HI GUYS - long time reader, first time poster haha - towards the beginning of the game they mention a hidden safe in an irradiated...something or other, and occasionally at load screens it talks about prospectors searching for this hidden safe....anyone know where it is or whats in it?

The schoolhouse in Goodsprings?
It's a red house with a fence IIRC.
Need about 25 Lockpick for the safe.
Nothing spectacular in it though.

no its different...it talks about it on load screens "the prospectors are (blah blah blah) many are searching for an untouched hidden safe beneath a radiated..." something or other...

Camp Searchlight has around 3 prospectors looking around for stuff IIRC.

...probably should have had more information before i asked my question ha

yeah, i saw what you were talking about the other day...not sure if they're connected

it said it was in an irradiated mine shaft! thats it...

Bloodborne Cave?
Not a mine really but the loot there is really good.

i still don't think thats it...i've heard of people asking around about it on other forms i'm assuming its suuuuuuuuuuuper hidden

The mythical safe at the bottom of an irradiated mineshaft?
Well it must be pretty well hidden if it does exist! I was wondering if that was a massive hint in the loading screen tips or if it was just a joke..

I think Searchlight has two mines, the cave where Alexus is also has a lot of radioactive barrels.
Crescent Canyon has a lot of radiation too.
Then there's Devils Throat which has tons of radiation.
And there's the Testing Site which has radiation as well.

Only mines though are the ones by Searchlight as far as I know.

"The mythical safe at the bottom of an irradiated mineshaft?"
Oh, Vault 34 then.

nah, it's a myth. People have been looking for it for 200 years and still not found it. Urban/Wasteland legend

Actually, not being of that trade, are quarries and mines at all the same sort of thing? Are there mines at quarries? It's all to do with removing valuables from the earth, right? Has anyone survived long enough to wander through the deathclaw quarry?


To be honest, if there's a safe full of precious treasures there, not even if it's a Boone upgrade to make him into a witty talkative charming man and also a range of whips and strapons and a selection of fully modded assault carbines, I still aint going to deatclaw quarry for it. It can [censored] stay there.

Could always just kill the deatchalws.
My suggestion is RCW+++, Holorifle, YCS, Brush Gun, Missile Launcher+GMG or Ballistic Fist.
Not that hard to do at lvl 20+

Pc? Mods? Maybe

Quarries are usually above-ground, and generally they are pursuing whatever makes up the earth at that point. It's something like a marble quarry: just cutting out chunks of a material from a huge amount.
Mines are usually looking for a resource within the earth, rather than the earth itself. We don't mine limestone, we don't have gold quarries.
Most of the mines in Fallout are underground. Maybe strip mining never caught on in the Fallout universe, or maybe they're just so boring the developers never put them in.
Besides, I think the loading screen message everyone is talking about here is just an example, showing how treacherous prospecting can be and how picked over most of the wasteland is. It could also be a metaphor as to how prospectors "mine" the wasteland for treasures of the old world.
My 2 cents.

so the general consensus is it doesn't exist?...that's kinda sad, i was pumped to find some super secret awesome safe

It wasn't refering to a singular object, it meant that some people searched in caves or mineshafts for the occasional unopenned safe.

I'm pretty sure its just a message saying that prospectors will pretty much go ANYWHERE there is a chance of being treasure. This is why you usually see a lot of dead prospectors :poke:

Funny, I don't see anything like that on http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_loading_screen_hints. On a completely seperate and unrelated note do you guys remember that poster the other day with the ficticious area 51 thread? Man that was funny. And in no way do I imply that this could be even slightly like that. I would never do that. And I'm sure this is definitely not the same guy.
-Gunny out.

I remember seeing something about this and I thought it was a reference to one of the Searchlight Caves. Maybe.

Thankyou for clearing that up.
/has been saved from having to go get slaughtered by deatclaws to find something that doesent exist.

This is the correct "answer" End of thread!

The way I read that is that it's a descriptive tale showing what 'prospectors' do and why. In that they scour old ruins, mines etc searching for that one untouched stash which will make them rich.
As far as I'm aware it is not talking about any ingame location at all.

I have to agree with Stubs, the note isn't referring to any actual in game location, its just a hyperbolic example of the determination of "prospectors" to visit any and every place looking for unrecovered wealth, no matter how obscure or dangerous.