Fallout 4: Powering Up Fallout 4 Guide

How to unlock: Complete Pinned in Graygarden (M4,1) (during that quest, you need to help the workers of the Institute).

Quest objectives:

• Talk to Father
• Record the speech
• Talk to Father
• Reconfigure the transmitter
• Talk to Father
• Activate the reactor
• Talk to Father
• Attend the directorate meeting

Record the speech

Use the microphone to prepare it for the speech

Find Father in the Institute and talk to him. After the conversation, approach the microphone in his quarters and interact with it to start recording the speech. During this action, you will temporarily have to select the form successive fragments of the speech. This choice does not affect the course of the quest in any way. After you record the speech, return to Father.

Reconfigure the transmitter

Access the world map and fast-travel to Diamond City Bazaar. After you get there, go to the back of that location and enter the small trailer, where Diamond City Radio is located. Here, first open the toolbox and collect Radio Thing with Buttons, Radio Thing with Dials and Radio Thing with Tubes.

Now you will have to complete a simple puzzle, where you put each of the items in the correct slot. The solution has been shown in the above screenshot - in slot A, Install the thing with the buttons, in slot B, Install the thing with the dials, and in slot C Install the thing with the tubes.

Activate the reactor

Walk over to the section with reactor

Exit the trailer and return to the Institute. Do not go to Father's quarters and go to the Advanced Systems section. Cross that section and take the door to the location with the Institute Reactor. Follow the path, up to the destination. Make it over to the balconies above and talk to Father. Then open the door to the reactor. Approach the core and activate it, then interact with the nearby terminal. After you look up the status of the reactor, select the second item on the list, i.e. Initiate Reactor Startup Sequence.

Attend the directorate meeting

Sit on Father's chair

Talk to Father and return to the main area of the Institute and head to the conference room, where the directorate meeting is to be held. Sit on Father's chair and start the meeting. Towards the end of the meeting, you need to decide which in which direction the development of the Institute is to follow - you can decide to increase the production of Synths (more allies in future battles) or to decide in favor of development of new weapons (you receive better equipment in the future).

Quest rewards: Experience points, new quest for the Institute (End of the Line).