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Better Living Underground

Better Living Underground

Unlock all Vault 88 build areas

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How to unlock the Better Living Underground achievement in Fallout 4 - Definitive Guide

After entering Vault 88 and rescuing the Overseer, you'll shortly unlock the quest "Explore Vault 88". All you have to do is clear huge piles of debris to reach the areas, find the control cards, and bring them back to the workshops in their associated sectors and you'll be done. There are three you need to find and activate and they are easy to find seeing as they all have waypoint markers. After activating the final sector, you will complete the quest and get the achievement!

Bring stimpaks, radaway and weapons because there are mirelurks, mole rats, radscorpions and ghouls along the way!
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26 Jul 2016 00:47

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Completed the quest and no achievement for me. Glitched? Anyone else help me out?

I completed it before the interview quest.

Also I've competed all quests now.
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By k foxes on 26 Jul 2016 22:13
i had the same problem. reloaded save before achievementdid it again and it popped for me
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By MINKISS on 03 Aug 2016 03:35
That last line is an understatement... There's a Mirelurk QUEEN in one of the areas that completely annihilated me
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By redjarman on 22 Dec 2017 16:44
As per MR X 93, this bugged on me too.

I had to reload a save (thankfully midway through the quest, just a few minutes before activating the last workbench) and do exactly what I did the first time and for some bizarre reason it unlocked perfectly on the second attempt.
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By corpirate on 20 Jun 2022 23:57
Still don’t pop after 2 attempts.
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By Saviors418 on 04 Jul 2023 03:00
Took me 3 attempts and unlocked on the third where I stayed in the buildable area until the quest completed (instead of running away from the mireluk queen lol).
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By Games Master on 17 Jul 2023 19:35
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So long as you are a Level 20 or higher, the DLC's first quest, "Vault-Tec Calling" will be added to your journal. After completing this short quest, you will soon enough enter the Vault and save Overseer Barstow.

After speaking with her the first time, you will trigger the "Model Citizen" quest, and after turning on the distress beacon during this quest, "Explore Vault 88" will unlock, too. During the latter quest, you will need clear out rubble that's blocking the entryways to each "Sector," North, North-East, and East. Follow your compass and make your way around the underground tunnels of Vault 88 to unlock the three workshop stations in each Sector.

Your compass will guide you in finding each station with ease; however when you try to interact with a workshop station, you'll be tasked with finding the nearby control board in order to power it up. The control boards are marked on your compass. Once all three workshop stations are powered up and available to use, this achievement will unlock and the "Explore Vault 88" quest will be completed.
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26 Jul 2016 00:49

for this achievement you need to activate all of the work shops around Vault 88. Before you are able to do this you will need to follow the quest line for the DLC until you get a quest called explore the vault. *warning* I would make sure you have about 5-10 stimpaks and rad-aways as there is lots of high leveled creatures and radiation in the vault.

The quest will guide you were to go but if you want to try to avoid the big fights pick up the control board before you go to the work shops. The first one I went to is at the far end of the vault down a train tunnel as you go down it instead of turning left to join another tunnel as your tunnel is blocked go to were the rubble is and there is a room on your right and the control board is there.

The second control board can be found on the way to the next work shop as you head towards it you will come to a set of stone stairs you have to go up under them is a room and in that room you will find the next control board on the shelf on the left.

The last one is found in the train station if you keep heading through the vault past the 2nd work shop, you will find the 3rd work shop first if you go past that you will get to the train station, go to the right and you will find the control board sitting on top of a box next to the pillar.

If you would like a guide on where to find any of the control boards or would like a video guide in general check out my video I have posted below

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28 Jul 2016 14:41

This didn't unlock using console commands to trigger the mission stages.

What did work was...

Prepare yourself:
tgm
player.additem 000e6b2e 500
player.additem 000BD56F 1

Head to the exterior of the vault:
coc QuincyQuarriesExt

There are ghouls, so you may want to:
killall

Head to the marker underground which takes you inside. There are ghouls trying to break into the vault, kill them and enter.

There are ghouls inside the vault, kill them and follow the instructions to get inside. You'll need to activate a terminal, take a control board from a ghoul, activate a workshop and then use it to delete material blocking your progress.

You will then meet the Overseer. Talk to her and follow instructions to trigger the mission Explore Vault 88. She'll need you to kill the feral ghouls in the area first, make her an overseer terminal, and turn on the vault radio beacon.

Once the mission has started, burn through enemies as you follow markers to find workshops, locate the control boards, and activate each workshop.

After the third one, the achievement should pop.
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12 Apr 2022 14:49

Simply follow the Explore Vault 88 questline.
Video below shows the locations but it's pretty easy to find.
Make sure to take enough ammo and stimpaks tough Mirelurk Queen in East Sector.

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26 Jul 2016 12:08

Start Vault-Tec Calling by tuning into Vault 88 Radio. Next, it'll say like "investigate Vault 88," so use the command coc QuincyQuarriesExt
Once inside, there will be ghouls, use the killall command, and also speed up time (or you can just wait it out, it takes like a minute) with sgtm 10
The Overseer will ask you to lift the lockdown, repair the workshop and clear the rubble to get to her (this will all be towards the mission Better Living Underground)
Talk to her some more after the completion of the previous mission, and she should give you the mission "Explore Vault 88," here, you can use the command `tcl` to go through the walls and reach the objectives quickly. Upon completion of this mission, you should have this achievement.
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17 May 2022 09:36

Once you received the quest "Explore Vault 88", you have to activate these 3 workshops to trigger the achievement :
- North sector
- Northeast sector
- East sector

The workshops will be marked by quests markers, and will each require the corresponding control unit. If you reach a workshop without the control unit, it will be tracked by a quest marker to help you find it.
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29 Jul 2016 00:00

After clearing the initial areas of Ghouls, building the Overseer a desk and turning on the recruitment beacon, you are given the quest "Exploring Vault 88" which has you restoring the 3 remaining Workshops in Vault 88. Like the first one, this entails finding a Control Board and installing it. You will occasionally have to clear walls/obstructions (whilst in Workshop/Building mode) to continue your exploration.

After restoring the third and final workshop, the trophy will pop.

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Assuming you’ve started the search vault 88 quest. if not setstage dlc06mq02 600

During the section where you need to find circuit boards use these codes and it will spawn you each board needed. (ignore the parenthesis

(North
Player.placeatme 050050ef
(East)
player.placeatme 050050f0
(North East)
player.placeatme 050050f1
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08 May 2024 06:51

So long as you are a Level 20 or higher, the DLC's first quest, "Vault-Tec Calling," will be added to your journal. After completing this short quest and the subsequent, "Better Living Underground," you will meet Overseer Barstow.

Speaking with her the first time will trigger the "A Model Citizen" quest, during which you will need to build an Overseer's Desk (which is found under the "Special" tab of the workshop menu) and activate the Vault's Radio Beacon. This will then trigger "Explore Vault 88." During this quest you will need clear out rubble that's blocking the entryways to each Sector - North, North-East, and East - and find their workshop stations.

Your compass will guide you in finding each Sector's workshop station, however when you try to interact with one, you'll be tasked with finding a nearby control board in order to power it up. The control boards are marked on your compass. Once all three workshop stations are powered up and available to use, this achievement will unlock.

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When you open new locations and passages, be prepared for the fact that behind the wall there may be a death claw and a crowd of wild evil radscorpions
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28 Apr 2017 10:12