Walkthrough for the quest An Organic Solution in the game Fallout 76. This page covers all main objectives, key steps, or helpful tips to guide you through the quest smoothly. Whenever possible, the guide points out locations for key items and details interactions with NPCs, among other tips. To ensure maximum clarity, in-game screenshots are included for easy-to-follow visual guidance.
Quest Group: Side Quests
The first stage of this quest will appear in your Pip-Boy in the miscellaneous section when you approach Ella Ames' Bunker.
Complete Ella's research on a chem called RadShield.
Ella Ames' Bunker
Appalachia / West Virginia
Southhampton Estate
Appalachia / West Virginia
Dyer Chemical
Appalachia / West Virginia
I found a bunker in the Mire. I should explore it and see what I can find.
Find and use Ella's Terminal > Research Studies > RadShield.
I found the terminal of a woman named Ella Ames who said she was braving the Mire to deliver some research. She claimed it was for something called RadShield that could be more powerful than Rad-X. I should find the research to see if it could prove successful.
Go to Southhampton Estate and find Ella Ames' body. Take the holotape.
I found Ella's body and her research. I should read it to learn more about RadShield and the strangler pods she was experimenting with.
Listen to Ella's Reseach holotape > Strangler Feed.
Ella believed a special fertilizer would force the strangler pods to bloom. To make RadShield, I'll need a key ingredient - an irradiated bone meal found in Deathclaw nests.
The search area is quite large, but with the optional tasks you can make the search easier.
Ella believed a special fertilizer would force the strangler pods to bloom. To make RadShield, I'll need a key ingredient - an irradiated bone meal found in Deathclaw nests. I can install and use a tracking system on her holotape if I need some extra help.
Activate Ella's Reseach holotape again > Tracking Bone Meal > Install Radio Tracking.
Ella believed a special fertilizer would force the strangler pods to bloom. To make RadShield, I'll need a key ingredient - an irradiated bone meal found in Deathclaw nests. I can use the tracking system I installed if I need some extra help.
Switch your radio to Radiation Signature Tracker. In the upper left corner of the screen you will see an indicator showing how close you are to your target. The closer you are, the closer the signal strength will be to 100%.
Find Deathclaw Nest and take the Irradiated Bone Meal.
Ella believed combining nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium with the irradiated bone meal would produce a fertilizer strong enough to make the strangler pods bloom. I should look for these ingredients at Dyer Chemical.
Go to Dyer Chemical.
I've found all the ingredients needed to make the fertilizer. Now I need to insert the canisters I collected at the Dyer Chemical mixing station to create the fertilizer.
I've deposited all the ingredients for the fertilizer into the mixing station. I should be able to use the terminal to combine them and flush them into the river.
Use Chemical Combination Control > Confirm > Begin Production.
I created the fertilizer at a mixing station in Dyer Chemical. Now I need to flush it into the river so it can permeate the swamp and get the strangler pods to bloom.
I created the fertilizer that Ella Ames recommended and flushed it into the river at Dyer Chemical. I should search the nearby river and see if the strangler pods have produced any flowers.
Now that I've harvested a strangler bloom, I should find a chems workbench and see if I can make the RadShield that Ella Ames spoke of.
