Your Pip-Boy and You

Navigate your Pip-Boy in fallout 4: STAT, INV, DATA, MAP, and RADIO screens explained. Check health, inventory, quests, and more.

The Pip-Boy in fallout 4 is your central hub for managing your character and the game world. It is divided into several key sections: STAT, INV, DATA, MAP, and RADIO.

STAT

The STAT section covers your Status, SPECIAL ranking, and Perks.

• STATUS: Check your overall health, including your HP and AP. You can also see your limb damage and any active effects (press R1/Right Bumper to see your active effects), such as temporary drug effects. You can also see your weapon power and armor ratings (which are affected by what you have equipped). This screen is also important as you can instantly use Stimpaks and RadAway from this screen, which makes it an easy one-stop shop for healing yourself under pressure.
• SPECIAL: Review your current SPECIAL scores. You can do this in the perk chart as well, making this screen fairly useless.
• PERKS: Review the perks your character has bought or earned. This includes companion perks and magazine perks, things you cannot see in the perk chart, so it is worthwhile to check every now and again, especially if you’ve forgotten what magazines do what for you.

INV

This is the inventory screen. You equip weapons and armor from here and can favorite them to your quick-bar for easy selection. You can view your aid items and use them from here as well. Finally, you round all that out with junk, mods and ammo sections for checking out whatever else you pick up.

• WEAPONS: Check out weapons and equip/favorite them to the quick-use bar (the directional buttons).
• APPAREL: For armor. You can quick-equip your armor as well, which is handy for Charisma pieces especially.
• AID: Everything you can eat or drink that can heal you. You can quick-equip these items as well.
• MISC: Covers most of your quest items, notes, magazines, bobbleheads… anything that isn’t quite junk and may be useful for some quest or other.
• JUNK: Useful for scraping and crafting with, or selling for a profit.
• MODS: Various weapon mods you either swapped off of a weapon you owned or found out in the world.
• AMMO: Houses all of your different ammo types. It is not recommended to sell any ammo.

DATA

Data keeps track of quests, settlements and general statistics. If you want to switch up quests, this is the place to do it. Keeping track of settlements is handy as well (to quickly see who needs what) and general statistics are just plain fun (and useful for trophy info).

• QUESTS: Look at quest information. You can mark quests active/inactive from here, read summaries on them, and display them on the map. You can also view completed quests at the bottom in here. The “Miscellaneous” quests section has a list of small objectives to the right that you can use the right analog stick to scroll up and down.
• WORKSHOPS: Shows all the settlements you are currently caring for. This includes the number of people, food, water, power, defense, beds and happiness. You can display them on the map as well to see where they are.
• STATS: Keeps track of various cool-to-track info. These are split into sections, including “General Stats”, “Quest Stats”, “Combat Stats”, “Crafting Stats” and finally “Crime Stats”. Some of these stats are related to certain perks.

MAP

View the map with this tab. It is handy for navigation purposes. You can also fast travel from here, look at the “Local Map” (which helps sometimes), and even check out your Supply Lines (assuming you have invested into the Local Leader perk).

RADIO

Tune into various radio stations from this tab, which at times can lead you to new quests or hidden secrets. Whenever you extend the dishes on a radio relay station, be sure to listen in to the new radio stations you uncover.