Fallout 76 Magazines Guide

Fallout 76 Magazines Guide – All Magazine Effects Detailed (1)

In this Fallout 76 Magazines Guide, we will show you all the types of magazines that are available in the game, and also highlight what kind of effect it gives you once you have acquired a publication of a certain magazine.

Items like Magazines and Bobbleheads allow players to have certain buff advantages over others for some time in the gameplay. Magazines spawn at different locations and can be taken by anyone, considering if you have not got your hands on it first.

Magazines are known to spawn at known locations that we have already covered throughout the whole map of the game. You can go to these known locations where the publication of a magazine spawns with random types, so there are always different magazine types spawning in these locations.

In the list below, we have detailed all the locations across all the regions and parts of the maps that you can go collect your magazine:

The Forest Magazine Locations Guide
Toxic Valley and The Ash Heap Magazine Locations Guide
Savage Divide Magazine Locations Guide
The Mire Magazine Locations Guide
Cranberry Bog Magazine Locations Guide

Now that you are aware of all the locations where magazines can be found, let’s proceed in looking at what types of magazines are there in the game, what they are titles, and what Effects + Duration it will offer you.

There are 11 different types of Magazine publications in the game, where each offers you certain buffs or effects that are tied to them. They also work for a certain amount of time which we will also highlight below. Read all the magazines and their effects below.

Astonishing Tales

There are 5 different magazine publications of Astonishing Tales:

Astonishing Tales # 1: This magazine offers you 15% more damage against Mothmen for 2 hours.
Astonishing Tales # 2: This magazine offers you 15% more damage against Grafton Monsters for 2 hours
Astonishing Tales # 3: This magazine offers you 15% more damage against Snally Gasters for 2 hours
Astonishing Tales # 4: This magazine offers you 15% more damage against Flatwood Aliens for 2 hours
Astonishing Tales # 5: This magazine offers you 15% more damage against Wendigos for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales

There are 13 different magazine publications for Astonishingly Awesome Tales

Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 1: This magazine offers you 15% more damage against Mirelurks for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 2: This magazine offers you 15% more damage against Super Mutants for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 3: This magazine allow you to swim twice as fast for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 4: This magazine offers you 25% more damage from the Alien Blaster
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 5: This magazine offers you 15% more damage from the Cryolator for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 6: This magazine regenerates 20 health points per minute for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 7: This magazine offers +5 Max AP for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 8: This magazine offers you 25% less damage from robots for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 9: This magazine offers you 15% Poison Resistance for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 10: This magazine makes you 30% less likely to catch a disease for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 11: This magazine offers you 15% more damage to Ghouls for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 12: This magazine makes you 30% less likely to catch diseases for 2 hours
Astonishingly Awesome Tales # 13: This magazine offers you 30% increase to Radiation healing with RadAway for 2 hours

Backwoodsman

There are 10 different magazine publications for Backwoodsman:

Backwoodsman # 1: This magazine allows you to collect extra meat when searching for dead animals for 2 hours
Backwoodsman # 2: This magazine offers you 25% more damage with Tomahawks for 2 hours
Backwoodsman # 3: This magazine allows crafting weapons to cost fewer materials for 2 hours
Backwoodsman # 4: This magazine allows you 50% chance to get twice the items when harvesting plants for 2 hours
Backwoodsman # 5: This magazine offers 15% more damage to animals for 2 hours
Backwoodsman # 6: This magazine offers 50% more healing when eating cooked food for 2 hours
Backwoodsman # 7: This magazine makes you 50% less likely to contract a disease when eating or drinking for 2 hours
Backwoodsman # 8: This magazine increases 30% satisfaction when eating or drinking for 2 hours
Backwoodsman # 9: This magazine offers 50% reduced cost to repairing buildings for 2 hours
Backwoodsman # 10: This magazine increases 50% damage from turrets in your Camp or Workshop for 2 hours

Grognak the Barbarian

There are 10 different magazine publications of Grognak the Barbarian:

Grognak the Barbarian # 1: This magazine offers 15% increased melee damage for 2 hours
Grognak the Barbarian # 2: This magazine makes you 20% harder to be detected while sneaking for 2 hours
Grognak the Barbarian # 3: This magazine offers 15% Poison Resistance for 2 hours
Grognak the Barbarian # 4: This magazine offers 30% VATS critical damage with melee weapons
Grognak the Barbarian # 5: This magazine offers 15% damage to Scorched damage for 2 hours
Grognak the Barbarian # 6: This magazine offers melee weapons to weigh 75% of their default weight for 2 hours
Grognak the Barbarian # 7: This magazine makes melee weapons to degrade half as fast fr 2 hours
Grognak the Barbarian # 8: This magazine offers 2 damage resistance for every point in Charisma for 2 hours
Grognak the Barbarian # 9: This magazine offers +10 carrying capacity for 2 hours
Grognak the Barbarian # 10: This magazine offers +15 energy resistance for 2 hours

Guns and Bullets

There are 10 different magazine publications of Guns and Bullets:

Guns and Bullets # 1: This magazine offers 15% more damage to robots for 2 hours
Guns and Bullets # 2: This magazine offers 30% VATS critical damage with laser weapons for 2 hours
Guns and Bullets # 3: This magazine offers 30% VATS critical damage with ballistic guns for 2 hours
Guns and Bullets # 4: This magazine offers +6 AP regeneration for 2 hours
Guns and Bullets # 5: This magazine offers 50% more materials salvaged when scrapping weapons for 2 hours
Guns and Bullets # 6: This magazine offers +10 damage resistance at night for 2 hours
Guns and Bullets # 7: This magazine 10% increased damage with guns without scopes for 2 hours
Guns and Bullets # 8: This magazine offers 15% more damage to Yao Guai for 2 hours
Guns and Bullets # 9: This magazine offers 30% more VATS critical damage with plasma weapons for 2 hours
Guns and Bullets # 10: This magazine offers 15% more damage to Liberator Bots for 2 hours

Live and Love

There are 9 different magazine publications of Live and Love:

Live and Love # 1: This magazine offers +10 maximum health when on a team for 2 hours
Live and Love # 2: This magazine +5 more damage inflicted on enemies when you are a part of a team for 2 hours
Live and Love # 3: This magazine offers 50% healing when eating fruit or vegetable for 2 hours
Live and Love # 4: This magazine offers +10 AP regeneration when on a team for 2 hours
Live and Love # 5: This magazine offers +2 Luck when drinking alcohol for 2 hours
Live and Love # 6: This magazine offers +10 damage resistance when part of a team for 2 hours
Live and Love # 7: This magazine offers +10 max AP when on a team for 2 hours
Live and Love # 8: This magazine offers 5% more experience gained when on a team for 2 hours
Live and Love # 9: This magazine offers 25% less damage taken from robots for 2 hours

Scout’s Life

There are 10 different magazine publications of Scout’s Life

Scout’s Life # 1: This magazine reduces 30% rad ingestion when eating or drinking for 2 hours
Scout’s Life # 2: This magazine offers 25% less damage from insects for 2 hours
Scout’s Life # 3: This magazine offers +10 carrying capacity for 2 hours
Scout’s Life # 4: This magazine offers double the bleed out time when HP is reduced to 0 for 2 hours
Scout’s Life # 5: This magazine offers 80% less likely to contract diseases when hit by creatures
Scout’s Life # 6: This magazine offers 30% slower rate reduction to hunger or thirst for 2 hours
Scout’s Life # 7: This magazine offers 25% less damage from animals for 2 hours
Scout’s Life # 8: This magazine offers 20% reduced AP cost while sprinting for 2 hours
Scout’s Life # 9: This magazine offers 80% reduced cost of caps when placing a CAMP for 2 hours
Scout’s Life # 10: This magazine offers 30% reduced item degradation for 2 hours

Tesla Science

There are 9 different magazine publications of Tesla Science:

Tesla Science # 1: This magazine offers 25% reduced damage from robots for 2 hours
Tesla Science # 2: This magazine offers 25% reduced damage from plasma weapons, grenades, and mines for 2 hours
Tesla Science # 3: This magazine offers explosive attacks to have 30% increased radius for 2 hours
Tesla Science # 4: This magazine offers Power Armor to consume Fusion Core 15% slower for 2 hours
Tesla Science # 5: This magazine offers heavy guns to consume ammo 20% slower for 2 hours
Tesla Science # 6: This magazine offers +15 Radiation Resistance from the environment for 2 hours
Tesla Science # 7: This magazine offers 30% VATS critical damage with energy weapons for 2 hours
Tesla Science # 8: This magazine offers 15% VATS critical damage with all weapons for 2 hours
Tesla Science # 9: This magazine offers 30% VATS critical damage with heavy guns for 2 hours

The Unstoppables

There are 5 different magazine publications of The Unstoppables:

The Unstoppables # 1: This magazine offers 5% chance to take no damage when attacked for 2 hours
The Unstoppables # 2: This magazine offers 20% chance to take no damage from Scorched enemies for 2 hours
The Unstoppables # 3: This magazine offers 30% chance to take no damage from explosions for 2 hours
The Unstoppables # 4: This magazine offers 30% chance to take no damage from melee attacks for 2 hours
The Unstoppables # 5: This magazine offers 20% chance to take no damage from energy weapons for 2 hours

Tumbler’s Today

There are 5 different magazine publications of Tumbler’s Today:

Tumbler’s Today # 1: This magazine offers a 20% wider sweet spot when lockpicking for 2 hours
Tumbler’s Today # 2: This magazine allows you to pick up more bobby pins when picking bobby pin boxes for 2 hours
Tumbler’s Today # 3: This magazine offers +1 lockpicking skill for 2 hours
Tumbler’s Today # 4: This magazine allows bobby pins to not break when lockpicking for 2 hours
Tumbler’s Today # 5: This magazine offers a 20% wider sweet spot when lockpicking for 2 hours

U.S. Covert Operations Manual

There are 10 different magazine publications of the U.S. Covert Operations Manual:

U.S. Covert Operations Manual # 1: This magazine offers +10 damage resistance while sneaking for 2 hours
U.S. Covert Operations Manual # 2: This magazine offers 50% better hiding capability for 2 hours, and also works in bright light
U.S. Covert Operations Manual # 3: This magazine allows you to take 10% damage from other players
U.S. Covert Operations Manual # 4: This magazine offers +1 Perception for 2 hours
U.S. Covert Operations Manual # 5: This magazine offers +1 Perception for 2 hours
U.S. Covert Operations Manual # 6: This magazine reduces 50% less noise when sneaking for 2 hours
U.S. Covert Operations Manual # 7: This magazine reduces 50% of hostile player’s VATS accuracy when targeting you for 2 hours
U.S. Covert Operations Manual # 8: This magazine offers 25% more damage with knives and unarmed attacks for 2 hours
U.S. Covert Operations Manual # 9: This magazine offers 50% Stealth Boy duration for 2 hours
U.S. Covert Operations Manual # 10: This magazine offers +1 Agility for 2 hours

Mini-game Magazines:

Below are all the rest of the magazines found in Fallout 76, where each of them unlocks a minigame:

Nuka Tapper
Pipfall
Atomic Comand
Grognak & the Ruby Ruins
Zeta Invaders
Wasteland
Red Menace
Automatron

For additional Fallout 76 guides, make sure to check out our Antibiotics Guide, Deathclaw Eggs Farming Guide, Fact Finder .44 Pistol Guide, Wastelanders Romance Guide, Wastelanders Allies Location Guide, Wastelanders Hunter for Hire Guide, Wastelanders Strength in Numbers Quest Guide, Weapons Guide, Perks and Special Attributes Guide, Workshops Guide, Power Armor Guide, Camping Guide, Apparel Guide, Best Characters Build Guide, Aid Items Guide, Main Quests Guide Part 2, Main Quests Guide Part 1, Chemistry Guide, Cooking Guide, Crafting Guide, Event Quests Guide, Daily Drop and Repeatable Quests Guide, Nukes Guide, Diseases and Mutations Guide, Miscellaneous Quests Guide, BobbleHeads Guide, Power Armor Locations Guide, Combat Guide, Side Quests Guide, Beginner’s Guide, Aluminum Farming Guide, Final Word Weapon Guide, Weapons and Armor Mod Guides, and 8 Basic Steps After Setting Out the Vault in Fallout 76 Guide.

This concludes our Fallout 76 Magazine Guide. Feel free to comment below.

Fallout 76 Magazines Guide – All Magazine Effects Detailed (2024)