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“If you're too lazy to visit a power plant, why not make your own fusion core from highly unstable materials?”— Fallout 76 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide p.105
The fusion core is a type of ammunition in Fallout 76.
Background[]
Standardized fusion cores are a high-grade, long-term nuclear battery used for military and commercial applications before the Great War.[1] Used by civilians to power a multitude of devices, from automobiles,[2] to generators,[3] the military instead used them for warfare, supplying power armor and some Gatling laser models with energy. Standard core interfaces were developed across the board to allow for power armor frames to use cores salvaged from weapons or generators.[4] The fusion core also can be hooked up to certain melee weapons via jumper cables.[5]
Another benefit is that cores can be set to overload, for use as improvised explosives or to deny a power armor suit to the enemy by destroying it.[6]
Characteristics[]
Fusion cores are used to power and activate suits of power armor as well as providing ammunition in certain weapons, such as the Gatling laser, which utilizes them; each fully-charged core provides 500 shots.
Crafting[]
- Standard fusion core
- Ultracite fusion core
Weapon/armor using this ammunition[]
Locations[]
- Can be looted in a variety of places
- Scavenge for power armor: On every suit of power armor, one will find a fusion core at quarter charge.
- Search for fusion generators: Fusion generators encountered while exploring may contain a lootable fusion core.
- Ammo boxes may contain fusion cores when using the Scrounger perk. Steamer trunks may yield cores, as well as other containers in a military-themed location.
- Dropped by: Sentry bots, radtoads, anglers, feral ghouls.
- Crafting
- Fusion cores may be crafted at chemistry stations.
- Crafted Gatling lasers and ultracite Gatling lasers will also produce 1 fusion core.
- Workshops: Providing 100 power to a fusion core processor will generate 1 fusion core at 100% charge every 7.5 minutes. The processor holds a maximum of three fusion cores at any given time. Processors may be found at Monongah Power Plant, Poseidon Energy Plant yard or Thunder Mountain Power Plant yard.
- BoS Collectron station may generate fusion cores.
- Quest rewards
- Successfully finishing Line in the Sand rewards either two fully-charged or 75% charge fusion cores.
- Successfully completing Daily Ops with an equipped weapon that uses fusion cores will reward additional, fully-charged, cores.
- Fixed spawn areas
Fusion cores are susceptible to physics, so they may fall off platforms and may not be in the exact location listed below. Additionally, other players may loot fusion cores, preventing them from appearing.
| Ash Heap | ||
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| Location | Location description | |
| The Sludge Works | Inside a small basket near the eastern pier. | |
| Cranberry Bog | ||
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| Location | Location description | |
| Big Bend Tunnel | In a fusion generator in the storage room with the mole rats. | |
| Fort Defiance | In the locked armory on the third floor, on the bottom row of a metal shelf in the southeast corner. | |
| The Forest | ||
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| Location | Location description | |
| Arktos Pharma |
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| AVR Medical Center | In the fusion generator below the cafeteria. | |
| Bleeding Kate's Grindhouse | In the fusion generator, by the makeshift movie screen. | |
| Charleston Capitol Building |
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| Fujiniya Intelligence Base | In the generator room, behind some machinery in a console near the stealth research lab on the lower level of the base. | |
| Hornwright Industrial Headquarters | On the top floor, inside the fusion generator. | |
| Kanawha Nuka-Cola plant |
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| Mama Dolce's Food Processing | Inside the fusion generator of the small warehouse immediately southwest of the factory. | |
| Morgantown Airport | Inside the fusion generator within the 'Bot Shop' hangar. | |
| New River Gorge Bridge | Behind a locked door in the west maintenance section, in a storage room on the right immediately after the entrance, on a bottom metal shelf row. | |
| Poseidon Energy Plant WV-06 | Inside the basement, inside a locked room with a wall cabinet, on top of the lower cabinet, near a blue basket. | |
| Poseidon Energy Plant yard | Next to the workshop, on a table to the right of the fusion core processor. | |
| Relay tower EM-B1-27 | On top of the central control panel, along the wall closest to the repairable terminal. | |
| Riverside Manor | Sitting on a cart with a microscope in the basement near the weapons workbench. | |
| Wade Airport | At the top of the air traffic control tower, on the desk, to the right of the broken console. | |
| WV Lumber Co. |
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| Savage Divide | ||
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| Location | Location description | |
| Palace of the Winding Path | On metal shelves next to the generator in the basement. | |
Notes[]
- As of the Fallout 76 content update Wastelanders, the freezer variant of Floater is capable of damaging fusion cores, removing their charge via a cryogenic breath attack.
- As of the Fallout 76 content update One Wasteland For All, the Electric Absorption legendary perk enables the player character a chance to recharge their fusion core upon being hit, ranging from 10% - 20% per hit depending on the perk rank.
Bugs[]
As of patch 1.7.12.10, when cores reach full depletion, they may be removed from the player's inventory, unlike plasma cores, which are deposited in the inventory upon reaching zero.[verification overdue]- Before patch 1.0.4.13, fusion cores would replenish to full charge upon joining another world. This was fixed with the aforementioned patch.[patched]
Gallery[]
Fusion core spawns, marked on the map
References[]
- ↑ The Sole Survivor: "I'll help if I can."
Preston Garvey: "What you'll need is an old pre-war F.C., a standardized Fusion Core. Your high-grade, long-term nuclear battery. Used by the military and some companies, way back when. And we know right where to find one..."
Sturges: "But we can't get to the damn thing. It's down in the basement, locked behind a security gate. Look... I fix stuff. I tinker. Bypassing security ain't exactly my forte. You could give it a shot."
(Preston Garvey and Sturges' dialogue) - ↑ Berkeley Springs terminal entries; Dr. Barnaby's terminal, Medical Notes 10.31.77
- ↑ The Sole Survivor: "What're you looking for again?"
Preston Garvey: "A Fusion Core. It's kind of a fancy battery. They used one here in the museum to power the exhibits, a long time ago. There's one in the basement, behind a security gate. You'll need to pick the lock or hack the computer to open it."
(Preston Garvey's dialogue) - ↑ Sturges: "That armor may be old, but it's got a standard interface. Just jack the Fusion Core in."
(Sturges' dialogue) - ↑ Electro-Fusion modification for the Hatchet
- ↑ The Sole Survivor: “The damage... it's deliberate. They set the fusion cores in their armor to overload. That's what caused the blast. But why?”
Spoken during The Lost Patrol
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