Ranch
Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm
An abandoned livestock farm south of the Raided Farmstead with starving animals, a grim diary and a Wasteland Survival Guide.
- Region
- Southern Mojave
- Faction
- None
- Danger
- Safe
- Map position
- 12 × 18
Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm is an abandoned livestock operation roughly halfway between the Raided Farmstead to the north and the Crashed Vertibird to the south. Two run-down barns face east, one holding malnourished bighorners and the other malnourished brahmin, with more calves in pens beside them. Across from the barns stand the ruins of the burnt farmhouse, and two graves lie to the southeast. None of the animals here are a threat.
The farm's story is told through four torn diary pages spread across the barns, the back of a truck and the burnt farmhouse. They were written by the last person living here, a child whose parents went to Camp Searchlight for supplies and never returned, until the child went looking and found them turned into feral ghouls. Read them in order for one of the bleakest little stories in the southern Mojave, and look for the small skeleton in the farmhouse ruins.
The practical reason to stop is the top floor of the northern barn, which holds a Wasteland Survival Guide skill book and a Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap on a crate beside some empty Sunset bottles. It is a quick, safe detour between Nipton and Camp Searchlight, and one of the two graves can be dug up if you carry a shovel.
How to get there
From the Raided Farmstead, head south until you reach the pair of barns.
Notable loot
- Wasteland Survival Guide (top floor of the northern barn)
- Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap (northern barn, top floor)
- Torn diary pages 1 to 4 (barns, truck and farmhouse)
Tips
- Read the four diary pages in order for the farm's story.
- Carry a shovel to dig up the marked grave.
Collectibles and items here
- Note Torn diaryPage 1. On the steps to the second floor inside the south barn.
- Note Torn diaryPage 2. In the back of the truck behind the ruins of the main house, to the northeast.
- Note Torn diaryPage 3. In the loft of the north barn, on top of a wooden crate.
- Note Torn diaryPage 4. In the burned-out farmhouse northeast of the farm by the truck, near the skeleton.
- Skill book Wasteland Survival Guide (Survival)Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm, on the top balcony of the northern barn. The book is near the barrel crate.
- Star bottle cap Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm barnMatthews Animal Husbandry Farm, in the northwest barn. Go up the stairs; the cap is on top of a crate.