Vending Machines
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[edit] List of Vending Machines
- Bot Shutdown Panel
- Circus of Values
- El Ammo Bandito
- Gatherer's Garden
- Gene Bank
- Health Station
- Power to the People
- U-Invent
- Slot Machines
- Swami Epstein
[edit] Common Vending Machines (Circus of Values and El Ammo Bandito)
There are fifty-three common vending machines in BioShock (forty-three Circus of Values and ten El Ammo Banditos), carrying a total of twenty-one different items. Hacking these vending machines will often cause other types of items that were not previously available to appear for purchase, as well as reduce prices to 75% of their normal value (except for the advanced ammunition types, which are reduced to 50%. A few vending machines in the Medical Pavilion sell hacked items for slightly more than 75% (not shown in references below). There is also a glitch, where upon hitting a vending machine several times with a wrentch, it drops 1-3 health packs.
Vending machines do not have ammo for weapons that are not yet available for the player to find (i.e. Medical Pavilion has the Pistol, Machine Gun, and Shotgun; its vending machines have ammo for these weapons, but not the Grenade Launcher, Chemical Thrower, or Crossbow. They never contain inventable ammunition types. It can only be made at U-Invent machines. All El Ammo Bandito machines sell base ammunition types, and will also have two additional types of advanced ammo available at the end of their list. Though, only very limited amounts of the advanced ammo types can be bought.
[edit] Exceptions
There is a broken vending machine in Arcadia's Waterfall Grotto, with several Frag Grenades and First Aid Kits around it. There's also one in Hephaestus Core that will dispense a slow-burning grenade if you try to use it. You can step away before it explodes, or use the Telekinesis Plasmid to grab the grenade and toss it at an enemy.
In the grand tradition of System Shock, there is a food vending machine in the Fleet Hall theater of Fort Frolic. The food items are marked up forty times the usual price.
[edit] References
- A listing of all vending machines and their stock in the order they are encountered in the game is here: BioShock_VMs.pdf
- A listing of all items in vending machines, and where they can be found, is here. This helps you locate certain items: BioShock_VM_Items_by_Level.pdf
- A one-page cheat sheet of how often the twenty-one items appear on each level is here: BioShock_Stock_Counts.pdf
