Talk:Cottonwood crater

Glitch
As you exit the Cave, dive into the left pool and swim down and forward a little ways then surface. You actually surface inside the mountain and can see the valley on the other side. --Webley 16:11, October 26, 2010 (UTC)

The carelessness on display in this part of the map is a disgrace. Someone should have lost their job over this. Wunengzi 03:14, March 31, 2011 (UTC)

Meteor?
Does anyone else think this looks more like a meteor strike than a bomb?


 * How would you differentiate between the two? While an air burst detonation would leave little evidence of a crater, a surface or subsurface burst will produce cratering. It is generally considered that bombs will only cause deep craters if they are buried, and shallow craters if they are detonated on the surface, however the Nuclear Weapons used in the Fallout world are noted in this wiki as being strategic warheads with a yield in the order of 10-20 kilotons, which could conceivably produce a crater around 80m wide and 20m deep in hard rock. This appears roughly in line with what I see at this location. GodlessMunkey 04:07, February 1, 2011 (UTC)

Move the Jumping over~part to talk page please
I spent an hour stacking 5mm ammo boxes and saved. Regardless of what I did, I eventually got stuck. Loaded the save and tried for hours without any result.

Simply walking towards it from nearby location and hopping over some rocks allowed me to discover the location. Fast Travelling to the cave placed my PC and comapanion above previously unreachable entry point.

Discovering the crater without going through the cave for me, was not possible.

However I cannot imagine any reason to miss out on the Easter Egg, and some minor loot, just to avoid few Fire Geckos and one Legendary (it died with a single none-stealth headshot with .45-70 like any other) and the cave is tiny and provides no challenge whatsoever. The other end of the cave led straight to the crater and some Golden Geckos appeared.

After killing them, found the body of the prospector with a Fatman and some minor loot. Both locations are marked and FT was possible without backtracking through the cave. When in the water, can't FT same as anywhere else. Nothing unique about it at all. The note on ammo/armor stacking (which was rather vague but a complete waste of time, and confusing as well as misleading.)

Should be moved from the main article.PS3demon 02:50, February 20, 2011 (UTC)

dead prospector?
I cannot find the dead prospector. Any location for his body? I walked the entire crater!
 * A known bug (see the main page). He was also not there on my latest playthrough. --Webley 01:52, May 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * I tried investigating this with GECK and FNVEdit under the suspicion that maybe one of the DLCs screwed it up, but I could find no evidence of this. Out of desperation, I moved all of the DLC .esm files (and any mods that required them) out of my Data folder, then went to Cottonwood crater (before ever having visited it) and encountered the dead prospector - with 3 golden geckos instead of just 1. However, after placing all of the .esm files back into my game folder and re-loading that same saved game (from before visiting the crater), I still found the prospector! I wonder if he's a random spawn that only appears when the 3 geckos do? --HunterZ_tiny.png(talk 03:29, 16 September 2012 (UTC)