The Rusty Pick

The Rusty Pick is a location in the Ash Heap region of Appalachia.
==Background==
Located on the northern slopes of the ruined Mount Blair, the Rusty Pick was a tavern frequented by miners for decades. In the words of its last owner, it was an old tavern with a secret meeting hall built into the old mine access. Used by the miners after their shifts, the tavern was run by an older woman, Clara Webber, whose husband and sons were killed in a mining accident. Passed down through her family, the forgotten mine access was used as a speakeasy during Prohibition, and then as a secret meeting hall for the labor unions.Clara Webber diary
When Hornwright Industrial started to lay miners off, replacing them with Auto-Miners purchased from Atomic Mining Services, it also became a nucleus of popular resistance for the miners. They were angry with the executives and paper-pushers who fired miners with no severance or warning, as per the contracts they were expected to sign. The miners organized a resistance movement, protesting the firings in Watoga and at Mount Blair, together with civil disobedience meant to slow down work at the Rockhound atop Mount Blair.The Rusty Pick terminal entries; Mick Flanagan's terminal, Entry 01The Rusty Pick terminal entries; Mick Flanagan's terminal, Entry 02
However, several miners were arrested for assault after throwing rotten tomatoes at the Hornwright CEO's limousine. Others were arrested for trespassing on private property after the property line "mysteriously" moved a hundred feet overnight, just so the police could arrest the miners. With Sam Blackwell forced into hiding and AMS goons seizing homes whenever ultracite appeared, the miners felt that they had no recourse but armed resistance. The miners organized strikes against the Mega Mansions of the corporate executives, killing two and injuring several with bombs they had stolen themselves.The Rusty Pick terminal entries; Mick Flanagan's terminal, Entry 05The Rusty Pick terminal entries; Mick Flanagan's terminal, Entry 07
The government retaliated by sending automated security forces after the miners, including strikebreaker robots designed to suppress - and kill - any who would resist the corporate onslaught. At some point, the tavern was bought out by Hornwright Holdings Conglomerate, a division of Hornwright Industrial. Health code violations followed, and although they were dismissed as "unsubstantiated," the establishment was closed for a short time. Food critic Glen Ramos sued the Rusty Pick, alleging that the restaurant violated several health and safety codes and the famous shepherd's pie was made with expired InstaMash, though he lost the suit and the tavern eventually reopened.The Rusty Pick Reopens! The day before the Great War, a local musician named Jesse White was to perform a set of songs.Jesse White - Honkytonk set list
At some point after the Great War, a group of raiders ransacked the tavern, followed by a group of mole miners, who still reside beneath the bar.Fallout 76 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide, p. 373: "Micky Flanagan's miners' tavern was a popular watering hole in the region, but after the Raiders ransacked it and more mutated foes roam the exterior parking lot and interior of the place, it's definitely lost its customer base. Check the cellar for a possible suit of Power Armor and small mine tunnel addition." Later, in 2103, Purveyor Murmrgh relocated her shop to the tavern after leaving her previous stall at Berkeley Springs Station over in the Mire.
==Layout==
Outside of the Rusty Pick, the parking lot has a large stage with multiple musical instruments set up on it. Defensive walls guard the side door and rear area of the bar, where a water pump and wood pile can be found next to the non-functional back door. Near the front door is a U-Mine-It! vending machine and a Garrahan excavator poster outside of the bar next to an ice machine. On the roof of the Rusty Pick is a cooking station.
Both entrances to the Rusty Pick lead into the bar area. When going through the main entrance, the bar is on the left along with a hallway. Down the hallway is one bathroom with a tinker's workbench. The stalls in this bathroom show the corpses of raiders who have been killed by mole miners, and left on display behind chain link fence. The other bathroom is permanently blocked, but large junk pieces can be seen through the half-broken door.
The main area of the bar, immediately upon entering the main entrance, has the bar area (now protected by sturdy security fencing), where Purveyor Murmrgh trades random legendary items, modules and vault steel scrap for Legendary Scrips. Another caged area blocking one corner of the dance floor displays numerous weapons, but is unreachable. A gramophone in this area plays a constant loop of music specific to this area, but it can be manually turned on or off. There is also a functional Port-a-Diner next to the front door.
Moving straight forward from Purveyor Murmrgh leads to the dining area where the side entrance door comes in. This area has a Vault-Tec Stash box with the red and yellow mole miner skin, as well as a Legendary exchange machine and a punch card machine. A staircase in the back leads downstairs to an area with Mick Flanagan's terminal, a brewing station, a weapons workbench, a power armor station, an armor workbench and a chemistry station. Through a doorway in the back of this area is a locked and inaccessible caged area full of mole miner tools and weapons, next to a cymbal-clapping monkey alarm trap. Past the trap is a tunnel that leads to the mines deep beneath the Rusty Pick, past several large pieces of junk, including a scrapped Assaultron that may have loot on it. This area terminates in another inaccessible gate, behind which can be seen a non-hostile mole miner and mole rat. Two veins of black titanium ore can be found next to this gate. 
==Notable loot== 
* Jesse White - Honkytonk set list - Note, sitting on top of a barrel on the bed of the truck being used as a makeshift stage outside.
* Clara Webber diary - Note, next to Mick Flanagan's terminal in the basement.
* Your order's arrived - Holotape, on a barrel near the end of the mines.
* Join the Auto-Miners Support Squad! - Holotape, on a barrel inside the first room, next to the Port-A-Diner.
* Two potential Vault-Tec bobbleheads:
** Inside the cellar workbench room just before the locked (2) double doors, on the metal desk, behind Mick Flanagan's terminal.
** At the end of the tunnels beneath the building, behind a half-buried barrel near pallets and containers in netting.
* One potential magazine: 
** Inside the interior cavern, southwest wall of the dead-end with the pallet and barrel table, at the end of the tunnel tucked halfway under the metal and yellow machine with the levers.
* Potential recipe - On the roof, at the southeastern corner, near a duffle bag.
==Notes== 
* The Rusty Pick is one of five locations for which the player character can select whether to spawn at the location's exterior or its interior. The other locations are The Whitespring Resort, The Crater, Foundation and Fort Atlas.
* With the release of the Wastelanders update, Purveyor Murmrgh's location moved from Berkeley Springs Station to the Rusty Pick, overhauling the layout of the location's interior. The various hostile creatures (feral ghouls, mole miners, mole rats, and radroaches) and robots (Mister Gutsies, Protectrons, and Robobrains) that could spawn here, were all removed.
* In the basement of The Rusty Pick, in the tunnel section, there is a skeleton wearing a Vault jumpsuit. If the skeleton is knocked over, one can see that the jumpsuit is from Vault-Tec University.
==Appearances==
The Rusty Pick appears only .
==Behind the scenes==
Level designer Craig Bernardo worked on the original layout of this location, before the Wastelanders update.Craig Bernardo - Fallout 76
==Gallery==
===At release===
FO76 2 21 Rusty Pick sign.png|Exterior
FO76 The Rusty Pick (bar entrance).jpg|Bar entrance
Fo76 Excavator power armor poster.png|An advertising poster in front of the Rusty Pick promoting the Excavator power armor
F76 The Rusty Pick Int.png|Interior
FO76 The Rusty Pick (bar area 1).jpg|Bar area
FO76 The Rusty Pick (bar area 2).jpg|Bar area
FO76 The Rusty Pick (Raider power armor).jpg|Raider power armor
FO76 The Rusty Pick (Clara Webber Diary).jpg|Clara Webber diary
FO76 The Rusty Pick (Your order's arrived).jpg|Your order's arrived
FO76 The Rusty Pick (rooftop).jpg|On the rooftop
FO76 The Rusty Pick (music scene).jpg|Music scene
Fo76 U-Mine-It Rusty Pick.png|U-Mine-It vending machine near the bar entrance
F76 The Rusty Pick Ext.png
FO76 Content Max truck 1.png|Modified Pick-R-Up truck
PowerArmor The Rusty Pick.png|Power armor
===Wastelanders===
FO76WL The Rusty Pick 10.jpg|New scenery
FO76WL The Rusty Pick 11.jpg|Faulty assaultron in the chair
FO76WL The Rusty Pick (Your order's arrived).jpg|New location of Your order's arrived
FO76WL The Rusty Pick 12.jpg|Purveyor Murmrgh
FO76WL The Rusty Pick 13.jpg|Rack with pieces of kindling armor that cannot be picked up
FO76WL The Rusty Pick VTU.png|Vault-Tec University skeleton
==References==
Non-game
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