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Fallout: New Vegas Hints

Annotated Map Key

  • 1 = Goodsprings [Goodsprings].  <Sneak skill book>
    2 = Goodsprings Cemetery [Goodsprings].
    3 = Great Khan Encampment [Great Khans].
    4 = Quarry Junction.  <fat man, 2 mini nukes>
    5 = Neil's Shack.
    6 = Sloan [NCR].  <Explosives skill book, Repair skill book>
    7 = Yangtze Memorial.
    8 = The Devil's Gullet.
    9 = Goodsprings Cave.
    10 = Hidden Valley [Brotherhood of Steel].  <Energy Weapons skill book, 3 mini nukes>
    11 = Powder Ganger Camp North [Powder Ganger].
    12 = Jean Sky Diving [Powder Ganger].
    13 = Goodsprings Source [Goodsprings].
    14 = Lone Wolf Radio.  <Survival skill book>
    15 = Powder Ganger Camp West [Powder Ganger].
    16 = NCR Correctional Facility [Powder Ganger].  <Speech skill book>
    17 = Powder Ganger Camp South [Powder Ganger].
    18 = Powder Ganger Camp East [Powder Ganger].
    19 = Canyon Wreckage.
    20 = Primm [Primm, NCR, Powder Ganger].  <Barter skill book, Lucky>
    21 = California Sunset Drive-in.
    22 = Mesquite Mountains Crater.  <Medicine skill book>
    23 = The Prospector's Den.  <Lockpick skill book>
    24 = Emergency Service Railyard.
    25 = Primm Pass.
    26 = Harper's Shack.
    27 = Dead Wind Cavern.  <Mercy>
    28 = Jack Rabbit Springs.
    29 = Coyote Den.
    30 = Hidden Supply Cave.  <Melee Weapons skill book>
    31 = Walking Box Cavern.
    32 = Ivanpah Dry Lake.
    33 = Nevada Highway Patrol Station.  <Guns skill book>
    34 = Nipton Road Reststop.  <Unarmed skill book>
    35 = Mesquite Mountains Camp Site.  <Survival skill book>
    36 = Ivanpah Race Track.
    37 = Nipton Road Pit Stop.
    38 = Mojave Outpost [NCR].  <Explosives skill book>
    39 = Morning Star Cavern.
    40 = Crescent Canyon West.
    41 = Crescent Canyon East.
    42 = Mojave Drive-in.
    43 = Nipton [Caesar's Legion].  <Science skill book>
    44 = Bradley's Shack.
    45 = Caesar's Legion Safehouse [Caesar's Legion]. See the general question about getting a house of your own.

    a = Radscorpion kill stash.
    b = Abandoned shack.
    c = Two extra wells.
    d = Dead prospector camp.
    e = Railway bridge.
    f = Overturned truck.
    g = Two ammo boxes.
    h = First aid skeleton.
    i = Attacked caravan [Powder Ganger].
    j = Radioactive dump site.
    k = Playground area.
    l = Dead Bright follower.
    m = Old lean-to shack.
    n = Super mutant camp.
    o = Crashed plane.
    p = Radscorpion burrow.
    q = Shack and crane.
    r = Two old trailers.
    s = Powder Ganger alcove [Powder Ganger].
    t = Viper Gang ambush.
    u = Viper Gang alcove.