How to get Acid easily in Fallout 76

Modified Jun 25, 2024 15:39 IST

Fallout 76 acid — Acid's a fairly easy resource to farm in Fallout 76 (Image via ZeniMax Online Studios)

Acid is an incredibly important substance in Fallout 76, whether you’re dealing with ore, or crafting gunpowder. Thankfully, it’s not a particularly rare resource. There are many ways to come across it as you’re exploring the waste. But if you want to know how to get it easily, this guide should help. You can find it by breaking down certain items, mining, or even defeating enemies.

You can even set up Acid Extractors in Fallout 76, which produces Acid every half-hour. But that’s not always the case for some players. This guide highlights all the junk items that produce this useful resource and the best way to farm it.

All Acid-producing Junk items in Fallout 76

You're gonna need Acid for all sorts of things in the wasteland (Image via ZeniMax Online Studios)

Whether you’re crafting gunpowder, or making additional Nuclear Materials, you need Acid in Fallout 76. As you’re exploring the world, defeating enemies, and looting dangerous areas, there will be plenty of items that you can break down to collect Acid in the game. Some of these will be all over the place, like Abraxo Cleaner.

Below is a list of every item that can squeeze out this valuable resource when junked:

Abraxo Cleaner
Abraxo Cleaner (Industrial Grade)
Anti-Freeze bottle
Bog of chlorine
Bag of dogwood fertilizer
Beeswax
Bloatfly gland
Bloodbug proboscis
Coolant
Cracked deathclaw egg
Firefly abdomen
Floater gnasher pus sac
HalluciGen gas canister
Hive paper
Honey beast wing
Ichor sac
Industrial cleaner
Makeshift battery
Stingwing barb
Suprathaw antifreeze
Torn mothman wing
Undamaged Abraxo cleaner
Waste acid
Wendigo teeth

If you want the most bang for your buck when junking items, the best Acid producers in Fallout 76 are Abraxo Cleaner, Anti-Freeze Bottle, Beeswax, Bag of Fertilizer, Makeshift Batteries, and Hallucigen Cleaner. These particular items offer the most Acid per junking in Fallout 76, ranging from two to five bottles.

You can get these items from a wide assortment of places, but where are your best bets to acquire this resource? Read on to learn more.

Best way to farm Acid in Fallout 76

Snallygasters are an amazing way to farm Acid (Image via ZeniMax Online Studios)

If you’re trying to farm Acid in Fallout 76, you should set up a Mineral Extractor on one of the veins in Hemlock Holes to produce 30 Acid every half-hour. This is just a passive bit of extra resource farming while you’re out working. You can set up Mineral extractors in other areas for Acid, but that one’s our favorite.

Other examples include:

Federal Disposal Field HZ-21
Southwest of Hopewell Cave
Abandoned Bog Town
Monongah Power Plant
Relay Tower LW-B1-22

One amazing place to farm Acid is at Flooded Trainyard, near Watoga Underground. Shortly after entering the zone, you should see a few Snallygasters - killing these will usually net a minimum of eight Acid each, making them a viable way to farm. You’ll find a few of these enemies in the Flooded Trainyard. You can then hop worlds to repeat the process and make even more Acid.

Tanagara Town is another amazing place to farm Acid in Fallout 76. In this area, you’ll be hunting down Cave Crickets, which can all drop Acid. It’s a very popular farming spot though, so that’s something to keep in mind. There are also other great zones where you can farm acid: The Deep, Dolly Sods Wilderness, and Philippi Battlefield Cemetery.

In general, tons of enemies can drop acid, or break down their parts for it. You can also complete the public event Campfire Tales, which is also a great way to get a Legendary Core. There are lots of bugs that spawn with this event, which means you could net lots of Acid that way.

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Edited by Dinesh Renthlei