Mappalachia – Fallout 76’s Fantastic Fan-Made Tool for Finding What You Need

We love creating resources to help folks do things, and we’ve been working in the background to try to make quality interactive maps to assist our fellow Fallout 76 players finish challenges and find loot faster. We’re not about reinventing the wheel, and there’s a great tool that’s been updated that’s far better than anything we would have created. If you haven’t seen it already, we’d love to introduce you to Mappalachia, a fan-made tool for Fallout 76. For those who prefer videos to reading, here’s Angry Turtle’s intro to the app.

While we have our fingers in many pies, we sadly didn’t do anything to further this project. We have u/AHeroicLlama over from Reddit to thank for creating this fantastic program. For the introductory post regarding Mappalachia, feel free to head over here to see what the author posted on release. The short version is that this is a free app you can download from GitHub and then run on your own computer to make your own custom maps with whatever information you’d like. What can you do with Mappalachia? Here’s what u/AHeroicLlama had to say:

Features of new Mappalachia:

• Intelligent NPC spawn mapping

• Mapping of junk items by their scrap content

• Search within interiors (AKA cells)

• Heatmaps (which can be used to represent spawn odds)

• Filter by lock level or item categories (great for Merit Badges and Daily Challenges)

• Visualisation of boundaries such as No-CAMP zones

• Make your own maps of whatever you want

• Map unlimited items at once

• Fully customisable map icons

• Nuclear Winter map options

• Support for colourblind-friendly maps

• Up-to date maps powered by a much more precise database

The author also has premade a large sample of maps as a demonstration and example of what Mappalachia can do, and hopefully it provides ideas for how you could use it;

• NPCs

• Scrap

• Flora

• Flux

• Nuclear Winter

• Plans and recipes

• Ingredients list maps

• Everything else (misc)

Now that this tool is available, we’ll be making our own custom maps to help augment many of our articles and guides, but we’ll also try to include the link in relevant articles so, if you’d like to, you can make use of Mappalachia yourself. As many others have noted, the Fallout community is full of so many individuals and groups who dedicate lots of time to helping others, and we’re all the better for it.