From HAMILTON’S HIDEAWAY head NE and you’ll see a church ahead. Head over there to HALLOWED MOORS CEMETERY.
11. HALLOWED MOORS CEMETARY
Careful super mutants about. Kill them, free the captive, and loot the church. You’ll hear some explosions outside after a while. In the church you’ll find [MINI NUKE], [DC JOURNAL OF MEDICINE], [BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE] and [KELLER FAMILY TRANSCRIPT] at the podium, and [3 FRAG GRENADES] hidden in a box
Head SE from the cemetery you’ll hit a little road. Follow it (find an ammo crate at some tires). At the stop sign go right towards a little bridge. Just before the bridge go east towards some shacks by the water. There will be some raiders and a lot of nice loot at their shacks.
Keep going east, past a billboard and locomotive. You’ll reach some abandoned houses. Loot them for some stuff including [TUMBLERS TODAY] in the bathtub.
Head north to MERESTI TRAINYARD. Let it register on your map but do not worry about it. Look to the NE and you’ll see some rocky hills to the NE of the train station. Head up those hills to the top, you’ll find a wooden bridge across a small gorge. Go across to AGATHA’S HOUSE.
12. AGATHA’S HOUSE
Enter and talk to Agatha, pass a speech check to get her ammo box key and some nice ammo including a [MINI NUKE]. Talking to her some more will trigger the AGATHA’S SONG quest to find a Violin. You will also receive the location to VAULT TEC HQ.
Exit the house and leave, continue NE heading towards the town of MINEFIELD already marked on your map. On the way you’ll hit a power tower with a locked gate. pick it, but there’s nothing inside. Continue NE to MINEFIELD.
13. MINEFIELD
Careful now. There are dozens of mines about, plus a sniper. We will take out the sniper first. Approach the town until it registers on your map. Head up the hill to the left where the big water tower is. Now while sneaking go down the path on the other side which will take you right to the tower with ARKANSAS the sniper. If you sneak down right to the bottom right he won’t see you due to the wall. hug the wall on the left and there will be a mine you need to pick up. the stairs are on the left. Ready your weapon of choice, run up the stairs, and find ARKANSAS and blast him.
Slowly scour the town and pick up every mine you can find. You’ll get 50+ of them. Loot the town to find 4 skill books [PUGILISM ILLUSTRATED], [GROGNAK THE BARBARIAN], [TUMBLERS TODAY], [DC JOURNAL OF MEDICINE], also about are a bunch of [PRE-WAR BOOKS].
Fast travel back to MEGATON. Talk to MOIRA in CRATERSIDE SUPPLY to finish the Landmine quest making sure you have 1 in your inventory. You’ll get a BOTTLECAP MINE SCHEMATIC. You should be close to leveling to level 8. Raise medicine to 60 and explosives to 47. Pick the STRONG BACK perk. ) Start the next quests with MOIRA and pick the injury quest. Take a few frag grenades to a corner and damage yourself, making sure to get a crippled limb, and under 50% damage. Talk to MOIRA again to heal and get a [ENVIRONMENTAL SUIT]. Pick the next quest to test the MOLERAT REPELLENT. you’ll get a REPELLENT STICK. hint.. kill molerats with this.
Go to MORIARTY’S and talk to GOB. Speech check to convince him to help. ) Go to the back room and pick the back door lock. Hack the computer terminal but don’t read any info.
Talk to NOVA and speech convince her to help you with the password.
Talk to MORIARTY and speech convince him about your dad. You will now get the info to find him in GNR. Heal up, shop, time to head out. ) Exit MEGATON and head left around the city. In the back you will find 3 molerats, kill them with the REPELLENT. Search the big rock for a stash including a [SNIPER RIFLE]. The rock has 3 little dead trees around it.
Head back to SUPERDUPER MART. Go east and you’ll come to a large building beside the water with a north ramp. 3 raiders are across the water. If you swim across the water, 2 super mutants will spawn at the large building to fight the raiders. Kill the raiders, then shoot across and kill the super mutants. Some ammo crates are near the raiders. Loot them all (swim back across to loot mutants). On the east bank by the huge statue is the FARRAGUT WEST METRO STATION.
14. FARRAGUT WEST METRO STATION
Not much around here that you haven’t already taken care of. Enter.
15. FARRAGUT WEST STATION (tunnels)
) Enter the station and proceed to the room with the PROTECTRON. Loot it and activate the PROTECTRON, and kill it when it activates. Continue on to the fenced in ghouls. Enter the control room opposite and loot, and get the laser pistol. Use the console to turn on the gas test. Safe has [NIKOLA TESLA AND YOU]
) Open the gate and fall back letting the ghouls rush you. kill them. Now back up and shoot the gas area with the laser pistol. (shooting it with the ghouls doesn’t give you experience). Continue on. Bottom room has 4 [MISSILES], [US ARMY FLAMETHROWER MANUAL], and [3 PRE-WAR BOOKS]. Exit into TENTLEYTOWN/FRIENDSHIP STATION.
16. TENTLEYTOWN/FRIENDSHIP STATION (tunnels)
This tunnel is in 2 part. South goes to DC. We want to go north first.
Kill the ghouls/radroaches and loot area. Some items north side are [NUKA-COLA QUANTUM] upstairs, [LYING CONGRESSIONAL STYLE] on shelf, [GROGNAK THE BARBARIAN] in office on shelf, [LASER RIFLE] on mercenary body. North exits to FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS.
South area has some more foes and loot and the exit to CHEVY CHASE NORTH. Exit the north side first into FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS.
17. FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS
Just above the Metro entrance a bunch of Raiders has made a home. Take them out and loot their area. Once all areas are looted re-enter the TENTLEYTOWN/FRIENDSHIP STATION and go all the way south and exit to CHEVY CHASE NORTH.
Prepare yourself before exiting CHEVY CHASE NORTH. Going to be a wild fight.
18. CHEVY CHASE NORTH
Don’t worry about looting now, this is going to be fast and furious for a bit. After exiting head South towards a hole in the ground. 2 mutants will emerge on the right side. Kill them and loot.
LIONS PRIDE PLATOON will be on the other side, readying an assault. Talk to them but follow them down the alley. On the way there is a dead Brotherhood member on a bed. Take their armor/items. Continue around the corner.
You can do 1 of 2 things. stand back and let them fight, or rush ahead and take down as many mutants as possible to get experience. The Platoon will go through the school ahead killing the mutants. On the other side of the school is the GNR square where mutants are attacking the GNR building. Kill as many as you can.
At the fountain is a dead Brotherhood member with a [FAT MAN] and 8 [MINI NUKES]. Ready this weapon. Soon over by the bus wall, a BEHEMOTH mutant will break through. Take him down as fast as possible. 2 MINI NUKES will usually kill him. If your first shot knocks him down you might want to save the 2nd nuke and rush him with a powerful gun and shoot. Once its dead, backtrack and loot everything. Go to the GNR door and use the intercom to enter.
19. GALAXY NEWS RADIO (GNR)
Should be close to leveling up to level 9. Raise explosives to 50, sneak to 41, and pick COMMANDO as the perk
Enter and loot building. Head upstairs and Talk with THREE DOG who will help you if you help him. (help with his task). He gives you the GALAXY NEWS RADIO quest. Grab the [BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE] off the desk and head out the back door and down the rubble to DUPONT CIRCLE. Kill the ghouls and for fun blow up the 2 Bus’s here.
Do not go down into METRO JUNCTION, instead walk down the street and enter the small door to COLLAPSED CAR TUNNEL.
20. COLLAPSED CAR TUNNEL
A short area, kill the ghouls about then have fun and blow up a bus. There are 2 exits, exit the south exit to the real DUPONT CIRCLE. You only want to register it on your map. Take a right and enter DUPONT CIRCLE STATION.

16 comments
I got the reserivist's rifle from Arkansas in minefield… not from drifter.
what perks do i pick after level 20? you dont give any more.
I am REALLY REALLY grateful that you put this very extensive and detailed walk through. I literally follower it to a T, and everything you said happened. I even blew up the cars in the order. I still enjoyed the game with a walkthrough and I just wanna say thanks A LOT!
(You like the super mutain of Fallout3 Walkthroughs) naww but thanks!
Now I would' ve used ChickHen to flash custom firmware to his psp but he updated to 5.55. So I was wondering if the Half Byte Loader program would be able to run the 5.50 D3 installer at all, since I noticed the program is beta and apparently as many problems left, long enough to flash firmware without bricking his psp.
im currently doing the quest "take it back" and for some reason when i leave the citadel and begin the journey. liberty prime does NOT move. i have no clue wtf is goin on. did i miss something?? his diagnostics on the terminal shown 0 power to mobility. so how the hell does he destroy the energy field barrier on the bridge?
How do I jump on the back of Army Trucks? I can't seem to get at the ammo boxes on the back of the truck!
hmmm whats the intellegence for? i cant find any reason to use it i normally get str agi and endu
If you get Broken Steel DLC theres a perk you can get that raises all your SPECIAL stats to 9. If you hold off until then to get the bobbleheads, you could have a maxed out player. Be careful when using this guide, and do your research about what DLC can do for you first
Adding all 5 dlc's would probably double the size of this guide, and certain things in this guide (what perks to get, etc.) could REALLY screw you over. Best example?
it fails to account for DLC that became available after the original release of the game.
This walkthrough is a GREAT way to start off the game. The pure freedom in fallout 3 makes it amazing, but it can make it horrible too. This guide starts you off slow. However, I wouldnt use this walkthrough to play the ENTIRE game, because its alot more fun to find places people on your own. Theres just one more flaw in this guide:
Why raise the barter skill so high? It seems worthless is there a reason, is there something cool to earn, that's why you raise it up?
what do you do in the level to find your dad i have been on that level since last year and i still dont know what to do if you know tell me because i want to see what you do not just stay on the same dum level
gd tips m8 il will try them ty
it wont pass the speech test for the bomb wtf!
it didnt level up after i broke into simms house and i followed th guide