Caves

This article is about caves in random encounters. For the faction base, see Bases.

How to find caves?

Can be found in random maps in mountain areas on the world map. The cave entrance will always be at the top of the map, going into a cliff.

This is how a cave looks from the outside.

And this how a cave looks from the inside.

What's inside caves?

Often times, a cave is barren and has nothing in it except dirt. However, there may be various critters that inhabit the cave you stumbled upon. Note that the following lists may not be complete.

NPCs that can be found in caves:

• Deathclaws (adult, over 200 HP)
• Centipedes
• Mantises
• Large Radscorpions
• Rats
• Dogs
• Cute Slaves
• Handsome Slaves
• Healthy Slaves
• Bootleggers (Female)
• Bootleggers (Male)
  • May have knives, combat knives, switchblades, or rippers.
  • May have extra caps in their inventory.
• Cannibals
  • May have sharpened spears, knives, combat knives, switchblades, or rippers.
  • May have extra caps in their inventory.
• Bandits
  • May have 10mm pistols, 14mm pistols, or [incomplete].
  • Wear Leather Jackets and Leather Helmets.
  • May have extra ammo in their inventory.
• Mercenaries
  • May have knives, combat knives, switchblades, rippers, clubs, crowbars, sharpened spears, 10mm pistols, Desert Eagles, 14mm pistols, shotguns, combat shotguns, H&K CAWS, hunting rifles, assault rifles, or sniper rifles.
  • May have stimpaks, jet, caps, and extra ammo in their inventory.
  • Wear Leather Armors and Leather Armor Helmets.
• Raiders
  • May have sharpened spears, Desert Eagles, assault rifles, combat shotguns, H&K CAWS, and probably the same things that Mercenaries have.
  • May have caps and extra ammo in their inventory.
  • Wear Leather Armors and Leather Armor Helmets.
• Female Raiders (green mohawk)
  • May have knives, switchblades, combat knives, sharpened spears, rippers, ...
  • May have caps in their inventory.
  • Wear Leather Jackets and Leather Helmets.

The number of NPCs that may be in a cave is for the most part random, but just like how having a big party when going into an encounter makes the number of NPCs increase in the encounter, this will also affect the number of NPCs inside the cave if a cave is in that same encounter.

Items that can be found in caves:
These items could be scattered around on the cave floor. If there are items, that usually means there is something living in the cave, as well.

• Condom (Green Package)
• Condom (Red Package)
• Condom (Blue Package)
• Rock
• Empty Hypodermic
• Empty Jet Canister
• Rope
• Lighter
• Flower
• Flint
• Caps
• Shovel
• Access card

Special weapons that can be found in caves:
These weapons are very rare to find.

• Gauss pistol
• Louisville Slugger
• Solar Scorcher
• Shiv
• Shotgun (rare, but not necessarily good)