Settlement
Jacobstown
A pre-War ski lodge on Mount Charleston where Marcus leads a peaceful community of super mutants and nightkin. Home of Doctor Henry and Lily.
- Region
- Northwest Mojave
- Faction
- Jacobstown (Marcus's super mutants)
- Danger
- Safe
- Map position
- 5 × 6
Jacobstown is a pre-War mountain resort high on Mount Charleston that Marcus, once the sheriff of Broken Hills in New California, turned into a refuge for super mutants and nightkin who want to live in peace. The town raises bighorners in a pen by the entrance, eating the meat and trading the hides with passing caravans. Humans are welcome as long as they mind their manners, and the residents will remind you not to stare at the nightkin.
Marcus greets visitors at the gate and offers Unfriendly Persuasion, which deals with a band of mercenaries led by Norton that has been harassing the town. Inside the lodge, Doctor Henry, a former Enclave scientist, is working on a cure for the nightkin's mental illness, which leads into Guess Who I Saw Today and a trip to Charleston Cave. Keene, who speaks for the nightkin, waits near the lodge door, and Lily Bowen, an elderly nightkin who can join you as a companion, usually stands by the bighorner pen.
Doctor Henry also matters for Rex in Nothin' But a Hound Dog, and he is one of the Enclave remnants Arcade Gannon looks for in For Auld Lang Syne. The ghoul Calamity helps in his lab and trades with visitors. The town itself is safe, but cazadores roam the slopes below, and at higher levels they can turn up near the front gate and attack the mutants on guard.
How to get there
Follow Nevada State Route 157 up into the mountains north of Red Rock Canyon until it ends at the resort gate.
Notable loot
- Cattle prod (on the rocks near the bighorner pen)
Related quests
- Guess Who I Saw Today
- Unfriendly Persuasion
- Nothin' But a Hound Dog
- For Auld Lang Syne
Notable characters
- Marcus
- Doctor Henry
- Lily Bowen
- Keene
- Calamity
Tips
- Talk to Marcus at the gate, then go into the lodge and back out to trigger Unfriendly Persuasion.
- Recruit Lily before heading to Charleston Cave; she helps against the night stalkers.
- Doctor Henry offers doctor services, which is handy after the long climb.
Collectibles and items here
- Hollow rock Hollowed-out rockJust outside the perimeter, to the right of the main entrance where the super mutants stand guard, next to the heart graffiti.
- Holotape Mercenary noteCarried by Norton, the mercenary who appears outside the Jacobstown entrance during Marcus' quests. Steal it from him or loot his body.
- Character Doctor HenryInside the Jacobstown lodge.
- Character KeeneAt Jacobstown.
- Character MarcusAt Jacobstown.
- Character NortonJust outside the Jacobstown gate, once Guess Who I Saw Today is started and the Courier has spoken with Marcus.
- Companion quest Lily and LeoUnmarked. Recruit Lily Bowen at Jacobstown after talking to Doctor Henry in the lodge, then ask her about Leo and her medicine, see her lose control in a fight, and rest with her in the party.
- Side quest Guess Who I Saw TodayTalk to Doctor Henry in the laboratory to the right of the entrance inside the Jacobstown lodge.
- Side quest Unfriendly PersuasionAfter you go into the Jacobstown lodge and come back out, Marcus approaches you near the front gate.
- Skill book Grognak the Barbarian (Melee Weapons)Jacobstown, in the southernmost bungalow. The book is lying on the floor in front of the oven.
- Skill magazine Fixin' Things (Repair)Jacobstown lodge, in an upstairs room, on a table together with a Programmer's Digest.
- Skill magazine Programmer's Digest (Science)Upstairs in the lodge: take the left hallway to the third room from the right, where it sits on a table with a Fixin' Things.
- Skill magazine Boxing Times (Unarmed)Upstairs: take the right-hand staircase to the back room in the left corner (the one with the sparring dummy); it is on a small table on the left.
- Skill magazine Lad's Life (Survival)Up the right-hand staircase, in the first room on the left: on a bed with a shelf and surgical instruments.
- Snow globe Mt. CharlestonInside the Jacobstown lodge, sitting on the reception desk near the entrance.
- Star bottle cap Jacobstown northern bungalowJacobstown, in the northern bungalow beside the perimeter stakes. On the gaming table with the cards and the empty whiskey bottles.
- Companion Lily BowenJacobstown, wandering near the lodge and the bighorner pens.
- Merchant CalamityJacobstown lodge, near Doctor Henry's laboratory.