Fallout: New Vegas skill magazines

This page lists all skill magazines in Fallout: New Vegas.

The content is not described in full detail on this page. For details, please see the respective articles.
For skill magazines in other Fallout games, please see "Skill magazine".
For an overview of Fallout: New Vegas content, please refer to "Portal:Fallout: New Vegas".

Overview[]

Unlike skill books, magazines are a consumable item designed to temporarily boost a skill. Using a magazine provides a 10 point bonus to its corresponding skill for 60 seconds (1 minute). The bonuses do not stack; using the same magazine multiple times will not increase the bonus.

Their effectiveness can be modified with two perks:

Comprehension doubles the bonus, to 20 points per use.
Retention triples the duration of the bonus, to 180 seconds (3 minutes).

Skill magazines are a relatively commonplace item, with 213 items pre-placed in the base game. Additional copies can be obtained from various vendors, magazine vending machines on the Strip, or crafted using the Voracious Reader perk.

Types[]

Name	Value	Effect	Base ID
Boxing Times	20	Unarmed +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4b0
Fixin' Things	20	Repair +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension)(temporarily)	000ec4ab
Future Weapons Today	20	Energy Weapons +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4a6
Lad's Life	20	Survival +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4af
¡La Fantoma!	20	Sneak +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4ad
Locksmith's Reader	20	Lockpick +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4a8
Meeting People	20	Speech +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4ae
Milsurp Review	20	Guns +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4ac
Patriot's Cookbook	20	Explosives +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4a7
Programmer's Digest	20	Science +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4b1
Salesman Weekly	20	Barter +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4a4
Tæles of Chivalrie	20	Melee Weapons +10 (+20 w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4aa
Today's Physician	20	Medicine +10 (+20 w/Comprehension) (temporarily)	000ec4a9
True Police Stories	20	Critical chance +5% (+10% w/ Comprehension) (temporarily)	00135689

Locations[]

Random locations[]

These magazines can be found in containers such as mailboxes and the 12 red magazine boxes on the Strip. Some of these containers will be replenished over time.

Fixed locations[]

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Name	Closest map marker	Location description
Boxing Times	Boulder City	Bottom of the mining equipment.
Boxing Times	Goodsprings	Goodsprings Gas Station, on a shelf.
Boxing Times	H&H Tool Factory	On reception desk in entrance room.
Boxing Times	Jacobstown	Jacobstown Lodge, in an upstairs room on a small table. Up the right hand staircase, back room on the left hand corner; on a small table on the left.
Boxing Times	Lucky 38	In an upstairs bar next to the Golden Gloves.
Boxing Times	South Vegas Ruins	Zapp's Neon Signs, along with Lad's Life next to Nuka-Cola Quartz in upstairs office on shelf.
Boxing Times	Techatticup Mine	On a shelf in a cage with an NCR prisoner.
Boxing Times	The King's School of Impersonation	Third floor, on the table in the bedroom.
Fixin' Things	Camp McCarran	In one of the tents at the first row.
Fixin' Things	Camp McCarran	On top of a footlocker in third tent from terminal building on the first row.
Fixin' Things	Goodsprings	In a broken bathroom sink inside one of the Goodspring Homes (from the Saloon, head west towards the gas station, turn left at the rusted truck, first house on the left).
Fixin' Things	Goodsprings	Prospector Saloon.
Fixin' Things	Jacobstown	Jacobstown Lodge, in an upstairs room, on a table along with a Programmer's Digest.
Fixin' Things	Nellis Air Force Base	Nellis Workshop.
Fixin' Things	New Vegas Medical Clinic	On a table inside.
Fixin' Things	Primm	On a bedside table in the Mojave Express office, along with a Programmer's Digest.
Fixin' Things	Puesta del Sol Dead Money	One in the ruined room above the store and another on top of a desk when exiting the switching station via elevator.
Fixin' Things	Sierra Madre Dead Money	Executive Suites, on top of a terminal.
Fixin' Things	South Vegas Ruins	Zapp's Neon Signs, along with a ¡La Fantoma! on table next to couch.
Future Weapons Today	Camp Golf	Inside the Misfits' tent
Future Weapons Today	House Resort	Inside the storehouse
Future Weapons Today	Camp McCarran	Inside the storage tent in the parking lot
Future Weapons Today	Cottonwood Cove male restrooms	On the floor
Future Weapons Today	Followers Safehouse	On the left most bed in the safe house next to the advanced radiation suit
Future Weapons Today	Gun Runners factory	Inside a nightstand in the barracks
Future Weapons Today	Lucky 38	In the Presidential Suite
Future Weapons Today	Lucky 38	On a table in the Cocktail Lounge
Future Weapons Today	Nipton Hall	On the shelf behind the Mayor's desk, along with some lotto tickets
Future Weapons Today	Poseidon Gas Station	To the south, in a box on a shelf in Violet's makeshift fort
Future Weapons Today	Brooks Tumbleweed Ranch	On the cupboard in the kitchen
Future Weapons Today	Whittaker Farmstead	One at a shelf in the kitchen
Lad's Life	Broc Flower Cave	On the floor of the lower irradiated chamber, in the middle area near the skeletons.
Lad's Life	Camp McCarran	Inside a tent nearest to the two trucks and a trailer.
Lad's Life	Cottonwood Cove	On a dead mercenary southeast across the river in a small cave.
Lad's Life	Goodsprings Cemetery	Just east of the water tower down the hill where alot of radscorpions are hanging out. Also a dead mercenary with loot.
Lad's Life	Goodsprings	Inside the first house to north-east of Doc Mitchell's house, sitting on a step ladder.
Lad's Life	Goodsprings	Goodsprings Schoolhouse, on the floor near the middle of the room next to the large group of ruined desks.
Lad's Life	Jacobstown	Jacobstown Lodge, up the right hand staircase; first room on the left, on a bed with a shelf and surgical instruments piled on it. Doctor's bag on the floor in doorway.
Lad's Life	Mountain Shadows Campground	On a picnic table just east of the campground.
Lad's Life	NCR Ranger safehouse	In a pool of green water near two skeletons east from the Ranger safehouse and North to north-east of Black Mountain.
Lad's Life	Powder Ganger Camp South	Inside a crate of burnt books, just south of the NCR Correctional Facility.
Lad's Life	Ranger Station Alpha	Inside the leftmost camp.
Lad's Life	Ranger Station Delta	On the table inside the tent.
Lad's Life	Red Rock Canyon	NW tent around the fire, on the floor with/under a Programmer's Digest and Milsurp Review.
Lad's Life	South Vegas Ruins	Zapp's Neon Signs, along with Boxing Times next to Nuka-Cola Quartz in upstairs office on shelf.
Lad's Life	Techatticup Mine	Right of the entrance in the area with the 2 NCR hostages.
Lad's Life	The Tops	13th floor, on top of the fire place in Benny's suite.
Lad's Life	The Tops	13th floor, in the High Roller suite.
Lad's Life	Yangtze Memorial	In the Abandoned shack to the northwest.
Lad's Life	Zion Fishing Lodge	Behind the couch.
¡La Fantoma!	Bitter Springs Recreation Area	Recreation Office, underneath a few books on a table.
¡La Fantoma!	Boulder City	Bottom of the conveyor belt by the train station office. Another may be found in the second to last building (head due south) inside Boulder City Ruins. First floor, bottom of the stairs behind the chair.
¡La Fantoma!	Camp McCarran	In one of the tents underneath a bunk bed along with several other magazines (from the middle doors into the terminal building head north, it is the second tent on the left).
¡La Fantoma!	Crimson Caravan Company	Caravaneer Barracks, on a desk.
¡La Fantoma!	Executive suites Dead Money	On a nightstand in the bedroom of Vera Keyes.
¡La Fantoma!	Followers safehouse	Laying on the left most bed in the safe house with an advanced radiation suit
¡La Fantoma!	H&H Tool Factory	On bookshelf in left of entrance room.
¡La Fantoma!	Lucky 38	Lucky 38 Cocktail Lounge, on a hard lock briefcase.
¡La Fantoma!	Nellis Air Force Base	Nellis Boomer Museum, on Pete's bed.
¡La Fantoma!	Poseidon Gas Station	Where the player encounters Violet, it is in a wooden box on it's side in the tower over the campers. The box is on a metal shelf.
¡La Fantoma!	Powder Ganger Camp West	To the southeast, down in a radioactive puddle with part of a bus, a burnt out car and large stack of radioactive barrels (+2-3 rads per second throughout most of the area with little to no protection). Follow the road south past the camp to the first billboard on the left (corvega billboard, the back of it will be facing the player), turn left into a small ditch that leads right into the puddle.
¡La Fantoma!	Sierra Madre Vault Dead Money	In a garbage can.
¡La Fantoma!	Villa Police Station Dead Money	In the third cell in the row at the back of the station, behind a locked door.
¡La Fantoma!	Zapp's Neon Signs	Next to couch.
Locksmith's Reader	Camp Golf	House Resort, on the second floor in the first room to the right on the right corridor, underneath the damaged shelf.
Locksmith's Reader	Goodsprings	Prospector Saloon, given to you by Sunny Smiles.
Locksmith's Reader	Hoover Dam	Power Plant 01, found on a desk near a door labled "Hoover Dam offices".
Locksmith's Reader	Mole Rat Ranch	In a house on the very corner of outer Vegas, towards Nellis Air Force Base, there is a grenade bouquet trap, a sniper rifle with ammunition and a Locksmith's Reader at the foot of the stairs.
Locksmith's Reader	Sierra Madre Dead Money	Executive Suites, on a workbench.
Locksmith's Reader	The Tops	In Benny's workshop on the 13th floor.
Locksmith's Reader	Vault 3	Next to the bed in the living quarters room which is locked by an average lock.
Locksmith's Reader	Vault 3	Maintenance wing, in the locked room left of the entrance.
Locksmith's Reader	Vault 3	Living Quarters, in the submerged room in the eastern section on the metal shelf to the left. Will be below the pillow on the top shelf.
Locksmith's Reader	Westside	Casa Madrid, on a table just after entering.
Meeting People	Camp Golf	House Resort, upstairs, on the floor in bathroom; in the room with the chemistry set (the room next door to the one room with all the cutlery).
Meeting People	Camp Searchlight	In the Searchlight Home where you find Pvt. Kyle Edwards, on a table next to the bed.
Meeting People	Goodsprings	Prospector Saloon, on a Sunset Sarsaparilla crate near the side door closest to the entrance.
Meeting People	Goodsprings	In the metal camper trailer directly north of the Prospector Saloon under the shelf.
Meeting People	Goodsprings	Goodsprings Schoolhouse, on the floor near the safe by the ruined school desk.
Meeting People	New Vegas Medical Clinic	Can be stolen from the desk on the left, next to the clinic guard. Taking it will result in the usual loss of karma, but apparently will not result in hostilities if you are detected.
Meeting People	New Vegas Medical Clinic	Can be bought from Dr. Usanagi inside the clinic.
Meeting People	Residential District Dead Money	Under the first bench along the wall across from the first vending machine you see on the right when you first enter.
Meeting People	Sierra Madre Dead Money	Executive Suites, on a nightstand in Vera's bedroom.
Meeting People	Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters	On the southern-most picnic bench outside the west entrance.
Meeting People	The Tampico Dead Money	In Vera's Dressing Room.
Meeting People	The Tops	Presidential suite, on a table.
Meeting People	Vault 3	Living quarters, the door directly in front of where you enter, unlock and you will find one on the nightstand.
Meeting People	Think tank Old World Blues	In possession of Dr. 8, who is located on the bottom floor to the right of Dr. O.
Milsurp Review	Camp McCarran	In a tent with a lot of shelves on top of some metal boxes on a counter next to ammunition boxes and some fission batteries (has to be stolen).
Milsurp Review	Camp McCarran	In a tent below a bunkbed.
Milsurp Review	Executive Suites Dead Money	On a suitcase in a bedroom.
Milsurp Review	Nipton General Store	On the second floor, lying on the rug next to the overturned couch.
Milsurp Review	Primm	On the second level of the ruined building next to the Nash Residence. On a bedframe next to two ammunition boxes. Sometimes this one cannot be picked up and no "Take Milsup Review" will appear.
Milsurp Review	Ranger Station Delta	In the cellar of the ruined building, hidden on the generator under the table in the pool room.
Milsurp Review	Red Rock Canyon	NW tent around the fire. On the floor with/under a Programmer's Digest and Lad's Life.
Milsurp Review	Vault 34	Found next to a pile of rubber next to a first aid box and a 10mm submachinegun
Milsurp Review	Villa Police Station Dead Money	In the basement level, in the first room with the terminal, on top of the crates with the stairway behind them.
Milsurp Review	Zion Ranger Station Honest Hearts	To the left of the entrance, behind the knocked down chair in the corner.
Patriot's Cookbook	Camp Golf	Inside Misfits' Tent.
Patriot's Cookbook	Horowitz farmstead	In the bedroom of a house south-east of Horowitz farmstead.
Patriot's Cookbook	Nellis Air Force Base	Nellis Boomer Museum, on a shelf above Pete's bed, with ¡La Fantoma! and Tæles of Chivalrie.
Patriot's Cookbook	Nellis Air Force Base	Schoolhouse, inside the teacher's desk (very easy lock), with a Lad's Life and Today's Physician.
Patriot's Cookbook	Nellis Air Force Base	Men's Barrack, on a set of shelves next to bunk.(must be stolen)
Patriot's Cookbook	NCR Sharecropper Farms	If you go out of the farm (East gate) there is a mailbox down the road (to your left),also there is a Salesman Weekly in the mailbox straight in front of the gate.
Patriot's Cookbook	New California Republic Correctional Facility	Cell block A, behind the closed cell door.
Patriot's Cookbook	New Vegas Steel	On a desk in the first room.
Patriot's Cookbook	Nipton	In a safe inside a house, along with a low condition grenade rifle.
Patriot's Cookbook	Sierra Madre Dead Money	Executive Suites, on a suitcase in a bedroom.
Patriot's Cookbook	Zion Fishing Lodge Honest Hearts	Fishing Lodge, on an end table next to a cabinet with two pre-War books.
Patriot's Cookbook	Techatticup Mine	On the bottom of shelf of a supply cage.
Patriot's Cookbook	Vault 34	In the collapsed room with a doctor's bag, skeleton, and first aid box.
Patriot's Cookbook	Vault 34	In the room directly after the room with an inaccessible door and 3 vault dwellers in it.
Programmer's Digest	Broc Flower Cave	In the upper chamber with the rest of the medical loot. One is on the table with the chemistry set; the other is on the table near the dummy computer terminal (along with a Today's Physician).
Programmer's Digest	Camp Guardian caves	In the bottom right corner of the map. Behind a large group of lakelurkers and inside a duffle bag within their cave.
Programmer's Digest	Followers safehouse	One is found on the middle bed of the safehouse next to a copy of Today's Physician.
Programmer's Digest	Goodsprings	Goodsprings Schoolhouse. May also appear randomly in Mailboxes
Programmer's Digest	Hoover Dam	Power Plant 01, on a desk upstairs just outside the door to Hoover Dam Offices.
Programmer's Digest	Hoover Dam	Hoover Dam Offices, in an eastern room, on a desk with the inventory terminal.
Programmer's Digest	Hoover Dam	In the northeastern Hoover Dam Tower (ladies room), in one of the stalls upstairs.
Programmer's Digest	Hunter's farm	In a mailbox.
Programmer's Digest	Jacobstown	In the lodge in an upstairs room. Take the hallway on the left, then take the first right. It should be in the third room from the right on a table along with a Fixin' Things.
Programmer's Digest	Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm	(3) located in a duffle bag on the second floor of the east-most barn.
Programmer's Digest	Mick and Ralph's	On the second floor next to a non-working terminal. (Must be stolen.)
Programmer's Digest	Nipton Hall	On the third floor, next to the Mayor's terminal. There are actually two magazines here, stacked as one object.
Programmer's Digest	Poseidon Gas Station	Just south of the station, on a shelf in Violet's makeshift fort.
Programmer's Digest	Primm	Johnson Nash's house, on a table next to the bed, along with a Fixin' Things.
Programmer's Digest	Puesta del Sol Switching Station Dead Money	On a console to your right before descending the stairs.
Programmer's Digest	Red Rock Canyon	NW tent around the fire. On the floor with/under a Lad's Life and Milsurp Review.
Programmer's Digest	The Tops	13th floor, in the southern middle room behind an Average locked door, on a desk.
Programmer's Digest	Vault 22	Beside the mattress upon first entering.
Programmer's Digest	Villa Police Station Dead Money	In a small room with a reloading bench, on the closest shelf to the right as you enter.
Salesman Weekly	Aerotech office park	On the reception desk on the top of the date planner, inside Aerotech Suite 300.
Salesman Weekly	Bitter Springs	On the straw mattress bedding in the northeast shack, in the refugee camp.
Salesman Weekly	Bitter Springs	Inside the small, eastern tent (Gille's tent) on a table.
Salesman Weekly	Broc flower cave	On the floor in front of the courier after he enters the cave, between some clutter.
Salesman Weekly	Camp McCarran	Inside the small tent, just west of the Mess Hall tent, in the Tent City parking lot.
Salesman Weekly	Casa Madrid Apartments	Underneath the copy of Locksmiths Reader, on the lobby table, left as you walk in.
Salesman Weekly	Gomorrah	Gomorrah Suites, in Nero's suite, on the mezzanine area, top of the corner bookcase.
Salesman Weekly	Goodsprings	On the bottom shelf of the bookcase, on the left side of the General store interior.
Salesman Weekly	Goodsprings	Goodsprings schoolhouse, in the back on the right of the wall with the chalkboard.
Salesman Weekly	Goodsprings	Prospector Saloon, in the small office on a crate next to the door.
Salesman Weekly	Grub n' Gulp rest stop	On one of the picnic tables, just to the side (north) of the shack.
Salesman Weekly	NCR Sharecropper Farms	(East) gate out of the farms there is a mailbox.
Salesman Weekly	Nipton	Nipton general store 1st floor on the wooden shelf to the right of Boxcars.
Salesman Weekly	Primm	On a table at the west end room in the Vikki and Vance Casino.
Salesman Weekly	The Tops	On the 13th floor, room 1301 (first door on your right), on the dresser by the bed.
Salesman Weekly	The Tops	On the 13th floor, Benny's room, on the top of the low bookcase to the right of Benny's bed.
Salesman Weekly	Westside Co-op	Inside the co-op, on the corner of the counter near Clayton Ettienne.
Tæles of Chivalrie	Allied Technologies offices	On a bookshelf in the Western room.
Tæles of Chivalrie	Camp Golf	Upstairs in first bedroom off of north stairs.
Tæles of Chivalrie	Goodsprings	In a mailbox south of Doc Mitchell's house. Right before the 4-way crossing.
Tæles of Chivalrie	Mick & Ralph's	On a table upstairs.
Tæles of Chivalrie	Nellis Air Force Base	Nellis Boomer Museum, on a shelf above Pete's bed (with ¡La Fantoma! and a Patriot's Cookbook).
Tæles of Chivalrie	NCR Correctional Facility	Visitor Center, on a shelf.
Tæles of Chivalrie	The Tampico Dead Money	By the projector.
Tæles of Chivalrie	Villa Police Station Dead Money	In the basement level, in the first room with the terminal, on top of the crates with the stairway behind them.
Today's Physician	Aerotech Suite 300	On a side table in the main lobby.
Today's Physician	Broc Flower Cave	In the upper chamber with the rest of the medical loot, on the table near the dummy computer terminal.
Today's Physician	Executive Suites Dead Money	Next to a chemistry set in Vera's suite.
Today's Physician	Followers safehouse	One is found on the middle bed of the safehouse next to a multiplas rifle
Today's Physician	Freeside	Old Mormon Fort, in the room in the upstairs tower (same room as Snow globe - Mormon Fort).
Today's Physician	Goodsprings	On the desk directly in front of the player when you first wake up with Doc Mitchell.
Today's Physician	Gun Runners	Inside the building, make a left under the bathroom stall.
Today's Physician	Jean Sky Diving	On the highway northeast in a Powder Ganger-occupied camper, near a Sunset Sarsaparilla billboard.
Today's Physician	Lucky 38	Presidential Suite, on a table in the master bedroom.
Today's Physician	Lucky 38	Presidential Suite, on a desk in the northwest room with the bathtubs.
Today's Physician	Mick & Ralph's	On the bed upstairs.
Today's Physician	Mountain Shadows Campground	On a table.
Today's Physician	New Vegas Medical Clinic	On a small desk inside.
Today's Physician	Nellis Air Force Base	On a table as you enter Nellis Children's Barracks.
Today's Physician	Nellis Air Force Base	School House, in the teacher's desk
Today's Physician	Vault 3	Recreation Area, on a desk in the medical room.
Today's Physician	Vault 34	After walking down to the main floor (in the first room), there's a hallway to the right. Follow the hallway to the next room. Directly after entering, the magazine is located to the right, lying in a pile of trash next to a first aid box.
True Police Stories	Allied Technologies Offices	On the small corner table inside the entrance foyer.
True Police Stories	Bitter Springs recreation area	In the Bitter Springs recreation office, in a table to the right of the door.
True Police Stories	Boulder City	Boulder City Ruins, on the upper floor bookcase of the blown-out store building, across from the Great Khans.
True Police Stories	California Sunset Drive-in	Located on the picnic table at the "scenic overlook".
True Police Stories	Crimson Caravan Company	Main Office, on the floor inside the first restroom stall.
True Police Stories	Gomorrah	Gomorrah Suites, on the small table by one of the round beds on the upper floor of Clanden's suite.
True Police Stories	Lucky 38	On one of the small tables in the cocktail lounge (middle-tiered section).
True Police Stories	Mole Rat Ranch	Ruined Building to the east with locked cache, inside the locked storage room.
True Police Stories	Poseidon Gas Station	In the police car in the middle of some radiation barrels. May fall through if not taken first.
True Police Stories	The Basincreek Building	On the small corner table inside the entrance foyer.
True Police Stories	The Tops	On the small bedside table in the bedroom of the Presidential Suite.
True Police Stories	Vault 34	Reactor level, inside the ruins of the security room. On the rubble near the doctor's bag
True Police Stories	Villa Police Station Dead Money	Next to the cosmic knife in the kitchen.