Vault
Vault 34
An irradiated Vault-Tec vault southwest of Nellis, overrun by feral ghouls and holding an armory with the All-American rifle.
- Region
- Northeast Mojave
- Faction
- None
- Danger
- High
- Map position
- 12 × 6
Vault 34 is a Vault-Tec vault southwest of Nellis Air Force Base, reached through a cave mouth on a hill where a U.S. Army truck sits loaded with radioactive barrels. The experiment here was an armory stocked with far more weapons than the residents needed. Overcrowding led to riots, and one group walked out and became the Boomers at Nellis. A later uprising damaged the reactor, it began leaking radiation, and the people left inside turned feral.
Today the halls belong to feral ghoul vault dwellers and security guards, with the Overseer waiting as a feral ghoul reaver backed by two turrets. Golden geckos roam outside and in parts of the vault. Radiation is heavy, worst in the reactor and armory areas and the flooded sections, so bring Rad-X, RadAway and a radiation suit if you have one. Companions will not heal on their own while hostile ghouls remain, so keep stimpaks ready for them.
The prize is the armory. Find the two terminal passwords on dead vault technicians in the flooded rooms, drain the flooded level and unlock the Overseer's office, then kill the Overseer and use the password he drops to open the armory. It holds the unique All-American marksman carbine, a pulse gun in a Very Hard locked case, Guns and Bullets and a large weapon stash. Vault 34 is also the end of Hard Luck Blues, where you choose between the trapped survivors inside and the irradiated crops at the NCR Sharecropper Farms.
How to get there
From the East Pump Station, head east toward the hills southwest of Nellis and look for the cave entrance next to the army truck full of barrels.
Notable loot
- All-American (armory, on an overturned table)
- Pulse gun (Very Hard locked gun case in the armory)
- Guns and Bullets (metal table in the armory common room)
- Vault 34 security armor and helmets
- Armory weapon stash with sniper rifles, a minigun and a missile launcher
Related quests
- Hard Luck Blues
- I Could Make You Care
- Et Tumor, Brute?
Notable characters
- The Overseer (feral ghoul reaver)
Tips
- Take Rad-X before entering and wear a radiation suit if you have one.
- Loot the dead vault technicians in the flooded rooms for the passwords that open the Overseer's office.
- Talk to Pete at Nellis if you want the Boomers' side of the vault's history.
Collectibles and items here
- Easter egg Ed's skeletonOn the way into Vault 34: a skeleton in a vault suit with a 10mm pistol and ammunition.
- Weapon MinigunIn the Vault 34 armory, which is opened from the terminal in the overseer's office.
- Weapon Missile launcherIn the Vault 34 armory, which is opened from the terminal in the overseer's office.
- Weapon Riot shotgunIn the Vault 34 armory, opened from the terminal in the overseer's office. Poor condition.
- Weapon Sniper rifleTwo in the Vault 34 armory, opened from the terminal in the overseer's office. Very poor condition.
- Weapon Assault carbineTwo in poor condition in the Vault 34 armory, opened from the terminal in the overseer's office.
- Weapon Marksman carbineIn the Vault 34 armory, opened from the terminal in the overseer's office. The unique All-American is on an overturned table in the same armory.
- Key Overseer's passwordOn the body of the ghoul overseer on the raised platform in the overseer's office of the Vault 34 reactor area.
- Key Vault 34 utility terminal passwordOn a dead glowing Vault technician under a desk at the bottom of a flooded room on the first floor, opposite the utility room and near the entrance to security station A. Only there while Hard Luck Blues is active.
- Key Vault 34 security terminal passwordOn a dead glowing Vault technician under his desk in a flooded section in the northwest area of the first floor. Only there while Hard Luck Blues is active.
- Note Overseer's journal fragmentFragment 1. First floor of Vault 34, in the small compartment (control booth) on the right just inside the main gear door.
- Note Overseer's journal fragmentFragment 2. First floor of Vault 34, in the room with three ghouls and a gas leak near the door toward the armory.
- Note Overseer's journal fragmentFragment 3. In Vault 34's security station, on the desk next to the terminal that unlocks the overseer's wing.
- Note Overseer's journal fragmentFragment 4. In Vault 34's reactor section, on a machine box behind the overseer's desk.
- Quest item Automatic surgical unitTaken from the broken Mark III Auto-Doc on the back wall of the clinic room in Vault 34. Follow the clinic signs from the cafeteria level.
- Unmarked quest All Fired Up!Starts when you reach Vault 34, east of the east pump station and a little north of Cannibal Johnson's cave; the goal is to lift the lockdown on the armory from the overseer's terminal.
- Skill book Guns and Bullets (Guns)Vault 34, in the armory common room. The book is on the small metal table between the sofas by the pool table.
- Skill magazine Patriot's Cookbook (Explosives)First floor, northwest section: in the collapsed room with a doctor's bag, a skeleton and a first aid box.
- Skill magazine Patriot's Cookbook (Explosives)First floor, in the clinic near the submerged section, on a school desk in the corner.
- Skill magazine Milsurp Review (Guns)First floor, on a table in a room near the reactor door.
- Skill magazine Milsurp Review (Guns)Reactor level, in the security room next to the overseer's office in the southwest, on the desk near a working terminal.
- Skill magazine Fixin' Things (Repair)Vault 34 first floor, on the floor in the southwest part of the balcony, beside a skeleton and some cans of Pork n' Beans.
- Skill magazine Fixin' Things (Repair)Vault 34 first floor, on the floor in the northwest area, next to a first aid box.
- Skill magazine Fixin' Things (Repair)Vault 34 reactor level, in the northeast, next to the terminal that opens the reactor door.
- Skill magazine True Police Stories (Critical chance)Reactor level: in the ruined security room at the north end of the main hallway, on the rubble near a doctor's bag.
- Unique armor Vault 34 security armorFive sets in the Vault 34 armory, one in a rubble filled room after the second flooded staircase, one in security station A
- Unique armor Vault 34 security helmetSeven sets lie inside the vault, mostly in the armory
- Unique weapon All-AmericanVault 34 armory, on an overturned table
- Unique weapon Pulse gunVery Hard locked footlocker in the Vault 34 armory