The Rockhound of Mount Blair - Fallout 76 Lore
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Yes yes, I said Fallout 3 strategy guide instead of Fallout 76 strategy guide, my bad! I am reading both right now working on series for both games. Mind gets confused sometimes.
even though I'm from West Virginia I can't remember which mountain that the that mount Blair is based off of and the rockhound is on I mean we are the leading state in coal we used to be West Virginia coal is still the best but that's my only question which map which coal mine is based off of I can't remember and I hope you have a nice day evening ox
Do the "Porta-Diners" work, ever?
The excuse - not good enough, Ox. We're never satisfied and absolutely everything must be perfect - being human is unacceptable. We've rejected your application for citizenship here at Vault Town. We've done away with the flesh flaws and have become one with the Machine God, as members of the Church of the Singularity. (Deus Ex reference) /s
Speaking of which, any chance that you'll engage in the Deus Ex series? That would be totally awesome!
ox can i donate weapons to you
Hey Ox nice job shadow banning yet another one of my comments that are not exactly hostile, your doing a great job furthering the proof that you are avoiding the false flagging claims and refuse to give evidence to your innocence. Keep it up buddy and ban this too, it would make a great screenshot to even further the evidence against you.
Since no one has mentioned it. Blair mountain in real life was the site of a battle between coal miners and the coal companies and national guard from Aug 25, 1921 - Sep 2, 1921. Apparently Bethesda is referencing this very real battle in there game. Figured you might find this interesting.
Thank you. I either had forgotten about that or never knew, and I'll bet most of the rest of the viewers are in the same boat.
I should have known. A bloody time.
I did mentionned it in a reddit post, Beth did so much work on the lore, there are many other references in the game that ox (and most people) is not even aware of ;-)
I live in west virgina that's part of my homelands culture I'm proud to be a West Virginen.
@@ainzooalgownoverlord8913 How did you react when you found out they were doing a Fallout (even a controversial in-between game) in West Virginia?
I'd love to get more backstory/lore on the Mole Miners... There MUST be "towns" of them somewhere...
I've found nothing so far, but with the Legendary Vendor coming out soon? I mean he's a Friendly Mole Miner
I'm expecting a pretty expansive 'dungeon' eventually with a Mole Miner boss. Maybe even an entire underground 'zone' instead.
None can escape from the Kingdom of the Mole!
Maybe they will make one of the vaults into a mole miner area full of their backstory and origin
Damn I wish I owned fallout 76 but I dont have playstation plus to play online damn shame
19:44
That's some amazing foresight that the Fallout 3 strategy guide had.
I heard it
The game was rigged from the start
Ha
I don’t get it, I’ve played fallout 3 but not read the guide can u explain plz?
@@m_teo Ox slip, Fallout 3 strategy guide, Fallout 76 video. Fallout 3 experience or guide not required.
Even in the apocalypse Oxhorn is such the tourist. I can see him inviting other survivors back to his encampment to view his photo's 😁
That sounds like a popular pastime.
I'll say this for them. Bethesda at least knows their history. Having this mining monstrosity on Blair Mountain is just magnificently perfect.
We all tend to discuss video game companies as monolithic entities, but I think maybe a separation should be made between the creative side of things and the business side. Or maybe not. I'm not familiar enough with the industry to say for certain.
@@KK-qm1mr
Okay...
Bethesda creative designers etc etc.
Better?
20:50 "Fish on a stick"
Fishy Stick reference! New users on the Elder Scrolls forum would get offered a "Fishy Stick" by the older members when they joined as a welcome. Starting with Morrowind, every TES game has a reference to it. Fallout 4 had one too with a Fish, a Y block, and a Stick in a bathtub in Layton Towers.
pretty sure there's supposed to be a bear holding up that Fishy stick!
The Vault Tec employees can easily be explained with multiple theories. The first being them inspecting the site as a suitable vault location. Perhaps they assisted with the area survey with their own equipment, like that radar equipped ground sensor. They could have shared the compact reactor technology to power the Rockhound.
rcairforceone I was thinking the same thing or they were there a potential buyers to make more vaults
It's the Oxhound, and he's digging up L(ore)!
Nice
Love the Ash Heap, set my camp there permenintly because no one else ever wants to live there! The Rockhound would make an amazing "Settlement" for future NPCs👌
Gas Masks would be mandatory for civilians, so stock up!
I agree. I spend as much time in the ash heap as I did in the glowing sea from fallout 4. Which was all the time!
Maybe a settlement of.... Mole Miner's? Peaceful like the Purveyor.
The ash heap alone makes me wanna buy the game ngl
The Rockhound has to be one of the more interesting places in Fallout 76, as you really never get to see the Pre-War industrial vehicles in good condition
IN ALL OF OF FALLOUT tbh !!!
definitely, set up my Camp on one of the small red Crains and its perfect👌
@@dadshirt6681 ehhh heh...funny
Sneakston lol I’ve played it for hundreds of hours they are constantly adding new content and I’m loving the game. Also if you hate it so much why are you watching fallout 76 lore videos?
@@BensonJackie The dude just probably wants to whine and moan.
I think the reason why vault tec was there is because they are finding or looking for a good place to put in a new vault? And that machinery is testing out the grounds to see what underneath it?
That was one of my theories too. Either that, or maybe they're students from Vault Tec University doing tests on the soil and such?
@@sorrychernobyl5011 That to
It could also have to do with the Vault that is already in the Ash Heap.
i was thinking along those lines too. Perhaps Vault Tec reached out to Hornwright for geological information around Appalachia rather than waste the time and resources doing surveys themselves. The Vault Tec Scientist could have been there on a matter related to that. Perhaps to pick up the latest report or something.
Looking for ultracite would be my guess
Aye, there be no better coverage of West Virginia's ores than what Oxhorn provides...
EDIT: 12:52 HOLY CRAP! 'Plan: Small Letters Set' ! You're a lucky sonufagun, Ox, that is... or at least used to be... one of the most expensive things you could ever try to buy, five digits of caps if you could ever even find a vendor that had it.
Michael Free I think you’re confused. The plan you’re thinking of is ‘Plan: Signs and Letters’ which would be the neon signs. The ‘Plan: Small Letters Set’ is the small letters that you can put on your vendors.
I see the second Battle of Blair Mountain went even worse than the first. Some things just don’t change.
Like war?
Exactly like war.
So Atomic Mining did Something that caused Protests,the Protesters Protested at the Hornwright-owned Rockhound and that caused a Garrahan Child to Attack the Protesters Using a Minigun,wich caused the Protesters to become Rioters so the National Guard Attacked and Killed the Rioters,suppresing the Riots.
I have so many Questions.
This sounds awefully apt for 2020.. *cough* Portland *cough*
That´s pretty much what happened in real life. Look up Battle of Blair Mountain.
*Oxhorn rings bell*
Oxhorn: Fun.
Me: mmmm, that was seductive.
Damn you Pavlov!
You made me think of him ringing a triangle on a porch calling everyone to a new video like a country mother calling her kids to dinner.
Idk the fact CEO make millions an hour but raising the money for the poor who make there business rich at most make 7.50 in Asia the make like .14 a and that a 40 hour mandatory how can anyone make as much as they do in a democracy im guessing big leaders in government who are now trying to censor internet because they got exposed are government is not for ppl it's money but not like the left thinks either or the same card different both want government control both willing to kill for it both wrong
Cody Leonard I mean wow... yeah.
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Oxhorn video expert level drinking game:
Take a shot every time he says 'Rockhound'
Challenge excepted 😂
*dies of alcohol poisoning*
That grill is supposed to have a teddy bear holding the stick, someone must have looted it before you came by.
Hi,another me
The line, "...try my luck-- no dice!" is in my lexicon. Thanks for that, Ox.
In regards to the Rockhound modification to power setting allowing only 30 minutes of operations instead of the hour the modification, you're forgetting that game time is not equal to real time. I haven't checked exactly at the time of this posting but I think it's something like 16x faster, which means the rockhound is actually getting two hours of power per ignition core within the games time. 30 minutes, times 16, 480 minutes, then divide by 4 cores, 120 minutes.
Great point!
i always wondered what a Pre War fallout Game would look like. The Story being told, but i imagine that it would play a lot like LA Noir
I play fallout for the art and the space age vibe. I would LOVE to be able to see a pre war world... Or at least get a car working...
I hate how people focused on the very few wrong things oxhorn has done instead of focusing on how such a great guy hey is keep it up man you got many's respect
I think the Vault-tec scientist were there because they were thinking about building a vault in the area and wanted to get a idea of what the area was like.
Hey not a bad idea. Vault Tec were building Vaults across Appalachia. Why do the surveying themselves when they could just ask Hornwright for a local ground assessment?
This is one of the most interesting locations in Appalachia, loved the full walk through and seeing it activated 👍
Good to see you can actually use the miner, they are an impressive bit of kit, the electricity I am using to watch this is coming from a coal plant that uses massive rotary bucket scoops like that, ganted they are not nuclear powered tho, they run off the power from the plants., the plants I am referring to are in Gippsland, Victoria Australia (Yallorn and Hazlewood for example, if Hazlewood is still operating that is)
It makes sense as to why the buckets on the rockhound need replacing so frequently. Real world bucket wheel excavators like the Bagger 293 are used to excavate loose mining materials. The Hornwright rockhound is being used to presumably excavate solid rocks, this would put excessive strain on these black titanium buckets. Another strange curiosity is the presence of Garrahan mining machines at presumably a Hornwright Industrial site. After close inspection of the machines found in the Ash mountain region, I have deduced that there are 2 major colours of trucks and loaders. Though i have yet to decipher which is which, i have concluded that the red trucks are from Hornwright, and the Yellow trucks are from Garrahan. Now since you see yellow front end loaders, skid steers, and mining dump trucks around the Rockhound at Mount Blair, is it safe to presume that Hornwright allowed Garrahan to benefit from the mining bounty of the Rockhound? Was Mount Blair an open mining site where both Garrahan and Hornwright Industrial could cooperate in a mining operation?
Something about the jumpcuts when Ox is beating away the Mr Gutsy robots is strangely satisfying.
Oxhorn, I can tell you why there was a Sensor Buggy as well as scientists at Mt. Blair and at 'The Outer Trailers' bit. It all has to do with Seismology and Volcanology. When tectonic plates push against each other, they either go underneath one or the other, and/or crash into each other creating mountain ranges (In this case since it's West Virginia mountains would be the case.)
Now I know some may think 'Phooey' when I say that when the bombs dropped, it caused more pressure on the plates and cause most of the mountains in the ash heap to go 'Volcanic' along with the 'Liquifaction' that you went through in your 'The Glowing Sea' video . And this I say because I have literally seen cracks in the ground/mountain sides with what seems to be 'smoldering lava' still aflame near Welch, abandoned Mine sites, and have seen a still hot rock face that buried a Scorch's leg with supposed cooled molten rock at Brim's Quarry. And the most convincing piece of evidence that proves this, is that almost every one of these sites have small bodies of water labeled 'Toxic Water' that have geysers streaming water out of them.
and geysers only happen if there is actual seismic and volcanic activity beneath the surface. Do you think that's what happened to most of the mountains in the Ash Heap? Please try and think on this when you do a video on 'Belching Betty' and the surrounding abandoned Mines in the ash heap.
Also love your content Oxhorn. :)
Very good video. Mount Blair is one of my favorite workshops to claim. I will happily spend the entire half-hour just sitting on the Rock-Hound defending it. You are right. It is a great way to get a lot of different resources easily. It looks like you are on PC, so are my wife and I. If you ever see somebody called AE7XQ, please feel free to say "Hi".
War... War Never Changes
*Sing Maybe by The Ink Spots*
Lay off the Party time mentats, Littlepip.
Funny, they sue Pepole for using the Word "Scroll" but putting a Quest in there own Game with the name "Lucky Strike"
Man my karma (wait that vanished after New Vegas), must be good. Last Ox vid I got to see was before a recent interview and travel blitz. So first day back and I get to wind down with lore of the Rockhound.
I feel I should make some pun around a dog made of rocks but I know Dogmeat would just keep alerting me to rocks if I did
G'day People, How's It Going In Those Hopefully Wonderful Lives?
Yes.
What's really scary is the number of people that are excited for it to happen.
Thought I did. Guess not. Nevermind.
(Belch)
My shoes got dirty....darn
This is one of my favorite locations, I’ve always been interested in the huge bucket diggers that mines use and it’s so cool to see
Rockhound is such a cool set piece. I don't do it real often, but it was so cool the first time to be able to 'control' the biggest of rigs and fun enough to do every now and again.
The Rockhound cemented my decision to stick to Fallout 76 - my friends and I got it running in the beta - maybe even world first - and spent many hours on its fantail hanging out, defending from raids, and farming tons of materials.
Ahem, the Fallout 3 Official Strat. Guide? 19:40 I think you misspoke, but awesome video as always Oxhorn!
I was on a team that had the Rockhound as well as several workshops capped that defaulted to myself when they went offline. Hoo boy, that was a LOT of work keeping all three sites up and running...
19:41 did he say "fallout 3 strategy guide"
Yep
@pierre therat I know what it is, it's just that it should be "fallout 76 strategy guide"
Wouldn't be his first error
Oh no, he misspoke in a very human way. I guess he can't be a synth now.
See this is why I FINALLY decided to play this game. In spite of the bad press, the bugs, and the iffy quest design (so I’m told.) It’s probably one of the, if not THE most beautiful and interestingly designed worlds Bethesda has ever done! And I just want to explore every inch of it! It’s just not as satisfying watching someone else do it, it lacks that sense of personal discovery.
Seeing how coal fires have been burning for decades in the real world....the fires at Mt. Blair don't seem that far fetched!
Maybe the vault-tec scientists (and specifically the one laying against that scanner thing) were scanning the ground and under to see if it was safe to excavate to put a vault in possibly for the miners
As much as I hate Bethesda for what they've done to Fallout 76 as well as their overall credibility, that scene early in the video of the gases escaping the Earth in the middle of the night is an eerie yet beautiful scene.
I've been playing this game since the pre beta. Not once did I ever stop and think that there was anything interesting at the Rockhound. I don't know why. This is why I love these videos. Just when I think I've seen it all and done it all, a video shows up that says "Have you seen this yet?" To which I go "No, but you have my interest. Go on."
Maybe Vault Tec had a vested interest in the rockhound because they also like to dig big holes in the ground and put vaults in them.
I haven't played FO76 though *shrugs*
You didn’t say “quickly turn off the radio to prevent being demonetized”! It’s amazing the things a person finds endearing
When I saw the Rockhound in the first trailer I knew that I want to capture it and use it for myself, it looks soo cooll and magnificent, my favorite object in the game after the Top of the world dome.
Bell: "Ding"
Ox: (monotone voice) "fun"
Lmao
That little *ching* you get when a kill is scored is super satisfying.
Why is buck Nixon so... sensual when talking about his job?
I talk like that when it's cold AF lol
16:30 you dont suppose the loss of efficiency might not be due to all the years without maintenance rather then it being a failure of the modification back when it was done?
23:25 well there was a big problem in Appalachia and they couldn’t move a bunch of dirt so they got the firemen to burn it away but it went into the mines, it is actually still burning today and is the final quest for the responders fire breathers where u go into the burning mine still burning in the fallout universe
Ready to enter the Asheap on the firebreather quests, wish i could dispose of those mole miners as swiftly on my lv15 char as you do. =)
Sacrelige i went to the river side manor on lvl 6 I'm stupid :/
I'm guessing the vault tec scientists were surveying to see if it would be a good spot for a vault after the rockhounds had finished its excavation. That way they wouldn't have to spend quite as much excavating the area themselves.
The mine fires that you found are probably based on the fires of Centralia Pa. They been burning since the 60s and it's thought that they'll still be burning for a hundred years if not longer.
1750 MWe ? That thing is drinking energy like there is no tomorrow. A current nuclear reactor of 1000 MWe (lots more MW thermal, 'e' stands for electricity) is already a great achievement.
"We can ring a bell on the wall... fun."
The simple things in life.
The Rockhound is one of the BEST endgame workshop's.
I would love to see a lore video about the story of the mole miners.
Fallout Lore video? Intriguing.
Lol
1:50 I am sorry but that gas is more likely just smoke from the minefire.
I remember when I held the rockhound for a few hours before leaving. I left a crap ton of traps and turrets to make sure no one took it from me
The rockhounds in our universe actually needed near 5 people to operate.
Me and my friend just sprinted at this thing once we left the vault and encountered some level 15s (this was on the day of the launch where we could go buy the game)
That buck guy sounded like a mole miner
16:22 mentioned 30 minutes, but a full day is around 78 minutes so thats almost 12hrs game time. I think we can assume lore wise a day in the game is still a day when referring to terminals and such. maybe this has been mentioned idk
If fusion generator exist and are efficient. Why reinvent and use the less efficient ones.
That would be my first thought too, but - surprisingly - they also were providing the blueprints to their customers as part of the Rockhound equipment, apparently, so their customers could buy cores from them or make their own if they preferred (goodness, they'd never survive in our version of the business world!).
I assume that in-game it might be that the Rockhound requires vastly more power than standard fusion generators can output.
Meta-game, it is so you can't use fusion cores to bypass that part of the quest, of course. :-)
Love this area. I scored my first solo scorchbeast kill here.
Great video!
Oxhorn should do a “building guide” for 76, and wherever you see something from the video in game one you’ll know who’s a fan. Idk Maybe name a town after him...
If there were enough takers, people might build their camps next to each other and MAKE a town named after him.
It's possible that vault tec were there because they were talking to these people about buying resources to make more vaults
Hey ox, while you where talking about the dozer shed I think you said fallout3 strategy guide. Lol otherwise another wonderful job and very enjoyable video. Keep up the great work.
This location is simply gorgeous. The most beautiful in the entire game
Yes, Bethesda, that makes sense, sending strike breakers to attack the person who is trying to get the rockhound back up and running again.
Have you found the random port a potties at camp sights that have an elevator button in them?? I was wondering if you have tried to see what it opens or if it does open anything
The Rockhound, or rather equipment like it, are in fact real and they are that big, though they don't run off reactors lol.
Hey Oxhorn could you do a video dedicated to Erikson he’s my favorite mutant and he has some cool dialogue he even has special dialogue with strong and Longfellow
The fishstick thing is most likely an easter egg. For years, on Bethesda's official forums, they used a forum service that let them assign custom titles to users alongside posting permissions, ect. Somehow, new users would find themselves literally given the title of "fish stick". Morrrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim all have similar easter eggs referencing it.
Oxhorn! You have a great story telling voice. Thank you.
perhaps the vault-tec people are there checking it as a possible area for a new vault
Hi Oxhorn, you might not read this but love your video's been watching for 3 years now. I don't care what people say but I love playing fallout 76 and fallout 4. I like playing the game for the lore and the drama of post war America. Thank you for your lore videos Oxhorn keep up the good work. Hi from Australia. 🙂
24 hour shifts?!? Imagine trying to get to sleep in Welch with that racket!
Every time he says rockhound his voice needs to get deeper
What exactly ARE mole miners?
Who else knows this is a real excavator
This reminds me of the trailer
Thanks for existing Oxhorn! I love watching your videos when I'm on the shitter :D
As long as you are not spending an entire livestream in there!
Definately should look into some dietary changes if you are.
Anyone else cetch him say fallout 3 offical stragity guide lol
Scroll around and see. Fascinating to see the number of people that think they were first to notice something.
When i typed this i dident refesh the page and i never clamed to be first
Oh, sorry. My wording was bad. I had group dynamics in mind and instead ended up appearing to single you out.
I wonder if the rockhound was inspired by the bagger258 of the cold war
Vault tec lab coats. Maybe Vault tec was making a surveying the ground? Or conducting an experiment?
Respect for weathering the shitstorm, itll blow over
Still getting ads so TH-cam sees it for what it is, too
I definitely HAVEN'T been binging these videos, no way.
Keep doing what you do Ox. We all appreciate you!
Hey Oxhorn. Love the fallout videos. I recently got 76 for myself and I have been a bit scared to go into many builds, especially those with the creepy Scorched rooming around in and out of the building/areas. Anyone in the comments here can give a noob some tips to 76?
Is FO76 the game that BGS promised it would be at launch yet? If it gets there maybe I will download it again. Oxhorn you are a great storyteller. You might be only entity keeping FO76 alive. And microtransactions. Great videthough. My wish for you someday is that you will find a game and studio worthy of your talents .
FYI. MWe is "Megawatt electric"
what's sad is that I came to this area and completely wrote it off as a future TDM spot. mostly because I don't want to be forced into pvp by capturing a workshop. so I just avoid workshops completely
Can we all just take a minute to bask in the fact that this giant machine is a reference to the movie armageddon
No, it's a reference to real life mining machines that have the same form and function but on a much smaller scale
Bucket whell excavators typically dig sandy gravely material
So the rock hound should be called the sandy gravel hound
Then Marketing got involved, as usual. . .
Mayby Vault tec was going to build a vault and was talking to hornwright to get the land
Fallout 76 seems to get better every update