Test Your Metal (update)

Test Your Metal is the upcoming twelfth major update for Fallout 76, following Invaders from Beyond. It will be followed by Expeditions: The Pitt.

Features

 * Season 9: Heart of Steel: A Dread Island Tale
 * Fallout 1st members have scoreboard benefits like exclusive challenges, increased S.C.O.R.E. earn rate, and exclusive board ranks.
 * Three new Public Events:
 * Eviction Notice - An event which gives Settler reputation
 * Moonshine Jamboree - An event which gives Raider reputation
 * Test Your Metal - join the Gladiators of Steel and take down the Rust Eagles' deadliest bots

Quality of life
 * Corpse highlighting - unlooted corpses will be highlighted; toggleable setting.

Factions

 * Gladiators of Steel
 * Rust Eagles

Locations

 * Foundation outpost
 * New location in the crater southwest of Huntersville
 * New characters
 * Random encounter removed
 * Metal Dome
 * New characters
 * Hostile Blood Eagles removed
 * Sunday Brothers' cabin
 * Newly renovated location
 * New characters
 * Hostile enemies removed

Characters

 * Amp
 * Beatrice the Wrench
 * Buzzsaw
 * Initiate Pappas
 * Moonshiner Ned

Minor characters
 * Brotherhood rifleman
 * Brotherhood scout
 * Brotherhood technician
 * Kenneth Dean
 * Marilyn
 * Petey
 * Ruggy
 * Rust Eagle
 * Samuel Hackerman
 * Slayer
 * Tom

Enemies
Creatures
 * Acidic gulper
 * Glowing acidic gulper
 * Glowing toxic acidic gulper
 * Scorched acidic gulper
 * Scorched toxic acidic gulper
 * Toxic acidic gulper
 * Super mutant firestarter

Robots
 * Beholder bot
 * Die bot
 * Grimm bot
 * Mr. Killmeister
 * Persuadatron
 * Purgetron

Events and Quests

 * Event: Eviction Notice
 * Event: Moonshine Jamboree
 * Event: Test Your Metal

Apparel
Outfits
 * Commemorative 76 suit
 * Cultist dungeon outfit
 * Enclave signalman outfit
 * Firewall outfit
 * Gulper shirt and pants
 * Hawaiian outfit
 * Hawaiian pants outfit
 * Junkyard cultist outfit
 * Patrioteer outfit

Headwear
 * Commemorative 76 fedora
 * Cultist dungeon helmet
 * Enclave signalman alternate hat
 * Enclave signalman hat
 * Firewall helmet
 * Junkyard cultist helmet
 * Patrioteer hat

Pip-Boy skins
 * Mercenary Company paint

Armor
Armor
 * Botsmith armor chest piece
 * Botsmith armor left arm
 * Botsmith armor left leg
 * Botsmith armor right arm
 * Botsmith armor right leg

Armor skins
 * Blackbird Elite paint - all power armors
 * Botsmith paint - Botsmith armor only
 * Mercenary company paint - per power armor
 * Raiderish paint - per armor
 * Skull raider paint - excavator power armor only

Backpacks
 * Basket cultist backpack
 * Enclave backpack
 * Fire hazard backpack

Backpack flair
 * Glowing skull backpack flair
 * Gold dipped grenade backpack flair
 * Skull backpack flair
 * Ultracite backpack flair

Weapons

 * Crowd Control (★★★ combat shotgun)
 * Doctor's Orders (★★★ minigun)
 * Foundation's Vengeance (★★★ hunting rifle)
 * Gulper Smacker
 * Pirate Punch (★★★ black powder blunderbuss)
 * The Debilitator (★★★ super sledge)
 * Tone Death (★★★ death tambo)

Weapon mods
 * Gulper Smacker
 * Acidic gulper hand
 * Chain-wrapped
 * Sharp
 * Spiked
 * Standard blade
 * Standard shaft

Weapon skins
 * Bown bow skin - bows and compound bows
 * Crowd Control paint - Crowd Control only
 * Dastardly Duo paint - double-barrel shotguns
 * Fire hazard paint - flamers
 * Foundation's Vengeance paint - Foundation's Vengeance only
 * The Debilitator paint - The Debilitator only
 * Tone Death paint - Tone Death only
 * Halberd skin - war glaives

Food and drink

 * Acidic gulper venom
 * Mire Magic moonshine
 * Fermenting Mire Magic moonshine
 * Vintage Mire Magic moonshine

Miscellaneous

 * Acidic gulper gland
 * Acidic gulper hand
 * Acidic gulper venom
 * Dread Island stein

Plans
The Acidic gulper hand mod is learned automatically upon looting an acidic gulper hand.

Structures
Floors
 * Floor - blue moulded carpet
 * Floor - green moulded carpet
 * Floor - moulded yellow carpet
 * Floor - Vault-Tec greenhouse
 * Foundation - blue moulded carpet
 * Foundation - green moulded carpet
 * Foundation - moulded yellow carpet
 * Foundation - Vault-Tec greenhouse
 * Wood foundation - blue moulded carpet
 * Wood foundation - green moulded carpet
 * Wood foundation - moulded yellow carpet
 * Wood foundation - Vault-Tec greenhouse

Prefabs
 * Red barn
 * Blue shipping container (closed)
 * Blue shipping container (open)

Roofs
 * Rustic greenhouse set

Wallpaper
 * Rusted brick wallpaper
 * Rusted red brick wallpaper

Decorations
Floor decor
 * Antique globe of Mars
 * Computer array - bend
 * Computer array - main
 * Computer array - thin
 * Dread Island stein
 * Gulper rug
 * Head in a jar
 * Medieval armor
 * Rusted iron small Secret Service dog statue
 * Rusted iron Secret Service dog statue
 * Worm farm

Wall decor
 * Bone shelf
 * Dread Island gameboard
 * Gulper head
 * Painting (clown)
 * Rust Eagle banner
 * Test Your Metal pennant (framed)
 * Test Your Metal pennant (unframed)

Utility
Beds
 * Cryogenic bed

Displays
 * Robot beer steins display case

Lights
 * Floodlights
 * Steel-dipped skull torch

Behind the scenes

 * The rewards from the various Nuclear Winter community events have been reworked and their associated Plans added to an unused backlog for Minerva's Emporium.

Mods
 * Gulper Smacker chain-wrapped mod
 * Gulper Smacker gulper hand mod
 * Gulper Smacker sharp mod
 * Gulper Smacker spiked mod