The Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background[]
As detailed in four scattered diary pages around the farm, a family of three was living on the farm around 2281 when one day, the parents went to the nearby NCR base at Camp Searchlight to procure supplies, leaving their child behind. After days passed without them returning, the child went into the town to search for them, only to discover that they had been ghoulified by the radiation blanketing Searchlight as a result of the Legion's sabotage. The child's parents, now feral, attacked on sight, forcing the child to shoot them in self-defense and flee to the farm.
Alone and traumatized, the child's remaining days at the farm were spent in suffering, growing increasingly paranoid and accusing the brahmin and bighorners of planning a violent conspiracy to overtake the farm. In a last, maniacal attempt to stop the "revolt", the child burned the farmhouse to the ground while still inside, killing themselves in the process.
Layout[]
Situated equidistant from the raided farmstead to the north and the crashed vertibird to the south, the location consists of two dilapidated barns sitting adjacent to one another, one containing malnourished bighorners and the other malnourished brahmin. Both barn entryways face east. Across from the barns is the ruins of the farmhouse. Inside is the child-sized skeleton of the previous owner.
To the southeast are two graves, which can be presumed to be those of the parents. Both of the graves are burial mounds, which can be searched for loot. One may be labeled as a grave and require a shovel to open. To the right of the barn are three animal pens containing malnourished brahmin, malnourished brahmin calves and malnourished bighorner calves can be found.
Notable loot[]
- A copy of Wasteland Survival Guide - On the top floor of the northernmost barn along with torn diary page 3.
- One Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap - On the top floor of the northernmost barn on top of a wooden crate next to some empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottles.
- Torn diary page 1 - In the southernmost barn, on the steps leading to the second floor.
- Torn diary page 2 - In the back of the truck to the northeast.
- Torn diary page 3 - In the northernmost barn, on the second floor on the wooden crate.
- Torn diary page 4 - In the burnt down farmhouse to the northeast of the farm by the truck, near the skeleton.
Appearances[]
The Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.
Behind the scenes[]
The child's belief that the cattle animals were planning a revolt may be inspired by the 1945 satirical novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, which revolves around mistreated farm livestock rebelling against their human master in an attempt to gain control of the farm.
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