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Mirelurk Hunter
Fallout 76 NPC Type

Mirelurk Hunter is one of the Mirelurks in Fallout 76, met at level 24–100. Killing one usually drops Mirelurk Meat and Ammo. Less often it leaves Softshell Mirelurk Meat and Caps.

It spawns at 32 locations in Appalachia. The largest counts are at Arktos Pharma, Mire's Eye and Glassed Cavern. It counts toward 1 daily or weekly challenge.

Level
24–100
Health
423–1898

Find It on the Map

Open the Challenge Navigator with "Take a Camera Picture of a Mirelurk Hunter" added, then add the rest of today's challenges and plan one route for all of them.

Open the Challenge Navigator

Mirelurk Hunter Spawn Locations

Found at 32 locations across Appalachia, 2 in fixed spawns and 62 at chance spawn points. The largest share is at Arktos Pharma (2).

A plain number is how many are always there. The number after the is spawn points that may roll it; hover one for the odds.

Arktos Pharma
2 fixed
Mire's Eye
4 × 27% chance nearby
Glassed Cavern
3 × 33% chance
1 × 3% chance nearby
Uncanny Caverns
3 × 33% chance
Wendigo Cave
3 × 33% chance
Hemlock Springs Dump
2 × 34% chance
Lake Reynolds
2 × 34% chance
Sunrise Field
2 × 34% chance
Superior Sunset Farm
2 × 34% chance
Toxic Dried Lakebed
2 × 34% chance
Abandoned Convoy
2 × 28% chance nearby
Highland Marsh
1 × 33% chance
1 × 2% chance nearby
Mac's Farm
1 × 33% chance
Quarry X3
1 × 33% chance
Spruce Knob Campground
1 × 33% chance
Stony Man Lookout
6 × 5% chance nearby
Slumber Mill Motel
1 × 27% chance nearby
The Freak Show
4 × 5% chance
Beckwith Farm
3 × 5% chance
Research Site Bavaria
2 × 4% chance nearby
Show all 32 locations

Drops

What a kill leaves behind, averaged over every Mirelurk Hunter the map spawns. Kinds of loot stand for lists too long to spell out; the chance is how often the roll includes them, not how many turn up.

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Challenges

Challenge
Daily / Weekly
Take a Camera Picture of a Mirelurk Hunter
Daily ×1