Lead is a miscellaneous item in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics[]
Lead is a component used to make all types of conventional ammunition except for 12 gauge coin shot, which requires Legion Denarius instead.
Production[]
| Materials: | Requirements: | Produces: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Scrap metal (1) |  | Repair: 10 |  | Lead (200) |
Locations[]
- Lead may be obtained by disassembling ammunition or converting scrap metal at a reloading bench, with different rounds yielding differing amounts of lead. One piece of scrap metal yields 200 lead.
In the Sink, once Muggy has been activated, he can break down ceramic dinner plates and white plates into batches of 20 lead each.
Notes[]
- Both the image and the in-game model used for lead look exactly like the ones used for scrap metal.
- Even though lead has its weight stat showing "0.00," it is simply a weight that falls in the thousandths (items that are actually weightless have a weight display of "--"). Each piece of lead has a weight of about 0.0013999904 pounds. To put it in perspective, every 714.5 units of lead is equal to a full pound of encumbrance. It's trivial to obtain tens of thousands of units, making the total weight non-trivial, and have no idea of the source of that portion of the player character's encumbrance unless aware of this "hidden" weight. A later update changed the weight value to display the aggregate total, not the individual amount, making it much easier to see the total weight of the lead.