Fallout 76 Seasonal Event Guide: Holiday Scorched

Image Credit: IceEmpress66

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Ho Ho Ho, a slaughtering we will go!

Holiday gift boxes are back and with it brings new camp items, plans, skins, and apparel to collect.

There are three ways to get your hands on these shiny, slightly misshaped boxes of joy:

• Purchase the wrapping paper to craft them.

• Set up the Santa Collectron to find them.

• Find them in the wild on Holiday Santa Scorched.

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Boring information:

• Holiday gift boxes and wrapping paper are character locked and non-tradeable

• Holiday gift boxes and wrapping paper can not be used in display cases

• Chemist and Super Duper does not affect crafting and will not give you any extra gifts.

• Ultracite veins near fissure sites can no longer be used to farm scorched.

• There will be daily and weekly challenges that you will require you to participate in hunting down holiday Santa scorched.

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Purchasing Holiday Gift Boxes (wrapping paper)

The most efficient way to obtain the plans and apparel is to purchase the mid-tier Wrapping Paper.

The following Vendors will sell Wrapping Paper while the event is running:

• All Train Station Vendors

• Atlantic City Vendor - Mobster (2024)

• Atlantic City Vendor - Muni (2024)

• Atlantic City Vendor - Showmen (2024)

• Camden Park - Chad Responders Vendor

• Charleston Fire Department - Mack Responders Vendor

• Flatwoods - Bob Responders Vendor

• Gilman Lumber Mill - June Responders

• Grafton - Greg Responders Vendor

• Grahm

• Lite Ally - Sam

• Lite Ally - Xerxo

• Middle Mountain Pit Stop - Vera Blue Ridge

• Watoga - Phoenix BOS Vendor

• Whitesprings Resort Mall - BOS Vendor

• Whitesprings Resort Mall - Free States Vendor

• Whitesprings Resort Mall - Raiders Vendor

• Whitesprings Resort Mall - Responders Vendor

Crafted gift boxes have better drop rates and they do not require too many materials to make.

Table of cost and reward drop rates for the holiday gift boxes:

If you are purchasing multiple gift boxes on the same server at the same time then the following route will save you time and fast travel fees.

Remember to check the Raider vendor bots for a very small chance of finding a rare coloured baseball bat in their inventory.

Grafton

• Train Station

• Responder bot inside Grafton Town opposite Protest March event

Pleasant Valley Ski Resort

• Train Station

• Raider bot inside the Ski Resort

Whitesprings

• Train Station (sells x2 of each wrapping paper)

• 5 Faction bots in the Whitesprings Resort

Watoga

• Train Station

• BOS Vendor in Super Duper Mart

Server hop and repeat.

Resource/Junk Farming Guide if you are running low on materials to craft the pails

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Santa Collectron

The Santa collectron is free for all players in the Atom Shop every Christmas and can be placed at camps and workshops.

During the Holiday Santa Scorched Christmas event, this collectron will gather the three sizes of holiday gift boxes along with irradiated sugar bombs, sweets, coal, and general junk.

When the event ends, the Santa collectron will continue to collect irradiated sugar bombs, sweets, and general junk.

If you want to use a different collectron skin, such as the raider or communist bot, use the terminal attached to the collectron base and select “Xmas Gifts!” to access the Santa loot pool.

Note: If you are using the FETCH skin collectron, his loot pool is diluted by his default settings so he will always collect circuitry along with whatever function you choose.

When the Christmas event is active, I load into a private server, claim as many workshops as possible, and place Santa collectrons in all of them. There is a limit of one collectron per workshop.

After claiming a workshop and placing the Santa bot, I stay for the first defend event. Once that’s done, I don’t return until I get the next defend notification. It takes about an hour for the Santa bot to fill its loot container so the timing lines up well.

I then run events and check scorched spawn locations while waiting for the next workshop defend event.

Santa-tron Workshop Blueprint

Image Credit: Tooniversal

Alternatively, instead of returning to the workshop for the defend event, you can set up a Santa-Tron Workshop Blueprint to handle the event for you.

1. Build the Structure:

   • Place a single foundation and attach a set of stairs.

   • At the top of the stairs, add one or two upper floor pieces.

   • Place the Santa-Tron and the Fast Travel Mat (found in the MISC tab of the Workshop Build Menu).

2. Add Turrets:

   • Place two turrets on the ground-level foundation.

   • Place another two turrets on the upper floor at the top of the stairs.

3. Save as a Blueprint:

   • Once your setup is complete, use the Blueprint tab in the build menu to save it. This allows you to quickly place the structure at any workshop in the future without rebuilding each piece individually.

4. Pro Tip:

   • Equip the Contractor perk card under Intelligence to reduce the cost of building.

With this setup, your Santa-Tron will protect the workshop and complete defend events automatically.

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Holiday Santa Scorched Farming

Holiday Santa Scorched will drop a 1, 2, or 3 star weapon or armour piece and a small (60% chance), medium (30% chance) or large (10% chance) holiday gift box upon death.

You will hear a jingle bell ring type music when you get close enough to them and they will always appear in a Mr Claus, Mrs Claus or Winter themed pants suit outfit as pictured above.

Sometimes you will see a legendary scorched that is playing the jingle bell ring music but isn't wearing an outfit. If you kill them when they aren't wearing a costume, there is a high chance that the treat bag and candy won't spawn in their inventory.

This is a minor bug that has occurred in the past. To fix this, move away from the scorched until they are no longer in your line of sight. Wait about 30 seconds and then come back. They should now be wearing a costume.

Note, Holiday Santa Scorched will not spawn inside buildings and instances that require a load screen to enter them.

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The more enjoyable way to farm holiday Santa scorched is to complete events that have waves of scorched.

As of patch 32, a Public Event can no longer appear twice in a row in the same world, and events such as Grahm's Meat Cook and the Mothman Equinox will override any other public event.

Non-public events can be triggered for the most part by entering the area unless they are on their cooldown period. Non-public events have a 1 hour and 14 min cooldown.

Workshop defend events are classed as a non-public event. They will not trigger if a player is in the area but will still pop up every 1 hour and 14 mins.

Recommended events:

• A Real Blast at Seneca Rocks Visitor Center

• Always Vigilant at Relay tower DP-B5-21 & Relay tower EL-B1-02

• Bots on Parade at Berkeley Springs Station (can sometimes spawn super mutants instead)

• Collision Course (check the supply drop afterwards for a potential coloured baseball bat)

• Distant Thunder (any location)

• It's a Trap (any location)

• Protest March

• Surface to Air

• Census Violence at Big Bend Tunnel East, Drop site V9 & Ranger District Office

• Distinguished Guests (can sometimes spawn super mutants instead)

• Line in the Sand

• Scorched Earth

Farming method

This method works on both public and private servers.

Step 1)

Pick 10 to 12 locations from the list below. It’s best to stick to a single region and only hunt within that area.

Step 2)

Fast travel to the first location and murder anything that moves.

Step 3)

Loot every single body. This is very important. Even non Holiday Santa Scorched must be looted so their meat piles despawn. You can dump the junk afterwards.

Step 4)

Fast travel to the second location and repeat Steps 2 and 3.

Step 5)

Continue fast traveling through all your chosen locations, repeating Steps 2 and 3. After you’ve cleared them all, take a 10 minute break. When you return to the first location, more Holiday Santa Scorched will have spawned.

Make sure you continue killing everything in each location and looting all bodies.

In my own testing, if a location had no Holiday Santa Scorched on the first run, it usually produced one to three spawns on the second or third run.

The sweet spot is 10 to 12 locations. If you choose 9 or fewer, you’ll need to wait about 20 to 25 minutes before returning to the first location.

Locations:

Ash Heap

• AVR Medical Center (outside)

• Camden Park

• Monongah Power Substation MZ-03

• Fissure Sites

Forest

• Groves Family Cabin

• Tyler County Fairgrounds

• Wilson Brother's Auto Repair

• Morgantown Airport

• Morgantown Train Yard

• Portside Pub

• Gauley Mine

• Morgantown High School

• Bolton Greens

• Greg's Mining Supply

• Helvetia

• White Powder Winter Sports

• Sutton

• Wixon Homestead

• Relay Tower EM-B1-27

• Poseidon Power Substation PX-01

• Poseidon Power Plant (outside only)

• Charleston

• Charleston Capital Building

• Summersville Dam

• Summersville Docks

• Overlook Cabin

• Riverside Manor

• Relay Tower DP-B5-21

Toxic Valley

• Wavy Willards

• Black Bear Lodge

• Poseidon Power Substation PX-03

Savage Divide

• Bailey Family Cabin

• Palace of the Winding Path

• Monongah Power Substation MZ-01

• Seneca Rocks Visitor Center

• Pleasant Valley Cabins

• Pleasant Valley Ski Resort

• National Radio Astronomy Research Center

• South Mountain Lookout

• Fort Defiance

• Relay Tower EL-B1-02

• Fissure Sites

Cranberry Bog

• Firebase LT

• Bootlegger’s Shack

• Ranger District Office

• The Thorn

• Firebase Hancock

• Drop site V9

• Glass Caverns (outside only)

• Fissure Sites

The Mire

• Thunder Mountain Power Plant

• Moss Town

• Crashed Plane

• Berkeley Springs

• Berkeley Springs West

• Harper's Ferry (can sometimes spawn Super Mutants or Ghouls instead)

• Valley Galleria (outside only)

• Camp Venture

• Fissure Sites

Other

• Fissure Sites (unmarked & named). While the option to pick the ultracite veins is no longer available, there are still plenty of scorched that spawn here.

Watch your rads and your feet while playing around fissure sites. If you aren't paying attention, it's highly likely you will fall in and die.

Map of Holiday Santa Scorched spawn locations.

Credit to SugarBombsRADS for the map.

Downloadable copy of map here.

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Rewards

The holiday gift boxes can be under "Aid" in your pip boy. Select it and press A to open it.

Before opening the gifts, check:

• Your cap limit

• Your scrip limit

• You have the right weapon equipped for the contextual ammo

Photos of the rewards can now be found here.

Downloadable and printable reward checklists can be found here.

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