Welcome to the Metalworker merit badge guide for Fallout 76! As with all of the Possum badges, make sure you’ve earned the Possum rank before beginning. While this merit badge is a little bit more involved than the Leatherworker badge, it’s still relatively easy, and will help you on your way to your next backpack upgrade. Before we start with our guide, here are the requirements.

Pass “Metalworker” knowledge exam at an exam terminal
Craft Metal Chest Piece armor
Craft Metal Left Arm armor
Craft Metal Left Leg armor
Craft Metal Right Arm armor
Craft Metal Right Leg armor
Smelt Aluminum Ore (x/30)
Smelt Black Titanium Ore (x/30)
Smelt Copper Ore (x/30)
Smelt Silver Ore (x/30)
Craft a sword (x/5)
Scrap a heavy gun (x/5)
Melt Robots with a Flamer (x/50)
Visit Grafton Steel Yard
Visit Top of the World

If you’re looking for the answers to the Metalworker knowledge exam, you can find those at the bottom of the article in an expandable tab. If you’ve been playing for a while, hopefully you’ve unlocked a full set of metal armor plans, as well as a sword plan.

One of the easiest ways to get ore in vast quantities is the Lode Baring event, but otherwise you can find ore extractors at several of the workshops around the map, including Gorge Junkyard (Black Titanium), the Converted Munitions Factory (Aluminum), and Dabney Homestead (Copper x3). Unfortunately, silver extractors give you silver scrap rather than silver ore, so you’ll still have to go mining for that.

While heavy guns are among the rarer weapon drops from enemies, as long as you’ve been picking them up as you find them, you probably already scrapped the five you need. If you’ve got a legendary flamer, all the better, but good places to burn them down are obviously Watoga, Vault-Tec Agricultural Research Center (Thanks Talented_M from Reddit!), The Whitespring if you don’t mind getting them angry, and any of the nuke silos, although they’re probably a bit more difficult in there. Once all that’s done, a little map hopping will polish off the rest of this badge for you. Hey, we never promised good puns.

Metalworker Knowledge Exam Questions and Answers

Blast furnaces smelt metal on an industrial scale. They work by feeding fuel, ore, and limestone in the top while a “blast” of what is blown into the bottom?: Hot air
Brendan is learning to rivet. He learns that a fastened rivet has two “heads”. It starts with and one, and the other is made during fastening. What do you call a rivet’s second head?: A shop head
Erin is learning blacksmithing from her uncle. When working the forge, she uses a device called a “bellows” on the fire. What is the main purpose of a bellows?: Feeding the fire with air
Hannah prefers using machine tools when tinkering with metal objects in her workshop. They’re so much more convenient than hand tools! What metalworking occupation would be a perfect fit for Hannah?: Machinist
Mary is assigned to a welding line in her factory, where she fuses metal things together with a special tool. What is her welding tool called?: A torch
Metalworking takes a lot of different tools to do properly, and your workshop is filled with them! Which of these tools is useful in metalworking?: All of the above
Metalworking uses certain general processes that modify worked metal. Which of the following is NOT one of these processes?: Gelding
Samuel is in charge of operating a smelter at the factory where he works after school. Smelters use a special fuel with lots of carbon, and Samuel needs more to keep his smelter running. What is the name of the fuel he’s looking for?: Coke
Some metals are easier to find than others, so people have been mining them for a long time. Which of these did ancient metalworkers NOT know about?: Platinum
Sometimes metalworkers combine different metals to make something entirely new. What do you call this new thing?: An alloy
Sometimes, metalworkers form metal into flat pieces to be worked later. What is this kind of metal called?: Sheet metal
Susie is experimenting with working bronze into a sculpture. In order to make her sculpture, she needs to shape molten metal with a mold. What do you call this process?: Casting
Susie is fascinated by metal casting: making things by molding molten metal. Where could she work that specializes in metal casting?: A foundry
You’re doing your patriotic duty by volunteering at a steelworks during wartime. What might your service make that gives our fighting men an edge?: All of the above
You’re lacking for metalworking materials to use in your workshop. Luckily, there are all kinds of things lying around the house that make good scrap! Which of the following everyday objects can be scrapped for metal?: All of the above
You’re looking to get into the metalworking trade as a steel worker. Where in Appalachia could you go to find a large steelyard looking for workers?: Grafton
You’re working in a factory, making weapons to help the war effort. A lot can affect your productivity, but what is the biggest threat to your output?: Union-organized strikes
You’re working on shaping a metal component by “milling” it. How does “milling” shape metal?: Removing material
You’ve received a shipment of iron ore to your steelyard, and need to get the metal out of the rock. What can you use to do this?: A smelter
Your ironworks has smelted its shipment of raw iron into something called “pig iron”. The next step is to turn the “pig iron” into an important end product. What end product?: Steel