Summary

• Survival mode in Fallout 4 requires players to constantly search for clean water, but it's in short supply in Nuka-World.
• Most water sources in Nuka-World are irradiated, posing risk to players.
• The only source of purified water can be found in the Galactic Zone, where just two sinks produce fresh water.

Survival mode in Fallout 4 DLC area, Nuka-World.

While players can construct water pipes and purifiers in settlements they claim in the base game, Nuka-World's raider-infested theme park offers no such opportunity. This means players must bring a large supply of purified water with them into the distant area or scrounge up whatever bottles they can find lying around. However, there is one source of clean water in the Nuka-World DLC that will make staving off thirst much easier.

Nuka-World was the last of Fallout 4's DLC expansions to release.

Watery Red Herrings In Nuka-World Throw Players Off The Scent

Most Of Nuka-World Has Irradiated Water

While there are many sources of water in Nuka-World, nearly all of them only produce "dirty" or contaminated water. Drinking this causes players to take radiation damage, and runs the risk of giving them a disease, any one of which can cause a massive debuff until players find medicine. Every obvious water source in the abandoned amusement park, from puddles to pumps to the Nuka Cola River, is contaminated in this way.

As an extra insult, there is a water pump in the DLC that resembles the kind in the base game that produces purified water. But it is just set dressing in Dry Rock Gulch, and is not actually functioning. In actuality, the only fresh water source in the DLC is located in another part of the park, one that many players will go through never noticing this resource.

A Diamond In The Rough Can Be Found In The Galactic Zone

One of the park's sub-areas, the Galactic Zone, is home to an attraction called Vault-Tec Among The Stars. Within the attraction is an employees-only room that contains two functional sinks, both of which produce fresh, pure water when activated. Players can drink directly from them, or fill bottles with purified water and store them elsewhere in the park.

These sinks may not be in Dry Rock Gulch, but they are still a veritable gold mine. Once players kill the enemies that surround the room, it is an easy-to-access station with an infinite water supply and a bed to save at. And with the near-infinite amount of empty Nuka-Cola bottles in the DLC area, players will have no shortage of bottles to store purified water in. Knowledge of this location can make a survival mode playthrough in the Fallout 4 DLC much easier and more manageable.