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Question Dakka side quest: More Bodies, Mole Problems

redking

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I can't get the sentry bot to explode. It does its countdown sequence, then fails to explode. It just dies.

How can I blow up the molerat nest? I've tried fatboys and nuke mines. Neither work.
 
I can't get the sentry bot to explode. It does its countdown sequence, then fails to explode. It just dies.

How can I blow up the molerat nest? I've tried fatboys and nuke mines. Neither work.
When you take the sentry bot to the molerat den then use a perk like science or demolitions perk and then when the sentry bot is exactly in the quest market explode him
 
I've already tried that, as I describe in my OP. The countdown sequence happens, the explosion does not.

Is there any other way to complete the quest?
 
@redking I've only run this quest twice. Both times nuka-grenades and mini-nukes didn't work.

It does its countdown sequence, then fails to explode. It just dies.

The countdown sequence happens, the explosion does not.

I don't remember any count down sequence...

I went to the sentrybot, rigged it to explode, went to the terminal to activate the bot, let the bot get near the nest, and then I sniped/shot it till it blew up. Quest stage completed.
 
i cant even get the sentry bot to activate it says it is but dont move so i use every gun similar to a fat man and even used the fat man but none work
 
i cant even get the sentry bot to activate it says it is but dont move

Did you use the terminal in the nearby building? There's a holotape in this building or in the terminal itself that allows you to power up and control the Sentry bot.

"there is also a disabled sentry bot in the scrapyard which may be activated using a holotape found on the terminal in the main building."--https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Robotics_disposal_ground

Rig up the explosives at the sentry bot, then go into the building get the holotape and power it up with the terminal. My experience with this Sentry is that it will not move from it's spot until you use the nearby terminal/holotape to power it up
 
I couldn't get the bot to do anything with the holotape. It was already awake since I had sent it to Olivia early in my game, and would explode if I breathed on it wrong (so basically the opposite problem you've been having with the same result in not being able to progress - lol). I ended up rolling back the save to before the quest was initiated, hooping it was a broken script that may work on a second try at it, but I got a different Dakka quest instead. And that one is delayed for me as I'd already cleared the quarry, so I have to wait for it to respawn (playing on survival, so it'll be a while). Sorry I wasn't able to test further!
 
I ended up rolling back the save to before the quest was initiated, hooping it was a broken script that may work on a second try at it, but I got a different Dakka quest instead. And that one is delayed for me as I'd already cleared the quarry

Interesting that it moved on to Dakka's third quest without the second being completed/given. I would have thought that they ran or were given in a precise order.
 
Well, I was able to complete the third quest without a hitch (seems like maybe there's a respawn command associated with the quest trigger? - I did a walk-by way sooner than I expected to be able to and spotted a raider). Then after a couple checks of the board, the second quest came back up, so I tried again. Same result - bot was active from my previous use, wouldn't go to the mole rat area after I set it to explode. This time I took a fatman and tried to nuke the den - nothing happened (4 direct strikes and a couple diseases from mole rat bites later). I ended up console commanding the completion of that stage, and it progressed from there.

A funny side note - it looks like the respawn of the quarry is constant every time I go to the cell. I had to clear it a second time to turn in the mole problems quest (go speak to Dakka directive), and then less than an hour later of playing time I walked close by a third time and got about 300 xp from kills that I assume were Dakka's or Ack Ack's (and I could see a respawned turret).
 
Just for anyone still wondering, what worked for me was placing a NukaMine and shooting it with a fatman. Maybe both are not necessary, didnt test. But in case you already destroyed the Sentry Bot like I had, that progressed the quest for me.
 
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