Ecological Balance

“Study the environment for possible Scorched contamination.”

Daily: Ecological Balance is a daily quest in Fallout 76.

Quick walkthrough

Daily quest: Ecological Balance



Find the holotape Message for Jeff in the trailer at Tygart water treatment



Access the entry Date Night? in Messages on Amy Kerry's terminal



Take Amy's note from her corpse at Cow Spots Creamery.



Access the entry Environmental Monitoring Program on Amy's terminal.



Retrieve the water data holotape from the water sensor.



Retrieve the soil data holotape from the soil sensor.



Retrieve the air data holotape from the air sensor



Access the upload data entries on Amy's terminal and select Begin Data Processing.



Reward: ???



Completed.

Detailed walkthrough

A woman named Amy Kerry was monitoring the environment for changes brought on by the Scorched. To continue her work, the player can retrieve holotapes from environmental sensors and then upload the data to her terminal, which contains a program to analyze the data. The locations of the holotapes change every time a player character logs in while the quest is active.

Find the holotape Message for Jeff in the trailer at Tygart water treatment.
Access the entry Date Night? in Messages on Amy Kerry's terminal.
Take Amy's note from her corpse at Cow Spots Creamery.
Access the entry Environmental Monitoring Program on Amy's terminal.
Retrieve the water data holotape from the water sensor.
Retrieve the soil data holotape from the soil sensor.
Retrieve the air data holotape from the air sensor.
Access the upload data entries on Amy's terminal and select Begin Data Processing.

Data terminal locations

The locations of the data terminals will vary, but these are some of the known locations:

Water sensor - 0001C587	Soil sensor - 0002677D	Air sensor - 0002683A
Overseer's camp - In the river, immediately to the north. Hillfolk Hotdogs - In the river to the northeast, southwest of the Sunshine Meadows industrial farm. Morgantown - South of the town, at the intersection of two waterways on the map. It is near a farm along the highway. Poseidon power substation PX-02 - West of the substation, in the river as it approaches the Tygart water treatment. Kanawha Nuka-Cola plant - In the river to the south, beneath the bridge leading away from the plant. Gorge junkyard - In the river to the south. Grafton Dam - In the creek below the dam, facing Morgantown.	Anchor farm - Northwest of the farm, at the unmarked safecracker's shack. Arktos Pharma - Immediately south of the building. Deathclaw Island - Behind the large tree in front of the deathclaw nest, near a safe. Tyler County Fairgrounds - East of the fairgrounds, on a cliff near the large billboard sign repurposed as a camp. The Crosshair - In the wilderness to the southwest. Morgantown Station - In the wilderness to the west. Groves family cabin - Outside of a cabin, next to a twin bed. Wade Airport - Directly north of the airport, near the traffic control tower, next to the barbed-wire fencing, to the right of the northern airstrip. Marigold Pavilion - Directly north of the pavilion, on a cliff.	Becker Farm - South of the farm, at a small cliff-side camp with an awning, on a cliff overlooking the camp. Camp Adams lookout - At the top of the tower, in the bottom right corner. Cobbleton farm - On the balcony of the second floor of the shack. Darling sister's lab - Against the shack with the safe inside. New River Gorge ropes course - On the roof of a pavilion overlooking the Green Country Lodge. Tyler County Fairgrounds - On a cliff, to the east. Transmission station 1AT-U03 - Exterior, against the wall to the right of the front door. Point Pleasant - On top of the south bridge, on the left. Landview Lighthouse - At the top of the lighthouse. Tyler County Dirt Track - On top of the announcer's booth.

Quest stages

Quest stages
Stage	Status	Description	Log Entry
?		Investigate the trailer	I discovered a trailer at Tygart Water Treatment that appears to have been occupied not long ago. I should take a closer look.
?		Listen to the "Message for Jeff" holotape
?		Learn Amy Kerry's location.	While investigation a trailer at Tygart Water Treatment, I found a holotape made by a woman who was in hiding. She claimed to have a password for her terminal. If I can find out where she went, I can learn about the work she was doing.
?		Retrieve Amy's terminal password	While investigating a trailer at Tygart Water Treatment, I found a holotape made by a woman who was in hiding. She claimed to have a password for her terminal. If I can find out where she went, I can learn about the work she was doing.
?		Access the Environmental Monitoring Program	While investigating a trailer at Tygart Water Treatment, I found a holotape made by a woman who was working on an environmental monitoring program.
?		Collect a Water Data Holotape	At Tygart Water Treatment, I discovered the work of a woman who was studying the environment for Scorched contamination. To gather the data for her project, I need to retrieve holotapes from air, water, and soil sensors, and then upload the data to her terminal.
?		Establish a device link with the terminal
?		Collect a Water Data Holotape
?		Collect a Soil Data Holotape
?		Collect an Air Data Holotape
?		Upload the water data
?		Upload the soil data
?		Upload the air data
?		Process the sensor data	I learned that a woman named Amy Kerry was monitoring the environment for changes brought on by the Scorched. To continue her work, I retrieved holotapes from environmental sensors and then uploaded the data to her terminal, which contains a program to analyze the data.

Notes

After completing the quest for the first time, repeat attempts start with collecting the data holotapes and delivering them to Amy's terminal to upload and process the data, saving some time due to the data collectors being linked to the player character's Pip-Boy 2000 Mark VI.

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