Nuka-Cola (Fallout 3)

Nuka-Cola is a consumable item in Fallout 3.

Background
Nuka-Cola entered the beverage market in 2044, with the invention of the soft drink by John-Caleb Bradberton after two years of experimentation. It contained 120% of the recommended daily allowance of sugar, and took the United States market by storm, and within a year could be purchased nationwide.

The unique taste of Nuka-Cola is the result of a combination of 17 fruit essences, balanced to enhance the classic cola flavor. The combination of carbonated water, caramel color, aspartame, phosphoric acid, potassium benzoate, citric acid, caffeine, and natural flavors was marketed as being fortified with "vitaminerals" and "health tonics." Ingredients were combined in just the right proportion, to the level that shortages of ingredients or changes to the recipe were noticed by consumers.

Nuka-Cola bottles are tinted Dazzling Blue, which is scientifically proven to be the most pleasing shade of blue. According to market research conducted in 2052, the blue color was the favorite of 86 out of 100 people polled.

Gameplay
Nuka-Cola will give the Lone Wanderer 3 Rads and 10 Hit Points (12 if one has the food sanitizer in their inventory). Consuming a bottle of Nuka-Cola provides a single cap. It does not, however, generate an empty Nuka-Cola bottle. Nuka-Cola can be found all over the wasteland, carried by merchants and likely in any location where humans are/were living. Many buildings contain Nuka-Cola vending machines, which contain between one and three Nuka-Cola bottles.

Nuka-Cola can be traded for other random supplies (such as a single 10mm round) in Little Lamplight with Zip (see Zip's Nuka Fix). With the perk Quantum Chemist, every 10 Nuka-Colas in one's inventory will become a Nuka-Cola Quantum. Obtaining 10 Ice Cold Nuka-Colas with the Quantum Chemist perk will not give a Nuka-Cola Quantum, however.

Nuka-Cola can also be turned into Ice Cold Nuka-Cola with the Pristine Nuka-Cola machine that can be purchased for the player character house, which restores twice the HP of normal Nuka-Cola. It provides 20 HP (24 HP with the food sanitizer) and 3 rads, twice the health gain of regular Nuka-Cola. The machine can be bought for the Megaton house or Tenpenny Tower suite. It comes stocked with eight Ice Cold Nuka-Colas and can be restocked with Nuka-Cola throughout the game.

Variants

 * Ice Cold Nuka-Cola
 * Nuka-Cola Quantum

Locations

 * 65 in Sierra Petrovita's home.
 * 19 in the jack-knifed truck east of Old Olney.
 * 11 in the two trailers on the Nuka-Cola plant's outside terrain.
 * 10 in the Super-Duper Mart.
 * Nine in Eulogy's pad.
 * Seven in the Red Rocket gas station near Old Olney.
 * An Ice Cold Nuka-Cola can be obtained by taking Sierra Petrovita's Nuka-Cola tour.
 * There are several more Ice Cold variants in Sierra's Nuka-Cola fridge, but they must be stolen.

Related quests

 * The Nuka-Cola Challenge
 * Zip's Nuka Fix