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Black Rock cave, or Black Rock Cavern, is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281, situated northwest of HELIOS One and southeast of the entrance to Black Mountain.

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The Black Rock cave is a small cavern containing three nightkin, including a nightkin master. All of the nightkin use Stealth Boys, rendering them essentially invisible. A dead prospector can be found, holding the Paladin Toaster. A few dead coyotes are present throughout the cave.

A hollowed-out rock is located outside, a few feet in front of the entrance.

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Notes[]

  • The entrance to the cavern may be surrounded by radscorpions of varied sizes.
  • The nightkin inside may be friendly to the Courier if the quest Crazy, Crazy, Crazy is completed by repairing Rhonda, though this is not guaranteed.[verification needed] When not in combat, these nightkin will have idle comments based on the Courier's progress in the main storyline or which companions accompany them, which they attribute to "head voices." In truth, all generic nightkin are capable of having this dialogue, but are often blocked from it due to AI routines.
    • This dialogue is implemented as Idle Chatter, which are lines that can be randomly spoken when an NPC is in an idle state outside of combat. As a result, while theoretically all nightkin are able to say these lines, most will not due to AI packages either disallowing said dialogue or giving them routines that make them leave the idle state.
    • The three generic nightkin in Black Rock cave are uniquely able to have Idle Chatter because, under certain conditions, they will not have any package and will always stand around idle. They use the NightkinSandbox package, which was intended for Davison's nightkin in REPCONN and does not allow Idle Chatter. However, it is conditioned to stop working if Davison is convinced to leave peacefully during Come Fly With Me. As a result, helping Davison means the three Black Rock cave nightkin will be able to say Idle Chatter (provided the player does not enter combat with them).

Appearances[]

The Black Rock cave appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs[]

  • PCPC Playstation 3Playstation 3Playstation 3 Xbox 360Xbox 360 Even if Crazy, Crazy, Crazy has been completed with Rhonda being repaired, the nightkin might still attack the player character.[verified]
    • PCPC A solution is to type in the console setally 0001b2a4 0013f893 1 1.
  • PCPC Xbox 360Xbox 360 The coyotes may all be standing, as if alive, though they are actually just corpses.[verified]
  • Playstation 3Playstation 3Playstation 3 While looting the dead prospector, the Paladin Toaster may not appear, only the apparel.[verified]

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