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Sugar Bombs are a consumable and a quest item in Fallout 3.
Characteristics[]
Marketed across the United States as having an "explosive great taste," the Sugar Bombs contain no explosives, but an overabundance of sugar frosting on each of the uniquely shaped wheat cereals, resembling the Fat Man, or perhaps more relevantly, a mini nuke. Served with milk, it made for a breakfast full of carbohydrates and little else. It was marketed at children, with added promotions to increase sales, such as Captain Cosmos decoder rings.[1]
Interestingly, the ingredients used in the bombs make them an ingredient for manufacturing high-end drugs[2] and a tool for sabotage, as they can cause violent explosions when introduced to rocket fuel mixes.[3]
In Fallout 3, Sugar Bombs are mildly useful food items found throughout the Capital Wasteland, which provide only a small amount of health when consumed. Compared to other food items, Sugar Bombs are somewhat rare, something which factors into the unmarked quest Murphy's Bombing Run.
Murphy's Bombing Run[]
In Fallout 3, Sugar Bombs can be traded to a ghoul named Murphy in Northwest Seneca Station for use in crafting ultrajet. He will pay you 15 caps for each box of Sugar Bombs that you bring him, and an extra 15 (for a total of 30 caps) with a Speech check. For each 8 boxes of Sugar Bombs brought to him, Murphy will also sell the player one ultrajet.
Locations[]
Apart from appearing randomly in refrigerators and similar containers, there are numerous fixed locations where Sugar Bombs are certain to appear:
| Map Location | Description |
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| Arlington Library | 1 box in Children's Wing, in the Eat'o'tronic 3000. |
| Bethesda ruins | 1 box in Bethesda offices east, second floor, on top of desk on west wall. |
| Broadcast tower KT8 | 1 box in the drainage chamber, through door in East wall, to east wall on bottom of 2nd shelving unit. |
Calvert Mansion 
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Four or so in Desmond's panic room. |
| Citadel | 1 box in A-ring, The Den (Lyon's Pride's quarters) on the table in the middle of the dining room.
6 boxes in Laboratory, mess hall (western-most room):
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| Chryslus Building | 2 boxes:
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Cryo lab 
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1 box on lower level of room full of stasis pods, southeast corner, lower shelf. |
| Everglow National Campground | 11 boxes in the North-west trailer. |
| Fairfax Metro station | 1 box in the Eat'o'tronic 3000, just inside the station entrance. |
| Grower's shack
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1 box on the table, and 2 on the shelf |
| Jury Street Metro | 8 boxes in Gold Ribbon Grocers, part of a Rube Goldberg machine. |
| Little Lamplight | 1 box in shed to the south of entrance, enter and turn west, look up 1 box in Souvenir Shop, on south bed, on floor. |
| Mama Dolce's | 11 or more can be found here. Four confirmed in Food Distribution. |
| MDPL-13 power station | 3 boxes in the derelict power plant:
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| Megaton | 5 boxes, all but the one in the common house will yield negative Karma:
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| Museum of History | 7 boxes in Underworld, all of which will yield negative Karma:
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| My Megaton house | 7 boxes with pre-War theme 2 boxes with Vault theme. 1 box with Raider theme. 1 box with Wasteland explorer theme. |
| Northwest Seneca Station | Inside the Cornucopia Fresh Groceries:
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Old Olney underground 
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1 box on the end of a counter, southwest of the entrance from Olney sewers 1 box in the 2nd Eat'o'tronic 3000 south of the 2 Nuka-Cola vending machines on the east wall of the 2nd floor of the office building in the cafeteria. |
| Rivet City | 4 boxes, all of which will yield negative Karma:
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| Rockland car tunnel
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2 boxes:
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| SatCom Array NN-03d | There is a box in the first room of Tower C. |
| Sewer waystation | There is 1 in the Eat'o'tronic 3000. |
| Signal Yankee Bravo | In the drainage chamber, right doorway, 1 box on lowest shelf left of ham radio. |
| Takoma Park | There are three boxes in front of Cornucopia Fresh Groceries. |
| Temple of the Union | Two boxes in the storeroom (Average lock). They must be stolen. |
| Tenpenny Tower | 9 boxes, all of which will yield negative Karma:
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| Tenpenny Tower suite | 4 boxes with Vault theme 3 boxes with Pre-War theme 2 boxes with Wasteland explorer theme |
| VAPL-66 power station | 1 box behind burned out terminal, north-northwest of the door. |
| Vault 92 | 1 box in the fallen silo, in a raider farmhouse west of the vault. |
Purchasing[]
Sugar Bombs are available for purchase from the following vendors, in varying quantities:
- Doc Hoff the traveling merchant.
- Eclair and Knick Knack in Little Lamplight.
- Gary Staley of Gary's Galley in Rivet City.
- Jenny Stahl of The Brass Lantern in Megaton.
- Joe Porter of Dot's Diner in Canterbury Commons.
- Margaret Primrose of Café Beau Monde in Tenpenny Tower.
- Karl of The Family in Meresti Metro station.
- Vera Weatherly in Rivet City, upper deck.
- Greta of Carol's Place in Underworld.
Notes[]
There are fewer than 100 boxes in the game, not including those that can be obtained by purchasing certain housing themes and bought from food merchants.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Box appearance and advertisements in Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76.
- ↑ Murphy's Bombing Run
- ↑ The Courier: "Come to think of it, sabotage is a great idea."
Chris Haversam: "Then bring me Sugar Bombs. Three boxes should do the trick. Add those to the fuel mixture and 'Boom!' I'll show those rotten ghouls! And they'll know exactly who did them in!"
(Chris Haversam's dialogue)