In Fallout 76, your character has a chance of receiving mutation if they become radiated. Many of these perks come with positive and negative effects. Some of these effects are worse than others, depending on how your building your character and what you want them to do. There are specific ways to receive mutations, how to keep them if you want to make use of their benefit, and how to get rid of them if you don’t want to deal with them on your character.
A great way to ensure your character does not receive any mutations is by wearing protective gear like hazmat suits or gas masks. You want to wear these to lower the chance of your character receiving radiated damage.
How to get Mutations in Fallout 76
Your character has a five percent chance per every five radiated health points to have a mutation sprout up. You can increase your chances of receiving a mutation by doing these things:
- Consuming radioactive food and liquidsStanding close to scorched corpsesStanding next to radioactive waste, zones devastated by nukes, irradiated creatures, or anything else giving off radiation points
Mutations List
How to keep and cure mutations
Each mutation comes with a positive and negative effect. However, if you find one you want to have on your character, you can receive the starched genes perk when you reach rank two. You cannot keep a mutation otherwise. The perk prevents you from losing the mutation when you use RadAway to remove the radiation from your character.
If you want to cure the mutation, you can use RadAway without the starched genes perk to eliminate one. However, you only have a chance of this happening. A definite method of removing one from your character is to visit the Whitesprin Bunker to use the contamination chamber.
