Invaders from Beyond (update)

Invaders from Beyond is the 11th major update for Fallout 76, it released on March 1, 2022. It followed Night of the Moth and was followed by Test Your Metal.

Features

 * Event: Invaders from Beyond (Seasonal)
 * Campfire Tales has a third new ending; Nia now has her own holotape and the event may end with multiple Flatwoods monsters
 * Season 8: A Better Life Underground
 * SCORE is now obtainable in Public and Custom Worlds
 * More Custom World settings, such as carry weight, dismemberment, perk effects, and V.A.T.S. disabling
 * Buildable Pirate Radio
 * "Show Backpack" setting which hides backpacks on the user but lets them keep the benefits. This is a global change so backpacks are hidden for everyone.
 * The weight of stimpaks and diluted stimpaks is reduced by 25%, and their prices by 25% as well, to help newer players. More stimpaks and diluted stimpaks will appear in medical vending machines.
 * Zetan-related random encounters.
 * Minerva has a wider inventory with 35 more items she can sell. They were Overseer rank rewards. A list can be found on the miscellaneous items section below.
 * Damage calculation fixes.
 * Alien blaster rounds can now be crafted.

Factions

 * Zetan aliens

Locations

 * Black Mountain Ordnance Works - TNT Dome #08 (new interior)
 * Metal Dome has finished construction

Characters

 * Homer Saperstein
 * Sam Nguyen
 * Silver Bot
 * The Emissary

Enemies
Creatures
 * Alien
 * Cryogenic alien
 * Lieutenant Kappa
 * Toxic alien
 * Alien invader
 * Captain Alpha
 * Captain Omega
 * General Zeta

Robots
 * Alien drone
 * Alien detonator drone]
 * Alien elite drone

World objects

 * Brainwave extractor
 * UFO

Quests and Events
Events

Daily Ops
 * Enemy variable: Aliens (Flatwoods monster)

Random encounters
 * Assault encounters
 * Zetans Vs Appalachia
 * Camp encounters
 * Zetan Ambushed Camp
 * Zetan Party Crashers
 * Zetan Sandbox Camp
 * Object encounters
 * Dead Mysterious Man
 * Monkey Mind Probing
 * Zetans Inspecting Corpse
 * Scene encounters
 * Distant Theremin
 * Man in Black
 * Zetan Sandbox Scene
 * Traveling encounters
 * Conspiracy Theorist Chase
 * Flatwoods Monster Patrol
 * Flaming Brahmin
 * Fleeing Zetans

Apparel
Outfits
 * Vault survivor outfit

Headwear
 * Vault survivor hood

Armor
Armor skins
 * Vault-Tec Hellcat paint
 * Charleston Spark skin

Weapons

 * Alien disintegrator
 * Electro enforcer
 * Zeta's Revenge (alien blaster)

Weapon mods
 * Alien blaster cryo receiver
 * Alien blaster poison receiver
 * Alien disintegrator overcharged receiver
 * Alien disintegrator cryo receiver
 * Alien disintegrator poison receiver
 * Alien disintegrator standard receiver
 * Cryogenic electro enforcer
 * Poisoned electro enforcer
 * Standard electro enforcer
 * Spiked electro enforcer
 * Overcharged electro enforcer

Miscellaneous
Keys and passwords
 * Mysterious Key (Dropped by the Emissary, used for ID card reader at TNT Dome #08)

Plans

 * Plan: Alien blaster
 * Plan: Alien blaster cryo mag
 * Plan: Alien blaster poison mag
 * Plan: Alien collectible stein
 * Plan: Alien disintegrator
 * Plan: Alien disintegrator Automatic receiver
 * Plan: Alien disintegrator cryo receiver
 * Plan: Alien disintegrator high powered receiver
 * Plan: Alien disintegrator poison receiver
 * Plan: Asteroid
 * Plan: Electro enforcer
 * Plan: Freezing electro enforcer
 * Human tube 1
 * Human tube 2
 * Plan: Katherine Swan (Samuel)
 * Plan: Overcharged electro enforcer
 * Plan: Poisoned electro enforcer
 * Plan: Spiked electro enforcer
 * Plan: West Virginia slot machine (Samuel)
 * Plan: Xerxo (Samuel)
 * Plan: Zetan corpse operating bed
 * Plan: Zetan stash box
 * Plan: Zetan tube

Workshop objects
Note: Some of these objects are already available, while some will come in the next update.


 * Arm wrestling machine
 * Cultist display case
 * Dr. Bones display rack
 * Fire station build kit
 * Charleston Fire Department Station
 * Flatwoods monster tube
 * Harmaceutical chemistry workbench
 * Human tube 1
 * Human tube 2
 * Iron stove
 * Medieval armor
 * Mothman shelf
 * Red shipping container
 * Red shipping container with door
 * Red shipping container with window
 * Vault 76 stein
 * Wavy Willards bubble blower
 * Wavy Willards water bed
 * Zetan bench
 * Zetan chair
 * Zetan corpse operating bed
 * Zetan crate
 * Zetan sliding door
 * Zetan stash box
 * Zetan stasis chamber
 * Zetan table a
 * Zetan table b
 * Zetan tube
 * Zetan orange metal floor and foundations
 * Zetan blue metal floor and foundations
 * Zetan catwalk (set)
 * Zetan wallpaper

Buffs
Homer's buff: +5% damage against aliens

Behind the scenes

 * The update was originally planned to release in Winter 2021, but was split from what became the Night of the Moth update.
 * The 2021 roadmap referred to the update as Tales from the Stars.