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Skills
- Lv 17. 13 x 21 = 273
- lv 20 max spend minus bobbleheads
Skill | Points | Need | Books | Spend limit | Bobblehead | |
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Barter | 4 | Evergreen Mills: Bazaar, in a dark cave/nook in the corner of the room to the right of Smiling Jack. Jump over the work bench, it's on the right-most shelves. | ||||
Big Guns | 4 | Fort Constantine: CO Quarters (little bungalow), in the basement. It is in an open safe along with some caps, and the ICBM launchcode. | ||||
Energy Weapons | 6 | Raven Rock: On the right desk in Colonel Autumn's bedroom: after you pass the huge door from section 2B to 2C, when two Enclave soldiers come out of the right door, take the left door. | ||||
Explosives | 6 | WKML Broadcast Station: Sealed Cistern, the sewer (manhole cover) behind the station. The manhole cover is tucked into the rocks. (See page for image) | ||||
Lockpick | 4 | |||||
Medicine | 10 | |||||
Melee Weapons | 2 | Dunwich Building: Go through the Dunwich Building to get to the Forsaken Dunwich Ruins which lead to the Virulant Underchambers. It will be in the center of a room near the exit to Dunwich Building mixed in with some cans and bottles. | ||||
Repair | 8 | |||||
Science | 2 | Vault 106: After entering the Vault, move downstairs and enter the Living Quarters. Once in the Living Quarters take a left, cross the small bridge in the atrium, then take a right and enter the second door on your left. Follow this hall all the way to the end, kill the insane survivor and cross the room to where the Bobblehead is located. | ||||
Small Guns | 4 | National Guard depot: National Guard Armory, sitting on a shelf in the sealed storage room in the basement. The switch for the utility door to access the armory is found on the 3rd floor that can only be reached by going through the Depot Training Wing and Depot Offices. | ||||
Sneak | 2 | Yao guai tunnels: Yao guai den, on top of a metal box north east of the big pool of water. | ||||
Speech | 6 | Paradise Falls: Eulogy's Pad, on the table right next to the terminal. | ||||
Unarmed | 10 | Rockopolis: Due west of Smith Casey's Garage and due north of Girdershade. The entrance (a large boulder) is below a party banner that is lit up at night. The bobblehead is next to Argyle's body. | ||||
Skills
- Lv 17. 13 x 21 = 273
- lv 20 max spend minus bobbleheads
Skill | Points | Need | Books | Spend limit | Bobblehead |
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Barter | 24 | 76 | 30 | 36 | Evergreen Mills: Bazaar, in a dark cave/nook in the corner of the room to the right of Smiling Jack. Jump over the work bench, it's on the right-most shelves. |
Big Guns | 46 | 54 | 38 | 16 | Fort Constantine: CO Quarters (little bungalow), in the basement. It is in an open safe along with some caps, and the ICBM launchcode. |
Energy Weapons | 73 | 27 | 38 | N/A | Raven Rock: On the right desk in Colonel Autumn's bedroom: after you pass the huge door from section 2B to 2C, when two Enclave soldiers come out of the right door, take the left door. |
Explosives | 61 | 39 | 36 | N/A | WKML Broadcast Station: Sealed Cistern, the sewer (manhole cover) behind the station. The manhole cover is tucked into the rocks. (See page for image) |
Lockpick | 87 | 13 | 38 | N/A | |
Medicine | 74 | 26 | 34 | N/A | |
Melee Weapons | 58 | 42 | 32 | N/A | Dunwich Building: Go through the Dunwich Building to get to the Forsaken Dunwich Ruins which lead to the Virulant Underchambers. It will be in the center of a room near the exit to Dunwich Building mixed in with some cans and bottles. |
Repair | 93 | 7 | 36 | N/A | |
Science | 88 | 12 | 20 | N/A | Vault 106: After entering the Vault, move downstairs and enter the Living Quarters. Once in the Living Quarters take a left, cross the small bridge in the atrium, then take a right and enter the second door on your left. Follow this hall all the way to the end, kill the insane survivor and cross the room to where the Bobblehead is located. |
Small Guns | 83 | 17 | 34 | N/A | National Guard depot: National Guard Armory, sitting on a shelf in the sealed storage room in the basement. The switch for the utility door to access the armory is found on the 3rd floor that can only be reached by going through the Depot Training Wing and Depot Offices. |
Sneak | 91 | 9 | 20 | N/A | Yao guai tunnels: Yao guai den, on top of a metal box north east of the big pool of water. |
Speech | 50 | 50 | 32 | 8 | Paradise Falls: Eulogy's Pad, on the table right next to the terminal. |
Unarmed | 51 | 49 | 38 | 1 | Rockopolis: Due west of Smith Casey's Garage and due north of Girdershade. The entrance (a large boulder) is below a party banner that is lit up at night. The bobblehead is next to Argyle's body. |
S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
Name | Location | Base ID |
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Bobblehead - Strength * | Megaton: Lucas Simms' house, on the desk in the bedroom (the door to your immediate left at the top of stairs) on the second floor. His house is directly to the right when you enter Megaton. | 00038832 |
Bobblehead - Perception | Republic of Dave: In the Museum of Dave, on a bookshelf to the right of the room. | 00038833 |
Bobblehead - Endurance | Deathclaw Sanctuary: Inside entrance, down the ramp, on a small platform next to the rotting brahmin corpse. | 00038834 |
Bobblehead - Charisma | Vault 108: Cloning Lab, in the middle of that map, on top of a table in a large room with four beds in the central room, south of the clinic room. | 00038850 |
Bobblehead - Intelligence | Rivet City: Science lab, downstairs on one of the tables in the center of the lab, next to the lockers. The science lab can be reached through the midship deck or upper deck. | 0003885C |
Bobblehead - Agility | Greener Pastures Disposal: In the office, on the desk next to an Average locked terminal. | 000388E5 |
Bobblehead - Luck | Arlington Cemetery North: In the Arlington House on a hill near the center of the cemetery. It is on a shelf in the basement. | 000388E6 |
Nuka-Cola plant
Factory floor (before passing locked door)
- Dean's Electronics - Factory floor level, in the cafeteria, as you enter the building, take a right. It is on the corner of the large L-shaped counter in the cafeteria.
- Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual - In the main entrance, after walking in the door look up and you will see a hole in the roof where a filing cabinet is lying face down. The book is inside the cabinet.
Factory floor (behind locked door)
- Tumblers Today - Factory floor section, north section near entrance to the Office section. Same room as Milo, behind a door in the room you'll find a safe and the book is on a shelf under the safe.
- 3 Nuka-Cola Quantum - In the factory floor level, use the Packing Line terminal, located near the NE corner of the map on the ground floor, to select Quantums, then turn on the bottling line. It jams instantly, but 3 Nuka-Cola Quantums appear on the line.
Storage and Mixing Vats
- Nukalurk meat - This is the only location in the Capital Wasteland in which the player can obtain the unique nukalurk meat. Some Nukalurks may also be encountered in the Offices.
Offices
- Big Book of Science - On the middle floor, western edge of the map, due north of Winger Mercier's corpse, on a table.
- Lying, Congressional Style - Also on the middle floor, east/northeast part of the map, on top of a safe, right next to a Marketing terminal.
- Stealth Boy - Beside Winger Mercier's corpse in the Office section.
- Help me note - Found on one of a number of skeletons in a closet telling about the draconian punishments enforced by Milo. The closet can be found on the first floor of the office on the north side. It is locked with a hard lock.
Outside
- Nuka-Cola Quantum - On the south side of the plant at the loading docks inside a truck, along with 10 bottles of regular Nuka-Cola.
Warrington station
- Big Book of Science on the desk next in the room with the door to Metro access & generator.
- Pugilism Illustrated in the sleeping quarters. To find it, walk straight towards where Michael Masters usually sleeps. Turn left and the book is on the shelf inside a crate.
- One Nuka-Cola Quantum hidden between some metal boxes around the middle of the ghoul's sleeping quarters. To the right of the bunk bed with two metal crates on it.
- Dean's Electronics in the room just past the ghouls' sleeping quarters. After you speak to Roy, walk towards the door closer to where Michael Masters sleeps. Go past one room after that into a storage room (lit by a red light) and the book is on the shelf with a stepladder besides it.
Mama Dolce's
- Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor is outside just north of the Mama Dolce's food distribution entrance behind some barrels, next to a dead wastelander, in an overturned storage container.
- Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual is next to one of the snipers in the loading yard area.
- Two Guns and Bullets, one is next to the other sniper on the opposite side of the loading yard and one is in a bathroom stall on the ground floor in the processed foods area.
- Dean's Electronics is on a shelf in the middle of a stairway in the processed food area. It's next to a phone, a toolbox, and a broken terminal.
- Tumblers Today is in the food distribution area. Drop down through two holes in the floor to the lower "cave" area to find the book next to two safes and a skeleton.
- Two pre-War books can be found - one is in the food distribution area, on an upper level next to a terminal. The second book can be found on/under a small table in the upper level in the southeast portion of the processed foods area.
The Capitol building
Capitol Building West entrance
- Nikola Tesla and You on a desk behind a [hard] locked door.
- U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes on a table, southeast part of the Capitol dome.
- At least two Mini nukes and a Fat Man on opponents and/or on shelves inside the dome.
Capitol Building East entrance
- A Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor is on a desk in a row of four desks separated by screens; it is the one with the fallen filing cabinet. The row of desks is just north of the long hallway running east and west to either end of the area.
- A pre-War book is located on the fallen cabinet next to the desk with the Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor on it.
- Nuka-Cola Quantum found in a break room east of the desks with the pre-War book and the Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor.
- A Lying, Congressional Style can be found south of the Capitol building east entrance at Seward Square, in a Pulowski Preservation shelter.
Conference Hall
- A Lying, Congressional Style appropriately stashed on a podium in the Congressional chamber.
Hall of Columns
- D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine on the upper level. A Talon Company sniper is stationed on a bridge, and the book is on a railing facing south. If it is not there it was knocked down in the fire fight (this is common) just reload or look for it on the floor below.
- Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual behind a (hard) locked door accessed from a small hallway found near a turret and a locked turret control terminal in the middle of the hall on the west side.
Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual
No more needed
D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine (34 left)
Closest map marker | Location description |
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Abandoned car fort | To the south, past the wrecked train and radiated zone, in between some ant egg Clutches, next to the corpse of a raider. The corpse may not appear in all games, but the loot should still be there, albeit a bit harder to spot. |
Anchorage Memorial | In Anchorage Memorial Facility, on the bottom floor in the clinic on a table next to the one above the safe, behind a light |
Red's Clinic, in the kitchen. | |
Capitol Building | In Hall of Columns, upper level on a railing near a Talon Company sniper. |
In a bathroom on top of a first aid box mounted on the wall. | |
Fort Constantine | Bomb Storage, on a table next to a Fat Man where you find the T-51b power armor. Can only be accessed with Ted Strayer's special key. |
Georgetown West | In DCTA tunnel 014-B Potomac, through a long water-filled tunnel, on a console with two stimpaks. A mirelurk king may spawn in this room. |
Upper floor, on the conference room's table. Note: There is a mine right beyond the door in this room. If you set it off instead of disarming it the book can be sent flying off the table and be difficult to find. Note: there are two rooms with long wooden tables on this floor. The conference room has blue cushy chairs around the table. | |
Greener Pastures Disposal Site | Silo Door to Makeshift Shack in the northwest area. |
On the bookshelf. | |
Jalbert Brothers Waste Disposal | In the office on the top of a bookshelf. |
Mason Dixon Salvage | In the Abandoned Shack with the broken refrigerator, sitting on the floor. |
Wastelander lake hideout | North-northeast of MDPL-21 power station, at the very top of the map is an irradiated pool marked by toxic barrels with a shipping crate in the back. Swim through the crate and you'll find a small cave with the book on a desk. |
In Benson house, upstairs in the main bedroom on a desk. | |
On a shelf in the kitchen of Museum of History, Lower Halls. Eastern side of the map. | |
Oasis | After you enter the Sunken Chamber in the Oasis Cavern, it is up a path on the left in a crate. |
Our Lady of Hope Hospital | In a room of the first floor guarded by a centaur. |
Our Lady of Hope Hospital | Second floor, cantina (room with the gas leak), on a table. |
Red Racer factory | Near the cafeteria, on the east side of the map, on TOP of large machines -- under a bucket behind a toolbox on Factory Floor Level in the Red Racer factory. Must drop down from a catwalk. |
Relay tower KX-B8-11 | In a drainage tunnel to the southeast. |
Rivet City | In Rivet City bow, in Pinkerton's lab, behind a skeleton. Must be stolen. |
Offices and cafeteria, second floor, computer office room, just southeast of the stairs going up. | |
Roosevelt Academy | Nurse's Office on the first floor. |
In the southern most room of the Living Quarters, on a table next to a Laboratory terminal. | |
Vernon Square East | In the crater with the crashed Delta IX rocket, take the sewer entrance. Kill the super mutants inside their small hideout and you're free to take it. Note: You'll need a large amount of RadAway and Rad-X, as this is possibly the second highest concentration of radiation in the game (40 rads/sec). |
Dean's Electronics (36 left)
Closest map marker | Location description |
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Anchorage Memorial | In Anchorage Memorial Facility, in the infirmary on the west side, in an Average-locked floor safe under a table on the north wall of the room. If you used the Access Codes to unlock the terminal near the Nuka-Cola Vending Machine, you can remotely unlock the safe. |
Andale | To the east, in a truck on the road. The truck is also an easy find by going northwest from the Nuka-Cola plant, straight uphill. |
In Bethesda Offices West, on the third floor at the bottom of a wooden crate on a desk under a conductor, hammer and some other stuff. | |
Canterbury Commons | In Dominic and Machete's house, on the desk to the left as you enter the room. |
On a desk on the second floor near the Ant Queen. | |
Dunwich Building | In Forsaken Dunwich Ruins, on a shelf in a small room. |
In Hubris Comics Utility, on a desk close to the Grayditch sewer exit. | |
Just outside the building, inside of the Pulowski Preservation shelter. | |
On top of the workbench. | |
Mama Dolce's | In Mama Dolce's Processed Foods, on a shelf in a stairwell at the southwest corner of the map |
MDPL-05 Power Station | Leaning against the toolbox. |
Metro Central | Near Foggy Bottom Station exit, behind a locked gate in generator area on a table. |
Nuka-Cola plant | Factory floor on the desk, take a right when you first enter the building. |
In the dry sewers that lead from the basement of Our Lady of Hope Hospital to Dupont Circle. It's on a shelf in a room at the south end. | |
Ranger Compound | On top of the generator in the pantry. May get stuck inside or under the generator. |
Red Racer factory | Enter through the front, going to the room straight ahead with a giant teddy bear on a tricycle suspended in the air. If you jump on the barrels to the left of a machine so you are on top, there is a toolbox with the book next to it. |
Relay Tower KX-B8-11 | To the southeast, near Hilltop Farm Ruins, on top of a barrel inside a flipped-over container in a small radioactive pond. |
In Rivet City bow, in Pinkerton's lab, on the shelf. Must be stolen. | |
Rockbreaker's Last Gas | In an abandoned shack on the cliff to the west, in a wooden crate under the workbench. |
Tepid Sewers | In the raider hideout (in the tunnels behind sandbags). Enter the hideout, turn left, and enter the small room on your left. The book will be on the right corner behind toolbox (near generator). |
VAPL-58 power station | On the desk next to the computer. |
VAPL-66 power station | On the desk with the broken computer. |
Vault 92 | On a shelf in the destroyed barn to the west. |
Vernon Square | In a small sewer area marked as 'Sewer Entrance' (not the sewer down in the crater) on the local map in Vernon Square (at the end alley to the right of the Cinema, opposite the Statesman Hotel). The book is on a table behind an Average locked door, along with a sawed-off shotgun. |
Warrington station | Past the beds where you meet Roy Phillips, in the room lit with a red light, on the southern shelf. Must be stolen. |
Duck and Cover! (36)
Closest map marker | Location description |
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Alexandria Arms | On the first floor, southern-most part of the building. On a bookshelf next to a fire hose box. |
Charnel House | Second floor of the ruined house, across the plank bridge. |
Citadel | In Citadel Laboratory, in the restrooms in a wooden crate inside one of the stalls. |
Deathclaw Sanctuary | Outside the entrance in a locked footlocker. |
To the south close to the river, on a small table in a raider "fort" on the coast. | |
Evergreen Mills | Foundry: Lying next to a dead body on the ledge above the broken terminal of the ground. To reach it, you must jump off the stairs to the ledge. |
F. Scott Key Trail & Campground | On a picnic table. |
In a ticket booth hidden behind a barricade near the glowing ones. This book only spawns when you reach level 9. | |
Fort Constantine | On a desk in the Launch Control Bunker. |
Germantown Police HQ | From the entrance to the fence maze outside of Germantown Police HQ, head south for ten yards or so. You'll find a destroyed road. Follow that south to an intersection by two ruined houses. Then follow the road west for a little while and you will see a house. Look on the bookshelf. |
Hamilton's Hideaway | In the raider's lair on the counter by some cherry bombs and a bottle of Nuka-Cola Quantum |
Jocko's Pop & Gas stop | In the Signal Sierra Victor drainage chamber to the east of the activating antenna mast. |
Monorail train wreckage | Next to the bathtub, on the ground. |
To the north, inside the Super mutant bunker on a desk. | |
National Archives | Lower level in the northwest corner, in a room full of bookshelves. It is sitting on top of a school desk next to a pair of missiles. |
National Archives | Sub-basement in the generator room behind a very hard locked gate. |
National Guard depot | Depot Offices, on a long, wooden table near a pocket of radiation on the third floor. |
Old Olney sewer | At the end of a rocky tunnel next to a skeleton. |
Outside, to the north northeast, at scavenger's bridge. It is on a shelf together with copies of Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual and Grognak the Barbarian. Must be stolen. | |
SatCom Array NW-07c | To the northeast, halfway straight airline towards SatCom Array NW-05a: Down in the valley next to a few car wrecks. It's on the ground next to a skeleton and three ammunition boxes. Coordinates (1.4, 2.9) (Horizontal, Vertical Coordinates) according to Fallout 3 map. See map image attached below. |
On the upper floor, next to the active computer terminal past the locked library doors. | |
To the north, in a camp under a bridge. Watch out for a landmine at the opening of the camp that will blow book away and sometimes glitch into the wall disappearing. | |
Tenpenny Tower | Just west of the tower, towards Warrington Trainyard, in a completely destroyed house on top of a shelf. |
In the Overseer's office on a shelf. | |
Wasteland Gypsy Village | Southeastern shack with the pile of skeletal remains. Behind the turned over table next to the mini nuke. |
Grognak the Barbarian (32 left)
Closest map marker | Location description |
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Andale | In Smiths' basement, on right side of counter closest to the doorway. |
In Bethesda Underworks, go down the stairs and into the side passage off of the train tracks in a small room. | |
Broadcast tower KB5 | In the small raider camp immediately southwest of the tower buried beneath some tin cans in a box. |
Canterbury Commons | Derek Pacion carries one. Must be stolen. |
Chaste Acres Dairy Farm | On second floor of the barn, lying next to a bed. |
Cliffside Cavern | In the sniper nest in the main hall, at the base of one of the generators. (From the central platform with burn barrel and chess board, it is the platform directly northeast. Bright lights - large generator - wooden housing. Grognak is on top of that housing.) |
Clifftop shacks | In a shack. Beware of the super mutant master. |
North-northwest of the Corvega factory is a Sewer Grate to Drainage Tunnels. Go in, and into the room ahead to your right. Grognak is on the bookshelf straight ahead as you enter. (This is the Yankee Bravo radio signal origination point.) | |
Fort Constantine | Personnel Offices, first floor, behind a "Hard" locked door. |
Georgetown West | West, you can get here by running through Tepid Sewers, it's on the second level of the building the super mutants are around, on a shelf with the ammunition crates. |
In the area where Mad Johnny Wes is located. | |
In Jericho's apartment. | |
In Gillian house, upstairs on the child's bed. | |
On a table near the Metro Central exit. | |
Red Racer factory | Outside, immediately to the south, in a rusty shipping container of toxic waste barrels. |
Outside, to the north-northeast, at Scavenger's Bridge. It is on a shelf together with Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual and Duck and Cover!. Must be stolen. | |
In an ammunition box in the burned out bus near the red railroad car NW of the building that is north of the Office (not the same red car where Dogmeat is found). You can get the key from the random encounter "More Than Just Scrap", or you can just pick the lock (hard). | |
Silver Lining Drive-In | On a table in a nearby shack. |
Statesman Hotel Restaurant | On a shelf in the middle of main room. |
Temple of the Union | In the raider camp on the highway nearby, on a table in one of the shacks. (Only available after finishing the Head of State quest.) |
Tenleytown/Friendship station | Friendship half. In a small office. Check two sets of lockers: it is placed on the top left shelf. |
A copy will be given to you by Amata in Growing Up Fast during your birthday party. If you don't use it during this quest, it will be in the dresser in your room when you start the Escape! quest. | |
Vault-Tec headquarters | On a desk on the top floor of the Vault-Tec Office. |
Vernon Square North | In Metro Junction. It's halfway down to the platform; a board leads over the railing, and there is a table with a lamp below. |
Yao guai tunnels | On a ledge accessible after passing through the yao guai den next to a raider corpse. |
Guns and Bullets (34 left)
Closest map marker | Location description |
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Alexandria Arms | On a desk on the second floor, near a terminal. |
Top floor of the Children's Wing. To get there, you have to go through the Media Wing. | |
In the Pulowski preservation shelter immediately outside and to the the north. | |
Chryslus Building | Reception Area, northern room. |
Citadel | In A Ring, in The Den, under one of the beds. |
Dickerson Tabernacle Chapel | In the Tabernacle, among the ammunition boxes on the north side. |
Everglow National Campground | In the silver trailer that serves as the main raider lair. |
Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro | In Franklin Metro utility, downstairs in the center of the second room, in a gated off area on a desk with a shotgun, some missiles, and a Stealth Boy. |
First big open room behind left (West) pillar with a skeleton. | |
Fort Bannister | Bunker area, in locker room on top of a gun cabinet. |
Fort Constantine | CO Quarters of Fort Constantine, on the bed. |
Fort Constantine | Behind a Very Hard locked door in the Bomb Storage of Fort Constantine accessed through the Launch Control Bunker. |
An abandoned home in eastern Grayditch. | |
Hamilton's Hideaway | In the locked weapons stash. The key can be obtained by completing the quest "Galaxy News Radio" if you already know James' location before returning to Three Dog. |
Mama Dolce's | In the the Loading Yard, on the floor next to a Chinese remnant sergeant who is stationed as a sniper on the western upper level. |
Mama Dolce's | At the Processed Foods section, in a men's bathroom stall on the ground floor underneath a pile of burned books. |
Second story of a building north of the entrance. The building overlooks a park with a bunch of mutants roaming around. | |
MDPL Mass Relay Station | Power station, on a table immediately to the left after entering through the wooden door. |
On a desk in a hidden room in the West Wing, near the rocket display. Jump down from above or walk along adjacent thin railing to reach. | |
Old Olney | In a post box next to the crashed Nuka-Cola truck to the east of the town. |
Red Racer factory | To the east, in a raider camp located in a dead-end alley. In front of the refrigerators. |
Under bed next to Sonora Cruz. * Can only be reached with Lawbringer perk. | |
Relay Tower KX-B8-11 | Southeast, in an outhouse located at the Hilltop Farm Ruins |
Rockbreaker's Last Gas | In the Sniper Shack to the west. |
In an ammunition container in the burned out bus near the red railroad car NW of the building that is north of the Office (not the same red car where Dogmeat is found). You can get the key from the random encounter "More Than Just Scrap", or you can just pick the lock (hard). |
Lying, Congressional Style (32 left)
Closest map marker | Location description |
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Children's Wing, it's next to the coffee-makers on a countertop in a break room. | |
Capitol Building | In Conference Hall, on a podium. |
Capitol Building | South of The Capitol building East Entrance in Seward Square, inside of a Pulowski preservation shelter. |
On the reception desk near the entrance | |
Dupont Station | Near the entrance from Dupont, in a bucket on table in first room to the right with a protectron and a computer terminal. |
Georgetown North | In McClellan family townhome. |
On the ground floor, in the corner of a classroom on the child-sized rusty desk. | |
On a safe where you kill Ryan Brigg in the Jury St. tunnels. | |
Southwest of the entrance, inside the unmarked Calverton church. | |
Megaton | Can be found upstairs, on the desk, in your Megaton House after purchasing the Love Machine Theme. |
After completing the Arlington Library portion of The Wasteland Survival Guide and its optional objective, Moira will give you a copy. | |
Meresti Trainyard | In Meresti Metro Station, under a box on top of the train. |
National Archives | In the secure wing east, next to the safe containing the Bill of Rights. |
Nuka-Cola plant | Offices, on top of an open safe in a northeastern room on the second floor. |
Rivet City | Outside of the carrier, northwest of the entrance in a Mutant Camp with a captive. |
Factory floor, on large desk at back of foyer. | |
Robot Repair Center | In Mechanist's Forge (Section A, 2nd floor) on desk. |
In the office. * Can only be reached with the Contract Killer perk. | |
Takoma Industrial | Eastern room. |
Tenleytown/Friendship station | In one of the several metal shelves near two feral ghouls who have killed a female mercenary in a cross tunnel between the tracks. |
Tenpenny Tower | Can be found in your Tenpenny Suite after purchasing the Love Machine Theme. |
Tenpenny Tower | It can be found in Tenpenny Tower in Allistair Tenpenny's suite. Book respawns after helping the ghouls get into the Tower forcefully. |
Vault 108 | Cloning Lab, on a table in the same room as the Charisma Bobblehead. |
Vernon East/Takoma Park | Coming into the Vernon East/Takoma Park metro from Vernon Square East, you'll find one just a few feet away in a ticket booth. |
Nikola Tesla and You (38 left)
Closest map marker | Location description |
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Arlington Library | In the Talon Company outpost south of the library, on top of a round table on the highest level. |
Capitol Building | In Capitol Building West Entrance, on a table behind a Hard locked door. |
Deathclaw Sanctuary | In the first area on a table next to the Endurance Bobblehead. |
Evergreen Mills | In the bazaar area, on top of a bed in one of the cells that surround the topmost room. |
Farragut West Metro Station | In a room with a terminal and safe. |
Foggy Bottom Station | In the room with the protectron on the computer console adjacent to the protectron charging pad. |
Fort Bannister | On the roof of a lower catwalk along with a ham radio and ammunition box, directly beneath the player when entering the missile silo from the sewer access point. |
Jocko's Pop & Gas Stop | Inside. |
Southwest of the entrance, south of the unmarked Calverton church in a broken house. It can easily be reached by walking east from Evergreen Mills. | |
Complete the Rube's Gold Ribbon unmarked quest, inside the Gold Ribbon Grocers. | |
Mason Dixon Salvage | On the table inside the Abandoned Shack with the broken refrigerator |
Mason Dixon Salvage | To the northeast is an Abandoned tent with the book inside, on a shelf between two ammunition boxes. |
MDPL-21 Power Station | On a workbench. |
Megaton | A copy can be found if you buy the Science theme from Moira Brown. It is in the bookcase next to the stairs. |
Near the entrance. In a ladies bathroom stall. | |
Atrium: In control room overlooking the entrance, next to the maintenance terminal. | |
National Guard depot | In a single room with a door labeled "Authorized Personnel Only" on the lowest floor. |
Red Racer factory | On a shelf behind a locked door (average) in the CEO Offices. |
Offices and cafeteria, second floor, desk in northwest corner of office. | |
Robot repair center | Next to a broken protectron on the first floor. |
SatCom Array NW-05a | Midway to the MDPL-05 Power Station to the west, at the Raider Wharf, on the roof of the boat. |
Taft Tunnels | (while escorting Scientists during The Waters of Life quest): next to Nuka-Cola Quantum on a green bench. |
Vault 87 | In a box near a stone statue in the reactor chamber. |
Near the studio computer. | |
Vault 106 | Living Quarters, upper catwalk room with school desks and a switched off projector. Inside the bottom wooden box in a stack on the large desk. |
Pugilism Illustrated (38 left)
Closest map marker | Location description |
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Anacostia Crossing | In Anacostia Crossing Station, the northern end of the upper level, on a table with various chems, alcohol, etc. |
Anchorage Memorial | North of the Memorial in a lone super mutant's camp, inside a truck |
Arefu | After completing the Blood Ties quest, if you secure the bloodpacks for protection agreement. Alan takes over the house near the brahmin pen at the bottom of bridge. It is laying on a table to the left of the entrance. |
Charnel House | In a Drainage Chamber West of Charnel House, North of where you get the Signal Papa November. |
Chaste Acres Dairy Farm | Inside grain silo. |
Chryslus Building | Lower Offices, upstairs, in one of the buckets next to a vending machine. |
Clifftop Shacks | Inside the larger of two shacks, on a bookcase in the second room. |
Upstairs, in the bedroom. Must be stolen. | |
Faded Pomp Estates | In one ruined house, by bed, at the foot of fireplace. It's the nearest house to the east of the fast-travel point. |
Outside the southern map marker (West of Arlington Library), in the raider camp southeast of the southern entrance, on the makeshift kitchen table. | |
Southwest of the entrance, inside the unmarked Calverton church. | |
L.O.B. Enterprises | In a room full of shelves on the first floor. |
Metro Central | On a shelf in a locked supply closet (average) close to the Museum station. |
In Zane house, upstairs in the kid's room. | |
Moonbeam Outdoor Cinema | On one of the picnic tables. |
Penn. Ave Northwest | Near the White House, on the table in the first room on the right inside the Utility Tunnels. |
Roosevelt Academy | Academy ground floor, in men's restroom. |
Roosevelt Academy | Maintenance and evacuation, third generator room, on shelves in northwest corner. |
SatCom Array NN-03d | Tower C, on the leftmost toilet seat |
SatCom Array NW-07c | In the Internment Truck on the elevated highway near SatCom Array NW-07c. |
Inside the mailbox of the destroyed house west of Red Rocket Gas. | |
Vault 87 | In the room with an average lock on the first floor of the living quarters. |
Vault 108 | Living Quarters, on the counter in the cafeteria. |
Warrington station | At the beds area where you meet Roy Phillips, its in a wooden crate on the shelf across from the bed that Michael Masters sleeps in. |
In Lucky's, behind the counter. |
Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor (30 left)
Closest map marker | Location description |
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Abandoned Car Fort | Left of the ammunition boxes. |
Andale or Fairfax ruins | In the concrete treehouse halfway between Andale and Fairfax ruins. |
Media Archive: on a table with a coffee machine, in a room with a pool table and a Nuka-Cola vending machine. North-west part of the map. | |
To the east, in the raid shack, on a coffee table in the bedroom on the second floor of the shack. | |
In Bethesda Underworks, on a bucket sitting on a bench found right after coming from the tunnel at the entrance. | |
Capitol Building | In Capitol Building East Entrance, on a desk in an office area, opposite the center office door from the hallway that runs East/West. |
Inside Lady Frumperton's Fashions. | |
Grisly diner | On a shelf. |
Once you go in the door, there is a computer terminal directly ahead which will explode. It is on a shelf to the left of the terminal. | |
Little Lamplight | In Murder Pass on a toilet in the southeast corner of the room north of the entrance. |
Mama Dolce's | Outside, opposite the entrance to the Food Distribution section, in a broken container with several barrels inside |
National Archives | In a strongroom, on the side by a safe. |
National Guard depot | Depot Training Wing, on a desk in an office area located on the second floor. |
Reclining Groves Resort Homes | Easternmost destroyed home, on top of a shelf |
Sewer Waystation | Carried by a ghoul named Gallo. |
Statesman Hotel | In the north-eastern room on the second floor, on a desk, next to a phone and 2 coffee mugs. |
On the counter directly in front of the room with the protectron. if it is not on the counter, check the floor around it, it may have been knocked off somehow. | |
Temple of the Union | In a raider fortress on top of a highway to the southwest. (Only available after finishing the Head of State quest.) |
Tenpenny Tower | Next to the Love Letter on a desk in Susan Lancaster's room. This book can be found again after helping the ghouls getting into the Tower forcefully! |
To the east, in Willy's Grocer. | |
In the supply room, on the shelf just behind supply room terminal. | |
Vault-Tec headquarters | In the Guest Relations area after you come down from Administration. |
Wasteland Gypsy Village | Northern shack on top of a desk in the north-western area of the room. |
Tumblers Today (38 left)
Closest map marker | Location description |
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Media Archives: The desk flanked by two sets of microfiche readers in the room with the safe (it's the southern-most room) that is very close to the Children's Wing door. A battle with raiders may knock the book off the desk; check the floor if there is nothing on the desk. | |
Broadcast tower KB5 | In the drainage chamber on the floor in front of a locked door. |
Broadcast tower KB5 | To the west-northwest, in the ruins of a house occupied by raiders, on a shelf along the wall that is shared with a freezer filled with gore. It's next to the plates on the shelves. Note that a car exploding outside can knock the skill book off the shelf, making it very hard to find. |
Drowned Devil's Crossing | In the red truck trailer near the bridge. |
Falls Church | Southernmost office building, on a desk. Watch out for traps. |
Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro | In Franklin Metro utility, on the lower floor to the right of the turret. It is on top of the locked mine box (average). |
Outside the southern map market (West of Arlington Library), in the raider camp. A copy is located on a raised platform, where the raider that carries missile launcher usually is. | |
Freedom Street Station | On a table where the scavenger resides. Must be stolen. |
Basement: in the locked weapons closet. | |
After triggering the mechanism inside Gold Ribbon Grocers. | |
L.O.B. Enterprises | East Wing on CEO's desk. Be careful if using explosives, which may cause it to fly into the terrain. |
Mama Dolce's | At the Food Distribution section, in the dug-out basement, next to two locked safes (one average, one hard) and three upturned desks |
Mason Dixon Salvage | On the floor next to the footlocker in the abandoned shack, the one that doesn't have the broken refrigerator inside. |
Meresti trainyard | In the Meresti service tunnel, on the table near Robert's bed (the guy who guards the entrance to the Family gang encampment). While it is among owned goods, the book itself can be taken without a Karma penalty. |
Meresti trainyard * | Sitting in a bathtub in one of the demolished houses south-southeast of the yard. |
In Gibson house, sitting in the office on the desk. | |
Nuka-Cola plant | In the factory floor area in the closet with the safe in the room with the computer that has the shipping manifest. |
Roosevelt Arts and Athletics Hall | On a desk near a locked safe of the third floor. |
Seward Sq. North Metro | In the sewer, which is northeast of the map marker. Near the debris area on the southeastern tunnel - Hidden stash note will lead you to it. |
Talon Company camp | West of sewer waystation, in the store room on a shelf. |
Smith Casey's garage | In the safe behind the counter located on the immediate right as you enter the garage. |
Southeast of the tower, on a bookshelf on the second floor of a wrecked building. | |
Vault 106 | The science area: after going down both flights of stairs, there is a room to your right with two visible lockers. In the back of this room on the left. |
Vault 108 | Entrance floor in a small storage room adjacent to the malfunctioning generator. Behind several yellow metal crates is an metal ladder on top of which is a Nuka-cola Quantum, book is under the ladder, but apparently inaccessible. Try to throw grenade inside ladder, blast may launch the book to a more accessible place. |
Wasteland gypsy village | Outside the center enterable shack. In a turned over refrigerator to the left of the door. |
U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes (38 left)
Closest map marker | Location description |
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Anchorage Memorial | In the Anchorage Memorial service entrance, in the Utility Room. It requires a repair skill of 95 or only a repair skill of 35 with the door component from the Facility. |
Arlington Cemetery North | In the Arlington utility tunnels. From Arlington Cemetery north, go up a set of stairs on the left then right at the top. It's on a shelf on the right side of the room. |
On a chair inside an open container on the way to the Arlington Cemetery exit. | |
In Bethesda Offices East, on a raider with a flamer normally on the top floor. (Respawns every 73 'game time' hours.) | |
Capitol Building | In Capitol Building West Entrance, on a table in the dome, where you fight the super mutant behemoth; this one is likely to have been knocked off in the firefight. |
In a truck to the south under the unfinished highway. | |
Dupont Northeast | Found in the Sunken Sewers on a locked safe (average). |
Evergreen Mills | Second room in the southern shack, on a bookshelf. |
Fairfax ruins | In the car dealership building to the east, on the upper level where there are smaller, ruined vehicles. You need to jump onto the coffee table in the corner to get to there. Its on a generator. |
Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro | In Franklin Metro Utility, through an underwater section of the subway tunnels near a lot of radiation. On a shelf with missles and darts, etc. Can also be reached from the subway entrance next to Hubris Comics |
Farragut West Metro Station | Bottom of the room with the ghouls, behind a locked door (average). |
Five Axles Rest Stop | In the truck that serves as the main raider lair. |
Georgetown East | In La Maison Beauregard, on the floor beside a desk with a cash register on your left when you enter the lobby. |
Grisly diner | In the bus to the north. |
??Jury Street Metro Station | In a truck located at the mid-point between Jury Street Metro Station and VAPL-84 power station |
L'Enfant Plaza | In L'Enfant, northeast corner, in is a small camp underneath a partially-collapsed overpass. |
Little Lamplight | In Murder Pass, in the southwestern most tunnel. |
National Guard depot | In the armory, next to the Experimental MIRV |
Nuka-Cola plant | To the north on a table in Dot's Diner. |
Reclining Groves Resort Homes | On a hill to the north-northeast, directly northeast of the scavenger's barn, among a heap of tin cans and a dead mercenary and Wasteland settler. |
In a raider camp, located in a dead-end alley to the east. It is at the foot of the bed. | |
In an ammunition container in the burned out bus near the red railroad car NW of the building that is north of the office (not the same red car where Dogmeat is found). You can get the key from the random encounter "More Than Just Scrap", or you can just pick the lock (hard). | |
Takoma Industrial | In the auto shop by Takoma Industrial, watch out for the behemoth right outside. |
VAPL-58 power station | On the roof. |
Wheaton Armory | In a room full of weapons on the bottom floor behind a very hard door or a very hard terminal. |