Boston Public Library

Boston Public Library is a location in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston in 2287.
==Background==
Boston Public Library was the main public library in Boston and the United States' second-largest library, home to a vast amount of books and historical records. The library offered lectures, readings, recitals and art and architectural tours.Boston Airport ruins terminal entries; information desk terminal, visit the Boston Public Library It was the largest repository of historical documentation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and a vibrant location before the Great War. After the War, Curator Givens led a crew to the library to retrieve and preserve any surviving information, but decades of neglect, water damage, looting and vandalism had ruined most of the books. The relentless super mutant attacks eventually killed the team.Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition pp. 451-452: "[11.01] BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARYThis was the largest repository of historical documentation in the Commonwealth and a well-visited location before the bombs dropped. Decades of neglect, water damage, looting, and vandalism ruined all the books stored here. The building still has a grandeur and is accessed either by a side entrance (Advanced) or by a subterranean entrance at Copley Station, under the main building. Super Mutants roam these halls now."(Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map)
Similar to certain other municipal buildings (including some hospitals and police stations), the library has a book return terminal where overdue books can be returned in exchange for book return tokens, which in turn can be used to obtain various prizes.
==Layout==
The library is occupied by Mk 1 turrets, Protectrons and leveled super mutants.
The library's main entrance is an Advanced-locked door on the west side of the building. Passing an easy speech check at the nearby intercom will unlock the door, and will also trick the security system into thinking the player character is an employee, making all turrets and Protectrons inside the library friendly towards the player character. Attacking a friendly turret or Protectron will then result in combat.
Inside the main entrance, a tripwire triggers a three-grenade bouquet. In the entrance room is a book return terminal. To the north is the main hall, with several super mutant corpses at the south end, and two turrets, three Protectrons and the corpse of Dalen at the north end. A computer room (with the corpse of Curator Givens) connected to a Master-locked storage room (containing a steamer trunk and other loot) is north of the hall. On the northeast side of the hall is a door chained from the other direction.
Returning to the main entrance, a hallway runs to the east. Descending a ramp formed by a collapsed section of floor in a side room to the south allows access to the library's central courtyard. A set of stairs guarded by a turret at the north end of the courtyard leads up to a reading room with a Novice-locked terminal on the other side of the chained door from the main hall. East of the reading room is a balcony with a Novice-locked terminal and a second book return terminal. Stairs lead down from the balcony to the entrance to Copley station, with a nearby tripwire triggering three grenade bouquets holding a total of seven grenades.
Continuing south from the balcony is a series of smaller rooms, including another reading room with several broken terminals, a pair of restrooms, a filing room with a chemistry station and an office along the hallway east of the main entrance.
==Notable loot==
* Massachusetts Surgical Journal issue #13 - In the book return terminal in the southwest corner of the building by the main entrance, obtained as a prize in exchange for 50 book return tokens.
* Vault-Tec lunchbox - In the southwest room with the book return terminal by the main entrance on a table.
* Library storage room key - In the main hall on the west side of the building, in the northeast corner on a table next to Curator Given's terminal.
* Intelligence bobblehead - In the computer room in the northwestWearing power armor alters the compass orientation, but not map displays. corner of the building, on the large computer.
* Stealth Boy and bottlecap mine - In the small Master-locked storage room off the computer room in the northwest corner of the building.
* Nine overdue books:
** Three are northeast across the street inside a Pulowski Preservation shelter.
** Three are in the computer room in the northwest corner of the building on the ground at the foot of two sleeping bags.
** One is in the reading room on the north side of the building on a shelf west of a Novice-locked terminal.
** One is in the reading room on the east side of the building on a table next to a broken terminal near the door to the south.
** One is in the women's restroom on the east side of the building in a stall.
==Related quests==
* Public Knowledge: Upon speaking to Daisy in Goodneighbor, she will ask the Sole Survivor to clear super mutants out of the library and return her overdue books.
* Neon Winter 
==Notes==
* Passing the speech check at the library entrance intercoms reveals that Mayor Hildenbrand's six-digit code to access the library is 123456.
* Bypassing the library entrance intercoms (by lockpicking either the library's main entrance door or the entrance door from Copley station) will result in all turrets in the library being hostile. The turrets' allegiance cannot be changed with Total Hack (although two of them can be shut down), meaning they will be permanently hostile after this point. Attacking or being detected by a turret will then cause all Protectrons to also become hostile.
* If the Sole Survivor lingers near the small Master-locked storage room in the northwest corner of the library, approximately twenty super mutants and mutant hounds will begin to attack in multiple waves from the two entrances. Triggering the super mutant attack when the turrets are hostile towards the player character can lead to the Sole Survivor being surrounded and targeted by both groups.
* Using a jet pack, one can find a dead Brotherhood of Steel initiate on the roof.
* Curator Givens' terminal logs mention Dalen's suggestion to "compress the archives" and imply the player character can "further our cause," which seems to point to the large computer in the computer room with the bobblehead, but no further clues are found. On PC, if one turns clipping off (using the console command ) and walks through the computer and wall, a "BPL Mainframe" terminal can be found floating in mid-air directly behind the bobblehead. For console players, using a jet pack to fly through the skylight may allow access to the hidden terminal. Upon using the terminal, one is asked if one wants to "compress data to holotape." Selecting "yes" will award experience and eject the "BPL compressed data" holotape, which can then be found in the miscellaneous section of the inventory. The quest event ID is listed as , with stages of and . Stage gives the player the holotape and XP, and changes the terminal to state the data has been compressed.
**Alternatively, the terminal can be moved to an accessible (and mostly aesthetically consistent) spot with the following sequence of console commands:
***fe255.modpos x -184
***fe255.modpos y 32
***fe255.modpos z -8
***fe255.setangle z 90
***fe255.modpos x 0
===Companion comments===
*When at this location, companions make comments, which are activated at two locations: at the entrance from Copley station, and in the main hall.
Location comments	Location comments 	Location comments
Character 	Specific location 	Comment
Cait 	Copley station entrance	""
Cait 	Main hall 	""
Codsworth 	Copley station entrance	""
Codsworth 	Main hall 	""
Curie 	Copley station entrance	"Oh, a library! Please, we must go in."
Curie 	Main hall 	"Those are not sorted in the proper Dewey Decimal System. Hmph."
Danse 	Copley station entrance	""
Danse 	Main hall 	""
Deacon 	Copley station entrance	"Look out. There's crazy robots inside there. Or were they in the library in your day, too?"
Deacon 	Main hall 	"That's just a waste. All those books."
John Hancock 	Copley station entrance	""
John Hancock 	Main hall 	""
Robert MacCready 	Copley station entrance	""
Robert MacCready 	Main hall 	""
Nick Valentine 	Copley station entrance	""
Nick Valentine 	Main hall 	""
Piper Wright 	Copley station entrance	""
Piper Wright 	Main hall 	""
Preston Garvey 	Copley station entrance	""
Preston Garvey 	Main hall 	""
X6-88 	Copley station entrance	""
X6-88 	Main hall 	""
==Appearances==
Boston Public Library appears only in Fallout 4.
== Behind the scenes==
*Boston Public Library is based on the real-world Boston Public Library McKim Building in Copley Square. The in-game and real-world libraries share many architectural features, with the main hall depicted in the game nearly identical in appearance to the real-world library's Bates Hall.
*Nathan Purkeypile designed the building kit and lighting for the Boston Public Library.ArtStation - Portfolio, Nathan Purkeypile
==Bugs==
* One can get stuck inside the room at the bottom of the ramp to the south of the courtyard. A small room to the west blocked by rubble can be entered through the right side of the doorway, but is not possible to exit without loading a previous save.
* The game may freeze when receiving the Massachusetts Surgical Journal from the book return terminal. It will not be possible to exit the terminal, and the "Item Obtained" overlay will be stuck on the screen indefinitely. This issue may possibly be avoided if the Enter key is used instead of the Activate key to select the prize in the terminal.
* The library entrance intercoms may respond like an NPC (e.g. with "Huh?" or "Yeah?") instead of starting the dialogue explaining that the library is closed. This will make the entrance door to the library impossible to open without lockpicking, and leads to the turrets in the library followed by the resident Protectrons becoming hostile. Restarting the game or reloading a save won't fix the issue. However, entering the console command before being detected by the automated defenses will make the player character an ally of the turrets and Protectrons.
==Gallery ==
BostonPublicLibrary-Fallout4.jpg|Exterior view from Trinity Plaza
BostonPublicfront.jpg|Exterior statue in Trinity Plaza
FO4 Pulowski Preservation shelter near Boston Public Library.png|Exterior Pulowski Preservation shelter with three overdue books
FO4 Boston Public Library alternate entrance.png|Exterior main entrance
FO4 Boston Public Library interior 2.png|Main entrance room
FO4 Boston library MSJ8.png|Book return terminal with Massachusetts Surgical Journal
FO4 Boston Public Library interior 1.png|Main hall
FO4 Library storage room key.png|Library storage room key
FO4 Boston library Intelligence.png|Intelligence bobblehead
FO4 Boston Public Library interior 4.png|Storage room
BostonPublicLibrary-Courtyard-Fallout4.jpg|Courtyard
BostonPublicLibrary-Room1-Fallout4.jpg|Reading room to north
BPL_book_return_terminal_2.jpg|Book return terminal near the Copley station entrance
BostonPublicLibrary-Copley-Fallout4.jpg|Copley station entrance
BostonPublicLibrary-Entrance-Fallout4.jpg|Copley station entrance
BostonPublicLibrary-Room2-Fallout4.jpg|Reading room to east
FO4CC Architect corpse.jpg|The Architect's corpse
FO76 Boston Publib banner.png|Library banner
Fo4 SB and bottlecap mine BPL.jpg|Stealth Boy and bottlecap mine
Overdue books Boston Public Library.jpg|Overdue book
Overdue book1 Boston Public Library.jpg|Overdue book
Overdue book2 Boston Public Library.jpg|Overdue book
Overdue book3 Boston Public Library.jpg|Overdue book
FO4 Pulowski Preservation shelter near Boston Public Library.png|Three overdue books in the shelter
VT lunchbox BP Library.jpg|Vault-Tec lunchbox
Chemistry station BP Library.jpg|Chemistry station
==See also==
* Library voice
==References==
Category:Back Bay
Category:Boston buildings
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