Pressing Matters
The bottle cap press
“ People have been counterfeiting bottle caps forever, but it's always been small scale. A bottle cap press is a whole other threat. We can't have anyone devaluing our currency by mass producing new bottle caps. ” — Alice McLafferty Pressing Matters is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas
Quick Walkthrough [ edit ] Detailed Walkthrough [ edit ] Finish You Can Depend on Me given by Alice McLafferty , then talk to her again and she will ask the player character to disable the bottle cap press in the Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters , west of New Vegas .
Go to the headquarters and locate the bottle cap press, which is found in the shipping area. Once in the shipping area, there are four or five Sunset Sarsaparilla robot employees that are hostile. The press is between the two stacks of crates in the middle of the shipping area behind a dead worker and near a box with six bottles of Sunset Sarsaparilla (the only ones found in this room).
Disable it and return to Alice McLafferty to complete this quest.
Quest Stages [ edit ] Stage Status Description 10 Disable the bottle cap press. 20 Return to Alice McLafferty and let her know the bottle cap press is disabled.
A Mr. Janitor can be manually activated from the terminal nearby with a Science of 50. After cleaning, it will leave a one-time disposal of 500+ caps in the garbage can closest to the room it was found in.
Talking to other robots while Mr. Janitor is cleaning may cause it to stop cleaning in order to attack them.
The cap press cannot be used to produce bottle caps. Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Arcade Gannon , Cass , Lily , Rex , Craig Boone , Raul Tejada and ED-E .
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The following companions have been reported attacking Mr. Janitor: Arcade Gannon, Cass, Lily, Rex, Craig Boone, Raul Tejada and ED-E.
