Vault
Vault 22
An agricultural research Vault overrun by spore carriers, spore plants and giant mantises. Key to There Stands the Grass and Bleed Me Dry.
- Region
- Northwest Mojave
- Faction
- None
- Danger
- High
- Map position
- 7 × 5
Vault 22 was the only Vault in the Mojave built for scientists rather than ordinary residents. Its staff researched staple crops, fertilizers and pest control, and one of their experiments, a fungus meant to kill insects, spread to the residents and turned them into spore carriers. The Vault door stands open and overgrown in the hills east of Jacobstown and west of Westside, beside a welcome sign painted over with the warning 'Stay out! The plants kill!'
Inside, five levels are choked with vegetation and crawling with spore carriers, spore plants and giant mantises. You can move between floors by the stairs or by fixing the main elevator with 50 Repair. A keycard in the residential quarters on level 4 unlocks the caves, and level 5, pest control, is packed with savage spore carriers. Keely, a ghoul scientist who went missing here, is in the caves off level 5, and the unique AER14 prototype laser rifle lies on the stairs between levels 4 and 5.
Most visits start with There Stands the Grass, where Doctor Thomas Hildern of the Office of Science and Industry at Camp McCarran wants the Vault's research data. The mantis eggs Red Lucy asks for in Bleed Me Dry are found here, and HEPA filters in a sealed oxygen recycling room matter for the Brotherhood quest Still in the Dark. Note that once you talk to Keely she locks the Vault until her quest is resolved.
How to get there
Head west from Westside into the overgrown hills; the open Vault door sits south-southwest of the Griffin Wares Sacked Caravan.
Notable loot
- AER14 prototype (stairs between levels 4 and 5)
- Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor (pest control, level 5)
- Programmer's Digest (by the mattress on level 1)
- HEPA 20 cartridge filters (sealed oxygen recycling room, reached through the caves)
- Flamer and fuel (common areas, level 4)
Related quests
- There Stands the Grass
- Bleed Me Dry
- Still in the Dark
- I Could Make You Care
- Not Worth a Hill of Corn and Beans
Notable characters
- Keely
Tips
- Pass the 50 Repair check on the elevator to save a lot of backtracking.
- Grab the cave keycard on level 4 before heading for the cave door on level 3.
- Spore plants are rooted in place, so pick them off from a distance.
Collectibles and items here
- Hollow rock Hollowed-out rockOn the north bank by the entrance, across from the "Keep Out" sign.
- Weapon FlamerIn the common areas, inside a room with generators, along with several cans of flamer fuel.
- Key Vault 22 cave door keycardIn the common areas, past the Average-locked Quarters door on the lower level of the atrium: first room on the left, on a stack of papers on the shelf with the lamp just inside on the right. Three spore carriers lurk in the room.
- Key Keely's passwordCarried by Keely, the ghoul botanist on the pest control level of Vault 22.
- Character KeelyIn the pest control area of Vault 22. She is only there once There Stands the Grass is active.
- Character Doctor BaileyIn the common areas of Vault 22, reanimated as a spore carrier.
- Quest item HEPA 20 cartridge filterSix filters in a locker on the oxygen recycling level of Vault 22. Reach it through the cave tunnels from the food production floor, behind the door opened with the Vault 22 cave door keycard.
- Quest item Food additiveOn the food production level of Vault 22: from the elevator take the main hall to the left-hand hall, and it sits on top of the spore-covered desk in the office off the first room on the left.
- Quest item Pile of giant mantis eggAt a dead end in the cave tunnels off the food production level of Vault 22, guarded by giant mantises and a giant mantis female. The tunnels need the Vault 22 cave door keycard.
- Skill book Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor (Barter)Vault 22, pest control level. Take the stairs up from the elevator into the lab room; the book is on the table with the bubbling vials.
- Skill magazine Programmer's Digest (Science)Right after you enter the vault, turn left: it is beside the mattress, tucked between two books.
- Unique weapon AER14 prototypeBlocked-off stairwell between levels 4 and 5 of Vault 22, next to a scorched skeleton