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Bottle Caps, also referred to as Caps for short, are the standard currency in Fallout, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel and Fallout Shelter.
Background
Bottle Caps are used frequently as a currency because they are difficult to conterfeit and the number of caps existing are small.[1] Bottle Caps are backed by water by the merchants of the Hub,[Dev 1] and can be traded anywhere.[2] An advertising campaign that the Nuka-Cola Corporation was testing out allowed the exchange of bottle caps with robotic vendors at the Whitespring Resort due to the release of Nuka-Cola Quantum.[3][4][Pub 1]
Crimson Caravan Company, sought to control all bottle cap production and ensure that no one can mass produce them and inflate the currency. Controlling bottle cap presses also allows them to replace worn out and damaged bottle caps, keeping the pool of currency stable.[5] Bottle Caps, NCR Dollars and Legion Denarius are all considered legal tender by the various caravan companies and on the New Vegas Strip. Mojave merchants also accept nonstandard variants, such as Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle caps.
Variants
Behind the scenes
Scott Campbell described how Bottle Caps were chosen as the currency due to being common.[Dev 2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Courier: "What makes a bottle cap genuine?"
Alice McLafferty: "Lots of little things - the paint on the label, the machining, the type of metal it's made from. I know there's counterfeit caps floating around, of course. Fortunately, they're very time-consuming to make, so the numbers are small."
(Alice McLafferty's dialogue) - ↑ Vault Dweller: "Tell me more about bartering."
Katrina: "And if you don't have enough items to trade, there are always caps. Bottle caps are the only common money found out here. The caps are backed by the merchants of the Hub, so you can trade them anywhere."
(Katrina's dialogue) - ↑ The Whitespring Resort terminal entries; Candy Shoppe Office terminal, Staff Bulletin, October 2077
- ↑ Whitespring concierge: "To celebrate the release of Nuka-Cola Quantum, The Whitespring has partnered with the Nuka-Cola Corporation to accept bottlecaps at all of our shops. For a limited time, you can take advantage of some truly amazing deals if you have the caps."
(Whitespring concierge's dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "Are new bottle caps ever made?"
Alice McLafferty: "Certainly. Bottle caps do wear out or get damaged. Some people even insist on using bottle caps in explosive devices for some reason. We make it a point to scour Pre-War bottling plants and recover or disable the bottle cap presses. It seems we missed one."
(Alice McLafferty's dialogue)
- ↑ Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Rulebook p. 84: "The standard accepted currency across North America, bottle caps are finite in supply and difficult to reproduce, which makes them ideal as a token of value for merchants travelling the wastelands, in the absence of the banking methods that supported pre-War currencies."