Talk:Shovel (Fallout: New Vegas)

Bug?
I equipped the shovel to dig up a few graves around Goodsprings, but since then have stored it in a cabinet somewhere. Every grave I have come across since does not require me to have the shovel in my inventory.
 * You sure they were graves? There's an identical container called "Burial Mound" that doesn't require a shovel to dig up. There's a good example at the Yangtze Memorial; one of the graves is a proper Grave, the other is a Burial Mound. Nitty Tok. 03:06, November 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * I just noticed some are called burial mounds, (after the first few containers I stop reading the labels), so you are probably right. One wonders what the programmers were thinking, and why would a shovel be required for one and not the other. There is a "grave" and "burial mound" next to each other at the Animal Husbandry farm. Just bizarre frankly.

Grave Robber?
A couple of days ago, I saw a man dressed in leather armor, running around with a shovel. I saw him by the Mesquite Mountains camp site. I wanted to go talk to him, but he started to flee for some reason. I think his name was Ralf or Ralph or a name similar to that. Can anyone confirm this? FYI: This was like 1 in the morning.


 * Does anyone else find it first-class weird that in a game where you're supposed to be interacting with local society, you can do two things that are utterly taboo in nearly all communities: steal from people's mailboxes and rob from graves? Wunengzi 13:07, June 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * A preliminary search of the wiki shows that the only Ralph in Fallout: New Vegas in the Ralph from Mick and Ralph's in Freeside. Perhaps your grave robber doesn't exist, or perhaps he goes by another name. Still, in all my 300 hours of this game, I've never come across any Grave Robber NPC's.Cornelius Plautus 03:10, July 29, 2011 (UTC)

Finding A Shovel Reliably?
Is there any other way to get a shovel? I killed Chet early on, I completed the Sunny Smiles stuff without knowing about the shovel, I cannot seem to get the Nash to sell me a shovel, and in the machine shop I can only see the shovel and not retrieve it? Does anyone know why those last 2 things are happening? Are there folks who attack at random that I may be able to get a shovel off of? Thanks!