Fallout/Items
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< Fallout
Listed below are the various types of items you will be able to find in Fallout.
Gadgets[edit]
Item | Selling price | Use | First seen |
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Rope | $25 | In Vault 15, you will need it to descend down the elevator shafts. In the Glow, you'll need to attach the rope to the beam and descend down the crater. | Shady Sands has one in one of the houses in the farm. You can also buy one from Seth. |
Tool | $200 | Use it whenever you are repairing things to get an increase of 25% to the 'Repair' skill. | You start out with one if you have enough repair skill. Killian has one in his store. |
Lockpicks | $150 | Use it whenever you are picking conventional locks for an increase to the 'Lockpick' skill. | You start out with them, or you can get them from the fridge in the Raiders base. |
Electronic Lockpicks | $375 | Use it whenever you are picking electronic locks for an increase in the 'Lockpick' skill. | You must give the necklace that Hightower owns to Loxley. He'll send you to Jasmine, who will give you a set of electronic lockpicks. |
Radio | $350 | Use it to draw off the mutants in the military base, and it can also be used to remotely toggle the computer in the base. | I traded some caps and flares for it from Lars at Junktown. |
Flares | $35 | Twist the cap and drop the flare for an increase in brightness in an area. Not too great. | You start out with them. |
Dynamite | $500 | Set the timer and the explosives will blow. Good for destroying forcefields, disabling locks on locked doors, and killing immobile foes (i.e, Master). | Vault 15 lockers, third floor |
Plastic Explosives | $850 | Same as Dynamite, but a bit more powerful. | Tyne sells it. He is a merchant in Adytum; to get to his store, head on to the left and enter the small shack and descend down the ladder. Or if you've visited the Military Base, some pieces are in a locker in the fourth floor. |
First Aid Kit | $200 | Increases 'First Aid' skill if you use this item. | You start out with one. |
Doctor's Bag | $300 | Increases 'Doctor' skill if you use this item. | There is one in Razlo's bookcase. |
Motion Sensor for Pip-Boy | $800 | Lets you see all of the critters on the Pip-Boy automap. | Random encounter (police box) or buy from the Hub. |
Geiger Counter | $650 | Lets you see how much radiation is in your system. | Killian has one. |
Stealth-Boy | $1800 | Makes you slightly invisible and increases chances using the 'Sneak' skill. | Random encounter (footprint) or kill the Nightkin at the Cathedral. |
Vats Control Computer Key | $40 | Operates the Vats Control Computer at the Military Base. | The Cathedral tech standing by the Vats Control Computer has one. |
Military Base Key | $25 | Arms the nuclear bomb at the Cathedral. | It's in the locker where the lieutenant is nearby. |
Tape Recorder | $80 | Records Gizmo's confession for Killian so that he has evidence to kill him. | |
Wire Tap (Bug) | $50 | You can plant it on Gizmo's desk to give Killian the evidence | He needs to kill Gizmo. |
Backpacks, Bags | Less than $100 | It holds items. It's there to better organize your inventory at the expense of carrying weight. | ??? |
Systolic Motivator | $150 | It's required to repair the Power Armor suit on Level 3 of the Brotherhood of Steel. | ??? |
Psychic Nullifier | $1000 | Use it to "nullify" the Master's psychic attacks. | ??? |
Holodisks[edit]
Holodisks can sell for an average of $100 and can be read with the Pip-Boy. They give out information on various subjects.
- Here is a list of various holodiscs
Holodisk name | Selling price | Use | First seen |
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Vault Locations | 100 | Contains information on specific subject. | Mrs. Stapleton has this disc. |
Mutant transmissions | 100 | Contains information on specific subject. | The dying mutant has this disc. |
Ancient Brotherhood tape | 100 | Contains information on specific subject. | The dead paladin has one in the Glow. |
Alpha/Delta/other holodiscs | 100 | Contains information on specific subject. | Get them from the Glow. |
Mutant autopsies | 100 | Contains information on specific subject. | Vree has this disc. She has two copies of it. |
Brotherhood history | 100 | Contains information on specific subject. | Sophia has this disc. |
Maxson's Log | 100 | Contains information on specific subject. | Maxson has this disc. |
Combination key for Military Base | 100 | Contains information on specific subject. | The nightkin watching the entrance to the Military Base has it. |
Zimmerman's son's death | 100 | Contains information on specific subject. | Razor has this holodisc. |
Keys[edit]
Most of the keys are a type of key card instead of a traditional metal key.
Item | Selling price | Use | First seen |
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Yellow Key Card | 40 | Open the elevators at the Glow. | Level 1, Brotherhood soldier |
Red Key Card | 10 | Open the elevators at the Glow. | Level 2, dead soldier with remains of a radioactive rat. |
Blue Key Card | 10 | Open the elevators at the Glow. | Level 4, only dead body |
Red Pass Key | 12 | Open the locked doors on the first floor of the Cathedral. | Lasher has one. You can barter them from Ton and Sister Francis. |
Black Pass Key | 400 | Open the locked doors on the first floor of the Cathedral. | Morpheus has one. |
Books[edit]
Item | Selling price | Use | First seen |
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Scout Handbook | 200 | Increases Outdoors up to 91%. | Shady Sands |
First Aid | 175 | Increases First Aid up to 91%. | Shady Sands |
Guns and Bullets | 425 | Increases Small Guns up to 91%. | Gizmo's bookcase |
Dean's Electronics | 130 | Increases Repair up to 91%. | Hub |
Big Book of Science | 400 | Increases Science up to 91%. | Hub |
Useless items[edit]
Name | Effect | Can be sold | Selling price |
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Beer | Lose one perception. | No | N/A |
Booze | Lose one perception. | No | N/A |
Nuke-A-Cola | You can become addicted to it. | No | N/A |
Lighter | unknown | Yes | ??? |
Box of Noodles | Yes | ??? | |
TV Dinner | Yes | ??? | |
Cat's Paw Magazine / You Have No Idea | Yes | ??? | |
T-51b Repair Manual | It's in the locked storage room at the Brotherhood. | No | N/A |
Flower | unknown | Yes | ??? |
Keys in Killian's store | Effect unknown. | No | N/A |