Finding the Garden of Eden Finding the Garden of Eden is a main quest in " Fallout 3 " . It is also a PlayStation 3 trophy and an Xbox 360 / PC achievement . Detailed walkthrough . Enter Vault 87 . Depending on your choice during Picking Up the Trail , you either have to fight your way through Murder Pass to the vault door and enter or talk to Joseph in order to hack the terminal to enter Vault 87 . Find a G . E . C . K . . Both entrances of Vault 87 lead to the Reactor Chamber . From there , you proceed to the Living Quarters , then the Test Labs . There , you eventually encounter and liberate a super mutant named Fawkes who asks to hold a conversation with you over the intercom . Fawkes explains his upbringing in the vault and how he has become intelligible and civilized through continued access to the vault ' s database . Fawkes promises to retrieve the Garden of Eden Creation Kit from the irradiated halls above if he is released . The radiation level where the G . E . C . K . is stored is extremely high . You can proceed in one of two ways : The room with the G . E . C . K . can be found by going left from Fawkes ' cell . If you release him , he slowly leads you to it and will engage the remaining enemies in melee . Fawkes is even tougher in this part of the game than he is as a follower , so you shouldn ' t worry about him dying . Optional : Free Fawkes . Once Fawkes is free , he will thank you , and hold up his end of the bargain . He will proceed to slowly walk to the room with the G . E . C . K . , fighting any enemy super mutants along the way . Once he ' s there , talk to him again to get him to retrieve the G . E . C . K . He can be watched through the windows as he does this , or alternatively followed ( talking to him during this will yield an amusing comment ) . If you do not feel like waiting for him in real time , a two - hour wait is enough to bring him instantly back to you . However , if Fawkes is killed , the player will have no choice but to retrieve the G . E . C . K . on their own . Fortunately , Fawkes is extremely tough - practically invincible - so the only way you ' d find yourself in that situation is if you intentionally killed him yourself . If , after retrieving the G . E . C . K . , Fawkes is engaged and killed before handing it over to the player , it can be looted from his corpse . Escape from Vault 87 . After all this effort you will be incapacitated upon attempting to leave the Vault by a type of flash bang grenade , and Colonel Autumn will show up with some Enclave soldiers , and take the G . E . C . K . from you . You will pass out a few moments later . An exception to this is in the bugs section below . Followers . If you are accompanied by a companion , they will not be with you after you have been incapacitated by the Enclave . Be sure to retrieve any equipment from them you do not want them to walk off with ( as if they were fired ) before this happens , or right after retrieving the G . E . C . K . You will not have a chance to re - hire your companion until after The American Dream . After re - hiring a companion they will have all the items you left with them still in their inventory , so it can be a good way to free up inventory space of non - essential items you want but won ' t need during your time in Raven Rock , allowing you to stock up on the mountains of Enclave gear . A good way to regain lost items from your followers is to sneak attack them with the Victory rifle and take your stuff while they are down . This has no loss of Karma , nor will the ex - follower turn on you . You cannot take the armor off . This is useful when you had 2 followers from different Karma zones , and do not want to commit Karma giving deeds to reclaim your items . Completing this quest , and spawning in Raven Rock , will hand over all extra companion slots gained through exploits . See discussion tab . Behind the scenes . The name of the quest is a play on words : not only that the player searches for the Garden of Eden Creation Kit , but the quest also ends in finding the residence ( " garden " ) of Eden .