Daily Fallout 76 Briefing - May 24, 2026

Active Events Today

The Big Bloom Event

May 19 – June 2, 2026

Defend oversized mutated flowers from waves of insects in the Forest region for unique rewards including rare plans and cosmetics. This event drives the majority of this week's daily and weekly challenges — completing it five times and killing 30 insects inside the event will knock out multiple weeklies simultaneously.

Minerva's Big Sale (List 12) and Murmrgh's Special Pick

May 21 – May 25, 2026

Minerva is currently at Whitespring with the monthly Big Sale — her largest combined stock of the rotation. This sale ends tomorrow at noon ET. See the Minerva section for the full inventory.

Today's Daily Ops

Mutation breakdown:

• Savage Strike: Enemies deal increased melee damage and attack more rapidly at close range.
• Swift-Footed: Enemies move significantly faster, closing distance before you can react.

Strategy: Decryption mode tasks you with locating and using terminals to decode enemy intel while waves of enemies push on your position. At West Tek, Communist enemies with Savage Strike and Swift-Footed will sprint to melee range and hit hard once they arrive — ranged builds (auto rifles, plasma weapons, explosives) have a clear advantage here. Use the Research Center's corridors to create chokepoints and funnel enemies into tighter kill zones. Keep Stimpaks slotted and stay mobile; getting cornered by Swift-Footed enemies with Savage Strike active is a fast death.

Today's Daily Challenges

Quick completion tips:

• Gold Star: Complete a Daily Challenge (x6): Knock out the other seven challenges first — completing any six of them unlocks this automatically.
• Collect RadAway or Rad-X (x5): Craft RadAway at any Chemistry Station (requires Glowing Fungus and Plastic), or loot from containers in irradiated areas and hospital buildings like Morgantown Hospital.
• Collect Caps (x250): Passive progress — sell junk, weapons, or chems to your vendor stall or any NPC vendor while working through other challenges.
• Complete the Event: "The Big Bloom": The public event spawns in the Forest region and appears on your map automatically. Completing it also progresses the weekly "Complete the Event: The Big Bloom (x5)" challenge.
• Harvest a Firecracker Berry (x5): Berry bushes appear along rivers and wooded areas in the Forest region, particularly near the Overseer's Camp and along the New River Gorge corridor.
• Kill a Brahmin (x2): Brahmin roam near Flatwoods, the Vault 76 area, and many player CAMPs — any weapon counts.
• Kill an Enemy in the Forest Region (x5): Any five kills in the Forest biome count. Heading to the Big Bloom event area gives dense enemy spawns that cover this and the Firecracker Berry in one trip.
• Visit another Player's Shelter: Open the social or map menu, look for a player camp with a shelter entrance, and walk inside — this completes instantly on entry.

Weekly Challenges

Quick completion hints:

• Complete a Gold Star Daily Challenge! (x3): Earns one Gold Star per daily reset — three consecutive days of completing six dailies finishes this weekly.
• Build light sources in a Workshop or C.A.M.P. (x9): Open your CAMP build menu under Decorations → Lighting and place lanterns, bottle lights, or spotlights; they cost minimal materials and the count stacks across placements.
• Collect a Teapot (x5): Check shelves, tables, and counters in houses throughout the Forest and Ash Heap regions — Morgantown college buildings and residential neighborhoods frequently spawn them.
• Collect a Teddy Bear (x9): Found on beds, shelves, and in containers in residential buildings; player shelters and vendor CAMPs often have cluster spawns worth checking.
• Complete the Event: "The Big Bloom" (x5): Active through June 2 in the Forest region. Join public servers to find events in progress — five runs is very achievable before the event ends.
• Kill an Insect during The Big Bloom Event (x30): Insects spawn throughout the Big Bloom public event. Running the event five times for the completion challenge will naturally yield close to or all 30 insect kills at the same time.
• Kill a Mirelurk (x30): Head to Summersville Lake, Solomon's Pond, or the rivers in the Mire region — all have dense Mirelurk spawns that respawn quickly.
• Plant a Crop in a Workshop or C.A.M.P. (x25): Build crop planters (corn, tatos, mutfruit) in your CAMP from the Resources → Food menu. You can scrap and rebuild them to stack the count faster.
• Sell Scorchbeast Steak to an NPC vendor: Scorchbeasts spawn near active nuke zones in the Cranberry Bog and Savage Divide (Thunder Mountain area is a reliable spot). The steak has a low drop rate — nuke a zone to trigger multiple Scorchbeast spawns and maximize attempts.

Atom Store

The Weekend Sale runs through May 25 at noon ET — these items leave with tomorrow's reset.

Current weekend rotation:

• The Wicker Mothman Bundle — 1500 Atoms
• Mothman Weather Bundle — 1500 Atoms
• Black Rider Power Armor Skin — 1400 Atoms
• Terrible Cryptids Bundle — 1300 Atoms
• Mothman Cultist C.A.M.P. Bundle — 1275 Atoms (15% off)
• Gloom Goliath — 900 Atoms
• Stone Cathedral C.A.M.P. Kit — 700 Atoms
• Plague Doctor Mask — 500 Atoms
• Nuka-Cola Wagon — 125 Atoms (50% off, today is last day)
• Purple Axolotl Plushie — Free (Fallout 1st, claimable through June 2)

If you've been eyeing anything from this rotation, the Mothman bundles and Nuka-Cola sale items expire at tomorrow's noon reset — buy today to avoid missing them.

Minerva

Minerva's Big Sale (List 12) — Location: WhitespringMay 21 – May 25, 2026 (ends tomorrow at noon ET)

This is the monthly Big Sale combining plans from the most recent rotation cycle — her inventory is at its largest and discounted 25% compared to other gold vendors. Key items available now:

• Plan: Crusader Pistol — 2,000 Gold
• Plan: Hellstorm Missile Launcher — 2,000 Gold
• Plan: Super Mutant Tube — 1,500 Gold
• Plan: T-65 Torso — 938 Gold
• Plan: T-65 Helm — 1,238 Gold
• Plan: T-65 Left/Right Arm — 750 Gold each
• Plan: T-65 Left/Right Leg — 750 Gold each
• Plan: Solar Armor Chest Piece — 750 Gold
• Plan: Solar Armor Limbs — 563 Gold each
• Plan: Unstoppable Monster — 1,000 Gold
• Plan: Asylum Light — 750 Gold
• Plan: Meat Bag Stash Box — 750 Gold
• Plan: Science Chalkboards — 750 Gold
• Various Gauss Shotgun, Gauss Minigun, Plasma Caster, and Plasma Cutter mods — 75–188 Gold each
• Plan: Brotherhood Recon Pocketed Armor pieces — 188 Gold each

Minerva is found at the Whitespring in front of the main entrance. If you need T-65 Power Armor plans or Solar Armor, this is the sale to hit — she won't be back at Whitespring until List 16 in late June.

Top Reddit Posts

Ready to exterminate those locust... I mean, scorched

A player showing off their build ahead of the upcoming Infestations patch, noting the irony that current Scorched enemies will be replaced by locust-style threats — great visual reminder that Patch 68 drops June 2 alongside Season 25. (449 upvotes)

This new update is DOA

A high-comment thread (197 replies) with players debating recent game changes. Worth skimming for community sentiment if you're curious about current pain points, though opinions vary widely in the replies. (317 upvotes)

I love stumbling across Easter Eggs

A video clip of a player discovering a hidden Easter Egg while exploring — a good reminder that Appalachia still has tucked-away secrets worth finding off the beaten path. (295 upvotes)

Am I the only one who can't get hardened mass??? And everything is just dead in nuke zones???

Players confirming that enemy spawns in nuke zones can be sparse depending on server population — if you're farming Hardened Mass, try switching to a full server or teaming up to trigger more spawns near the blast site. (182 upvotes)

The guy who set the drop rate for Scorchbeast Meat is an absolute bastard

Directly relevant to this week's challenge — players confirming Scorchbeast Steak has a brutally low drop rate. Tip from the thread: nuke the Cranberry Bog (Thunder Mountain or SAM site area) and farm the concentrated Scorchbeast spawns rather than hunting solo. (84 upvotes)

I have been sleeping on the Broadside. This weapon is amazing, new daily weapon right here

Players sharing build context and mod setups for the Broadside in the comments — worth a look if you're hunting an effective event-clearing weapon that works well in The Big Bloom's open Forest terrain. (81 upvotes)

Stay frosty out there, wastelanders — Minerva's packing up her gold bullion counter tomorrow, and the West Tek Communists are running faster than usual today, so bring your best ranged loadout and clean out that Big Sale before she vanishes into the irradiated horizon.