Fallout 76 Holiday Scorched 2023: New Rewards & Spawn Locations (2024)

Holiday Scorched is the annual Christmas event in Fallout 76. This limited-time Community Event takes place in December and features Scorched wearing festive entire and carrying Holiday Gifts.

1. Holiday Scorched Event 2023

The Holiday Scorched Event 2023 started on December 19, 2023. It will end on January 2, 2024.

In the years before, the Holiday Scorched Event took place on the following dates:

• December 20, 2022 – January 2, 2023
• December 21, 2021 – January 4, 2022 (18 new rewards)
• April 1 – April 6, 2021
• December 17 – December 31, 2020
• December 12 – December 31, 2019

2. Holiday Scorched Enemies

In every Scorched spawn location, you have a chance to encounter a Holiday Scorched. Holiday Scorched are dressed in festive attire and have their own jingly sound alert when spawning. Note that Holiday Scorched can’t spawn inside of instances or interior cells (e.g. the Valley Galleria).

Holiday Scorched will always spawn as legendary with a 55% chance to be a 1-star, a 40% chance to be a 2-star, and a 5% chance to be a 3-star legendary enemy. This means on average every 200th Scorched will be a 3-star.

Holiday Scorched work the same way as Spooky Scorched on Halloween. In the 2021 Spooky Scorched Event, Scorched had a 10% chance to be a Spooky Scorched. This spawn rate may also apply to the Holiday Scorched in 2021, but it is not confirmed yet.

3. Holiday Scorched Spawn Locations 2023

We created and tested an updated farming route for 2023, in case you want to farm Holiday Scorched. Here you’ll find the best spots to farm fixed enemy spawns relatively close to the Fast Travel point of the location:

These are the locations shown in the route if you start north:

1. Wavy Willard’s Water Park
2. Tyler County Fairgrounds
3. Wilson Brother’s Auto Repair
4. Morgantown Airport
5. Bolton Greens
6. Greg’s Mine Supply
7. Helvetia
8. Sutton
9. Relay Tower EM-B1-27
10. Poseidon Power Substation PX-01
11. Camden Park
12. Poseidon Energy Plant WV-06
13. AVR Medical Center
14. Riverside Manor
15. Summersville Docks
16. Overlook Cabin

Extra Tip: you can travel for free to The Crater before you start to save yourself some Caps.

There are a few good spots in Savage Divide and Cranberry Bog, too. But the locations are more widespread and the traveling cost is higher. It appears to be more efficient to only farm this route. If you are at the end you can start from the beginning again – or change servers if you are faster than the respawn.

4. Dropped Holiday Gifts

Besides their normal loot as legendary enemies, Holiday Scorched also drop Small Holiday Gifts, Holiday Gifts, or Large Holiday Gifts.

5. Handmade Holiday Gifts

Holiday Gifts can also be crafted. These Handmade Holiday Gifts have a higher chance than dropped gifts to contain a Holiday Reward.

5.1 Crafting Handmade Holiday Gifts

Handmade Holiday Gifts can be crafted at a Tinker’s Workbench. Materials needed are Adhesive and Gift Wrap. Note that the Super Duper perk card doesn’t work when crafting Holiday gifts.

Gift Wrap is sold by Vendor Bots and Grahm during the Christmas event (have a look at the ‘Misc’ section). Each vendor sells one of each gift wrap. Their inventory resets when you’re server-hopping. When the event ends, they stop selling it.

The cheapest prices you can get Gift Wrap for are:

• Low Quality Gift Wrap: 219 Caps
• Medium Quality Gift Wrap: 656 Caps
• High Quality Gift Wrap: 1.925 Caps

You’ll get the cheapest prices with Charisma 25. To reach 25 you can e.g. use Level 3 Hard Bargain (+9 CHR), Grape Mentats (+5 CHR), the perk Magnetic Personality and/or join a Roleplay Team.

Here are some more tips for buying Gift Wrap:

• In case you want to spend a lot of caps, visit the faction vendors at the Whitespring Resort. After you’ve bought all Gift Wraps, server-hop, buy again,…
• The Vendor Bot at Whitespring Station sells 2 of each Gift Wrap.
• Before buying Gift Wrap, use up all the caps at a vendor by selling stuff. When buying Gift Wrap some caps will go back into the pool.

5.2 Which Gift Wrap should I buy?

You get the most out of your caps when buying Medium Quality Gift Wrap and crafting Medium Handmade Gifts. The Medium Quality Gift Wrap is 66% cheaper than the High Quality Gift Wrap whereas the chances to get a Holiday Reward are just 33% less.

6. New Holiday Rewards (2023)

Each Holiday Gift has a chance to contain a Holiday Reward. The Large Handmade Gift offers the highest chance (60%) of all gifts to get one of the following items.

In 2023, 14 new Holiday Rewards are likely joining the drop pool, as discovered by data miners in the PTS files. Among the rewards are plans for a Plastiform Candle, a Straw Goat, and a Plastiform Santa.

The following new plans were added to the 2023 Holiday Scorched event:

• Plan: Plastiform Candle
• Plan: Star Light
• Plan: Plastiform Gingerbread
• Plan: Plastiform Nutcracker
• Plan: Straw Goat
• Plan: Plastiform Santa
• Plan: Plastiform Santa Sleigh
• Plan: Honeycomb Paper – Holiday Tree A
• Plan: Honeycomb Paper – Holiday Tree B
• Plan: Honeycomb Paper – Ribbon Bell
• Plan: Honeycomb Paper – Standing Santa
• Plan: Honeycomb Paper – Icy Snowflake
• Plan: Honeycomb Paper – Jolly Target
• Plan: Honeycomb Paper – Snowman

7. Existing Holiday Rewards

The following Holiday Rewards were already a part of last year’s rewards, but are still available in 2023:

	Plan: Vintage Water Cooler (Generates Purified Water, can hold 2 water at a time)
	Plan: Red Rocket Gas Pump Wall Lamp
	Plan: Red Rocket Gas Station Lamp
	Plan: Barbed Wire Fences & Gates Set (2 Barbed Wire Fences & 2 Gates)
	Plan: Tattered Flower Curtains Set (3 Versions: Normal, Wide and Long)
	Plan: Wall Mounted Fan (can be powered up and then starts rotating)
	Plan: Nuka Cola Rug (covers 1 foundation in size)
	Plan: Behemoth Plushie
	Taxidermy Plan: Standing Gorilla (Was only part of the Treasure Hunter Pails before)
	Taxidermy Plan: Sitting Gorilla (Was only part of the Treasure Hunter Pails before)
	Plan: Blue Camouflage Power Armor Paint (Nuclear Winter Reward – only drops if not learned already)
	Plan: Blue Camouflage .44 Pistol Paint (Nuclear Winter Reward – only drops if not learned already)
	Plan: Vault 51 Jumpsuit (Nuclear Winter Reward – only drops if not learned already)
	Communist Commander Hat
	Communist Commander Outfit
	Jaguar Pant Suit
	Plan: Brahmin Plushie
	Plan: Condemned Notification Sign
	Plan: Molerat Wind Chime
	Plan: Musket Stack Monument
	Plan: Princess Castle Pink Sleeping Bag
	Plan: Red Truck Ceiling Light
	Plan: Santa Crash
	Plan: Winter Icicle Lights
	Tulip Sky Blue Pant Suit

8. Other Gift Rewards

Depending on the size of the Holiday Gift you looted respectively crafted, in addition to a Holiday Reward it can contain other items and stuff.

8.1 Holiday Currency

• 80% chance of 25-1000 Caps
• 20% chance of 5-50 Legendary Scrip

8.2 Rare Taxidermy Plans

• Plan: Deer Skull
• Plan: Mounted Deathclaw Head
• Plan: Mounted Feral Ghoul Head
• Plan: Mounted Frog
• Plan: Mounted Glowing One Head
• Plan: Mounted Gorilla Head
• Plan: Mounted Honey Beast
• Plan: Mounted Mega Sloth
• Plan: Mounted Mirelurk Claw
• Plan: Mounted Mirelurk Hunter Head
• Plan: Mounted Mirelurk King Head
• Plan: Mounted Mothman
• Plan: Mounted Mutant Hound Head
• Plan: Mounted Radscorpion
• Plan: Mounted Radtoad
• Plan: Mounted Snallygaster
• Plan: Mounted Scorchbeast
• Plan: Sitting Gorilla
• Plan: Standing Gorilla

In 2021, a big change was made regarding Taxidermy Plans: Common Taxidermy Plans (like Plan: Mounted Fox or Plan: Mounted Dog Head) are no longer part of the drop pool as confirmed by several data miners. These Common Taxidermy Plans now are considered Legacy Items, since there is no other way to get them at the moment.

8.3 Goodies

8.4 Holiday Junk

• Autopsy Board Game
• Baseball
• Baseball Glove
• Basketball
• Broken ProSnap Deluxe Camera
• Catch the Commie Board Game
• Chessboard
• Coal
• Giddyup Buttercup
• Giddyup Buttercup Parts
• Jangles the Moon Monkey
• New Toy Car
• Teddy Bear
• Toy Alien
• Toy Car
• Toy Rocketship
• Unstoppables! Board Game
• Wooden Block

9. Santatron Collectron

During the Holiday Scorched Event 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, players could claim the Santatron Collectron Station for free in the Atomic Shop. After you’ve built the Station at your C.A.M.P. or a claimed Public Workshop, a Santatron will wander the nearby area collecting the following items:

• Holiday Gift (Very rare)
• Santa Toy(Uncommon)
  • Baby Rattle
  • Baseball
  • Baseball Blove
  • Basketball
  • Boxing Glove
  • Broken Camera
  • Giddyup Buttercup
  • Jangles the Moon Monkey
  • Kickball
  • Large Baby Bottle
  • Silver Tie Mr. Fuzzy
  • Teddy bear
  • Wooden Block – B & Y
  • Wooden Block – I & D
  • Wooden Block – N & S
  • Wooden Block – V & F
• Santa Sweets(Uncommon)
  • Bubblegum
  • Dandy Boy Apples
  • Fancy Lads Snack Cakes
  • Gum drops
  • Sugar Bombs
• Raw Fertilizer (Common)
• Coal

In case you don’t like the look of the Santatron Collectron Station, you can just program an existing one to collect the Holiday stuff. In case you are a Fallout 1st member and playing on a private server, you can claim all the workshops, put a Collectron in every workshop (+ your C.A.M.P.), and let them all collect gifts and stuff.