Brooks Tumbleweed Ranch

An abandoned ranch in the Mojave Wasteland. Brooks Tumbleweed Ranch is one of the most northern locations on the map, located slightly north-west of Horowitz Farmstead.

Layout
Inside, there is a kitchen, a living room, a storage area, and a bedroom. Behind the ranch is a cattle pen, seemingly empty; with a few tumbleweeds drifting idly in the breeze.

The items in the ranch are considered owned, resulting in a loss of Karma is taken.

Wind-Brahmin Wrangler
Approaching the cattle pen will uncloak a nightkin selling "wind-brahmin", which are the tumbleweeds that are littering the pen. If you ask the charge, he will demand all of your caps. Originally if you agree without asking, he'll give you a Stealth Boy. But with the game patch released July 7–8, 2011, the nightkin will no longer give you a Stealth Boy if you agree without asking, and will take all of your caps instead. If you refuse, he'll become hostile. A Stealth Boy can be pickpocketed from the nightkin, or will be on his corpse after he is killed. Further interactions (insinuating that the tumbleweeds are not in fact "doggies") results in the nightkin becoming hostile towards the player. If a wind-brahmin is purchased, the nightkin can then be killed to collect the lost caps. Killing the nightkin does not affect karma. It should also be noted that just in front of the pen is a dead wastelander.

Notable loot

 * A Lying, Congressional Style is on the top floor on a shelf beside a dresser. Must be stolen.
 * There is a Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap on the ground in the corner of the room near the Gas cylinder on the first floor (must be stolen).

Appearances
Brooks Tumbleweed Ranch appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * If you have spoken to the nightkin that is selling the tumbleweeds, and then decide to reload the save, he will not appear. Exiting the game and going to the main menu, or restarting your game will fix this. Though this will lead him to spawning wherever you loaded (maybe on the other side of the map). This may also lead to him reappearing every time you restart. Upon spawning he may become hostile to those around you (leaving you alone) and will start killing them. This could potentially be used to assassinate people of interest. It is also possible that he might appear later on, as if he followed you, to somewhere random.
 * Fiends can spawn in the area with pulse guns, a pleasant surprise for any wastelander who does not want to venture into Vault 34.
 * If you kill the nightkin and come back a few days later, upon entering the pen you will hear the nightkin coming out of Stealth but nothing will appear anywhere.
 * When initiating dialog if you accept the offer without asking how much he will give you the Stealth Boy without taking any caps.
 * Sometimes the Nightkin will not spawn instantly, and will instead appear at another location and time afterward, like for instance, in the Sierra Madre, if Dead Money is installed.

Gallery
Ранчо «Перекати-поле»