
In January 2022, it was announced that the merge was complete and the site will continue forward under Nukapedia branding. In 2019, after the Curse network of wikis was purchased by Wikia and both The Vault and Nukapedia became hosted by the same company, administrators of both wikis announced a project to merge the two previously split sites into one again, under the name "Fallout Wiki" (subtitled "Nukapedia + The Vault"). Dembowski was globally banned from Wikia for promoting this new wiki on Curse. The Wikia version remained, now under the name "Nukapedia". In October 2011, The Vault was split by its founder and many of the administrators moved to, and later, both hosted by Curse. Nukapedia has also worked to make available several Fallout music tracks and cutscenes on its YouTube Channel. The Vault has also released some previously unknown information on canceled Fallout projects like the Fallout Extreme 2000 console game and the 1998 cancelled Fallout film project, as well as using its YouTube channel and other social media to make available audio and video Fallout Media. In an interview with Eurogamer, the wiki's founder has stated that it has even been used as a source by developers of recent Fallout games, citing one example of lore in Fallout 3 being influenced by The Vault.

Within the first week of the game's release, the site had 2.5 million unique visitors. It has broken previous popularity records for gaming wikis on the weekend after the release of Fallout: New Vegas in October 2010, with daily page views topping at 8.8 million (the previous record, 5 million, belonged to WoWWiki). In 2007, because the original host could no longer take the wiki constantly being targeted for various exploits by spammers as well as other attackers, the Vault moved to Wikia, and became one of Wikia's most popular wikis after the release of Fallout 3 by Bethesda Softworks in October 2008. Since the launch, the wiki has expanded to include the entire Fallout series, both in terms of the fictional universe and in terms of gameplay information and help. Its purpose was to continue the work started by Fallout 2 developer Chris Avellone in his Fallout Bible, which was meant to be a reference guide to the Fallout fictional universe, but was abandoned after Avellone left Black Isle Studios. The Vault was founded by Paweł Dembowski and launched on February 7, 2005, initially hosted by Fallout fansite Duck and Cover, as a general source of information about the Fallout universe, initially focusing mostly on information about the Fallout world, as depicted in Fallout and Fallout 2. The two wikis decided to merge in December 2019, "completing" the process of importing The Vault content to Nukapedia in January 2022. Originally named simply The Vault, the wiki was split into two independently-run sites: The Vault and Nukapedia, in 2011. The site is also available in several other languages, including Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish and Ukrainian. The Fallout Wiki runs on MediaWiki and is currently part of the Fandom network. It covers all of the Fallout video games, as well as all Fallout related content. For more information, see legendary armor effect or legendary weapon (The Vault, closed)įallout Wiki, also known as Nukapedia, is a wiki about the Fallout fictional universe.

These items are only dropped by a legendary version of a creature.

Some weapons or armor dropped by a creature can gain a Legendary effect in Fallout 4. There are exceptions (like power armor frames, magazines or fusion cores in power generators), but many rare and powerful items like mini nukes or bottles of Nuka-Cola Quantum can be picked up multiple times if one revisits certain areas every once in a while. Note that, contrary to earlier Fallout titles, many locations in the game reset after a certain amount of time has passed, including all non-unique items found within. The articles listed on this page aim to provide information on all of the items which can be found in the game.
