Talk:Maintenance level

Anyone know how to get the Maintenance? Where's the switch?
 * From the Engineering Bay, you can see it on your Local Map. It's a teleporter pad to the left of the door to the Robot Assembly room I think (I'm sure about the teleporter pad, and it being in the Engineering Bay, but I'm not sure which door it's to the left of). Servius 16:02, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * yes it is to the left of the door but make sure you do it before you take out the generators. the port will take you to the waste area from there you will make your way to the maintenance area make sure you get both the samurai sword and General Chase's Overcoat(i mean combat armor) as once you leave the maintenance area you can not go back Five Star General Of The Dead BigDog 16:30, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

No it is already on all you have to do is go stand on it and activate it and you will be in the waste level Five Star Genral Of The Dead BigDog 17:32, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Another question, does the teleporter turn on after something, or is there a switch that you could turn on right when you reach the Engineering Core?


 * For me, it was always off.

For some reason I can't enter even though I still have one generator left what's wrong?65.44.97.180 18:25, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

loot behind the compactors
In the same room as the only compactor which can be turned on/off, there are several other compactors working, aligned on a grid. There is a possibility - after observing their rhythm - to sneak behind the compactors in a diagonal line, starting to the right. Behind, there are two safes (one hard, one easy) with plenty of various loot (Magnum, laser pistol, chems and ammo) and a medical kit. Please confirm. Kisakos 10:01, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * confirmed, i'll add it.84.92.169.252 14:33, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Found A Bug
I Died while riding the elevator once already. Now I cannot re enter it from a later save. The map has new physics which keep me from getting close enough to re-initiate the conversation to start the ride. I really don't like this. I may have to go to a much earlier save to stop it, but it will clearly repel me from entering the trash elevator. Hope someone can help. Please Confirm.


 * Confirmed (360). However, there is a simple fix. If you die or get stuck after the elevator sequence, and need to load from the auto that is right after you enter the Maintenance Level: Simply turn around right after loading, go through the teleporter back to the Engineering Core, and the reenter the Maintenance Level. I'll add it under bugs. Benjamin 20:37, December 15, 2009 (UTC)

Pair of glitches
I wasn't standing inside the trash transport when I told Sally to start it up and fell through the floor and was placed inside the transport. I didn't encounter anything else odd, however the exit teleporter to the engine core does not work. It's lit up, I can activate it, but nothing happens.

66.69.47.207 01:09, 14 August 2009 (UTC)Nam-Ereh-Won

Yeah Sucks like Hell, needed to restart the Game to use the Teleporter.

Possible Bug/Sequence Break
The first time I played through Mothership Zeta, I somehow managed to bypass the entire waste disposal area. I'm only just playing it for the first time now. I'm going for the "Alien Archevist" achievment this time, since I obviously missed recording No. 19 the last time around I wasn't able to get it before.

Anyway I just thought I'd point this out incase it had happened to anyone else.--92.2.178.93 21:38, September 7, 2009 (UTC)


 * This has probably happened to many people by now. You are not required by the storyline to enter the Maintenance Level, and therefore many players probably didn't ever even notice it. Benjamin Malin 20:41, December 15, 2009 (UTC)

Two Sallys?
I started a new game after already doing the mothership zeta quest and at level 8 I entered Maintenance Level, after the ride and fall i exited the room before sally could speak and continued untill i got General Chase's Overcoat to see that she had been following me, when i tried to talk to her she just said "let's talk later" but their was another sally telling me what to do as normal (also, sally can't be killed by those giant crushing hammers). At the end I used VATs to kill the alien at the final door with the sally who had been following me right next to me and then she was suddenly behind the door, (notes: I'm on 360 and have been using the Chinese Stealth Armor). This happen to anyone else?

Fight the Cows Bug
As you descend from the maintenance level, it's possible to shift into the observed room by using VATS to make a melee/unarmed attack on one of the brahmin. You subsequently fall through the floor of the room as the elevator moves on, making a lethal landing on the destination junk pile, below.

This may also be possible with the room of aliens, but I couldn't get any of them to come close enough to the window slot.

Awesome Car.
About the car on the 3rd level, in captive recording 18, the captive claims to have been abducted while in her car, which would seem like that car would've been brought with her. Assuming this is correct, then it is likely that car is hers.--Master of cheeZ 10:27, December 28, 2009 (UTC)

Ambush bug
Damn it. I opened the door to the ambush room and killed everything in there. The door to the next room won't open, though. I went through the door with noclip and a whole bunch of aliens spawned around me. Has anyone else had this? Himmelstoss 12:58, March 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * Never mind. I believe one of the aliens in the ambush room had glitched into the room with the locked door, thus making it impossible to clear the room of all aliens. I just replayed it.
 * I just got this bug! One of the aliens spawned into the door, I can't kill it easily, but I will try with grenades. Will report back soon!--SkH 16:32, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, couldn't kill him in the door, because I had no grenades. I just reloaded an earlier save and it worked now.--SkH 17:45, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

Bug Sally Disappeared
I was standing outside the elevator in the maintenance area. saved the game and then wasn't ale to enter the elevator. It just kept pushing me out. So I reloaded from the save I just made and then I was able to enter the elevator, but sally was gone. I have tried restarting the game and all but I cant find her. Any help


 * Hey there, first time poster, long time reader. I had this damn bug hit me too, and so far the only fix I've found relies on the console, meaning it won't work for 360/PS3. If you DO have the PC version, you can fix this problem by finding Sally in Engineering (If she's there, she was for me) and then grab her ref_id. Do this in the console by left clicking on her and then type "gbo". Note the number that is given to you in the command's output . Once you do that, move down to Maintenance, and enter the area Sally is supposed to spawn in. Open the console again, and type "prid_" to "target" Sally in the console. Now finally, type "moveto player" and Sally will be teleported to your cell and coordinates. From there she should begin the Maintenance events as normal.


 * (NOTE-Don't put quotes into the console commands, that's just to clearly define where the console command begins and ends!)


 * Anyway, hope this helps! This should probably be noted as a fix in the bugs for Sally, or this location of the ship. -RetroNutcase


 * 97.113.208.96 03:40, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

Samurai's Sword may be absent sometimes
During my first playing through this addon I have entered this location after destroying all 3 generatoirs, but not talking to Sally outside the waste area. It went normally but when I have found the room filled with medical supplies near end, there was no Samurai's Sword. I have thoroughly examined and clicked 'activate' on everythuing in that room but no luck. Perhaps by the time you're ready to go to spacewalk, the japanese guy has already found it himself.