Black coffee is a consumable item added to the game in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Honest Hearts.
Characteristics
Boiled from roasted coyote tobacco chew and honey mesquite pods, black coffee is a good way to stay awake in the middle of the night as well as improving alertness, which makes repairing things, medical treatment and solving theoretical/practical problems easier. However, it comes with the negative drawback of making it harder to maintain focus in pitched combat.
When drinking the coffee, a coffee mug may be added to the Courier's inventory, although there is a chance that it may break. The effects of the item to INT/AGL respectively depend on the level of the Survival skill.
Survival skill effect
| Skill | Effect | Hardcore effect |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | +6 Hit Point , +2 Intelligence for 1m, -1 Agility for 1m | +6 Dehydration , -24 Sleep , -2 Starvation |
| 20 | +7 Hit Point , +2 Intelligence for 1m, -1 Agility for 1m | +7 Dehydration , -28 Sleep , -2 Starvation |
| 30 | +8 Hit Point , +3 Intelligence for 1m, -1 Agility for 1m | +8 Dehydration , -32 Sleep , -3 Starvation |
| 40 | +9 Hit Point , +3 Intelligence for 1m, -1 Agility for 1m | +9 Dehydration , -36 Sleep , -3 Starvation |
| 50 | +10 Hit Point , +4 Intelligence for 1m, -2 Agility for 1m | +10 Dehydration , -40 Sleep , -4 Starvation |
| 60 | +11 Hit Point , +4 Intelligence for 1m, -2 Agility for 1m | +11 Dehydration , -44 Sleep , -4 Starvation |
| 70 | +12 Hit Point , +4 Intelligence for 1m, -2 Agility for 1m | +12 Dehydration , -48 Sleep , -4 Starvation |
| 80 | +13 Hit Point , +5 Intelligence for 1m, -2 Agility for 1m | +13 Dehydration , -52 Sleep , -5 Starvation |
| 90 | +14 Hit Point , +5 Intelligence for 1m, -2 Agility for 1m | +14 Dehydration , -56 Sleep , -5 Starvation |
| 100 | +15 Hit Point , +6 Intelligence for 1m, -3 Agility for 1m | +15 Dehydration , -60 Sleep , -6 Starvation |
Crafting
This item can be crafted by the Courier.
Creation requirements
| Materials: | Requirements: | Produces: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
coffee mug (1) coffee pot¹ (1) |  | Survival: 15 Honest Hearts add-on |  | Black coffee (1) |
- ¹ The coffee pot will remain in the crafter's inventory afterward, and can be reused.
Locations
- Zion Canyon - May be sold by Joshua Graham.
- Angel cave - In a footlocker behind Joshua Graham's chair.
- Zion Ranger station - In an Average locked footlocker.
- Stone Bones cave - In a footlocker near the computer terminal.
Notes
- The healing is immediate, even in Hardcore mode.
- It shares the same world model as a normal coffee mug, and because of this, it is empty when dropped.
- The number to be crafted displayed cannot exceed the number of coffee pots on hand.
- The coffee mug, when empty, weighs 1 pound, despite this drink weighing only 0.02.
- With Survival at around 80-100, black coffee can be quite potent, giving a +6 to Intelligence, but a quite hefty -3 to Agility.
- Although black coffee contains addictive coyote tobacco chew, the drink itself is non-addictive.
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