Blood-Nap is a weapon in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.
Characteristics
Blood-Nap is a unique variant of the Bowie knife that does bonus critical damage, gives a bonus critical chance and adds +10 to Sneak.
This weapon qualifies as an improved holdout weapon.
Special attack
It has a special Blood-Nap attack, which does 80% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 7 fewer action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Type of attack |  | - Skill required | |
 | - Damage per attack in V.A.T.S. |  | - Action point cost | |
 | - Damage per action point |  | - Additional effects | |
| | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | 0 | 60 | 17 | 3.53 |
| Blood-Nap | 50 | 48 | 10 | 4.8 |
- Note: Melee weapons do double normal damage in V.A.T.S.
It is possible to execute Blood-Nap outside of V.A.T.S. (without the required Melee skill of 50 to perform the move) by initiating a power attack (hold attack button) while moving forward.
Durability
Blood-Nap can successfully strike about 495 times from full condition before breaking.
Variants
- Bowie knife
- The common variant found in the Divide.
Comparison
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Weapon name (melee or unarmed) |  | - Attacks in V.A.T.S. | |
 | - Weapon name (gun, energy or explosive) | | - Action point cost | |
| - Damage per attack (damage per projectile) | | - Damage per action point | |
 | - Damage per second |  | - Weapon spread | |
 | - Area of effect damage |  | - Magazine capacity (shots per reload) | |
| - Effect damage & duration |  | - Durability (number of attacks before breaking) | |
 | - Bonus effects |  | - Weight | |
| - Attacks per second |  | - Value in caps | |
 | - Critical chance % multiplier |  | - Value to weight ratio | |
 | - Critical damage | | - Skill required | |
 | - Critical effect damage & duration |  | - Strength required | |
 | - With all mods attached | |||
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bowie knife  | 23 | 79.6 | 3.46 | x1.5 | 35 | 20 | 2.3 | 495 | 1 | 1000 | 1000 | 75 | 3 |
| Blood-Nap | 30 | 110.8 | 3.69 | x1.5 | 45 | 17 | 3.5 | 495 | 1 | 2000 | 2000 | 50 | 4 |
- Note: Melee damage is doubled in V.A.T.S.
Locations
Found in The Courier's Mile. This weapon becomes accessible only after first completing The Launch. It is found wedged into a street lamp just to your left as you enter the area.
Notes
- The weapon's Sneak bonus will be shown as "Activated" when the weapon is equipped in an on-screen message.
- It is one of the few unique weapons in New Vegas with the same appearance as its non-unique counterpart.
- It may glow blue in dark areas.
- Blood-Nap does more damage and has a higher DPS than even Chance's knife, making this an extremely formidable single-handed bladed weapon.
- Blood-Nap's Sneak +10 does not act as a bonus, but rather as a raise in Sneak, i.e., if the player character has it equipped when he/she levels up, some perks that require a higher Sneak, such as Mister Sandman, and the player character doesn't have the required 50 Sneak but only has 40, the perk will be available.
- It has the highest critical damage among melee weapons, alongside the Protonic inversal axe.
Behind the scenes
The name of this weapon is from "dirt nap," a slang term for being dead. The word is iconic for being used heavily in Set's vocabulary.
Gallery
Blood-Nap applied with Bowie knife texture
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