MAIN STORY (13)

🌸 War Never Changes – Complete the Prologue
❥ Tip: Just create your character and follow the linear intro—automatic!


🌸 When Freedom Calls – Complete “When Freedom Calls”
❥ Tip: Found at the Museum of Freedom in Concord. Use V.A.T.S. and grab a power armor!


🌸 Unlikely Valentine – Rescue Nick Valentine
❥ Tip: Head into Park Street Station; it's full of Triggermen. Save often!


🌸 Reunions – Complete “Reunions”
❥ Tip: Make sure you’re prepared for the Kellogg fight. Use grenades and power armor if needed.


🌸 Dangerous Minds – Enter Kellogg’s memories
❥ Tip: Use Nick Valentine to access the brain—this is unmissable and purely story-driven.


🌸 Hunter/Hunted – Track the Courser
❥ Tip: This quest introduces you to Institute Coursers. Use cover—Coursers are strong!


🌸 The Molecular Level – Build the Signal Interceptor
❥ Tip: Choose your faction carefully! Make a manual save before building the teleporter.


🌸 Institutionalized – Enter the Institute
❥ Tip: Follow Father through the facility. Dialogue choices don’t lock you in yet.


🌸 Powering Up – Institute exclusive 🌸 Missable
❥ Tip: If you side with another faction before this point, this becomes inaccessible.


🌸 Nuclear Family – Institute ending 🌸 Missable
❥ Tip: Complete all Institute quests. Siding with others will permanently lock this out.


🌸 The Nuclear Option (Minutemen) – Minutemen ending 🌸 Missable
❥ Tip: Don’t antagonize the Institute or Brotherhood before siding with the Minutemen.


🌸 The Nuclear Option (Brotherhood) – Brotherhood ending 🌸 Missable
❥ Tip: Do all Brotherhood missions and destroy the Institute to unlock this.


🌸 The Nuclear Option (Railroad) – Railroad ending 🌸 Missable
❥ Tip: Complete “Underground Undercover” and follow through with the Railroad’s plan.

FACTION QUESTS & ENDINGS

🌸 Semper Invicta – Join the Brotherhood of Steel
❥ Tip: Just speak to Paladin Danse after “Call to Arms” and agree to join.


🌸 Blind Betrayal – Complete the quest “Blind Betrayal” (Brotherhood)
❥ Tip: Triggered after progressing far into the Brotherhood storyline. Talk to Elder Maxson often.


🌸 Ad Victoriam – Complete the Brotherhood of Steel ending 🌸 Missable
❥ Tip: Help build Liberty Prime and stay loyal—don’t anger the Institute before this point!


🌸 Tradecraft – Join the Railroad
❥ Tip: Follow the Freedom Trail (starts at Boston Common). Spell R-A-I-L-R-O-A-D at the ring puzzle.


🌸 Underground Undercover – Help the Railroad infiltrate the Institute 🌸 Missable
❥ Tip: Begins once you’re inside the Institute. Save early—can be locked if you advance other quests.


🌸 Rockets’ Red Glare – Complete the Railroad ending 🌸 Missable
❥ Tip: Must complete Railroad questline and destroy the Institute. Ends with launching the Vertibird.


🌸 Form Ranks – Recruit 8 settlements for the Minutemen
❥ Tip: Use the radio freedom signal to attract settlers. Sanctuary and Tenpines Bluff are easy starts.


🌸 Defend the Castle – Defend the Minutemen Castle
❥ Tip: Must complete “Form Ranks” first. Upgrade turrets and defenses beforehand!


🌸 Sanctuary – Complete first workshop/settlement tutorial
❥ Tip: Help Preston’s group by building beds, water, and food. Easy early-game progress!


🌸 Community Organizer – Ally with 3 settlements
❥ Tip: Complete missions for random settlers with the “help” marker (usually green).

BOBBLEHEADS & MAGAZINES

🌸 Homerun! – Visit all four home plates in Diamond City
❥ Tip: Stand on 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and home base on the baseball field. You'll hear a chime after each one.


🌸 They’re Not Dolls... – Collect 10 Vault-Tec Bobbleheads
❥ Tip: You can start with easy ones like Perception (Museum of Freedom) and Strength (Mass Fusion building).


🌸 …They’re Action Figures – Collect all 20 Bobbleheads 🌸 Some Missable
❥ Tip: Don’t miss the one in Vault 114 (early quest) or the one in the Institute—they can be locked off!


🌸 Print’s Not Dead – Read 20 magazines
❥ Tip: Pick up any issue of publications like Grognak, Guns & Bullets, or Astoundingly Awesome Tales. Some magazines give perks!


🌸 RobCo’s Worst Nightmare – Hack 50 terminals
❥ Tip: Keep trying on beginner level terminals—exit if locked out and retry! Try Diamond City and Red Rocket.


🌸 What’s Yours Is Mine – Pick 50 locks
❥ Tip: Any lock counts! Keep a stash of bobby pins and upgrade your Lockpicking perk for easier success.

LEVELING & BATTLES

🌸 Touchdown! – Kill an enemy with a Fat Man
❥ Tip: The easiest target is a group of Super Mutants. Stock up on Mini Nukes first!


🌸 Born Survivor – Reach Level 5
❥ Tip: Explore, kill enemies, and build items to level up quickly.


🌸 Commonwealth Citizen – Reach Level 10
❥ Tip: Focus on side quests and crafting mods—they give lots of XP.


🌸 Unstoppable Wanderer – Reach Level 25
❥ Tip: Equip Intelligence and Charisma boosts for better quest XP.


🌸 Legend of the Wastes – Reach Level 50
❥ Tip: Finish DLC quests and use the Idiot Savant perk for major bonus XP.


🌸 Gun-For-Hire – Complete 10 side quests
❥ Tip: Side quests are given by companions and factions—check your Pip-Boy's Misc tab often.


🌸 Mercenary – Complete 50 miscellaneous objectives
❥ Tip: These include small “go here” or “help us” tasks. Easy to knock out near settlements!


🌸 Never Go It Alone – Recruit a companion
❥ Tip: Piper, Dogmeat, Codsworth, and Preston are available early on.

RELATIONSHIPS

🌸 Lovable – Reach Max Affinity with a companion
❥ Tip: Choose companions like Piper, Curie, or Cait—be kind and supportive! You’ll know it’s max when they want to “talk.”


🌸 Fix-Er-Upper – Build 100 Workshop items
❥ Tip: Use Sanctuary or Red Rocket. Spam fences, chairs, or decorations—it all counts!


🌸 Benevolent Leader – Reach 100% Happiness in a large settlement 🌸 Difficult
❥ Tip: Use a small settlement (like Sanctuary), have 20 settlers, shops, food, water, and don’t leave! Sleep there every day and keep everyone assigned.

ROBOT QUESTLINE

🌸 Mechanical Menace – Start the Automatron DLC
❥ Tip: Listen to the distress call on your radio around level 15 to begin.


🌸 Headhunting – Build a robot and hunt down Mechanist beacons
❥ Tip: Upgrade Ada with parts from defeated robots along the way!


🌸 Restoring Order – Defeat the Mechanist and finish the DLC
❥ Tip: Bring pulse grenades and strong armor—final fight gets chaotic!


🌸 Robot Hunter – Unlock all robot mods by defeating all unique enemy bots
❥ Tip: Collect robot parts and always loot their bodies for new mods.


🌸 The Most Toys – Build 10 robot mods
❥ Tip: Use a Robot Workbench and apply different heads, arms, or legs—it all counts!

CREATURE CAGES & FIGHTS

🌸 Docile – Have a creature in a cage
❥ Tip: Build a small cage and wait a few in-game days for a creature to spawn.


🌸 Instigator – Start a cage fight
❥ Tip: Capture two creatures and wire their cages to a switch. Flip it to release them into battle!


🌸 Trapper – Build every type of cage
❥ Tip: There are small, medium, and large cages for creatures and humans. Just build one of each type!

ISLAND QUESTLINE & EXPLORATION

🌸 Far From Home – Start Far Harbor DLC
❥ Tip: Listen to Valentine Detective Agency radio and travel to Nakano Residence.


🌸 Where You Belong – Reach Acadia
❥ Tip: Just follow the main story path and survive your first trip through the fog.


🌸 Close to Home – Return to Far Harbor
❥ Tip: This completes automatically after major progress in the storyline.


🌸 The Way Life Should Be – Discover DiMA’s secret 🌸 Missable
❥ Tip: Make a manual save—your decision affects Acadia’s fate.


🌸 Cleansing the Land – Destroy a faction 🌸 Missable
❥ Tip: Save before pulling the lever in the Nucleus—this determines the ending.


🌸 Push Back the Fog – Unlock all Far Harbor workshops
❥ Tip: There are 4—Longfellow's Cabin, Dalton Farm, National Park Visitor's Center, Echo Lake Lumber.


🌸 Just Add Saltwater – Cook one of each Far Harbor food recipe
❥ Tip: Most ingredients come from gulper and fog crawler meat—check vendors too.


🌸 Hooked – Kill 30 enemies with the Harpoon Gun
❥ Tip: You’ll get the Harpoon Gun early—mod it for bleed damage and farm enemies near the coastline.


🌸 New England Vacationer – Discover 20 Far Harbor locations
❥ Tip: Get power armor and follow the coastlines and roads—map fills quickly!


🌸 Shipbreaker – Complete the Shipbreaker quest
❥ Tip: It’s a random radio quest. Keep checking radio stations around Far Harbor.

BUILDING A VAULT

🌸 Better Living Underground – Start Vault 88 and complete the main quest
❥ Tip: Answer the radio call and clear the vault of ferals to begin building.


🌸 A Model Citizen – Run an experiment on a Vault 88 settler
❥ Tip: Use Overseer’s terminal to set up a test. You only need to finish one!


🌸 Vault Dweller – Equip a Vault 88 suit and Pip-Boy
❥ Tip: You'll find spares in the vault or create one in a crafting station.

🌸 Show Off – Display a weapon or armor on a rack
❥ Tip: Build a display rack and assign any weapon or armor—it instantly counts!


🌸 Time to Collect – Build 100 workshop items
❥ Tip: Place decorations, furniture, or lights. Just spam any category 100 times.


🌸 Mass Production – Produce 100 objects with a Builder
❥ Tip: Power up a Builder and load it with junk to create items—easy with fertilizer or steel.

RAIDER PARK TAKEOVER

🌸 All Aboard – Start the Nuka-World DLC
❥ Tip: Listen to the Nuka-World radio signal around level 30 to start the quest.


🌸 Taken for a Ride – Survive the Gauntlet and meet the raiders
❥ Tip: Save often! You’ll face tough enemies and traps—use Jet and stealth.


🌸 The Grand Tour – Claim all 5 park zones for the raiders
❥ Tip: Complete each zone’s questline—Kiddie Kingdom is the trickiest due to radiation.


🌸 Home Sweet Home – Build raider outposts in the Commonwealth 🌸 Missable if hostile
❥ Tip: Don’t do “Open Season” early or you'll lose this entire chain!


🌸 Raiding for a Living – Complete 12 raider jobs for Shank
❥ Tip: Fast travel helps—settlement raids reset daily.


🌸 Big Business – Have 8 raider settlers in a raider outpost
❥ Tip: Assign raiders as guards or to shops. Build beds and wait a few days.


🌸 Eyes on the Prize – Spend 100,000 Nuka-Cade tickets
❥ Tip: Use the basketball game or Whack-a-Commie to farm tickets fast.


🌸 Diebrarian – Collect 10 hidden Nuka-World Scav! magazines
❥ Tip: One in each zone—search rooftops, basements, and behind locked doors.


🌸 Ambitious Plan – Meet all three raider gangs
❥ Tip: Complete “Taken for a Ride” then talk to the Operators, Pack, and Disciples.


🌸 Precious Medals – Earn 3 different Nuka-Cade game performance ratings
❥ Tip: Get at least one star (bronze or better) in three different arcade games.