Cases

Cases are mobile loot containers that require a special single-use key to open.

Tier 1

Electronic Key

Electronic Keys are used to open tier 1 cases. They can be purchased for 10,000 currency from Ascorti in Redding (14:11), or Paul Tibbett in Las Vegas (40:32).

Science Case

Science Cases have a chance to drop T3 blueprints. They may be empty.

Drug Case

Drug Cases have a chance to drop T3 drugs, Hypos, and Med-Tec Antidotes. They may be empty.

Bank Case

Bank Cases drop up to 100,000 currency. They may sometimes contain Golden Dollars. They may be empty.

Tier 2

Vault-Tec Key

Vault-Tec keys are used to open tier 2 cases. They can be purchased for 100,000 currency from Renesco and Eldridge in Reno (20:18).

Whenever a Vault-Tec Key is added to either of the two traders' inventories, a global message "New Reno Key provided" briefly appears at the top of the screen.

They also drop from Renesco Secret Shelter.

Vault-Tec Case

Vault-Tec Cases drop tier 3 weapons and armor, and have a chance to drop tier 4 blueprints, implants, vertibird parts, tier 4 ammo and rare items; see the loot table for more information.

Faction cases

Lore faction cases drop the same loot as Vault-Tec Cases except they each have a unique drop pool of T4 and T5 blueprints.

Case name	T4 BP pool	T5 BP pool
Enclave Case	Gatling Laser H&K CAWS Military Rifle Plasma Rifle SVD Rifle Sniper Pistol Military Armor	Turbo Plasma Rifle Defender SVD Rifle MKII Advanced Power Armor
BoS Case	Vindicator Minigun Mega Sledge MGL M32s M16 MKII Adv. Rocket Launcher Trauma Pack Paladin Armor	Gauss Pistol Flash Launcher Gauss Minigun Power Armor
NCR Case	Incinerator H&K MP5 DSR M240 Cherry Nuka-Cola Ripper Plasma Torch	Pancor Jackhammer AK-47 Automatic Grenade Launcher Bozar Napalm Blaster
VC Case	Navy Armor Drug Antidote RAD Spear 14mm Colt .357 Colt Punch Gun Overpsycho	H&K G11 Steyr Hypo Browning Auto Rifle Anaconda
TMA Case	Alien Blaster Phazer Prototype 14 Black Cross Robe Mega Stimpak Machete Stealth Boy MKII	Stealth Boy MKIII Electro Cannon Pyro Rifle Commissar's Pistol Stealth Armor

Tier 3

High-Tech Encrypted Key

High-Tech Encrypted Keys can be used to open tier 3 Cases. They drop from tier 6 dungeons.

Black Cross Case

Black Cross Cases drop random WE stats, and have a chance to drop a random tier 4 part.

Technical Case

Technical Cases drop random tier 4 blueprints, and have a chance to drop a random tier 4 part.

Mad Scientist Case

Opening a Mad Scientist Case teleports you to a random base. It has a good chance to kill you.

Lockpicking

All Cases can be picked with electronic lockpicks. The higher the tier of the Case, the more likely the lockpicks are to break.

Case tier	Electronic lockpick MKI chance to break	Electronic lockpick MKII chance
1	1 in 25	1 in 100
2	1 in 5	1 in 18
3	Always breaks, chance to open is 5%	Always breaks, chance to open is 15%

Untiered cases

In addition to loot cases, there are also several items that resemble loot cases but either cannot be or aren't meant to be opened by players.

Briefcase

An unopenable junk-tier item that can occasionally be found in trash cans. There are also several quest items that look like this.

Metal Box

You may encounter several variations of these during various quests. Some metal boxes can be opened but doing so means failing their related quests.