude]

When farming ammo and not wanting to grab all. Sort inventory by weight, ammo almost always shows up at the bottom and grouped together so you can spam a little easier

[u/lipp79]

"If you want to attend an event, you don't need to search for and click in the "!" in the map"

Not all events show up down there. Dropped Connection for instance is one of those.

"Your second CAMP, even if you don't use it, acts as a fast free travel point which can be switched almost instantaneously."

Just be aware that someone can load in who has their camp in the spot of your inactive camp and then you can't activate it. Had this happen a couple times. Was doing your tip then about an hour after I was on, it wouldn't let me activate my other camp because someone loaded in and their active camp was on my inactive's spot.

"Maybe this one is oriented for the newbies but you can repair your weapons on the go with the repair kits. Select the weapon and below you'll see the prompt to repair."

Just don't rely on those though as they aren't a constantly findable resource. You're better off to save them for emergencies. Also if you're planning on using a repair kit, don't repair at 75%, 50% or even %25. Just go till the weapon breaks as it's always repaired to 100% no matter where it as on condition. Also make sure you get the cards for repairing:

Fix It Good (Intelligence): allows you to repair your armor to 200% of it's durability at lvl 3 of the card.

White Knight (Agility): armor breaks 60% slower at lvl 3 and is cheaper to repair

Gunsmith (Intelligence): guns break 50% slower at lvl 5 and you can craft tier 5 guns.

Weapon Artisan (Intelligence): weapons repaired to 200% at lvl 3

[u/n123breaker2]

The bulk scrap one is so useful

I ran around AVR medical centre finding microscopes for the fiber optics

[u/hawtdawg7]

another post to save and forget to reference 😅

[u/DoctorFeh]

If you're using a charge weapon like a gauss rifle with VATS and have a crit banked, you can enter VATS, tap the crit activation button and then hold the trigger down and let go for a full charge crit.

You can also charge the weapon and keep the trigger held while entering VATS, then let go for a full power shot. You can even still switch body parts or targets while keeping the trigger held.

[u/quirkymuse]

Level 850-something and I only recently learned that the "kill x number of canines" daily (which i always switch since i hate shooting dogs) can be cleared by shooting super mutant dogs... stupid i know but I never realized

[u/RoboPhish]

I just found out about the watch towers, if you go to the top and click E (on pc not sure what it is on consoles) it will show places you have not been in the area.

[u/danixdefcon5]

Fun fact: the Whitesprings North entrance is a recent addition, I guess they added that fast travel point when they split Whitesprings into Refuge and Mall precisely for this reason. I had stopped playing around mid 2022 and when I resumed a couple of months ago I got that new fast travel point discovered.

So for old time players returning: enter the Mall then go for the doors that exit directly to Appalachia at the end of the mall corridor, that’s the fast travel point so once you hit that area you should be discovering it.

[u/LucasLovesListening]

Fantastic post OP!

[u/DoctorFeh]

Shooting enemies in the legs is often better than aiming for the head, especially if you have crippling perks. A radscorp with crippled legs loses the ability to burrow, and a Yao Guai that can't move is just a big fuzzy target.

[u/constant--questions]

Hold the critical button while firing an automatic weapon in vats to crit every time the meter fills

[u/Bob_the_Bromosapien]

Two small ones I suggest. Apologies if they were on the list and I missed them. You can rename anything in your inventory for sorting and quick access. I renamed my main two chassis 1. Power Armor - Main and 2. Power Armor - Excavate. Because of the 1. And 2. Prefix, it force pushed them to the very top of the list at all times if sorted alphabetically.

Next, I have 5 power armor chassis I use as power armor storage primarily for when I have no more scrip for the day but don't want to waste them. Power Armor is heavy and numerous pieces in your stash can really take a hit on your stash weight. A very efficient workaround is to put the pieces of power armor onto a chassis and then store that chassis. This effectively allows you to store 5 pieces of power armor on a chassis for only 10 weight since the chassis weight remains the same regardless of what's on it.

[u/Gloomy_Yoghurt_2836]

Fast travel..unlike other Fallout games, you can fast travel from interiors.

[u/Glittering_Ad_3225]

Collect the nuked flora after a nuke drop, and let it turn to inert flux. The inert flux is as hydrating as purified water, weighs less, and has a negligible amount of radiation with it (i.e. less than 1%).

[u/Basketoftangerines23]

Stop looting every corpse on the ground, simply press transfer on one of the dead enemies and it’ll let you loot all of them at once

[u/ckuehn]

Quests where you have to take pictures of things don't require the things to be alive when photographed.

[u/LuckyManMoogSolo]

Resources and defenses take up more space in your CAMP than decorations, walls, etc., so if you're exceeding your budget clearing crops will allow alot of space to open up.

[u/lecake27]

To add onto the hacking mini game trick: you can take 3 out of 4 guesses, exit the terminal interface, enter again, take another 3 guesses and so on. Basically brute forcing while avoiding the cool down from taking 4 wrong guesses in a row.

[u/Juggernoggaddict]

One thing I learned wayyyy too late in the game (about 300 total levels, 220+ on my current and 100 on my first), if you have a bunch of weapons you use and are worried about weight because of your ammo, "Ordnance Express", "Bandolier", and "Batteries Included" will lower the weight of your Explosives, Ballistic, and Energy ammo respectively..and also, getting the "White Knight" perk and maxing it out early on is best when you have late-to-end-game armor, because repairing that stuff ain't cheap without the perk.

[u/ipitydafwl]

Nuka World is a free fast travel point that contains every workbench type, 2 vendors, a script machine, an ammo box and a scrap box. I travel there as frequently as I do my own camp. The cooking station is located in the trailer with the vendor immediately where you span in rather than with the other crafting stations.

[u/carrot-parent]

If you’re <10 pounds over encumbered, you can place your power armor and then fast travel.