The Cowboy hat is a piece of headwear in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics
All variants have a Damage Threshold of 1, and provide a bonus of 1 to Perception, as they shield the wearer's eyes from the sun. They can be repaired with pre-War hats, other copies of themselves, as well as any other head item with the perk Jury Rigging.
Variants
Cattleman cowboy hat
A straw cowboy hat with a wide, slightly curved brim, a slightly indented top, and a ring of vents halfway up.
Desperado cowboy hat
A black cowboy hat with a large brim, curved to the sides, and a thin white band at the base.
Old cowboy hat
A brown top hat with a thin flat brim; with a black-and-white feather stuck in a large rust-colored band at the base.
Rattan cowboy hat
A straw cowboy hat with a wide brim, curved to the sides, indents in the top and at the temples, and a thin black band at the base.
Rawhide cowboy hat
A light brown uncured leather cowboy hat with a slight peak, a thick, flat brim, and a thin black band at the base.
Locations
All
- Powder Gangers wear random cowboy hats.
Cattleman cowboy hat
- Easy Pete in Goodsprings wears one.
- The Gunderson hired hand is wearing a cattleman cowboy hat as he stands beside Heck Gunderson in the Ultra-Luxe main lobby. A Cattleman cowboy hat can also be found in the room leading to the steam room in the Ultra-Luxe's bathhouse.
One can be found next to the crushed skeleton on a ledge on the end of The Narrows, just south of the Half Mouse cave entrance.
Desperado cowboy hat
- A hat is lying on a table in Mick & Ralph's secret room. Must be stolen.
- Meyers wears one.
- They can occasionally be purchased at the Crimson Caravan Company.
- On the counter along with an Old Cowboy Hat at Blake's booth at Crimson Caravan Company. Must be stolen.
- If you decide to help Ringo fight the Powder Gangers in Goodsprings, one of the attacking powder gangers is wearing a Desperado Cowboy hat.
- A Desperado hat can be found on a dead mercenary east of the Goodsprings Cemetery, just south east of a dead prospector, and just north of the abandoned shack. Beware of the 5-15 giant radscorpions.
- One of the Powder Gangers camped out behind Whittaker Farmstead is wearing a Desperado.
- One can be found in The Aces Theater at the Tops, on the stage, sitting on a chair.
- Heck Gunderson wears one of these.
- These hats can be in the inventory of any random merchant that sells apparel.
- One is found next to a skeleton on a cliff with two trees on the northeast side of the Dead Horses camp.
Old cowboy hat
- Three can be purchased from Mick at Mick & Ralph's in Freeside.
- Another hat can be bought at the Crimson Caravan Company.
- An NCR trooper wandering around the New Vegas Strip wears the old cowboy variant.
Rattan cowboy hat
- Gunderson hired hands in the Ultra-Luxe penthouse suite wear rattan cowboy hats, but they must be looted from their corpses.
- The female traveling merchant who wanders in and out of Novac often has a rattan cowboy hat.
- Daisy Whitman in Novac wears a rattan cowboy hat, but it must be looted from her corpse or reverse pickpocketed.
- A rattan cowboy hat can be found in the Zion Ranger station.
Rawhide cowboy hat
- With the Wild Wasteland trait, one can be found in Jimmy's well.
- One is found in the Lucky 38 Casino on the Casino floor, through the main entrance of the building, it is in a room towards the left handside of the Casino floor containing a number of unlocked safes holding many chems and bottle caps. On top of one of the safes is the rawhide cowboy hat.
- Dr. Ada Straus wears one in Novac.
- One can be found atop a cabinet in the backstage hallway of the Tampico.
Notes
- The Courier is shown wearing one of these cowboy hats during the starting cutscene.
- Cass' default hat is a unique variant of the rattan cowboy hat that is unobtainable without the use of console commands .
Bugs
- With the Rattan and Desperado cowboy hats, when the player attempts to equip it through a hotkey, it will freeze the game. [verified]
