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For an overview of all grenades, see Hand grenade. For an overview of other frag grenades, see Frag grenade. |
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A frag grenade is a thrown explosive in Fallout 3.
Characteristics[]
Frag grenades are standard grenades creating an explosive blast and dealing significant damage, with a high chance to cripple limbs. They are commonly used by melee-equipped raiders and super mutants when they are out of melee range.
Thrown grenades are affected by physics, they may bounce or roll unexpectedly if not thrown carefully. However, in-game physics can also be used to an advantage, such as throwing grenades through doorways or bouncing them around corners to ambush enemies out of sight.
Grenades are an optional target in V.A.T.S., and can even be shot out of the air, causing them to detonate. This can be used to an advantage, as they will deal damage to an enemy if they are holding them or in proximity when they explode. Grenades can be thrown point-blank in V.A.T.S with less danger due to the fact that the player character only takes 10% of the damage in V.A.T.S. they would take when outside V.A.T.S. Additionally, throwing grenades with V.A.T.S. and subsequently landing a successful hit will cause the grenade to explode right at the target's feet, making V.A.T.S. the most efficient way to use grenades to best effect (unless throwing it around a corner or through a hole in the floor/ceiling).
A grenade that has been thrown toward the player character will show up on the HUD as a red arrow denoting its direction relative to current position. Move in the opposite direction as quickly as possible to escape the blast radius and minimize the damage to both overall health and limbs.
It is also possible to plant live grenades on a non-player character by passing one from one's inventory to the non-player character's inventory via reverse-pickpocketing. This will kill the non-player character, regardless of how much health they have, making the frag grenade far more deadly. Getting caught putting a grenade in an non-player character's inventory makes them take it as stealing something from them, and return the grenade to the inventory though it won't detonate. Successfully killing a non-player character using this technique can give the Psychotic Prankster achievement.
Variant[]
- Sim version
- A version used exclusively in the Anchorage Reclamation simulation.
Locations[]
Regular grenades[]
- Used by super mutants and Brotherhood soldiers.
- Eulogy Jones, Robert and Sydney carry a grenade.
- Leroy Walker carries two grenades.
- Most slavers at the Lincoln Memorial carry a grenade.
- Carried by caravan guards.
- Three in the Arlington Library media archive.
- One on a table in the Arlington sewer.
- Two on a ledge in Bethesda Offices West, to the west.
- Five in Bethesda underworks, in a storage room.
- Five on a shelf in a small room to the south of Bethesda underworks's entrance (circle around).
- One in Brandice's house, on the floor next to a desk with a terminal.
- Two in the Citadel bailey, on the ground.
- Three in the Capitol Building, west entrance.
- Two on a table behind a rigged terminal in the Capitol Post.
- One in the Capitol Preservation Society in Rivet City, next to a doghouse.
- Two in the Capitol Building, east entrance.
- One on a table behind the reception desk at the Capitol Building's conference hall.
- Five in the Chryslus Building's basement and one in a bin at the reception.
- Two in a crate in the Clifftop shacks.
- One next to a dead wastelander in the County sewer mainline.
- Dupont Circle station, next to some bricks, near the Metro Central exit.
- Two at Dupont West, on a table.
- Two grenades in the ruined school building at Early Dawn Elementary.
- Three in the Evergreen Mills foundry, in a pot next to a workbench.
- Two on a metal shelf behind a Average locked door in Farragut West station, near the Tenleytown/Friendship station exit.
- Three in Fort Bannister's commanding officer's quarters.
- Two in Fort Bannister's bunker, near a toolbox in the west.
- Three in Fort Constantine's bomb storage.
- Three in a crate in a corner at Hallowed Moors Cemetery.
- Four behind the gate in Hamilton's hideaway (key obtained by Three Dog)
- Two on a table in a building to the south of Hubris Comics.
- Five in L.O.B. Enterprises, three near a skeleton at the map's center and two in a pot on a shelf in small room in the east.
- Three in L.O.B. Enterprises east wing, two in the south in a crate with a mine, one more on a ledge in the east.
- East of L'Enfant Plaza, the grenade is under a box, in a small camp in a northern corner underneath a partially-collapsed overpass.
- Five in a bucket in a small room with a sink in the back of L.O.B. Enterprises.`
- Two in Lock and Load in Paradise Falls, on the counter.
- Two in the Maintenance and Evacuation Tunnel in Roosevelt Academy, in an area with a turbine.
- Two in an open locker in the north area of Marigold station.
- Eight on shelves and a table in the large area of Meresti Metro station.
- Three in Metro Central, on a table and next to ammunition boxes near the Dupont Circle station exit.
- Three in My Megaton house and one in the Tenpenny Tower suite when purchasing the Raider theme.
- Three in the National Archives, on a table in a classroom in the west.
- Four on the shelf in the National Guard depot's armory.
- Five in a sink in a bathroom in the southwest of Northwest Seneca Station.
- Two in Our Lady of Hope Hospital, on a table near the map's center.
- One on the shelf in the Ranger compound's diner/sleeping quarters.
- Two in a pot on a workbench in the Red Racer factory.
- Two in a bucket in the Regulator HQ, on a locker.
- Two in a burned out bus on the highway, northeast of SatCom Array NW-07c.
- One in the Sewer waystation, on a conveyor belt, near a teddy bear.
- Eight grenades in a niche in the cave area in the north of Shalebridge hill with the giant ant queen.
- Two on the shelves behind the counter in Statesman Hotel's restaurant.
- Super-Duper Mart, four on the counter next to the Protectron pod in the pharmacy and two on a shop counter nearby.
- Two to the north of the Super-Duper Mart, in a camp under a bridge.
- Three on a table at a raider camp near the Tenleytown/Friendship station entrance.
- Two on/near a table at a roadblock halfway on the metro track, in the Tepid sewers.
- Three on the shelves at Underworld Outfitters.
- Two on the shelf in the Utility tunnels.
- Three on a shelf in Vault 87's living quarters, near a fire barrel.
- Behind some sandbags in vault 101's sub-level.
- Three in the hallway in the northwest of Vault 106's living quarters.
- Three on a table in Vault 112.
- Two on a metal box in Warrington station, near Bessie Lynn.
- Five in the Outcast outpost's armory, available after the completion of the Operation: Anchorage add-on.
- Occasionally carried by smugglers.
- Five in a crate on a metal shelf in the Jefferson museum and gift shop.
- One in the Museum Authority Building, on a desk in a cubicle.
- Two in a bin in Old Olney underground at the map's center.
- One on a ledge in Old Olney underground, next to some flamer fuel.
- Three in a bin in Old Olney underground, near the map's center.
- One near a sandbag/skeleton in Old Olney underground.
- Two in a bathtub in Old Olney underground, near the map's center.
- Two in a bin near Wint and Kidd's position in Old Olney underground.
- One in Olney Powerworks, on top of a sink.
- Three on the ground in the Presidential metro, next to a desk.
- Two in a bin in the satellite control tower, with a plasma grenade.
Grenade bouquet[]
- One in a building southwest of Alexandria Arms.
- One in Arlington Library, children's wing.
- Two in the Arlington utility.
- Two tied to each other in a dropdown hole in Bethesda Offices West.
- One at Calverton, in the church.
- One in the County sewer mainline.
- One in the dry sewer.
- One in the Dupont Circle station.
- One near the train cars at Evergreen Mills.
- One at the guard house in Evergreen Mills.
- Two in vertical pipes at Fairfax ruins.
- One in the Fairfax Metro station.
- One east of Farragut West Metro station, under a walking bridge between two building.
- Two in Foggy Bottom station, close to eachother.
- One in Gold Ribbon Grocers.
- Two in Hubris Comics Publishing.
- In a drainage chamber southeast of Jocko's Pop & Gas stop.`
- Three around the Lincoln Memorial.
- Two in Murder Pass.
- One in the National Archives.
- One south of the National Archives, going in the crater.
- One in Our Lady of Hope Hospital.
- One in the raider outpost.
- One in the Rivet City bow.
- One in Roosevelt Academy, maintenence and evacuation tunnel.
- Two in the Grayditch sewer.
- One in the sewer entrance.
- Four in the Statesman Hotel, mid level.
- One in the Statesman Hotel restaurant, above a Nuka-Cola machine.
- One at Vernon Square, near the station's entrance.
- Two in the trenches at the Washington Monument.
- In a vertical pipe at Takoma Industrial.
Notes[]
- Super mutants call grenades "potatoes" or "hot potatoes" (Moira Brown refers to frag mines in the same way) and swampfolk refer to them as "pineapples."
- Grenades can be shot out of the air in V.A.T.S.
- Frag grenades can detonate in the player character's hand if shot by an NPC.
- It is possible to acquire a damaged frag grenade. If this happens, it is possible to repair it with other damaged grenades though it will do reduced damage.
- While completely broken frag grenades can not be used in combat, they can be reverse pick pocketed and will still detonate.
- Holding the grenade in one's hand after pulling the pin does not make it detonate. This is due to the safety lever not being allowed to detach.
- A virtually limitless supply of frag grenades can be had by trading energy weapons, scrap metal, sensor modules, and power armor to Protector Casdin at Fort Independence.
Behind the scenes[]
The frag grenade does not appear to expel any fragments; the damage radius also supports this. It seems that the frag grenade works more like a concussion grenade.
Bugs[]
If a broken frag grenade is sold to a merchant, then bought back from the merchant, it will be repaired to full condition.[verification overdue]
Gallery[]
- Regular
- Bouquet
