Hilltop Farm Ruins

The  are an unmarked location in Fallout 3 ' s Capital Wasteland. They are located south of Relay Tower KX-B8-11, southeast of Grisly Diner, northeast of Temple of the Union and north of AntAgonizer's Lair and Canterbury Commons.

The ruins consist of a water tower, a silo, an outhouse, a makeshift windmill and a destroyed farmhouse.

Story
The house contains a terminal which chronicles the life of a group of wastelanders who are nowhere to be found. The authors of the various terminal entries are Doc Johanson, Edgar, Jim, Rochelle, Tyrone and Tyler. In addition, four more residents called Miguel, Miles, Jacky and Vu are mentioned in the notes.

Apparently, they had been underground and started a small colony on the hill. Leadership seems to have rotated between the inhabitants once a month. It appears that they managed to make an irrigation for crops (possibly thanks to the water tower nearby) and raised chickens and goats for a while, yet only the cows survived.

The last entry speaks of the scout, Miguel, spotting travelers in the valley below, and the residents' intent to stay hidden. Their fate is unknown, though presumably, their system failed and they'd long since passed away. The fact that the last log describes Miguel spotting a group of travelers suggests that they may have been killed or forced to leave soon afterward, probably by the "travelers" themselves, otherwise they probably would have made more entries in the computer. Whatever the cause, it is most apparent that at some point the house was left destroyed, and uninhabitable.

Skeletal remains found near the terminal indicate that at least one of the settlers perished at this location.

The corpse of a lone raider can be found inside the metal container down by the pond, this suggests Raiders may have been the "travelers".

To the northeast of the farm, past the water tower and over a small ridge, a band of four Raiders can be found standing over the bodies of five Wastelanders. A lack of nearby fast-travel locations makes it almost impossible to intervene in the battle, although a careful approach from the a ridge to the northwest (east-southeast via Relay Tower KX-B8-11) can allow a player with a a sniper scope to view the participants before the battle script activates. Inching slowly closer while doing this can even trigger the battle's closer participants to act while their compatriots remain frozen. Judicious application of a Missile Launcher can even eliminate the Raiders while leaving perhaps one (or more?) Wastelanders alive. Your reward for saving the fortunate citizen is the chance to be told to go away, or other such Wastelander sayings. For most players though, this is likely intended to represent the final stand of the Hilltop Farm's inhabitants, as without some sort of long-range assistance they are totally overmatched and will fail to kill even a single Raider.

Terminal transcripts

 * See Commune Notes.

Notable loot

 * Guns and Bullets in the outhouse.
 * Dean's Electronics in an overturned container to the east; on a barrel.