Vault 76

 

Vault 76 is a Vault-Tec vault located in the Forest region of Appalachia in 2102.

BackgroundEdit

Construction of Vault 76 began in 2065 and ended in 2069, under the supervision of Vault-Tec official Giles Wolstencroft.^[1] Vault 76 then debuted seven years later in 2076, in honor of the United States' tercentenary.

Not all vaults were designed with experimental purposes. Vault 76 is one of seventeen known control vaults, meaning that it was used as a baseline to compare to experimental vaults. Vault 76 housed 500 occupants and was originally programmed to open to the wasteland outside 20 years after a nuclear war.^[2] Despite being a control vault, however, Vault 76 had a number of distinguishing characteristics. The occupants were a diverse group selected from every walk of life, and apart from the vault staff, all were highly accomplished before the war and possessed competitive personalities. The vault itself was also designed to cease functioning and be rendered inhospitable 24 hours after opening, a feature intended to force the residents to commit to reclaiming the outside world and prevent them from becoming dependent on the vault's amenities. Lastly, the vault's overseer was under secret orders to personally secure three nearby nuclear missile silos for Vault-Tec at all costs.

Vault 76 eventually opened in October 23, 2102, twenty-five years after the Great War and five years after the intended date, in a much-celebrated event known as the "Reclamation Day." By the time of opening, the vault was implied to be nearing maximum capacity.

LayoutEdit

A large atrium complete with tables, a diner and a soccer pitch in the middle. The upstairs levels of the atrium contain accommodation for the residents, complete with beds, color TVs and a wall-mounted Pip-Boy 2000 Mark VI for the player character to acquire as they leave. Several Mister Handies are positioned throughout the vault on the route to the exit and man stations at which the player character can acquire their C.A.M.P. and a few other basic necessities as they prepare to leave. The overseer's office is accessible via going slightly off route while following the trail of equipment stations.

To ensure that all dwellers leave the vault, the vault's main systems, including life support, were to be shut down shortly after Reclamation Day. Unlike other vaults which have a security checkpoint, blast door and elevator to head deeper into the vault, Vault 76 has its blast door level with many of the vault's more critical rooms.

SpecificationsEdit

OccupantsEdit

• Resident - the player character.

Mister HandiesEdit

MentionedEdit

• Vault 76 overseer - the vault's overseer, left the vault early on a secret mission from Vault-Tec.
• Casey - security officer.
• Jill - security officer.
• Nakamura - security officer.
• Sandy - security officer.
• J. Daily - resident, filed complaint to security about their private stash of Nuka-Cherry being stolen from.
• Jake - a lawyer before the War, Jake was considered a particularly annoying resident by security.
• Professor Dayton - a professor in charge of the classroom.
• E. Jefferson - accused by Jake of assault.
• M. Thompson - arrested by security after stealing a six pack of alcohol from the reclamation day party stores.
• T. Sullivan - soda jerk, wanted to be reassigned as a sanitation engineer before the vault opened.
• R. Villanueva - vault barber.
• A. Vince - security officer.
• N. Volkmer - Chief maintenance technician.

Notable lootEdit

• Orders from Maria Chavez - Outside, on a Responder corpse down the stairs from the vault.
• Overseer's log - Vault 76 - inserted into the overseer's terminal in her office, or from Pennington outside the vault.

The following loot cannot be obtained normally after leaving:

• Nuka Tapper - inserted into the terminal in the player character's domicile

NotesEdit

There is a note that cannot be taken sitting on one of the tables in the diner on the upper level of the atrium, called the Love note.

AppearancesEdit

Vault 76 appears in Fallout 76. It is mentioned in a terminal entry found in the Citadel in Fallout 3, an alien log in the Mothership Zeta add-on, and by a newscaster at the start of Fallout 4.

Behind the scenesEdit

When reaching the first checkpoint, the "celebration" music from Fallout Shelter plays.

GalleryEdit

The player character's bedroom

Terminal workplace

The living room

A ceremony held outside the vault honoring its debut

A Vault 76 colored TV

Player character's quarters laundry room with a storage area to the right and shower to the left

Private shower

The atrium decorated for Reclamation Day

The diner in the atrium

Gym

Professor Dayton's classroom

Clinic

Reactor room

Overseer's office

Storage room

Admin office next to the storage room and blast door

Stand One, Stay Hydrated! With purified water and RAD-X on offer

Stand Two, Health and Medication! With a stimpak and RadAway on offer

Stand Three, Power is Key! With building supplies on offer

Stand Four, Join A Team! With a party hat on offer

Stand Five, Camping Made Easy! Where the player character can pick up their C.A.M.P.

Stand Six, Get a Job! With black-rim glasses and perk cards on offer

A SPECIAL poster in the admin office

Towards the exit zone, from the admin office and storage room

Security office

Vault 76 blast door

The vault's exit zone (with the door open)

The blast door Opening

View outside of the vault

Vault 76 jumpsuit

Concept art female wearing a Vault 76 jumpsuit

Vault 76 layout

Vault 76 layout

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