u4gm Fallout 76 Mole Rat Tips for Welch and Landfill Runs

You load into Fallout 76 ready to knock out your Dailies, and then the game hits you with "kill Mole Rats." Classic. You can roam the Forest for ages and see nothing, then get jumped the second you stop paying attention. What helped me was treating them like a little system instead of "bad RNG," and keeping a few shortcuts in mind for when I'm also juggling loot or even browsing F76items between runs to avoid wasting the whole session on one stubborn challenge.

How Their Spawns Actually Feel

Mole Rats don't behave like regular mobs that just stand around waiting. Half the time they're "underground" until the game decides there's a clean spot to pop them up. Dirt and soft ground matter more than people think. If you're on a foundation, a road, a big slab of rock, or perched on a car, you'll notice weird stuff: delayed spawns, sudden pop-ins, or that annoying moment where one appears behind you like it teleported. Stay on natural ground and slow down a bit. You'll hear the little hiss, then the breach, and you can usually line up the kill before it even finishes the animation.

Welch Run That Usually Pays Off

If you want speed, Welch is still my go-to. Not because it's pretty, but because the terrain is messy and the AI gets confused in a useful way. Start near the station and move uphill toward the buildings, but don't go full sprint the whole time. Walking or doing a lazy jog keeps the encounter feeling "quiet," and the rats tend to be the first thing that tries to ruin your day. When the ground dips and the path bends around those cliffs, that's where I often get a clump of three or four. If you do pull Mole Miners too, back off a few steps, reset your angle, and listen again—rats love to chain-spawn once the first one breaks the surface.

Backup Spots When You're Sick of Ash

Charleston Landfill is my steady fallback, but it rewards patience. People clear the workshop and vanish. If you hang around, loot, scrap, and just let the area breathe, the ambient timer rolls over and you'll often get the same type of enemy again. Greene Country Lodge is handy for lower-level runs, especially if you're trying to do the challenge without burning ammo. And Riverside Manor's garden has this one patch of soft ground where I've been ambushed so many times I basically pre-aim at it now.

Why I Still Bother Farming Them

Sure, it's for the Daily, but Mole Rat Meat is sneaky useful if you're always overweight with junk. Cook it up and you've got a simple Strength bump that can save you a trip back to stash. Still, some weeks you just don't feel like playing hide-and-seek with burrowing rodents, and I get that. If you'd rather spend your time building, rolling gear, or finishing events, using a marketplace like u4gm to buy currency or items can cut out the dull parts while you keep the fun bits on your schedule.