Fallout 76 recently introduced a new repeatable endgame activity, the Skyline Valley Caravans, where players can use their Caps to manage and run their own Caravan company. Although, for many reasons, Caravans were a cause for controversy in Fallout 76 when they were first introduced. Disregarding the technical issues that this activity faced, Caravans were expected to be the ultimate endgame currency sink. Unfortunately, though, Caravans didn’t quite manage to deliver the kind of rewards that could keep players interested in the long term.
However, a recent update has fixed some of the issues that Caravans faced, while also making a generous change to the event’s rewards that finally make good on a missed opportunity for the activity. As of a new patch released for Fallout 76 on October 22, Caravans can now reward players with Legendary Scrip, in addition to increased Caravan Supplies. Not only is this the exact kind of change that players were calling for, but it’s arguably the perfect way to make Caravans a worthwhile endgame currency sink.
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Fallout 76’s New Update Delivers Highly Requested Improvements to Caravans
When Fallout 76 first introduced Caravans, the host player who spent their Caps to initiate the event would receive 5, 25, or 50 Supplies for completing a small, medium, or large Caravan, respectively. Meanwhile, any contributors who helped the host player’s Caravan would only receive 1, 2, or 5 Supplies. Understandably, the poor rewards for contributors led many fans to call for Bethesda to improve the rewards for Caravans. Additionally, since this activity often experienced unavoidable bugs that caused the event to fail, Fallout 76’s Skyline Valley Caravans quickly became a controversy.
In Fallout 76’s October 22 update, several bugs in the Caravan activity have been addressed, while the rewards for the event have also been improved. Now, not only do Caravans provide increased Supplies for players who help contribute to Caravans they didn’t initiate, but contributors can also get Legendary Scrip from completing Caravans. Additionally, a way for players to spend their Supplies to earn Legendary Scrip will be coming in a future update. With Caravans now being a roundabout way to convert Caps to Legendary Scrip, this change arguably makes them a worthwhile currency sink.
New Rewards For Completing Skyline Valley Caravans in Fallout 76
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While the host player who initiates a Caravan won’t receive any Legendary Scrip from the event, there will soon be a new Caravan crew member players can hire, who can exchange Supplies for Legendary Scrip and other rewards. This new Caravan crew member is expected to be introduced in
Fallout 76
’s Gleaming Depths update
, coming in December 2024.
Fallout 76’s New Caravan Rewards Will Make the New Legendary Crafting System Grind More Enjoyable
What makes the new Caravan rewards especially worth celebrating is that they couldn’t have come at a better time. Recently, Fallout 76 introduced a completely new Legendary crafting system to the game, which has led many players to run through their reserves of Legendary Scrip and Legendary Modules trying to craft and trade for meta weapons and armor in Fallout 76.
Instead of randomly rolling every Legendary effect, players can craft individual Legendary effects as mod boxes and then apply these mods to the desired armor and weapons, adding or replacing the legendary effect on the gear. Overall, Fallout 76’s new Legendary crafting system gives players a lot more control to craft the perfect gear, but this new system has turned out to be quite expensive to utilize. However, with the improved rewards for Caravan contributors, and the new Caravan crew member coming in the Gleaming Depths update, Fallout 76’s Caravans activity will finally be a worthwhile endgame currency sink.
Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Expand southward to Skyline Valley – a brand-new region of Appalachia. Investigate the cause of the electric storm circling overhead and unveil the mystery around Vault 63 and its dwellers, including a shocking new Ghoul type – The Lost.
- Released
- November 14, 2018
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Engine
- Creation
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol
- How Long To Beat
- 34 Hours
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- yes
- X|S Optimized
- No
- PS Plus Availability
- Extra & Premium
- File Size Xbox Series
- 97 GB (May 2024)
- OpenCritic Rating
- Weak
- Cross Save
- no
- Cross-Platform Play
- no
