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Season 20: Glow of the Ghoul
Let’s ghoulify Appalachia.
Season 20: Glow of the Ghoul starts March 18, timed perfectly to arrive with Ghoul Within, Fallout’s next major update, which is bringing all the Vault-dweller ghouls to the Wasteland.
Glow of the Ghoul is all about the Ghouls. This theme is for the mutated, the irradiated, the glowing and the feral of the wasteland. Even if you’re not going the way of the ghoul, be sure to decorate your C.A.M.P. in the most radiation-ridden and dilapidated way to make all your ghoulfriends feel at home. Toxic waste looks good in any C.A.M.P.
We've got the trailer for the upcoming season below:
What’s coming up in Glow of the Ghoul? Here’s the season calendar:
Ghoulish Rewards
On March 18, when both Season 20 and Ghoul Within are live, you will be able to turn into a ghoul. But wait, there’s more than just looking irradiated to being a ghoul. You’ll also want to remodel your C.A.M.P. and give it the gooey radiation-y vibe that every wasteland palace deserves.
By the way, if you don’t have a current Fallout 1st Membership, you can always get a Seasons Pass for access to Fallout 1st rewards.
Getting ready to transform into a ghoul? Check out our Official Guide to Being a Ghoul, featuring a welcome video by T0nik.
Remember, Glow of the Ghoul begins March 18 alongside the next major update, Ghoul Within.
Fasnacht Event - 2025
You know what that means: It’s time to don ye festive Fasnacht masks and parade through the streets of Helvetia. Fasnacht runs from February 18 to March 4.
At the top of the hour, every hour, the Fasnacht public event will pop up on your map. Navigate your way to Helvetia and speak to the Master of Ceremonies—the Mister Handy-in-charge.
With your fellow Wastelanders, complete any tasks assigned to you by the Protectrons. You’ll do everything from save the bees to play instruments or add wood to the bonfire. Once five robots are ready to go, the parade will kick off.
Your next job is to be the security detail for the bots as they celebrate. Completing the event will earn you the “Masked” prefix for your character title, a chance at the “Glowing” prefix, net you a Fasnacht mask and other flowery rewards.
New Masks and Rewards
Pictured above are three new Glowing Fasnacht masks. From left to right, we have Big Foot; the famous horned rabbit, also known as the Jackalope; all the way to Veggie Man.
For your C.A.M.P.s, you can earn flower and plant box decorations that are sure to delight your guests. This Jackalope-masked Wastelander is fond of the Rhododendron Flower Boxes. You can also earn Soot Flower, Aster, Mutated Fern and Ash Rose Boxes. All these decorative C.A.M.P. flower boxes also come in Flowering versions that feature fluttering butterflies.
The Science of Love Challenge Event
Love is an uncomplicated emotion that is always predictable and quantifiable. And yet, somehow, blinding. This February, learn everything there is to know about that famous chemical reaction called love.
The Science of Love is a new Seasonal Challenge Event that begins on February 4 at 12PM ET and runs until February 18 at 12PM ET. Over the two weeks that The Science of Love is active, you’ll complete Challenges to earn S.C.O.R.E. and some handy consumables like Lunchboxes, Perk Card Packs and Basic Repair Kits. Because you, Wastelander, are studying to be a Doctor of Love, you must wear the Head Mirror Headwear while you are completing challenges—you can pick that up in the Atomic Shop for free.
Each week, you’ll be collecting your instruments, preparing your materials and killing a bunch of Ghouls, Super Mutants and Robots. Complete the Daily Challenges from the first week and you’ll earn the fuchsia Dopamine Wallpaper that features the molecular structure of Dopamine, which is exactly one half of the formula for love. If you look at the reward for the second week of Challenges, the Study of Love Chalkboard, you’ll find the completed formula for love.
After two weeks, you’ll know so much about love (Oxytocin + Dopamine), that you’ll earn the Pink Heart Light, so you can shine a spotlight on your heart’s desire in your C.A.M.P.
Study the following formula to complete the event and earn your Pink Heart Light:
Formula: The Science of Love
- In week one, complete 5 of 7 Daily Challenges wearing the Head Mirror Headwear to earn consumables. (This will complete the Weekly Challenge.)
- Earn the Dopamine Wallpaper!
- In week two, repeat Step 1.
- Earn the Study of Love Chalkboard!
- Successfully complete both Weekly Challenges and you’ll have completed the event, The Science of Love!
The reward for all your hard work? The Pink Heart Light!
Double SCORE Weekend Event
Fallout 76 Update Notes – January 21, 2025
Read on for a full list of patch notes.
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Armor
- T-65 Tricentennial Paint now correctly states it works with the T-65 armor set.
Best Builds
- Fixed an issue where Liking or Unliking a Best Build would cause inconsistent text for the button.
C.A.M.P. and Workshops
- Improved Pet spawns so they would no longer get stuck at the border of camps.
- The vertical spacing between C.A.M.P. slots in the menu have been decreased appropriately.
- Fixed an issue preventing the Plastiform Blue Star from being built in camp.
- Fixed the Build menu icon for the Winter Retreat.
- Fixed the Build Menu icon for the Mounted Jackalope Head.
- Adjusted collision on the Winter Retreat.
- Fixed the build limit for Billboards.
- Fixed an abrupt transition when moving out of snow aurora weather.
- All instances of the Gleaming Depths Shelter are now consistently named.
- Counterfeit Bottle Cap Machine will now correctly generate Lead and Aluminum.
- Counterfeit Bottle Cap Machine no longer shares a build limit with campfires.
- Fixed an issue where some players could no longer build the Moe the Mole Safety Cutout despite knowing the plan.
Dev Note: If you have not learned the recipe for the Mole Safety Cutout, it can be earned as a reward from Dangerous Pastimes.
Creatures
- Scorchbeast and Scorchbeast Queen no longer continuously fire their sonic blast attack.
Events
- During Seismic Activity, if the corpse of the Ultracite Titan remains from a previous run, it will now despawn before the next run.
- Plastiform rewards now correctly display "Activate" instead of "Use".
- Fixed an issue causing Super Mutants to drop more caps than expected.
Gleaming Depths
- Mothman is no longer whispering in the Gleaming Depths.
- The electricity hazard on top of the EN06 Guardian's platform will now become active sooner.
- Vulcan Research Lab health and progress bars are now localized.
- The electric field in the ENO6 Guardian fight has been expanded to cover the intended range on the guardian’s platform.
- Fixed an issue where the Epsilon Squad Trophy wasn't being granted to players who completed the fight under the required time limit.
We are still investigating reports of performance issues within The Gleaming Depths raid. Thank you all so much for all your reports so far!
Items
- Added Mutation Suppression to the effect descriptions for Rad-X and Rad-X Diluted.
Dev Note: The Mutation Suppression description was added to the Rad-X Diluted by mistake. Rad-X Diluted does not suppress mutations and we will remove the Mutation Suppression description from it in the next patch. Sorry for any confusion!
Quests
- The Ol' Weston Shuffle: Fixed an issue that would prevent Johnny from shooting at the end of the quest.
- Hunter for Hire: Fixed an issue where Roper and Jacky were unresponsive to quest actions.
- Novice of Mysteries: Fixed a rare case where the quest could get stuck.
Weapons
- Fixed Cauterizer displaying static VFX when on a weapon rack.
- Adjusted the smoke effects of the Gauss Minigun.
- Revolutionary Sword now uses the correct melee weapon icon in the weapon wheel.
- Fixed an issue where colored baseball bats would not display their correct textures.
- The Description of the Lickety-Split weapon now correctly states that "Railway Spikes Shatter & Ricochet for up to 30 Damage".
Miscellaneous Fixes
- "Mute Pings" and "Unmute Pings" are now localized.
- Fixed an issue where some players were unable to earn the Player Title "Vault" and "Dweller" despite completing vault 76.
- Supplies will correctly display in the Pip-Boy Currencies tab.
- Owned Nuclear Winter Player Icons will now appear again in the Atomic Shop.
- Fixed an issue which could cause V.A.T.S. firing to be misaligned on some ultrawide screens.
- Screen narration accessibility setting will now display correctly in all languages.
- The Motorized Butter Churn will now be found in the "Resources" tab of the workshop menu.
- Season Booster widget will now correctly display boosters carried over from the previous season.
- In the social menu there should no longer be a blue “shadow” being cast on the text of player names who are online.
- Fixed inconsistent capitalization in some legendary effect descriptions.
- Fixed a typo in the Golden Enclave Officer Outfit.
- Player Titles will no longer obscure the player's face from a distance.
- Removed extra word "Outfit" from the name of Grim Reaper Outfit and Headwear.
- Nuka-World On Tour's "Bottle Blaster" game now correctly calculates the Nuka-cade points earned.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Splash informational screen to not display correctly when launching the game on Xbox.
- Fixed an issue causing Mutated Party Packs to not drop after completing the mutated version of Safe and Sound
Mods
- Updated the description for the One-Star "Bolstering" mod to correctly state that it "“Grants up to +35 Energy Resistance and Damage Resistance, the Lower Your Health. Currently +0” (Currently + will display the current value applicable for that player).
- Improved descriptions on the barrel mods for the Karma Syringer.
- Fixed an issue with duplicate text in many legendary effect descriptions.
- Electrician's Four-Star mod now correctly persists after the player dies.
Perks
- Legendary Charisma now counts towards the Perk Sharing requirement.
- When attempting to share a Perk Card you do not meet Charisma requirements for, the required Charisma is now shown.
UI
- Four-Star Legendary flyouts will now display the correct mod and appear and disappear appropriately.
- Some Lunchbox effects now provide more informative descriptions in the Pip-Boy.
- Improved maximum quantity behavior on purchase window.
- Fixed an issue which could cause some UI overlap when viewing Item Statistics or Camp slots.
- Pip-Boy no longer shows 3D renderings of items after a list becomes empty.
- Updated UI of Ammo Per Shot to show currently instanced weapon rather than default weapon value.
- Fixed an issue which would cause the first letter to not display in the disclaimers for AP and Carry Weight Boosters.
An Update on the Holiday Scorched Event
We wanted to give you a quick update on the status of the Holiday Scorched event.
As a response to reports from players that they were not receiving gifts, we increased the spawn rate of the Festive Scorched so that players would receive more Legendary loot.
Unfortunately, this increase of spawn rate had adverse effects on other parts of the game. Earlier today we reverted the spawn rate of the Festive Scorched back to normal.
Due to the Holiday Scorched event not providing enough gifts, we have decided to deactivate the event starting tomorrow, December 19 @ 12 PM ET. Please use this time today to wrap up any remaining challenges you may have.
That being said, the holiday festivities will not be STOPPED!
Santatron will remain available, and gift wrap will still be purchasable at train station vendors. Also, starting tomorrow at 12 PM ET, you will be able to claim a stack of Gift Wrap once per day from the Atomic Shop (until January 2).
You will receive one of the following stacks per day:
- 20 Low Quality Gift Wrap
- 15 Medium Quality Gift Wrap
- 10 High Quality Gift Wrap
(A note for the super punctual: Claiming the gift at the same time each day may result in you getting an error message. If that appears, please wait to claim the gift again after an hour has passed.)
Don’t let the holiday spirit end just because the Festive Scorched aren’t around. Claim these gift wraps and start crafting those presents. While our greatest present is you, your greatest present could be one that you crafted yourself (or given to you by a kind Level 1243 dweller dressed in a fancy suit)!
As always, thank you all for your patience and we hope you have an amazing holiday season.
Holiday Scorched Event
Starting today, December 17, and ending January 2, listen for the jingle jangle of the merry music that announces the arrival of the Legendary Holiday Scorched. You’ll also know them by their eye-catching festive outfits, so when you spot them, make it your mission to spread holiday cheer by mowing them down.
Once dead, these holiday ghouls drop new gift-wrapped rewards!
During the Holiday Scorched event, if you purchase wrapping paper from Vendor bots, you can craft your own presents at a Tinker’s Workbench. Get wrapping!
You can also send your Santatron Collectron out into the wilds to gather presents. The Santatron will be free in the Atomic Shop until January 2.
Pictured here, next to this happy, costumed Appalachian elf, are the life-size Plastiform Candy Canes and Plastiform Stars that come in a variety of bright colors. You can also earn these delightful hanging Plastiform Ornaments in red and blue. Hang your rewards about your C.A.M.P. to celebrate this holiday season!
Thank You, Vault Dwellers!
Attention Appalachian Adventurers,
Fallout 76 celebrated its sixth anniversary just last month!
We’ll say it a bit louder for those in the back… we’ve had six amazing years of Fallout 76, and we’re only just getting started! Before we look ahead towards the megaton of exciting content on the horizon, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on how far this game has come.
Since Fallout 76’s launch, we’ve had more than 50 major patches featuring over 20 milestone updates – and it’s all been free to existing Fallout 76 players!
Besides all this awesome content, I’d like to focus on the specific beats that served to progress the story of our Appalachia. I’ve always viewed these tent pole updates as chapters in Fallout 76’s story and, as such, think of our timeline like this:
Freshly awakened vault dwellers left the cozy confines of Vault 76 to brave the Appalachian wilderness, which beckoned them to explore its rolling hills, dark caves and learn of its former inhabitants long lost to time.
A year and a half later, members of the Foundation and members of the Raiders are drawn to this region from neighboring territories and begin to stake their claims within Appalachia.
In the Fall of 2020, in search of strategically beneficial technologies, the Brotherhood of Steel finished their trek to Appalachia. That story arc concluded with the second part of that chapter, Steel Reign, coming out less than a year later.
Players got the call to help settlements beyond the rolling hills of Appalachia in the Fall of 2022. In Fallout 76’s first off-map expedition mission, Appalachians traveled to The Pitt and, only a year later, Atlantic City.
The Summer of 2024: After several years of consistent nuclear bombardment, the Appalachian map mutated, and a new region, Skyline Valley, opened to the south. Players learned about a mysterious faction of ghouls called the Lost, and came under the employ of the Blue Ridge Caravan Company, running perilous routes along Skyline Drive Valley in Milepost Zero.
This October, we honored Fallout Day with our very first broadcast and celebrated our amazing community with the dedicated folks over at Fallout for Hope – who raised over $15,000 for St. Jude’s Research Hospital during the post-show.
While you’re perusing this letter, dear reader, our fellow “wasteland warriors” are enjoying the final update of 2024 and braving Gleaming Depths.
The gates of Hell have opened - as if the wasteland itself wasn’t bad enough already - offering our seasoned adventurers significantly greater challenges, along with the mightiest rewards and wasteland riches for those who live to tell the tale. Gleaming Depths is a first of its kind experience for any Fallout game; a true raid experience which serves as the introduction of the highly anticipated Four-Star Legendary weapons, armor and power armor.
While traipsing along them country roads, we’ve met over 21 million vault dwellers who bravely emerged from Vault 76.
That must be a huge vault!
Walk with us, dear reader, along this undiscovered road and cast your gaze towards the horizon for a glimpse of what’s coming to Fallout 76 over the next year.
For the first time in any Fallout game players can turn their character into a ghoul. Players who become ghouls will have chosen a life path full of challenges, but one equally ripe with potential. While ghouls suffer no ill effects from radiation exposure… be careful to not turn feral!
Smooth skin is overrated anyhow, don’t you think?
This highly anticipated Ghoul update comes to Appalachia in early 2025.
Then, when Spring fills the air, and the hills of Appalachia are in full bloom, flowers won’t be all that’s blossoming. Brave floriculturists, get out your weed killer and help a fellow green thumb, or they’ll be pushing up daisies. In 2025, we’ll be introducing an exciting new Spring-themed Seasonal Event: The Big Bloom! Jump in to earn a rich bouquet of new event-themed rewards and grow plenty of new wasteland friendships along the way.
And what would a Summer be without grabbing a fishing pole and heading down to your favorite radioactive watering hole? No need to worry about finding out because fishing is coming to the wasteland this Summer and is angling to reel-in our esteemed adventurers, collectors and traveling trawlers alike.
It all starts at a mysterious location where players encounter a fisherman who has decided to set up camp and share their love for fishing to one and all… or so it seems. This strange merchant will sell our players everything they need to catch any of the slimy, scaled swimmers found in all bodies of water across Appalachia. Sharpen those hooks! We’ll be eating well!
Later in the year, Mischief Night is set to make a triumphant return. This seasonal event offers players a fun spectacle full of spooks, scares, and mischief! In fact, Mischief Night encourages mischief. Who would’ve thought!
And what good are all the tricks without some treats? Mischief Night also offers a huge assortment of new rewards for your characters and your C.A.M.P.s. Thank you to everyone who helped test this feature on our public test servers earlier this year.
In addition to the exciting features touched on above, your favorite seasonal events will keep popping at a steady clip, including Fasnacht, Mothman Equinox and Meat Week. So, keep an eye out for more rewards to earn for your characters and C.A.M.P.s!
As we introduce even harder challenges, we will continue to present possible alternate playstyles through the introduction of new Perk Cards for our humans and ghouls alike!
We will also continue to make improvements to the core game—improvements that affect overall performance, visuals and gameplay, not to mention a complete revamp of the workshop C.A.M.P. build menu to make it easier for our builders to navigate. Stay tuned for even more exciting news later in 2025.
Wait, did you think I would disclose everything in this letter? We must leave some room for surprises too! 2025 is shaping up to be a helluva year!
From everyone at Bethesda Games Studios, thank you all for the continued support and enthusiasm. Bethesda Games Studios has the best community in gaming!
Happy Holidays, and enjoy this fun graphic celebrating you, the Vault Dwellers,
Jon Rush
Bill LaCoste
P.S. - Beware of “The Drifter.”
Fallout 76: The Gleaming Depths Release Notes
Today’s update represents the largest change to Fallout 76 endgame experience yet.
Gather your friends and enter the Gleaming Depths for a whole new challenge and to earn the long-awaited 4-Star Legendary Weapons, Armor, and Mods. Or head to your C.A.M.P. and welcome a fuzzy friend into your space with the new C.A.M.P. Pets feature.
There’s also a host of Perk Card and combat related balance changes to get into, so let’s get started.
The Gleaming Depths Release Notes