Would be better if Victor tell you about it.....and locked with a key....

I still bunk with Easy Pete and can vouch for the footlocker in his room.

I'll second that. I didn't even feel comfortable storing my stuff in Novac until I read it was safe in the forums. Actually Novac is the only place I even use now. I have never stored anything in his shack but I guess I might start.

In Goodsprings, you can bunk with Easy Pete, live in a shack with your very own robot watchdog, or move into the gas station next to the town's physician. My spare ammo and crafting stuff are in Sasparilla crates next to the crafting stations. There are even conveniently placed trash containers next to the mail box.

So what's there to complain? That there aren't big sings everywhere telling you that "this storage is safe" Wouldn't it be easier to list the few respawning containers?

- drinks machines
- legion supply containers

What else?

This won't happen. I have been leaving stuff in containers all over the map. It is always there when I come back.

Here is what happens with the containers. Some are static in their loot, some are leveled so that the loot is different the first time you open the container depending on the level you are at. However, once you open the container the first time, it sets itself so it will not change.

If the containers shows a Blue (or non red as I use a Blue HUD) so it does not indicate ownership by someone else, then it is safe for you to put stuff into. If you put something in a container that is owned, then the ownership of the item may transfer.

You can not put items into containers that are set to Respawn so it will not get lost that way. Someone might want to test the Legion Containers and I don't think the vending machines respawn, at least I have never seen one get more soda in it.

As for early game locations to store stuff, why don't you go take a loot at Victors House in Goodsprings. Then, you can rent a room in Novac for the entire game. Heck, if you do it right, the room is free.

When I first start, I sell everything I don't need......once I reach Primm I start hoarding and I ship stuff between Primm and Goodsprings using the Mojave Express boxes, so I can use the workbench and reloading bench in Goodsprings.....then I ship it all to Novac and set up my homebase.

Edit: First playthrough I upgraded the Lucky 38 suite with a couple of workbench lockers and I lost everything in both lockers, so now I only use Novac.

Shhhh, just go with it. On a serious note, I have to agree that were it incorporated into the fallout worl that unowned storge containers aren't safe to use b/c of scavengers it would be acceptable. But for the game to delete some goods you stored for w/e reason you have to store is simply to free up some resources is not. At the very least have items placed by the player exempt from being deleted.

I really do not want the game indulging the obsessive hoarding completionists among us. This is a TORTURED WASTELAND. Not a field full of gold and loot. There really isn't supposed to be safe storage. The fact that there is is a quirk of game mechanics.

this is what I used also, works great. and there is a campfire.

I am now using harpers shack, it has everything, campfire, reloading bench, workbench, storage and a bed.

Ummm, for the special caps is what they meant, I see plenty of reason to keep them.

Really? The fact that the dev's put in storage containers that you own, or ones you can purchase for your casino room is a "quirk?" Guess our definitions differ greatly.

Sure, THOSE are supposed to be safe, but you're not supposed to get them near the start..

Haven't read the entire thread but, improvise?
If you found "abandoned house" then it's pretty clear that no one else owns that house and you can take it for yourself.
Jean sky diving is also empty, a good place to store items.
In Goodsprings you could use the abandoned school after clearing out the mantis.
The game does not need to blatantly point you at a place to store the items.
There are several places one can store items at.
Finding a house that has a sink, workbench, reloading bench and bed on the other hand can be tricky.
But abandoned house has a bed and reloading bench at least.

I thought about that many times and I wish it were true. I HATE dropping stuff on the ground when I know I can get even 2 caps for it. I don't think it's the hoarder in me I think it's just that little cheap guy. I mean everyone else uses their underwear as a face cloth when they get too worn right?

But of course you can pretty much throw away crafting and survival if there was no storage. You could always just carry enough to make a few items but meh.

it seems the crafting lockers are bugged, I lost everything from them as well, but all the other storage lockers are safe. I ended up putting all my crafting gear in the fridge next to the bench, till I moved everything to harper's shack

There is one near the Memorial lol

I think this is just a bad legacy from Beth/Gamebryo games

The safes in the school, and gas station are 100% safe. The gas station also has a bed. The Bison Steve hotel is also a place with aq bunch of safes, and I have used it a lot after clearing it out, and never lost anything. No hand holding required, because they provided you with more then enough storage options. All safes, and ammo boxes that aren't marked as red/owned by someone else is 100% safe.

Not just the safes, basically everything that isn't owned is safe, even stuff in owned containers is safe as long as the owner can't pass by. :hubbahubba:

The Nerevarine, Martin's Errand Boy, The Lone Wanderer, The Courier. "The Settler" never was among them

This isn't a Bethesda game though.

Are you kidding? I've got like 7000 lbs. of equipment store in a house I share with Easy Pete in Goodsprings. My character pays half the rent, yet gets a nice place to crash by a doctor and a general store.

Are you playing the same game I am? The one where the Star Caps weigh nothing in your inventory? I was referring to lugging around upteen bottles of soda "for the caps later"
In my copy of FNV, I drink the sasparilla for health and a sugar high, and keep the cap as either a star cap, or a generic cap. Neither of which weigh anything, as opposed to the soda bottles..



What were you referring to?

Yes, using a mod so the game provides you something you wouldn't ordinarily have is cheating.
You can bandy the semantics of it anyway you want, but providing something that wasn't originally there is cheating.

There are plenty of beds around goodspring already that you can use. And as others have mentioned, there is that shack near the Yangtze memorial also.

I can't find you one with the sink, but otherwise you want the Harpers Shack.
Start at Primm, go east to the Emergency Service Railroad, then East to Primm Pass, then it is east of that.
There is DeadWind Cavern to the SW of it. Sometimes a Deathclaw spawns around there though.

This.