Farming
As with all farming, it is recommended that you run:
Green Thumb perk card under Perception
Good with Salt perk card under Luck or Refrigerated Backpack (available from Camp Adams vendor machines)
Keep an eye out for "Verdant Season". This unmarked event is a food buff farmer's favourite and makes farming for more difficult ingredients a lot easier.
Verdant season adds a 33% chance for a double yield from any plant within the region that Verdant Season is active in. In layman's terms, while this event is active, you have a 33% chance of getting an extra 2 ingredients from every plant that you harvest. This also stacks with the Green Thumb perk card under Perception.
The game doesn't always tell you when it is verdant season. Sometimes you will see a notification on the top left hand side of your screen saying It's a verdant season in (region name here)! Enjoy the abundance! or The verdant season has been extended in the (region name here) or The verdant season in (region name here) has ended. Other times you will just see that you are collecting four ingredients from a plant instead of two.
It is also advised that you refresh your pick up history list before going on a Melon Blossom run.
The easiest way to refresh your pick up history list is to pay a visit to the book house in Summersville. Pick up every single burnt book and text book on all three floors, plus the piles of books on the back table.
You only need to pick up 250 books/items to refresh your pick up history list. There should be a total of 289 books in the book house, but if you pick up everything not bolted down, on all three floors, then you don't need to worry too much if you miss a few burnt books.
There are other ways and places to collect 250 items but the book house is the easiest way because you don't need to keep track of how many items you have picked up.
Camp Items
The Budding Apothecary Collector has a 5.56% chance to drop Melon Blooms and Melon Blossoms.
Melon Blossoms
There are 31 Melon Blossom and Ash Blossom vines in external locations and another 14 (13) in internal locations.
When you harvest a Ash Blossom, it will show as a Melon Blossom in your inventory. Both types can be used in all Melon Blossom recipes and dishes.
Melon Blossoms are used in one recipe:
You can find Melon Blossoms and Ash Blossoms in the below locations:
WV Lumber Co.
1x Melon Blossom
From the spawn in point, face North and follow the road down, past the trucks, to the gate. Either jump over or open the gate and walk through it. Behind the gate is a blue and an orange shipping container. Stand on top of the containers and face North. You will see a small farm in front of you. The melon blossom is on the last row of the farm.
Aaronholt Homestead
10x Melon Blossoms
There are two types of Blossoms here, Melon Blossom and Ash Blossom. When you harvest a Ash Blossom, it shows as a Melon Blossom in your inventory and can be used in all Melon Blossom recipes and dishes.
From the fast travel point, face South and run straight. Keep running all the way to the back, where the cranberries and the shed and the crop field . Stand on top of the red tractor in front of you and look East. You will see a broken shed and some crop rows in the distance. Head to the crop rows as marked in the picture below.
The vines can be hard to see so I recommend walking up and down the rows and keeping count as you go along.
Map of Melon Blossom locations at Aaronholt Homestead.
Becker Farm
2x Melon Blossoms
From the spawn in point, turn North. Run forward and stop at the windmill. Turn West and you will see a green wheelbarrow. The two Melon Blossoms are on either side of the wheelbarrow.
Vault 76
4x Melon Blossoms
Once you are at Vault 76, turn around so you are facing the vault. Turn East and walk forward until you are standing on the edge of the paving and the dirt path and then turn North East. You will need to walk around the edge of the rock face. Maintain a North East direction once you have passed the rock face. Keep an eye on your left, for some ruined wooden buildings and a blue tent. Once you see them, turn and head towards them.
On the right hand side of the blue tent is a broken barn. The Melon Blossoms are on garden plots next to the barn and the fence.
Morgantown Airport
1x Melon Blossom
From the fast travel point, turn and face North East. Run straight forward, jump over the truck and keep going until you get to the small farm at the end of the runway, near some wooden walls. The Melon Blossom can be hard to see here, look for the single wooden wall that is near the green bungalow. Stand with your back to the wooden wall, facing the farm and you should see the Melon Blossom vine in front of you.
Morgantown Trainyard
1x Melon Blossom
From the spawn in point, face directly West and you will see a red truck in front of you. Jump on top of the truck and follow the trailer to the end. Look West again and you will see a red shipping container, run over and stand on top of the red shipping container and then jump onto the black roof next to the shipping container. Turn to face the Gauley Mine Exit map marker, in front of you will be a metal camper trailer/caravan. Walk over to the trailer and stand in front of the metal drum that is at the back of the trailer. Turn to face the train carriage and look down on the ground. The next Melon Blossom vine should be right in front of you. Yes this vine is bugged and is glitched underground.
Wixon Homestead
2x Melon Blossoms
From the fast travel point, turn and face West. Run forward until you get to a white picket fence. Jump the fence so it is on your right hand side and follow it along West. When you get to the end, turn and face the main house. The two Melon Blossom vines will be in front of you.
Lewis & Sons Farming Supply
1x Melon Blossom
From the fast travel point, run straight down the road until you see the Lewis & Sons Farming Supply sign. Turn right and then run forward until you get to the corner of the green house. You should be standing at a green wheelbarrow. In front of you is a Mr Handy, tending a garden patch. Walk over to the garden patch and the Melon Blossom vine is in the far right corner, behind the corn.
Poseidon Energy Plant WV-06
1x Melon Blossom
From the spawn in location, turn around and run down the road, towards the bridge. Cross the bridge and continue to run up the road until you see a bus, crashed and on its side. On your right will be a dirt road. Follow the dirt road down until you get to a camper trailer/caravan. At the end of the trailer, you will see the Melon Blossom vine next to a metal drum.
East Mountain Lookout
1x Melon Blossom
Start to climb up the stairs in the look out. The Melon Blossom vine is in a planter on the third level.
The General's Steakhouse
6x Melon Blossoms
From the fast travel point, run over to the steak house and head around to the back of the building. You will see the small brick walled garden plot as you get to the back of the building. The Melon Blossoms are in a row on the right hand side of the garden plot.
NAR Repair Yard
1x Melon Blossom
From the fast travel point, enter the yard and stand on top of the curved/dome shaped building and look East. You will see a fissure site and then some buildings beyond that. Walk around the fissure site and head over to the buildings.
Once you get to the buildings, stand on top of the curved/dome shaped shed that is attached to the house and look South. You will see a shed/barn and a grain silo. Head over to the grain silo and stand behind it.
Face South East and you will see a small patch of trees in front of you. Walk through the trees and stop on the other side. Turn SSE and you will see another patch of trees. Head towards those trees and stop on the other side inside the cranberry bush.
Line yourself up between the NAR Repair Yard and Lost Home map markers and walk forward slowly while looking at the ground. You will see the Melon Blossom a few steps after the fallen tree.
Vault 94
14x Melon Blossoms
Note: One of the Melon Blossoms is unobtainable due to being out of bounds. So technically you can only harvest 13 vines here.
There are two types of Blossoms in this location, Melon Blossom and Ash Blossom. When you harvest a Ash Blossom, it shows as a Melon Blossom in your inventory and can be used in all Melon Blossom recipes and dishes.
Open the vault door using the yellow controls in the cave and enter the vault.
From the load in point, the first Melon Blossom is in front of you, next to the skeleton in the vault suit.
From that vine, turn around to face the vault door. In front of you is the cat walk ramp and to your right is an open area. Growing on the ground, near the wall, another skeleton in a vault suit and a corn plant, is another Melon Blossom.
Go through the doorway and down the stairs to the market place. On the left is a large hole in the wall. Go through the hole and it will take you to the greenhouse. There are 5 vines in here.
Check the signs above the doors of the greenhouse.
Face Greenhouse 5 and there is a Melon Blossom vine out the front, on the right.
There are three in the corner, between Greenhouse 5 and the stairs to the seed bank. (refer to the photo if required).
The first one is on the left hand side of greenhouse #5.
The next one is in that corner, against the wall, near a light blue metal crate. Use the Starlight Berry bush as a point of reference.
If you jump on top of Greenhouse #5 and face South, you will see a platform in front of you. The next vine is on the corner of the terminal/consoles, closest to the chem bench.
Jump off the platform, turn around and face South. Take the stairs down to the seed bank. Enter the seed bank and walk forward until you are standing in front of Seed Bank T. Turn right and walk through the door. Stand on top of the desk and face North. There will be some medical curtain/dividers in front of you/on your right. One Melon Blossom vine is growing at the base of one of the dividers and the other is growing on the bench behind the dividers.
Go back into the Seed Bank and stand at Seed Bank U. Turn North and face the door that says "Atrium". Look down and you will see another Melon Blossom vine.
From the Melon Blossom above, head towards the Atrium. Stop in the double doorway and look forwards the Atrium. You will see a blue trash can and a table. The Melon Blossom vine is at the end of the table.
From that platform, jump down, run straight across the room and jump up onto the platform on the other side/right hand side of the Atrium. Look for the door marked "Operations".
Stand in the "Operations" doorway and there will be two Melon Blossom vines on the ground, in front of you.
From Operations, you want to head to the GECK.
From the last blossom vines, face East and walk through the doorway. Once you enter the room, you will see a door for Security on your left and a door for the GECK on your right. Enter the door marked "GECK" and then just follow the rooms around. There are no other doors or ways that you can go. You are looking for a regular sized blue vault door that says "Vault 94 GECK Wing" when you hover over it.
Once you are past the load screen, you should be in a small room with some workbenches. Go through the doorway near the weapons workbench and out into the GECK wing. You will need to watch your rads here.
From the doorway, turn left and then right into the first doorway on your right. Run straight until you get to the Vault 94 stash box and then turn right. Walk straight again until you get to the doorway. Turn South and you will see another doorway opposite you. Enter that room and the vine is on the ground on the right-hand side of the door.
Melon Blooms
Yes Melon Blooms do exist and no they are not the same as Melon Blossoms.
Melon Blooms are used in the following recipes:
Melon Blooms do not grow in game. They can only be purchased from Vendors or found in containers.
It will be much easier to purchase the already made teas from the Whitesprings Restaurant.
Melon Blooms can be purchased from the following vendors:
Duchess at the Wayward - 6.38%
Whitesprings Train Station - 7.41%
Marie from Le Grand Gourmet in Whitesprings Resort - 12.82%
Beckett (Camp Ally) - 3.29%
Xerxo (Camp Ally) - 3.29%
Sunny in Foundation - 3.29%
Molly in Crater - 3.29%
Emerson - 3.29%
Athena - 3.29%
Travelling Merchant at your camp NPC - 3.29%
Random Encounter spawn NPC - 3.29%
Grahm - 3.29%
Watoga train station - 3.29%
Whitesprings Resort vendors - 3.29%
Berkeley Springs train station - 3.29%
Responder train stations/vendors - 3.29%
-Morgantown
-Grafton
-Lewisburg
-Welch
-Charleston
-Flatwoods
-Camden Park
Raider train stations - 3.29%
-R&G
-Pleasant Valley
-Sunnytop
-Sutton
Containers
Refrigerator - 0.24%
Blue Cooler - 1.18%
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