Fallout 4: 10 Best Side Quests For XP (& Gear)

XP inis essential for leveling up and enhancing your stats and abilities in the wasteland of the Commonwealth. Earning XP and leveling up can be time-consuming, requiring significant Major Actions such as unlocking doors, defeating enemies, and, most importantly, completing quests.

features 144 quests, excluding DLC content. These include essential main story quests, faction-related missions, and optional side quests. Below is a list of the most entertaining and rewarding side quests, offering significant XP and valuable gear to enhance your gameplay.

Assisting the Minutemen in and building settlements yields significant XP through both main and side quests. Each Minutemen side quest offers 60 to 300+ XP and various rewards. Completing these quests can rapidly accumulate thousands of XP while also gaining settlements that provide new areas for building, customizing bases, and trading resources.

The side quest is a rewarding Minutemen mission in, given to you by either companion character Preston Garvey, Abraham Finch, or Radio Freedom. The quest involves assisting Finch Farm, which is experiencing trouble and requires Minutemen's support. You must retrieve an heirloom sword from the Forged gang at Saugus Ironworks and attempt to reunite Jake with his family at Finch Farm.

After clearing Saugus Ironworks and saving Jake during a tense reunion at Finch Farm, you receive the 300+ XP and the Shishekebab sword, along with 250 Caps (+100 bonus Caps) as thanks. The farm will thereafter become one of the best player settlements, enabling trade access.

If Jake is killed, you retain the sword and receive XP, but you forfeit the bonus Caps.

Supporting the Brotherhood Recon team in offers a plethora of main and side quests, each rewarding substantial XP. Side quests provide between 200+ and 350+ XP. Notably, and issued by Lancer Captain Kells, each yield over 300 XP and a piece of T-60c Power Armor.

Joining the BoS allows access to Scribe Haylen and Knight Rhys, who