Fallout 4 Trophy Guide and Platinum Walkthrough

The route below names quests but avoids major story details where possible.

This route earns every faction trophy in one playthrough with one major reload. Unlike the ending cleanup in the Cyberpunk 2077 trophy guide, Fallout 4 requires you to protect access to entire faction questlines rather than only save before a final dialogue.

An optional save after Rockets' Red Glare preserves a Railroad-friendly world state. Another optional save after Nuclear Family preserves the Institute ending.

No trophy is tied to difficulty, and Survival mode is not required. You can play on Very Easy, change difficulty at any time, and still earn the platinum.

Fallout 4 has no standard New Game Plus mode. The one-playthrough route depends on reloading the faction master save rather than carrying progress into another run.

Benevolent Leader is the rarest and most troublesome base-game trophy, but its wording is misleading. A "large settlement" does not require a large population or a full settlement-size meter. Two settlers are enough.

Use this reliable Red Rocket setup:

1. Unlock Local Leader rank 2 and Cap Collector rank 2, then build a tier 3 Food and Drink Restaurant.
2. Move exactly two human settlers to Red Rocket and switch off the recruitment beacon.
3. Build two covered beds, at least two food, at least three water, and defense higher than the combined local food and water.
4. Assign one settler to the crops and the other to the restaurant.
5. Avoid robots and unassigned settlers. Keep food and water available in the workshop and respond to settlement attacks.
6. Continue playing while happiness rises, then return periodically to confirm both assignments and a rising arrow.

Do not use Red Rocket for Fix-Er-Upper while this setup is active. Build your 100 workshop objects elsewhere. If happiness stalls, stay at Red Rocket for a while, verify the beds are under a roof, and confirm that neither settler has lost the assigned job.

Vault-Tec Bobbleheads

You need all 20 Bobbleheads for …They're Action Figures. None is designed to be permanently missable, and each grants a permanent SPECIAL point or skill bonus.

Make a manual save before Emogene Takes a Lover, then complete the Cabot House quests in their intended order. If Emogene fails to appear or the quest marker behaves incorrectly, reload before progressing. The Charisma Bobblehead becomes accessible at Parsons during The Secret of Cabot House.

Collectible cleanup is lighter than in the Hogwarts Legacy trophy guide, since Fallout 4 requires all 20 Bobbleheads but only any 20 magazines.

Magazines

Print's Not Dead requires 20 magazines, not every issue in the game. Pick up magazines during normal exploration and prioritize named interiors, faction headquarters, vaults, shops, and quest locations.

Community mods disable trophies for any save branch loaded with them. Disabling the mods later does not repair that branch. You must return to a save created before mods were enabled.

Official Creation Club content and Creations explicitly marked achievement-friendly are exceptions. A fully unmodded save is still the safest choice for a platinum run.

PS4 and PS5 use separate trophy lists. Imported PS4 saves may carry some ongoing counters after you repeat a related action, but completed trophies do not transfer reliably. Do not plan around a full auto-pop.

Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition includes the six existing DLC packs, but it does not add another trophy set beyond the established 85 total trophies.

The DLC adds 34 trophies across six independent packs. You can earn the base platinum without installing or completing any of them.

Automatron

Complete the Automatron story, loot every defeated robot, and build a Robot Workbench. Robot Hunter requires 10 unlocked robot mods, while The Most Toys requires you to build 10 mods. No trophy is inherently missable.

Wasteland Workshop

Docile, Instigator, and Trapper revolve around cages, tamed creatures, and a settlement arena. Stockpile concrete, copper, gears, and other workshop materials before starting.

Far Harbor

Treat The Way Life Should Be, Cleansing The Land, and Push Back The Fog as missable. Use one protected save to control all three.

Unlock three Far Harbor workshops before making any faction hostile. Longfellow's Cabin counts, then complete enough local side quests for two more settlements. During Best Left Forgotten, recover the nuclear launch key and the wind-farm kill switch code, then make a manual save.

Finish The Way Life Should Be and the peaceful story cleanup first. Hold Cleansing The Land until the other story and workshop trophies are secure, then use the backup to take the destructive branch required for that trophy.

Contraptions Workshop

Show Off uses the new display objects, Time Out requires assigning a settler to a pillory, and Mass Production requires a builder to manufacture 100 items. A simple powered conveyor line is enough.

Vault-Tec Workshop

Become Overseer, unlock every Vault 88 build area, then equip a settler with a Vault 88 suit and Pip-Boy. Keep a save before major Overseer dialogue choices in case a quest stage fails to advance.

Nuka-World

Do not start Open Season or make the raider gangs hostile until the raider trophies are complete. Finish 12 gang jobs for Raiding for a Living, complete Home Sweet Home, establish eight Commonwealth outposts for Hostile Takeover, and finish Power Play.

Work on All Sugared Up while exploring by killing Nuka-World creatures under a crafted Nuka-Mix effect. Eyes on the Prize is the longest cleanup because it requires 100,000 Nuka-Cade tickets.

The base game has 13 route-sensitive trophies. They are missable because late faction choices make rival groups hostile.

The Charisma Bobblehead is not normally missable, but the Cabot House quest can bug. The protected save before Emogene Takes a Lover prevents that problem from becoming permanent.

Far Harbor adds three route-sensitive trophies under the conservative roadmap above. Nuka-World's raider trophies become unavailable if you turn the gangs hostile too soon.