Summary
Fallout 76Season 18 is here, having launched in the early afternoon hours ET on September 3. Called Milepost Zero, this release introduces some significant gameplay changes and a variety of newFallout 76content, among other novelties.
Bethesda officially announced Milepost Zero back in June 2024. It has been testing the seasonal content drop via theFallout 76Public Test Serversince August 19.
F76 Season 18 Launches With New Legendary Crafting System
The new season officially kicked off on September 3, following a short maintenance period that kept the game offline for a few hours. Some of the highlights of Milepost Zero are thechanges that it makes to theFallout 76Legendary gear crafting, which has been completely revamped. The new system retires Legendary Cores and allows players to instead add Legendary effects to their weapons and armor without having to rely on RNG as much. Specifically, scrapping Legendary items will now come with a chance of getting Mod Boxes, with the drop rate being equal to one percentage point per a given gear’s star.
Attaching these mods to items costs Legendary Scrip, with the cost itself increasing for each new mod addition or change, up to 1,000 Scrip. Players who already have a specific configuration in mind will be able to craft their ideal weapon for only 50 Scrip, which is the total cost of attaching three mods to it. Legendary Scrip has been implemented as a sort of currency that maxes out at 11,000 and doesn’t have any weight. And while it cannot betraded betweenFallout 76players, the Mod Box drops are fully tradable, as was previously the case with mods found across Appalachia. The old Legendary Cores will be automatically converted into Scrip at a 1:1 ratio as soon as the player logs into the game, according to Bethesda’schangelogdetailing the new update.
Fallout 76 Season 18: Milepost Zero Scoreboard
Milepost Zero also introduces Best Builds, a new social feature that allows players to share their C.A.M.P.s with others and visit their friends' bases, in addition to rating them. Highly rated builds will be featured across multiple servers, furthering their outreach. According to early player reports, popular C.A.M.P.s can even appear on private servers, regardless of whether their creators are friends with the server owner.Fallout 76Season 18 also debuts one useful quality-of-life feature in the form of C.A.M.P. vendor history logs, allowing players to easily find out who bought items from them. Up until now, the only way to learn this information was to keep an eye out for the ephemeral notification that would pop up at the time of each sale.
The release of Milepost Zero also marks the start of Bethesda’s efforts to better-compress the game. And while its overall size has now been cut by around 10%, the trade-off is that thislatestFallout 76update requires players to redownload the entire game.
Milepost Zero Highlights
Milepost Zero Update Sizes
Fallout 76’s overall file size is getting smaller! Thanks to the work of our tech team, we now expect the total size of Fallout 76 to be around 95 GB (with some variance for the different platforms).
To reach this new size, all players will have to redownload the game. This is why you may notice that update size for Milepost Zero is larger than normal. Thanks in advance for your patience!
Please Note: You do not need to uninstall the game to receive the Milepost Zero patch. You will notice a large update that you will have to download. The platform you’re playing on will do the rest.
Check the download sizes below for today’s update on your platform of choice:
New Legendary Crafting System
We are excited to introduce this new iteration of Legendary Crafting that gives you more direct control over the Legendary Mods that appear on your Legendary items.
Before you may start swapping Legendary Mods onto your gear, you will need to obtain the mod you want to craft in one of two ways:
Every time you scrap a Legendary item you will get Legendary Scrip and have a chance at receiving Legendary Mods in the form of a crafting item. There is also a chance that you will permanently learn how to craft one of the mods on the item you scrapped too. Those loose Legendary Mods can be traded with other players, but once you craft that mod onto an item that item becomes character bound. Meaning it cannot be traded, sold, nor dropped in the world.
Once you obtain your desired mod, you can head over to your Armor or Weapons workbench to attach it to a legendary item in exchange for Legendary Scrip. Each time you replace a mod on an item, the cost to replace another will increase. If you are lucky enough to learn how to craft the mod, head over to your Tinker’s workbench to craft it. The crafting cost will vary depending on the mod. Mods require Legendary Modules and various other items to craft that you can find around the Wasteland.
To aid in the exploration of new mod combinations, we have relaxed the Legendary Mod restrictions on weapons. We are excited to see what you craft!
Legendary Cores Discontinued
In August, we announced that Legendary Cores will be discontinued as we consolidated the currencies used in Legendary Crafting. This means Legendary Cores will no longer be usable across Appalachia. When you login after downloading the patch, any remaining Legendary Cores will be converted into Legendary Scrip at a 1:1 conversion ratio.
Best Builds
Best Builds is a new social system that allows you to submit, visit, and rate C.A.M.P.s. The C.A.M.P.s with the most votes will be shared and populated though out wasteland for all players in Adventure Mode to see. You will be able to visit these amazing creations and enjoy the comforts, design, and unique tastes the builder has in store for its visitors. While visiting, if you happen to appreciate the builders C.A.M.P., you can show your support by leaving a ‘Like’. We hope this allows our dedicated player builders an opportunity to show off their creations as well as inspire other players to create and submit their own Best Builds.
Submitting Your Camp
Once you have a C.A.M.P. that you would like to show off to the wasteland, you may submit your C.A.M.P. though the Best Builds Submission option. This is found by opening the ‘C.A.M.P. Slots’ list on the Paper Map and selecting the C.A.M.P. you wish to submit. Once you have entered the submission window, you will be able to take a few photos and tag your C.A.M.P. with the appropriate identifiers, to help make it stand out from the crowd. Once you are happy with how your C.A.M.P. is represented, you can submit your Best Build. The Best Build will be added to list of other players created Best Builds.
If you happen to make changes to your Best Build, you can easily resubmit the newly remodeled C.A.M.P. without losing any Likes previously earned. You can resubmit you Best Build by going to the ‘Manage Best Builds’ option also found activated ‘C.A.M.P. Slots’ list on the paper map.
Visit
Upon your travels in the wasteland, you will notice a few new locations with a blue ribbon on the paper map and on the compass. These are player created Best Builds. You will be able to fast travel to these C.A.M.P.s the same as you would any other C.A.M.P. While visiting, please take time to sit down, relax, and enjoy the experience the builder has instore for you. Do not delay on checking out a C.A.M.P. that piques your interest. Best Builds rotate in and out every hour.
Rate
If you happen to find a Best Builds that you fancy, feel free to show your support to the builder by giving them a Like. You can ‘Like’ a Best Build by going to the Best Build icon on the paper map and selecting ‘Like’. Giving the builder a Like will help show other players that this C.A.M.P. is indeed a Best Build.
Vendor History Log
Learn about the hottest items at your C.A.M.P. Vendor with the Vendor History Log. Accessible from the Paper Map or your vendor, this log shows you what items were sold, their price, and who bought it.
The Vendor History log only stores transactions that happen during your current play session. After your session ends the log will be cleared so you receive a fresh log when you start playing again.
Near the border of Skyline Valley, you will come across the ruins of an abandoned headquarters once owned by the Blue Ridge Caravan Company. They have had a challenging time operating within the presence of the storm, but luckily for them you arrive! A seasoned traveler of the region, well-versed in all forms of combat and even a few forms of diplomacy (although that will not work here). The company decides to give you franchising rights to start your own caravan branch under their flag.
Once setup, you will escort caravans across the Shenandoah region and recruit a strong crew of varying professions. This crew will help you build up your own personal outpost where new rewards await you.
While you are traveling across Skyline Valley ensure you take a beat to help your fellow aspiring business dwellers with their own caravans. Events Public Team bonuses apply to Caravan events and helping someone else will get you back to starting your own caravans that much quicker.
Combat Rebalance
Milepost Zero continues the work we started in Skyline Valley to update our combat systems. This patch we are focusing on changes to Fire and Poison damage and how the damage over time (DoT) effect works. There is also more rebalancing for creatures and many other changes.
There is a lot to dig into, so grab a cup of coffee or tea and dig in.
Fire/Poison Weapons and Mods
Fire and Poison damage will typically include a DoT effect, with Fire damage trending towards shorter durations and higher Damage Per Second (DPS), with Poison trending towards longer durations and higher overall damage.
The following weapons, armor, and mods have been updated to align with this Fire and Poison Dot adjustment. Paired with the creature adjustments further below, this generally represents an increase in damage dealt:
Additional Weapon and Armor Adjustments
Creature Balance
Like the adjustments made in the Skyline Valley update, the following creatures have updated Health, Resistances, and Damage. Our goal is to smooth out their difficulty from low to high level play making them a reasonable threat for all players.
Be sure to try some of the updated Fire and Poison weapons against these creatures as there is now more contrast in their resistances to each damage type:
Creature Weapons
Weapons used by the following creatures have also been updated. Like the updates to Fire and Poison damage on players’ weapons, creature weapons with Fire damage will typically have a DoT which has higher DPS, and weapons with Poison damage will typically have a DoT which deals more overall damage per hit:
Perk Changes
Region Bosses
The following creatures have had an adjustment to how incoming damage is reduced. This primarily affects cases where V.A.T.S. Critical Attacks and Damage over Time effects would bypass a portion of the intended damage reduction.
Fallout 76
WHERE TO PLAY
Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Expand southward to Skyline Valley – a brand-new region of Appalachia. Investigate the cause of the electric storm circling overhead and unveil the mystery around Vault 63 and its dwellers, including a shocking new Ghoul type – The Lost.
