While playing Fallout: New Vegas, you'll encounter dozens of ways to improve your character. You can improve your skills, unlock powerful perks, equip new weapons, and even choose unique traits at the beginning of each playthrough. Due to how much customization is available in New Vegas, there are many different ways to build your character.
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PostsOne of the most notable ways to improve the Courier after character creation is with New Vegas' implants. It's easy to miss out on implants if you don't know where to buy them, but we've compiled a list of every implant, their abilities, and how to install them.
Updated September 1, 2024, by Andrew Scariati: Tracking down all New Vegas implants is infinitely harder if you're searching at random, as there are two major sources of implants you need to track down. We've listed all Fallout New Vegas implants along with their prices and locations.
If you want to acquire every implant in the base game, then you will need a minimum of nine Endurance in your SPECIAL stat – one point for each implant.
What Are Implants?
All New Vegas implants offer a unique ability or upgrade.
Some abilities are only available via implants, while others offer bonuses that you could potentially earn through other methods.
Regardless of which implants you choose to install on your character, you'll be a stronger Wastelander afterward.
How To Buy Every Implant
You can buy every New Vegas implant in the base game by speaking to Doctor Usanagi at the New Vegas Medical Clinic, which you can find on the map above.
Doctor Usanagi is a member of the Followers Of The Apocalypse, and she's the only person in the Mojave Wasteland that can install implants.
Upon speaking to Doctor Usanagi, she'll sell you implants for Caps.
You can get one implant per each point you invest into the Endurance stat. For example, if you have six Endurance, then you can have six implants at a time.
The implant installation process takes three in-game hours for each operation. Below you'll find a list of each implant you can buy from Doctor Usanagi.
If you're interested in the implants from the Old World Blues DLC, then scroll to the bottom of this chart.
Damage Threshold (DT) and Damage Resistance (DR) are different.
Damage Threshold removes damage (up to a certain amount), while Damage Resistance reduces the damage you take.
For instance, if you take 300 damage, DT 50 removes 50 points, decreasing damage to 250.
However, DR 50 would remove that percent of damage, thus reducing the damage from 300 to 150 (50 percent). Thus a higher DR is more effective when dealing with higher damage values.
Implant
Ability
Cost
Sub-Dermal Armor
+4 DT (Damage Threshold)
8,000 Caps
Monocyte Breeder
Recover 1 HP per every 10 seconds
12,000 Caps
Strength Implant
+1 Strength
4,000 Caps
Perception Implant
+1 Perception
4,000 Caps
Endurance Implant
+1 Endurance
4,000 Caps
Charisma Implant
+1 Charisma
4,000 Caps
Intelligence Implant
+1 Intelligence
4,000 Caps
Agility Implant
+1 Agility
4,000 Caps
Luck Implant
+1 Luck
4,000 Caps
How To Install Every Implant In The Old World Blues DLC
Along with the implants you can buy from Doctor Usanagi, there are an additional four implants you can install using an Auto-Doc in the Old World Blues DLC.
If you weren't satisfied with the New Vegas implant, the DLC versions should suit your fancy.
If you have the Old World Blues DLC, travel to the location on the map below, and you'll teleport to the Big Empty.
Once you have access to the Big Empty's map, you need to travel to the Y-17 Medical Facility and walk inside.
You'll find the Sink Project: Auto-Doc on a desk to the right of the stairs on the second floor. Return to The Sink once you pick up the holotape.
The Auto-Doc is inside your private room in The Sink.
Walk over to the Auto-Doc in The Sink and interact with it. You'll then have the option to purchase each of the implants for the price you see on the chart below.
Implant
Ability
Cost
Implant Y-3
You no longer take radiation damage from drinking irradiated water
12,000 Caps
Implant M-5
You move 20 percent faster while sneaking
10,000 Caps
Implant Y-7
You restore 5 HP and 2 AP whenever you eat food
20,000 Caps
Implant C-13
+ ten percent damage to Cazadores
8,000 Caps
How To Get Caps For Implants
To buy the implants in New Vegas, you need a lot of Caps.
It's difficult to collect thousands of Caps, especially if you recently began a new playthrough.
Luckily, there are a few ways to get Caps fast in the Mojave Wasteland.
Play Casino Games
Playing games in one of the casinos in New Vegas is the fastest way to gain Caps, but only if you have a high Luck stat.
The Luck stat makes your chance of winning a casino game higher, so it's easy to turn your small Cap collection into chests full of Caps if you dedicate multiple points to Luck.
There are many casinos inside New Vegas, as well as directly outside The Strip.
The best places to gamble are on The Strip, so head there as early as you can.
You can buy chips to use for playing casino games inside each casino.
However, each New Vegas casino will only allow you to win a certain amount of caps before you're kicked out and banned.
Casino
Earnings Limit
Vicky & Vance
2,500 Chips
Atomic Wrangler
5,000 Chips
Gomorrah
9,000 Chips
The Tops
10,000 Chips
Sierra Madre (DLC)
10,000 Chips
Ultra-Luxe
15,000 Chips
If you have a low Luck stat, then try one of the methods below instead.
Sell Weapons And Ammo
While adventuring in the Mojave Wasteland, you'll likely pick up a lot of ammo that you can't use since most characters prioritize a single weapon type.
You can take your ammo to any weapon vendor in the Wasteland and sell it to them for a potentially massive profit, depending on how much you accumulate.
Picking up weapons you don't plan to use and selling them is also a quick way to earn Caps.
The higher your Speech skill and Charisma stat, the more Caps you'll earn from each transaction.
Complete The Dead Money DLC
Completing the Dead Money DLC is one of the best ways to earn Caps in Fallout: New Vegas.
First, you need to play through Dead Money's main questline until the ending scene, where you're standing at the Sierra Madre Vault.
After opening the vault, you'll find 37 Gold Bars, which you can collect and take back to the Mojave Wasteland.
Unfortunately, the Gold Bars weigh 35 pounds, so you can only carry as many as your inventory space will allow.
Each Gold Bar has a base value of 10,547, which means it's worth collecting as many as possible and selling them once you return to the Mojave Wasteland.
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