A Complete-ish Guide To Settlement Building in Fallout 4

Cait only likes me when i do drugs I feel like our relationship is a little toxic

Since doing a new playthrough, in my head canon, I view Longfellow's cabin as a starting point for a branch of the Minutemen native to the Island, as it is close to Far Harbor and closest to Coastal Cottage (my checkpoint).

But I hate that there are still pockets of radiation that you can do nothing about. Ugh...

Discovered fallout 4 last weekend.

Without DLC this is not important.

Wait, so eeven if my settlement successfully defends itself without my help, they still suffer casualties and the turrets still get damaged? Do i also still lose stuff even though i won?

I make three guard posts in each settlement and assign a settler to it. I also assign the guard my personal bed because guards don't sleep so ny bed is always vacant. The six defence is side effect I don't mind.

Great video dude. Very informative.

I've watched a lot of your videos, eventually I'll catch them all. Not only informative but also entertaining, to me anyway. I've learned a number of things I never thought o and I've been playing since the game came out in 2015. Thank you.

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Thank you for the tutorial, because I realy suck at buildins setlements. Most of my housing looks like living containers without windows.😆😆😆

You hold V to enter workshop mode, not Q. Q is for entering V.A.T.S. You know that.

Thank you. That is all. <3

Yeah I'm one of the frustrated new

Everytime I build something cool it says no more can be built 😢

i have thousands of hours in this game and only now discovered object grouping is a thing, i feel like ive been lied to my whole life

if you want less settlement being attacked prompt try get as less settlement as possible.

You are showing us all these builds at a high speed. I saw you build that bridge with scaffolding and saw like 25 orientation changes before you could lock it OMG it must take you a long time in some snap cases. Is there a command line code to turn snap off for certain placements? Or is that that mod I hear about?

What are you using to make the walk through videos?

My PC uses the V button for perspective change and settlement start. I HATE that they assigned multiple functions to buttons. I cannot use my jet pack (spacebar) to jump while building because it wants to place a wire. I did not want to re-assign them because I did not want to step on other assignments. But I guess I should do it.

I'm not into Settlement building, so I just make do. 20 beds under cover, 1 hand water pump or water fountain and then 2 water purifiers/pumps with necessary power generators, producing 23 water, plant 6 of each type of food crop, which needs 4 farmers and produces 24 food, Turrets for at least 100 Defense. Finally a Recruitment Beacon and power generator. As I find the time and resources, I add up to 3 Bramin Feeders, then things that need a worker for happiness sake, like 3 Scavenger Stations, a Barber chair, Pinball Machines, etc. In Sanctuary, I stored what furniture I want to keep and scrapped the rest, thus clearing out all the rooms. I use all 9 available houses to put beds into thus scattering the Settlers around.

Your videos are so informative. Your explanation flow is not rushed, yet concise. I enjoy the subtle music choices in the background as well to fill the space during build moments.
I learned a great deal today. Thank you very much for such a great channel. This noob is much better off now!😂

I'm a 1,117-hour noob, and I endorse this message.

Where did u get that armor!!

Holding "place" while placing an object allows you to move the object on the x axis only.

One tip I’d suggest for PC players is that, if you have a controller on hand, use it when building settlements. It makes it a lot easier IMO.

And none of the building items actually are designed to fit together correctly. Especially between metal and concrete..

Okay, now do this for Sim Settlement 2, please! Also, I'd love to meet whoever decided that interior plots in that mod should snap on the side and not the back. I just want to talk to them! Promise!

You should put a Cupola on your hospitals. They were common in the late 19th century for Pharmacists and Doctors and Surgeons to increase lighting and ventilation.

literally all I need to know is how to unlock all the build options. I'm tired of people telling me what to do when I don't know how to do it. Your video is useless. COMPLETELY USELESS. Like your soul

I just threw 15 sleeping bags on the floor of oberland station and blocked all pathways to the house, made a fence to keep all the slaves in, sent Preston and all his other homies (or as I call them the undesirables) to my new slave plantation where they pull razorgrain all day and night, any settlers that piss me off end up at Oberland

is there a render limit or something like that for settlers? I always have the situation that i have more settlers in my settlement overview than i can actually see.

Your videos alone must’ve increased sales for Bethesda 😂👍🏼👏🏼

This has convinced me to really give settlement building a shot 8 years into playing the game. I'm going to try to grow all the ingredients for vegetable starch in the greenhouse so I have an infinite supply of adhesive.

This whole settlement building system is one of the coolest wastes of time I’ve ever experienced

Shift+WASD will navigate the build menu

I relate to the cow thing it’s also the same for pigs

My head cannon for building greenhouses is all the rad storms. Presumably we are using purified water at my farms, since I am a water mogul.

Night time building and recording this? No ....

I have been playing Fallout 4 since it was released, and I still found ideas from this video great video.

@Theegreygaming LOVE the build. But you mentioned raid spawn points. How do you find/figure out where those are?

Looking like you pushed the item limit a few times there. 😅

Remember when you were on the hunt for your son? 😅

I have no idea how people find the time to put so much effort into settlements.

All I tend to do is secure the perimeter, plant one type of crop at each location, get them water, set up a recruitment beacon, build a basic 2 story building filled with beds, set up a supply line from it to the nearest settlement and walk away until it has around 10 settlers, then switch off the recruitment beacon.

I throw all spare weapons, aid, Armor, junk etc into the workshop so I can use it at any location and that’s it.

Sanctuary Hills is the only one I put any effort into, as I treat that as my main location for Power Armor displays so I have all of my Power Armor ready at any time and I find that time consuming enough!

Just started a playthrough 7 years later & i cant get myself to play the weird story line & all i do is farm, build & spawn raiders to kill for xp

Do I need to assign a settler per plant type? Per plant? Is it any easier than walking from a settler to the unassigned plant?

Just started playing again after 9 years a couple of weeks ago so going to ask a noob question: what's the special icon?

I’ve been having a ton of fun but felt like i didnt have a great way to intergrate the headcanon i have of my sole survivor doing settlement building as community service with the fact i just filled the settlements with prefabs and stuffed beds foot to foot then called it a day.

Your videos have genuinely given me a whole new perspective on how i design and build places now. I only have access to the base game so my structures arent as elaborate/clean, but ive taken to heart the one bed, one storage contaienr, one seating piece for each room and its made the settlements just feel better to walk around