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Updated: 13th of October 2023
Spooky Scorched have style and grace and will punch you in the face with a melee weapon...well try to anyway.
Spooky Scorched will drop a 1, 2, or 3-star weapon or armour piece, a spooky loot bag, and a piece of mystery candy upon death.
Spooky treat bags drop contextual ammo when opened, so make sure you have the correct weapon equipped, depending on which type of ammo you want/need.
Boring information:
Spooky treat bags can not be purchased from robot vendors
Spooky treat bags will not appear in Collectron’s inventory
Spooky treat bags and mystery candy are character-locked and non-tradeable
Spooky treat bags and mystery candy can not be used in display cases
There will be daily and weekly challenges that will require you to participate in this event
Spooky Candy Bowl
Claim the spooky candy bowl for free in the atom shop while the spooky scorched event is running.
Place the candy bowl in your camp, ideally near the front door, and fill it with mystery candy so other players can find it and interact with it.
The bowl can only be filled with mystery candy and will not let you fill it with anything else.
Mystery Candy
Mystery candy is a guaranteed drop from spooky scorched and can also be purchased from faction-based robot vendors.
When consumed, they can grant one of 5 effects for 10 mins.
How to boost your Charisma to 25
Note, **some of these do not stack.
Spooky Treat Bag
This item drops from spooky scorched. The spooky treat bag can not be purchased from vendors nor will they appear in your collectron’s inventory
The spooky treat bag can be found under "Aid" in your pip boy. Select it and press A to open it.
The treat bag will drop aid, booze, bubble gum, and grenades, as well as an uncommon or rare reward.
Checklist of uncommon and rare plans at the bottom section of this guide.
Trick or Treat
Exactly as the name suggests, this part of the event requires you to visit other people's camps, while in costume, and take some mystery candy from their spooky candy bowl.
The full list of what counts as a costume in game can be found here.
The daily and weekly scoreboard challenges will range from trick or treating at other players' camps to having a certain number of players take candy from your candy bowl.
To prevent greedy little heathens from emptying the candy bowl in one go, the game has added some rules to how players can interact with the bowl.
The player must be wearing a costume
Players can only take candy from the bowl once per hour, per character, per camp.
Leaving and rejoining the world will not reset the 60 min cooldown timer
The spooky candy bowl shares the same cooldown period between all camp slots
Scrapping and rebuilding the candy bowl will not reset the 60 min cooldown timer
The spooky candy bowl inventory is shared between camp slots, similar to how vendor machines work now
If a player has an activated (full) spooky candy bowl in their camp, then you will see the below icon on their camp icon.
Be considerate to your fellow Wastelanders and turn your camp icon ON during this event but keep an eye out for trap camps.
Spooky Scorched
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As previously mentioned, there is no option to purchase the spooky treat bags, so here is how to hunt them down.
Spooky scorched have a 10% chance to spawn anywhere on the map. This means for every 10 enemies, one has a chance to be a spooky scorched. Areas with more enemies have a higher chance of having more spooky scorched spawns.
You will hear Halloween-themed music when you get close enough to them and they will always appear in one of the following costumes:
Silver Shroud Outfit and Fedora
Pirate Outfit and Hat
Beelzebilly outfit and Mask
Viking Outfit and Helmet
Halloween Witch Outfit
Executioner Outfit
Cuddles the Clown (Psycho Outfit)
Rubber Monster Outfit
Jack Gourdon Outfit
Sometimes you will see a legendary scorched that is playing the Halloween-themed 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.
The more enjoyable way to farm spooky scorched is to complete events that have waves of scorched.
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
Alternatively, you can hunt down spooky scorched using the force spawn method below.
This will work on public and private servers
Note: Spooky Scorched will not spawn inside buildings and instances that require a load screen to enter them.
Step 1) Pick 10 to 12 locations from the list below. It is recommended that you pick one region on the map and only hunt in that region.
Step 2) FT to the first location and murder anything that moves.
Step 3) Loot ALL the bodies (very very important, even if they aren’t Spooky Scorched). You can dump all the crap afterward but you need those meat piles to disappear for this process to work.
Step 4) Fast travel to the second location and repeat Step 2 and Step 3
Step 5) Keep Fast Traveling around until you have visited all the locations, repeating Step 2 and Step 3. Take a 10 min break, FT back to the first location, and more Spooky Scorched will spawn.
Make sure to keep murdering anything that moves in each location and loot ALL the bodies.
For me personally, if there were no Spooky Scorched there on my first run, then on my second or third run, I would get 1 to 3+ spawn there.
The sweet spot time is 10 to 12 locations. If you pick 9 or less locations then you need to wait about 20 to 25 mins before going back 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
Map of possible Spooky Scorched spawn locations.
Rewards
Bubblegum/Cotton Candy Bites/Gum Drops
Alcohol
Aid
Grenades
Contextual Ammo
Plan and/or Outfit
Please note only the rare and rare costume rewards are pictured below.
All outfits and plans are tradeable.
Hellfire Power Armour paints are non-tradeable
The 2023 plans will stop dropping once learned.
Rare Costumes
15% drop chance
Bear Gas Mask
Released: 2023
Gazelle Gas Mask
Released: 2023
Jack O'Lantern Pant Suit
Released: 2019
Jack O'Lantern Short Suit
Released: 2019
Pirate Costume
Released: 2019
Pirate Costume Hat
Released: 2019
Rooster Gas Mask
Released: 2023
Rare Rewards
15% drop chance
Plan: Alien jack o'lantern
Released: 2019
Plan: Assault Rifle Wraith's Wrath Paint
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Chainsaw Ghostly Grinder Paint
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Classic jack o'lantern
Released: 2019
Plan: Dr. Bones
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Evil jack o'lantern
Released: 2019
Plan: Executioner Mask
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Full pumpkin rack
Released: 2019
Plan: Giant Red Dinosaur
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Grim Reaper Vault-Boy Cutout
Released: 2019
Plan: Half Empty Pumpkin Rack
Released: 2019
Plan: Half Full Pumpkin Rack
Released: 2019
Plan: Happy jack o'lantern
Released: 2019
Plan: Hellfire V2 Prototype PA Paint Arms
Plan: Hellfire V2 Prototype PA Paint Helmet
Plan: Hellfire V2 Prototype PA Paint Torso
Plan: Hellfire V2 Prototype PA Paint Legs
Released: 2023
Hellfire Power Armour paints are non-tradeable
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Honeycomb Paper Ghost Lantern 01
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Honeycomb Paper Ghost Lantern 02
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Honeycomb Paper Jack-o'-Lantern 01
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Honeycomb Paper Jack-o'-Lantern 02
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Honeycomb Paper Spider Lantern
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Mobster jack o'lantern
Released: 2019
Plan: Practice jack o'lantern
Released: 2019
Plan: Princess Backpack
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Pumpkin Rack
Released: 2019
Plan: Rad Skull Rider Helmet
Released: 2023
This plan will stop dropping once learned.
Plan: Surprised jack o'lantern
Released: 2019
Plan: Vault Boy jack o'lantern
Released: 2019
Plan: Vault door jack o'lantern
Released: 2019
Plan: Vault-Tec jack o'lantern
Released: 2019
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