Fallout Wiki
Advertisement
Fallout Wiki

A pillbox of mind-altering chems. Increases memory related functions, and speeds other mental processes. Highly addictive.Fallout in-game description

Mentats are a chemical substance found in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics and Van Buren.

Characteristics[]

Mentats are most useful for characters with low Intelligence. Furthermore, they are one of the games' more valuable items yet are relatively easy to find. This also makes them useful as an easy source of funds, particularly when first starting.

Fallout 2[]

The +1 to Charisma can allow recruiting another companion if the new Charisma is an even number. The new member will stay once Charisma returns to the normal value.

Mentats are roughly a little bit less common than Buffout: a bit hard to find and a tad expensive, but nowhere near as rare as Psycho. However, the overall usefulness of Mentats, aside from being able to recruit additional companions, is a bit dubious. Even doubling up on Mentats will only increase a few skills marginally and is far more situational.

Locations[]

Fallout[]

Fallout 2[]

World location Closest map marker Location description
Vault City Council building Joanne Lynette
Redding Painless Doc Johnson's Doc Johnson
Broken Hills Unknown Bookcase
Broken Hills Residential Eric
Dan
Professor

(Quantity: 5)

New Reno Renesco's Pharmacy Merchant: Renesco

(25% chance to restock 1 Mentats after 2-5 days)[1]

Sierra Army Depot Level 4, bio storage and research On the ground of "Genius Experiment Cell"

(Quantity: 3)

"Lector's Office"

(Quantity: 3)

Vault 15 Vault 15's entrance Khan raider
Mariposa Military Base Locker
San Francisco Flying Dragon 8 Merchant: Lao Chou

(50% chance to restock 4-8 Mentats after 2-4 days)[2]

Jenna's general store Merchant: Jenna

(50% chance to restock 4-8 Mentats after 2-4 days)[3]

Cal's gun shop Merchant: Cal

(50% chance to restock 4-8 Mentats after 1-2 weeks)[4]

Random encounters See caravan master Merchant: New Reno caravan masters

(Quantity: 1-4)

Rave party Rave party bartender
Various Various Sometimes carried by Enclave soldiers
Enclave Oil Rig Enclave Oil Rig trap room puzzle Possible "easter egg" reward
Cut contentEnvironmental Protection Agency Unknown Cut contentMr. Chemmie[Non-game 1]

Fallout Tactics[]

Behind the scenes[]

  • The chem's name is a reference to Frank Herbert's novel Dune, in which "Mentats" are humans trained for computer-like mathematical and logical computations.
  • According to the Fallout Demo, the Mentats were syringes.[5][6] The Fallout and Fallout 2 graphic's filename SYRING2 reflect this.

Gallery[]

Fallout
Fallout 2

References[]

Non-game

Advertisement