The post-nuclear landscape of Fallout 76 offers the same Atompunk retro appeal of Fallout with a multiplayer twist. With players now actively competing for resources and supremacy in Fallout’s post-apocalyptic wasteland, Fallout 76 players need to rock the best arsenal or risk falling prey to their stronger counterparts.
Survivors in Fallout 76 who want to be a step ahead of the competition should consider acquiring the Lever Action Rifle to strengthen their existing firepower. While boasting better stats than traditional Combat Rifles, various Lever Action Rifles have often eluded players with their difficulty of acquisition. However, where can players locate the base Lever Action Rifle’s somewhat elusive Plans?
What Is The Lever Action Rifle?
Before players venture into the harsh post-apocalyptic nuclear landscape of West Virginia to find the Lever Action Rifle Plans, they might want to look into what kind of Fallout 76 gameplay the actual item offers. Its appearance is that of the classic lever-action rifle, where a cocking handle exists that has to be pivoted in order to release or insert rounds.
In that regard, the Lever Action Rifle does take a bit of time to reload, although it deals decent damage for its range. If players manage to find and upgrade the Lever Action Rifle with or without Legendary Mods, they might find its starting stats more efficient compared to the standard Combat Rifle. Here are some of the relevant stats regarding this peculiar firearm:
- Type: Ranged
- Class: Non-Automatic Rifle
- Level: 25/35/45
- Damage: 65/70/75
- Ammo: .45 Round
- Fire Rate: 5
- Range: 123
- Accuracy: 68
- AP Cost: 26
What Are Its Notable Variants?
As with most weapons in a Fallout game, players who get a Lever Action Rifle and like its overall gameplay mechanics may try to work their way into finding its other variants. Given how only two Legendary Lever Action Rifles exist in the game so far, players may want to upgrade their rifle gameplay with these improved Lever Action Rifle variants. Here are these weapons:
- Sole Survivor: Acquired from Minerva’s rotating inventory or by completing a Daily Op, the Sole Survivor comes with a default long night vision scope, a suppressor, and a forceful stock that gives it a massive range and accuracy boost. This makes for a decent sniper weapon for players who want to take out foes from afar.
- Western Spirit: This Legendary Lever Action Rifle can be acquired from the Most Wanted event, coming with pre-equipped mods that give players critical damage boost, hip-fire damage, and better recoil. It also boosts damage on consecutive hits (Furious) and aiming (Hitman’s) as well as faster reloads (Rapid).
The Lever Gun Plan
Players who want to acquire the Lever Action Rifle in their Fallout 76 experience on top of Trading may be able to craft it with the Lever Gun Plan. Before finding out where they can source this blueprint, players can gather resources in advance so they can create the weapon as soon as they get the Plan from various sources. Depending on the resources spent, players may create Level 25/35/45 variants of the Lever Action Rifle:
- Adhesive: 5/6/8
- Gear: 5/7/9
- Oil: 4/5/7
- Screw: 10/12/14
- Spring: 7/10/12
- Steel: 18/20/23
- Wood: 8/10/13
Source: Vendors
Despite the potentiality of acquiring the Lever Gun Plan from various drops and areas throughout a player’s Fallout 76 gameplay, they also have the opportunity to simply purchase the blueprint in exchange for Caps. There are various vendors throughout the game that may offer the Lever Gun Plan as part of their rotating inventory:
- Sunny: Also known as the Simple Utility Pneumatic Networked [Y is Omitted], this collective of Protectron merchants in Foundation may sell the Lever Gun Plan to players with a random attachment.
- Grafton Station: Located in Toxic Valley, the Responder-allied vendor bot in this defunct train station can offer the Lever Gun Plan to players as part of their rotating inventory.
- Lewisburg Station: The mining town of Lewisburg has a defunct train station also affiliated with the Responders. This now-abandoned train station has a vendor bot that may sell the Lever Gun Plan to players.
- Welch Station: Situated in the dangerous Ash Heap, the Welch Station is home to ex-miner Dylan Rhodes and also contains numerous Responder-affiliated bots. One of them may offer the Lever Gun Plan as part of their rotating inventory.
Source: Areas
In a game like Fallout 76 where a lot of items come in the form of blueprints, players have the option of either scouring Appalachia for the items themselves or trying to grab the Plans in order to craft them. Given the rarity of the Lever Action Rifle, it may be more practical to try to locate the Lever Gun Plan instead of the actual weapon. Thankfully, there are certain locations in the overworld where there’s a chance of the Lever Gun Plan becoming a part of their regular item spawn rotation:
- Savage Divide: The mountainous landscape of Savage Divide is the best site for players to try and manually find Lever Gun Plans without having to purchase them. The plans may be dropped by any number of creatures in the area as well as a couple of Treasure Maps. Not only that, Containers may even have the Lever Gun Plan, with the blueprint potentially being a random world loot.
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- Abandoned Waste Dump: Located in Appalachia’s Mire Region, the Abandoned Waste Dump is notable for housing the bunker of former US Senator Sam Blackwell and Judy Blackwell. Fighting the Deathclaws in the nearby Deathclaw Cave may drop the Lever Gun Plan.
- Treasure Map (Savage Divide): Although not necessarily a legitimate quest, acquiring a Treasure Map in the Savage Divide can lead players to one of 10 different locations with a Treasure Mound. At any point, any one of these locations may hold a copy of the Lever Gun Plan.
Source: Creatures
As with most other game experiences, Fallout 76 playthroughs can have players acquire special items from specific Creatures in the game. In the case of the Lever Gun Plan, specific monsters in Fallout 76 may have a higher chance of having this blueprint as part of their available loot. Unfortunately, there’s no set chance percentage as to how often the Lever Gun Plan drops from these enemies, even when facing menacing Wolves. Here are the Creatures which may be able to drop the Lever Gun Plan, all of which should be preferably killed in Savage Divide:
- Bosses
- Behemoth
- Deathclaw
- Fog Crawler
- Grafton Monster
- Hermit Crab
- Honey Beast
- Mega Sloth
- Mothman
- Scorchbeast
- Sheepsquatch
Source: Specific Rewards
Players also have a chance of acquiring the Lever Gun Plan as Rewards from specific situations. Although randomized and rather low in terms of drop percentages, players still have a chance of acquiring the said weapon schematic if they do these things often enough:
- Daily Ops: Players between Level 25 and 49 may group together in the game’s randomized Daily Ops PVE dungeons and fight their way to finish the instanced location. There’s a chance that the Lever Gun Plan may be rewarded after finishing the mission. Players who share Perks may be able to complete these dungeons faster.
- Personal Matters: This Side Quest that tasks players to find the Vault 76 Overseer’s journals, with the Lever Gun Plan being a potential reward after completion.
- Ash Heap: Previously the home to Blair Mountain, the large-scale coal mining that occurred in the area during the Great War eventually resulted in the location becoming dangerous in the events of the game. Players who manage to trigger events in the Ash Heap may get the Lever Gun Plan as a reward.
Fallout 76 was released in 2018 for the PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Xbox Cloud Gaming.