10 Places To Visit During The Nuka-Cola Challenge

I received a couple emails asking me how I completed the Nuka-Cola challenge achievement in Fallout 3. The Nuka-Cola Challenge is a side quest in Fallout 3 that requires collecting 30 Nuka-Cola Quantum drinks and delivering them to one of two characters living in Girdershade. When you locate Girdershade, underneath the raised highway on the east side of the map, you will meet Sierra Petrovita. She lives in a small shack with a neon Nuka-Cola sign hanging near the door. Sierra will ask if you would like to take the Nuka-Cola tour, which consists of walking through her tiny shack home and looking at all the Nuka-Cola branded items she has collected in the wastes. The only way to open up the side quest is to take the tour and listen to her talk about the various junk she has collected. On the bright side, when the tour is complete, she will offer you an ice-cold Nuka-Cola. Then Sierra will ask you to help her collect Nuka-Cola Quantums so she can fill her vending machine. She will pay you 40 caps for each one you bring her and when you hit 30, she will give you the schematics to build a Nuka-Grenade, and the achievement will be unlocked.

Sierra Petrovita

Nuka-Cola

When you leave, a man named Ronald Laren will stop you and ask you to give him the Nuka-Cola Quantums instead. Long story short, he wants to get into Sierras pants. His logic behind this charade is that if she thinks he collected the bottles, she will finally acknowledge his advances. He offers to pay you the same price, but if you score a successful speech attempt you can get him to double the price. I didn’t find this quest until I had already used a bunch of this glowing syrup for myself. I only made notes as to the places I located Nuka-Cola Quantums after I was trying to collect thirty of the bottles to check this mission off my list. I found a lot of these scattered throughout the wastelands, so if you already found some of these places, a little exploring should help fill in any gaps in your inventory. All the locations I did manage to keep notes on had more than one bottle so hopefully this will speed up the quest completion time.  Take the Nuka-Cola Challenge and earn those 20 extra gamerpoints! Happy hunting.

1. Smith Casey’s Garage : North of Jacko’s Pop & Gas Stop, 2 bottles inside.
2. Old Olney : Leave Old Olney and head southeast towards the cliff and the rubble from the destroyed highway. In the distance you will see a Red Rocket gas station and a broken down semi truck. Inside the trailer you will find 7 Nuka-Cola Quantums and 23 Nuka-Colas.
3. Paradise Falls : Head in to Eulogy Jones’ place. Move down the hallway and look along the side of the stairs and you will see a bunch of crates. Inside the crates there are 5 Nuka-Cola Quantums.
4. Dukov’s Place : There are 2 bottles here. One is sitting on a shelf behind his bed and the other is in the Nuka-Cola machine.
5. Nuka-Cola Plant : An obvious location to score a couple bottles, it still takes some exploration to come up with a few. I found 4 at the factory. The first bottle is behind the factory in a truck sitting in back of the plant. The other 3 are in the assembly line. To find these you have to activate the machines at a computer terminal located in the room next door.
6. VAPL-58 Power Station : 1 was inside the power station on the table. The other is in a shed by a billboard south of the power stations
7. Super Duper Mart : Kill all the raiders, and find the one that has the key to the Pharmacy if you are unable to pick the lock. In back, there is a room with a Protectron. There are bunch of boxes on the floor to the right of the door containing 3 Nuka-Cola Quantums.
8. Satcom Array NN-03d : 2 bottles can be retrieved in this area. There is tent to the south containing one bottle. To the west, there is a tin shack with another bottle on the roof.
9. Agatha’s House : Face north and head towards Minefield. Look for a power station tower. Just south of the tower there is a skeleton sitting on a chair. There is 1 bottle sitting next to the skeleton and 1 bottle on top of a beam above the skeleton. Shoot it down with the BB gun.
10. Evergreen Mills : There are 2 bottles in the marketplace behind the first bar inside a box.

Girdershade