Test Your Metal (Update 34) is a major Fallout 76 update coming in June 2022. Besides starting Season 9: A Dread Island Tale, it brings the new Public Events Test Your Metal, Eviction Notice, Moonshine Jamboree, and more.
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- Season 9: A Dread Island Tale
he Test Your Metal Update was released on June 14, 2022. Here you’ll find the official Test Your Metal Update Notes.
Season 9: A Dread Island Tale
The Test Your Metal update will start Season 9: A Dread Island Tale. Have a look at our dedicated Season 9 Guide so see the new scoreboard as well as all known Season 9 rewards (screenshots included).
- The “Test Your Metal” Public Event will appear on your map at the Metal Dome, just north of Fort Atlas in the Savage Divide. Travel there and speak with Initiate Pappas to start the event.
- Once Test Your Metal begins, you will join three members of the Brotherhood Field Team to compete as gladiators against the Rust Eagles’ deadly machines.
- You and the Gladiators of Steel will square off against the bots in three rounds of frenzied combat. Defeat the opposition in one round, and you’ll advance to the next.
- Once you’ve conquered all three rounds, you will earn some loot, XP, and have a chance to pick up rare rewards, including plans to craft the new Botsmith Armor set.
- Make sure to defend your teammates, and have Stimpaks at the ready if they fall. The more Gladiators of Steel who survive their time in the ring, the higher your chances to earn rare rewards.
| No screenshot yet. | Plan: Rust Eagle Banner |
 | Plan: Botsmith Left Arm Plan: Botsmith Right Arm Plan: Botsmith Left Leg Plan: Botsmith Right Leg Plan: Botsmith Chest Piece |
 | Plan: Robot Beer Steins Display Case |
 | Plan: Cryogenic Bed |
 | Plan: Antique Globe of Mars |
| No screenshot yet. | Plan: T-51 Power Armor Brotherhood Knight Paint (tradable) |
| No screenshot yet. | Plan: T-51 Power Armor Brotherhood Paladin Paint (tradable) |
The Botsmith armor stops dropping from Test Your Metal once you’ve learned it. Also, the plans are untradable.
Eviction Notice – Rewards & Details
- “Eviction Notice” is a challenging new Public Event tuned for higher-level characters. It will appear on your map at a crater east of Foundation, and south of Huntersville, in the Savage Divide.
- Find and activate the Rad Scrubber within the crater, and then prepare for a fight!
- Defend the Settlers’ supply crates and the Rad Scrubber from an onslaught of Super Mutants.
- If the Rad Scrubber takes too much damage it will deactivate. Repair it as quickly as possible, or else rad levels in the area will become much more hazardous.
- TIP: Destroy the Super Mutants’ meat bags to discourage them from sticking around. You and your event mates may want to try splitting up so that some players can venture out to attack the meat bags, while others focus on defense.
- If you’re successful in driving the Super Mutants from the crater, you will earn Settler faction reputation, some loot, and a chance to receive one of several 3-star legendary weapons that each sport a unique new paint.
For the Eviction Notice Public Event, there are 6 (tradable) weapons you can get as unique rewards. Note that you get the actual weapon and not a plan.
- Foundation’s Vengeance (Minigun)
- Tone Death (Death Tambo)
- Doctor’s Order (Hunting Rifle)
- Crowd Control (Combat Shotgun)
- The Debilitator (Super Sledge)
- Blunderbuss Pirate Punch (Blackpowder Pistol)
Moonshine Jamboree – Rewards & Details
- Meet up with Moonshiner Ned behind the bar inside Sunday Brothers Cabin in The Mire to kick off the festivities.
- Light the Jamboree Bonfire, and then keep your guard up. Hordes of vicious Gulpers who are curious about the raucous Jamboree will soon flood the area.
- Take down Gulpers and collect as much Acidic Gulper Venom as you can. Pour it, as directed by Moonshiner Ned, into a nearby bathtub so that it can be used to serve up a fresh batch of moonshine.
- Make sure to defend the three Stills located around the Cabin grounds. If they get destroyed the party will be ruined!
- If you manage to deposit 30 Acidic Gulper Venom in time, and the Stills remain intact, then the Jamboree will be a roaring success.
- The most masterful moonshiners among you can optionally collect up to 60 Acidic Gulper Venom before the event concludes for increased rewards.
- Speaking of rewards, by completing Moonshine Jamboree, you will earn Raider faction reputation, some loot, the all-new “Gulper Smacker” melee weapon, and a few bottles of Gulpershine, which you can drink to increase the Gulper Smacker’s damage vs. Gulpers.
| No screenshot yet. | Plan: Gulper Smacker |
| No screenshot yet. | Plan: Gulper Smacker Sharp |
| No screenshot yet. | Plan: Gulper Smacker Chain-Wrapped |
| No screenshot yet. | Plan: Gulper Smacker Spiked |
| No screenshot yet. | Plan: Gulper Head |
 | Plan: Gulper Rug |
Credits to MadDokGrot for the screenshots!
Plan: Gulper Smacker Sharp, Plan: Gulper Smacker Chain-Wrapped, and Plan: Gulper Smacker Spiked are not tradable and stop dropping as soon as you’ve learned them. The other two plans are tradable.
