I'm just a few hours into the game and want to store some of the items I've found instead of selling them. Early in the game where is there a place I can confidently store things? Can the player earn or buy a house in this game like FO3?

Thanks in advance.

Yeah, later in the game you can get a house, but that won't happen until you get to the strip. There's also faction safe houses you can get, but that takes doing a lot of quests for that faction.

For early game storage, I just use the quonset shack near the big cross memorial (Yangtzee memorial?), since the ammo container there is safe. It also has a reloading bench and bed, for extra convenience.

There's an abandoned school building in Goodsprings you can leave items in. If you want a container there's a safe in one corner.

I used the building facing the entrance to the saloon. I think the old dude (Earl?) lives there. I never had problems with storage (Footlocker, desk, wardrobe, fridge & oven) 2 beds and a stones throw from a dropbox

Nothing has gone missing so far

The hotel room at Novac is my current "home." Very bad of Bethesda not to provide the hero a home base early in the game, especially since they did it in Fallout 3. Another good choice is Victor's shack in Goodsprings. As you travel around the Vegas area, he sort of follows you so he's never home.

Further toward Vegas there is also a hotel right across from Camp McCarren which has a couple of dead junky rooms that you could use as a base.

There's an abandoned shack beside the Yangtze Memorial. Good safehouse.

FONV was developed by Obsidian Entertainment, not Bethesda Game Studios.

Really ? I thought they provided many improvised (non-owned) options that the player has plenty of places to store things. You can get a house really early just depends on when you decided to finish the quest

I use the Sunset Crates in between the general store and saloon, in Goodsprings... The gear never disappears and there is a merchant, doctor and work/reloading benches within easy access. Best early storage location IMO...

There are a plethora of unspecified player houses in the game, all first aid kits, cabinets, dressers, ammo boxes and refrigerators are safe as far as I know, the Sheriffs House in Primm in Primm doesnt count as trespassing like the other houses, some shacks in Goodsprings are never occupied, not to mention countless hotel rooms and unmarked shacks

So in this game, did they fix the containers deleting items? Does any container hold items as long as you have them in there? How do you know if there are safes ones or not.

99.9% of the containers are safe. Pretty much, if they are unowned or blue, they're safe. (We're a long way from the days of Oblivion with its respawning containers. Even in FO3, containers didn't respawn.) As always, you can test by putting stuff in it, saving, then going to a distant indoor cell and resting for 4 days. Then come back after the cell resets and see if your stuff is still there.

The two dumpsters and the XXX crates between the store and saloon in Goodsprings are my favorite locations. Close to the repair/ammo bench, close to the Mohave Express box (so you can offload in a place like Primm/Novac/Freeside and just mail the stuff back to Goodsprings to sort out later on). The only thing lacking is a campfire (closests ones are down by the springs.)

If you're on the PC, grab one of the Goodsprings mods (I'm partial to my own "Goodsprings Basics", of course). There's half a dozen different options. Some just add containers around the store / saloon / camper, others add entire houses or even mansions.

I just stored everything in the Doctor's house at the beginning. You can have access everything to his house without any karma hit. On top of that, you can sell exceed items to the doc, he can heal you and he has a rad free tap if you get thirsty.

How i do know for sure without sleeping 72 hours, which contrainers are safe for storing items and what contrainers dont? (expect safe houses)


Respawning contrainers is not good thing for Fallout, but its very good thing for Oblivion. Cas Oblivion gameplay is a bit different.

No other way to know for sure, but I've haven't had anything respawn on me from a non red container. In Goodsprings I use the gas station, every container there is safe. In Primm I use the Bison Steve (the locked room by the entrance, and the fridges in the kitchen). Nipton I used the house next to the Hall across the street from the house with the workbench. Novac is the hotel room. I have also used some of the shacks out in the middle of nowhere and all safe houses, but the Legion. Don't use the fridges in the FoA safehouse as they respawn.

I used that until I acquired two giant radscorpions as neighbors. Then I ran in, picked up everything valuable, and ran for my life and my loot. I haven't been back.

the best place I've found to store items is at "Goodsprings Source". There is a briefcase on a car about 10 ft from the spawn point. I store all my items in there, and I've never had any problems. There is a clean water source, a campfire, and a bed located not too far from the spawn point as well (very helpful for hardcoe mode).

In NV the vast VAST majority of containers do not respawn and are safe. probably better than 95% of all the containers in the game. Of those containers that do respawn, almost all of them are hidden vendor containers or containers for the caps Caravan players use to gamble with that you'll never see in the normal course of playing the game. About the only respawning containers you should ever see are some refrigerators used in a few locations around the Wasteland as those do respawn with food items.

I use the Monte Carlo Suites, after killing all the gang members, you get a repair bench, 2 ammo benches, and lots of safe storage in the same room. I fired up the GECK and added a few things for myself, but they are for playing in hardcoe mode, just a well resting bed, a water fountain and a crafting campfire outside. All the containers are non respawning and the baddies don't respawn either. Also close for fiend huntin' :gun:

I've actually been using the two crates stacked on top of each other in the alley with the ammo bench and crafting bench, in Goodsprings.

They never respawn their contents. And I can just easily lift the crate and carry it over to the benches for convenient access.

Kind of weird how it's filled with hundreds of pounds of crap that if I carried myself, would leave me crawling. But in the crate? It ain't nothinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

If you look north between the general store and saloon in Goodsprings there's a silver trailer right ahead of you. It has two boxes and a bed. That's my storage area until I get to Harper's shack.

I've never used the official houses.

There are a few containers that won't delete your items in the beginning, but the first real safehouse where you can store stuff is in Novac. Buy the motel room for 100 caps or get Idolized and you'll get the room for free. It has a bed, footlocker, wardrobe, cabinet, fridge, safe, desk, suitcase, first aid kit, and trash can to store your various stuff in.

I have been keeping everything in the two ammo bins in Victor's shack (Goodsprings) since the beginning of the game - never lost a thing, plus you can sleep in his bed to heal.

I always use victor's house in goodsprings until I reach novac. The containers never respawn and the sink has clean water w/o having to go to goodsprings source. There are two ammo containers, an oven, and a desk - all can be used indefinitely for storage.

I always use Victors shack then move everything to the Novac room