Player Homes - Locations - Fallout 3 Guide

 Guide by Warren Woodhouse

Below is a list of locations I’ve found that you can store stuff safely in that never leave no matter how many in-game years you spend away from.

Main Game

• My Megaton Home
• Memorial Maintenance Room, Lincoln Memorial, The Mall: Interestingly, if you kill all of the Slavers that are there including the ones at the statue above (exterior) as well as those in this room (interior), you can permanently use this space as your Player Home without any of your stuff going missing. The bodies won’t disappear, so you can store items in them (creepily, I guess). Interesting bug or feature, don’t know. Will try this out a few more times just to be sure that stuff remains there.

DLCs

None

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Location: Rivet City, Anacostia Crossing, Washington D.C., The Capital Wasteland

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Location: Test Labs, Vault 87, Little Lamplight Caverns, Stanley, The Capital Wasteland

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Location: The Capitol Building, Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., The Capital Wasteland

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Location: near the bunker for Radio Signal Papa November, The Capital Wasteland

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Location: Scenic Vista outside of Vault 101 near Springvale, The Capital Wasteland

Bottle Cap and Ammunition Farming Glitch - Fallout 3 Guide

 Guide, Tip & Trick by Warren Woodhouse

If you reload your save file or re-enter the area called Archival Secure Wing East, all or most of the containers (upright cabinets, drawers, containers, etc.) will respawn Bottle Caps and Ammunition almost instantly, every single time. You can repeat this multiple times from saving your game and then reloading or by entering another area and re-entering Archival Secure Wing East.

I’ve tried this method that I’ve came up with multiple times and I just thought about sharing this trick with you guys!

Method

1. Head to The National Archives in The Mall area
2. Enter the building
3. Clear the floor of all hostiles
4. Head into the Rotunda and help or kill Sydney
5. Use the elevator/lift
6. Once you reach the area called Archival Secure Wing East, you can collect Bottle Caps and Ammunition from the containers throughout the level. You can repeat this multiple times from saving your game and then reloading or by entering another area and re-entering Archival Secure Wing East

Enjoy! :D

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Location: The National Archives, The Mall, Washington, D.C.

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Location: Pilgrim’s Landing at Point Lookout Boardwalk, Point Lookout.

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Location: north west of Ruska’s Lair, in the playable area of the out of bounds section

Quests - Point Lookout DLC - Fallout 3 Guide

 Guide by Warren Woodhouse

Main Quests

1. The Local Flavor (trophy/achievement)
2. Walking With Spirits (trophy/achievement)
3. Hearing Voices
4. Thought Control
5. A Meeting of the Minds (trophy/achievement)

Side Quests

1. A Spoonful of Whiskey
2. An Antique Land
3. Pilk’s Safari
4. The Dark Heart of Blackhall
5. The Velvet Curtain

Unmarked Quests

1. Point Lookout: Riverboat Landing is added to the map upon reading the note.
2. Marguerite’s Moonshine
3. Kenny Bear
4. Ruska’s Lair
5. Tailing the Tomboy
6. The Seafarer’s Friend
7. Recover the Blackbox from Jet Crash Site

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Location: near Dove Delta

Bad Karma Guide - Fallout 3 Guide

Guide by Warren Woodhouse

Related Trophies/Achievements: Reaver; Harbinger of War; Scourge of Humanity; Devil (DLC: Broken Steel)

In order to obtain Bad Karma related trophies/achievements, you’ll need to play as evil as you possibly can; always demand payment for quests and steal items, hack terminals and murder innocent people to increase your bad position of the karma gauge.

You’ll need to do loads of bad deeds, basically.

Stealing, hacking and murdering will increase your bad karma.

Good luck! ;)

Karma - Fallout 3 Guide

 Guide by Warren Woodhouse

Related trophies/achievements: Protector; Mercenary; Reaver; Ambassador of Peace; Pinnacle of Survival; Harbinger of War; Last, Best Hope of Humanity; Paradigm of Humanity; Scourge of Humanity; Messiah (DLC: Broken Steel); True Mortal (DLC: Broken Steel); Devil (DLC: Broken Steel)

Click on the individual links below to jump to a guide for the specific karma you are after.

• Good Karma Guide
• Neutral Karma Guide
• Bad Karma Guide

Good Karma Guide - Fallout 3 Guide

 Guide by Warren Woodhouse

Related Trophies/Achievements: Protector; Ambassador of Peace; Last, Best Hope of Humanity; Messiah (DLC: Broken Steel)

In order to obtain Good Karma related trophies/achievements, you’ll need to play as a goodie two shoes; always doing quests for free or with very little reward and use a reliable karma balancing loop (stealing to lower it, donating Caps to churches or water to beggars to raise it) to stay in the Good part of the karma gauge.

You’ll need to be careful with how you balance your good and bad deeds to stay in the good position, basically.

Maintain your status by alternating between stealing or hacking (to lose karma) and donating Caps to churches or giving water to beggars (to gain karma).

Good luck! ;)

Neutral Karma Guide - Fallout 3 Guide

Guide by Warren Woodhouse

Related Trophies/Achievements: Mercenary; Pinnacle of Survival; Paradigm of Humanity; True Mortal (DLC: Broken Steel)

Tip

If you reach Level 7 as Neutral Karma, head to The Mall and kill as many Super Mutants (The Reflection Pool) and Slavers (Lincoln Memorial) as these don’t dish out any negatives or positives, Super Mutants repeatedly respawn in that area by the trenches quite frequently so you can use this to farm your XP for your Neutral Karma playthrough without any drawbacks. The only quest to avoid at Level 7 is “Tranquility Lane” as you’ll only receive a large boost of either Good Karma points or Bad Karma points. You can still steal stuff afterwards from containers to return to Neutral Karma but at Level 8, the trophy won’t unlock if you’ve reached Level 8 with another Karma Level.

Neutral Karma Levels

• Level 8 unlocks Mercenary
• Level 14 unlocks Pinnacle of Survival
• Level 20 unlocks Paradigm of Humanity
• Level 30 unlocks True Mortal (DLC: Broken Steel; increases your level cap to a maximum of 30)

Guide

In order to obtain Neutral Karma related trophies/achievements, you’ll need to play as a selfish mercenary; always demand payment for quests and use a reliable karma balancing loop (stealing to lower it, donating Caps to churches or water to beggars to raise it) to stay in the center of the karma gauge.

You’ll need to be careful with how you balance your good and bad deeds as to stay in the middle, basically.

Maintain your status by alternating between stealing or hacking (to lose karma) and donating Caps to churches or giving water to beggars (to gain karma).

Avoid quests that dish out loads of Good Karma points and Bad Karma points as this might impact your ability to unlock the trophies successfully.

Good luck! ;)

The Dark Heart of Blackhall - Point Lookout DLC - Fallout 3 Guide

Guide by Warren Woodhouse

Quest Giver: Obadiah Blackhall

Location Start Point: Blackhall Manor

Locations Involved: Blackhall Manor; Ritual Site; Disaster Relief Outpost; Virulent Underchambers, Dunwich Building, Capital Wasteland (optional, after the quest)

Obadiah, a recluse old man residing in Blackhall Manor, a Victorian mansion, requests if you could retrieve his family’s heirloom, the Krivbeknih, a mysterious and evil tome used by the occult years before the Great War.

The book is located inside a catacomb underneath the Ritual Site, slightly north east of The Homestead Motel. You’ll find access to the catacomb via a basement door on the exterior of the southern wall.

Once you’ve removed the threat of the hillbilly enemies from the exterior of the Ritual Site and the interior of the catacombs.

Once you’ve retrieved the book, give the Krivbeknih to Obadiah Blackhall at Blackhall Manor to receive 1000 Caps and 100 XP. Upon which, he will eventually take the book to his basement. Kill him (he is evil, so you lose no Karma) and loot the book back from his corpse.

After collecting the book from his corpse, you can take it to the Wicked Obelisk in the caverns of Virulent Underchambers in the Dunwich Building in the Capital Wasteland to destroy the book once and for all, also you gain 500 points of Good Karma and 100 XP from destroying the book.

Fallout Real Life Map (Maps) (Fallout Franchise)

Last Updated: 24th January 2026 at 1:34 pm

A complete set of maps that feature all of the real life locations from the entire @fallout franchise. Map 1 includes all of the locations from Fallout to Fallout: New Vegas. Map 2 includes all of the locations from Fallout 4 to present. Map 2 also includes the officially recognised mods locations, which are Fallout 4: Vault 1080, Fallout 4: Fallout 3: The Capitol Wasteland, Fallout 4: Fallout London, Fallout 4: Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4: Fallout Miami. I’ve also included the locations from the Amazon Prime Original Series as well as the locations from the DLCs from all of the Fallout video games. Fallout: Nuka Break Fanmade TV Series locations will be added to Map 2 in a few days. Vaults Map includes all of the Vaults in one map, so that you can find them easily. Mods Map includes all of the locations from all of the officially recognised mods and all of the locations from all of the unofficial mods as well. When sharing or reblogging this post, please include the hashtag #warrenwoodhouse in the tags section when reblogging this post on your favourite blogging platform.

• All Locations Map

• Map 1

• Map 2

• Vaults Map

• Mods Map

Acknowledgements

I originally used @SurlyQueue's map that I found on /r/Fallout more than 5 years ago. The map was used as a template so I can add more locations as well as update existing ones too. CLICK HERE to see SurlyQueue's map.

Original Post by SurlyQueue on Fallout subreddit - Reddit

Tools I’ve Used

• Adobe Express: Some of the icons in the maps were created originally by me using @adobe #AdobeCreativeCloud #AdobeExpress, these icons are available for other uses by request via my Ask page. CLICK HERE to use the Ask page. CLICK HERE to use Adobe Express.
• Independent Fallout Wiki: The original map icons that appeared in the in-game maps were taken from the official Nukapedia Wiki, also known as Independent Fallout Wiki. CLICK HERE to visit the official Independent Fallout Wiki.
• Google My Maps: Let’s you create real world maps filled with places. If you’ve starred a place on Google Maps, this will appear in your own private Favourites map on Google My Maps. CLICK HERE to create a map.

What Links Here

• Icons Category - Categories - Independent Fallout Wiki (Category)
• Google My Maps - Google Maps - Google (App)
• Adobe Express - Products - Adobe (App)
• Fallout (franchise) - Franchises - Microsoft Bethesda Softworks - Microsoft Game Studios - Microsoft (Franchise)

Changelog

• 24th January 2026 at 1:34 pm: Added locations from the cancelled game of Fallout Extreme to the section titled “Fallout Extreme”. Added all of the locations so far that I’ve found about from the Amazon Original Series of Fallout to the section titled “Fallout (TV Series) (Amazon Original Series)” with the locations set in Season 1 as well as those set in Season 2
• 14th January 2026 at 11:22 am: Added locations from the cancelled games of Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel 2 to the section titled “Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel”. Added locations from the cancelled games of Project FO3: Van Buren and Project V13: Fallout Online to the section titled “Project FO3: Van Buren” and the section titled “Project V13: Fallout Online”. Added locations from Fallout: New Vegas to the section titled “Fallout: New Vegas”
• 7th December 2025 at 7:54 pm: Added the mentioned only location “Fort Abandon (Fort Aradesh)” from the Lonesome Road DLC on Fallout: New Vegas to the section titled “Fallout: New Vegas”
• 9th August 2025 at 8:20 am: Moved post to my main blog on Blogger from my Tumblr blog
• 6th June 2024 at 9:41 am: Added tags to the tags section in the post
• 14th June 2024 at 12:20 pm: Added locations from the Skyline Valley DLC on Fallout 76 to the section titled “Fallout 76”. Also updated the link from Fallout Wiki on FANDOM to Independent Fallout Wiki as its moved entirely from FANDOM
• 29th April 2024 at 10:18 am: Created the full Fallout franchise map as one whole map! I’m currently importing locations from my other maps. You’ll still be able to access the other maps afterwards as well. This map will feature every single location from the entire franchise
• 15th April 2024 at 3:00 pm: Created the Vaults map
• 15th April 2024 at 6:00 am: Updated the post with new sections
• 13th April 2024 at 7:00 pm: Added a new section titled “Fallout (TV Series) (Amazon Prime Original Series)” to the map and added Vault 33 to the map. More coming soon, my fellow Vault Dwellers
• 16th February 2024 at 6:20 am: Updated map description
• 28th July 2023 at 1:13 pm: Moved my post to my Tumblr blog from my Fandom wiki
• 4th July 2021 at 4:30 pm: Added columns to the locations database on my wiki for the section titled “Fallout 4”
• 3rd July 2021 at 4:30 pm: Added “Fallout 3” locations to the map. Added “Fallout 3: Broken Steel” locations to the map
• 29th June 2021 at 5:55 pm: Added “Fallout 4” locations to the map. Updated map description. Added my screenshots into the “Fallout 4” section on the map. Added the section titled “Fallout 5 (TBA)” to the map. Added “Fallout 3” locations to the map
• 28th June 2021 at 6:22 pm: Added “Fallout 3” locations to the map. Updated section title for the section titled “Fallout, Fallout 2” & I’ve updated section title for the section titled “Fallout (Film) (Cancelled)”
• 25th June 2021 at 3:20 pm: Added “Fallout 3” locations to the map, added “Fallout 3: Operation: Anchorage” locations to the map and I’ve also added the “Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta” locations to the map
• 14th June 2021 at 8:09 am: Updated map description
• 12th June 2021 at 11:15 am: Updated the section title for “Fallout 4” which now lists all of its DLCs and official Mods. Updated the section title for “Fallout 76” which now lists all of its DLCs. Added “Fallout 3: The Pitt” locations to the map and I’ve also added “Fallout 3: Point Lookout” locations to the map
• 11th June 2021 at 10:00 am: Added my screenshots into the “Fallout 4” section on the map
• 10th June 2021 at 4:44 pm: Added “Fallout 3: The Pitt” locations to the map, updated the map description & added “Fallout 3: Point Lookout” locations to the map
• 21st July 2020 at 2:21 pm: Updated map description and added screenshots to various locations on both maps
• 28th December 2019 at 10:00 am: Map 1 almost fully up to date so I created a second map (Map 1 for everything from the original series & Map 2 for Fallout 4 to present)
• 14th August 2018 at 1:00 pm: Created post. Copied map from the original Google My Maps map created by SurlyQueue (another Fallout fan) & I’ve added more locations to the map from “Fallout”, “Fallout 2”, “Fallout Tactics”, “Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel”, “Fallout: Van Buren (Cancelled)”, “Fallout 3”, “Fallout: New Vegas” and “Fallout (Film) (Cancelled)”

How to Solve the issue with Game Crashes in Fallout 3 & Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition on the PS3 - Issues - Fallout 3 Guide

 Solution by Warren Woodhouse

Sometimes, especially after 200 hours playing Fallout 3 or Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, you’ll eventually run into a game save crash on the PS3. I did, however, find a solution to the issue, which I have outlined below:

1. Make a copy of your most recent hard save or autosave game save file to a USB disk drive
2. Delete the game and all the Fallout 3 or Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition game saves from the PS3
3. Enter Safe Mode on the PS3 and select Restore Database
4. Enter Safe Mode again and select Reset Network Settings
5. Enter Safe Mode again and select Delete Cache
6. Restart PS3
7. Reinstall Fallout 3 or Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
8. Create a new save game file, complete the Prologue and Enter the Wasteland. Wait until you see a confirmation of a trophy/achievement pop up, if it’s already been unlocked, the pop up won’t occur. If you see a pop up saying that achievements won’t pop up, delete the save file and start from the beginning. Do not delete this save file until the issue happens again with the game crashing
9. Close the game and copy your original save file to the console
10. Restart the console
11. Play the game as normal

There you go. Real easy. This method also works with Skyrim on the PS3, Fallout: New Vegas on the PS3 and Fallout 4 on the PS4 and PS5.

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