Crazy experimenter in Fallout 4 left Paladin Danse alone with endless synths overnight – and got a pile of corpses and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition

Fallout 4 has plenty of bugs that have already become memes, but few of them let you literally go to sleep and wake up owning millions of rounds of ammunition. All it takes is leaving a loyal companion in the right room and keeping the PC running overnight.

The bug involves an episode where the player fights alongside paladin Danse through an abandoned factory. Synths spawn endlessly at one particular spot until the player activates the right mechanism or leaves the area. Leave Danse standing in that room, and he'll mow down enemies for hours, with every dead synth dropping energy weapon ammo. One player decided to test what happens if the whole thing runs overnight and woke up to find a mountain of corpses.

The most interesting part isn't even the tens of thousands of rounds collected, but that the game survived such a stress test at all. On consoles, the trick fails almost instantly. One Xbox owner admitted bodies started despawning after just twenty synths, while another player crashed the moment they stepped into the pile of corpses. On PC, the Creation Engine held up all night, which counts as a small miracle of optimization on its own.

A separate headache after this kind of farming is figuring out what to do with all that loot. The vanilla engine has no area-looting function, so without an auto-loot mod, players have to manually search every single body.

There's also a catch for players running the game with fixes installed. The Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch fixes this bug, so owners of "properly" configured setups won't have access to the ammo farm. Ironically, the bug has existed since launch, and Bethesda never fixed it officially – the fan community closed it themselves.

Danse knee-deep in synths with a limitless supply of ammo at his back is probably the best illustration of what playing Fallout 4 without rules looks like.