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Fallout: New Vegas Hints

Workbench Locations

  • * Followers Safehouse (Zone 1/5): in the entry room
    * Silver Peak Mine (Zone 1/9): in the mine shack's second room
    * Red Rock Canyon (Zone 1/15): in the Great Khan Armory
    * Camp McCarran (Zone 1/37): in the small west alcove in the Supply Shack
    * Monte Carlo Suites (Zone 1/40): in the SW room
    * Gun Runners (Zone 1/43): in the northern workroom in the headquarters building (4)
    * Cerulean Robotics (Zone 1/Freeside interior): in the NW part of the building
    * Mick & Ralph's (Zone 1/ Freeside interior): in the back of the store
    * Lucky 38 Casino (Zone 1/New Vegas Strip interior): in the SE room of the Presidential Suite after you buy the workbench upgrade from the terminal
    * Michael Angelo's Workshop (Zone 1/New Vegas Strip interior): in the northern workroom (3) & on the highest walkway in the huge room (2)
    * Zapp's Neon Signs (Zone 1/South Vegas Ruins interior): near the NW corner of the main floor of the huge room (3)

    * Nellis Hangars (Zone 2/2): near the SE corner of the Mess Hall & Munitions Storage hangar & in the Nellis Workshop shed
    * Crimson Caravan Company (Zone 2/7): next to the back end of the Guard Barracks building
    * Raul's Shack (Zone 2/8): in the shack
    * Brotherhood of Steel Safehouse (Zone 2/9): in the SE corner of the main bunker area

    * Goodsprings (Zone 3/1): between the Goodsprings General Store and the Prospector Saloon
    * Sloan (Zone 3/6): in the Machine Shop shack
    * Hidden Valley (Zone 3/10): in the scribe's workshop on the east side of level 2 of the Brotherhood's bunker
    * NCR Correctional Facility (Zone 3/16): in the prison yard, near the door to the Visitors Center
    * Harper's Shack (Zone 3/26): in the entry room
    * Nipton (Zone 3/43): in the entrance room of the Nipton House that's directly SE of the town hall entrance

    * Black Mountain (Zone 4/1): in the prison building, in the entry room & in Raul's room
    * Gibson Scrap Yard (Zone 4/10): on the west side of the garage's larger room
    * Southern Nevada Wind Farm (Zone 4/11): in the maintenance shack
    * REPCONN Test Site (Zone 4/14): in the research labs, near the NW corner of the central area's lower floor & in the NW corner of the central area's upper floor && in the basement, in the room at the south end of the tunnel
    * Novac (Zone 4/15): in the lean-to shack that's west of the northernmost Novac House & in the garage that's directly south of the motel
    * Lucky Jim Mine (Zone 4/23): in the mine house