Caravan cards are used to play both Caravan and Blackjack. For Caravan, players use their own decks whereas casinos usually provide the cards for Blackjack. There are six sets of Caravan cards available: a standard deck, one for each of the casinos in New Vegas and one for the Sierra Madre Casino (with the add-onDead Money).
Obtaining a Caravan card automatically adds it to the Caravan deck in the player's inventory.
Unlike other cards, Sierra Madre cards cannot be purchased from merchants. 21 of them can be found in the Sierra Madre and its surroundings, whereas the rest cannot be obtained by regular means.
Medical District: Inside the gift shop northwest of the Villa Clinic's exit, on a chair next to a staircase and Sierra Madre poster directly in front of the doorway.
Medical District: Inside a 2nd floor room with an active electric hot plate, north of the Villa Clinic and above a ground level cafe sign directly west across a courtyard from the room containing the 6 of Diamonds, on a round table in the northeast corner.
Sierra Madre Casino (The Tampico): On the floor between a doorway and curtain in the southwest corner of the stage, on the opposite side of the wall from the ambient audio control terminal.
Puesta del Sol South: Inside the same 2nd floor room as the Jack of Spades, north of Dean's position for the Gala Event, next to the small burned book on the top shelf on the northeast wall.
Medical District: Inside a 2nd floor room northeast of the Villa Clinic and directly east across a courtyard from the room containing the King of Clubs, on a wooden shelf in the southwest corner behind an orange chair.
Medical District: Inside a 2nd floor room just west of a speaker and some distance east of the Villa Clinic, under a small ruined book with a chessboard on a rectangular table next to an orange chair in the southeast corner. (Attempting to move the book off of the card will sometimes cause the card to disappear entirely.)(Leaving the area and returning later may allow you to collect the card: some items that "fall through" have been noticed to reset after a period of time. Sleeping for 24 hours three times and then 1 hour once, in succession (73 hours total), in the middle cell of the first floor of the Police Station has been verified to reset the card on PC.
Villa: Some distance east of the 10 of Hearts and northwest of the hologram which can be turned on with a nearby terminal, in a 2nd floor room above one containing a tripwire and swinging girder trap, under the south end of a couch against the east wall.
Residential District: Inside a 2nd floor room with a tripwire and rigged shotgun, southeast of the doors to the Villa and east of the wall fountain and stairs seen when entering, on a wooden coffee table with two bottles of dirty water.
Villa: Some distance north of the Villa Police Station and west of the room containing the 5 of Hearts, on the interior corner of a walkway to the southeast of a wall fountain.
Residential District: Inside a 2nd floor room with a pressure plate, rigged shotgun and fire extinguisher trap, with cloud covered courtyards to the south and (along with two dead trees and three tree stumps) to the east, behind a bed against the north wall.
Villa: Some distance north of the entrance to the Residential District, inside a room with some metal shelves at the northeast corner of a cloud filled courtyard with a dead tree, at the bottom of an open metal cabinet against the east wall.
Salida del Sol North: In the northwest corner of a small courtyard with three bear traps and a dead tree, on the ground between a wall and three pipes, just west of the stairs leading to a room containing Dean's Secret Stash, a radio and two pool tables.
Puesta del Sol South: Inside the same 2nd floor room as the 4 of Diamonds, north of Dean's position for the Gala Event, behind a couch in the west corner.
Villa: Under a bed inside a 2nd floor room above a gift shop some distance north of the doors to Salida del Sol South and southeast of a wall fountain, partially covered by a bed in the northwest corner.
ps3pcxbox360 Cards are only viewable in the default "items" category while placing them into containers, rather than the expected "misc" category.
ps3pcxbox360 The game freezes when buying a large number of cards. A possible work around is to first put all playing cards you already have in the backpack of a companion. Then buy the cards you want of a vendor and finally retrieve all already owned cards from your followers inventory. This also happens when you buy two of the same card in one purchase. Another work around is just buy one at a time.
ps3pcxbox360 Cards found in the Sierra Madre casino will not be automatically added to the player's caravan deck when picked up and will remain in inventory. Dropping the cards and picking them up again will not fix the problem; the only viable solution is to transfer the cards to a container (or companion) and then take them again. Due to this, it is possible to pass the Dead Man's Hand challenge by obtaining one card from the set and then repeatedly dropping it and picking it up again.
pc A third-party bugfix for this issue has been released on the New Vegas Nexus: Dead Money Caravan Card Fix
ps3pcxbox360 There are 45 errors in the base game file.
The Tops King of Clubs shows the face of the Tops King of Diamonds.
The Lucky 38 Queen of Diamonds shows the back of the Tops deck.
Ultra-Luxe is spelled UltraLuxe on 4 cards: Jack of Clubs, Queen of Clubs, Ace of Hearts, and 9 of Hearts.
Lucky 38 is spelled Lucky38 on 4 cards: 8 of Diamonds, Queen of Diamonds, 6 of Hearts, and Joker 2.
35 of the standard deck cards show the face of the Tops deck, but this is not visible as they are identical. However, this will effect any card-face replacement mods unless corrected.