Fallout: New Vegas is a rather cool world with a lot going on, but let’s be honest. There’s a lot of empty space in the game and things can get a little quiet. Sure there’s the Hoover Dam, the NCR, Caesar’s Legion, and New Vegas, but there’s also a desert and a lot of sand between all of them. Luckily, we’re here to offer you some primo mods for spicing up the Mojave.
Here you’ll find some choice changes for your wasteland experience. There’s interface updates, environmental changes, additional weapons and additional effects for making said weapons explode your enemies into pretty little bits, etc… Need a new quest? We’ve got you covered. Want new monsters that will haunt your nightmares? You’ve come to the right place. Step right up and try your luck. You’re certain to leave our Fallout: New Vegas mods page carrying more than you walked in with.
Last Updated: 11/11/2015
Riddick - The Chronicles of Fallout / by dragbody and friend
If you didn’t think there was enough Vin Diesel in Fallout: New Vegas, this mod allows you to turn your player character literally into John Riddick of the Pitch Black franchise. It also injects touches from the franchise into the game. Reaching a certain level gets you some of Riddick’s outfits from the films, and there’s a cave full of Bioraptors from the first film. And yes, Riddick’s eyes are shined - pressing V activates Cat’s Eye.
Milkman / Created by Testudini
Milkman is bizarre. Sure, you didn’t know you wanted to be the premier Milkman of the Mojave and build a world dominating milk empire, but you will. This mod includes 15 new quests, a new fully voiced companion, 9 new perks, and a continuing farm system that allows you to milk your way to an economic boom. All that and, of course, all the milk you can drink. You want to grow up big and strong don’t you?
Project Nevada / Created by PN Team
Project Nevada is a total overhaul for Fallout: New Vegas that adds a ton of cool features to the game. It makes visual changes for any visors on the helmets you equip. Have power armor on? Then you ought to have night vision. It also adds variable zoom to guns with scopes and dynamic crosshairs that factor in the accuracy of weapons. Another great edition is a sprint feature that comes with a tackle feature that will knock enemies back and down if you sprint into them. There are other features as well, making it an overall solid addition to Fallout New Vegas’s mechanics.
New Vegas Bounties III / Created by NVBIII Team
This mod is an additional quest for the wastelands of New Vegas, tasking you with trekking to a new unforgiving world space and hunting down some tough customers. There’s over three hours of new content and over two thousand lines of voiced dialogue. The mod requires Honest Hearts, Lonesome Road, and another mod which can be accessed on the page. Be warned, only experienced couriers need apply for this rough road.
EVE - Essential Visual Enhancements / Created by weijiesen and jonnyeah
EVE is a mod that updates the overall looks of weapons and their firing effects. It gives a dazzling effect to energy weapon kills, explosions, bullet impacts and the characters that get killed by them. If you want your Fallout killing sprees to be exponentially more flashy and colourful, this is the mod for you.
Nevada Skies - Weather Effects / Created by Yossarian
This is a mod that allows for weather effects in Fallout: New Vegas. It also grants you statistics on your PIP boy to be able to track weather events and a device to change the weather settings. The mod boasts over 320 variants that range from rain to snow to radiation and toxic storms befitting of a nuclear wasteland. It also suitably boosts your ability to sneak and lowers perception in bad weather conditions.
Weapon Retexture Project - WRP / Created by Millenia
This mod reworks many weapons in the game visually, giving them an ultra-realistic looking grit and texture. Not all of the weapons in the game are updated with the mod at this time, but the ones that are look truly impressive and stylish.
Wasteland Flora Overhaul / Created by vurt
This mod can be used to populate the scare wasteland of New Vegas with vegetation. There are over eighty models of plants and trees that will appear in contextually fitting areas of the wasteland. You can adjust the mod to make the wasteland lush and fertile with vegetation or tone it down to where it simply updates the textures on existing vegetation of vanilla New Vegas.
T-60 Power Armour / Created by Nekronom Dragbody Unoctium
Get your hands on a Power Armour like the one that’s been featured in Fallout 4 so often as of late. The T-60 Power Armour is a seven-foot tall tank of equipable defense and destruction. You can’t just stow it in your pack like normal inventory items, instead, you enter into this power armour like a vehicle. Makes sense as you’ll be a juggernaut in this bad boy. The armour is offered in several different coloured variations. Tailor your destruction to your fashionable interests.
A World Of Pain / Created by Dj Mystro
A World Of Pain is a mod that adds over 114 new explorable locations to the New Vegas wasteland. In each of these new locations are new challenging enemies, NPCs with dialogue, vendors, and quests that will push your experience in the Nevada wasteland to another level. To help you survive there are new weapons that can be found and scavenged in your journey through the new locales.
Weapons of the New Millenia / Created by Millenia and Naky
This a collection of all weapons created by Millenia into one big pack. The set is impressive. The mod adds over 60 ballistic weapons to the game, based on real-life counterparts, each with their own unique textures and statistics.
Monster Mod / Created by Dogtown1
This is a mod that adds over 130 new creatures to the existing bestiary of New Vegas. These aren’t mere pallet swaps of existing creatures. Some are simple, but there are a great deal of creatures included that are the radioactive spawn of nightmares. The mod also messes with encounter resets and respawn rates of creatures in the game to ensure that you will be experiencing the horrors it will show you.
The Mod Configuration Menu / Created by Pelinor
A lot of mods can be tailored to meet different needs and alter the game with different subtleties. There are dozens of mods that utilize the mod we’re discussing right now. If you are running mods like FOOK, Immersive HUD and FPS Weapon Wheel, you’ll kind of need this plugin to experience these mods to their true designed intent. The Mod Configuration Menu adds a nice menu system to tweak applicable mods to your hearts desire. The menu system is integrated into the “pause” menu seamlessly, and you’d never know it wasn’t designed by Obsidian themselves. Give it a try, we’re confident you’ll be pleased.
NeilMCs Texture Pack for New Vegas / Created by NeilMc_NMC
If you have a chance to have photorealistic, high resolution textures in the game with a strict adherence to lore-friendlyness, why wouldn’t you use them. Enter this featured mod. This is the most comprehensive texture pack available to date for Fallout: New Vegas, designed by a master texture artist. Now the wastelands of Nevada and California will pop with high-detailed goodness. Give this pack a go, we guarantee you won’t be disappointed.
NVAC - New Vegas Anti Crash / Created by Queue
If you find that your heavily modded Fallout: New Vegas setup is starting to crash a lot, then we have a surprise for you. Today we bring you “New Vegas Anti-Crash”. This NVSE plugin bypasses many common crashes brought about by a large load order; you can also benefit with a small load order, or no mods at all. Note that you will need New Vegas Script Extender for this mod to work.
Fallout Character Overhaul / Created by Drumber
This mod is guaranteed to breath new life into all your NPC’s in Fallout: New Vegas. Here we have “Fallout Character Overhaul”, a high resolution texture pack for all the NPC faces in the game. If you want high detail, life-like characters, then look no further. Other features include eyelashes for NPC’s, new hi-res hair textures, over 130 races to add diversity via new meshes and textures.
That’s all for now: a veritable what’s-what of whiz bang mods set to light up your Mojave experience like the neon of New Vegas. From the beautiful to the downright bizarre, we hope you’ve found a little something to keep you going on the dusty trails. If we haven’t, fret not. We’ll be scouring the sands for quality creations that we think you might like. Be sure to check back and we’ll do our best to find what suits your fancy.
