Vault
Vault 11
The sacrifice vault near the 188 where residents voted one person to die every year. Chilling terminal logs, giant mantises and the quest Democracy Inaction.
- Region
- Central Mojave
- Faction
- None
- Danger
- Medium
- Map position
- 13 × 10
Vault 11 is one of the most disturbing places in the game. Its door is tucked into a hillside south of the 188 Trading Post, and from the outside it is unremarkable. Inside, the terminals and audio logs lay out a social experiment in which the residents were told to sacrifice one person each year or the vault would kill everyone, and the way they handled that order destroyed them long before the Courier arrived.
Exploring the vault triggers the unmarked quest Democracy Inaction, which asks you to piece together what happened through terminals, campaign posters and the final survivors' recording near the entrance. The entry tunnel is full of giant mantises, parts of the lower levels are flooded and radioactive, and at the bottom the sacrificial chamber hides four robots and eight turrets that attack when the final presentation ends. Lockpick and Science help with the many locked doors and terminals.
Vault 11 is worth every minute for the story alone, and there is good loot scattered across the living quarters and the overseer's office as well. Come at a mid level with decent ranged weapons for the robots, and give yourself time to read everything. The entrance also makes a fine fast travel point between El Dorado Dry Lake and the 188 when you are working the eastern roads.
How to get there
From the 188 Trading Post head south; the vault door is set into the hillside above El Dorado Dry Lake.
Related quests
- Democracy Inaction
- Still in the Dark
Tips
- Read every terminal and listen to the survivors' holotape; the story is the reward.
- Giant mantises in the entry tunnel, robots and turrets in the sacrifice chamber.
- Bring Lockpick and Science skill for the many locked doors.
Collectibles and items here
- Hollow rock Hollowed-out rockJust to the right of the vault entrance.
- Easter egg I Hate Nate/Kate postersElection posters reading "I Hate Nate" and "I Hate Kate" among the propaganda covering the walls of Vault 11.
- Holotape Automated solution responseDownloaded from the mainframe terminal in the sacrificial chamber of Vault 11.
- Holotape System recording: Vault 11 solutionDownloaded from the central computer mainframe in the sacrificial chamber of Vault 11.
- Holotape System recording: Vault 11 front entranceGiven when you activate the terminal near the Vault 11 entrance door, together with the Vault 11 note.
- Holotape Vault 11Given when you activate the security terminal near the Vault 11 entrance door.
- Holotape Justice Bloc HQ security tapesDownloaded from Roy Gottlieb's personal terminal in a lower level room of the Vault 11 living quarters.
- Holotape Prepared speech of Gus Olson, ombudsman, for the annual overseer electionOn the speaker's podium in the meeting room one level directly below the Atrium terminal, in the Vault 11 lower level. The text is also an entry on the Atrium terminal.
- Holotape Vault 11 overseer's terminal passwordAdded to the Pip-Boy when you read the single entry on the Atrium terminal in the Vault 11 lower level.
- Key Roy Gottlieb's terminal passwordIn a footlocker near Roy Gottlieb's terminal, in the southwestern room of the male dorm area in the Vault 11 living quarters.
- Quest item Differential pressure controllerIn a locker in one of the flooded rooms on the lowest level of Vault 11, close to the overseer's office. Air pockets near the ceiling let you breathe.
- Unmarked quest Democracy InactionStarts when you find the Vault 11 note by the skeletons in the entry room of Vault 11, south of the 188 Trading Post at the north end of the El Dorado dry lake.
- Skill book Pugilism Illustrated (Unarmed)Vault 11, living quarters, in the first female dorm. The book is by the fallen dresser, under the small sign on the ceiling that reads ladies.