Guide 101: Building Your Safe Network

Chapter 6

• Now that you're level 6, you can increase your Carry Weight with some perks. Let's go get 'em.
• On the way, let's fight the Black Claw Scorpions. Go to Junktown and talk with Doc Larrikin to get this quest.
• Find the scorpion cave nearby to the northwest of Junktown. Bring a Combat Shotgun and some ammo.
• Do not get stung by these monsters! Their poison is far more intense than most.
• Bring the eggs back to Doc Larrikin and ask him about the venom to get the Snakeater perk.
• Drop off your extra eggs at your House, and bring 4 wooden poles, 1 rope, and 3 pieces of wood.
• Next head to Necropolis to pick up a quest that pays 3000 xp. Be careful. Dangerous zones ahead.
• Enter Necropolis via Watershed and run up toward the main building. Enter the sewer on the way.
• Kill all the rats in the sewer for some decent xp. Exit the same ladder and enter the main building.
• Speak with Elmer to get his quest to Gecko. He gives you a holotape. Load it and check your Pip-Boy Archives.
• Now go back to Boneyard Train Station. Buy 2 train tickets and board the train going to NCR (Shady Sands).
• In the NCR Train Station, talk to 4 people about the man with black hair.
• Head to Shady Sands (NCR) and enter the Guns tent inside the main gate. 150 xp. Talk with Buster about some work.
• Run past the Holding Center fence and go into the Rawhide Saloon. Talk to Mira the bartender twice to get another job and Buster's smokes.
• Now run into the main street past the security gate and read the billboard. Take a note about a job for Westin.
• Keep running straight down the main street and go into Dusty's Cantina. Talk with Hoss in the corner to get Awareness and Cautious Nature!
• Talk with the bartender to return Mira's debt for her. Hand him the money and head out.
• Run back up the street and turn left to find the entrance to the Westin Ranch, protected by an energy fence.
• Talk to the guard to get in, using the job offer as a legitimate reason.
• Go inside the main building and speak with Mr Westin. He's at his desk, under a cross on the wall.
• Talk with Felix, the guy just outside the door there, to go to the brahmin pasture. Wait there near the rocks to the south east.
• When the kids arrive, tell them they are making the animals nervous and get them to stop. 150 xp
• Go back in to NCR and give the smokes to Buster. 800 xp. Put on that black leather jacket. Cool!
• Run back to the Rawhide Saloon and get confirm with Mira that you paid her debt back. 750 xp

Welcome to level 7! Distribute Skill Points: Doctor 50, Lockpick 50, Small Guns 128.

• There's more to do at Shady Sands but later. For now, go back to the Train Station and board the next train going to Vault City.
• When you arrive at the VC train station, ask four people about the man with black hair.
• Exit the train station and go into Vault City. Talk with Doctor Andrew about his Medical Investigation.
• Exit Vault City and head north 2 zones to Gecko, a dangerous place. If any players see you there, they will likely shoot you.
• Use the "town preview" feature before you enter Gecko. If you see other players, do not go in yet.
• When it looks clear, enter Gecko's settlement area and run up into The Harp bar. Talk to Keith, the ghoul Mick wants in the band.
• When you're done paying Keith to join the band, run north all the way to the Scrapyard area of Gecko.
• Find Skeeter to deliver Elmer's message. Skeeter gives you another holotape message to take back to Elmer.
• Exit Gecko by running north through a hole in the fence and out via the north exit grid. *Whew!*
• Go back to the Vault City Train Station and ask four people about their medical condition. Exit there when done.
• Now let's get a few more tents set up. Hunt 8 brahmin nearby in zones 30:8, 31:8, and 32:8.
• While gathering hides, avoid all other encounters unless you're sure you can win. Craft a tent as soon as you get 8 hides.
• If brahmin hunting is too slow there, hunt them anywhere around Modoc, straight to the west. There are more there.
• Set up a tent near Modoc and make this your tent crafting station, where you hunt tons more brahmin for their Hides.
• You'll likely need more Ropes and Wood. Gather resources, including Junk, in the city ruins above Modoc on the far north edge of the map.
• Hunt brahmin, gather hides and craft 9 more tents. If you have no hatchet here, gather some flint and chop wood with a Primitive Tool.

Welcome to level 8! Distribute Skill Points: Small Guns 130, Doctor 66.

• While you're hunting brahmin, notice Ghost Farm on the map. You can mine here if you run out of ammo.
• By the time you craft 9 more tents, you hit level 9. If not, hunt some more so you do.

Welcome to level 9 and the Even Tougher perk! Distribute Skill Points: Small Guns 140, Doctor 70.

• We were on our way to get those Carry Weight perks. Let's get back to that. We'll build some Houses along the way.
• If you have not done it already, arrange your 9 new Folded Tents in a row with 3 wood on each one.
• Chop wood in the area if you have to. You need 3 wood per tent to upgrade the fire pit to a Campfire.
• Upgrade the fire pit at your Modoc tent if you have not already done it. Rename the tent and get a map to it.
• Now pick up 4 tents and 12 wood and let's go get them set up. Head straight west to Den and Klamath.
• Find a place by Klamath and/or Klamath quarry to use the tent. Rename it to "Klamath" and get a map.
• Drop everything you are carrying at this new Klamath house, and run to Klamath. You will get the Gecko Skinning perk next.
• Klamath is a dangerous place. Player will shoot you so you want to carry nothing as you get this perk.
• Use town preview, and enter Klamath via the Trapper Town entrance. Run up past the fence through the bottom door in the main building.
• Run up through this building and out and up to the bon fire to talk to the trapper there and get Gecko Skinning.
• Ran back down the same way you came in, through the building but stop inside and talk to Meloy.
• Ask Meloy about the Toxic Caves and he'll show you the location. Exit the conversation and avoid the next topic for now.
• (The next topic is a fun quest you cannot do yet, so you'll be back here later to get it.)
• Exit Klamath, go back to your tent, grab all your gear and tents and wood and head to Redding (straight past Den).
• Use a tent next to Redding, upgrade the fire pit, rename it to "Redding" and get a map.
• Drop all gear and go naked bluesuit over to Redding. Use town preview and enter the Mine entrance when ready.
• Run straight west to the building to the left of the Last Gasp Saloon. Talk with Dangerous Dan McGrew to get Pack Rat.
• Look at that 110 Carry Weight! Nice, and it gets even better at Broken Hills.
• Go back to your Redding house, grab all your gear including the tents and wood and head east by southeast.
• From Redding, Broken Hills is mostly east but 6 zones south too. You'll find it in zone 29:17.
• Same drill: use a tent, upgrade the fire, rename it, get a map, then drop everything and go naked blue over to the town.
• Broken Hills is another dangerous place. Most of these northern towns are part of the Town Control system so they can be PvP intense.
• Use town preview and enter via the main entrance. Run all the way down the main street to the open well.
• Francis is a mutant arm wrestler in the building just below the well. He will give you the Strong Back perk. Return to house and get gear.
• Check out your Carry Weight now! 140 woohoo! Head north to Gecko mine. Use a tent there. This will be one of your HQ mining places.
• Head back to your Modoc house to get the other tents. Now that you can skin geckos, hunt Goldens when it's not too much trouble.
• Whenever you carry a tent map, you are taking a bigger risk. And anytime you carry the fruits of so much work, same thing.
• If you are carrying 5 tents and 5 maps, it is critical that you exit forced encounters quickly and avoid them if possible.
• Head to San Francisco mine. It's another good place to have a safe place. Do not hunt on this trip; its too risky.
• You'll be crossing the desert on foot. If your character fails, you'll have to go back to Modoc and craft new tents.
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Links

• Guide 101: Title Page
• Guide 101: Crawling Out of the Sandstorm