I'm used to gathering wood in survival games by chopping down trees, but there's no need to pull out your axe in Fallout 76. If you can't find a precut woodpile (they're often next to houses), you can just look down while you're running around in the wilderness. Logs and fallen trees will give you extra wood scraps with a single click, and can be used for building and cooking.As you complete quests and challenges, you'll start earning Atoms, Fallout 76's 'meta-currency' (as Bethesda calls it). The virtual cash can be spent in the Atomic Shop available in the main menu, where Buy Fallout 76 Caps a number of new items have been added since the beta. There's new outfits and skins for your armor and Pip-Boy, emotes and photo mode poses (like the heart-hands one you see above, which is what I spent my Atoms on), and items for your camp. There are sure to be more added in the weeks and months ahead.
As you explore you'll wander into public event zones or near quests and they'll be automatically added to your list, but they'll also be displayed on the right side of your screen. In a busy area you might be auto-added to several quests in the span of a few seconds. It can be distracting having all of this text cluttering your screen, not to mention a bunch of waypoints showing on your map. You can turn off quest tracking either in your Pip-Boy or by clicking the quest markers displayed on your map.
Once you find a set of power armor, it's yours to keep and no one can take it from you, quite unlike the pesky NPCs of Fallout 4 who would occasionally abscond with it. You can also carry the power armor in your inventory (somehow) when you're not using it. Where can you find it? We've got a guide for the best locations to find power armor when you're playing the beta today.Ammo isn't exactly scarce, but it's not terribly plentiful, either, and item condition is once again a feature (it wasn't in Fallout 4) meaning you might find yourself a long way from civilization with no ammo for your favorite gun, or that your gun has broken altogether. So don't forget to invest in melee: throw a couple SPECIAL points into Strength, keep some unarmed or melee perk cards handy, and add a few different melee weapons on your favorites list.
You'll find them in Red Rocket Stations and train stations around the map: a big Vault-Tec crate. Anything you place inside it can be magically accessed from any other stash crate in the world, including the one at your camp, making it a nice dumping ground when you're on the go and getting overloaded with loot.Dying will happen a lot in Fallout 76, and the penalty is losing your junk items. You can then retrieve them from the site of your death (they'll be in a paper bag) when you respawn, though they'll likely be surrounded by the enemies that killed you to begin with. It's best not to sweat dying too much in Buy Fallout 76 Items and to plan around it—if you're completing an objective in a dangerous area, consider stashing your items before you have a run at the mission. This'll reduce the stakes for dying to almost zero, and you can keep attempting it until you succeed.
There's no need to pull out your axe in Fallout 76
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