Fallout 76 Adding 'CAMPanions' As Roaming Pets

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Published Jun 10, 2026, 9:58 AM EDT

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Fallout 76 is about to introduce a comprehensive upgrade to the baseline pet system known as CAMPanions, allowing friendly creatures to follow players around outside the safety of the camp. Fallout 76 has come a long way since its infamous 2018 launch date, with each new content update building upon the last. With CAMPanions, the game is doing the same thing it’s been doing for years now, which is great news for everyone enjoying post-apocalyptic Appalachia.

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Fallout 76’s Upcoming CAMPanions Update Promises to Revolutionize Pets

Though it doesn’t fall into the announced Fallout 76 June-September 2026 content roadmap, the new CAMPanions feature is absolutely coming to the Public Test Server sometime soon, as reported by Insider Gaming. This information comes from an impromptu Summer Game Fest interview with the creative director of Fallout 76, Jon Rush, who appears to have been eager to share. “Imagine a world where your CAMP pet becomes your CAMPanion,” he said. “It follows you around the entire map, adventures with you, explores with you, can fight for you, will sit, will stay, can be commanded to kill, has a skill tree.” Rush went so far as to suggest what sort of CAMPanions players ought to expect, referencing “dogs, hogs, cats, Deathclaws,” with the implication of there being lots more in the final release.