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Duck and Cover! is a skill book in Fallout 3.

Characteristics[]

Reading a copy will permanently increase the player character's Explosives skill by 1 (or 2 with Comprehension).

Locations[]

Collected? Closest map marker Image Location description

Alexandria Arms
Duck and Cover Alexandria Arms
On the first floor, southern-most part of the building; on a bookshelf next to a fire hose box

Charnel house
Charnel House Duck and Cover
Second floor of the ruined house, across the plank bridge

The Citadel
Duck and Cover! Citadel lab
In the Citadel laboratory, in the restrooms in a wooden crate inside one of the stalls

Deathclaw sanctuary
Deathclaw Sanctuary Duck and Cover!
Outside the entrance in a locked footlocker

Dukov's Place
Duck and Cover! festive raider camp
To the south, close to the river, on a small table in a raider compound near the coast

Evergreen Mills
Duck and Cover! Evergreen Mills foundry
Foundry: Lying next to a dead body on the ledge above the broken terminal off the ground. To reach it, you must jump off the stairs to the ledge.

F. Scott Key Trail & Campground
Duck 'n cover scott
On a picnic table

Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro
DuckAndCover FCMasonDM
In a ticket booth hidden behind a barricade near the glowing ones. This book only spawns when one reaches level 9.

Fort Constantine
Launch Control bunker Duck and Cover!
On a desk in the Launch Control Bunker. Can only be accessed Ted Strayer's special key.

Germantown Police HQ
Duck and Cover! Germantown Paradise Falls
Approximately ten yards south from the entrance to the fence maze outside of Germantown Police HQ, there is a destroyed road. Following that road south will lead to an intersection by two ruined houses. Then follow the road west for a little while and you will see a house. Look on the bookshelf.

Hamilton's hideaway
Duck and Cover! Hamilton's hideaway
In the raider's lair on the counter by some cherry bombs and a bottle of Nuka-Cola Quantum

Jocko's Pop & Gas stop
Duck and Cover! Signal Sierra Victor
In the Signal Sierra Victor drainage chamber to the east of the activating antenna mast

Monorail train wreckage
Duck and Cover! monorail train wreckage
Next to the bathtub, on the ground

Museum of Technology
Super mutant bunker, Duck and Cover
To the north, inside the super mutant bunker on a desk

National Archives
Duck and Cover! National Archives
Lower level in the northwest corner, in a room full of bookshelves. It is sitting on top of a school desk next to a pair of missiles

National Archives (basement)
Duck and Cover! National Archives sub-basement
Sub-basement in the generator room behind a Very Hard locked gate

National Guard depot
Fo3 NG depot oversized D&C
Depot Offices, on a long, wooden table near a pocket of radiation on the third floor (only one; other added to show the difference in size)

Old Olney
Old Olney - Duck and Cover
In the Olney sewers, at the end of a rocky tunnel next to a skeleton

Red Racer factory
FO3 Skillbooks Scavengers bridge
Outside, to the north northeast, at the scavenger's bridge. It is on a shelf together with copies of Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual and Grognak the Barbarian. Must be stolen.

SatCom Array NW-07c
Duck and Cover! Array, Power Station
Just to the north of the Exploding scientist truck, down in the valley next to a few car wrecks. It's on the ground next to a skeleton and an ammunition box and two Average locked grenade boxes.

Shacktown
Wasteland gypsy village Duck and Cover!
Southeastern shack with the pile of skeletal remains. Behind the turned over table next to the mini nuke.

Springvale school
DuckAndCover SpringvaleSchool
On the upper floor, next to the active computer terminal past the locked library doors

Super-Duper Mart
Duck and Cover! Super Duper Mart
To the north, in a camp under a bridge. There is a landmine at the opening of the camp that will blow the book away and potentially cause it to glitch into the wall disappearing.

Tenpenny Tower
Duck and Cover! Warrington ruined house
Just west of the tower, towards Warrington trainyard, in a completely destroyed house on top of a shelf. This is just northeast of the mostly intact house.

Vault 92
Vault 92 log3 and DC
In the Overseer's office, on a shelf

Notes[]

The skill book located in the National Guard depot is noticeably bigger than the standard version.

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