My Megaton house

 is a player residence in Megaton which becomes available after you complete the The Power of the Atom quest. Sheriff Lucas Simms or his son Harden Simms (if the Sheriff has been killed) gives you the key to the house after disarming the nuclear bomb in the center of Megaton. At this point the "Empty House" turns into .

Amenities
You get a robot butler, Wadsworth, who is able to tell you science related jokes, supply you with Purified Water, cut your hair and explain what your home improvements are used for. If the player has purchased the Infirmary, Wadsworth will remind you to use it if you pass by him injured.

Sleeping in the bed on the second floor of the shack grants the player the "Well Rested" effect (+10% xp) for 9 hours.

The house also comes with random loot in the five containers. Two of them on the top floor in your "bedroom" (desk and file cabinet) and three on the first floor (two lockers opposite each other in the main area and the refrigerator in the "kitchen" cranny). These containers are proven safe places to store things, bugs excepted(see below).

IMPORTANT! Tested on 360, when you leave weapons outside containers in your house, after a few days you will possibly find them in a state of 100 percent repair. I had dogmeat and charon left in the house, a nuka cola machine, a my first chem lab, and nothing else. I'm not surehow long it takes, but I left my new 50 percent Alien Blaster on the desk upstairs, and a day or so later after sleeping and reentering (and leveling up from 17 to 18) it was at 100 percent. seems to work with all weapons so far tested, including a Fat man and Fisto!

Home Improvements
Once you are a resident of Megaton and proud owner of your own house, you can enhance your new home by adding various improvements which can be purchased from Moira at Craterside Supply.

You can improve your house with an My First Infirmary, My First Jukebox, My First Laboratory, My First Nuka-Cola Machine and a My First Workbench. All of these improvements add new functionality to your house which ranges from being able to heal yourself instantly and for free to simply being able to listen to music in your house without using your Pip-Boy radio.

It is also possible to change the decor from a run down shack to one of the following themes: Raider, Wasteland Explorer, Vault, Science, Pre-War and Love Machine

Besides pre-defined themes, a playful player can equip the shack with pretty much everything found in the wasteland, dropping items and arranging them with the drag key, or even with "guards", leaving them around and pushing by walking directly at them in desired location. However, the player must "renew" partnership whenever passing around in order to prevent companions from returning to pre-defined locations.

Bugs

 * If you leave some items on the ground in your Megaton house and then buy some new accessory for the home(Say, a new theme), all items you left laying on the ground will be at FULL condition the next time you enter your house. However, do not leave ammo on the ground when you buy a new theme as any amount of ammunition will be reduced to only one bullet.(Xbox 360 post patch verification needed)(I've tried this post patch buying everything possible for your house, it's a no go)
 * Disappearing items - Many of the storage containers are bugged and instead of all them being 'Secured' and safe to store things in, some of them will randomly empty (Lockers on the opposite end of the front door, Desk) or 'restock' default items (the fridge). The only container that always seems to properly secure itself is the set of lockers right next to the door.
 * Fix - One must open the console, click the locker/filing cabinet, and type (case-sensitive) to check whether it is owned by the player.  If it is not, click the container and type  (case-sensitive).  One can verify whether it worked by clicking the container and typing  (case-sensitive) again.  Close the console to move to the next container and repeat.
 * Xbox 360: This appears to be outdated, and all storage containers are safe for storage; I have been using them since level 2, now I am level 20 (86 hours of gameplay))
 * There seems to be a strange occurrence with some players where some items left lying around the house (not in containers) will eventually be found to have been repaired completely after some time.
 * If you drop some items into your house (pre-war money) it will be classed as stolen. Note: This is not true. Any stolen item will be classified as stolen when dropped, including weightless objects (Ammo, Pre-war Money, etc...) Stacks of items containing stolen items will be classified as stolen, if the majority in the stack is stolen. (is this right? I've never experienced this, though I do know that stolen items when dropped will display "steal" instead of "take".)
 * With the DLC: The Pitt all house themes will reset after returning from The Pitt. This means you can get another copy of Tesla and Lying with their respective themes (and all items that go along with the theme).(360)


 * Getting Stuck: If you climb onto your bed and go into the left hand side of the bed (facing it) close to the wall, your character will get stuck, forcing you to load another save. Another way around is to have a companion with you. Put away your weapons as if you want to fight unarmed and hit your companion in vats-mode. If your companion is close enough (whenever you are able to use vats in your stuck position) you will be put right next to your companion. When he gets angry, pull down your fists and move away. The situation will cool down.