Talk:Matthews animal husbandry farm

hmmm...
Since you find a torn page right by his body, how did it survive the fire if he was burned to death in the building? Just askin'.
 * It's special paper made of pure handwavium fibers. Resists fire and plot holes. -- 19:46, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

This has to be an unmarked quest. (DeAdLy 1mPaCt 02:38, December 22, 2010 (UTC))


 * He wrote this note outside of the building and the wind blew it into the house, this seems to make sense and avoid plotholes--90.220.126.225 21:08, December 31, 2010 (UTC)

Inhabitant's Sex
Somebody seems very sure that the inhabitant was female, but there is no evidence of this in any of the notes and apparently nothing else suggests that this is the case. I may be incorrect but could anyone clarify?

"After she suddenly became the last person on the farm, she became incredibly paranoid and began accusing the farm animals of conspiring against her. In a last, manic attempt to stop them, she burnt herself alive in the farmhouse — her skeletal remains can be seen on the floor."

"The girl's parents' graves on the side of the burnt down farmhouse can be looted."

--Cartman! 13:37, December 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * I thought that was strange too. The notes are all in first-person.
 * Maybe somebody's sexist and doesn't think boys can keep diaries? Nitty Tok. 13:35, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

Does it have rags on? Because you tend to be able to tell between male and female then. If not, then count the ribs. 13:37, December 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * The wording of the writing seems more masculine to me, but I'm not sure if it was because the skeleton was supposed to be a male or the developer that wrote the note was male. Great Mara 04:24, June 20, 2011 (UTC)

Mod Idea
I don't know if this is the right place to post this but i think an interesting mod would be that you get like +1 karma for killing all the animals. I mean, it states that they are malnourished so wouldn't it be the best thing to just put them out of their misery so they do not starve to death? Just a thought, I assume it would not be that hard to do. I am a console player so I couldn't do it, but I thought someone else might find it interesting.

Jereth Khan 12:40, May 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * I think if you walked around in your town killing malnourished stray cats and dogs, you'd be arrested.

Cattle Prod
Does anyone know where the cattle prod might have disappeared in my game? It's not on the crate where it's supposed to be and I've tried the usual suspects (companions, fallen down to the bottom of the barn, fallen outside, etc) but can't find it anywhere. Thought it should be added to the article if there's a usual place it disappears to or if it happens a lot. Cheers. Cefcasan 17:57, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

Same here, maybe it was patched out. 74.77.129.70 06:50, February 3, 2011 (UTC)

I removed the point about the cattle prod as there was no evidence it was true a.) according to my playthroughs and b.) according to the GECK files. 3nexx 08:22, April 23, 2011 (UTC)

Scary sound...
I just confirmed it on my xbox, the ghostly sound can be heard standing between the two graves. i ran the hell outta there, tough i think it happens on every grave, can someone confirm this?. --Nuke-a-Punch 03:20, January 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * I heard it all around the barn it was frikken scary not to mention being there at night at least i never stayed til midnight :/ De Accipitre Deserta 13:03, March 27, 2011 (UTC)

@ Cefcasan
Then I must ask you sorry, I missed that. Alas, English isn't my first language --Niflheimr 10:56, January 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * No need to apologise. Didn't mean to sound aggressive or anything if I did. --Cefcasan 17:33, January 7, 2011 (UTC)

Animal Farm
Does anyone else think this farm is a reference to George Orwell's novel Animal Farm? In that book, the animals conspire to overthrow the farmer, after the owner, Mr. Jones, has a bad drinking binge and abuses the animals. I think the farm owner's paranoia of the animals conspiring is a reference to the novel. (The plot can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Plot_summary) Also, the name Mr. Jones, like Matthews, is a similarly common, plain name. Obsidian and Bethesda love including these kinds of cultural references. Anyone agree this is a possible homage?

I was just about to suggest the same thing till I saw you had put it on there. But yeah I agree.--Skipbomber 03:19, May 22, 2011 (UTC)

I was the think the same thing, everytime I see the place I almost always call it just Matthews "Animal Farm" and forget Husbandry.--74.66.85.65 16:28, July 22, 2011 (UTC)

I've never had the animals attack me at midnight.
Nor have I had two ghouls attack me after reading all four diary pages. Has anyone else?

Weird ?
Did anyone else see that skull on the post on the pen? with the wire going through it? De Accipitre Deserta 13:37, March 27, 2011 (UTC)
 * There are 7 actually not just 1

False information?
There is no mention att all i the official guide about any animal attack at 00:00 or wounded ghoul attack.--Mattias.nilsson86 19:22, April 17, 2011 (UTC)
 * You know most "official" game guides are complete crap right? Great Mara 19:34, April 17, 2011 (UTC)

Prima Games is quite trustworthy. And according to my own experience and my uncle's the attack on 00:00 and the ghoul thing doesnt happen. Maybe the cattle can suddenly attack sure. But not precisely at 00:00. --Mattias.nilsson86 13:11, April 28, 2011 (UTC)

NOTHING happens here at midnight. NO ghouls attack you after reading the notes. I just left the farm after standing there from 11pm to 1am nothing happened, even read the notes just after midnight. I even brought a mirror along and did bloody mary, nada. No closet here for me to bring a single match into.

Respawning
Do the Brahmin and Bighorners respawn?  Pikmin  1254  06:37, July 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * That is strange …
 * I just killed all the cattle, travelled home, slept, returned … and they were all back.
 * Looked into the GECK. I thought when the template isn't set respawning the reference wouldn't, also. 2 of the 7 are marked as persistent. So why are they here again? The following day already? -- CompleCCity (talk) 15:04, 11 November 2015 (UTC)