“Goodneighbor's of the people, for the people, you feel me? Everyone's welcome.”— John Hancock, the town's mayor in 2287
Goodneighbor, known as Scollay Square before the War is a small town inside Boston in the Commonwealth in 2287. It is inhabited by ghouls, criminals and other people who do not fit in at Diamond City.
Background
Before the bombs fell, this location was known as Scollay Square; a name that can still be seen in the Third Rail on the wall to the right side of the bar. Goodneighbor was founded in 2240 by criminals who were exiled from Diamond City.[1] It can be easily reached from the Mass Fusion building by traveling to the southeast.
The town is known for its criminal activity, such as murder, extortion and chem peddling. There are two shops near the entrance: Kill or Be Killed is run by KL-E-0 who sells weapons, and Daisy's Discounts run by Daisy who sells general items. The Third Rail is the town bar built out of an old subway station and is tended by Whitechapel Charlie. It is owned by the self-appointed and beloved mayor, John Hancock.
Layout
Goodneighbor occupies Scollay Square and features:
Inhabitants
Notable loot
Kill or Be Killed
- Partystarter, a unique missile launcher, can be purchased from KL-E-0.
- A Join the Railroad holotape, sat on a shelf on the second floor.
- A mini nuke can be found on the shelves behind KL-E-0.
Old State House
- 2 Join the Railroad holotapes. One on the coffee table in John Hancock's office, the other on a dresser in the attic room where the drifters are sleeping.
The Third Rail
- Live & Love issue #6 found by entering the bathroom on the right immediately upon entering the Third Rail. It is in the last stall, sitting on the back of the toilet.
- Gwinnett pils recipe behind the bar in the Third Rail, on the counter next to the fridge.
- A Nuka-Cola Quantum, also behind the bar, sitting on a table.
Memory Den
- A copy of RobCo Fun with the Grognak & the Ruby Ruins mini-game holotape, in the basement on a metal desk, against one of the brick walls (cannot be accessed until Dangerous Minds).
- Irma's terminal password - on the floor next to a dresser in Irma's bedroom upstairs. Gives access to her terminal.
- Memory Den key - in Irma's possession.
Hotel Rexford
- Live & Love issue #8, on the bar to the right of the entrance.
- Fred Allen's password - on Fred Allen's person and located in his room in the basement, under the stairs. Gives access to his terminal.
- Hotel registry password - a holotape on a shelf under Clair Hutchins's counter.
Notes
- The residents of Goodneighbor dress and act like stereotypical mobsters. People in Diamond City say "they come from the pressed suit and tommygun school of thuggery" and "in Goodneighbor two things count, style and body count." A good example of this are the Triggermen, mafia-like groups operating out of secret bases such as Vault 114 in Park Street station. Goodneighbor residents are vehemently opposed to the Institute and show contempt towards the denizens of Diamond City, especially Mayor McDonough.
- Goodneighbor can also be accessed by the fallen skybridge at the collapsed section by simply jumping down into the city, which forces a loading screen. This can also be done by using the the jet pack mod for power armor to jump over the main gate.
- There are also three locked doors marked "Warehouse" in Goodneighbor. Whitechapel Charlie in the Third Rail offers a quest (after browsing his wares) to clear these buildings of the triggermen inside. All three doors are locked with Novice difficulty. As long as one sneaks into these houses, nobody in Goodneighbor will attack upon leaving.
- Three Triggermen and the corpse of a drifter can be found in an alley behind Hotel Rexford. The former will start fighting on being approached.
- Goodneighbor can be exited through the back of the aforementioned alley by climbing to the highest vertical point of the power box and jumping across the trash bins and over the steel wall.
- If the Sole Survivor brings Piper to Goodneighbor, the Neighborhood Watch will comment [she] "is the dame that writes Publick Occurrences, right? Good Stuff. I always did appreciate good investigative journalism."
- If the Sole Survivor brings Deacon to Goodneighbor, he will change his outfit to appear similar to the mobsters around the town.
- Hancock mentions that Goodneighbor used to be run by a man called Vic, and his gang. They used to use the drifters, including Hancock, for their own work. He then goes on to say that him and some of the other drifters attacked Vic and his gang overnight and that he then became mayor of Goodneighbor.
- If one enters Goodneighbor before joining The Railroad, Deacon can be found wandering around near Kill or Be Killed.
Appearances
Goodneighbor appears in "Fallout 4" and is mentioned in "Fallout Shelter".
Behind the scenes
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- In the real world, Mary Goodneighbor was a burlesque performer who was filmed in the Old Howard Theater by Boston's vice squad performing a striptease. This tape was central to getting the Old Howard Theater shut down, marking the general end of the Scollay Square district.
- In the game, the Memory Den's facade and marquee are based on the Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia Theater, though it is about a block and a half away from where that building was. The proprietor of the Memory Den, Irma, is also named and styled after Mary Goodneighbor, whose stage name was Irma the Body.
- The Good Neighbor Program is a real world Section 8 housing program in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, so it's possible that it could be the basis for Goodneighbor's name.
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Bugs
Bobbi's terminal is inaccessible. Even without collision, there is no way to use the terminal. This prevents the player from opening the nearby safe as it can only be unlocked via Bobbi's terminal. With the console command 'unlock', one can access the safe, though there will be no prompt indicating that the safe exists.[verified]- When entering Goodneighbor, jumping as you open the door can put your character in a suspended jumping motion. You can fix this simply by pulling your weapon out.[verified]
- When shooting a Triggerman in the warehouses using VATS with a full critical bar, the whole game may start to glitch and result in a crash. [verified]
Gallery
View of the Memory Den
Street
Alley inhabited by triggermen
Pre-release screenshot
Exterior of Goodneighbor
Goodneighbor sign
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Mayor Hancock
Memory Den, from The Art of Fallout 4
Memory Den concept art
References
- ↑ Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide - Page 485
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