Cowboy hats are common headwear in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics
All variants have a Damage Threshold of 1, and provide a bonus of 1 to Perception, as they shield the wearer's eyes from the sun. They can be repaired with pre-War hats (and any other head item with the perk Jury Rigging).
Variants
Cattleman cowboy hat
A straw cowboy hat with a wide, slightly curved brim, a slightly indented top, and a ring of vents halfway up.
Desperado cowboy hat
A black cowboy hat with a large brim, curved to the sides, and a thin white band at the base.
Old cowboy hat
A brown top hat with a thin flat brim; with a black-and-white feather stuck in a large rust-colored band at the base.
Rattan cowboy hat
A straw cowboy hat with a wide brim, curved to the sides, indents in the top, and at the temples, and a thin black band at the base.
Rawhide cowboy hat
A light brown uncured leather cowboy hat with a slight peak; a thick, flat brim; and a thin black band at the base.
Locations
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- Powder Gangers sometimes wear random cowboy hats.
Cattleman cowboy hat
- Easy Pete in Goodsprings wears one.
- Gunderson hired hand is wearing a cattleman cowboy hat as he stands beside Heck Gunderson in the Ultra-Luxe main lobby. A Cattleman cowboy hat can also be found in the room leading to the steam room in the Ultra-Luxe's bathhouse.
One can be found next to the crushed skeleton on a ledge on the end of The Narrows, just south of the Half Mouse Cave entrance.
Desperado cowboy hat
- A hat is lying on a table in Mick & Ralph's secret room; it can be picked up and stolen for a small Karma loss.
- Meyers wears a Desperado.
- They can occasionally be purchased at the Crimson Caravan Company.
- On the counter along with an 'Old Cowboy Hat' at Blake's booth at Crimson Caravan Company; it can be picked up and stolen for a small Karma loss.
- If you decide to help Ringo fight the Powder Gangers in Goodsprings one of the attacking powder gangers is wearing a Desperado Cowboy hat.
- A Desperado hat can be found on a dead mercenary east of the Goodsprings Cemetery, just south east of a dead prospector, and just north of the abandoned shack. Beware of the 5-15 giant radscorpions.
- One of the Powder Gangers camped out behind Whittaker Farmstead is wearing a Desperado.
- One can be found in The Aces Theater at the Tops, on the stage, sitting on a chair.
- Heck Gunderson wears one of these.
- These hats can be in the inventory of any random merchant that sells apparel.
- One is found on a cliff on the northeast side of the Dead Horses camp in Zion Canyon in the Honest Hearts DLC.
Old cowboy hat
- Three can be purchased from Mick at Mick & Ralph's in Freeside.
- Another hat can be bought at the Crimson Caravan Company.
- An NCR trooper wandering around the New Vegas Strip wears the old cowboy variant.
Rattan cowboy hat
- Gunderson hired hands in the Ultra-Luxe penthouse suite wear rattan cowboy hats, but must be looted from their corpses.
- The female traveling merchant who wanders in and out of Novac often has a rattan cowboy hat.
- Daisy Whitman in Novac wears a rattan cowboy hat, but it must be looted from her corpse or reverse pickpocketed.
- A rattan cowboy hat can be found in the Zion Ranger station.
Rawhide cowboy hat
- With the Wild Wasteland trait, one can be found in Jimmy's well.
- One is found in the Lucky 38 Casino on the main Casino floor, through the main entrance of the building, it is in a room towards the left handside of the Casino floor containing a number of unlocked safes holding many chems and bottlecaps. On top of one of the safes is the rawhide cowboy hat.
- Dr. Ada Straus wears one in Novac.
- One can be found atop a cabinet in the backstage hallway of the Tampico.
Notes
The Courier is shown wearing one of these cowboy hats during the starting cutscene.
Bugs
With the Rattan and Desperado cowboy hats, when the player attempts to equip it through a hotkey, it will freeze the game. [verified]