Black Coffee

 is a consumable item added to the game in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on, Honest Hearts.

Characteristics
Boiled from roasted coyote tobacco chew and honey mesquite pods, black coffee is a good way to stay awake in the middle of the night as well as improving alertness, which makes fixing things, medical treatment and solving theoretical/practical problems easier. However, it comes with the negative drawback of making it harder to maintain focus in pitched combat. Surprisingly enough, black coffee contains coyote tobacco chew which is addictive. But even when a lot is consumed, the player will never become addicted to the coffee.

The effects of the item to INT/AGL respectively depend on Survival skill, it gives +2/-1 at 0-49, +4/-2 at 50-99, and +6/-3 with perfect skill.

This item can be crafted at a campfire with a Survival skill of 15. You will need one coffee mug, one coffee pot, one coyote tobacco chew, and one honey mesquite pod. The mug will be consumed by crafting, but the coffee pot will remain in the player's inventory like the pitchers and surgical tubing do in mass purified water. Upon consumption, a coffee mug may be added to the player's inventory, allowing continuous production so long as the supply of honey mesquite pods and coyote tobacco chew holds out, though there is a chance that upon use that the coffee mug will actually break.

The mug is actually empty when you drop it.

Locations

 * In a footlocker behind the throne of Joshua Graham, in Angel Cave.
 * In an average locked footlocker in Zion Ranger Station.
 * In a footlocker at Stone Bones Cave, next to the Desert Ranger combat armor.