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The bottlecap mine is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics[]

A powerful, manually placed improvised explosive. While the bottlecap mine functions like a typical land mine, it does take the player character slightly more time to arm and drop. It also has a longer warning sound before detonating. Like other placed explosives, it cannot be used in V.A.T.S.

Crafting[]

The weapon has a small finite number of fixed locations in-game, meaning if one wants to make extensive use of them, more must be crafted. Taking the Mad Bomber perk unlocks an alternative recipe that is more efficient in the number of resources required, added with the Gun Runners' Arsenal add-on.

Creation requirements

Materials:Requirements:Produces:
Range
Level
Bottlecap mine (1)
Materials:Requirements:Produces:
Range
Gun Runners' Arsenal add-on
Level
Bottlecap mine, efficient
(Mad Bomber) (GRA) (1)

¹ Craftable without a workbench via a dialogue option with Veronica, or with ED-E once the add-on Lonesome Road is installed.

Locations[]

Notes[]

When talking to Alice McLafferty during Pressing Matters about the logistics of caps currency, specifically about how new caps are introduced to the economy, she mentions that "some idiots" use caps inside explosives and destroy their value, referring to the bottlecap mine.

Sounds[]

Bottlecap mine icon
Placing the mine

Gallery[]

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