The Christmas spirit has come to Appalachia early with the Scorched turning into festive piñatas you can take down to get a holiday gift – nothing says Christmas spirit like beating it out of your enemies.
The Holiday Scorched event is dropping early this year and we've got everything newcomers to the game need to know to make the most of all the free gifts.
Bethesda is making the most of the Fallout hype off the back of the smash hit that was the Fallout TV seriesdebuting on Prime Video in April. Fallout 4 got a free next-gen update, while Fallout 76 got its first map expansion since launch with the Skyline Valley update. And now Bethesda is ringing in the holidays early with the Christmas event that usually comes around every December – this year, we're getting Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched...in July!
The Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched event goes live today, Tuesday, July 23, after the scheduled downtime which starts at 3pm BST / 10am EDT / 7am PDT. It runs from today until Tuesday, August 6 so you have two weeks to milk it for all it's worth, like a big Christmas cow. There are a few different ways to collect the festive gifts up for grabs: killing the Holiday Scorched, making gifts yourself, and using a Santa Collectron. We've covered the best way to get gifts as well as all of the possible rewards below so you're all prepped to get maximum goodies when the Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched event goes live.
What is Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched?
Usually, an event that kicks off in December, just before Christmas, and runs until January, this year's Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched is the same event...just in July. The Scorched of Appalachia don their holiday best, complete with jingling bells, and taking them down will reward you with the presents they're carrying, which include rare loot.
You can also visit vendors, buy some wrapping paper, and make your own gifts at a Tinker’s Workbench. A third way to get presents during Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched in July is to enlist a Santatron in your workshops and camps who will collect presents instead of Nuka Cola or junk that your dowdy old Collectron would present you with.
Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched is a great way to get yourself some new rewards as well as old ones from past events that are back in rotation, so you can go hard and catch up with veteran players if you spend your time in the event wisely.
How to get gifts during Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched 2024
Killing Scorched
The first method to get gifts during Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched is to kill Scorched. It's easy to hear them jingling while they're running around in their Santa outfits so use audio cues to your advantage, and pop on a pair of the best gaming headsets if you want to zero in on them quickly. Holiday Scorched will appear at the usual Scorched spawn spots, but if you swing by and find none, it's likely another player beat you to it, so you can revisit later when they respawn and head to another location in the meantime.
FalloutBuilds.com has a handy map showing all of the Holiday Scorched spawn locations as well as another map for most efficient farming route that sticks to points on the west side of the map; all of the spawn points marked on this route are close to fast travel points and are relatively close to one another so you'll be saving on Cap costs. We've listed the locations on the Holiday Scorched farming route below, starting in the north near the Crater which you can fast travel to for free.
- Wavy Willard’s Water Park
- Tyler County Fairgrounds
- Wilson Brother’s Auto Repair
- Morgantown Airport
- Bolton Greens
- Greg’s Mine Supply
- Helvetia
- Sutton
- Relay Tower EM-B1-27
- Poseidon Power Substation PX-01
- Camden Park
- Poseidon Energy Plant WV-06
- AVR Medical Center
- Riverside Manor
- Summersville Docks
- Overlook Cabin
Holiday Scorched will also spawn during public events that take place over the next couple of weeks so be sure to get involved (list courtesy of this Reddit post):
- A Real Blast
- Always Vigilant
- Bots on Parade
- Census Violence
- Collision Course
- Distant Thunder
- Distinguished Guests
- Dropped Connection
- Grafton Day
- Horde Event
- It’s a Trap
- Line in the Sand
- Protest March
- Scorched Earth
- Surface to Air
Making your own holiday gifts
You can craft your own Holiday Scorched gifts, choosing from three sizes, depending on the wrapping paper you buy – small, medium, and large. The community consensus is that Medium Quality Gift Wrap is a better return for the caps you spend than large; yes, the chances are higher for holiday gifts from large crafted gifts but not enough to justify the price discrepancy between the two wrapping papers.
Buy the wrapping paper of your choice from vendor bots in the 'misc' tab, which ordinarily sells one of each paper, although the Whitespring Station vendor sells two of each wrap. Your Charisma level affects the price of goods, and the Hard Bargain perk also softens the blow to your caps while shopping. Another tip is to sell items to the vendors to max out the 1,400 daily caps limit, so what you spend on wrapping paper goes back into the pot.
Santatron
Throw out your old Collectron and make the most of the free Santatron Collectron that players get during the Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched event. Place it in a workshop or camp and it'll collect holiday gifts for you, but bear in mind they have a max storage capacity so it's wise to check in and empty it out regularly. You'll need to set it to collect Christmas gifts at the Santatron station.
To maximise your loot, build Santatrons at multiple workshops and be sure to lock them! And if you want extra protection for them, incorporate a fortification you've built for this purpose and you can go ahead and drop your Santatron in it at each location.
Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched rewards
So what is this all for? Holiday Scorched rewards of course! NukaKnights has helpfully data mined this info and we've dropped the full list below, marking new rewards for Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched 2024 in bold:
Rare Holiday Scorched rewards
- Plan: Jitterbug Judy Outfit
- Plan: Plastiform Vaultboy Elf
- Plan: Plastiform Snowman
- Plan: Peppermint Backpack Flair
- Plan: Snowman Head Backpack Flair
- Plan: Atomicset Ltd. Handbag Backpack
- Plan: Giant Red Brontosaurus
- Plan: Straw Goat
- Plan: Star Light
- Plan: Plastiform Gingerbread
- Plan: Plastiform Nutcracker
- Plan: Plastiform Santa
- Plan: Plastiform Santa Sleigh
- Plan: Plastiform Candle
- Plan: Honeycomb Paper Holiday Tree A
- Plan: Honeycomb Paper Holiday Tree B
- Plan: Honeycomb Paper Ribbon Bell
- Plan: Honeycomb Paper Standing Santa
- Plan: Honeycomb Paper Icy Snowflake
- Plan: Honeycomb Paper Snowman
- Plan: Honeycomb Paper Jolly Target
- Plan: Santa Crash
- Plan: Winter Icicle Lights
- Plan: Musket Stack Monument
- Plan: Molerat Wind Chime
- Plan: Condemned Notification Sign
- Plan: Princess Castle Pink Sleeping Bag
- Jaguar Pant Suit
- Tulip Sky Blue Pant Suit
- Communist Commander Outfit
- Communist Commander Hat
- Plan: Red Truck Ceiling Light
- Plan: Brahmin Plushie
- Plan: Nuka Girl Area Rug
- Plan: Tattered Curtains
- Plan: Wall Mounted Fan
- Plan: Barbed Wire Fences
- Plan: Red Rocket Gas Station Lamp
- Plan: Red Rocket Gas Pump Wall Light
- Plan: Behemoth Boss Plushie
- Plan: Vintage Water Cooler
And that's everything there is to know about the Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched event 2024. Whether you're a newcomer to the game or a veteran, you can use these tips to maximise your chances of collecting as many plans as possible.
