Starting in Patch 21 next Tuesday, we’re kicking off a two-part community-wide event, called Fortifying ATLAS. Band together with other Dwellers to deliver supplies to ATLAS Observatory, and everyone will unlock some exciting rewards. Additionally, QuakeCon is going completely digital this year, and we’ve got everything you need to know so that you don’t miss a moment of Fallout goodness during the event. Read on to catch all the details.

FORTIFYING ATLAS: JOIN THE CAUSE AND EARN REWARDS!

The Brotherhood of Steel have set their sights on Appalachia (who hasn’t these days?) and a man named Russell Dorsey believes they’re en route to ATLAS Observatory. Starting August 4, you can join in a community-wide effort to construct a prospective base for the Brotherhood and help unlock new events and cosmetic rewards for everyone.

The Brotherhood are a hardy and resilient bunch, but the Wasteland can be taxing for even the sturdiest among their ranks. When they arrive, they will need to resupply and regroup in a fully established headquarters so that they can begin operations immediately. That’s where YOU come in!

After next week’s patch, travel to ATLAS Observatory in the Savage Divide and meet up with Russell, who just might be the biggest Brotherhood fan in all of Appalachia. He’s heading up supply gathering and construction efforts to herald their return. Over the next few weeks, he will ask everyone to share in delivering an abundance of raw materials to aid in fortifying ATLAS. If the community is able to deliver enough scrap of each type in time, all players will earn in-game rewards, including new Brotherhood of Steel themed cosmetics, a Purveyor Super Sale, a Double S.C.O.R.E. Daily event, and more! Additionally, every time you contribute materials, you will receive “ATLAS Donor’s Provisions,” which you can open from your inventory to receive goodies and a chance at rare Plans.

Fortifying ATLAS will take place in two parts: Project Alpha, starting August 4, and Project Bravo, which starts on August 27. Each Project will have its own supply requirements, collection dates, and rewards. Collection periods for each objective will begin and end at 10:00 a.m. CT on the dates listed below.

FORTIFYING ATLAS: PROJECT ALPHA

FORTIFYING ATLAS: PROJECT BRAVO

FALLOUT 76 AT QUAKECON AT HOME

This year’s QuakeCon is going to be a bit different than it has been in the past. For the first time ever, QuakeCon will be a fully digital, global event. Starting with the Welcome at 11:00 a.m. CT on August 7, we’ll be kicking off a weekend of streams, including a host of Fallout 76 content. We’ll also be hosting numerous charity initiatives and giveaways throughout the weekend of QuakeCon. Learn more about how you can get involved here.

For Fallout, we’re kicking things off Friday as members of the Fallout 76 dev team gear up to take on the upcoming public event, “A Colossal Problem.” Will they topple the terrifying beasts in Monongah Mine, or will they be sent running in fear? Throughout the weekend, we’ve got tons of great folks from the Fallout community lined up to bring you a wide variety of streams, including a Fallout-themed cooking show, C.A.M.P. building tips and tactics, Fallout Cosplay, a Fallout 4 speedrun, a variety show with the CHAD Podcast crew, and much, much more!

CLAIM FREE LOOT

To celebrate QuakeCon, we’re adding the new Beelzebilly Outfit and the Mr. Demonic Backpack to the Atomic Shop for free all weekend long! Head in-game to claim yours starting at 11:00 a.m. CT on Thursday, August 6, before they leave the Shop on August 10.

JOIN THE FUN LIVE!

Tune into Twitch.tv/Bethesda starting at 11:00 a.m. CT on Friday, August 7 to catch all our QuakeCon at Home content. You can also check out the full three-day schedule here, and learn about all Fallout-specific streams below.

DAY 1: FRIDAY, AUGUST 7

• 1:00 p.m. CT – “A Colossal Problem” Boss Event with the Fallout 76 Development and Community Teams.
• 11:15 p.m. CT – Fallout 76 C.A.M.P. Competition & Showcase with the ANZ Community Team
• 11:35 p.m. CT – Fallout 76 Australia Community Session with TYR, MoonlitCharlie, Captainoob

DAY 2: SATURDAY, AUGUST 8

• 1:00 a.m. CT – Fallout Cooking Show with the ANZ Community Team
• 2:00 a.m. CT – Fallout Cosplay Interview with 5NOVCreations
• 10:00 a.m. CT – Creative CAMP Building with vault101manguy
• 2:00 p.m. CT – CHAD: A Fallout 76 Story Podcast – QuakeCon at Home Edition: “The Fallout Hub Show”

DAY 3: SUNDAY, AUGUST 9

• 4:00 a.m. CT – Fallout 76 Sightseeing with the Community Team
• 5:00 a.m. CT – Fallout 4 Speedrun with ItsJABO
• 7:00 a.m. CT – Fallout 76 Free Play with the Community Team

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Welcome back to Inside the Vault! This time, we’re sharing an update with you on the status of challenges during The Legendary Run, details on how your C.A.M.P. or photomode shots can get featured on Fallout.com, and our latest Double XP event, which begins just a little later today.

AN UPDATE ON CHALLENGES AND S.C.O.R.E.

Over the past few weeks, we have been actively investigating an issue that can cause daily and weekly challenges to automatically complete for some players. As part of a hotfix we released a few days ago, we implemented some logging to help us more effectively track down the root cause of the bug. We also included a fix for the issue, which we enabled yesterday after reviewing information from that logging. Our data show that this fix has addressed the vast majority of instances of this bug, and we are pursuing a more complete fix in the next few days. We apologize to those of you who lost chances to earn some S.C.O.R.E. due to auto-completing challenges. While we can’t grant you replacement S.C.O.R.E. directly, we are planning to add some additional challenges to help make up for S.C.O.R.E. that you may have missed out on.

To start, we’ve added bonus daily challenges every day this week, meaning there are now a total of nine dailies you can complete until July 20. We’re looking into additional challenges like these as The Legendary Run continues. For example, we are planning to add some bonus weekly and daily challenges to the final week of the Season. We also have our first Double Daily S.C.O.R.E. Bonus event coming up, which starts on July 23. During that time, all of your daily challenges will award you twice the normal amount of S.C.O.R.E. when you complete them.

Finally, many players have been asking about when they will be able to rank up using Atoms. We initially delayed this from the July 14 start date, but we plan to enable purchasing rank-ups with Atoms starting today as an option for those of you who are so inclined. We would once again like to apologize to those of you who were affected by the challenge issue, and we will continue to look for opportunities to make up your missing S.C.O.R.E. this Season. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the added daily challenges and upcoming Double Daily S.C.O.R.E. event.

COMMUNITY SHOWCASE

Fallout 76 has an incredibly passionate community, and we love being able to celebrate everything our players create in-game. To help showcase your talents and put them on display for all to see, we now have two ways that you can share your creations with us on a monthly basis, each offering you the chance to be featured on Fallout.com!

C.A.M.P. CREATIONS

There’s nothing quite like finding the perfect place to call “home sweet home” in Appalachia. Since Fallout 76 launched, we’ve seen tons of our players post about their impressive, gorgeous, and sometimes strange C.A.M.P. designs. You dedicate tons of time to perfecting your Wasteland abodes, and we’d love to spotlight your hard work.

Starting this month, we’re now accepting submissions for our monthly “C.A.M.P. Creations” series where you can show everyone what you’ve been busy constructing. Each month will feature a new theme to help inspire your architectural and interior designs, and July’s theme is “Outer Space.” Submissions are open from now until July 31, which is when our first C.A.M.P. Creations article will hit Fallout.com. Be sure to read our C.A.M.P. Creations forum thread for more details, snap a few stellar Photomode shots of your build, and then add them as a reply.

AROUND APPALACHIA

While you’re admiring your fellow Dwellers’ C.A.M.P.s, swing by the Photomode submission thread for Around Appalachia, as well! Every month we select our favorite photos to feature in an article that celebrates all the amazing shots you take. This month’s theme is “Creature Feature, and there’s still plenty of time to submit your photos before entries close on July 27.

GET DOUBLE XP THIS WEEKEND!

Prepare to level up with ease this weekend, because we’re kicking off a new Double XP event a little bit later today! Whether you decide to take on some quests and events in Adventure Mode, go creature hunting in your Private World, square off with other Candidates in Nuclear Winter, or anything else this weekend, you’ll rake in twice as much experience along the way. This also counts toward your XP and level-up Daily and Weekly Challenges, so you should be able to pocket some extra S.C.O.R.E., as well. Catch the event details below, and we hope you’ll join us in Appalachia this weekend!

DOUBLE XP DATES AND TIMES:

• Event Start: 12:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 16
• Event End: 12:00 p.m. ET on Monday, July 20

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Welcome to another Inside the Vault! This week, we’re sharing info on upcoming changes for the Ammo Converter, we’re kicking off a new phase of PTS play testing, as well as a new Purveyor Legendary Sale, and we’re welcoming Xbox Game Pass members to Fallout 76. Read on to catch all the details.

UPCOMING AMMO CONVERTER IMPROVEMENTS

We’ve been reading community feedback about the Ammo Converter after we released it as a rank-up reward in The Legendary Run. We’re pleased to let you know that we are planning to bring improvements to it in our next major patch.

The Ammo Converter was originally intended to help you exchange the ammo you looted during a play session for your preferred ammo type. When the Ammo Converter launched with the start of Season 1, however, we saw that it wasn’t meeting the needs of our late-game players. Many of them had thousands of rounds of ammunition banked, and exchanging it for something else became a slow and tedious process. We are looking to make the following changes to help smooth out the experience of getting the ammo you need from the Converter:

• More Ammo Per Exchange: We’re adding options to buy and sell 10x and 100x the normal amounts of ammo so that you can exchange larger stacks more quickly.
• Fewer Button Presses: Buying and selling is being incorporated directly into the terminal page for each ammo type, which means there will be one less screen for you to click through when exchanging your ammo. Combined with the increased exchange amounts above, you will be able to convert more ammo with less flipping through terminal menus.
• Increased AmmoPoints Cap: You will be able to save up many more AmmoPoints for a rainy day, because we’re increasing the maximum amount you can store from 2,000 to 100,000.

We hope these adjustments will help those of you with lots of ammo in storage to swap it more effectively once our next update arrives.

FALLOUT 76 NOW AVAILABLE VIA XBOX GAME PASS

As of today, Fallout 76 is officially available through Xbox Game Pass! Xbox Game Pass Console members are now able to play Fallout 76 for free on Xbox One, Game Pass for PC members can take on the Wasteland through the Windows 10 Store, and Game Pass Ultimate members can play using Xbox One or Windows 10 PC.

We’d like to give a very warm welcome to those of you who will be stepping into Appalachia for the first time today. If you’re one of our more experienced adventurers, we hope you will keep an eye on Vault 76 and lend a hand to these new Dwellers who are fresh out of the Vault.

To catch additional details about the Windows 10 Store version of Fallout 76 you can read last week’s Inside the Vault, and you can learn more about Xbox Game Pass by heading here.

TRY “A COLOSSAL PROBLEM” IN THE PTS!

We just re-opened the Public Test Server (PTS) with Update 21 so that you can do some play testing, report bugs, and share your feedback with us before we release the patch in August. While Update 21 primarily includes bug fixes, we’ve also re-enabled the new Public Event “A Colossal Problem” in the PTS.

Since “A Colossal Problem” requires a nuke to begin, we’ve added automated nuke launches to the PTS. Starting at 12:00 p.m. ET each day, a nuke will automatically drop on Monongah Mine. A new one will launch every four hours after that, so you can better coordinate and team up with other players as you head into the depths of the mine.

We also re-enabled Legendary Perks in the PTS, which brings 15 new Legendary Perk Cards and design changes we’ve implemented since that system was last available for play testing. While Legendary Perks will not be included in Update 21, we would greatly appreciate your feedback as we continue to work on them.

If you own Fallout 76 on PC through the Bethesda.net launcher, we would love to hear your thoughts on “A Colossal Problem” and Legendary Perks. If you participate and have feedback or bug reports you’d like to share with us, please visit the PTS forum.

PURVEYOR LEGENDARY SALE STARTS TODAY!

Purveyor Murmrgh is kicking off a new Legendary Sale a little later today that will allow you to buy legendary weapons and armor for 25% off her usual prices. If your Legendary Scrips have been burning a hole in your pocket, then this weekend is the perfect time to head to the Purveyor’s shop at the Rusty Pick in the Ash Heap and pick up some shiny new gear for your collection. Check out the Legendary Sale details below and be sure to pay Murmrgh a visit over the next few days.

LEGENDARY SALE DATES AND TIMES:

• Event Start: 12:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 9
• Event End: 12:00 p.m. ET on Monday, July 13

In case you missed it, we also recently released our Community Calendar for summer. Give it a read to stay on top of upcoming events like double XP bonuses, S.C.O.R.E. bonuses, Purveyor sales, and more. Until next time, we’ll see you in the Wasteland!

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