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Cleansing The Land achievement in Fallout 4

Cleansing The Land

Complete the quest "Cleansing the Land"

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How to unlock the Cleansing The Land achievement

  • JordanTheBigBoyJordanTheBigBoy
    20 May 2016 20 May 2016 17 Aug 2016
    Warning! This achievement is missable if you have not initiated the "Cleansing the Land" quest line. Continue reading for more info on that.

    This achievement can actually unlock without doing the devious deeds involved in this quest line. I simply did the quest for "The Way Life Should Be" and then the following quest "Reformation," and this unlocked with it. I never talked to anyone about the bombs, so I think if you just leave the quest open it will complete and unlock with the completion of the other story line. So you can get all three quest-related achievements in one run without backtracking or loading up a previous save.

    Just to clarify, you have to have this quest initiated for the achievement to unlock after completing "Reformation."

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    risselessWorked perfectly. As soon as the Reformation quest finished, the achievement for Cleansing The Land popped.
    Posted by risseless on 30 Oct 16 at 20:32
    Shadow XBLAll you need to do to get Cleansing the Land to start is to enter the hotel where the nuclear launch code is (there will be a marker). After you walk in the door, it pops up. Then, just walk back out (don't even grab it). It'll auto complete after you finish Reformation and pop the achievement.
    Posted by Shadow XBL on 03 Jan 17 at 18:47
    HolyHalfDeadI made Dima turn himself in to face justice, and the Reformation quest would not start. The Children of Atom attack me on site (must be something I did in the base game) so I didn’t mind nuking them, and taking their armour which is the best in the game. As explained in the game ending - it was you or them.
    Posted by HolyHalfDead on 23 Sep 18 at 03:28
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  • xBrushedRedxxBrushedRedx
    19 May 2016 19 May 2016 19 May 2016
    I do not want to spoil anything here but in order to start this mission, you must complete the "Best Left Forgotten" quest far enough to where it gives you the option to uncover the location of the nuclear launch key. This objective will pop up after completing some of the memory hacks (I really suggest doing all 5 back-to-back). Once it gives you the objective, head into the hotel where the key is located, and the "Cleansing the Land" quest will trigger. Follow it until the end and you get the achievement.

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    ZordnilAchievement didnt pop when i completed Reformation.
    Posted by Zordnil on 04 Jun 16 at 20:15
    ARCHER MIKEActually, you dont need the nuke launch key at all. I just got the achievement without finding the nuke key which means I didnt nuke anybody,

    I missed this my first time thru so I came here to TA and read all the solutions. I think they all need to be updated. The save that I used has the confessor convinced to leave the island already for dealing with confessor on reformation mission. The other mission had 2 things left to do, 1) find the nuke key and 2) find the wind turbine code. Since my save had me about to cross the water to get the wind turbine code, I decided to grab that before the nuke key. I grabbed it and the 'cleansing of the land' mission popped up which made me think that I might have options here. So since I did not get the nuke key, that wasnt an option for cleansing but talking to dima and using code on wind turbines were my 2 options. I chose to fast travel to arcadia to talk to dima BUT then I thought what if I just make a save and go use the wind turbine code so I did. The achievement popped after I looked into the 3rd terminal and chose to use the new code. NOTE: It also failed my reformation mission but I didnt care since I was here to get my cheevo and then go back to my other save in the game that has me current.

    So It looks like there are a few ways of completing this achievement and I wanted others to know so they dont spend a bunch of time doing everything. Yes there are some armor rewards if you do everything but I dont need them and it only took me 5-10 minutes to redo this to get my last cheevo as long as you have some saves that you can reuse.
    Posted by ARCHER MIKE on 13 Jul 16 at 23:54
    xBrushedRedxWell I posted this from the way I got it on the day this DLC launched.. I was also the first solution on here so I had nothing else to go by. If there are more ways to get this achievement, then so be it, but I posted the way I got it because I know it works and it is simple, but yes I do recommend lots of different saves, but that's kinda a given with any fallout game.
    Posted by xBrushedRedx on 14 Jul 16 at 18:23
  • kloakaTVkloakaTV
    20 May 2016 20 May 2016 21 May 2016
    If for some reason you need help a video below.
    The most easy way and to get reformation quest promise Dima to keep the secret and replace the children of Atom leader.

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