Slavery

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Slavery is a legacy feature that allows you to capture unconscious NPCs using Rope. Successfully capturing an NPC turns them into your property.

Slaves are a budget version of mercs; they can use a limited range of weapon types and are significantly less skilled but require no currency to acquire/maintain. Unlike mercs, slaves can be transfered between characters, used to mine resources, or sold for caps.

Note that characters with the Good Natured trait cannot have slaves.

Getting started

Once you become a slaver, there's no going back (unless you reroll your character).

Catching slaves is only available to the members of the Slaver's Guild.

To enlist, talk to The Den's mayor, Metzger. As soon as he gives you the Slaver tattoo, you're all set.

As a slaver, you will be able to enslave NPCs and either keep them or sell them to raise your Raider reputation.

The downside is that some NPCs, including some of the traders, will refuse to talk to slavers. Also, selling slaves lowers your Wastelander reputation.

There are three buyers interested in your slaves:

• Ashdown in Raiders Base
• Metzger in The Den
• Vortis in NCR (top-left corner of the screen)

Prices vary depending on the type of the NPC being sold: common female slave can be sold for 300 caps and male for 400. Children are only worth 200 caps a piece. Female combat slaves are the most valuable with their price tag of 650 caps.

Slaves can be brought to a mine and put to work but their carry weight is capped at 200 kg. Once they reach their limit, they'll simply stop working until you manually empty their inventory.

Enslavement

To enslave an npc, either knock them out or bring them below 0 hit points without killing them, then use Rope on them while they're unconscious.

If you're successful, you'll get a message saying they'll "make a fine slave." Heal them up and talk to them to inform them of their situation.

If you're unsuccessful, you'll be informed that you have "failed to enslave" the NPC. Check the table below to see if the NPC you're trying to capture can be enslaved, then try again.

Slaves don't use up your party points, but you can only have 2. Hiring mercs increases this limit by 1 for each merc.

NPCs that can be enslaved

Type	Image	Location	Equippable weapons	Comments
Average Peasant (Male)		Near Den	Clubs, grenades and SMGs	He won't survive any serious battle due to his low skills and health points.
Average Peasant (Female)		Near Den	Grenades, pistols, rifles	She's a looker, not a fighter.
Child (Male)		Near Klamath
Child (Female)		Near Klamath
Clever Slave (Male)		Near Den; caves	Knives, clubs, grenades and pistols
Clever Slave (Female)		Near Den; caves	Knives, grenades, pistols
Combat Slave (Male)		Near Modoc	All sorts of weapons	Low health points and skills, but the ability to equip big guns could provide some value.
Combat Slave (Female)		Near Modoc; caves	All sorts of weapons	Very similar to male Combat Slave except the skills and health are even lower.
Cute Slave		Near Den; caves	Knives, grenades, pistols	A really weak and unskilled slave.
Farmer (Male)		Near Klamath
Farmer (Female)		Near Klamath	Grenades, pistols, rifles
Generic Slave (Male)		Near Den	Grenades, knives, spears, hammers and SMGs
Generic Slave (Female)		Near Den	Grenades, knives, spears, hammers
Handsome Slave		Near Den; caves
Healthy Slave (Male)		Near Den; caves	Knives, clubs, grenades and pistols
Healthy Slave (Female)		Near Den; caves	Grenades, pistols, rifles
Strong Peasant		Near Den
Strong Peasant (68)		Near Den	Knives, grenades and SMGs
Strong Slave (Male)		Near Den; caves
Strong Slave (Female)		Near Den; caves	Grenades, pistols, rifles
Weak Peasant (Male)		Near Den	Knives, hammers, grenades and rifles	What a waste of rope.
Weak Peasant (Female)		Near Den	Knives, grenades, pistols	The fact that she's unskilled makes her mostly useless.
Fisherman		Coast	Grenades, knives, spears, hammers and SMGs	Good with throwing knives and melee weapons.
Fisherwoman		Coast	Grenades, knives, spears, hammers	Good with throwing knives and melee weapons.
Nomad (Male)		Coast	Grenades, knives, spears, hammers and SMGs	They have some damage resistance and small gun skills. They are better with melee weapons.
Nomad (Female)		Coast	Grenades, knives, spears, hammers	A bit weaker than male nomads but can use melee weapons just as well.
Holy Man		Everywhere, mostly west of Den	Knives, Spears	They are fun but have zero damage resistances and damage thresholds which makes them very vulnerable.
Holy Woman		Everywhere, mostly west of Den	Knives, Spears	They are fun but have zero damage resistances and damage thresholds which makes them very vulnerable.
Lone Wanderer		Everywhere	Knives, Spears	Fun but useless, because they can only handle knives, spears or fight unarmed.
Wilder (Male)		Coast	Grenades, knives, spears, hammers and SMGs	They are quite good with knives and hammers, not so much ranged weapons.
Wilder (Female)		Coast	Grenades, knives, spears, hammers	Female wilders are quite good with knives and hammers.
Bootlegger (Male)		Near Redding; caves	Knives, hammers, grenades and rifles	Good with rifles and even more capable in HtH combat, but they have low hit points.
Bootlegger (Female)		Near Redding; caves	Grenades, pistols, rifles	This bootlegger can successfully handle several small guns, but low Perception affects her range, leaving her more accurate in HtH combat. She is tougher than she looks.
Homesteader (Male)		Near Redding	Knives, clubs, grenades and pistols	They can be useful with a Cattle Prod or a pistol. Lack of decent hit points holds back their potential.
Homesteader (Female)		Near Redding	Knives, grenades and SMGs	Her high Perception makes her an accurate shooter at a reasonable range.
Bandit (Male)		Near Den and Klamath; caves	Knives, grenades, pistols and SMGs	Tough Bandit is tough to find but could be worth the time. They ccan be decently effective when armed with a high-tier pistol, though will need a lot of ammo to overcome their low skills. Can be leveled up, gaining +2 HP every level.
Bandit (Female)		Near Den and Klamath	Knives, spears, grenades and SMGs	Female Bandits have low hit points but are skilled at close combat. Expect to burn through a lot of ammo if you arm them with a small gun. Can be leveled up, gaining +2 HP every level.
Trapper (Male)		Near Klamath	Spears, grenades, pistols, SMGs and rifles	Can be leveled up, gaining +4 HP every level. Outdoorsman 90.
Trapper (Female)		Near Klamath	Knives, spears, grenades	Can be leveled up, gaining +4 HP every level. Outdoorsman 100.
Ghoul Crazy		Near Gecko, Broken Hills and Necropolis	Spears, rifles	They cannot run, but they are fantastic snipers. If left unarmed, however, they are next to useless. Can be leveled up, gaining +3 HP every level.
Ghoul Scavenger		Near Gecko and Necropolis	Knives, pistols	Unlike Ghoul Crazies, they can run after their targets, which also makes them harder to catch. Can be leveled up, gaining +3 HP every level.