Gold bar is a miscellaneous item in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on, Dead Money.
Locations
You can find 37 gold bars in the Sierra Madre Vault, which is accessible only during the quest Heist of the Centuries. Due to their tremendous weight and the script of the final quest-line, it is difficult, but possible, to retrieve them all.
There are 36 gold bars on a table to your right as you open the vault door together with some pre-War money, and the 37th is on the desk near the Vault control terminal.
Notes
- This item is currently the fourth most valuable item in New Vegas, being surpassed in value only by the unique Tesla-Beaton prototype, Red Glare and the Elijah's jury-rigged Tesla cannon. 37 bars are found in game, adding up to a value of 389,943 caps and a total weight of 1,295 pounds.
- Possible buyers of gold bars:
- The hologram vendors in the Sierra Madre each have 2,500 units of pre-War money. Bear in mind that you will only be able to do this before leaving the Sierra Madre as you can't return.
- The vendortron at the Gun Runners has around 8,000 caps.
- The Quartermaster in the Brotherhood of Steel Bunker; Knight Torres often has 8,000 caps.
- Daniel Contreras the NCR Supply Merchant in Camp McCarran also usually has 8,000 caps and above.
- Arms merchant, A supply merchant at the 188 Trading Post usually has around 8,000 caps or more.
- Alexander, a gun runner merchant at the 188 Trading Post also has 8,000 caps or more.
- Old Lady Gibson may have 8,000 or more caps later in the game.
- Blake will sometimes spawn with 12,000 caps or more.
- Sink Central Intelligence Unit has a variable high amount, up to 24,000 caps.
- The Commissary terminals in the Divide will have around 6,000 caps, and will replenish anytime their reserves drop below 200 caps after the player exits the menu.
- The total weight of the 37 gold bars combined is 1,295, but the highest possible Carry Weight that can be reached by normal means is 400 (10 Strength, the Strong Back and Burden to Bear perks, the Hoarder trait, and by wearing "The Great Bear" variant of the Courier Duster). This means that a maximum of 11 of the 37 bars (for a total of 385) can be taken without the Courier becoming over-encumbered.
- A gold bar cannot be moved with the "grab" command when dropped.
- Despite their large base value, gold bars are actually worth little more than 300 caps per pound.
- If you look closely at the gold bar, you will see imprinted on the item that it weighs 10 oz when it actually weighs 35 lbs. Also appearing underneath "Pure Gold" on the bar is the number 999.9.
Gallery
36 of the gold bars in the vault, along with several stacks of pre-War money and Sierra Madre chips.