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Mama Dolce's is a location in Fallout 3. It can be reached either through the Arlington/Wasteland Metro then east through Arlington Cemetery, or through the Arlington/Falls Church Metro in Falls Church.
Background
An encrypted file in a terminal in the upper section of the Food Distribution section can only be used by looting Mama Dolce's encryption key from the body of the Chinese remnant captain. The terminal reveals that Mama Dolce's was a front for Chinese intelligence and espionage throughout the D.C. area, and would undoubtedly serve as the base of operations for the other outposts scattered in the surrounding Wasteland. It seems that their front, in the end, came back to bite them, as when the bombs dropped they became the ghouls you fight in Mama Dolce's.
Layout
Mama Dolce's food processing plant is divided into three parts:
- Mama Dolce's processed food
- Mama Dolce's food distribution
- Mama Dolce's loading yard
Between the entry-side processed food, and food distribution, lies the loading yard, this location is also filled with Chinese remnant soldiers.
Notable loot
General
- Nuka-Cola Quantum is on the upper level in the food distribution area. It's on a desk next to a terminal which is near a pre-War book.
- Many Chinese assault rifles can be looted from the Chinese remnants, along with otherwise hard-to-find dirty Chinese jumpsuits.
- A few Stealth Boys can be found in the building. The first is located in the upper levels of the food distribution area under the desk which holds the Chinese Commander's computer. The second is on the ground floor of the processed foods area through a set of double-doors (in the north near the Arlington Cemetery exit) located on a table to the right as you enter the room. There is a Stealth Boy beside the Turret Control terminal when you first walk in to the food distribution area from the Arlington Cemetery South area. Another may be found inside the hard-locked safe down in the cavernous space beneath the food distribution area.
- 11 boxes of Sugar Bombs can be found in the food distribution section. These can be used in the unmarked quest Sugar Bombing Run.
Books
- Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor is outside just North of the Mama Dolce's food distribution entrance behind some barrels, next to a dead wastelander, in an overturned storage container.
- Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual is next to one of the snipers in the loading yard area.
- Two Guns and Bullets, one is next to the other sniper on the opposite side of the loading yard and one is in a bathroom stall on the ground floor in the processed foods area.
- Dean's Electronics is on a shelf in the middle of a stairway in the processed food area. It's next to a phone, a toolbox and a broken computer.
- Tumbler's Today is in the food distribution area. Drop down through a hole(s) in the floor to the lower "cave" area to find the book next to two safes and a skeleton.
- Two pre-War books can be found - one is in the food distribution area, on an upper level next to a terminal. The second book can be found on/under a small table in the upper level in the southeast portion of the processed foods area.
Notes
- In the loading yard there is a gate that requires a key to open, but there is no corresponding key in the Mama Dolce's location, because it doesn't lead to anywhere. The other side of the gate was not intended to be accessed, and the alley is unfinished beyond line of sight which leads into a wasteland abyss of nothing. It is possible to get over the fence by using hollow barrels and moving them to the fence, stacking them and simply jumping over the fence.
- There is a switch in Mama Dolce's processed foods which can be activated, but does nothing. When entering from Arlington, it is in a room to the right, through the large elevated utility door.
- In Mama Dolce's food distribution, in the cavernous section where the copy of "Tumblers Today" is located, standing on one of the safes lets you access a "sewer grate" which can be opened and closed. However, opening or closing it does nothing.
- On the encrypted computer it can be noted that the food colorant is the same as the printer ink.
- Mama Dolce's loading yard is not in the same area on the world map as the Mama Dolce's building. This explains why the "People's Republic of America Radio" station can not be heard here.
- You can find out what the Chinese ghouls are saying when they shout in Chinese by turning on the subtitles. (Noted quotes: "DIE AMERICAN", "Victory at last", [When killed] "Not by you...").
- In food distribution there are two Very-Hard locked doors (they require 100 lockpick to open) that open onto blank walls. These can be accessed by jumping from the top catwalk onto the middle catwalk in the largest room of the food distribution area.
- This place is ideal for the unmarked quest Economics of Violence given by Pronto in Paradise Falls. There are, at the least, twenty Chinese assault rifles inside.
- While in the loading yard, if you have a quest marker active (for example: The Citadel), it will show you a highlighted route, only Mama Dolce's Loading Yard shows up as located West Northwest of Falls Church Metro.
- Oddly, there is a car on the roof of Mama Dolce's with no explanation or inference as to how or why it got there.
- In the room with the turret, the catwalk which holds the turret itself can be accessed by jumping down form the other catwalk above it. This leads to two very hard locked doors, One on each side, both of which has nothing but a wall behind them.
Appearances
Mama Dolce's only appears in Fallout 3.
Behind the scenes
In Italian, one of "dolce"'s meanings is "sweet", which is fitting considering the multitude of Sugar Bombs throughout the factory.
Gallery
The loading yard