Workbench (Fallout 3)

The work benches in the Capital Wasteland and Mojave Wasteland are used to create custom weapons from schematics and junk items. Most workbenches found will have several tools and a bottlecap mine on the lower shelf.

Fallout 3

 * Megaton - Inside Craterside Supply.
 * Rivet City - In the Market, and in The Capitol Preservation Society.
 * Rivet City Bow - Where Horace Pinkerton is. on the second floor.
 * Meresti Metro Station - The Family's hideout.
 * Jocko's Pop & Gas Stop - northwest of Tenpenny Tower, in the shack.
 * RobCo Facility - northeast of Tenpenny Tower.
 * Upper level of one of the SatCom Array facilities.
 * In your house/apartment, after purchasing the My First Workbench item from Moira Brown/Lydia Montenegro.
 * In the Taft Tunnel from the Jefferson Memorial to the Citadel, located in a side passage.
 * NOTE: The area around this workbench is radioactive.
 * Hamilton's Hideaway - in the east room.
 * Jury Street Metro Station - Inside, protected by three raiders.
 * Evergreen Mills Bazaar - Smiling Jack has a workbench in the northwest alcove of his store.
 * Falls Church metro, in the Franklin Metro Utility room.
 * Mechanist's Lair
 * Bethesda Ruins - 3rd floor of Bethesda East building.
 * MDPL-13 Power Station - Substation shack.
 * Old Olney - in the Sewers.
 * Greener Pastures Disposal Site - Against the south wall inside the Office building.
 * Canterbury Commons - In Dominic and Machete's house.
 * Little Lamplight - In the great chamber.
 * Fort Independence - In the lower level.
 * On the top floor of a destroyed Raider-occupied building, northwest of the Arlington Library.
 * Underworld - In Underworld Outfitters shop run by Tulip. The Underworld is in the main concourse in the Museum of History.
 * National Guard Depot - One level below the floor you enter on, by a desk. Go down the stairs on the left as soon as you enter.
 * Paradise Falls - Inside Lock and Load on the left side of the shop when you walk in.
 * In the basement of Arlington House.
 * Red Racer Factory - Bottom floor of the big central room

Fallout 3 add-ons

 * Mobile Base Crawler - Behind the repulsion field when you first enter it. (Broken Steel add-on).
 * Trapper's Shack - Inside the cellar (Point Lookout add-on).
 * The Pitt Underground - right by the access door to the Pitt Underground near the entrance to the courtyard in front of Haven (The Pitt add-on).
 * Engineering Core- At the 2nd level where you first enter. (Mothership Zeta add-on).
 * The Bridge - MS Zeta, first time you enter the bridge its to the right, in the Captain's Quarters.

Fallout: New Vegas
Workbenches return in Fallout: New Vegas. To see what weapons and other items are craftable, simply walk up to the workbench and Activate it when prompted.


 * Goodsprings General Store - On the right side (exterior), along with a Reloading bench.
 * Sloan, Machine Shop - On the left side.
 * Three can be found in Novac. One in the Poseidon Gas Garage, another just slightly Southwest of No-Bark Noonan's Shack, and another in Gibson's Scrapyard in Gibson Garage.
 * Two can be found in REPCONN Research Labs top floor of REPCONN
 * One can be found in REPCONN Basement after you encounter Davison
 * One can be found in Nipton in the house on the left of mayor building (This is a reloading bench in the house east of the mayor's building)
 * One can be found in Cerulean Robotics, next to a Reloading bench and the protectron for the quest Wang Dang Atomic Tango.
 * One can be found in the Harper's Shack just a little west of Ranger Station Charlie.
 * NCR Correctional Facility - just to the left after exiting visitors center, courtyard side.
 * Crimson Caravan Company - next to the building southeast of the water tower.
 * Veronica Santangelo - Can act as a workbench through dialog options.
 * Lucky 38 Presidential Suite - One can be bought from the pc at the presidential suite in the Lucky 38. It will be placed in the kitchen.
 * Brotherhood of Steel Safehouse - inside on the left, along with a Reloading bench.
 * Gun Runners - inside main warehouse, where workers are constructing weapons.

Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money add-on

 * Basement of the Villa Clinic.
 * In a room under an awning on the north side of the Villa, north-west of the entrance to Salida del Sol; the room is just west of a metal gate.