Butcher's Bill is a Railroad side quest in Fallout 4.
Quick walkthrough[]
Railroad side quest: Butcher's Bill | |||||||||||||||||||||
Talk to Doctor Carrington | |||||||||||||||||||||
Travel to the designated dead drop. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Collect the Augusta report from the dead drop and listen to it. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Travel to Kendall Hospital. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Explore the hospital to find the Augusta station last update. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Backtrack to the entrance and exit the building. | Drop to the bottom of the large final room and flip the circuit breaker. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Kill the deathclaw. | Evade the deathclaw. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Report back to Doctor Carrington. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Reward: 300 XP 150 caps | |||||||||||||||||||||
Leads to: Butcher's Bill 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Detailed walkthrough[]
After the Sole Survivor has completed Boston After Dark, Carrington will mention his concerns about two Railroad safehouses who were attacked at the same time as the attack on the Switchboard but whose current status has yet to be confirmed. He asks the Sole Survivor to look into the current status of Augusta Safehouse.
The details of Augusta's location are contained in a dead drop which will be marked on the map. The dead drop's location varies and is determined by the radiant quest system. Travel to the dead drop, take the holotape from the marked container, and listen to it to learn that Augusta Safehouse is located at Kendall Hospital.
Travel to the hospital and explore the building to find a holotape containing the safehouse's last report. From the entrance, travel upwards until an elevator is reached. Take the elevator which will lead to a large, open room with makeshift walkways and wooden structures built around its perimeter. Once in this room, travel downwards using the walkways and stairs towards the quest marker. The holotape is in a desk, two floors down from where the large room is entered.
After collecting the holotape, exit the building and report back to Carrington at Railroad HQ to complete the quest.
The player character can exit the building by retracing their steps and exiting from the door where they entered. Alternatively, they can drop down to the bottom of the large room where the Augusta holotape is located, flip the circuit breaker in the southeastern corner, and exit from there. There is a deathclaw hiding at the bottom of this room which will attack the Sole Survivor on sight - it may either be outrun or defeated.
After completing this quest, Butcher's Bill 2 will be unlocked, and may be started upon returning to the Railroad HQ at a later time. If it is available, Drummer Boy should approach the player character and tell them that Carrington is looking for them again.
Quest stages[]
Notes[]
Despite the fact that all living occupants are raiders, only a few dead synths can be found, and the presence of numerous Railroad corpses desecrated in a typical raider fashion, the Sole Survivor will claim the safehouse was destroyed by The Institute.
Bugs[]
The dead drop may not appear at the noted location. [verified]
- The most likely cause of this is another Railroad quest that uses dead drops initializing, picking the same drop, and then disabling it to stop the player from progressing the quest out of order.
- Solution: Progress through Railroad missions until given the quest which has disabled the dead drop. It will point to the same drop location.
- The bug can be fixed via console commands on PC:
- Add the note found in the dead drop: player.additem 00189B38 1.
- Set the current objective as complete: setobjectivecompleted 000B1F1D 100 1.
- Advance the quest to the next objective: setstage 000B1F1D 200.
- The bug can be avoided by not fast traveling and going out the escape way mentioned by the doctor.
- The easiest solution is to load a previous save before accepting the mission and try again.