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The detonator is a "weapon" in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics[]
Rather than being a weapon in and of itself, the detonator is a tool required for the usage of a weapon, being how one detonates C-4 units when desired. The tool itself has no other use and is unable to harm enemies by itself. It is considered an improved holdout weapon.
Variants[]
- Loyal's detonator - a quest item relevant to the side quest Volare!.
- Mining detonator - a quest item relevant to an optional objective during River Monsters.
- Broken detonator - a miscellaneous item found in the watchtower office near Little Yangtze.
Locations[]
- One can be found in the Vault 34 armory along with three bricks of C-4 plastic explosives.
- Two can sometimes be bought in the Dino Bite gift shop in Novac.
- One can be found in a footlocker located at the roadblock on the road southwest of Nelson, where Ranger Milo is stationed along with two C-4 plastic explosives.
- One can be found in the Lucky 38 casino on the cocktail lounge floor in a Hard-locked briefcase.
- One can sometimes be bought from Chet in the Goodsprings General Store.
- Sometimes, they can be bought from the arms merchant at the 188 Trading Post.
- One can sometimes be bought from Blake at the Crimson Caravan Company.
- One can sometimes be purchased from Lacey at the Mojave Outpost.
- Traveling merchants rarely sell one.
- Villa police station. Entering from the west door, turning north at Dog's cell to enter a short hallway & face west, then entering the first door on the right to a locker room, the detonator and 3 C-4 explosives used with it are in an Average-locked locker leaning in the northwest corner of the room. One can be found in the
- commissary terminal inside the Hopeville missile silo bunker. One can be bought from the
Notes[]
While C-4 cannot be remotely detonated without a detonator, as an alternative method if lacking one, the C-4 can be shot which causes it to explode.