Fusion core (Fallout 76)

The fusion core is an ammunition type in Fallout 76.

Characteristics
Fusion cores are used to power and activate suits of power armor and as ammo in certain weapons, such as the Gatling laser, which utilizes fusion cores as its ammunition; each fully-charged core provides 500 shots.

Crafting

 * Standard fusion core


 * Ultracite fusion core

Weapon/armor using this ammunition

 * Ultracite Gatling laser
 * Gatling laser
 * Power armor chassis

Locations

 * Loot
 * Scavenge for power armor: On every suit of power armor, one will find a fusion core at quarter charge.
 * Search for fusion generators: Fusion generators encountered while exploring may contain a lootable fusion core.
 * Ammo box may contain fusion cores when using the Scrounger perk. Steamer trunks may yield cores, as well as other containers in a military-themed location.
 * Dropped by: Sentry bots, radtoads, anglers, feral ghouls.


 * Crafting
 * Fusion cores may be crafted at chemistry stations.
 * Crafted gatling lasers and ultracite gatling lasers will also produce 1 fusion core.
 * Workshops: Providing 100 power to a fusion core processor will generate 1 fusion core at 100% charge every 7.5 minutes. The processor holds a maximum of three fusion cores at any given time. Processors may be found at Monongah power plant, Poseidon Energy Plant yard or Thunder Mountain power plant yard.
 * BoS Collectron station may generate fusion cores.


 * Quest rewards
 * Successfully finishing Line in the Sand rewards two fully-charged fusion cores.
 * Successfully completing Daily Ops with an equipped weapon that uses fusion cores will reward additional, fully-charged, cores.


 * Fixed spawns
 * Three fusion cores can be found at Arktos Pharma:
 * On the fourth floor, in the room with a large bay window above the garage area, on a countertop near the power armor.
 * In the same room, on a wall mounted cabinet to the right of the power armor.
 * Inside the loading bay's fusion generator.
 * AVR Medical Center - In the fusion generator below the cafeteria.
 * Big Bend Tunnel - In a fusion generator in the storage room with the mole rats.
 * Bleeding Kate's Grindhouse - In a fusion generator, by the makeshift movie screen.
 * Two fusion cores can be found at the Charleston Capitol Building:
 * In a fusion generator in a room at the western end of the lower level.
 * In a fusion generator in the flooded room at the eastern end of the same floor. (Lower level)
 * Fort Defiance - In the locked armory on the third floor, on the bottom row of a metal shelf in the southeast corner.
 * Hornwright Industrial Headquarters - On the top floor, inside the fusion generator.
 * Three fusion cores can be found at the Kanawha Nuka-Cola plant:
 * Inside of a generator in the back of the factory floor.
 * Inside of a generator on the roof of the plant.
 * Inside the locked cage next to the generator room.
 * Palace of the Winding Path - On metal shelves next to the generator in the basement
 * Wade Airport - In the air traffic control tower, on the desk.

Bugs
Before patch 1.0.4.13, fusion cores would replenish to full charge upon joining another world.