All Creatures and FactionsProtectron
Protectron
Fallout 76 NPC Type
Protectron is one of the Robots in Fallout 76, met at level 5–50. Killing one usually drops Ammo and Aluminum Scrap. Less often it leaves 8 kinds of loot.
It spawns at 148 locations in Appalachia. The largest counts are at Watoga, Arktos Pharma and Whitespring Bunker. It counts toward 5 daily and weekly challenges.
Level
5–50
Health
87–714
Find It on the Map
Open the Challenge Navigator with its 5 challenges added, then add the rest of today's challenges and plan one route for all of them.
Open the Challenge NavigatorProtectron Spawn Locations
Found at 148 locations across Appalachia, 260 in fixed spawns and 595 at chance spawn points. The largest share is at Watoga (24 + 1 × 8% chance).
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.
- Sugar Grove
- Torrance House
- Garrahan Mining Headquarters
- Clarksburg
- Forward Station Tango
- Green Country Lodge
- Jackson Junkyard
- Poseidon Energy Plant WV-06
- Gorge Junkyard
- Point Repose
- Radiant Hills
- Rapidan Camp
- Slumber Mill Motel
- The Whitespring North Entrance
- West Tek Research Center
- Hawksbill Weather Station
- Black Mountain Ordnance Works
- Striker Row
- Miners Monument
- Forward Station Alpha
- Survey Camp Alpha
- Watoga Station
- Belching Betty
- Camden Park
- Hornwright Estate
- Lewis & Sons Farming Supply
- Morgantown Airport
- NAR Repair Yard
- Watoga Civic Center
- Watoga Emergency Services
- Watoga Municipal Center
- Beckley
- The Burrows
- Beckley Mine Exhibit
- New River Gorge Bridge - East
- Silva Homestead
- Darling Sister's Lab
- Vault-Tec Agricultural Research Center
- Sal's Grinders
- Twin Pine Cabins
- The Coop
- Alpine River Cabins
- Bolton Greens
- Orwell Orchards
- North Kanawha Lookout
- Landview Lighthouse
- Shenandoah Visitor Center
- Charleston Station
- Sutton Station
- Anchor Farm
- Camp McClintock
- Relay Tower HN-B1-12
- Flooded Trainyard
- Wilson Brother's Auto Repair
- Organ Cave North
- Tyler County Dirt Track
- Gauley Mine Exit
- Drop Site C2
- Quarry X3
- Clancy Manor
- Helvetia
- Tygart Water Treatment
- Sunshine Meadows Industrial Farm
- Hornwright Testing Site #02
- Summersville
- Overseer's Camp
- Relay Tower HG-B7-09
- Organ Cave South
- Abandoned Mine Shaft 4
- Camp Adams Lookout
- Charleston Landfill
- Horizon's Rest
- Lady Janet's Soft Serve
- Summersville Dam
- Thunder Mountain Substation TM-02
- Flatwoods
- Hillfolk Hotdogs
- Hunter's Ridge
- Poseidon Power Substation PX-01
- Settler's Ridge
- Slocum's Joe
- Wixon Homestead
- Sacramental Glade
- Drop Site V9
- Cow Spots Creamery
- WV Lumber Co.
- Aaronholt Homestead
- Poseidon Power Substation PX-02
- Veiled Sundew Grove
- Isolated Cabin
- Vault 76
- Fissure Site Alpha
- Sunrise Field
- Abandoned Mine Site Kittery
- Overgrown Sundew Grove
- Red Rocket Filling Station
- Big Bend Tunnel East
- Appalachian Antiques
- Drop Site G3
- Greg's Mine Supply
Show all 148 locations
Drops
What a kill leaves behind, averaged over every Protectron 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.
Family
Challenges
Challenge
Daily / Weekly
Cripple a Protectron or a Robobrain's Arm
Daily ×2 · Weekly ×16
Cripple a Protectron's Head with a Rifle
Epic Weekly ×25
Destroy a Protectron
Weekly ×5
Destroy a Protectron while intoxicated by Hard Lemonade
Daily ×1
Destroy Assorted Robots
Weekly ×5
Cripple a Protectron or a Robobrain's Arm
Any of 2
Cripple a Protectron's Head with a Rifle
Destroy Assorted Robots