Once in a Blue Moon

Once in a Blue Moon is the sixteenth major update for Fallout 76. It was released on June 20, 2023.Fallout on Twitter: "Awoooo! It's time to dance with the Blue Devil and Ogua!#Fallout76 Once in a Blue Moon update releases June 20! New Public Events, Daily Ops improvements, a new Season and more!" It was preceded by Mutation Invasion and was followed by Boardwalk Paradise as part of Expeditions: Atlantic City. The update was released alongside season 13, Shoot for the Stars.Mutation Invasion community calendar (March - June 2023)Fallout 76: Inside the Vault - Meet the Newest Cryptids
This update is themed around the Blue Ridge Caravan Company, meant to expand the faction and improve their storytelling and characterization.
After the initial release of this update and its supporting patch, another update, patch 46, was released in August 2023. This patch was not considered a major update and had no promotional name, and is thus considered to be part of the Once in a Blue Moon release cycle.
==Features==
===Initial release===
* Season 13: Shoot for the Stars
* Two new public events:
** Beasts of Burden:
*** "After a trade deal goes wrong, Luca Costa finds himself in need of some help. A group of local Cultists has stolen his Brahmin and cargo of makeshift explosives. His Uncle Vinny will not be happy if he catches wind of it. Be extra careful not to disturb the local wildlife, however, as Cultists have recently noticed strange rumblings in the woods nearby."
** Safe and Sound:
*** "Blue Ridge has renovated the Middle Mountain Cabins to be their latest and greatest Brahmin pitstop, but they just can't seem to keep the local critters at bay. The Repeller Speaker system they use to repel the creatures and keep their Brahmin safe has been damaged. To retake the pitstop and create a safe haven for their Brahmin to rest, they will need your help! Clear out the creatures, defend the Repeller, and the Blue Ridge Caravan will reward you handsomely for your assistance!"
* Costa Business quest line:
** Costa Business is a series of seven new quests focused on Vinny Costa and the Blue Ridge Caravan Company. Although described as "one-off daily quests," they are not repeatable and cannot be completed more than once per character. They function similarly to side quests but with a delay between the quests, as only one of the seven can be done per day before completing the quest line.
** Each of the seven quests has a unique Blue Ridge themed reward, ranging from CAMP items to outfits. They feature short stories focusing on various members of the Blue Ridge Caravan Company.
** After completing the Costa Business quest line, another side quest, Protocol Adonais, will unlock for characters who have completed two quests relating to Aries (Calvin van Lowe): Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (from Wild Appalachia) and Out of the Blue (from Steel Reign). Protocol Adonais is essentially the secret eighth Costa Business quest, focusing on Aries.
* Two new cryptids:
** The Blue Devil and the Ogua come to Appalachia with this update.
** The Blue Devil appears as the event boss for Safe and Sound, while the Ogua fills that role for Beasts of Burden. Both also appear in assault-type random encounters.
* Changes to Expeditions:hydraskillz (Matthew Johnson) on Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord
** Ultracell is no longer given by the Refuge daily quests and is no longer required for Expeditions, which can be run infinitely.
** Only one Refuge daily now activates per day.
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* New Daily Ops mutation: Danger Cloud, harmful spores radiate from enemies, damaging nearby players.
* Quality of life changes: new settings and UI changes for legendary item pickups.
* New music plays at Big Bend Tunnel East, Big Bend Tunnel West and Middle Mountain Pitstop. New music also plays inside the Whitespring Refuge when it was previously silent.
* There are new loading screen images.
* The game now runs at 60 FPS on PlayStation 5 and is said to have better performance on Xbox Series.
* Changes were made to fire and energy damage, making some enemies more difficult. These changes are currently being scaled back in the Public Test Server for Expeditions: Atlantic City. 
===Later patches===
* Patch 45:
** New Meat Week rewards were implemented for its August 2023 run, as well as several other new C.A.M.P. plans sold by Grahm.
** Various bug fixes and quality of life changes.
* Patch 46:
** Season 14: Fight for Freedom
** Two new perk cards, Arms Keeper and Stable Tools.
** A new holotape series recorded by Jack Hunter, two of which preview Atlantic City.
** Donation box for new players added outside of Vault 76 (Welcome to the Wasteland).
** Various bug fixes and quality of life changes.
==Characters==
* Luca Costa
* Clyde (new caps vendor)
* Vera Thornberg (new caps vendor)
* Brahmin: Boil & Foil, Hocus & Pocus, Shock & Awe, Vikki & Vance, Moona Lisa
* Joey Bello
* Grandma Junko
* Jack Hunter
* New dialogue for Vinny Costa, Aries, Kieran Kennedy, Eugenie, Libby Wen, Rudy Fernandez, Herschel Klein and Carver Timmerman
** Libby Wen has been re-voiced by the same actor
** Aries, Kieran, Eugenie, Libby, Rudy and Carver have new fixed spawn points and all of them can be found any time, instead of them appearing occasionally by random chance
** Before this update, when starting Riding Shotgun, Vinny would call two members over and they would jog to the tunnel. Due to this update, this no longer happens.
==Enemies==
* Blue Devil
* Ogua
* Cultist
** Cultist sanctifier 
==Locations==
* Middle Mountain Pitstop (redecorated and renamed version of Middle Mountain Cabins)
* Sacramental Glade (redecorated and renamed version of Cranberry Glade)
* Aries now lives in a redecorated train car near Big Bend Tunnel East
==Items==
===Apparel===
Costa Business	Beasts of Burden	Safe and Sound	Daily Ops	Spooky Scorched
* Blue Ridge scout helmet
* Trucker uniform
* Vera's outfit	
* Blue Ridge scout outfit
* Cryptid hunter boonie hat
* Ogua hunter outfit
* Ogua hunter hood	
* Blue Devil outfit
* Blue Devil pelt hood
* Milkman outfit
* Milkman hat	
* Cowboy chaps
* Cowboy duster
* Cowboy hat
* Umbrella hat	
* Rad skull rider helmet
* Executioner mask
* Bear gas mask
* Gazelle gas mask
* Rooster gas mask
===Consumables===
*Rudy's Canned Pozole
===Notes===
===Holotapes===
===Miscellaneous items===
==== Trading cards====
* Beast of Beckley card
* Blue Devil card
* Flatwoods monster card
* Grafton Monster card
* Jersey Devil card
* Mothman card
* Ogua card
* Sheepsquatch card
==== Quest items====
* Cargo
* Luca's explosives
* Graveyard shovel
* Heirloom lighter
* Nuka-World toy truck
* Unique repair parts
===Plans===
Note: All of the following plans are tradable unless otherwise noted.
====Beasts of Burden ====
====Safe and Sound====
====Costa Business ====
====Daily Ops====
====Gold bullion and Stamps====
Note: None of the following plans are tradable.
* Plan: Steven Scarberry (Samuel)
* Plan: Radstag field dressing station (Mortimer)
* Plan: Firewood pile (Mortimer)
* Plan: Cold Shoulder (Giuseppe Della Ripa)
====Grahm====
==== Grahm's Meat Cook ====
====Spooky Scorched====
Note: The following plans were not included in the original release of Once in a Blue Moon (patch 44), only being implemented with patch 47.
===Weapons===
===Cut content===
* Plan: Blue Ridge shipping container
* Cultist Executioner
==Perks ==
Note: Both of these perks were added with patch 46 in August 2023.
* Arms Keeper
* Stable Tools
==Quests==
=== Public events===
Icon	Name 	Location(s) 	Given by 	Reward	Editor ID 	Form ID
 	Beasts of Burden	Sacramental Glade 	Luca Costa 	 	MOON_Ambush 	
 	Safe and Sound 	Middle Mountain Pitstop	Vera Thornberg	 	MOON_MSignals	
==Random encounters==
Assault-type
Scene-type
*Random Ogua
*Random Blue Devil
* Ogua vs Blue Devil
==Behind the scenes == 
*The update was released on June 20, 2023. June 20 is West Virginia Day, which celebrates the day that West Virginia was admitted to the Union as a U.S. state in 1863, fitting for the game's setting of Appalachia.
*The first Inside the Vault article promoting this update featured a banner teasing the two new cryptids, the Blue Devil and the Ogua. With the heading "Who's That Cryptid?", it is a parody of the "Who's That Pokémon?" segment from the Pokémon anime series.
==Gallery==
FO76 Once in a Blue Moon keyart full.jpg|Full keyart
FO76 Once in a Blue Moon keyart variant.jpg|Keyart variant
FO76 Once in a Blue Moon logo.png|Logo
Fallout76 Season13 Community-Calendar-03-EN.jpg|Community calendar (June - September 2023)
Fallout76 Season14 Community-Calendar-02.png|Community calendar (August - November 2023)
FO76 Shoot for the Stars in-body.jpg|Season 13: Shoot for the Stars
S13 Shoot for the Stars Scoreboard.png|Season 13: Shoot for the Stars
S14 FightForFreedom KeyartFULL.png|Season 14: Fight for Freedom
S14 Fight for Freedom Scoreboard.png|Season 14: Fight for Freedom
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Screen1.png|Promotional image
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Screen2.png|Safe and Sound promotional image
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Screen3.png|Elder's Mark promotional image
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Screen4.png|Beasts of Burden promotional image
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Screen6.png|New CAMP objects promotional image
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Screen7.png|New CAMP objects promotional image
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Attack of the Fish Men!.png|New CAMP objects promotional image
FO76OB Ogua poster.png|New CAMP objects promotional image
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Screen8.png|Danger Cloud promotional image
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Screen9.png|Danger Cloud promotional image
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Blue Ridge Caravan Co.png|Blue Ridge promotional image
CryptidMysteryBanner.png|Who's That Cryptid?
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Blue Devil.png|The Blue Devil
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Blue Devil 2.png|The Blue Devil
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Ogua 2.png|The Ogua
F76 Once-in-a-Blue-Moon Ogua.png|The Ogua
FO76OB Cryptid trading cards.png|Cryptid trading cards
FO76OB Middle Mountain Pitstop YT promo.jpg|Middle Mountain Pitstop
FO76 REAssault MOON Ogua vs Scorched.jpg|Assault-type encounter: Ogua vs Scorched
FO76 REAssault MOON Blue Devil vs Scorched.jpg|Assault-type encounter: Blue Devil vs Scorched
==Videos==
Fallout 76- Once in a Blue Moon Launch Trailer
Fallout 76 - Season 13- Shoot for the Stars
Fallout 76 – Season 14- Fight for Freedom
==External links==
*Fallout 76 - Once in a Blue Moon Update Notes - June 20, 2023 (Archived)
*Fallout 76 - Once in a Blue Moon Update Arrives June 20 (Archived)
*Fallout 76 Once in a Blue Moon PTS Highlights and Update Log (Archived)
*Fallout 76: Inside the Vault - Experience Once in a Blue Moon Early and Celebrate The Mothman Equinox! (Archived)
*Fallout 76: Inside the Vault - Meet the Newest Cryptids (Archived)
==References==
 
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