Fallout 3

EDIT 14/02/2019 - Replaying Fallout 3 on PS3, made some amendments to the guide. Feels weird editing a post from 10 years ago, but hope someone still finds it useful!

These are in order of discovery. You MUST find the first 19 before the space walk, you cannot get back to the lower level afterwards. Pretty sure the last six need to be done before completing the DLC, needs confirming.

1. #14: After escaping your cell, head left. It's in the far right room.
2. #22: As above.
3. #15: As above.
4. #3: In the room after the first red health arch, on your left.
5. #1: As above.
6. #12: As above.
7. #5: On one of the stasis chambers in the room where you get the spacesuit.
8. #6: As above.
9. #7: As above.
10. #8: As above.
11. #2: In the Cryo labs, in the southwestern corner of the rectanglular shaped building to the south.
12. #11: In the Cryo labs, the second northmost room before you go through to the Cryo storage (Right of the door).
13. #17: As above but left of the door.
14. #25: Cryo storage, room at the southern tip.
15. #16: In the bottom left corner of the Cryo storage, on the lower level.
16. #4: After teleporting back to the Cryo labs, head directly south and use the door release switch. Hop down to the lower level to grab the recording.
17. #13: Cargo hold, in the research lab in front of the lunar module in the left-most room.
18. #21: In the next room, near some robot Giddyup Buttercup horses (the 6 horses, not the dozen or so down the stairs).
19. #19: Go to the maintenance level, then after meeting up with Sally and making your way through the scrap, you will end up in a large room with a healing arch on your left and an alien behind an energy shield in front of you. After killing the aliens, look to the right of the door you entered through.

THE PREVIOUS 19 LOGS MUST BE COLLECTED BEFORE THE SPACEWALK, YOU CANNOT RETURN TO THESE AREAS. Take a second to double-check the Notes section of your Pip-Boy to make sure you have all 19 so far.

20. #24: After the space walk, enter the weapons lab. It's in the control room in the south in a slightly lowered section.
21. #20: When you enter the experimentation lab, head right until you get into a room with two big torture chair looking things. Do a 180 and look at the wall to find it.
22. #10: In the experimentation lab, in the final room along with the generator.
23. #9: Beside the operating tables in the experimentation lab with the abominations.
24. #18: On the upper level of the bio research control room.
25. #23: In the living quarters cafeteria, after the Death Ray (Thanks to THEeskEMO)

Thought this would act as a good visual source just incase.

This video was made by Orcidea, and the locations only go up to 6:35 of the video the rest is fallout dancing with aliens.

i got this link from a good site for this achievment, it explains a bit more of the surroundings and keeps you up to check with all the logs. check it out. :)

http://www.gamershell.com/faqs/fallout3mothershipzetaal....0/

Just a note:
This tutorial is for anyone who has completed the dlc, couldn't return to get the records.

If you have completed the mission. You will not be able to return the normal way.
There is a work around, it involves these steps:

(Just a warning but doing this will remove dlc related items so it's best to sell them before re-attempting the dlc)

1) Make a save after you have completed the mission.

2) Delete the dlc, reload the game.

3) Save the game while the dlc has been removed.

4) Re-download the dlc, save again. The dlc should be playable again.

Also including video showing all the locations to help find the recordings.

I wanted to make a solution that was easier to understand......
For one, the recordings don't look like holodisks, they actually are "part of the ship", they are a weird shaped vertical rectangle machine, and you can tell easily if you found one because they have two blue circles on the top that is surrounded by a rotating blue circle, you have to "activate" them to collect the recording, and you can check which recordings you have in your pip-boy (data-notes)....

I used the link by Mik3yj 117 to one of OmegaMustard's awesome (as usual) guides

http://www.gamershell.com/faqs/fallout3mothershipzetaal....0/

WARNING: I highly suggest that you save after each section, because there is a point of no return after the 19th alien recording, for example I saved after I got all 6 in the "Holding Cells", then I saved again after getting all 4 in the Engineering Room. Reason is because I read about transports glitching not allowing them to get a recording they needed, for me, its kinda like reloading a "checkpoint" if you will

(Holding Cells - 6 Logs)....as the guide says, make a left and head to the room at the end of the hall, there is 3 in there (Logs 14, 15, 22), turn around, run to the large room on the other side of the hallway through the red glowing "healing" archway to find the other 3 in this area (Logs 1, 3, 12), they are all on the left side of the room as you enter.....(you should have all 6 before you rescue Sally)

(Engineering Room - 4 Logs)....(you can't miss this area, its "story-related"), you go through the "Steamworks" to get to the "Engineering Core" door, Sally pops back up and leads you straight to them....you know you are in the right place when Sally wants you to open the pods so you can talk to the "spaceman". There is one each by the cowboy, astronuat, samuri, and the BoS medic..(kinda like the Fallout 3 version of the Villiage People)(Logs 5, 6, 7, 8)

(Cryo Lab - 4 Logs) Go through "Door to Cryo Lab", there will be another door ahead of you, go through that door, and look to the left, you should see an oval-shaped glass floor. On the left middle side of that floor is the "Release Mechanism", activate that, head LITERALLY straight ahead to the steel "catwalk", and go down the stairs on your right. Once you reach the bottom of the short flight of stairs, turn right, and go through the door with 3 containers, a "healing archway", and (Log 4)
(In case you were wondering, the "Release Mechanism" turns off a force-field that is behind the door, blocking you from all those goodies!) go back up the stairs and head west through the open doors. Go through the door on the far left, and as the guide says, its in the southernmost corner of the room.(Log 2). Head through the door to the west opposite the "healing archway", just keep going straight through past the "hanging pods" room until you reach a room with a large window, through the window, you will see 3 aliens, along with (Logs 11 & 17) on each side of the door straight ahead, you need to activate the switch in front of you to freeze the aliens and unlock the doors before you can enter the room to grab the logs.

(Cryo Storage - 2 Logs) Enter "Door to Cryo Storage" turn IMMEDIATELY left to see (Log 25), after you grabbed it, look to your right, and go through that door. In the next room, look to the left and go down those stairs (from the top of the stairs, you will see (Log 16) a little down and to the right)


(Waste Disposal - 1 Log) (If you think about it, it just doesn't sound right) This one is a little tricky to find, plus its also a point of no return area. To the left of the "Robot Assembly door, there is a "Maintenance Access Teleportation Matrix" (teleporter). You end up trapped with Sally in an alien garbage chute. (anyone remember Star Wars?) Anyways, Sally gets separated from you, very shortly after, she starts opening "force-field doors" for you, after the LAST door she opens for you, you have to open a normal door yourself, go through the door and look IMMEDIATELY right for (Log 19), its VERY easy to miss!! If you hear Sally say, "We're almost out of here, I'll meet you up ahead" and you still don't have it, turn around and look STRAIGHT AHEAD!! Its against the wall on the other side of the room!!!
(to be honest, I don't think it matters if you do this before or after you take care of the Robot Assembly generator, I went through it before I did the generator, and missed it, then I saw Aqueously's guide, and knew exactly where it was, did the Robot Assembly generator, THEN used the teleporter....I was SOOOO happy I saved before I used the teleporter!!!"

(Research Lab - 2 Logs) You need to go through the "Cargo Hold", its the door to the right of the "Hanger". The Research Lab door is at the southwest corner of the map. As soon as you enter, you go down a short flight of stairs, look left and you will see what looks like Apollo 13 rocket capsule "thing", (Log 13) is to the left of that in the middle of the room just past some stairs to said "capsule". From (Log 13) turn around and go through that open door. Go through the short hallway into the big room, look to your left and you'll see a hobby horse, go to where the horses are at and you will find (Log 21) smack in the middle of the room.

Head back to the "Engineering Core" and SAVE!! [You should have 19 Alien Captive Recorded Logs by now, 22, 14, 15, 3, 1, 12, 7, 6, 8, 5, 4, 2, 17, 11, 25, 16, 19, 13, 21] I believe you can go back to get any you missed before you have to do the spacewalk EXCEPT Log 19.......the ONLY way you can go get it is if you DID NOT go through the Waste Disposal Area with Sally....moving on....

(Weapon Research - 1 Log) This is the only (Log) I have problems describing the location..Aqueously has a better description in his solution..In the Weapons Lab, if you look at your "local map", to me it looks like the letter "K" or "R" was formed by the computers, imagine its the letter "R", (Log 24)is right to the west of the "hole" in the letter....

(Experimentation Lab - 3 Logs) as soon as you get in this section, head north, you will see two "Dr. Octopus" looking chairs, (log 20) is in front of the chairs on the south wall. Follow the quest marker till you see 3 or 4 scared "friendly" aliens in a big room with another cooling machine you have to sabotage, (Log 10) is on the north wall. Follow the quest marker again, but instead of turning right to go through the door, turn left, you will see 3 tables with aliens on them, (log 9) is in front of the tables...

(Biological Research) Go around the left side until you see some stairs, go up them and around. Look to your left, (Log 18) is in kinda a sunken in control center.

(Living Quarters) after destroying the death ray, take the teleporter to the Living Quarters. From the teleporter head south until you get to a big room, keep going south til you see a hallway, then go west until you see a kinda cafeteria with 2 ceiling torrents, the last log is in there. (Log 23)

Credits:
Aqueously-for having a good solution for #19, I just wanted to make it a litttle more detailed
Mik3yj 117 - for reminding me of OmegaMustard's guide that I used originally when I got this achievement on an old profile a few years ago
OmegaMustard - for having an awesome basic guide outlining where the logs were

I hope this helped (esp. with #19), it took me a good 6 hours to write this....enjoy!!

The first video will show how to get the first 13 logs and while the 2nd video will show you the last 12 logs. Just follow both of them and you'll get your achievement.

Description for the first video:Community members "Kite Shugo" and "Critical" show us where to find the first 13 of 25 Archives in Mothership Zeta.

Description for the second video:The long awaited end to this collectible guide in the Fallout 3 DLC "Mothership Zeta.