A container is any object that the player can activate to bring up an inventory screen to manipulate inventory: put in or take out items from their inventory to its inventory, and use the object for storage.
Unsafe containers[]
Containers may be referred to as "safe" or "unsafe"/"not safe." Safe containers will never respawn their contents, meaning they'll retain the contents that are deposited in them indefinitely. On the other hand, items placed in an unsafe container will disappear over time when the container respawns its contents. Utilizing the GECK or FNVedit are two ways to determine if containers are safe or unsafe: unsafe containers are marked as respawn set to "yes".
The following containers have been verified as unsafe:
- The refrigerator in the Goodsprings General Store in Goodsprings.
- The refrigerator in the Nash residence in Primm.
- The refrigerator in Deputy Beagle's residence in Primm.
- Two refrigerators in the NCR Correctional Facility (one in the visitors center, the other in the administration building).
- Two refrigerators in the Followers safehouse.
- One refrigerator in Vault 22.
Types[]
- Ammunition box (ammunition)
- Ant refuse pile
- Armor case (various armor)
- Briefcase
- Cash register (pre-War money, bottle caps)
- Characters - friendly or enemy NPC, companions, the player, or their respective corpses
- Creatures
- Desk (caps, junk, ammunition)
- Dresser (clothing)
- Duffle bag (random loot)
- Dumpster (junk)
- Enclave crate (random loot)
- Explosives crate (explosives)
- Filing cabinet (random loot)
- Firehose box (firehose nozzle)
- First aid box (medical supplies/chems, bobby pin)
- Footlocker (random loot)
- Garbage can (junk, ammunition, caps, Nuka-Colas)
- Gore bag (junk, ammunition, caps)
- Grave
- Grenade box (grenades)
- Guest wardrobe (clothing)
- Gun case (guns/ammunition)
- High-tech gun case
- Hollow log
- Hollowed-out rock (random leveled loot)
- Lakelurk egg clutch
- Lawnmower
- Lead-lined metal box
- Locker (random loot)
- Magazine vending machine
- Mailbox (junk, skill magazines)
- Mail dropbox
- Mantis ootheca (mantis egg, pile of giant mantis egg)
- Master wardrobe (clothing)
- Metal box
- Crate (random loot)
- Mine box (mines)
- Night stalker egg clutch
- Mojave Express dropbox
- Nuka-Cola vending machine (Nuka-Cola, caps)
- Oven / Stove / Range (Pilot light, food)
- Parts cabinet
- Personal footlocker (random loot)
- Radiation suit case (clothing)
- Refrigerator (food/alcohol)
- Sack (consumables)
- Safe (pre-War money, chems, guns/ammunition, caps, junk, Stealth Boy)
- Stash toolbox (junk)
- Suitcase
- Sunset Sarsaparilla crate (empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle, Sunset Sarsaparilla)
- Toolbox (junk)
- Tool cabinet (junk)
- Trunk (junk, random)
- Vent (Chems/Junk food)
- Wardrobe (clothing)
- Weapon trunk (weapons)
- Work bench locker
