Fallout 4 – All Random Encounters Detail

Animosity Encounters

These encounters occur anywhere and involve two factions or enemy types that have particularly strained or nonexistent diplomatic relations with one another.

Super Mutants versus Ghouls

• Detail: Sit back and watch infected bony fingernails scrape against overly large green hides.

Super Mutants versus Scavengers

• Detail: A one-sided battle, with Super Mutants already victorious and moving back to a nearby stronghold.

Raiders versus Scavengers

• Detail: Come for the fighting. Stay for the loot one of the Scavengers had collected.

Dogs versus Farmers

• Detail: Only the dogs are hostile.

Scavengers versus Robots

• Detail: Both groups are hostile if you barge in uninvited.

Minutemen versus [Other Faction]

• Detail: Once you ally with the Minutemen, you may encounter a group of them defending a settlement from Brotherhood of Steel soldiers, Institute synths or one or more Institute Coursers. Help out your chosen faction.

Brotherhood of Steel versus [Other Faction]

• Detail: Once you ally with the Brotherhood of Steel, you may encounter a group of them defending a settlement from Minutemen, Institute synths or one or more Institute Coursers. Help out your chosen faction.

Minutemen versus (Enemy)

• Detail: Once you ally with the Minutemen, expect to see them defending random locations in the Commonwealth. These small outposts may be attacked by Raiders or Gunners; lend them a hand if you can.

Brotherhood of Steel versus (Enemy)

• Detail: Once you ally with the Brotherhood of Steel, expect to see them at a random location, attacked by Feral Ghouls or Super Mutants.

Institute Relay Ambush

• Detail: If you’ve been kicked out of the Institute and the faction is still active, you may be attacked by teleporting synths as you near a location.

Vicious Dogs versus Bloodbugs

• Detail: A human corpse serves as a rag doll being torn between dogs and bugs, both parties wishing to devour it.

Feral Ghouls versus Raiders

• Detail: A group of wandering corpses do battle against the idiotic wastrels of the Commonwealth.

Active Sniper

• Detail: Some lunatic with a sniper rifle enjoys shooting up the location you’re entering.

Ricky Dalton and the Raiders

• Detail: Once Railroad Quest: Tradecraft is complete, you may see him fighting off Raiders.

Gunners versus Children of the Atom

• Detail: Feel free to watch both these enemy factions make (lightly irradiated) mincemeat of each other.

Gunners versus Behemoth or Mirelurk Queen

• Detail: A trio of Gunners are making impressive inroads against one of the Commonwealth’s true giants.

Treasure Hunt Encounters

You find a corpse with a note. If you read it you’ve pointed in the direction of a random location and map marker reveals where steamer trunk is.

A Dead Raider’s Note

• Reward: Caps

A Dead junkie’s Note

• Reward: Chems

A Dead Gunner’s Note

• Reward: Gun and impressive mod

Three Dead Scavengers

• Reward: Scrap and junk.

A Dead farmer’s Note

• Reward: A synth with an impressively modded gun, scrap, and junk in a trunk.

Hadrian’s Note

• Reward: This starts Miscellaneous Quest: Treasure of Jamaica Plain.

Chokepoint Encounters

These events occur in those areas where you have limited maneuverability, such as a bridge crossing.

None Shall Pass!

• Detail: Three Raiders are manning a choke point, demanding Caps for you to pass. Use your speech to reduce the amount; this can allow free passage. You’re attacked if you leave without paying or if you attack them. If you have a Luck of 8 or more and fewer Caps than the Raiders demand, choose the “fake it” option and the Raiders take whatever Caps you have.

Mister Gutsy’s Curfew

• Detail: This robot demands you return to your home. A speech challenge allows you to convince the robot you’re on military business, and you’re let through. Attempt to pass and you’re attacked. If you have Luck of 7 or more, select the same questions for the robot multiple times until it explodes.

Raiders Accosting Farmers

• Detail: Three Raiders are trying to extract a toll from some farmers. Help the farmers out if you wish.

Synth Relay Choke Point

• Detail: If you’ve been kicked out of the Institute and the faction is still active, you may be attacked by teleporting synths (and sometimes a Courser) as you near a choke point.

Minutemen Defenses

• Detail: A small group of Minutemen are defending a choke point, once you ally with this faction.

Brotherhood of Steel Defenses

• Detail: A small contingent of Brotherhood soldiers is defending a choke point once the Prydwen arrives. How they react to you depends on how your alliance is going.

Synth Defenses

• Detail: A small contingent of synths is defending a choke point once Institute Quest: Airship Down is complete. How they react to you depends on how your alliance is going.

Nervous Farmers

• Detail: A group of farmers asks you to holster any weapon you’re carrying. Comply and you can pass. If not, expect hostility.

Super Mutant Blockage

• Detail: A couple of lumbering green mutants are preventing your progress.

Stash, Lexa, and Simon

• Detail: A merchant and two bodyguards are found here, and bartering can occur.

Choke Point Mines

• Detail: Disarm a set of mines at this location, or face a crippling injury.

Unconstitutional

• Detail: If you completed Side Quest: Last Voyage of the U.S.S. Constitution, some disgruntled Scavengers are furious that you jumped their claim on the ship.

Bullet’s Ambush

• Detail: If you finished Side Quest: Kid in a Fridge and Bullet is still alive, he may jump you with a couple of cohorts.

Companion Encounters

If you any companion then you’ll have to face these encounters.

Hunting for Strong

• Companion: Strong
• Detail: You encounter Super Mutants who are looking for Strong once you complete Side Quest: Curtain Call.

Gunners’ Revenge

• Companion: MacCready
• Detail: A few Gunners are looking for revenge once you slay the Gunner leaders during Side Quest: Long Road Ahead.

Profuse Thanks

• Companion: Nick Valentine
• Detail: After you’re ambushed by Raiders, one realizes who Nick is and the situation turns remarkably less violent. Accept a small collection of items afterward.

One Tough Critic

• Companion: Piper
• Detail: You’re stopped by a group of rough-looking types who are here on behalf of someone Piper wrote an unpleasant article about. They attack, thus proving Piper’s journalistic integrity.

Preston’s Friend

• Companion: Preston Garvey
• Detail: If Preston is your current companion, and you own four settlements, you may encounter an old friend of Preston’s fighting some Raiders. If the chap survives, they reminisce.

Drug Runner Revenge

• Companion: Cait
• Detail: Apparently Cait owes some Raiders Caps for the Jet she bought. They are here to collect. Show them the error of this plan.

Bar Room Buddy

• Companion: Hancock
• Detail: Visit a bar at a settlement, and there’s a chance Hancock recognizes an old friend. They converse.