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Purified water is a consumable item in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics[]
The Mojave Wasteland has multiple natural sources of pure, non-radioactive water, and as a result, one encounters rad-free clean water more often than in the Capital Wasteland, where most of the water is contaminated and radioactive. When playing in Hardcore mode, purified water is a more "refreshing" drink with respect to Dehydration than alcohol or soda, as they both worsen Dehydration.
Survival skill effect[]
| Skill | Effect | Hardcore effect |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | +2 Hit Point for 5s | -60 Dehydration |
| 20 | +2 Hit Point for 5s | -70 Dehydration |
| 30 | +3 Hit Point for 5s | -80 Dehydration |
| 40 | +3 Hit Point for 5s | -90 Dehydration |
| 50 | +4 Hit Point for 5s | -100 Dehydration |
| 60 | +4 Hit Point for 5s | -110 Dehydration |
| 70 | +4 Hit Point for 5s | -120 Dehydration |
| 80 | +5 Hit Point for 5s | -130 Dehydration |
| 90 | +5 Hit Point for 5s | -140 Dehydration |
| 100 | +6 Hit Point for 5s | -150 Dehydration |
Crafting[]
Cactus water is the name of a crafting recipe which enables the player character to collect purified water from desert plants. Each prickly pear fruit used to produce it weighs .07 and at 0 Survival provides +1 Hit Point per second for 10s, -15 Dehydration, and -10 Starvation, as compared to purified water which weighs 1 and provides +2 Hit Point per second for 5s and -50 Dehydration.
| Materials: | Requirements: | Produces: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Survival: 30 |  | Purified water (1) |
Mass purified water recipe yields four units and can be distilled from five units of dirty water by using surgical tubing¹ and two glass pitchers¹.
| Materials: | Requirements: | Produces: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dirty water (5) Glass pitcher¹ (2) Surgical tubing¹ (1) | | Survival: 50 | | Purified water (4) |
- ¹ Materials are not consumed and are returned to the player character after use.
Variants[]
Locations[]
- Can be bought from several merchants, including Tapper, the Kings member who guards the water pump in Freeside, Lupe at the Grub n' Gulp rest stop, and Cpl. William Farber, the chef in Camp McCarran.
- 22 in the House Resort.
- 15 at the Tops restaurant.
- 14 at the ruined store in Freeside.
- 11 in the Ultra-Luxe kitchen.
- 10 in the Charleston Cave.
Two can be found inside the ruined cafe.- If the Sink is reactivated in the Sink at Big MT, in addition to providing a drink of clean water, with its upgrade installed it can be given several kinds of empty bottles to fill and create virtually unlimited purified water.
Notes[]
- Although the Courier can craft purified water at a campfire with prickly pear fruit and empty soda bottles, the ending world model is that of purified water, not the soda bottle. This is also true for using the Sink at Big MT to fill empty bottles.
- Prior to patch 1.2.0.31x, the Mass purified water recipe required one unit of RadAway, one pressure cooker, three glass pitchers, three pieces of surgical tubing, and 30 bottles of dirty water. It produced 30 bottles of purified water, but only those bottles of water, and did not return any of the items used in the cooking process to the player's inventory.
Behind the scenes[]
Each bottle of purified water features the text "H²O" handwritten on the label on the side of the bottle. This format is incorrect (at least according to IUPAC nomenclature), as in chemical formula numbers are written in subscript (Xy) and not in superscript (Xy). If read literally, the chemical formula H²O would mean there is one hydrogen and one oxygen isotope that contains only two nucleons, which is scientifically impossible because oxygen contains at least eight nucleons by definition.
