2019-03-08T13:00:05 01:00

Fallout 76: Guaranteed to use mutations correctly

In the radioactively contaminated world of Fallout 76, you will sooner or later catch a mutation due to the irradiated environment. What would be annoying in other games, you can use to your advantage here: Most mutations have strong positive effects, such as increasing your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. values, and you can reduce the disadvantages by using the appropriate perk.

In our guide you will learn

Getting and getting rid of mutations

Whenever you expose yourself to radiation in the game world, you have a chance to get a random mutation. This may or may not bring the mutation you want.

If you have saved up a lot of crown corks and don't want to gamble on mutations, you can buy a serum with the desired mutation effect from the merchant in the Whitespring bunker for 4400 crown corks. However, you will only get this purchase opportunity after you have completed the Enclave quest series up to and including "Officer on Deck".

The following actions will irradiate you and increase the chance of mutation:

stand in contaminated water
eat the food available in the game or raw fruits and vegetables
drink from rivers, streams, lakes or from the water pump
stand next to a barrel with radioactive material
fight against burnt and/or ghouls
Buy mutation serum in Whitespring bunker

This is how you get rid of mutations:

Throw in RAD-Away
run through a decontamination arc (in power plants, mines, in Whitespring bunker)

A hotspot for easily acquiring mutations is the Blackwater mine near the Whitespring resort. Inside the mine (after the area change), there is a radioactively contaminated area near the entrance and a decontamination arch.

From the door, just follow the tracks into the shaft until you see your RADs start to rise and wait - after a short time you should get a mutation. In the nearby sanitation and recovery area for the miners, you'll also find the decontamination sheet in case you get a mutation you don't want. This will also save you a lot of RAD-Away!

If you want more than one mutation at a time, go to the Emmet Mountain landfill. There, you'll only have to clear out a few enemies, and you'll quickly reach highly radiated barrels full of radioactive waste in the landfill. Once you've obtained a mutation there, switch servers and do the same thing again and you can farm mutations useful to you at your leisure.

Before you remove the deadly radiation with RAD-Away, be sure to activate the "Strengthened Genes" perk and deactivate it before the next radiation run. We'll tell you the effect in the next section.

Perks for playing with mutations

Sooner or later you'll need to get rid of your RAD charge, but as soon as you use RAD-Away, your mutations will also go to waste. To keep them permanently and make playing with mutations easier, use the following perks:

Strengthened genes (L - Luck, from level 30)
With this perk, you mutate with a lower chance in level 1, and never in level 2 when exposed to RADs. In addition, RAD-Away removes mutations at a lower chance in level 1 and no mutations at all in level 2. Use this perk if you already have the mutation you want, so you can remove RADs without losing the mutation as well.

Class Freak (L - Luck, from level 46)
This perk reduces the negative effects of active mutations by 25 to 45 percent from level 1 to 3. Use this perk to make your mutations subtract less SPECIAL values or reduce other troublesome effects.

Stranger by the Dozen (C - Charisma, from level 42)
With this perk, you gain 25% stronger positive effects from mutations when team members are also mutated. This perk is especially worthwhile if you play permanently in the same team and all team members want to use mutations.

All mutations in Fallout 76

Eagle Eyes
Advantage: 4 Perception, 25% Damage
Disadvantage: - 4 Strength

Adrenal Reaction
Advantage: Weapon damage at low TP
Disadvantage: - 50 maximum TP

Charged
Advantage: Chance of electric shocks against melee attackers (AoE effect)
Disadvantage: Low damage to the mutant when the effect triggers

Marsupial
Advantage: 20 carrying capacity, jumping height
Disadvantage: - 4 intelligence

Chameleon
Advantage: Invisibility as long as unarmored and motionless
Disadvantage: No effect as long as armor is worn and/or the mutant moves.

Egghead
Advantage: 6 Intelligence
Disadvantage: - 3 Strength, - 3 Stamina

Empathy
Advantage: - 25rlitten team damage
Disadvantage: 33rlitten damage

Grounding
Advantage: 100 energy resistance
Disadvantage: - 20 nergies damage

Carnivore
Advantage: Eat meat without risk of disease, double eating benefits
Disadvantage: Cannot eat vegetables

Healing Factor
Advantage: 300% health regeneration
Disadvantage: - 55 hem effects (also healing!)

Herd instinct
Advantage: 2 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. values, if in team
Disadvantage: - 2 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. values, if alone

Unstable isotope
Advantage: Chance of radiation of melee attackers
Disadvantage: Low damage to the mutant when the effect triggers; many enemies are immune to effect.

Claws
Advantage: 25% weaponless damage, bleed damage
Disadvantage: - 4 mobility

Muscle Tightening
Advantage: 25% melee damage, chance to cripple enemy
Disadvantage: - 50% weapon precision

Herbivore
Advantage: can eat vegetables without diseases, double eating benefits
Disadvantage: Cannot eat meat

Speeder
Advantage: 20 movement speed, reloading speed
Disadvantage: 50% more hunger and thirst during movement

Scale skin
Advantage: 50 damage resistance, 50 energy resistance
Disadvantage: - 25 action points

Plague Scatterer
Advantage: Poison aura that scales with the amount of existing diseases (AoE effect)
Disadvantage: Only active with existing diseases

Bird Bones
Advantage: 4 agility, slow fall
Disadvantage: - 4 Strength

If you combine different mutations with each other, you can even experience the game from a completely different perspective - for example, try out what you can do with "bird bone" and "marsupial" at the same time..

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