Vault-Tec bobblehead (Fallout 4)

For an overview of all bobbleheads, see Vault-Tec bobblehead.

Fallout 4 miscellaneous item
Vault-Tec bobblehead
All of the bobbleheads on display in the Sole Survivor's room in Vault 81.
Form ID	See table

Vault-Tec bobblehead figures are promotional Vault-Tec items in Fallout 4.

Background

Vault-Tec bobbleheads are found on the eastern side of the former United States, throughout the Commonwealth. Bobbleheads were exclusive Vault-Tec merchandise available to executive-level employees of the Vault-Tec Corporation. They were also offered as a gift to individuals who had been accepted into Vaults.

Characteristics

Each bobblehead increases a corresponding S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stat permanently by one, or grants a permanent perk. They can be stored on a bobblehead stand which can be crafted at any settlement. A stand is also present in the room in Vault 81 upon being granted to the player character.

Taking a S.P.E.C.I.A.L. bobblehead while the player character's stat is at 10 allows that stat to increase to 11. As the bobblehead counts as a stat gain, if one was below 10 before picking it up, they cannot level that stat above ten.

Locations

S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Collected?	Name	Location	Location description	Location Image	Form ID
	Strength bobblehead	Mass Fusion building	On the head of the metal wall statue/sculpture five levels above the lobby desk.		00178B63
	Perception bobblehead	Museum of Freedom	On a desk next to a broken terminal in the back of the room where the player character first meets Preston Garvey.		00178B5D
	Endurance bobblehead	Poseidon Energy	On the metal desk with a magazine, near steamer trunk, central metal catwalk.		00178B55
	Charisma bobblehead	Parsons State Insane Asylum	On Jack Cabot's office desk, close to the elevator, administration area.		00178B54
	Intelligence bobblehead	Boston Public Library	On the computer bank, mechanical room, northwest corner of the library.		00178B58
	Agility bobblehead	Wreck of the FMS Northern Star	On the edge of the bow of the ship, wooden platform.		00178B51
	Luck bobblehead	Spectacle Island	In the 2nd deck pilot house of a green tugboat located at the southern end of Spectacle Island, on a locker shelf near the steamer trunk.		00178B5A

Utility

Collected?	Name	Effect	Location	Location description	Location Image	Form ID
	Barter bobblehead	+5% Better prices	Longneck Lukowski's Cannery	Inside the metal catwalk hut, northwest upper area of the main cannery room.		00178B52
	Lock picking bobblehead	Easier lockpicking	Pickman Gallery	Last tunnel chamber where Pickman is confronted by the raiders; On the ground between brick pillars and a bin fireplace.		00178B59
	Medicine bobblehead	+10% Stimpak healing	Vault 81	In Curie's office, southeast corner of the Vault.		00178B5B
	Repair bobblehead	+10% Fusion core duration	Corvega assembly plant	On the very end of the top exterior gantry (blue balloon), southwest roof section of the plant building on top of a wooden box.		00178B5E
	Science bobblehead	+1 Guess hacking	Malden Middle School (Vault 75)	On the desk overlooking the subterranean "training" area, within the science labs.		00178B5F
	Sneak bobblehead	+10% Harder to detect	Dunwich Borers	On a small metal table by a lantern, right next to the metal post terminal area #4.		00178B61
	Speech bobblehead	+100 Vendor caps	Park Street station (Vault 114)	In the overseer's office on the desk.		00178B62

Weapons

Collected?	Name	Effect	Location	Location description	Location Image	Form ID
	Big guns bobblehead	+25% Critical damage with heavy weapons	Vault 95	In the living quarters area, northmost room, on a radio.		00178B53
	Energy weapons bobblehead	+25% Critical damage with energy weapons	Fort Hagen Command Center	In the command center, southwest kitchens, on a small table between two fridges. (Accessible only during/after the main quest Reunions)		00178B56
	Explosives bobblehead	+15% explosive damage	Saugus Ironworks	In the blast furnace, on the second level catwalk behind Slag's spawn, sitting on top of a control panel attached to the wall to the left of a steamer trunk.		00178B57
	Melee bobblehead	+25% Critical damage with melee weapons	Trinity Tower	On a table in the cage where Rex Goodman and Strong are being held.		00178B5C
	Small guns bobblehead	+25% Critical damage with ballistic guns	Gunners plaza	On the broadcast desk in the on-air room, first floor, west side of the building.		00178B60
	Unarmed bobblehead	+25% Critical damage with unarmed attacks	Atom Cats garage	On the hood of the rusty car in the main warehouse.		00178B64

Notes

• The bobbleheads wear Vault 111 jumpsuits.
• Despite being created before the war, the Barter bobblehead holds a bottle cap aloft.

Behind the scenes

• Bobbleheads were used as a promotional item for pre-orders of Fallout 4, with different poses. Only one at random was issued per pre-order.
• An exclusive bobblehead was released in Loot Crate's November 2015 box, posed with his hands on his hips and his shoulders back.
• The Charisma bobblehead is seen in a workshop in the Fallout 4 first trailer.

Bugs

PC Playstation 4 Xbox One A common bug in the mission Emogene Takes a Lover - Emogene vanishes before she can be spoken to - prevents that mission completing and The Secret of Cabot House starting, thereby preventing access to the Charisma bobblehead. While PC players have access to console commands as a workaround (see "Bugs" in the applicable quest article for instructions), no workaround is known to exist for console players who encounter the bug and wish to get this bobblehead (and a complete collection) other than restarting the game from scratch with a fresh save file.

Gallery

All bobbleheads map

Vault Boy promotional bobblehead series 1

Vault Boy promotional bobblehead series 2