Worthless Water - ESPless
🟠 Updated over a year ago⚠️ Install Order · 5 steps
Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.1% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #6 of 14 Items - Food/Drinks/Chems/etc mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Requires xNVSE and JIP LN NVSE
I like water bottling mods like Bottle the Water or Bottle Rinse Repeat. It's such a sensible, obvious feature that was even implemented in Fallout 4's survival mode. However, they create a rather obvious exploit: the player can pick up the hundreds of bottles strewn about as junk items everywhere and sell Purified Water for up to 18 caps each! Repeated fast travel to Goodsprings Source can easily net thousands of caps.
This simple ScriptRunner reduces the base value of all water items to remove/minimize this exploit:
Purified Water: 20 caps -> 2 caps
Dirty Water: 10 caps -> 1 cap
Irradiated Water: 5 caps -> 0 caps
TTW's Aqua Pura is supported but not required. Aqua Pura is set to 2 caps like Purified Water.
A water bottling mod isn't technically required but without one, this mod is rather pointless.
Worthless Water - ESPless reduces the value of water bottles to fix an economy exploit caused by water bottling mods. A lightweight, ESPless mod with 29 endorsements and over 36,000 downloads, last updated September 2025.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Directly addresses a common economy exploit, making it a must-have for modded playthroughs with water bottling.
- ESPless means it's lightweight and won't clutter your load order.
- Solid download count (36k+) shows real demand, even if endorsements are modest.
⚠️ Cons
- Only 29 endorsements – might be underappreciated or niche.
- Last updated over a year ago – may not be tested with the latest game version.
For players who use water bottling mods and want to prevent easy money exploits. Also for mod pack authors looking to rebalance economies. Skip if you don't care about water bottle values or don't use bottling mods.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Since it's ESPless, just drop the files into your Data folder or use a mod manager – no plugin load order needed.
- If you're using a mod manager, make sure to enable the mod in your load order even though it has no ESP.
- Pair with water bottling mods to see the value change in-game – check a water bottle's value before and after.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- New Vegas Mods
- Author
- Phil Swift
- Version
- 1.01
- Downloads
- 36,247
- Endorsements
- 29
- Category
- Items - Food/Drinks/Chems/etc
- Created
- 3/29/2025
- Updated
- 9/26/2025
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