As you reach the final stages of Atomfall and Joyce Tanner’s Lead, you’ll be tasked with heading into the Oberon Dig Site and retrieving a sample of Oberon, Joyce will then provide you with an escape route should everything go according to plan. Make sure you’re ready for the trip to the Windscale Plant and Oberon Dig Site areas as there are plenty of threats abound. Keep reading to learn how to activate the excavator and obtain that Oberon Sample for Joyce.

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Accessing the Oberon Dig Site¶

The Oberon Dig Site is the final area in the game, but you’re going to have to do a few other steps before you can simply stroll in. For the sake of the Joyce Tanner Lead, you need to first make sure you’ve met her at Data Store Charlie and agreed to help her with her duties in exchange for a way out of the quarantine zone. The first step of this is to go and reactivate the three Radio Towers found in the following areas:

• Slatten Dale Radio Tower
• Casterfell Woods Radio Tower
• Skethermoor Radio Tower

Once this is done, you’ll need to return to Joyce and she will give you her final two tasks, the first is to obtain a sample of Oberon, and then to blow the place sky high after. This means you’re going to need to open the way to the Oberon Dig Site, which includes restoring power to all of the Data Stores in the Interchange and getting your hands on the Signal Redirector, the pages below will help with those tasks:

• Interchange Entrance Locations
• Signal Redirector Location
• Restoring Power to Oberon

Once you’ve done all of this, you’ll be able to take the new path forward from the Central Processing Unit into the Windscale Plant.

The Windscale Plant¶

The Windscale Plant is a deadly area that is mostly flooded with Infection Spores, that means you can expect plenty of Ferals around here, along with plant-based enemies that will spit poison at you, there’s a lot to fear here. Fortunately, if you’re only set on reaching the Oberon Dig Site, the location of Joyce Tanner’s tasks, you can ignore the majority of it and focus solely on reaching the large double doors at the end of the tunnel that leads into the dig site.

From the entrance, take the stairs down, make use of the Pneumatic Dispenser if you wish, and then head through the only door. Go down the stairs until you reach the ground and take the stairs in front of you back up and head through a door, dealing with the Feral in this hallway. Go to the end here and drop the ledges to reach the ground, then hug the wall on your left as you head east, doing your best to avoid waking any Ferals in the process. At the end, you’ll see a large plant, fire a few rounds in it to drop it, then quickly dash to the train carriage behind it and squeeze through the gap (the Ferals won’t follow you).

Take a moment to heal and/or use a Strange Tonic if needed, and then ignore the stairs on your left and instead, squeeze through the gap of the fence to the east. You’ll spy some ledges on your left that you can climb, do so and then climb some stairs on your left to reach a large room. There are multiple Thralls in here, so rely on melee kicks followed by melee attacks to deal with them and then make your way around to the eastern wall at the back (there’s a B.A.R.D crate on the northern wall) where another plant and gap you can squeeze through awaits.

At the other end of this room, you’ll find a thin ledge you can walk across, walk to the end of this and then drop down to your left, this will give you a straight run to the doors leading to the Oberon Dig Site.

Extracting the Oberon Sample¶

Once you enter the Oberon Dig Site, you’ll find two paths you can take, one to the left, and one to the right. You’ll want to take the path to the left and go up the stairs to reach some offices, where you’ll need to perform a few tasks first.

Enter the door here, go through the next door on your right, and pick up the Dig Site Storeroom Keycard on the desk along with some other resources scattered around. Leave this room now and enter the other door to reach a long hallway. Enter the first door on your left to enter the restrooms, then go to the right to find a hole you can crawl through that allows you to reach the store room without alerting the Thrall in the hallway.

You’ll find plenty of goodies here, including another Atomic Battery, and a Pneumatic Dispenser. Take the time to sort your backpack out, but make sure you have at least two Atomic Batteries on you, they’re needed in a moment. When you’re ready, exit out of the doors and deal with the Thrall that awaits you there before continuing.

Go through the door it was standing outside of and you’ll reach the extraction room, there are two slots on either side of it that require Atomic Batteries to provide power to it. You should have at least one on you from the Store Room just outside, and if you don’t have any more in your storage, you’ll either have to get one from the Robots that patrol outside at the dig site, or from a container on the north end of the dig site. Regardless of how you do it, place both batteries in and then continue on to the main command center.

There are many tasks you can complete here (along with a B.A.R.D crate to snag), but for the sake of this guide and Joyce Tanner’s Lead in general, head down to the switch that says “Sample Extractor Console”, provided there’s power, the extractor will activate and perform its duty. Once it’s finished, go up the stairs and take the northern door out of the command center to find yourself back outside (ignore Data Processing).

If you want to grab another B.A.R.D crate, take out the Thrall nearby, otherwise head down the stairs to the bottom and down to the northeast, as you go along this platform you should spy some green lights on your right, this is where you can pick up the extracted sample. With that taken care of, you can now focus on Joyce’s other task, to destroy Oberon.