Fallout 3 quests

From The Vault

This is the list of known Fallout 3 quests. For a detailed walkthrough, visit each quest's page.

Every quest which appears in your Pip-Boy grants an achievement (on the Xbox 360 and PC) or a trophy (on the PlayStation 3) upon completion. Unmarked quests do not provide achievements/trophies, but can provide karma (good or bad), caps, or other items.

Contents 1 Tutorial quests 2 Main quests 3 Side quests 4 Unmarked quests 5 Repeatable quests 6 Add-on quests 6.1 Operation: Anchorage 6.2 The Pitt 6.2.1 Unmarked quests 6.3 Broken Steel 6.3.1 Side quests 6.3.2 Unmarked quests 6.4 Point Lookout 6.4.1 Side quests 6.4.2 Unmarked quests 6.5 Mothership Zeta 7 See also

Tutorial quests

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Achievement points	Trophy	Quest ID	Image
Baby Steps	Vault 101	Dad	5 points to add to your SPECIALs	0	-	00014e83
Growing Up Fast	Vault 101	Dad	Pip-Boy 3000, Grognak the Barbarian, BB Gun, 50 BBs	10	Bronze	00014e84
Future Imperfect	Vault 101	Dad	Add 15 points to 3 skills.	10	Bronze	00014e85

Main quests

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Achievement points	Trophy	Quest ID	Image
Escape!	Vault 101	Amata	Access to the Wasteland	20	Bronze	00014e86
Following in His Footsteps	Megaton	Colin Moriarty	Clue to Dad's location	20	Bronze	00014e87
Galaxy News Radio	Galaxy News Radio (station) Museum of Technology Washington Monument	Three Dog	Clue to Dad's location or weapon stash	20	Bronze	00014e88
Scientific Pursuits	Rivet City	Three Dog in Galaxy News Radio or Doctor Li in Rivet City	Clue to Dad's location	20	Bronze	00014e89
Tranquility Lane	Vault 112	Robobrain in Vault 112	Reunited with Dad	20	Bronze	00014e8a
The Waters of Life	Jefferson Memorial	Dad	Access to the Citadel Power Armor Training	20	Bronze	00014e8b
Picking up the Trail	Citadel Little Lamplight	Elder Lyons	The location of all vaults Access to Vault 87	20	Bronze	00014e8c
Rescue from Paradise	Little Lamplight	MacCready	Access to Little Lamplight	20	Bronze	00014e8d
Finding the Garden of Eden	Vault 87 Raven Rock	Scribe Rothchild	Access to Raven Rock	20	Bronze	00014e8e
The American Dream	Raven Rock Citadel	President Eden	Power Armor & Power Helmet or Recon Armor & Recon Armor Helmet	20	Bronze	00014e8f
Take it Back!	Citadel Jefferson Memorial	Elder Lyons	Control of Project Purity/ End of Game (unless Broken Steel is downloaded)	40	Silver	00014e91

Main quests with names in italics can be skipped through a speech check. This is the only way to skip Galaxy News Radio (other than through unintentional glitches), though Rescue from Paradise can also be skipped through use of Child at Heart to convince MacCready to let the player into Little Lamplight. Both quests can then be completed as a side quest at any time.

All quests up to Tranquility Lane can be skipped by finding and entering Vault 112. Doing so may cause some bugs and glitches.

Side quests

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Achievement points	Trophy	Quest ID	Image
Big Trouble in Big Town	Big Town	Anyone in the town	300 XP and medical Supplies, around 200-500 Caps	20	Bronze	00014e94
The Superhuman Gambit	Canterbury Commons	Uncle Roe	200 Caps, 400 Caps, or 600 Caps, Ant's Sting or Protectron's Gaze	20	Bronze	00014e95
The Wasteland Survival Guide	Megaton	Moira Brown	The Wasteland Survival Guide, Survival Expert, and various smaller rewards for each mission and chapter or Dream Crusher	20	Bronze	00014e96
Those!	Grayditch	Bryan Wilks	Ant Might or Ant Sight & Lesko's Lab Coat	20	Bronze	00014e97
The Nuka-Cola Challenge	Girdershade	Sierra Petrovita	1200 Caps, and Schematics - Nuka Grenade, or 2400 Caps	20	Bronze	00014e98
Head of State	Temple of the Union	Hannibal Hamlin	Schematics - Dart Gun, 300-400 XP	20	Bronze	00014e99
The Replicated Man	Rivet City	Dr. Zimmer	50 Caps or A3-21's Plasma Rifle or Wired Reflexes	20	Bronze	00014e9b
Blood Ties	Megaton Arefu	Lucy West	Schematics - Shishkebab Hematophage (Optional)	20	Bronze	00014e9c
Oasis	Oasis	Harold	Path 1 = Barkskin Path 2 =Linden's Outcast Power Armor, Poplar's Hood Path 3 =Missile Launcher, Maple's Garb	20	Bronze	0002a274
The Power of the Atom	Megaton Tenpenny Tower	Lucas Simms Burke	Simms Path: My Megaton House and 100 Caps, 500 Caps, or Good Karma Burke Path: Tenpenny Tower Suite, 500 or 1000 Caps and Bad Karma	20	Bronze	00014e9e
Tenpenny Tower	Tenpenny Tower	Gustavo or Roy Phillips	500 Caps & 10mm SMG or 700 Caps & Chinese Assault Rifle or Ghoul Mask	20	Bronze	00014e9f
Strictly Business	Paradise Falls	Grouse	250 Caps for each of the 4 targets and Bad Karma	20	Bronze	00014ea0
You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head	Underworld	Mister Crowley	Path 1: 400 Caps Path 2: T-51b Power Armor	20	Bronze	00014ea1
Stealing Independence	Rivet City	Abraham Washington	400 Caps, Schematics - Railway Rifle or Bad Karma	20	Bronze	00014ea2
Trouble on the Homefront	Vault 101	Vault 101 Distress Signal	Modified Utility Jumpsuit Banishment from Vault 101	20	Bronze	00014ea3
Agatha's Song	Agatha's House	Agatha	Agatha's Station and Blackhawk.	20	Bronze	00014ea4
Reilly's Rangers	Underworld	Reilly	Ranger Body Armor or Eugene	20	Bronze	00014ea5

Unmarked quests

Aside from the major quests listed above, there are a number of minor ones that are not listed as quests in your Pip-Boy. They don't count as achievements either.

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward
300 Pieces of Silver	Megaton	Colin Moriarty	Varies, at most 500 Caps.
A Manhandled Manservant	Rockopolis	Argyle's Corpse	Key to Dashwood's Safe
A Nice Day for a Right Wedding	Rivet City	Angela Staley	Good Karma
A Sticky Situation	Little Lamplight	Sticky	Caps
Bittercup Runneth Over	Big Town	Bittercup	Various items
Biwwy's Wazer Wifle	Little Lamplight	Biwwy	Wazer Wifle
Bully the Bully	Little Lamplight	Princess	Bad Karma
Caching in with Three Dog	Galaxy News Radio	Three Dog	Guns and Bullets, Mini Nuke, Stealth Boy, Assault Rifle, Leveled Armor
Cherry's Freedom	Dukov's Place	Cherry	Good Karma
Council Seat	Rivet City	Bannon	Schematics - Deathclaw Gauntlet, shop discount, shop price increase
Economics of Violence	Paradise Falls	Pronto	20% discount at the Lock and Load and a better shop inventory
Election Day	Republic of Dave	Dave	25 Caps (possibly Ol' Painless)
Gallows Humor	Citadel	Paladin Kodiak	1000 Caps
Grady's Package	Marigold Station	Grady's Corpse	Naughty Nightwear
High Plains Drifter	Dickerson Tabernacle Chapel	Drifter	Reservist's Rifle, location of Oasis
Hired Help	The Ninth Circle, Underworld	Ahzrukhal	Charon as your companion
Jiggs' Loot	Museum of Technology	Prime (via a terminal)	500 Caps, Xuanlong Assault Rifle
John's Treasure Box	Random Encounter	(key and note?)	3 Books
JP Stash Note	Sewer (metro)	holodisk	Ammo, Grenades, Book
Just for the Taste of It	Nuka-Cola Factory	Winger Mercier	250/400 Caps, (Ledoux's Hockey Mask)
Keller Family Refuge	North of VAPL-58 Power Station	A Keller Family Transcript	Experimental MIRV, 5 Mini Nukes, Random Loot
Leo's Drug Habit	Megaton	Doc Church or Mister Burke	Good Karma, Med Stash, XP
Light-Fingers Hargrave	Rivet City	James Hargrave	Ammo
Lincoln's Profit Margins	Museum of History	Abraham Washington, Hannibal Hamlin, Leroy Walker	Caps
Merchant Empire	Canterbury Commons	Uncle Roe	Improved inventories and repair abilities for Caravan Merchants, Crow's Eyebot Helmet, Mini Nuke, Stimpaks, Stealth Boys
Our Little Secret	Andale	Old Man Harris	Good Karma, some loot
Overdose	Rivet City	Paulie Cantelli	Bad Karma
Reign of Grelok	Hubris Comics	Terminal	None
Rube's Gold Ribbon	Gold Ribbon Grocers	Entering the Store	Nikola Tesla and You, Tumblers Today, Missiles, Mini-Nuke
Searching for Cheryl	L'Enfant South	Finding the burial mound	Mini Nuke, various loot
Slave Hunt	Rivet City	Mei Wong	Good Karma and/or location of the Temple of the Union
Suicide Watch	Rivet City	Mister Lopez	Good or Bad Karma
The Kid-Kidnapper	Paradise Falls	Eulogy Jones	Boogeyman's Hood
The Lost Initiate	Falls Church	Paladin Hoss	250 XP, 100 Caps (if asked)
The Preacher	Seward Square	Approaching the preacher	Mini Nukes, Frag Mines
The Runaways	Rivet City	James Hargrave	Good Karma
Ticking Timebomb	Big Town	Timebomb	Lucky 8 Ball, Caps
Treatment	Megaton	Walter	Caps or Good Karma, and XP.
Worst. Doctor. Ever	Citadel	Sawbones	Medical storage health and Chems

Repeatable quests

Some characters want specific items. These can be repeatedly given for xp, caps or Karma.

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Require	Reward
Church Donations	Megaton, Rivet City	Confessor Cromwell, Mother Maya, Father Clifford	Caps	1 point of Karma for each cap
Collecting Holotags	The Citadel	Scribe Jameson	Brotherhood Holotag	100 Caps and 25 XP per Holotag
Fungus Deal	Little Lamplight	Lucy, Eclair	Buffout, Strange Meat	Cave Fungus
Geomapping with Reilly	Ranger Compound	Reilly	Pip-Boy 3000 locations	30 Caps per location
I Want to Drink Your Blood	Meresti Station	Vance	Blood Pack	15 caps per blood pack
Mississippi Quantum Pie	Girdershade	Sierra Petrovita	Nuka-Cola Quantum, Vodka, Flour	Mississippi Quantum Pie
Murphy's Bombing Run	Northwest Seneca Station	Murphy	Sugar Bombs	15 Caps per box, 30 with persuasion; eventually he will sell Ultrajet to you (one per 8 boxes).
Nectar Collecting for Fun and Profit	Grayditch	Lesko	Fire Ant Nectar	40 Caps per sample
Ryan Briggs' Wondermeat	Jury St. Station	Wonder Meat Maker	Mole Rat Meat, Wonderglue	Mole Rat Wonder Meat
Strictly Profitable	Paradise Falls	Grouse	Slaves	Caps
The Outcast Collection Agent	Fort Independence	Protector Casdin	Power Armor, Scrap Metal, Energy Weapons, Sensor Module	5.56mm Rounds, Frag Grenades, Rad Away, or Stimpaks. Access to Fort Independence
This Old House	Underworld	Winthrop	Scrap Metal	Trade 5 pieces of Scrap Metal for a Stimpack, Rad-X, or Rad Away
Walter's Scrap Metal	Megaton	Walter	Scrap Metal	10 Caps or Karma and XP for each piece of Scrap Metal you bring to Walter, available after completing Treatment
Water Beggars	Outside Megaton, Rivet City and Tenpenny Tower	Micky, Carlos, Willy	Purified Water	Good Karma
Yearning for Learning	Arlington Library	Brotherhood of Steel	Pre-War Book	100 Caps and 10 XP per Book
Zip's Nuka Fix	Little Lamplight	Zip	Nuka-Cola	Various items (usually one 10mm bullet per Nuka-Cola)

Add-on quests

Quests which appear in the add-ons.

Operation: Anchorage

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Achievement points	Trophy	Quest ID	Image
Aiding the Outcasts	Bailey's Crossroads	Outcast Distress Signal	100 XP	20	Silver	xx0009be
The Guns of Anchorage	Anchorage Reclamation simulation (Outcast Outpost)	Sgt. Benjamin Montgomery	100 XP	20	Silver	xx0009bf
Paving the Way	Anchorage Reclamation simulation (Outcast Outpost)	General Chase	100 XP	20	Silver	xx0009c0
Operation: Anchorage!	Anchorage Reclamation simulation (Outcast Outpost)	General Chase	See Operation: Anchorage (quest)	40	Gold	xx0014f6

The Pitt

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Achievement points	Trophy	Quest ID	Image
Into the Pitt	Radio Tower Train Tunnel	Wernher	100 XP	20	Silver	xx00108c
Unsafe Working Conditions	Steelyard The Mill The Hole	Midea	150 XP, Auto Axpert, Pitt Fighter, various weapons and armor	20	Silver	xx00108b
Free Labor	Haven Wernher's Hideout	Krenshaw	150 XP, Ashur's Power Armor, Booster Shot, access to the Ammo Press	40	Gold	xx00108d

Unmarked quests

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Achievement points	Trophy	Repeatable	Image
Mill Worker	Steelyard	Everett	Various weapons and armors	20	Silver	no
Find Wild Bill	Downtown Steelyard	Milly	Wild Bill's Sidearm, Stimpaks	-	-	no	-
Toys for Tots	Downtown Haven	Midea Sandra	30 caps for every Teddy Bear	-	-	yes	-

Broken Steel

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Achievement points	Trophy	Quest ID	Image
Death From Above	Citadel Rockland Car Tunnel Satellite Relay Station	Owyn Lyons	1300 XP	30	Silver	xx000802
Shock Value	Citadel Old Olney S. Wilson Building Olney Powerworks	Paladin Tristan	1400 XP	30	Silver	xx000afd
Who Dares Wins	Citadel Presidential Metro Adams Air Force Base	Paladin Tristan	1500 XP	30	Gold	xx0011ad

Side quests

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Quest ID
Holy Water	Jefferson Memorial Megaton Holy Light Monastery	Scribe Bigsley	100 XP, 300 Caps	xx004c75
Protecting the Water Way	Jefferson Memorial Rivet City Wilhelm's Wharf	Scribe Bigsley	100 XP, Various weapons and armors.	xx003b42
The Amazing Aqua Cura	Museum of History Jefferson Memorial Museum Authority Building	Scribe Bigsley	100 XP	xx003b67

Unmarked quests

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Repeatable
Fatal Attraction	Presidential Metro La Maison Beauregard	Sorry, My Darlingholotape	All-Nighter Nightwear, Lag-Bolt's Combat Armor, Lag-Bolt's Shades	no
Some Assembly Required	Citadel	Scribe Rothchild	100 Caps, 25 XP per Camera 75 Caps, 10 XP per Sensor Module	yes
Mutant Blood Samples	Citadel	Paladin Tristan	50 Caps, 10 XP per sample	yes

Point Lookout

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Achievement points	Trophy	Quest ID	Image
The Local Flavor	Riverboat Landing Duchess Gambit Calvert Mansion	Notification	Superior Defender	20	Silver	xx005846
Walking with Spirits	Ark & Dove Cathedral Sacred Bog Entrance	Desmond	300 XP Punga Power!	20	Silver	xx005847
Hearing Voices	Ark & Dove Cathedral Calvert Mansion Wrecked Seatub	Desmond		-	-	xx005848
Thought Control	Calvert Mansion Boardwalk	Desmond		-	-	xx005849
A Meeting of the Minds	Calvert Mansion Lighthouse	Desmond	Microwave Emitter	20	Gold	xx00584a xx00584b

Side quests

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Quest ID
A Spoonful of Whiskey	Marguerite's Shack	Marguerite	300 Caps 50 XP 6 Moonshine	xx003f70
An Antique Land	USS Ozymandias (Point Lookout)	Bysshe Energy Partners terminal	50 XP Expedition supplies Bio-Gas Canisters	xx002f18
Plik's Safari	Coastal Grotto (Point Lookout)	Plik	100 XP The Dismemberer	xx009b5e
The Dark Heart of Blackhall	Blackhall Manor	Obadiah Blackhall	1000 Caps or Good Karma 100 XP	xx002f47
The Velvet Curtain	Homestead Motel (Point Lookout)	Terminal in room 1D	Backwater Rifle 350 XP	xx00436e

Unmarked quests

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Repeatable
Lost Daughter	Ferry Dock Ark & Dove Cathedral	Catherine	10 Refined Pungas 300 Bottle caps	no
Lighting the Lighthouse	Lighthouse Truck Wreckage	Holotape Note	none	no

Mothership Zeta

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Achievement points	Trophy	Quest ID	Image
Not of This World	Holding Cells Steamworks Engineering Core	Notification	300 XP	20	Silver	xx000802
Among the Stars	Engineering Core Cryo Lab Cryo Storage Hangar Robot Assembly Decompression Chamber Space Walk Observation Deck	Sally	300 XP	20	Silver	xx000803
This Galaxy Ain't Big Enough...	Observation Deck Weapons Lab Experimentation Lab Biological Research Death Ray Hub Death Ray Control Living Quarters Bridge	Sally	600 XP Captain's Sidearm	40	Gold	xx000804

See also

• Fallout 3 walkthrough
• Fallout 3 achievements and trophies
• Fallout quests
• Fallout 2 quests