Where to Find Power Armor in Fallout 76

One of Fallout’s most iconic gears is the Power Armor, which provides the most defenses and utilities in every game. For new players in Fallout 76, it can be difficult to find a set early in the game, but we will highlight all the possible locations where you can find it. We will also discuss how you can get the more powerful models in the game.

How Does Power Armor Work?

Before we discuss the locations of power armor frames, we will explain how power armor works in Fallout 76. There are three components of the suit: the frame, the external armor, and the Fusion Core. The power armor frame is important as you need it to wear the actual armor itself. Unlike in previous Fallout games, you cannot wear the armor alone. Once you wear a power armor frame, it is bound to your inventory, so there’s no need to worry about someone stealing it.

The Fusion Core is the armor’s power source. Without a Fusion Core, your power armor will slow down to a crawl, making it more difficult to traverse the Wasteland. You can find these Fusion Cores in power plants and other Pre-War buildings or in other unclaimed power armor frames in the open world.

Power Armor Locations

Note that these places don’t guarantee a power armor frame, but they are the only locations that CAN spawn one. If you can't find one in these locations, you can jump to a different server by returning to the main menu and going back into the game world. These are the following places that may have a power armor frame.

The Forest Region

• The Crosshair: It can be found under the rock overhang at the very back of the small cave. Spawns as Raider variant.

• WV Lumber Co.: On the power armor station inside the largest building on the east side of the complex. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Aaronholt Homestead: Found inside a shed far south of the homestead, which is marked by three silos. Requires skill 1 in Lockpicking or finding the Aaronholt granary key. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Point Pleasant: Found on the roof of the hardware store, which is on the northern tip of the town. T-series variant

• Gorge Junkyard: Found inside a green truck beside a shed. Requires skill 3 in lockpicking. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Mama Dolce’s Food Processing: Inside a warehouse filled with mines southwest of the main building. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Fujiniya Intelligence Base: Found underneath Mama Dolce’s, which requires a keycard to access. The keycard is found inside the main Mama Dolce’s plant. The armor itself can be found inside an armory cage at the lowest level of the base, requiring skill 1 in hacking or a second keycard to open. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Arktos Pharma: Found on the third floor of the loading bay area, inside a security cage that can be hacked at skill 0. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Arktos Pharma Biome Lab: Found inside the flora research station. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Silva Homestead: Found on the power armor station inside a rounded metallic building south of the homestead.

• New River Gorge Bridge: Found at the west end of the bridge, inside a locked door. The key is located on a rollercoaster within Camden Park. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Kanawha Nuka-Cola Plant: Found in the loading bay of the plant, right next to a power armor station inside one of the rooms. A fusion core may spawn in the security cage in the room next to the power armor station.

• Poseidon Energy Plant WV-06: In the basement of the main power plant, inside a room labeled “workroom.” The key can be found inside the Security Room, but the door can also be lockpicked at skill 2. Spawns as T-series variant.
  • You can also claim the workshop outside the power plant and build a 100-power generator next to the Fusion Core Processor to begin generating this resource.

• Hornwright Industrial Headquarters: Found inside the sub-basement of the building. It requires doing the “The Motherlode” quest to access the area.

• Wade Airport: Two power armor frames can be found in this location. One with T-series armor can be found in the hangar north of the control tower, and the other with Raider armor inside a blue truck, which requires skill 2 in lockpicking.

• Cliffwatch: Found outside the wall of the encampment on the northwestern side. Spawns as Raider variant.

Toxic Valley Region

• The Crater: Found outside of an observation shack on top of the cliff southeast to the rim of the crater. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Black Bear Lodge: Found inside a shed west of the lodge. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Clarksburg: In the room on the top floor of the tallest building in the southeast corner of town. It is accessed by going across the rooftops. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Eastern Regional Penitentiary: Found inside a shed within the prison yard. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Grafton Dam: In a shed in a fenced area on the west side of the dam. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Grafton Steel Underground: In the maglocked room of the interior area. It is only accessible during the Fun and Games quest. Spawns with the T-51b helmet with the Prototype steel mill paint.

Savage Divide Region

• Converted Munitions Factory: Behind a skill 1 locked door inside the building. The room is accessible from a catwalk that overlooks the workshop. Spawns as T-series armor.

• Sunnytop Ski Lanes: On the lower floor next to the stairs to the lobby at a power armor station. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Ammo Dump: Found in plain view at a power armor station. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Sons of Dane Compound: In the basement of the house west of the main building behind a skill 3 locked security gate. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Metal Dome: In the power armor station overlooking the arena. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Hopewell Cave: Inside a bus in front of the cave entrance. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Monongah Power Plant: Inside the door labeled "Loading Dock" on the first floor of the main building. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Seneca Gang Camp: Found by the steps to the lookout tower. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Wendigo Cave: Follow the path to the right in the cave until you find the armor in plain sight in a short side tunnel that ends at the foot of a cliff.

• Pleasant Valley cabins: In the center of an arena on the road with raider shacks between two roads with Pre-War buildings.

• New Appalachian Central Trainyard: Inside the main building beside a train car with "USA" written on it. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Middle Mountain Cabins: In front of the middle cabin. Spawns as Raider variant.

• National Isolated Radio Array: In a side room of the barn, skill 2 in lockpicking is required. It is on the western side of the facility, between the office building and the satellite dishes. Sapwns as T-series variant.

• Blackwater Mine: Found at a power armor station in the building on the right, going to the entrance of the mine.

• Emmett Mountain Disposal Site: Found in a security cage in the mechanical room on the right, within the disposal tunnel. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Solomon’s Pond: At a power armor station on the platform with the blue water treatment equipment. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Ripper Alley: In the back of the compound by the raised platform. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Huntersville: At a power armor station behind the barn with military tents in front of it in the north end of town on the east side of the road, outside the raider walls. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Lucky Hole Mine: Found behind a chained door that can be accessed by going upstairs and dropping down a hole. Spawns as Raider variant.

Ash Heap Region

• Camden Park: In the Raider compound in the south end, enclosed by the roller coaster frame, at a power armor station. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Beckley: Found outside the south Raider wall next to an APC. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Belching Betty: Found outside the mine in the Fire Breathers shack. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Abandoned Mine Shaft 6: North of the mine shaft, in a warehouse beside a green truck. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Abandoned Mine Shaft Elaine: Outside with a power armor station, between the locker room building and a bus. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Rollins Labor Camp: Found west of the modular buildings, at a power armor station. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Mount Blair Trainyard: At a power armor station on the first floor at the west end of the large building with rail cars on the tracks running through it. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Red Rocket Filling Station: Behind the boarded-up brick filling station and the orange fuel tanks on the northern side at a power armor station. Spawns as T-series variant.

• AMS Testing Site: In the back of the rounded metal building at one of two power armor stations. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Striker Row: Up the hill from the tents in the southeast corner. Spawns as T-series variant.

• The Burning Mine: In the brick building on the top of the hill above the mine at a power armor station. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Lewisburg Station: East on the train tracks beside a derailed boxcar with "Jobs now or else!" written on it. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Garrahan Mining HQ: Once inside, go down the stairs, take the hall to the left, and go further down. It is in the R&D Department at a power armor station. This is also the location for the side quest Miner Miracles, which gives plans for Excavator power armor.

• Hornwright Estate: Located behind a door on the upper levels, requiring Lockpicking skill 2 to unlock. Spawns as T-series variant.

The Mire Region

• Thunder Mountain Power Plant: Enter the door labeled "Loading Dock" on the southeast side of the main building and go to the left. The armor is at one of the two power armor stations. Spawns as T-series power armor.

• Dolly Sods Wilderness: From the back porch of the east-most cabin, look to the southeast. You should see a pickup truck immediately beside the porch and a stump about 18 steps away. Go southeast past the stump and then past the firepit partially hidden in the grass. The armor is just down the hill, about 16 steps from the stump. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Crevasse Dam: In the truck trailer beside the buildings with a skill 2 lock. The key can be found on a body on the roof of the building closest to the road. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Sunday Brothers’ Cabin: In the barn next to the house. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Big B’s Rest Stop: Behind the building at a power armor station. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Camp Venture: In the southeast corner of the metal wall enclosed compound at one of the two power armor stations. Spawns as T-series power armor.

Cranberry Bog

• Kerwood Mine: Found in the larger of the two dry areas that are accessible only by swimming. It is in a stub side tunnel standing in very shallow water. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Firebase Major: Found behind the jeep. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Firebase LT: Found on the east side of the tent. Spawns as T-series variant.

• The General’s Steakhouse: In the metal garden shed in the walled garden west of the main building. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Bootlegger’s Shack: Inside the west perimeter wall behind a truck cab. Spawns as Raider variant.

• Quarry X3: At the edge of the road next to the modular building. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Fort Defiance: On the fourth floor at one of the two power armor stations. Access to the fourth floor is unlocked by completing Recruitment Blues and obtaining a military ID card. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Big Bend Tunnel East: At a power armor station in a Blue Ridge Caravan Company compound outside the tunnel.

• Lost Home: In the largest shack at a power armor station. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Firebase Hancock: Found between the modular buildings. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Watoga: Found in the center of the town, right next to a crashed vertibird. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Watoga Rooftop: On the roof of the building east of the Watoga Civic Center. There are several access routes, one of which is the fire escape on the east wall of the civic center. At the top, look for a vertibird. Spawns with T-series variant.

• Watoga Civic Center: In the main arena, at the west wall. Spawns with T-series variant.

• Watoga Transit Hub: In a room just off the lobby with a skill 3 lock. The room also contains a generator with a fusion core. Spawns with T-series variant.

• Watoga High School: On the roof. Stairs to the roof are outside on the south side of the building. Spawns with T-series variant.

• Survey Camp Alpha: Under a canopy at a power armor station. Spawns as T-series variant.

• Drop Site V9: In the first room of the building. Spawns with T-series variant

Forward Station Delta: At a power armor station in the compound. Spawns with T-series variant.