| For an overview of lunchboxes, see lunchbox. |
The Vault-Tec lunchbox is an activator object and miscellaneous item in Fallout 4. When interacted with, it spawns a random item and becomes collectible.
Characteristics[]
A Vault-Tec branded kids' lunchbox with depictions of Vault Boy. The inside of the lunchbox has faint drawings of children's faces on the front and rear of the box. When activated, or hit by any weapon enough to receive 1 Hit Point worth of damage,[1] a lunchbox will open, releasing confetti, making a short party horn noise, and dropping one of several possible consumables or junk items at random, like a fork or plastic knife. Some lunchboxes have additional Vault Girl or Nuka-Cola stickers and/or the name of a child on the front or back.(Note 1) These lunchboxes have a larger pool of possible loot drops, mainly a rarer tier of Nuka-Cola variants, collectible robot models, and also economy wonderglue. See below for the full list of potential drops from both normal and rare lunchboxes.
All lunchboxes found naturally in the worldspace, normal or rare, can be opened via simple interaction (on hover, they read "Open" instead of "Take"), have 100 Hit Points, and can be collected as a miscellaneous item after being opened as long as they did not receive 100 or more points of damage; if this happens, the lunchbox will break and become uncollectible.[1]
The collectible open lunchbox that is left behind is a separate miscellaneous item that has 1 Hit Point worth of health, so if hit again, it will also be destroyed. The collectible lunchbox will always be a normal lunchbox, even if it was obtained from a rare lunchbox (one with stickers). In fact, the collectible lunchbox can also be obtained unopened from other places, namely from some merchants and from the builder workshop object in the Contraptions Workshop add-on. The only way to open these lunchboxes is to hit them, which means they will always be destroyed after being opened. Furthermore, they are considered normal lunchboxes, so they only have the standard pool of loot drops when opened.[2]
This also means it is possible to get two items from a single lunchbox, but only for ones that are naturally placed in the worldspace. After opening the lunchbox once, pick up the opened collectible lunchbox and then drop it from the inventory. This will reset the opened lunchbox into an unopened one, which can then be hit with any weapon to drop a second item. However, this also means the lunchbox will be destroyed.
A Vault-Tec lunchbox is one of the required items to craft the bottlecap mine at the chemistry station.
Locations[]
Both normal and rare Vault-Tec lunchboxes can be found all over the Commonwealth, but are most commonly found in Vault-Tec locations, Vaults, and schools. Normal Vault-Tec lunchboxes are also sold by Myrna/Percy in Diamond City and Daisy at Goodneighbor. Alternatively, with the Contraptions Workshop add-on, it is possible to use the builder to produce normal Vault-Tec lunchboxes at the cost of 3 pieces of steel.(Note 2)
The tables below list locations where Vault-Tec lunchboxes are guaranteed to be found, in alphabetical order. They are split between normal (stickerless) and rare (stickered) lunchboxes, so the same location can appear in both tables; this is not an error.
Normal lunchboxes[]
Note: Most of these lunchboxes in base game locations are the activatable ones, but a few of them (namely ones found in the add-ons) are the misc item lunchboxes that must be hit to be opened. These are denoted by the "(MISC)" symbol.
| Location | Description | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Atom Cats garage |
|
1 |
| Beantown Brewery |
|
1 |
| Beaver Creek Lanes |
|
2 |
| Bradberton |
|
1 |
| Cliff's Edge Hotel |
|
1 |
| Concord Civic Access |
|
1 |
| Copley station |
|
1 |
| D.B. Technical High School |
|
8 |
| East Boston Preparatory School |
|
7 |
| Fringe Cove docks |
|
1 |
| Hangman's Alley |
|
1 |
| Mass Bay Medical Center |
|
1 |
| MS Azalea |
|
2 |
| Nahant Oceanological Society |
|
1 |
| NH&M Freight Depot |
|
1 |
| Nuka-World Red Rocket |
|
1 |
| Nuka-station |
|
1 |
| Nuka-World transit center |
|
1 |
| Pickman Gallery |
|
2 |
| Plumber's Secret |
|
1 |
| Sandy Coves Convalescent Home |
|
1 |
| Shaw High School |
|
8 |
| South Boston High School |
|
3 |
| Suffolk County Charter School |
|
10 |
| Super Duper Mart |
|
1 |
| Underwater POI near the Island |
|
1 |
| Valenti station |
|
1 |
| Vault-Tec Regional HQ |
|
2 |
| Warwick homestead |
|
1 |
| Wilson Atomatoys corporate HQ |
|
1 |
Rare lunchboxes[]
| Collected? | Location | Description | Number |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Aldersea Day Spa |
|
1 |
|
|
Andrew station |
|
5 |
|
|
Anna's Cafe |
|
1 |
|
|
Back Street Apparel |
|
1 |
|
|
Beaver Creek Lanes |
|
1 |
|
|
Boston Bugle building |
|
1 |
|
|
Boston Public Library |
|
1 |
|
|
Brookline building |
|
1 |
|
|
Bunker Hill |
|
1 |
|
|
Cambridge Polymer Labs |
|
1 |
|
|
C.I.T. ruins |
|
1 |
|
|
Coast Guard pier |
|
1 |
|
|
Coastal hideout |
|
1 |
|
|
College Square |
|
2 |
|
|
College Square station | Tucked underneath a shelf in the maintenance tunnel adjacent to the subway tracks in the northeast corner of the map. | 1 |
|
|
Collegiate administration building |
|
1 |
|
|
Concord Civic Access |
|
1 |
|
|
Concord Speakeasy |
|
1 |
|
|
Cutler Bend |
|
1 |
|
|
D.B. Technical High School |
|
2 |
|
|
Destroyed house near railroad between Tenpines Bluff and Outpost Zimonja |
|
1 |
|
|
East Boston Preparatory School |
|
2 |
|
|
Faneuil Hall |
|
1 |
|
|
Federal Surveillance Center K-21B |
|
2 |
|
|
Fens Street sewer |
|
2 |
|
|
Fens Way station |
|
1 |
|
|
Fort Hagen |
|
1 |
|
|
Fort Hagen hangar |
|
1 |
|
|
Four Leaf Fishpacking plant |
|
2 |
|
|
Fraternal Post 115 |
|
2 |
|
|
Fringe Cove docks |
|
1 |
|
|
Greenetech Genetics |
|
1 |
|
|
Harbor Grand Hotel |
|
1 |
|
|
Hoarder's apartment |
|
1 |
|
|
Holy Mission Congregation |
|
1 |
|
|
Hyde Park |
|
1 |
|
|
Jamaica Plain |
|
1 |
|
|
Lexington |
|
2 |
|
|
Mass Fusion containment shed |
|
1
|
|
|
Mass Pike Tunnel |
|
1 |
|
|
Massachusetts State House |
|
1 |
|
|
Med-Tek Research |
|
1 |
|
|
Medford Memorial Hospital |
|
1 |
|
|
Museum of Witchcraft |
|
1 |
|
|
Natick Banks |
|
1 |
|
|
National Guard training yard |
|
2 |
|
|
Northwood Ridge Quarry |
|
1 |
|
|
Old Gullet sinkhole | In a pipe near the bottom, where the water flows to. | 1 |
|
|
Park Street station |
|
2 |
|
|
Parkview Apartments |
|
2 |
|
|
Parsons State Insane Asylum |
|
2 |
|
|
Poseidon Energy |
|
2 |
|
|
Public works maintenence area |
|
1 |
|
|
Quincy Quarries | In a trailer to the southeast, next to the marble blocks underneath the highway overpass. It is within sight of the Red Rocket to the south. | 1 |
|
|
Rocky cave |
|
1 |
|
|
Safari Adventure |
|
1 |
|
|
Sandy Coves Convalescent Home | One in the game room on the second floor, in a small cardboard box. | 1 |
|
|
Saugus Ironworks |
|
1 |
|
|
Sentinel site |
|
3 |
|
|
South Boston High School |
|
1 |
|
|
Suffolk County Charter School |
|
2 |
|
|
The Mechanist's lair |
|
2 |
|
|
The Shamrock Taphouse |
|
1 |
|
|
Ticker Tape Lounge |
|
1 |
|
|
Ticonderoga |
|
1 |
|
|
Trinity Church |
|
1
|
|
|
Underwater POI in the Commonwealth |
|
1 |
|
|
Underwater POI near the Island |
|
1 |
|
|
Unmarked landmass northwest of Eagle's Cove Tannery |
|
1 |
|
|
University Point |
|
1 |
|
|
University Point: Sedgwick Hall |
|
1 |
|
|
USAF Satellite Station Olivia |
|
1 |
|
|
Vault 75 |
|
1 |
|
|
Vault-Tec Regional HQ |
|
1 |
|
|
Walden Pond |
|
1 |
|
|
Warwick homestead |
|
1 |
|
|
Water Street apartments |
|
1 |
|
|
Weatherby Savings & Loan |
|
1 |
|
|
West Everett Estates |
|
2 |
|
|
Wilson Atomatoys factory |
|
1 |
|
|
Yangtze |
|
1 |
Item pool[]
Normal lunchboxes[]
Normal (stickerless) lunchboxes only carry the normal lunchbox loot pool. The drop rate here is the total drop rate of any individual item from a lunchbox.
| Item | Item type | Drop rate |
|---|---|---|
| Gum drops | Aid | 6.67% |
| Bubblegum | Aid | 6.67% |
| Noodle cup | Aid | 6.67% |
| Nuka-Cola | Aid | 6.67% |
| Dandy Boy Apples | Aid | 6.67% |
| Pen | Junk | 6.67% |
| Pencil | Junk | 6.67% |
| Baseball | Junk | 6.67% |
| Chalk | Junk | 6.67% |
| Plastic fork | Junk | 6.67% |
| Dinner fork | Junk | 6.67% |
| Plastic knife | Junk | 6.67% |
| Table knife | Junk | 6.67% |
| Plastic spoon | Junk | 6.67% |
| Table spoon | Junk | 6.67% |
Rare lunchboxes[]
Rare (stickered) lunchboxes carry the normal lunchbox loot pool, but also have the rare lunchbox loot pool and, with the Nuka-World add-on installed, the Nuka-World junk item loot pool as well. The lunchbox will select one of these three pools with a equal probability (1/3) and then pick an item from within the selected pool (generally, each item has an equal probability of selection within the pool unless it appears twice in the pool, which simply doubles its drop rate).
The tables below list three drop rates for each item: one within the individual loot pool, one for the overall drop rate from the lunchbox without Nuka-World installed, and one for the overall drop rate with Nuka-World installed.
Do not refer to the in-pool drop rate if you are looking for the drop rate of an item when opening a lunchbox.
| Item | Item type | Loot pool | Drop rate (in pool) | Drop rate (overall, without Nuka-World) | Drop rate (overall, with Nuka-World) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gum drops | Aid | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Bubblegum | Aid | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Noodle cup | Aid | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Nuka-Cola | Aid | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Dandy Boy Apples | Aid | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Pen | Junk | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Pencil | Junk | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Baseball | Junk | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Chalk | Junk | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Plastic fork | Junk | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Dinner fork | Junk | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Plastic knife | Junk | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Table knife | Junk | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Plastic spoon | Junk | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Table spoon | Junk | Normal | 6.67% | 3.33% | 2.22% |
| Nuka-Cherry | Aid | Rare | 8.33% | 4.17% | 2.77% |
| Nuka-Cola Quantum | Aid | Rare | 16.66% | 8.33% | 5.55% |
| Ice cold Nuka-Cola Quantum | Aid | Rare | 16.66% | 8.33% | 5.55% |
| Economy Wonderglue | Junk | Rare | 16.66% | 8.33% | 5.55% |
| Eyebot model | Misc | Rare | 8.33% | 4.17% | 2.77% |
| Sentry bot model | Misc | Rare | 8.33% | 4.17% | 2.77% |
| Mr. Handy model | Misc | Rare | 8.33% | 4.17% | 2.77% |
| Protectron model | Misc | Rare | 8.33% | 4.17% | 2.77% |
| Mr. Gutsy model | Misc | Rare | 8.33% | 4.17% | 2.77% |
| Atomic Roller ball | Misc | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Nuka-Cade ticket | Misc | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Nuka-Cade token | Misc | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Souvenir plastic bowl | Junk | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Souvenir coffee cup | Junk | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Souvenir drinking glass | Junk | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Souvenir magnet cow | Junk | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Souvenir magnet badge | Junk | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Souvenir magnet flower | Junk | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Souvenir magnet frog | Junk | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Souvenir magnet cat | Junk | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Souvenir sloth toy | Junk | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Souvenir teddy bear (version 1) | Junk | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
| Souvenir teddy bear (version 2) | Junk | Nuka-World | 7.14% | - | 2.38% |
Technical information[]
This section simply explains where the above numbers come from.
- The normal lunchbox loot pool is the LeveledItem LLI_LunchBoxKidsDrops (Form ID 001DF283), with 15 items, for an individual and overall drop rate of 6.66% per item.
- The rare lunchbox loot pool is the LeveledItem LLI_LunchBoxKidsDropsRare (Form ID 00210B67) which contains three lists for an individual selection rate of 33% per list:
- LLI_LunchBoxKidsDrops, already listed;
- LLI_LunchBoxKids_RareSource (Form ID 00249624), which contains 12 items for an individual drop rate of 8.33%, or 16.66% for duplicated items;
- DLC04LLI_LunchBoxKidsDrops (Form ID xx043AAB), which contains 14 items for an individual drop rate of 7.14%.
Notes[]
- ^ (Note 1) The names that can be found on rare-tier lunchboxes are Acadia, Adriana, Anna, Becky, Cole, Connor, Dona, Greesha, Jack, Jade, June, Nic, Sage, Simon, Stan, Zane and Ziggy. The two decals are a Nuka-Cola bottle and Vault Girl.
- Many possible items are larger than the lunchbox itself.
- ^ (Note 2) Lunchboxes sold by vendors or created in a builder can only be opened by shooting them or hitting them with a melee/unarmed weapon while dropped from the inventory.
- Lunchboxes that were opened this way, even if they are no longer collectible, can be placed on a conveyor belt. If they enter into a hopper or the conveyor storage, they will be restored to their original, unopened state. This allows for an unlimited supply of lunchboxes.
Behind the scenes[]
When a Vault-Tec lunchbox is opened, there are two drawings of childrens' faces on the inside. These are drawings of Ziggy and Simon, the two children of Bethesda Game Studios artist Mark Teare. His wife Dona made the drawings. These are the explanations for the names Dona, Ziggy, and Simon which are found on some lunchboxes. The other names on the lunchboxes are the names of other developers' children.[Non-game 1]
Gallery[]
Locations[]
Item images and renders[]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Destruction data for all Activator lunchbox variants: all Activator lunchbox forms have 100 HP and trigger either the
KidsLunchboxExplosionorKidsLunchboxExplosionRareeffects (depending on the variant) when reduced to 99% of HP. - ↑ Destruction data for the misc item lunchbox: the misc item lunchbox (LunchBoxKids01) has 1 HP and triggers the
KidsLunchboxExplosioneffect when reduced to 0% of HP.
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