For an overview of pre-War books appearing in the Fallout series of games, see pre-War book. |
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The generic green pre-War book | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A pre-War book is a fairly rare miscellaneous item in Fallout 3.
Characteristics[]
Pre-War books are books that have not been destroyed, burned, or otherwise rendered unreadable. In the Capital Wasteland, these books come in two different versions: a generic green, and rare blue. Aside from use as Rock-It Launcher ammunition, the green books are desired by Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel, specifically, to the Order of the Quill.
Locations[]
G.E.C.K. shows that there are 110 pre-War books ("BookGeneric01") in the game, more are added with add-ons. The links below often tell you where to find them:
Location | Amount | Description |
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Alexandria Arms | 1 | 1 in the large room upstairs, atop an L-shaped counter along the northern wall of the room. The room is east from the entrance through a set of double doors. |
Arlington Library | 11 | 3 in the Lobby, 5 in the Children's Wing, and 3 in the media archives. |
Anchorage War Memorial | 3 | 3 in the utility room. |
Bethesda Ruins | 2 | Only room on the second floor of the Bethesda Offices West, on top of the filing cabinets to the west. |
Broadcast tower KT8 | 2 | In the room with the computer terminals. |
Calverton | 1 | In a house with a scavenger and his dog, far east of the main town area. The house can be found by following the power lines east past the aforementioned truck, a billboard, and a series of small shacks. It's just before reaching a large power pylon. The book is on a table to the right of a couch under a small scorched book, and it must be stolen. |
Charnel House | 2 | NW in a mined ruined house with sandbags, occupied by a scavenger. |
Chryslus building | 1 | Room above the building basement doorway |
Cliffside Cavern | 1 | Towards the northwest chamber inside of a tent on a small round table. You will also find a mini nuke in the same tent. When you see the raider with the missile launcher you'll know you're in the right place. |
Clifftop Shacks | 1 | Abandoned shack. |
Dupont Circle | 1 | On a bookcase in an abandoned house guarded by raiders. Northwest of Dupont East and south of Dupont Northeast. |
Farragut West Station | 3 | Inside an Average locked storeroom near the Tenleytown/Friendship station exit. |
Fort Constantine | 3 | 2 in CO Quarters, 1 in the Launch Control Bunker. |
Franklin Metro Utility | 3 | 2 in one zone, 1 in another. |
Germantown police HQ | 1 | In the cell block next to the computer where Red is locked up. |
Hubris Comics | 2 | 1 in the Publishing, 1 in Printing. |
L.O.B. Enterprises | 2 | East wing |
Mama Dolce's | 2 | Located on the highest floor on a desk in a room with a Nuka-Cola vending machine, first aid box and an active terminal. |
Megaton | 4 | Inside Billy Creel's house (must be stolen). |
Minefield | 9 | Inside the houses |
National Archives | 5 | In The National Archives section on bookshelves. 1 on main floor, 4 downstairs from that. |
National Guard depot | 6 | 1 in one zone, 2 in another, 3 in a third. |
Oasis | 1 | After entering the Sunken Chambers, walk until you can turn left, do so, and continue forward until you reach a table with a blue trunk on the ground to the right. The book in on the top of the trunk next to a box of darts. |
Our Lady of Hope Hospital | 1 | On the western curved counter in the large waiting room area. |
Paradise Falls | 1 | Slave house, on a table. |
Point Lookout Lighthouse | 2 | 2 can be found on the same desk in a side room of the corridor in Professor Calvert's Lab. |
Radio mast Oscar Tango | 1 | South of the Jury Street Metro Station. |
Republic of Dave | 2 | In the Museum of Dave, must be stolen. |
RobCo facility | 3 | One in the shelves behind reception desk, one around the computers in the control room (near the Big Book of Science), and one in the mainframe room. |
Roosevelt Academy | 1 | Scavenger's half-destroyed house, one square west of Fort Bannister. It is on a table along with a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition. |
Sewer waystation | 2 | In a room in which you are attacked by a ghoul (Gallo), the books are next to the bed. |
Signal Alfa Lima | 1 | Near Broadcast Tower KB5. |
Signal Oscar Zulu | 1 | Southeast of Relay Tower KX-B8-11. |
Signal Papa November | 1 | West of the Charnel House. |
Signal Sierra Romeo | 2 | North of Little Lamplight. |
Sniper shack | 1 | Abandoned Shack west of Rockbreaker's Last Gas. On the table to the left of the locker that contains the Victory rifle. |
Temple of the Union | 1 | Caleb's bed |
Tepid sewer | 2 | One in the locked storage room (opened via a terminal or Rocksalt's key) underneath some other books in a box, and one in the raider's sleeping quarters on top of the bookshelves. |
Vault 92 | 5 | Scattered around. |
Yao guai tunnels | 1 | On the table by the entrance. |
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Notes[]
- Crazy Wolfgang and a few other vendors may sell "false" pre-War books. Once you fully invest in his inventory, Wolfgang will begin to carry them. Books that can be turned in have a value of 1, a green cover, and show a special "Book" icon, while Wolfgang's books have a value of 5, a blue cover, and appear with the "Junk" icon in your inventory (not stacking with the regular ones). These "false" pre-War books can be found throughout the Wasteland, Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta as well.
- Carrying more than 99 pre-War books and telling Scribe Yearling "just take all the books I have" will cause her to take only 99 books, yet give you caps and XP for all the books you carry. For example, carrying 110 pre-War books and giving them all to the scribe leaves you with 1100 XP, 11000 caps and 11 books left.
- A blue and a green pre-War book can be found in the Operation: Anchorage add-on. Neither can be taken into your inventory.