Holiday Scorched 2025: All new Rewards (+ waterlogged gifts)

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Published: 20.12.2021 Updated: 24.12.2025

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20.12.2021 Updated: 24.12.2025

Article contains Rewards Checklists

[Update 24th Dec 2025] Double Gifts active
[Update 8th Dec 202] Drop Chances updated

Current Dates:

• Holiday Scorched Event: Tu, 16th Dec 2025 - Tu, 6th Jan 2026

The Holiday Scorched have legendary items, tools, ammunition and gifts with them. You can also craft the gifts with wrapping paper that you can get at the train stations. And you can also farm gifts again with the free Santa Collector (Atomic Shop).

Gifts

There are 2 different types of gifts in 3 tiers each:

• Holiday Gifts (Loot from Holiday Scorched)
  • Small Holiday Gift
    • Rare "Chase": 4% Drop Chance
    • Rare Taxidermy: 2% Drop Chance
    • Rare Standard: 4% Drop Chance
  • Holiday Gift
    • Rare "Chase": 16% Drop Chance
    • Rare Taxidermy: 8% Drop Chance
    • Rare Standard: 16% Drop Chance 
    • 100% Chance on 25-500 Caps
    • 90% Chance on 5-50 legendary scrip
  • Large Holiday Gift
    • Rare "Chase": 24% Drop Chance
    • Rare Taxidermy: 12% Drop Chance
    • Rare Standard: 24% Drop Chance 
    • 100% Chance on 25-500 Caps
    • 90% Chance on 5-50 legendary scrip
• Handmade Gifts
  (crafted on a tinker workbench with bought wrapping paper from stations)
  • Small Handmade Holiday Gift
    • Rare "Chase": 8% Drop Chance
    • Rare Taxidermy: 4% Drop Chance
    • Rare Standard: 8% Drop Chance 
    • 5% Chance on Player Title: Festive (Prefix)
  • Handmade Holiday Gift
    • Rare "Chase": 24% Drop Chance
    • Rare Taxidermy: 12% Drop Chance
    • Rare Standard: 24% Drop Chance 
    • 100% Chance on 25-500 Caps
    • 10% Chance on Player Title: Festive (Prefix)
  • Large Handmade Holiday Gift
    • Rare "Chase": 32% Drop Chance
    • Rare Taxidermy: 16% Drop Chance
    • Rare Standard: 32% Drop Chance 
    • 100% Chance on 25-500 Caps
    • 25% Chance on Player Title: Festive (Prefix)

New waterlogged Gifts while Fishing

In addition to gifts from the scorched and handcrafted gifts, there's a new category: Waterlogged Gifts. These are gifts you can obtain while fishing, but only if Bethesda chooses to allow so. These gifts aren't regular drops; instead, they're activated server-side as needed. We've already seen how this works with the glowing fasnacht masks from the aliens. This is another "surprise option."

When this option is active (currently every weekend in December 2025, from Friday at 12am ET to Monday at 12am ET), you have a 15% chance of getting a Waterloged Gift while fishing, regardless of the fishing location. There are three types of Waterlogged Gifts:

Double Holiday Scorched Gifts

And there's another server-side option: Double gifts from Holiday Scorched.

This option can also be activated by Bethesda at will. However, the Holiday Scorched event must also be active for it to work. So it's quite possible that we'll receive double gifts on some days this season. The gifts drop from the Holiday Scorched themselves, meaning they'll have two gifts instead of one.

From 24th Dec to 26th Dec 2025 double gift drops were active in the game!

All further rewards are contained in the following lists.

Rare Holiday Rewards:

Note: Drop Chances of the following lists contain the best chances from large handmade gifts.

Rare Chase Items: 

Rare Taxidermy: 

Rare "Standard":

TIPS

You can find the Holiday Scorched wherever Scorched spawn. Also at events! Events with a lot of spawn are e.g. "Collision Course" (Morgantown Airport) or "Line in the Sand". You will also find them at the Queen. However, they do not spawn in buildings, i.e. indoor spaces with a loading screen.

Here you can find our map for orientation: Map for `spooky scorched` and `holiday scorched` event

Tip: Farm gifts with Santa-Kollektron: Holiday Scorched Gift Farming Guide

Sources:

• Nuka Knights Datamining