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Sierra Madre chips are a miscellaneous item in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Dead Money.
Use
They can be used to purchase items. These items are mostly food items, but when the correct tapes are found, medical supplies, ammo, and some junk items can be obtained from Sierra Madre vending machines as well.
Sierra Madre Chips can also be used in the casino to gamble.
The chips can be exchanged into pre-War money in the casino, at a rate of one chip to one pre-War money (a value of 10 caps). As gambling at the casino can earn you 10,000 chips (100,000 caps) before getting banned, one can earn a very large number of caps with this method.
Location
These little chips are found all throughout the Sierra Madre. In the villa, many can be found in fountains, whereas in the Sierra Madre Casino, many can be found in cupboards, suitcases etc, most notably, 303 can be found in a suitcase in a room on the suites level of the casino.
The Coin Operator perk enables the Courier to make 50 new chips at any workbench out of 1 fission battery and two pieces of scrap metal.
In the Mojave, south of the Nipton Road Pit Stop there is a scorpion burrow. After defeating the queen and other radscorpions at the end of the final chamber there are bodies of wastelanders and prospectors. One wastelander will have 5 chips on their corpse.
After Dead Money you can find 100 Sierra Madre chips in a drop box in the Abandoned BoS Bunker, to find them simply enter the bunker, take the first left and opposite non-working terminal there's the drop box.
Notes
- The Sierra Madre snowglobe will give you 2,000 Sierra madre chips. It can be found on the way to the bell tower to access the gala event. Not at the area of the bell tower, the area around it. On the top floor of the area where there will be about 6-8 ghost people including the 2 in the cellar. You cannot give it to Jane at the Lucky 38 for caps, but it will be on the shelf with the rest of them. This is assumed to be because the Sierra Madre chips can be exchanged for pre-war money at a ratio of 1:1, although the Pre-war money's worth is 10 caps, meaning this snowglobe would earn you 20,000 caps if the player was resourceful enough.
- After completion of Dead Money, Sierra Madre chips can be found in the dropbox in the Abandoned BoS Bunker. The chips, along with a complimentary voucher, will replenish every three days. This, along with any chips retained from the add-on, is far more useful than one would expect, as there is a Sierra Madre vending machine in Elijah's quarters, right next to the dropbox - and if one gathered the appropriate vending codes while playing through Dead Money, this becomes the only inexhaustible source of Aid items in the Mojave Wasteland.
- Inside the Sierra Madre, instead of getting a large payout with the chips at the register investing it into stimpaks at the vending machines would also be wise as the 10,000 payout limit can afford many stimpaks. This is also true for all other items.
- While gambling in the Sierra Madre the player will get a complmentary voucher that can be changed for 1000 free chips at a vending machine. This means the player can get 1100 chips per 3 days at the Abandoned BoS Bunker.
- [Platforms needed] When they appear inside the dropbox, they are simply added onto whatever is already in there, allowing chips and vouchers to accumulate.
Appearances
The Sierra Madre chip appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on, Dead Money.
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