Fertilizer is a crafting material in Fallout 76, primarily used to plant fruit and vegetables and to craft chems and explosives. This Fallout 76 Fertilizer guide explains how to get Fertilizer and where to find Phosphate Deposits to build Fertilizer extractors. You’ll also learn which items can be scrapped to get Fertilizer and find Fertilizer farming locations.
Table of Contents
- How to Get Fertilizer in Fallout 76
- Build a Fertilizer Producer in Your C.A.M.P.
- Build a Chicken Coop in Your C.A.M.P.
- Build a Fertilizer Extractor
- Scrap Junk to Produce Fertilizer
- Fallout 76 Fertilizer Farm Locations
How to Get Fertilizer in Fallout 76
In Fallout 76, you get Fertilizer through the following four methods:
- Get Fertilizer by building a Fertilizer Producer in your C.A.M.P.
- Get Fertilizer by building a Chicken Coop in your C.A.M.P.
- Get Fertilizer by building extractors in Workshops or your C.A.M.P.
- Get Fertilizer by collecting and scrapping items that produce Fertilizer.
Build a Fertilizer Producer in Your C.A.M.P.
Building a Fertilizer Producer in your C.A.M.P. will produce Fertilizer. The Fertilizer Producer has a maximum storage capacity of 5 units.
To build a Fertilizer Producer, you’ll need Plan: Brahmin Pen. You have the chance to get the plan through one of the following ways:
- Plan: Brahmin Pen has a chance to be contained in Toolbox, Large Toolbox, Tool Case, and Tool Chest Containers.
- Plan: Brahmin Pen has a chance to be a reward from Treasure Maps in Fallout 76.
- Plan: Brahmin Pen has a chance to be a world spawn in any of the Appalachian regions.
- Plan: Brahmin Pen has a chance to be a reward from “Claim Workshop” quests, “Defend Workshop” events, or “Retake Workshop” events.
- Plan: Brahmin Pen has a chance to be a reward from Daily Ops (when your character is level 50 or higher).
- Plan: Brahmin Pen has a chance to be sold by one of the following vendors:
- Free States Vendor in The Whitespring Resort.
- Shopping Mall Vendor in The Whitespring Resort
- Grahm
- Vendor Bot Wallace at Berkeley Springs Station
- Watoga Vendor Bot at Watoga Station
Build a Chicken Coop in Your C.A.M.P.
Building a Chicken Coop in your C.A.M.P. or workshop will produce up to 33 Raw Fertilizer per hour.
Plan: Chicken Coop was a reward in Fallout 76 Season 1. If you missed it, you can now get it as follows:
- Buy Plan: Chicken Coop from Samuel in Foundation for 750 Gold Bullion (requires a Settlers reputation of Cautious).
- Buy Plan: Chicken Coop from Minerva in Sale #3. See our Fallout 76 Minerva guide for details on when the Chicken Coop will be available.
- Buy Plan: Chicken Coop for 500 Atomics in the Atomic Shop (not always available).
Build a Fertilizer Extractor
If you build your C.A.M.P. close to a Phosphate Deposit or you take a workshop with a Phosphate Deposit nearby, you can build a Fertilizer Extractor. This will net you 15 Raw Fertilizer over 27 minutes per deposit.
On the following map, you’ll find all Phosphate Deposits in Fallout 76:
If you want to extract the maximum amount of Fertilizer with workshops Sunshine Meadows Industrial Farm in The Forest is your place to go. With 3 Fertilizer deposits, you can extract 45 Raw Fertilizer in 27 minutes. Check our guide on Fo76 Workshops Locations for more details.
Scrap Junk to Produce Fertilizer
The following junk items produce Fertilizer in Fo76 when you scrap them:
- Bag of Dogwood Fertilizer
- Bag of Fertilizer
- Radioactive Pumpkin Seeds
- Straw Pillow
“Scrap junk to produce Fertilizer” is also a Daily or Weekly Challenge in Fallout 76. To complete the daily version of this challenge, you’ll need to produce 5x Fertilizer by scrapping junk items. To complete the weekly version of this challenge, you’ll need to produce 15x Fertilizer by scrapping junk items.
Use the following Fertilizer farm locations in Fo76 to complete this challenge quickly.
Fallout 76 Fertilizer Farm Locations
To farm items that produce Fertilizer when scrapped, use the following Fertilizer farm locations in Fallout 76:
You find items that produce Fertilizer at the following locations in Fo76:
- You find 13 Bags of Fertilizer and 2 Raw Fertilizers at the farm southeast of NAR Repair Yard.
- You find 13 Bags of Fertilizer in and around a small shed at Wixon Homestead.
- You find 10 Bags of Fertilizer on the rooftops at Lewisburg.
- You find 5 Bags of Fertilizer in the barn near the bus stop at Tanagra Town.
- You find 5 Bags of Fertilizer in the greenhouses at Vault-Tec Agricultural Research Center.
- You find 4 Bags of Fertilizer at Horizon’s Rest.
- You find 4 Bags of Fertilizer at the graveyard outside Fort Defiance.
- You find 4 Bags of Fertilizer in the greenhouse at Lewis & Sons Farming Supply.
- You find 3 Bags of Fertilizer in the garden at Anchor Farm.
- You find 3 Bags of Fertilizer in a shed at Kanawha County Cemetery.
Tip: Items respawn after you have collected 250 more items after picking them up. If you want to run the farm route again, you must first collect various other items to trigger the reset. A good location for this is Summersville. In the house in the far north, you will find over 200 Burnt Books. See our guide on where to find Burnt Books in Fo76 for detailed directions.
