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Feral ghouls are creatures found in Appalachia.
Contents
- 1 Background
- 2 Characteristics
- 3 Variants
- 3.1 Weak feral ghoul
- 3.2 Feral ghoul
- 3.3 Feral ghoul stalker
- 3.4 Feral ghoul reaver
- 3.5 Withered feral ghoul
- 3.6 Gangrenous feral ghoul
- 3.7 Rotting feral ghoul
- 3.8 Charred feral ghoul
- 3.9 Decaying feral ghoul
- 3.10 Blighted feral ghoul
- 3.11 Putrid feral ghoul
- 3.12 Deadly feral ghoul
- 3.13 Strangler feral ghoul
- 3.14 Feral ghoul officer
- 3.15 Cut
- 4 Glowing ones
- 5 Locations
- 6 Notable feral ghouls
- 7 Related quests
- 8 Notes
- 9 Appearances
- 10 Gallery
Background
Feral ghouls are found all over Appalachia, and are hostile to the Vault Dweller. They wear distinguishable clothing such as work clothes, police uniforms, and professional wear rather than just indeterminate rags. Some feral ghouls have area-dependent apparel, such as feral ghouls wearing golf outfits at the Whitespring Resort. Unlike the Scorched, which have retained greater cerebral functions and motor skills, feral ghouls are unable to use weapons due to the loss of mental and motor functions associated with their feral state.
Characteristics
Biology
Feral ghouls were formerly humans who suffered mutations due to radiation, including brain decay, resulting in complete loss of reason due to diminished mental functions. Their skin is slightly decomposed and their hair has almost disappeared. They live in groups wandering in nature or human infrastructures in search of future prey, whether human or animal, to feed on their flesh. It is rare to see ghouls wandering alone and the presence of a single ghoul is a sign of the presence of other ghouls in the vicinity. Sometimes a group of ghouls can be accompanied by a wendigo. The ghouls are friendly to the wendigos and show no sign of aggression towards them.
Ghouls have a natural resilience to the Scorched Plague.
Gameplay attributes
Feral ghouls will attack most other creatures they encounter, with the exception of wendigos. They will attack charging and striking their opponents. Their attacks are always accompanied by radiation damage, with glowing ones inflicting increased radioactive damage. Withered, gangrenous and diseased (
) feral ghouls will also deal poison damage. All ghouls have a flat 15% chance to transmit rad worms to the player character on-hit.
- Unarmed:
7 - 180 - Radiation: 3 - 110
- Poison: 1 per second ( 5 sec)
Ghouls often prepare their attacks by advancing slowly towards their opponent before running very quickly (often faster than the player character) and throwing themselves at their target in an exaggerated lunge. When adjacent, ghouls will perform a single and multi slap attacks. If downed by a multi slap, the remaining slaps will execute them.
Variants
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Weak feral ghoul
These are the weakest variant of feral ghoul, hence the name, and are commonly found around other ferals.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Weak feral ghoul 000758AD |
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Feral ghoul
A standard feral ghoul, they can be found in big numbers in towns and are always in groups.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Feral ghoul 003ADDF4 |
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| Feral ghoul roamer 0011669D |
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Feral ghoul Back on the Beat |
Feral ghoul stalker
A stronger variant of the feral ghoul usually encountered in a pack.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Feral ghoul stalker 00165790 |
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| Feral ghoul stalker (golfer) 0042D362 |
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Feral ghoul reaver
A strong variant of the feral ghoul, having metal armor over their clothes. They are usually found among packs of weaker ferals.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Feral ghoul reaver 0007ED09 |
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| Feral ghoul reaver (golfer) 0042D363 |
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Withered feral ghoul
An older feral ghoul, they are stronger than most. They do not have any armor or clothing.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Withered feral ghoul 0007ED09 |
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| Withered feral ghoul (golfer) 0042D364 |
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Gangrenous feral ghoul
A powerful type of feral ghoul, they can poison the player character upon a successful hit and have a greenish skin tone. They are mostly found at higher levels.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Gangrenous feral ghoul 0011669E |
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| Gangrenous feral ghoul (golfer) 0042D365 |
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Rotting feral ghoul
These powerful yet disgusting feral ghouls have both rotting flesh and improved statistics from its predecessors.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Rotting feral ghoul 0007ED09 | |||
| Rotting feral ghoul (golfer) 0042D366 |
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Charred feral ghoul
A powerful ghoul variant found commonly at the Whitespring, the Mire, and the Cranberry Bog. They are usually in small groups but can have weaker ghouls alongside them. They are easily identified by their dark, bulbous, and naked appearance. They can deal high damage and radiation damage with their strikes, quickly triggering mutations.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Charred feral ghoul 001166A0 |
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| Charred feral ghoul (golfer) 0042D367 |
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Decaying feral ghoul
Blighted feral ghoul
Putrid feral ghoul
Deadly feral ghoul
Strangler feral ghoul
Only appears during the Heart of the Swamp public event. Powerful variants of the feral ghoul called as reinforcements for the strangler heart. Each regular non-glowing feral ghoul variant has a corresponding strangler variant with the same stats, abilities, and items.
Feral ghoul officer
Feral ghoul officers were once high-ranking officers in the United States Armed Forces, responsible for carrying one of eight launch code keys needed to launch a nuke from Appalachia's nuclear missile silos. They can be identified by unique radio packs on their back, emitting both red light and a high pitched tone that sound off in a regular sequence. They may also carry a nuclear keycard. Each regular non-glowing feral ghoul variant has a corresponding officer variant with the same stats, abilities, and items.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Feral ghoul officer ???????? |
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Cut
- Fog ghoul
- Vault 76 exit ambush
Glowing ones
- Irradiated feral ghoul - Radiation Rumble only. Nameplate override of any glowing one.
Glowing one
A highly irradiated variant of the feral ghoul. They can be found as a boss at the end of ghoul-infested buildings and give off high amounts of radiation.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Glowing one 00020BCC |
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Putrid glowing one
A higher-level version of glowing one, covered in glowing green blisters of radiation.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Putrid glowing one 0016669F |
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Bloated glowing one
One of the strongest variants of the feral ghoul. They are found as an end boss in ruins and also appear after a nuke lands in a ghoul infested area (i.e. Morgantown, the Whitespring, etc). They give off a radiation aura and are usually in groups.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Bloated glowing one 000A0EEE |
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Reeking glowing one
They are identical in appearance to bloated glowing ones.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Reeking glowing one 003F3E04 |
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Corroded glowing one
They are identical in appearance to bloated glowing ones.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Corroded glowing one 003F3E05 |
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Deadly glowing one
The deadly glowing one has the same stats as the corroded glowing one and is one of the strongest variants of the feral ghoul.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Deadly glowing one 003F3E06 |
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Locations
- Often found at random encounter hotspots.
- Some feral ghouls occupy the camp areas of Flatwoods and the Red Rocket station.
- Feral ghouls can be found inside of the Vault-Tec Agricultural Research Center to the west of Flatwoods.
- Feral ghouls occupy the majority of Morgantown and connected buildings, such as Vault-Tec University and the Shadowbreeze Apartments.
- Feral ghouls make up most of the enemies at the Whitespring Golf Club and surrounding areas.
- Commonly found at Big B's Rest Stop.
- Found in a group at Camp Venture, near the segment of the camp with the storage basement.
- A glowing variant will be always found on one of the houses in the Whitespring Resort close to the northernmost exit.
- Fort Defiance, on the right side of the asylum.
- Sometimes found at Red Rocket Mega Stop.
- Sometimes found at Harpers Ferry.
- Sometimes found at Appalachian Antiques.
- The Burrows
- Charleston Capitol Building, DMV section
- Monongah power substation MZ-02
- R & G Processing Services
- Sal's Grinders
Notable feral ghouls
- J47 - A diseased feral ghoul summoned by interacting with the DMV number terminal at the Charleston Capitol Building and selecting "Boot up Department C." The loudspeaker will attract it and more feral ghouls into the DMV lobby upon activating.
- Freddie Lang - The leader of the Blackwater Bandits raider gang. She can be found as a feral glowing one in Blackwater Mine.
- Feral ghoul officers appear randomly throughout areas where feral ghouls reside. These are noteworthy however, due to the fact that they drop nuclear keycards containing Appalachian launch codes.
- Harvey Tinley - a feral ghoul in Clarksburg.
- Billy - A legendary feral ghoul in Vault Mission: Meltdown.
- Cole - A legendary feral ghoul in Vault Mission: Meltdown.
- Lucas - A legendary feral ghoul in Vault Mission: Meltdown.
- Red - A legendary corroded glowing one in Vault Mission: Meltdown.
- Agent Kensington - A legendary glowing one found at Solomon's pond during Strange Bedfellows.
Related quests
Challenges
- Kill feral ghouls in nuked regions (daily).
- Kill feral ghouls with simple weapons (weekly).
Notes
- Vulnerable to headshots.
- Affected by Ghoul slayer's legendary prefix.
- Heals upon taking radiation damage.
- Wasteland Whisperer-eligible.
- Plan: Mounted feral ghoul head
- Plan: Mounted glowing one head
- Some feral ghouls have area-dependent apparel:
- Golfer outfits at the Whitespring Resort.
- Strangler vines in Heart of the Swamp and Vault 94 raids.
Appearances
Feral ghouls appear in Fallout 76.
Gallery
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