From The Vault
There are two types of garden gnomes in Fallout 3:
- "Damaged" ones, which are fairly common and
- "Intact" ones, which are somewhat rare.
They are useful only as Rock-It Launcher ammunition or as a decoration.
[edit] Variants
[edit] Damaged Garden Gnome
Because of its weight of 4 and low value of one, a Damaged Garden Gnome is barely worth picking up to trade for, unless you're extremely low on caps or can carry a lot of weight. They are most often found outside houses or what remains of houses.
[edit] Intact Garden Gnome
- Garden Gnomes come in three sizes: normal, medium and tiny. Normal-sized gnomes are by far the most common and stand about 1.75 feet tall. Medium versions of both intact and damaged gnomes exist, and only stand about 6 inches high. Tiny Intact Garden Gnomes can sometimes be found in use as chess pieces(as pawns, specifically), and are 3 inches tall at most.
- The game makes no statistical differences between the sizes aside from their in-game model. An intact garden gnome is called an intact garden gnome no matter the size, as is the case with damaged gnomes.
- Dropping them after putting them into your inventory returns them to their default size.
- If placed upside-down on their heads, Garden Gnomes will stay perfectly balanced on their own and remain upside down while hovering a short distance above the surface they are placed on. (Verified Xbox with Intact Gnomes)
[edit] Intact Garden Gnome Locations
- [Broken Steel (add-on)] - Several can be found when playing through the main quest in Broken Steel.
- Jury Street Metro Station - In front of a house near the Jury Street Metro Station. While standing at the gate of the fence around the radio tower nearby, it's the house to the East-Northeast, a stone's throw away.
- Lincoln Memorial - On a shelf in the Lincoln Memorial. It is owned by the slavers, and stealing it will take away karma.
- Megaton - One comes with the Pre-War Theme for your house in Megaton.
- Olney Powerworks [Broken Steel (add-on)] - In the bottom center of the map, through a corridor with 2 barrels inside that appears at first glance to be a dead end blocked by debris, in a small bathroom.
- Robot Assembly [Mothership Zeta (add-on)] - At the very end of the assembly line, at the top right corner of the map, on the other side of the Electronics Access Panel near a mini TV.
- SatCom Array NN-03d - Sixteen (16) tiny intact garden gnomes can be found (being used as chess pieces) inside of one of the SatCom Array NN-03d towers.
- Tenpenny Tower - At least two can be found in Tenpenny Tower.
- Tranquility Lane - You can find a several in tranquility lane, but they are impossible to take out without console commands. A garden gnome is one of the items you have to activate to access the Failsafe.
- Citadel - North of the Citadel is a collapsed bridge. On the western edge under the bridge is a Raider camp. The gnome is under the bridge.
- Mothership Zeta - One can be found among two damaged garden gnomes in the engineering core in the room with the bed and where Toshiro Kago can be found meditating.
[edit] Garden Gnome "Easter Egg" Locations
- Broken Steel - Multiple Easter Eggs can be found involving Intact Garden Gnomes, some of which are humorously interacting with a stuffed Teddy Bear.
- In one they appear to be playing Strip Poker using metro tickets as cards with the Teddy Bear apparently being the girl.
- There is a gnome with a camera in front of it which appears to be taking a picture of two teddy bears which are tied to the train line in the presidential metro with a sign between them reading "help us!".
- Mobile Base Crawler Broken Steel
- In a stall in the lower Launch Platform Base, a bloody Garden Gnome with glowing eyes was apparently cutting up meat with a Deathclaw Hand.
- There is a small gap between two desks where a Garden Gnome is bowling using a pool ball and 10 miniature milk bottles.
- Olney Powerworks Broken Steel
- in Old Olney Underground, after emerging from the sewer, there is a gnome drinking, smoking, and watching TV in a bathtub while a bear waits for him with a briefcase across the room by the door.
- In the bottom center of the map, through a corridor with 2 barrels inside that appears at first glance to be a dead end blocked by debris, there is a small bathroom in which a Teddy Bear and an Intact Garden Gnome are apparently playing a game of checkers using milk and beer bottles as checker pieces. The Gnome is smoking a cigarette.
- in the room after you retrieve the tesla coil, there is a gnome nestled in a corner behind a stack of books and clipboards with a cigarette and sunglasses holding a toy car.
- Point Lookout
- In the People's Bank of Point Lookout, there is a gnome located in the bottom left deposit box. It is a miniature Damaged Garden Gnome holding a mini Plunger in its left hand and standing next to a mini Toilet.
- There are several found outside of Haley's Hardware (all damaged). There is one exceptionally large Garden Gnome to the right of the entrance to his store.
- Robot Assembly Mothership Zeta - At the very end of the assembly line, at the top right corner of the map, on the other side of the Electronics Access Panel, is a teddy bear and miniature intact garden gnome sitting in front of a mini TV surrounded by a pack of cigarettes, a shotglass, and a bottle of vodka.
- Seward Square - A giant damaged garden gnome standing roughly two times the size of an average garden gnome is standing in front of a house. It still has the usual weight of four pounds.
[edit] Appearances
Garden Gnomes only appear in Fallout 3.
