Magical companion ammo is a type of ammunition in Fallout: New Vegas.
About
The magical companion ammo is a special ammunition type that companions with a ranged weapon use when no regular ammunition is in their inventory. Magical companion ammo is presumably infinite and hidden. e.g. Craig Boone has an endless amount of ammunition for his hunting rifle, and as there is only his clothing in his inventory, the magical companion ammo is hidden. Otherwise, the player could obtain infinite ammunition.
Notes
- Pip-Boy 3000 icon and in-game graphics use those of the 10mm round.
- Leaving a companion without any of their magical companion ammo will mean that they will be unable to fire their ranged weapon until the ammunition is returned.
- If you use this ammunition for Lily's assault carbine the ammunition will not be unlimited. It will be fired like regular ammunition.
- A way to get this ammunition is to reverse pickpocket an explosive into their inventory. Alternatively (if you don't want to obliterate them), reverse pickpocketing a weapon and its ammunition into their inventory, then pickpocketing the weapon back out will occasionally yield the same results. It should be noted that Boone's unique weapon cannot be pickpocketed, and will subsequently not appear on his corpse if killed.
- On the PC version, an alternative method to add this ammunition type to your inventory is to using console commands by typing player.additem 00176e54 x where x is the number of rounds of magical companion ammo that you wish to add.
- Another way to acquire Magical companion ammo is to recruit Cass from the Mojave outpost and take her to the Silver Rush in Freeside to have Jean Baptiste Cutting kill her as part of the Birds of a Feather quest and then loot the ammunition off of her ash pile.