WALKTHROUGH (or the complete spoiler)

Navigate the Capital Wasteland with our comprehensive Fallout 3 walkthrough. From character creation to the final quest, find detailed steps, tips, and strategies for every main mission.

This article contains information on how to progress through the main plot of _Fallout 3_. For a list of all the side quests, see _Fallout 3_ quests.

For more detailed information, see the articles on individual quests and achievements. The lists of _Fallout 3_ locations and creatures should also come in handy. You can also see information on creating your character.

Contents

• 1Creating your Character
  • 1.1Baby Steps
  • 1.2Growing Up Fast
  • 1.3Future Imperfect
• 2Main quests
  • 2.1Escape!
  • 2.2Following in His Footsteps
    • 2.2.1Galaxy News Radio
  • 2.3Scientific Pursuits
  • 2.4Tranquility Lane
  • 2.5The Waters of Life
  • 2.6Picking up the Trail
    • 2.6.1Rescue from Paradise
  • 2.7Finding the Garden of Eden
  • 2.8The American Dream
  • 2.9Take it Back!
• 3See also

Creating your Character

There is a blinding white light. Your vision is blurred. Catherine lies to your left, panting. "Lets see" asks James "are you a boy or a girl?" Choose your sex, and your father peers down and exclaims his joy at your birth. Your father and mother have been thinking of a name for you. Type in when prompted. Your father brings forward the Gene Projection, allowing you to see what you will look like in 20 years or so. At this point, you can change your Race, Face and Hair. Whatever the outcome, you are very much like your father in appearance. Dr. Madison Li wheels you out of the operating room while your father can be heard shouting "She's in cardiac arrest! Start compressions! Get the baby out of here! Move! Move!" Everything turns to white...

One Year Later...

Baby Steps

This "quest" is simply a basic instruction on how to move and interact with the environment. Just follow the instructions, escape from your stall and select your attributes in the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. book (you will get another chance to change those at the end of Escape!). Following your father out of the room will end the quest.

Growing Up Fast

Your father greets you at your 10th birthday party and is shortly interrupted by the Overseer who gives you your Pip-Boy 3000.

After you have received your Pip-Boy, walk towards Amata and she initiates a conversation with you. She gives you Grognak the Barbarian as a present (which you can read immediately). Next, talk to Stanley to receive a pre-War baseball cap. Then talk to Old Lady Palmer and she give you a sweetroll. Once Andy has destroyed your birthday cake, Butch DeLoria demands the sweetroll, leaving you with various choices to deal with the situation. If you get in a fight it is broken up by Officer Gomez and Butch gets in trouble.

Shortly after, the intercom rings and once your Dad has answered it he lets you know that Jonas has a surprise for you down on the Reactor level. Exiting the room where the party is being held, turn right down the hall, and then make the first