Best way to get caps – Fallout 76: Our 6 top tips

Caps are a peculiar currency of the Fallout universe. While Fallout 76 has other currencies too, caps remain the blood of its economy accepted by both players & NPCs. Who would have thought that Nuka Cola's bottle caps can become so valuable at some point...

Of course, it's always good to have lots of caps. That's Fallout 76's equivalent of having lots of dollars in real life. But just like in real life, accumulating large wealth isn't a simple task. In this blog post we'll tell you all you need to know to become one of the richest people in the Wastelands.

1. Don't waste caps

Becoming rich in Fallout 76 isn't just about earning a lot of money – it's also about NOT spending a lot of money. While it's not a direct road to getting a ton a caps per second, it's a good building block for a strong economy for your character and CAMP.

There are many ways in which you can cut your expenses and the essential tips would be these:

• Avoid buying goods from NPC vendors. They overprice everything, especially consumables like ammo. It's sometimes okay to buy something like a blueprint or a plan from them, but hardly anything else;

• If you think that you absolutely have to buy some item, check players' vendors first. They have reasonable prices more often than NPCs;

• If you're a new player or if you somehow lost all your money, check local donation boxes or ask players around you for help. Thus you can get essential things like ammo or food for free. Just remember to use those methods only when you absoltely have to;

• Fast traveling becomes up to 30% cheaper if you use the Travel Agent perk. It's a good way to save money for new players;

• Don't disregard Charisma and level it up to make your purchases cheaper and sales more profitable;

• Equip the Hard Bargain perk each time before interacting with vendors. It instantly boosts your Charisma.

And never hesitate to ask advice from veteran players. Most of them can tell you how to spend less caps from their own experience – and that would be a valuable recommendation.

2. Grab stuff, sell stuff

Fallout 76, just like most other games of the series, is all about grabbing things. That is, if you see something you can pick up, it should be your second nature to do it at once. The game is designed in such a way, that even the so called junk items aren't really junk. You can put virtually everything to good use.

If you focus on increasing your wealth, the best use for everything you pick up is selling it. Most loot should go directly to NPC vendors at train strations. Powerful items that other players might be interested in, should be sold through your CAMP's vending machine – don't disregard the power of trading with others.

Here are some tips for selling items for the highest profit possible:

• Always equip the Hard Bargain perk before interacting with vendors;

• If you can craft something with the items you've collected to sell it at a better price, do it. For example, some food can be prepared without any additional expenses. Selling prepared food usually yields more money than raw one;

• Weapons and armor sell at better price than most other loot, so if you know areas that have monsters dropping plenty of them, consider spending more time there (we'll talk about it in more detail in the next section);

• The best things to sell at your CAMP's vending machine are legendaries, ultracite armor, rare costumes, mutation serums, and power armor pieces and plans. Players are usually attracted by items like that sold at good prices, so if you stumble upon something of this type that you personally don't need, waste no time and put it to the vending machine. Trading with other players is very important and is the best way to both increase your wealth and find your place in the community.

You'll barely ever find yourself in a situation when there's absolutely nothing to collect and sell. The game offers too many options to throw another object into your inventory for that to ever happen.

3. Find your perfect grind spot

If you don't want to spend much time thinking about what's optimal and what's not, just find a train station that has lots of enemies around it and start to farm right away. Keep elimiating hostiles until your bag is full, then head to the vendor, activate the Hard Bargain, and sell all the stuff you've gathered to it. Then repeat as long as you want or until you've hit the daily vendor limit (1'400 caps).

If the train station you've chosen has enemies like mega sloths, grafton monsters, super mutant behemoths, or radtoads in its immediate vicinity, you're in great luck. Those creatures drop caps regularly, so you should focus on destroying as many of them as possible.

However, if you actually care about being as efficient as you can, here are several popular grind spots that experienced players recommend:

• West Tek Research Center. It must be the best choice for caps farming. The place teems with super mutants and mutant hounds – 2 very valuable types of enemies. The former drop weapons and armor like crazy. The latter drop lots of meat that you can cook before selling for better profit. Make sure to equip these perks before starting to farm enemies there: Arms Keeper (lets you carry more guns), Butcher's Bounty (obtain more meat), and Super Duper (get more cooked meat);

• Fort Defiance. You can find a rare and quite valuable item around the place: Straight Jacket. There are lots of them there and each can be sold for 50 caps. Collecting 20 jackets yields you a thousand caps which is not too far from the daily vendor limit. Obviously, it's not only about the jackets: enemies also provide you with plenty of gear to sell;

• Morgantown Airport. This location has lots of the Scorched. Their loot includes weapons and armor fairly frequently;

• Welsh. Mole miners should be your focus there as they drop a lot of weapons and armor too.

That list isn't exhaustive by any means. If you hear another suggestion from an experienced player, at least give it a shot.

4. Get passive income

For example, drinkable water. And you can actually set up a water purification station in your CAMP to satisfy this demand! If you were smart enough to build your camp close to a body of water, you should immediately install a water purifier and give it some time to do its job.

In a little while it'll provide you with lots of bottles of purified water. You should take them to the closest NPC vendor to sell them at 5 caps each (with the Hard Bargain perk). That might not sound like a lot, but it all depends on the scale of your enterprise. So the more water you can purify, the more caps you'll get in return.

Besides, there are no reinvestment requirements whatsoever. You don't have to maintain your purifiers or pay for anything else: they will just keep purifying water no matter what until they shut down Fallout for good. And you'll be good to carry bottles for sale whenever you log back into the game.

Take a look at a video guide on how to set up a water farm (by Legendary Mage - Gaming Guides):

There are other things you can produce but water is simplest and cheapest. Some people also recommend growing Tatos – and they are comparable to water in terms of how cheap they are to produce. The only drawback of Tatos is that they cost a bit less per item than bottles of purified water: 2 caps instead of 5. But nothing prevents you from both purifying water and growing Tatos which changes the equation in your favor.

5. Look out for Cap Stashes

That means moving from one known spot of a caps stash spawn to another in a particular order. You can learn more about such routes on the web, here's one in the White Springs that has been quite popular recently:

1. Inside the resort go through the main doors, then down the stairs. Turn right and inside the luggage claim zone you'll see a stash locked in the closet behind the desk;

2. There's an enclave bunker next to the resort exit. Inside it you can discover another caps stash on the shelf next to an assaultron;

3. The enclave bunker has a service entrance. On top of it there's another stash;

4. The other enclave entrance leads to a small security building. Go up to it and look for a turned over trash can in its vicinity. The trash can covers yet another stash;

5. Go west from the security building down the road. Pass through the gold course. Head south from the gold club – off the road you'll locate another security building. Inside it you'll find the fifth caps stash on a shelf.

So it's the way such routes work in Fallout. Several caps stashes must be located close to each other and you go from one to another in the suggested order. Other locations you can look up that also have stashes routes include:

• Abandoned Mine Shaft 4

• Big B's Rest Stop

• Eastern Regional Penitentiary

• Hornwright Estate

• Kanawha Nuka-Cola Plant

• Poseidon Energy Plant WV-06

Before you start any of those routes, make sure to equip these 2 perks: Cap Collector and Fortune Finder. The former increases the amount of caps you extract from stashes and the latter helps you notice them by making a special sound whenever you're close to a stash. Also use Bobblehead: Caps to increase the amount of found caps even more.

Here's a video that explains cap stash routes in more detail (by Angry Turtle):

6. Some Events pay better

• A colossal problem

• Eviction Notice

• Free range

• Moonshine Jamboree

• Retirement plan

• Scorched earth

• Test your metal

• Uranium fever

So whenever an opportunity arises to do any of those, don't miss it!

So while our 6 points might seem like a lot of information, there are even more ways to earn caps in the game. Never hesitate to ask advice from players who have played it longer than you. Some of them might know secrets that are unknown to most players and can't be found in guides. Don't stop learning!

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