Camp Venture

Camp Venture is a location in the Mire region of Appalachia in 2102.

Background
Camp Venture was a pre-War survival skills training facility. It was the Appalachian regional facility for 'Endurance and Survival Training of the Virginias', or V.E.S.T.

Sometime before 2093, the camp was turned into a Brotherhood of Steel forward operating base, or FOB, receiving government aid drops on the Vertibird landing pad. This camp was used primarily to train incoming recruits into the Brotherhood, with many of them dropping out or leaving. Gradually, the Brotherhood lost all the vertibots and started running out of housing space.

The Brotherhood stationed at the encampment relocated their headquarters to the Allegheny Asylum and Camp Venture was officially considered abandoned by the Brotherhood in July 2093, where they fought in a final attempt to hold off the Scorched. Only holotapes remain from their struggles throughout Appalachia, describing the horrors of the Scorched along with tensions between Responders and Free States.

By the time of the opening of Vault 76, in 2102, all the bunk houses outside the perimeter wall were falling apart and the interior was overrun by Scorched.

Layout
On the west, uphill side of Camp Venture, and to the north of a gorge crossed spanned by an impassable rope bridge, there are several buildings, a area containing several workbenches, and a helipad. Below the helipad (to the east), there are three buildings surrounded by defensive barricades.

To the east of this fortified compound there are several other buildings, including a quartermaster building. There is a ditch to the south of this portion of the camp, crossed by a foot bridge. A Pioneer Scout obstacle course is south of this ditch.

Notable loot

 * Secure storage key, in a locked (Picklock 0) locked locker in the bunkhouse.
 * Command center password, next to a radio in the locked secure storage basement.
 * Camp Venture storage room key
 * Camp Venture weapons room key
 * Random magazine - On a set of shelves near the overseer's cache in the command center.
 * Power armor chassis, outside of the bunkhouse.
 * Two random plans:
 * On a cabinet shelf next to the storage room.
 * In a room behind a security gate.
 * Two random mods - Under the counter of the building at the weapons training range.

Holotapes and notes

 * About the Brotherhood - Holotape, in the command center.
 * Anonymous diary page - Note, in one of the bunkhouses, between lockers.
 * Belmonte incident - Note, on a table in the command center.
 * Formation of the Brotherhood of Steel - Holotape, in the bunkhouse.
 * Goodbye Alpha - Note, in Bunkhouse Alpha.
 * Henry's letter - Note, in the bunkhouse.
 * Letter to Tommy - Note, in the command center, found during Defiance Has Fallen.
 * Message to Marge 1 - Holotape, in the bunkhouse.
 * Message to Marge 2 - Holotape, in the bunkhouse.
 * Overseer's log - Camp Venture - Holotape, in the command center.
 * Preservation of technology - Holotape, in the bunkhouse.
 * Shelley's letter - Note, on the counter of the building at the weapons training range.
 * Store room report - Note, in a basement, near where technical data is submitted for the Forbidden Knowledge repeatable quest.
 * Survival planning checklist - Note, in a medical cabin.
 * Maxson's eulogy for De Silva
 * Secure storage policy - Pinned on the wall next to the entrance of the secure storage, cannot be picked.

Appearances
Camp Venture appears only in Fallout 76.