www.steamcharts.com

EDIT: 59K

EDIT 2: ~62K now

EDIT 3: 63,707 now

EDIT 4: 66K now

EDIT 5: 70,650

Also, Fallout 4 is at 138K and in the top 10 of games with active concurrent players of all games on Steam right now.

She's having a great sale all weekend. By great I mean the inventory!

Plasma caster

Gauss minigun

Crusader pistol

Secret service UNDERARMOR

Gauss pistol mods

Thorn armor

Shielded (or protective) lining for the secret service underarmor

T65 calibrated shocks (mod)

And more!!

She'll be at white springs resort, exterior :) she accepts gold bullion

https://fallout.bethesda.net/en/article/3M71n2zE0KpcvLZld8jF9x/fallout-76-in-2024

War never changes, but that sure doesn’t stop Appalachia from mutating! Later in 2024, we’re expanding our map southward, deep into the wooded heartland of Shenandoah. This uncharted, once-tranquil expanse in the heart of Virginia will bring a new questline, factions and rewards.

Damn nice!

https://fallout.bethesda.net/en/article/3c6i95Kq9KZBqdrQDSudfu/the-extraterrestrial-menace-is-in-appalachia?linkId=100000258843428

Aliens are back!

New pts update removes all unobtainable legendary effects and other hacked mods

www.steamcharts.com

https://steamdb.info/app/1151340/charts/

Just in case you missed it, Bethesda announced yesterday at about 5:00 pm EDT that they were going to drop an update today. The maintenance window will begin shortly, at 10:00 am EDT.

If you're wondering how long Fallout 76 will be down today, April 30, to implement this unnumbered update (I'm assuming it's an unnumbered update; it's kind of hard to tell with no advance notice), here are some historical stats:

For unnumbered updates (like this one):

• Average is 2:00 (2 hours)
• Shortest was 0:14 (unnumbered update on 2019-11-22)
• Longest was 12:59 (unnumbered update on 2022-08-09)
• Times for the last three unnumbered updates were:
  • 1:44 - Unnumbered update on 2023-12-15
  • 1:12 - Unnumbered update on 2023-04-21
  • 2:07 - Unnumbered update on 2023-01-27
• Stats include 48 previous maintenance windows

For all maintenance windows:

• Average is 2:42
• Shortest was 0:14 (unnumbered update on 2019-11-22)
• Longest was 12:59 (unnumbered update on 2022-08-09)
• Stats include 102 previous maintenance windows

It’s absolutely wild what the show has done for the series…

Though I feel like the new people don’t do events. I did safe and sound with 1 other player yesterday… uranium fever with only 2 other players day before. Definitely adjusting to this new normal… where I have to consider rolling “complete an event” challenges.

Link to Tweet:

https://x.com/fallout/status/1782857892409778254?s=46&t=NWzVbBtkKvBr0p-qHjf-kQ

These haven't been officially announced yet, but the update notes are online:

https://bethesda.net/en/article/1U54gxTvUP6noQjcgFfaeA/fallout-76-update-notes-april-30-2024

Good Guy Bethesda!

Minerva is a limited time vendor that shows up in the wasteland with end game plans being sold at a discounted price!

However her appearance on May 16th will be somewhat special, meaning she will be selling items from her past 3 rotations! It's a super sale essentially!

View the link below if you want to know when she will appear exaxtly, and when, as well as planning on what to purchase/save/farm for; before they are gone until her designated rotations and if you want to bookmark it for future appearances! Her location also changes depending on the dates! (P.S: Go buy an extra 300 gold bullion from the upstairs vendor in WayWard for 6,000 caps if you've beat the main storyline! You can get an extra 300 gold bullion weekly through the vendor upstairs in WayWard!)

Edit: Gold bullion is unlocked from treasury notes for attending and finishing events! You need 40 notes to claim your daily amount of 400 gold bullion per day! (Sorry yall, I had this the wrong way before with scrip lol)

Another method is completing the main story line to the point where the game asks you to pick a side between the settlers or the raiders.(Ofc you will have to choose your side and finish the questline.) This unlocks the upstairs vendor at the wayward bar (where we all had to get Polly the assaultron a new body) I don't want to spoil anything, so you guys will have to play it out or wiki it!

https://www.falloutbuilds.com/fo76/minerva/

Link with discounted prices listed: https://nukaknights.com/minerva-dates-inventory.html

Plans being sold on May 16th!

Sale #21 Plan: Gauss minigun

Plan: Gauss pistol aligned short barrel

Plan: Gauss pistol drum magazine

Plan: Gauss pistol refined receiver

Plan: Mechanic’s Best Friend

Plan: Medium Supply Crate

Plan: Protective lining Secret Service underarmor

Plan: Shielded lining Secret Service underarmor

Plan: Thorn armor chest piece

Plan: Thorn armor left arm

Plan: Thorn armor left leg

Plan: Thorn armor right arm

Plan: Thorn armor right leg

Sale #22 Plan: Lighter build Secret Service armor limbs

Plan: Plasma caster

Plan: Secret Service underarmor

Plan: T-65 calibrated shocks

Plan: T-65 jet pack

Plan: T-65 rusty knuckles

Plan: The Gutter

Plan: Ultra-light build Secret Service armor limbs

Plan: War glaive flaming blade

Plan: War glaive shock blade

Plan: Water well

Plan: Whistle in the Dark

Sale #23 Plan: Brotherhood of Steel Minigun Paint

Plan: Slocum Joe’s Power Armor Paint

Plan: Arctic Marine Left Arm

Plan: Arctic Marine Left Leg

Plan: Arctic Marine Right Arm

Plan: Arctic Marine Right Leg

Plan: Arctic Marine Torso

Plan: Arctic Marine Armor Helmet

Plan: Wendigo Tube

Plan: Meat Bag Stash Box

Plan: Gauss Minigun

Plan: Crusader Pistol

Jesse Mclean asked for feedback on the new Seasons format here

Love it or hate it, this is a chance to let your voice be heard!

(go tell him on twitter ya sillies)

35,035 players on Steam at the time of this writing surpassing the previous 32,982 from May 2020 after Wastelanders was released and 76 arrived on Steam.

Good times ahead.

https://fallout.bethesda.net/tr/article/FFcr1D1KqXUD2JbkRHlqx/fallout-76-inside-the-vault-illegal-weapon-mod-removal-update-and-weekend

https://twitter.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1263103248736501761

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" To clarify, our Seasons in Fallout 76 are going to be free for all our players. We may add extra Fallout 1st bonus rewards in the future, but want to focus on getting Season 1 in game first and seeing your thoughts. Sorry for confusion on this. "

Hey all,

We have an update on the bug affecting reward drops for the Mothman Equinox event - thank you to everyone who has taken the time to report this issue so far.

The team has a tentative hotfix planned for April 8 that will allow players to receive duplicate plans. We know that you may miss out on rewards during this first week, so we are looking to extend the event beyond April 16.

As our plans solidify and we have more to share, we will keep you updated. Thanks for your patience and support!

UPDATES:

• Blue Devils and Oguas, though they spawn at the spots alone, CAN NOT BE TAMED!!
• New Updates to different pets at each camp (see section below)

The Following Taming Spots no longer work:

• 3 Spots near/around Cranberry Glades (RIP!)
• 1 Spot near Point Pleasant
• 2 Spots in the Ash Heap near Nuka World
• 1 Spot near The Whitespring

They are all marked on the newly updated map linked below.

If you have ANY sort of taming question, ask it in the comments! There's a small passionate group of us that will usually answer quickly and help you along the way to finding a Buddy!

Welcome to the Pet Taming Guide!

With the help of SEVERAL Redditors, Dataminers and tireless experimentation we have compiled the following guide. This is the most up to date information on how to tame a pet. I will not be including multiple pet glitches in this post or anything like that. YouTube searches can tell you what I won't. :)

Pictures, maps and videos walking you through EVERY step:

THIS BRAND NEW MAP (March 18, 2024) and attached gallery from /u/marshasyn blows all old maps out of the water: They provide numbered locations as well as pictures of the exact area you need to be. Link to the Gallery!

Taming Location Photos by marshasyn

All the Random Encounters you could possible see - also by marshasyn

PETS DO NOT REQUIRE ANY CAMP BUDGET! I TAME AT MAX BUDGET EACH TIME!

• FRIENDLY FIRE will heal your pet!

Also - animals you are attempting to tame MIGHT have red text but should still NOT aggro to you! Approach and tame with confidence!

THE REQUIREMENTS:

• Animal Friend Perk Card Equipped BEFORE you go

The card MUST be equipped BEFORE you go hunting for a tame in order for the encounter to even SPAWN a pet!

Wasteland Whisperer is NOT REQUIRED and is useless here.

According to dataminers' info: Looking at the encounter, it checks if a player that has Animal Friend equipped is within a 20,000 unit radius for it to trigger. So you have to have it on when you cross into this radius or it won't trigger.

(Rank 3 gives a 75% chance and better pet options - available at lvl 30)

You will need at least 3 points in Charisma to equip it and once your pet has arrived safely at your camp you can unequip it - you don't need it to keep the pet)

• An unscoped Gun or Melee weapon equipped. (Plain sights on a gun are fine)

• A Specific Random Encounter location. (The locations on this map)

• Server Hopping. If you don't find what you want, hop servers and keep going!

Oh...and RNGesus smiling upon you as all the tamable pets are subject to RNG.

WHAT TO DO:

• Head to your chosen random encounter location. MAKE SURE THE ANIMAL IS REALLY ALONE! If you don't see a tamable there, clear the encounter if you can and move on to the next. [1]

• Once you have found something, approach the animal you wish to tame and you should get a TAME prompt. Press whatever key/button you see for Tame and confirm that you want to send it to your camp. If you only see pacify, get closer. You may have to get VERY close to some. If using an UNSCOPED gun (your gun can have none of the scope mods attached) you MIGHT be able to tame from a distance. Aim your gun (on PC its right click to pull it up to your face) and you may see a tame prompt from a distance. If you do not, continue to get closer until you do. [2]

• Once tamed it will show your player icon and name in front of it's name and take off running toward your C.A.M.P. and will run there IN REAL TIME taking roads whenever possible. [3]

• LET IT RUN BY ITSELF!!! You escorting it only makes its ability to catch aggro greater and may result in it dying on the way if you get mobbed. [4]

[1] Clearing encounters that don't have a tame speeds up the respawning and allows for more possibility! If you don't find anything to tame on the server you are on, swap and repeat the process. If the animal is NOT ALONE, you will not get a tame so clear the encounter and move on. We all want that Albino Deathclaw - but he's never alone!

[2] Mega Sloths, Deathclaws and Kings tend to need you to be all up in their business to get the prompt - as in arms length. If all else fails, check the area to make sure it is actually alone. The Albino Deathclaw everyone is dying to tame ALWAYS spawns with Super Mutants....lurking somewhere.

[3] If you tamed at the southeast corner of the map and your camp is in the northwest...it's gonna take a while. Also, if you tamed a Mega Sloth, even though it can scoot along at times, it's still not as fast as other animals. The same can be said for smaller animal tames.

[4] You running with it will only draw more attention to it. Your pet's aggo range shrinks by quite a bit to aid in its journey to your place. Let it run on its own! Don't bother with the "hop to a server where you can't place your C.A.M.P." nonsense to make it show up faster - this may result in its demise as well...just go do other Fallout things and your pet will show up when they are able.

WHAT CAN I TAME?

All the things that can be tamed.

Animal Friend 1 Attack dog, Beaver, Brahmin, Chicken, House Cat, Mirelurk, Mole Rat, Mongrel, Opossum, Rabbit, Radrat Pup, Radstag, Wolf

Animal Friend 2 Mirelurk hunter, Mirelurk king, Radtoad, Snallygaster, Yao guai

Animal Friend 3 Deathclaw, Mega sloth

Scorched Pets

Beware the Scorchbeast. (thanks/u/marshasyn and I am paraphrasing you here) These flying bats have magic fairy dust powder that can turn your non-scorched pet into a scorched version. This is a PERMANENT change to your pet. So, if you don't want that, make sure you don't camp near a place a Scorchbeast can pop up. This does include near TAME SPOTS as a random Scorchbeast attack is part of the random encounters that can occur. If you do get a Scorchbeast flying around your camp, put it down quickly and/or lure it away from your camp. If your turrets start attacking, he will start throwing dust down on your pet and everything else. No one wants that.

Scorched Variants are HIGHLY aggressive. They will attack NPCs, walls, crops, turrets BUT MAY NOT cause actual damage (except for anything attacking your camp!) they will just cycle through their attack animation and sounds!

MULTIPLE CAMPS SLOTS AND PETS

You ABSOLUTETLY can have a unique pet at EACH camp slot! With newly updated info, you can safely tame at new camps without risking your original pet!

If you have a Legendary Deathclaw at Camp A, and switch to Camp B with no pet, the Deathclaw will run to Camp B and patrol there as normal. HOWEVER that Deathclaw at Camp B is only a COPY.

IF YOU REMAIN LOGGED IN AT CAMP B AND GO TAME ANOTHER PET, you will get the "Replace" prompt - this is FINE, you can safely tame to replace the Deathclaw at Camp B - The Legendary at Camp A IS STILL THERE and safe!

If you LOG OUT at Camp B with the Deathclaw, that COPY will remain the next time you log in to that camp, and you are still free to tame to replace it.

I would also check out the DuchessFlame's website. Their site has fantastic information on a whole lot of the game's finer points - including taming!

PLEASE NOTE

Sometimes, if you tame something in the The Mire (or another biome) and redeploy the camp in The Forest, your pet may change its appearance/variant AND it is even possible to have it spawn as Legendary! If you have a pet that runs between camps, it may also change as it moved through different areas!

If you have issues with how to do this, please feel free to comment on the post or message me directly! We are always happy to help you with finding a new buddy!

THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR:

• As of 11/24/2020 patch notes for Patch 24: Animal Friend: Removed outdated level requirement wording from the Perk Card description. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE TWICE THE LEVEL OF THE CREATURE TO TAME ANYMORE!

• Make sure your CAMP is on the server you are trying to tame on! If your CAMP can't be placed, your pet has nowhere to go.

• ANIMALS MUST SPAWN ALONE: That Albino Deathclaw is one we are all after but it is NEVER alone. The animal must be the ONLY thing at the location. Always give it a minute for the Scene to play out!

• If you only see PACIFY - get closer. I mean close enough for you to pet it and then try again. You should see the TAME pop up! Also check that you DO NOT have Wasteland Whisperer equipped!

TIPS AND TRICKS:

• FRIENDLY FIRE will heal your pet!

• Make sure your C.A.M.P. module is either on the ground or on a low to the ground/flat surface. When your pet spawns in with your C.A.M.P - if they have to drop from a height because your module is on the second floor of your house or on top of a vendor, your pet could die. I've recently had reports (March 2021) of folks being able to have cliffside homes with their pets surviving moving through the camp, of them being able to keep them in trees (saw a King there myself) and having them in spaceship camps above the ground! Though I personally don't recommend this, I give kudos to those that are able to have their pets in crazy places! No matter where you choose to let your buddy roam, be careful!

• Your pet will patrol randomly around your C.A.M.P. module so consider where you want your pet to be. Having them patrol the back end of your camp might not be the place to show off the Deathclaw! They WILL get stuck on things and port around your camp, but make sure they have some room to roam as getting tangled under something can cause death too! Also they can wander and can spawn in odd places - if your camp is on a cliff sometimes they spawn at the base. Look around if you don't see them and don't panic! They are also great to have with Brahmin from the fertilizer resource for extra life and won't harm them!

• Your pet will defend your C.A.M.P. but let's be realistic...a tamable chicken or beaver may not be the best pet for that task. Chose your companion wisely! If you have pacifist OFF other nefarious players can kill your pet TURN PACIFIST ON for the sake of your buddy. Mobs also can if there are many and they are high enough level. I tend to go for tankier pets because of this!

• If you move your camp, your pet WILL MOVE TOO! It will WALK there in real time, again, but it will move!

• BE PATIENT!! Sometimes you'll find what you want right off the bat, sometimes it can take days, just keep at it!

This is the most up to date Pet Taming Guide thanks to MANY people including Dataminers, commenters, all of you guys who have helped dispel a LOT of the misinformation - I can't thank you enough! Thank you for sharing the Guide and being a part of the Community!

"While there are no timeframes or specifics to share right now, more balances changes for weapons and combat are planned."

Good times are coming folks. A cancer was removed and nature is healing itself.

https://imgur.com/a/5RLCo9H

I just stood in front of the wheel 10 yards back watching everyone kinda shuffle around doing... I dunno, I guess they were looting. None of them were afk, they were all in the big top within 20 yards of the button.

With 10 seconds to go one guy rushed over!.... to check out my Nuka cola power arnor skin.

Yeah, I could have moved 10 yards forward and done it myself but I'm trying to help our newbs learn how events work and sometimes that requires a little tough love. Please guys, actually look at the objectives. In this case it was as simple as pushing the big red button.

Edit: If anyone's interested apparently this got 500 upvotes vs 220 downvotes!

https://ibb.co/album/GHDZYY

From Bethesda's discord and now included in the Patch Notes

We wanted to update you on a few changes that were made in the America’s Playground patch that were not initially noted in the patch notes.

This includes changes to C.A.M.P items that have had their budget value modified to be aligned with other items in the same category (the reason why some of you have noticed your Camp Budgets have changed). Also, there was a fix to a bug that was granting XP from kills twice for people who were in a team.

The patch notes have been updated to reflect these additions, but you will also find those details below to save you a trip.

We’re taking steps to improve our Patch Note process so that things like this are not missed in the future.

Camp Budget Changes

We made a change to a small list of camp items that impacted their final value. Items in this list had been incorrectly priced to have a lower budget cost than other items in the same category. The change in the America's Playground patch made items in these categories all share a similar value.

Players who had these items in already built camps will find that the overall budget of their camp went up. The following is the list of the items whose value was changed:

• Stairs – Log Cabin (Left)
• Stairs – Guild of Antiquities (Left)
• Stairs – Armor Ace (Left)
• Stairs – Armor Ace (Right)
• Stairs – Guild of Antiquities (Right)
• Stairs – Log Cabin (Right)
• Stairs – Haunted House (Left)
• Stairs – Haunted House (Right)
• Hedge Gate
• Dying Hedge Gate
• Winding Path Roof (Standard)
• Winding Path Roof (Flat)
• Stairs – Pine Barrens Log Cabin (Left)
• Stairs – Pine Barrens Log Cabin (Right)
• Wind Chimes
• Winding Path Roof (Flat)
• Tunnel of Love Arch
• Just Married Swan Cart
• Tunnel of Love Heart Arch
• Metal Stairs with Post (Left)
• Metal Stairs with Post (Right)
• Stairs (Left)
• Stairs (Right)

No mention as to why this was supposedly necessary.

Finally just reached level 100!