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Code Cruncher

Code Cruncher

Hack 50 Terminals

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How to unlock the Code Cruncher achievement in Fallout 76 - Definitive Guide

If you have level 3 hacking skills, the Poseidon Energy Plant WV-06 has 8 hackable terminals.

- 2 doors facing south at ground level (Main Entrance, Turbine hall)
- 1 door facing north at ground level (Fuel Storage)
- 1 door on the roof if you take the stairs outside left of the Main Entrance (Roof Access)

Each door has a terminal inside and outside that can both be hacked. Enemies in the area are below level 10 so the only limitation is having hacking level 3

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31 Jan 2020 04:42

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Yep the legendary perk works, but again its a waste to upgrade that and level 0 locks are so easy regardless
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By Bolter Elite on 30 Oct 2022 11:35
FRIEND'S LOCKED TERMINAL/LOCKS ALSO COUNT TOWARDS ACHIEVEMENT. HAVE THEM DO "0" LEVEL LOCK WITH 'MASTER INFILTRATOR' EQUIPED
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By skiy2k on 29 Dec 2022 10:58
I my oppinion, best guide! Thanks!
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By HamsterLV on 11 Mar 2020 16:47
Really great guide! Definitely the place to do it. Either server hop, or just pop in every once in a while to rack up 8.
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By Seitzz on 21 Jul 2020 14:46
Good place to do it if you haven't been there much, but once you've got the Poseidon Access keys, the terminals cannot be hacked and the keys cannot be dropped or stashed.

Personally I finished it off at Arktos Pharma (southeast of Vault 76, southwest of Morgantown). There's one terminal at the entrance, one terminal in the lab at the back and another in the warehouse accessible from the back of the building. Unsure if there are any others. Maybe not the best place, but I never found any keys there that override the the terminals.

Also, terminals can be hacked again if you World hop, but only if you end up on a new World. So it might be difficult to do all 50 hacks in one session, as you'll end up repeatedly dropped into Worlds you've already hacked in. It didn't pop for me until the Challenge tracker reached 61/64.
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By Matt1yu on 10 Aug 2020 11:57
pretty sure it has to be 50 hacks done on a single character for the achievement to unlock. I have multiple characters and the achievement didnt unlock till the Challenge Tracker was at 71. So don't freak out if it doesn't pop right at 50. You may just need to do a few more
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By Nand on 17 Aug 2020 23:09
Description of door locations could've been a bit clearer. It is easiest to find them from the outside, instead of running through the facility itself. Once I found the terminals, it was really fast.

There is another computer in the front lobby for a total of 9 per run.

Enemies scale up with you.

And yes, all 50 hacks (and lock picks, bobble heads and magazines, etc) have to be done on the same character.
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By Dr Marty on 11 Dec 2020 04:01
In the most southwestern door, when you enter. If you go straight ahead, there is a receptionist computer that you can hack for an additional hack count.
It allows you to disable all the turrets in the area too 🤘🏻
*1 👍🏻 Awesome location for server bouncing and an easy knock out
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By InquisitorZac on 28 Dec 2021 06:10
Would the legendary perk that grants auto hacks count for this achievement?
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By Goldegearz on 06 Feb 2022 15:17
It should be noted that if you have more than one character and you haven’t done 50… they will stack in your “challenges”… I’ve had 3 characters over the years and it shows 110 by the time it popped for my recent character…:/
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By MeatPuppet7861 on 14 Jan 2023 16:23
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Morgantown Airport has 2 terminal that can be hacked. Enter the airport and on the first floor there is a vendor bot. Behind it is a room that can be entered 2 ways. Lockpicked directly behind vendor or go around to the other door and hack the terminal to open it (Requires 1 Hacker skill) . On the second floor is the command room (Responder HQ terminal in this room). There is a storage closet with a terminal that can be hacked. The airport is filled with low level scorched. After fast travel to Morgantown Station, cost 0 caps, leave game and reload and head back into airport.
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20 Dec 2018 05:02

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I used this method to complete this achevo, Thanks by the way. You may want to add that if someone has a level 1 of picklock there are 3 locks to pick in this location as well.
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By WhiskeyCharlie on 19 Jan 2019 14:26
Quick Tip for anyone who wants to check their progress:
- Press start once in a world.
- Press LB to open the menu
- Select Challenges
- Select "World" (in Challenges) and scroll through the list to find "Hack Terminals"
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By AHGreg on 26 Apr 2019 18:38
This guide no longer works. For some reason, with the new patch they completely redesigned Morgantown Airport. There is only one terminal to hack that I can find and it is in the basement. It is not easy to describe either.
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By Hexa Fox on 24 May 2019 20:34
Hexa Fox is wrong, this is a public area, so all terminals are ffa for everyone, if its unlocked that means someone was there before you, already found both inside
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By Bolter Elite on 30 Oct 2022 12:08
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Everytime I entered Morgantown Airport (cause Server switching or restarting), the terminals were hacked.

I searched alternatives and found "Arktos Pharma" ( You will find this location between Slocum's Joe (West) , Greg'S Mine Supply (East), Helvetia (South). This building is showed on the world map.
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Arktos Pharma has 4 level 1 terminals to hack.
this is a rough orientation guide.

First terminal in the Entrance Lobby. (Low levelled Scorchers and Robots everywhere.
Run to the garage, climb up the broken floors to the attic.
second terminal next to a power armor.
climb down.. behind the vehicels. a tiny worksjop.
break the lock and you are in the laboratory..
Room to the left
third terminal
Go out of the Room and go left. rearmost left edge
fourth terminal

This Run took me about 5-8 minutes (incl, loading screen) Much quicker than the Morgantown Airport run.

And restarting. the process might help.
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Credits of upcoming terminal list goes to User "FredRowactual" of Reddit


Leveled Terminal Locations:


Level 0 Terminals.


Upstairs - Camp Mclintock, main building

General Managers Office - The Whitesprings Resort

Control Tower - Wade Airport

Basement Area - Morgantown Aiport

Storage room controls - Morgantown Airport

Enterance to Abbie's Bunker - Mire

Harper's Ferry Armourer - Harper's Ferry, requires jumping into the compound and avoiding/killing level 40 mrk VII turrets

Harper's Ferry Armourer - "Same as above"

Receptionist's Terminal - Poseidon Energy Plant

Fuel Storage room Terminal - Poseidon Energy Plant

Lighthouse Keeper's Terminal - Landview Lighthouse keepers house

Terminal - Garrahan Mining Headquarters, through the door, turn right follow the monorail tunnel right to the end

Terminal - Garrahan Mining Headquarters, opposite side of the security door, you just hacked through

CEO's Terminal - Garranhan Mining Headquarters

Manager's Terminal - The General's Steakhouse

Manager Smith's Terminal - Mama Dolce's Food Processing

Macfadden's Terminal - Vault-Tec Agricultural Research Center


Level 1 Terminals.


Fujiniya Intelligence Base - Under Mama Dolce's, through the hatch and turn right.

Fujiniya Intelligence Base - Down three flights of stairs next to a locked caged.

Supervisor's Terminal - Dryer Chemical, Right of the complex. Building with the two chimney's and the sign

Maintenance Terminal - Red Rocket Mega Stop

2nd floor of Sals Grinder's - Beckley

Security terminal - [Alpha, Bravo & Charlie - Silo]

Mainframe Access Terminal - [Alpha, Bravo & Charlie - Silo]

Maintenance Office Terminal - [Alpha, Bravo & Charlie - Silo]

Guest terminal - Sunnytop Ski Lanes: Room 2

Terminal - Shed, just north of Flooded Trainyard

Terminal - Train Tickets building - New Appalachian Central Trainyard

Terminal - Watoga Civic Center


Level 2 Terminals.


Transit Hub - Watoga Transit Hub

Engineer's Terminal - Watoga Emergancy Services

Manager's Terminal - Appalachian Antiques, Near Watoga

Headmaster's Terminal - Watoga High school

Cafe Terminal - Drumlin Diner, Watoga

Terminal - Ranger's Station - Cranberry Bog

Security Station Terminal - [Alpha, Bravo & Charlie - Silo]

Mainframe Terminal - [Alpha, Bravo & Charlie - Silo]

Mainframe Access Terminal x 2 - In very close proximity of each other: [Alpha, Bravo & Charlie - Silo]

Terminal - Admin Office: Garrahan Minning Headquarters

Terminal - Train Watchtower, Flooded Trainyard: Warning - Dusky & Glowing Yao Gui's inhabit the area. [Levels 66 & 76]

Foreman's Terminal - Kerwood Mine: Requires Kerwood mine key to access

Terminal - Fort Defiance: Requires access to the BOS area behind the laser grid

Mining Supervisors Terminal - Monogah Mine


Level 3 Terminals.


Foyer Terminal - [Alpha, Bravo & Charlie - Silo]

Monitioring Station - [Alpha, Bravo & Charlie - Silo]

Security Command Terminal - [Alpha, Bravo & Charlie - Silo]

Mainframe Access Terminal - [Alpha, Bravo & Charlie - Silo]

Security Station Terminal - [Alpha, Bravo & Charlie - Silo]

Gun Range Terminal - 3rd Floor, Garrahan Estate

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/bokfrj/leveled_termin...
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13 Oct 2019 12:15

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Your method worked perfectly. I found the 4 terminals at Arktos Pharma easily; only level 1 Hacking was required. Each run took less than 2 minutes. +1
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By JamieLfc5 on 03 Jan 2020 11:50
This is an amazing guide. Thank you!
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By CyruzDgamer on 27 Feb 2020 05:22
Arktos Pharma is by far the fastest method. You can snag 3 really quickly. Main lobby, Garage top floor and then Garage bottom floor. Rinse and Repeat. Thanks for posting
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By StellarClub on 11 Jan 2022 22:36
Great guide!
Two noteworthy pieces of info...
Though the xbox achievement tracker doesn't work with this game, you can still track you progress by pinning the 'Hack Terminals' challenge located under the World category.
Also, if you have legendary perk card 'Master Infiltrator' you still get credit for terminals that you auto-hack.
Good luck!
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By Biztip2008 on 26 Jan 2022 06:26
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Fastest way to hack 50 terminals I found on YouTube.

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20 Nov 2018 03:36

With the new update it made server hopping alot harder so the YouTube video is not updated. With the new update, when you load into the world at Abbies bunker and you previous unlock it in a different server moments ago it will auto unlock it. So to bypass it, you have to fast time to different location. So what I did is fast travel to abbies bunker, unlock terminal, fast travel to highland marsh(cost 1 cap, south west of abbies bunker), quit to main menu, then load new world fast travel to abbies bunker and the terminal is ready to be unlocked again. Hope this helps.

Edit: you can also put your camp nearby and fast travel there to save caps and less of a chance of spawning in the world near enemies.
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16 Dec 2018 23:00

Hacking Terminals in Fallout 76 is exactly the same as previous Fallout games. The only difference is the perk card system that gives you access to hacking higher level terminals.

There are level 0, 1, 2 and 3 terminals. Level 0 terminals can be picked by anyone. If you want to pick level 1 terminals you'll need the Hacker perk card that is available at player level 4. Level 2 terminals require the Expert Hacker perk card available at player level 22 and the level 3 terminals require the Master Hacker perk card available at player level 38.

You can go to challenges and under the "world" tab choose to track the challenges that are associated with terminal hacking to keep track of how many you've done.

Unique to Fallout 76 is that hacked terminals won't remain unlocked. You can farm these by going to the same terminal every day or jumping worlds.

Thank you to PS4Trophies for this great Code Crunch farming location:

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Similar to the lockpicking achievement, you can do this by hacking the same terminal 50 times after switching servers. There is a 0-skill terminal outside Abbie's Bunker that is easy to do. To increase your hacking skills, take the perk cards found in the Intelligence section.
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Similar to the lockpicking achievement, you can do this by hacking the same terminal 50 times after switching servers. There is a 0-skill terminal outside Abbie's Bunker that is easy to do. To increase your hacking skills, take the perk cards found in the Intelligence section.

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There are 4 terminals at once in the Arktos Pharma location (located near shelter 76). Terminals have hacking levels 0 and 1. Video by their location.
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28 Jun 2019 11:51

Periodically, the terminals are restored; being in a familiar place, you can hack a previously hacked terminal.
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21 Nov 2018 16:17

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A good place to farm is the Charleston Firehouse location. There on the first floor there is a terminal lvl1, we break it and exit the world through options-L1-Exit. Then we go into a new session (we find ourselves in a different session, but in the same place). We go to the terminal again, break it and exit. And so on until victory. The advantage of this location is that there are practically no enemies there and when you reboot you won’t have to waste time and energy on battle.
When entering, it happened that the terminal was already opened - no problem, we re-entered another world. It didn’t help - turn off the game and turn it on again.
Statistics of hacked terminals: options-L1-Challenges-World (should be somewhere at the top)
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By Platon566 on 21 Mar 2019 18:01
The trophy seems to be bugged, and maybe it’s just me. We hacked 70+ terminals and the trophy never came out.
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By Tinister on 18 Jun 2021 18:04
If you have several characters in the game, then the trophy may not drop when hacking 50 terminals, because... The statistics include the overall result for all characters, and the trophy drops when there is the required amount on one character, i.e. We keep hacking and everything will be fine. The same applies to bobbleheads with magazines.
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By SgtColly on 11 Mar 2023 09:57
The method with Re-Logging to Servers works, by the end of the story I hacked 41 computers, up to 46 were done by re-logging to servers, and the rest can be finished off in the final mission “I became death” there are a lot of terminals that can be hacked
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By DarkSlayer2111 on 15 Mar 2023 22:56
By re-entering it is easy to farm the entrance to Abby's bunker. Level 0 terminal.
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By Minus on 28 Mar 2023 10:15
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