Lead can be a little bit hard to come by in Fallout 76 unless players know where to look. Sure, the lonesome paint can will net players a couple of lead, but those are few and far between. Luckily, there are a few spots in Fallout 76 that can get players a bunch of lead with very little effort.
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But why go through the effort for all this lead? The answer, of course, is crafting. Lead is used to craft plenty of items. Players who have tried to craft ammo know how much of a necessity lead is. It's time to get to farming, so read on for some tips.
Items That Contain Lead
When farming lead, keep an eye out for the following:
- Weights
- Barbells
- Aluminum Cans
- Baby Rattles
- Paint (blue, red, and yellow)
- Cans
- Combination Wrenches
- Makeshift Batteries
- Pencils
- Toys (Cars, Aliens, Rocketships, Trucks)
- Wooden Blocks
- Rat Poison
Charleston Fire Department
Charleston Fire Department is one of the go-to places for getting lead. It is located down in the Ash Heap, and any player who has played through the main campaign will remember this location. There is a weight room inside the fire department that contains a ton of barbells. The nearby room is even home to a few convenient crafting tables, where players can scrap all the barbells and get the lead.
Lucky Hole Mine
The Lucky Hole Mine is down at the bottom of the map in between the Savage Divide and Cranberry Bog. This mine has been taken over by Cultists, who aren't going to go down quietly.
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Players can use this opportunity to get some experience while also getting a ton of lead, which is scattered everywhere throughout the mine. Gather up everything in sight and scrap it all later to get hundreds of lead. As a bonus, there is also crystal here for players to grab.
Pleasant Valley Resort
Players can hit up Pleasant Valley Resort to fill their lead needs in the weight room. A trip here will get players a good amount of lead, plus a few extra materials. This location is next to the Top of the World. On the map, players just need to head to where the large dome is near the center. Pleasant Valley Resort is nearby. Be careful about the large number of Scorched that appear here, though. They can be a bit of a handful at times if a player is not prepared to take them on.
Vault-Tec University
Vault-Tec University is located in Morgantown towards the north of the map. Players come to Morgantown pretty early on in the main questline for Fallout 76, so odds are they will have it available for fast travel. Inside the university, among plenty of lootable items, is a weight room that players can farm for some barbells. These will get players plenty of lead, but it isn't the most plentiful area. It is important to always head to multiple locations.
Green County Lodge
The Green County Lodge is one of the first area players will come across in their journey across the wasteland. South of Vault 76, players will first pass by here on their way to Flatwoods.
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Take a stop by the lodge to find a weight room that is sprinkled with weights and barbells for players to pick up and scrap. There are also multiple paint cans around Flatwoods to get a little extra lead. For convenience, Flatwoods also has plenty of crafting tables to scrap all of this junk.
Fort Defiance
Fort Defiance is a long way away from where players start their journey across the wasteland, located down south on the map at an asylum that was once used by the Brotherhood of Steel. Players can go there to find a bunch of wooden letter blocks. Oddly enough, each of these will get players a little bit of lead. There are also plenty of Ghouls for experience and tons of buckets to scrap for steel. Keep an eye out for rat poison as well, since this box of chemicals will also get players a few lead.
Eastern Regional Penitentiary
The Eastern Regional Penitentiary is a popular place because of the event mission that spawns here, where players must stop a prison break. Outside of the event mission, this location has a weight area for players to farm to get that extra lead. There are also a ton of cans in the area to get some steel; this way, players can get all the ingredients needed to craft that ammo they are missing. As an added bonus, this area is crawling with Super Mutants that can and will drop gunpowder and weapons. Scrap their weapons to get some extra steel.
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