The Bottlecap Mine was one of my favorite things to use in Fallout 3, but in New Vegas I have found 10 cherry bombs in 70 hours of play. It's bad enough you need a 75 in explosives to make the Bottlecap Mines, but it takes 5 cherry bombs per mine.

yep, and i havent found any lunch box now. i loved nuka cola and bottlecaps.

in exchange we have timebombs, arent there more recipes later? /:

I've noticed lunchboxes are few and far between as well. In F3 you only needed one cherry bomb to make a bottlecap mine, and so could crank out ridiculous amounts of the things. IMO by making bottlecap mine components scarce, the FNV devs are forcing you to become more reliant on standard mines and the new powder charges. I know I've had to rethink many of my F3 strategies, which were getting me killed in FNV. I like the new changes though; the game is much more of a challenge now..

Lunchboxes are scattered around, and you some things can only be crafted after you find schematics.

are there schematics to find in fallout nv?

I ate all the cherry bombs sorry.... and there are lunch boxes or a lunch box, but I have only found 1 so far and I can't even remember where it was.

I've found quite a few lunch boxes. I can't remember specific locations, but buildings are your best bet. I've run into storage shelves that would have 4-5 lunch boxes at once on them.

Nothing beats the Holy Hand Grenades they are like Nuke Grenades. Can only get them with Wild Wasteland trait, and only in one town in the basemant of a church.

I have like 5 recipes for weapons.

Still need 10 NCR dogtags to make the Dogtag Fist weapon

Cherry bombs are very hard to find in this game. After 30 hours I've only found 7 cherry bombs in random containers/mailboxes and about 5 lunchboxes.

Still better than me, i'm 45 hrs in and only found 2 cherry bombs

Dinky the T. Rex gift shop has like 4 or 5 lunch boxes you can steal (not purchasable). I've found many more in my travels, but I don't collect or pick them up at all.

Cherry bombs are often found inside mail boxes, like in Primm's Mojave Express, the ones scattered around New Vegas and so on.

I personally prefer C4.


You can pickpocket one of those from the Centurion in Cottonwood Cove. And I think about 10 hours into the game I have like 30 or so Dogtags without having ever fought NCR Troopers. Sneak ftw.