Pest Control

	For the achievement in Fallout 76, see Pest Control (achievement).

Fallout 4 Institute radiant quest
Pest Control
Location	The Institute Radiant location
Given By	Dr. Binet
Rewards	400+ XP 10 Pre-War Money (after a speech check)
Technical
Editor ID	InstR01
Form ID	000F7933

Pest Control: (Location Name) is an Institute radiant quest in Fallout 4.

Quick Walkthrough

Institute radiant quest: Pest Control
Talk to Alan Binet in the Institute.
Head to the unnamed location and kill the marked Feral Ghoul.
Head back to the Institute and talk to Alan Binet.
Reward: 400+ XP
(Optional) Persuade Binet to give a reward.
Reward: 10 Pre-War Money

Detailed Walkthrough

Speak with Dr. Alan Binet over at Institute Robotics (at night he will be in his quarters). Agree to eliminate some Feral Ghouls causing problems for a Synth scavenger team.

Travel to the location now indicated on the Pip-Boy, and kill the marked Feral Ghoul. Return to Binet and tell him the quest was successful. At this point, one can pass a Charisma check to receive ten Pre-War Money as a bonus. This quest can be repeated every other day after being finished.

Possible locations

• Bedford Station
• Cambridge Polymer Labs
• College Square
• Croup Manor
• Fiddler's Green Trailer Estates
• Four Leaf Fishpacking Plant
• Hubris Comics
• Mass Pike Tunnel
• National Guard Training Yard
• Poseidon Reservoir
• Suffolk County Charter School
• Super Duper Mart
• Wicked Shipping Fleet Lockup
• Beaver Creek Lanes
• Eagle's Cove Tannery
• Eden Meadows Cinemas
• Kitteredge Pass
• National Park Campground

Quest Stages

Quest stages
Stage	Status	Description	Log Entry
100		Eliminate the Feral Ghouls	Dr. Binet of the Robotics division asked me to eliminate some Feral Ghouls that are causing problems for a synth scavenger team.
200		Return to Alan Binet	I need to return to Dr. Binet and let him know that I've eliminated the Feral Ghoul threat.
1000		Quest complete	Dr. Alan Binet asked me to eliminate a pack of Feral Ghouls that was causing problems for a synth scavenger team, and I did so.
1500		Quest failed

Bugs

• PC Playstation 4 Xbox One Prior to Patch 1.3, the location selected could include established settlements at Croup Manor, Jamaica Plain or Sunshine Tidings Co-op, which did not allow for Feral Ghouls to spawn. The patch added a condition that uses the LocTypeWorkshopSettlement keyword and requires it to be 0, allowing only locations that are not an active settlement to be selected for the quest.
• PC Binet may never give the quest at all. He will just say his regular lines when speaking to him.
• PC Playstation 4 Binet may just give the quest reward and XP prior to accepting the quest.

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