The Outer Worlds – The Frightened Engineer

Obtained: Talk to Thomas Kemp in the Botanical Lab and offer to give him some pointers (requires Engineering 10).

Objective(s):

• Find the Three Volumes
  • Guide to Mechanical Engineering: Volume 1
  • Guide to Mechanical Engineering: Volume 2
  • Guide to Mechanical Engineering: Volume 3

Guide to Mechanical Engineering: Volume 1

Head to the Emerald Vale Community Center located south east of the Botanical Lab and enter the building. If you haven’t been here yet, you will need to clear out the marauders. The volume can be found on the second level of the center in a working area full of desks overlooking the main doors leading outside. Return to Thomas and give him the volume.

Guide to Mechanical Engineering: Volume 2

Travel to Edgewater and enter the factory section of the cannery. Take the stairs up then go left. Follow the walkway around, past Phyllis Granger, until you reach the dead end with a room on the right. Enter the room to find this volume sitting on a filing cabinet. Return to Thomas and give him the volume.

Guide to Mechanical Engineering: Volume 3

Make your way to the geothermal plant and enter the building (you get the passcode during the Stranger in a Strange Land main quest). From the main entrance, head north (past the vending machine on the left) and through the doorway. Keeping going forward down a flight of stairs and through another doorway (this door will need to be unlocked from the other side) bringing you to a metal walkway. Turn right then follow the walkway down a ramp, taking a right at the bottom through another doorway. Once you pass through the doorway, take a left and go straight across the room (heading north) passing some crates coming to yet another doorway. Enter the doorway to arrive in a room with a giant funnel like container holding some red/orange liquid (a man named Higgins will be telling you to go away). Work your way to the bottom of this room to locate Higgins. This volume will be laying against the wall near his sleeping bag. Return to Thomas and give him the volume. Giving him all three volumes will complete the quest.