Mother of Invention

Mother of Invention is a main quest in the Fallout 76 update Steel Dawn.

Behind the scenes

 * The quest name is based off of the phrase, "necessity is the mother of invention."


 * When extracting the "mysterious component" from the Atlas machine core, the player character is given the option to quickly swap it out with a heavy sack of dirt. This may be a reference to a scene from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana Jones steals an golden idol from a temple in Peru. He tries to stop any traps that may be activated by removing the idol by quickly replacing it with a bag of sand, but this fails, similar to what happens in-game.