Fallout 3 quests

This page lists all quests in Fallout 3.

The content is not described in full detail on this page. For details, please see the respective articles.
For quests in other Fallout games, please see "Quest".
For an overview of Fallout 3 content, please refer to "Portal:Fallout 3."

General information[]

Every quest that appears in your Pip-Boy grants an achievement (on Xbox 360 and PC) or a trophy (on PlayStation 3) upon completion in base game only. Unmarked quests do not provide achievements/trophies. Side quests in Point Lookout and Broken Steel do not provide achievements/trophies either.

Most of the quests in Fallout 3 either involve or can be completed with a combat situation (e.g. killing Vance and The Family in Blood Ties).

There are 59 quests (main, side and repeatable) in the base game. The 5 add-ons provide for a further 35, which makes the total 94 quests.

Base game[]

Tutorial quests[]

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Quest ID
Baby Steps	Vault 101	Dad	The ability to add 5 points to your SPECIAL stats.	00014E83
Growing Up Fast	Vault 101	Overseer	Pip-Boy 3000, Grognak the Barbarian, BB gun, 50 BBs	00014E84
Future Imperfect	Vault 101	Dad	Tagging 3 skills	00014E85

Main quests[]

Main quests with names in italics can be skipped through a speech check. This is one of two ways to skip Galaxy News Radio (other than through unintentional glitches), the second way to skip through Galaxy News Radio is by going directly to Rivet City, Rescue from Paradise can also be skipped through use of Child at Heart to convince Robert MacCready to let the player character into Little Lamplight. Both quests can then be completed as a side quest at any time.

All quests up to Tranquility Lane can be skipped by finding and entering Vault 112. Doing so may cause some bugs and glitches. Another way is to glitch your way into the Citadel and find the Vault Locations Computer in the A ring. Doing so will skip you to the Picking Up the Trail quest and may cause a very large number of glitches.

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Quest ID
Escape!	Vault 101	Amata	Access to the Wasteland Good Karma (if the player saved Ellen DeLoria) and Tunnel Snake outfit (received from Butch if the player saved his mother) 200 XP	00014E86
Following in His Footsteps	Megaton	After completing Escape!	Clue to Dad's location. 300 XP	00014E87
Galaxy News Radio	Galaxy News Radio Museum of Technology Washington Monument	Three Dog	400 XP Clue to Dad's location or key for weapon stash¨ Increased range for Galaxy News Radio	00022486
Scientific Pursuits	Rivet City	Three Dog Doctor Li	500 XP Clue to Dad's location	00014E89
Tranquility Lane	Vault 112	Robobrain in Vault 112	600 XP Reunion with Dad	00014E8A
The Waters of Life	Jefferson Memorial	Dad	700 XP Access to the Citadel Access to Power Armor Training	00014E8B
Picking Up the Trail	Citadel Little Lamplight	Elder Lyons	800 XP The location of all vaults	00014E8C
Rescue from Paradise	Little Lamplight Paradise Falls	Mayor MacCready Sammy	900 XP Access to Little Lamplight	00014E8D
Finding the Garden of Eden	Vault 87 Raven Rock	Scribe Rothchild	1000 XP Access to Raven Rock	00014E8E
The American Dream	Raven Rock Citadel	President Eden	1100 XP Power armor and Power helmet or recon armor and Recon helmet	00014E8F
Take it Back!	Citadel Jefferson Memorial	Elder Lyons	End game (unless Broken Steel is installed) 1200 XP	00014E91
Project Impurity	Jefferson Memorial	President Eden	End game (unless Broken Steel is installed) -1000 Karma	00014E93

Side quests[]

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Quest ID
Agatha's Song	Agatha's house	Agatha	Agatha's Station or evil Karma Blackhawk or Good Karma (optional)	00014EA4
Big Trouble in Big Town	Big Town	Anyone in Big Town	300 XP Access to medical supplies and Lucky 8-ball 200-500 caps	00014E94
Blood Ties	Megaton Arefu Meresti Metro station	Lucy West Evan King	300 XP Schematics - Shishkebab Hematophage (optional)	00014E9C
Head of State	Temple of the Union Lincoln Memorial	Hannibal Hamlin	Schematics - dart gun 300-400 XP	00014E99
Oasis	Oasis	Harold	Barkskin or Linden's Outcast power armor and Poplar's hood or missile launcher and Maple's garb	0002A274
Reilly's Rangers	Underworld	Reilly or by tuning into the Ranger emergency frequency	Ranger battle armor or Eugene	00014EA5
Stealing Independence	Rivet City National Archives Arlington Library	Abraham Washington Sydney	400 caps and Schematics - railway rifle or Evil Karma	00014EA2
Strictly Business	Paradise Falls	Grouse	250 caps for each of the 4 targets Evil Karma	00014EA0
Tenpenny Tower	Tenpenny Tower	Gustavo Roy Phillips	500 caps and 10mm SMG or 700 caps and Chinese assault rifle or ghoul mask	00014E9F
The Nuka-Cola Challenge	Girdershade	Sierra Petrovita	1200 caps and Schematics - Nuka grenade or 2400 caps	00014E98
The Power of the Atom	Megaton Tenpenny Tower	Lucas Simms Mister Burke	My Megaton house and 100-500 caps and good Karma or Tenpenny Tower suite, 500-1000 caps and evil Karma	00014E9E
The Replicated Man	Rivet City	Dr. Zimmer	50 caps or A3-21's plasma rifle and/or Wired Reflexes	00014E9B
The Superhuman Gambit	Canterbury Commons	Uncle Roe	200-600 caps and Ant's Sting or 200-600 caps and Protectron's Gaze	00014E95
Wasteland Survival Guide	Megaton Underworld	Moira Brown	Wasteland Survival Guide, Survival Expert and various smaller rewards or Dream Crusher and evil Karma	00014E96
Those!	Grayditch	Bryan Wilks	Ant Might and Lesko's lab coat (optional) or Ant Sight and Lesko's lab coat (optional)	00014E97
Trouble on the Homefront	Vault 101	Vault 101 distress signal	Modified utility jumpsuit or 10 Cram	00014EA3
You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head	Underworld	Mister Crowley	400 caps and/or T-51b power armor	00014EA1

Unmarked quests[]

Aside from the major quests listed above, there are a number of minor ones that are not listed as quests in your Pip-Boy. They don't count as achievements or trophies either.

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Quest ID
300 Pieces of Silver	Megaton Springvale	Silver Colin Moriarty	Karma (good or bad) Moriarty friendly	-
A Manhandled Manservant	Rockopolis	Argyle's corpse	Key to Herbert Dashwood's safe	-
A Nice Day for a Right Wedding	Rivet City	Angela Staley	Good Karma	-
Happy Birthday to You	Little Lamplight	Sticky	Party hat	-
Council Seat	Rivet City	Bannon	Schematics - deathclaw gauntlet Shop discount Shop price increase	-
Economics of Violence	Paradise Falls	Pronto	20% discount at Lock and Load Better shop inventory	-
Election Day	Republic of Dave	Dave	25 caps	-
Gallows Humor	Citadel	Paladin Kodiak	1000 caps	-
Grady's Package	Marigold station	Grady's corpse	Naughty nightwear	-
Hired Help	The Ninth Circle, Underworld	Ahzrukhal	Charon as a companion	-
Jiggs' Loot	Museum of Technology	Prime (via terminal)	500 caps Xuanlong assault rifle	-
Just for the Taste of It	Nuka-Cola plant, Red Racer factory	Winger Mercier's corpse	250-400 caps	-
Keller Family Refuge	Capital Wasteland	A Keller family transcript	Experimental MIRV 5 mini nukes Random loot	-
Leo's Drug Habit	Megaton	Doc Church Mister Burke	Good or evil Karma Medical supplies XP	-
Lincoln's Profit Margins	Museum of History	Abraham Washington Hannibal Hamlin Leroy Walker	Caps	-
Merchant Empire	Canterbury Commons	Uncle Roe	Improved inventories and repair abilities for caravan merchants Crow's eyebot helmet mini nuke stimpaks Stealth Boys	-
Our Little Secret	Andale	Old Man Harris	Good Karma some loot	-
Searching for Cheryl	L'Enfant South	Finding the burial mound	Mini nuke various loot	-
Slave Hunt	Rivet City	Mei Wong	Evil or good Karma and location of the Temple of the Union	-
The Kid-Kidnapper	Paradise Falls	Eulogy Jones	Boogeyman's hood	-
The Lost Initiate	Falls Church	Paladin Hoss	250 XP and 100 caps or 250 XP and good Karma	-
Treatment	Megaton	Walter	XP and caps or XP and good Karma	-
Overdose	Rivet City	Paulie Cantelli	Negative Karma	-

Repeatable quests[]

Some characters want specific items. These can be repeatedly given for XP, caps, or Karma.

Icon	Name	Location(s)	Given by	Traded items		Quest ID
Icon	Name	Location(s)	Given by	Bring	Receive	Quest ID
	Church Donations	Megaton, Rivet City	Confessor Cromwell Father Clifford	10, 50, or 100 caps	1 point of good Karma for each cap donated	-
	Collecting Holotags	Citadel	Scribe Jameson	Brotherhood of Steel holotag	100 caps and 25 XP	-
	Fungus Deal	Little Lamplight	Lucy, Eclair	Buffout, Strange Meat	Cave Fungus	-
	Geomapping with Reilly	Ranger Compound	Reilly	Pip-Boy 3000 locations	30 caps per location	-
	I Want to Drink Your Blood	Meresti Metro station	Vance	Blood pack	15 caps	-
	Mississippi Quantum Pie	Girdershade	Sierra Petrovita	Nuka-Cola Quantum, Vodka, Flour	Mississippi Quantum pie	-
	Murphy's Bombing Run	Northwest Seneca Station	Murphy	Sugar Bombs	15 caps per box, 30 with persuasion; eventually he will sell ultrajet to you (one per 8 boxes).	-
	Nectar Collecting for Fun and Profit	Grayditch	Doctor Lesko	Fire ant nectar	40 caps per sample	-
	Ryan Brigg's Wonder Meat	Jury St. station	Wonder meat maker	Mole rat meat, wonderglue	Mole rat wonder meat	-
	Strictly Profitable	Paradise Falls	Grouse	Slaves	Caps	-
	The Outcast Collection Agent	Fort Independence	Protector Casdin	Power armor, scrap metal, Energy Weapons, sensor module. Protector Casdin however will not buy Brotherhood armor.	5.56mm rounds, frag grenades, RadAway or stimpaks. Access to Fort Independence.	-
	This Old House	Underworld	Winthrop	Scrap metal	Trade 5 pieces of scrap metal for a stimpak, Rad-X, or RadAway	-
	Walter's Scrap Metal	Megaton	Walter	Scrap metal	10 caps, XP, or good Karma	-
	Water Beggars	Outside Megaton Outside Rivet City Outside Tenpenny Tower	Micky Carlos Willy	Purified water, Aqua Pura(Broken Steel)	Good Karma	-
	Yearning for Learning	Arlington Library	Scribe Yearling	pre-War book	100 caps, 10 XP	-
	Zip's Nuka Fix	Little Lamplight	Zip	Nuka-Cola	Various items	-