Fallout 3 merchants

Merchants can be found at various locations throughout the Capital Wasteland, the Pitt, and Point Lookout in 2277.
==Background==
Most towns in the wasteland have merchants selling food and drinks, with those in more prosperous settlements also offering weapons, armor, and clothing. Doctors can treat various ailments for a fee, and certain traders can repair the Lone Wanderer's equipment.
In addition to these traders, there are also four caravan merchants traveling the DC wastes, with one dedicated to food and chems, one to weapons, a third to armor, and a fourth to junk items. Other wastelanders can be found selling random, and sometimes rare, items. Special encounters with doctors, chem vendors, and hunters (food vendors) are also possible when traveling. Due to the transient and vulnerable nature of traveling the wasteland, it is advisable to consider the caravan merchants and wasteland scavengers a temporary system of bartering meant to be used early in the game.
Merchant inventories will scale with the player character's level, although certain advanced items such as power armor and plasma weapons will not normally be available. Prices are the same from store to store, but can also be affected by the player character's Barter skill.
Merchants will have a new inventory at 12:00 AM every Sunday and Wednesday.
Any caps paid to merchants can be found in their inventories should they be killed.
==Merchants==
* Merchants are not affected by any SPECIAL bonuses from equipment or items they use. However, they are affected by the equipment they use that directly adjusts a specific skill, such as Barter or Repair.
* Any items sold to merchants by the player character will remain in their inventories until they restock.
* Though merchants will buy any items the player character offers, most specialized merchants (such as doctors) will not display items sold to them by the player character where those items fall outside the category of their specialty. The consequence of this is that items sold in error will not be able to be bought back if the item being bartered for is outside the merchant's item specialty category.
===Merchant overview===
Merchant name 	Location 	Business Hours 	Medical services	Rents bed/room	Repair services 	Aid	Ammo	Apparel	Misc	Weapons
Ahzrukhal 	The Ninth Circle 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Angela Staley 	Gary's Galley 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Anthony Ling 	New Urban Apparel 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Bannon 	Potomac Attire 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	Repairs to 49% 	 	 	 	 	
Barrows 	The Chop Shop 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Belle Bonny 	The Muddy Rudder 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Bessie Lynn 	New Urban Apparel 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Mister Buckingham 	Weatherly Hotel 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Carol 	Carol's Place 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Doc Church 	Megaton clinic 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Cindy Cantelli 	A Quick Fix 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Cutter 	Cutter's clinic 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Durga 	The Citadel 	24hrs 	 	 	Repairs to 50% 	 	 	 	 	
Eclair 	Spelunkers 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Flak 	Flak 'N Shrapnel's 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	Repairs to 49% 	 	 	 	 	
Friday 	The Pitt Downtown 	24hrs 	 	 	Repairs to 47% 	 	 	 	 	
Gary Staley 	Gary's Galley 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Gob 	Moriarty's Saloon 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Greta 	Carol's Place 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Grouse 	Paradise Falls 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	1 	 	 	
Gustavo 	Tenpenny Tower 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Haley 	Haley's Hardware 	24hrs 	 	 	Repairs to 100% 2	 	 	 	 	
Harris 	The Pitt Downtown 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Jenny Stahl 	The Brass Lantern 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Joe Porter 	Porter's Café 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Julius Banfield 	Tenpenny Tower 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Karl 	Meresti Metro station 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Knick Knack 	Souvenir shop 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Leo Stahl 	Megaton 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Lucy 	Little Lamplight office building	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Lydia Montenegro 	Boutique Le Chic 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Margaret Primrose 	Café Beau Monde 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Michael Masters 	Boutique Le Chic 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Moira Brown 	Craterside Supply 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	Repairs to 72% 	 	 	 	 	
Panada 	House of Wares 	24hrs 	 	 	Repairs to 41% 	 	 	 	 	
Preston 	Rivet City clinic 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Pronto 	Lock and Load 	24hrs 	 	 	Repairs to 51% 	 	 	 	 	
Red 	Red's clinic 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Sawbones 	The Citadel 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Seagrave Holmes 	Rivet City Supply 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Shakes 	Federalist Lounge 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Shrapnel 	Flak 'N Shrapnel's 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	Repairs to 49% 	 	 	 	 	
Smiling Jack 	Evergreen Mills 	24hrs 	 	 	Repairs to 49% 	 	 	 	 	
Grandma Sparkle 	Wilhelm's Wharf 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Sydney 	The Ninth Circle 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Tobar 	Pilgrim's Landing 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Tulip 	Underworld Outfitters 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Vera Weatherly 	Weatherly Hotel 	8:00am to 8:00pm	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Wasteland doctor 	Random encounter 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Wasteland junkie 	Random encounter 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Wasteland scavenger	Various locations. See below 	24hrs 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
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==Caravan merchants==
Caravan merchants are named roving salesmen that carry goods across the wasteland. They travel accompanied by a single armed caravan guard, and a pack brahmin.
Crazy Wolfgang, Crow, Doc Hoff, and Lucky Harith can be encountered on their trade routes, stopping to sell their wares at various locations. Each merchant specializes in a specific category of items, and also offers repair services. Attacking any caravan merchant will result in all four caravan merchants refusing to trade with the player character.
===Caravan investment===
At Canterbury Commons, Uncle Roe offers the player character a map showing the paths of the merchants and their various trade stops. He also gives the option of investing in any of the caravans. The player character can choose to invest twice in each merchant, with 200 and then 500 caps (or 100 and then 250 with the Master Trader perk).
Investing in a caravan allows that merchant to sell a wider variety and higher quality of items, and increases the number of caps they have available when trading. It also raises their Repair skill (up to 75 in one case, with the second investment), allowing them to restore the player character's equipment (i.e. weapons and apparel) to near perfect condition.
===Caravan merchant overview===
Caravan merchant name	Goods sold 	Schematics sold 	Base Repair skill 	Repair skill after full investment	Repairs equipment up to:
Crazy Wolfgang 	Junk 	Rock-It Launcher	15 	75 	85%
Crow 	Armor 	- 	15 	65 	79%
Doc Hoff 	Chems 	Nuka grenade 	15 	65 	79%
Lucky Harith 	Weapons & Ammunition	Shishkebab 	20(incl. + 5 from outfit)	70(incl. + 5 from outfit) 	82%
===Caravan guard overview===
All caravan guards are equipped with R91 assault rifles and leather armor. They are significantly better combatants than most other human non-player characters and are roughly on par with a non-player character companion or super mutant master in terms of durability.
===Caravan routes===
Each caravan follows the same route across the wastelands. They often use roads even though the roads are dilapidated. In order of travel, the merchants stop just outside each of the following areas:
* Canterbury Commons
* Temple of the Union
* Agatha's house
* Paradise Falls
* Arefu
* Evergreen Mills
* Megaton
* Rivet City
The merchants cycle through the caravan waypoints in the same order: Doc Hoff, Crazy Wolfgang, Crow, then Lucky Harith. They move around the game world at different rates depending on whether time passes in real game-time or wait-time. For example, when looking at Doc Hoff and using the Wait feature to jump ahead two or three hours, Crazy Wolfgang will appear there instead. However, if one does not use the Wait feature and actually stands there in real game-time, no one will appear for the next five+ hours.
Even if the caravan owner and bodyguard are dead, their pack brahmin will still follow the trade route. However, the brahmin offers no interaction options. Even if the key to the merchant's inventory is looted from his body, the dead merchant's inventory will never restock on the brahmin.
===Caravan death and injury===
Caravan merchants have more health than standard non-player characters, and their caravan guard bodyguards are significantly tougher than normal, even wearing their basic leather armor. Both the merchants and their guards also carry a couple of stimpaks for healing wounds in combat. Pack brahmin have a large amount of health, considerably more than a regular brahmin.
Nonetheless, caravan merchants are still susceptible to death due to the dangers of their routes: deathclaws, yao guai, Enclave soldiers, raiders and super mutants. Although the merchants usually slip by the danger if the player character is not in the area, caravans may be attacked any time they are in the same area or cell as the player character—regardless of whether they are visible or not. Certain areas of the route are extremely dangerous. For example, the route from Megaton to Rivet City goes past Arlington Library and the Citadel, through Central DC, and across the super mutant-infested bridge across the pipes leading into Jefferson Memorial.
As one progresses along the main quest and achieves higher levels, the more powerful monsters will take a toll on the caravan merchants. The Enclave will establish camps directly on the caravan route or near enough to produce an encounter, like the large camp controlling the crossroad south of the Temple of the Union, which will pose a problem if the merchant approaches the camp while the Lone Wanderer is in the area. Late in the game, it is not uncommon to see a lone merchant without either their pack brahmin or guard.
One can check to see if a merchant is dead by talking with Uncle Roe and asking to invest. It is not possible to invest in a dead merchant. Any surviving bodyguards will hang around Uncle Roe's house in Canterbury Commons. A dead pack brahmin, however, may respawn. If the caravan merchant's brahmin survived, it may still be encountered, fully stocked, and wandering the wasteland.
===Increasing caravan survivability===
Players may be able to stave off the demise of a caravan merchant by various means. Methods by which players may do this include forcibly providing better equipment to the merchants and their bodyguards (see Pickpocketing and Planting items), pre-clearing areas where they travel of enemies (See locations that fall on caravan routes and Enclave camps), purposely spawning only friendly random encounters along their caravan routes (see random encounters and their locations), and avoiding entering map cells that they travel in altogether, when at all possible.
* Caravan merchants travel regular routes that at times, take them dangerously close to hostile enemies. Care should be taken not to trigger hostile encounters at random encounter locations occurring along caravan routes.
* Hostile human enemies enslaved via the use of the Mesmetron and sent to Paradise Falls will not respawn. This allows the player character to remove dangerous Enclave, raider, and Talon Company hostiles. The negative consequences of participating in the slave trade still apply however.
* If one sees a caravan near an unsafe place, fast-traveling away may prevent the threat from injuring the caravan.
==Notes==
* Most named merchants have an associated secure container for their goods that can only be opened via a key which only appears on their person in the event of their death.
* If the player character kills a named merchant and loots their key, everything that could be bought from them is located in their local inventory.
* If a caravanner dies and the player character takes the key to his brahmin off of their corpse, and then subsequently loots the brahmin, it will say at the end of the game that the player character killed the merchant, whether or not the player character actually caused the merchant's death.
* Wasteland scavenger merchants generally carry their inventory on their person.
* While merchants are neutral towards the player character unless provoked, they will not drop ears (see Contract Killer for more details).
* Wasteland scavenger merchants can make fairly deadly foes at early levels due to the pets and heavy weapons they occasionally have. Scavenger's yao guai are just as lethal as a regular wasteland yao guai, and a scavenger wielding a missile launcher can make short work of the unprepared. It is not recommended that a low-level character provoke them.
* The Canterbury Commons caravan merchants can have the quality of the goods and services they provide improved by investing in each one's caravan(see the Merchant Empire unmarked quest for details).
* The vast majority of merchants, traveling or otherwise, will stock several stimpaks.
==Bugs==
* In some cases, the merchants will all stop moving along their routes. This appears to last the entire game and does not prevent the player from trading with them if they can be found. While the player can no longer wait for the merchant they want, the advantage is that they will no longer have to pass enemy camps, greatly increasing the chance that the merchants will survive. 
** This bug was fixed at least once, on the 360, by finding the location of every merchant, then fast traveling rapidly between them and then to other areas (as quickly as possible). Eventually the merchants began to rotate through their routes again.
** Another way to fix this bug is to meet Ben Canning and give him water. After 1–2 hours he will leave and take the same route as the merchants, thus unlocking all the subsequent caravans. On the other hand, if one doesn't want this bug to be fixed, simply don't talk to him and leave him alone.
* After installing the 1.4 patch and starting a new game, the merchants seem to appear alone without a guard or brahmin escort. 
* When a caravan merchant is traveling alone, without a guard or brahmin, it may be a bug where the guard and/or brahmin is too far away from the caravan to spawn with it when the player waits outside of a city. In order to fix this simply run to the caravan and wait for him to greet the Lone Wanderer. In the middle of the greeting click wait, then wait for 24 hours or so. The caravan guard and or brahmin should now be with the merchant and will travel and spawn with him. 
==See also==
* Fallout 3 doctors
* Scavenger
* Scavengers and wastelanders
 
 
 
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