A Complete-ish Guide To Settlement Building in Fallout 4
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- almost everything you need to know. If you're looking to improve your settlement building skills, check out our 5 tips and tricks to building settlements videos episodes 1 and 2.
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Floor. 4 walls and a roof and a bed. Tatos in the dirt. Water pump. Done.
You also need roof and light source
Gun turret on the roof.
Actual NPC behaviour
Give em a chair
You make a great point; make sure your beds have roofs over them. The game actually checks to see if the beds are covered; this increases happiness. Some of the prebuilt settlements have beds that are exposed, moving them helps.
Todd howard litterly was like "Screw you if you dont like our towns then build your own"
I like this feature a lot though. I get to adopt the lore to my own playstyle in many different ways. This is an incredible feature. But with that being said, the existing settlements didn't need to suck total ass either.
@@grubert3535 yeah its just a little jab at todd "godd" howard. Settlement building is the reason i still play fallout 4
Yeah and sim settlement 2 came along and proved that todd howard made the correct call to let us make our own good towns
“It just works” right? I mean, who would doubt the ideas and actions of Todd?
Community said “bet time to make five thousand mods for this one feature”
My guy. I have just over 1200 hours in Fallout 4. What you've shown here is nothing short of fscking amazing! I also love the fact that you talk about head canon. That's more than half the fun I get out of this game, is my own in-game story.
Dead ass, I've got close to that (40 days) and never once have I done anything significant or impressive with the settlement building
@Xbox360MinecraftTutorialWorld I'm excited to get alot of hours in game. I did about 200 on xbox on release before any dlc came out. but hadn't touched since then. now on pc, for 20 bucks ultimate edition. survival mode has me hooked.
@@dankbonkripper2845 A big ole ++ to this. My drive to play this game died out around 700-750ish hours. But when I decided to try out survival mode? Oh it turned into a whole other game! Both survival and regular are good games. It's just amazing how much survival adds to everything.
Dude turned F4 into minecraft
First time player - I was pleased that I could build pillories and assign raiders to use them. You've been a bad, bad raider and you're going to be punished for your evil misdeeds!
You could always kill them all
There’s an npc in the nuka world marketplace, talk to them and it starts the quest ‘open season’
‘Open season’ also starts when you kill enough nuka raiders/a named nuka raider
@@freeroamchips Yeah but amusingly a pillory counts as an assigned job even if it doesn't provide any additional happiness.
@@freeroamchipsthere's an Open Season in virtually every RPG/adventure game. It's kind of a cliche. Besides, listening to Minuteman Radio in Fort Independence kinda made me want to make Preston Garvey hate me.
@@jcohasset23 It provides additional happiness TO ME.
i put mama murphy in it
Wow, you go to all the trouble of making individual rooms. Nice! I almost never do that. Everyone lives in the barracks, and if they want their own house they can damn well build it themselves. I've got shit to do.
Yay, I've graduated to "noob"! One of my suggestions for your store front actually made it into a video; using scaffolding as a temp floor for your ramps.
I knew I couldn't have thought of that trick myself... thank you so much for the suggestion,... even if I didn't remember it. and you deserve all the credit. it definitely makes using the ramps way easier!
@@Theegreygaming It's nice to contribute to someone that's contributing to the community at large.
I install several mods, throw some ideas at the wall and create the horrors my brain whispers to me.
Something I take into account when building is nearby locations.
For example, Starlight is close to a train line and a downed airliner. So, I use boxcars and airplane seats and parts for some buildings. It’s the little things like that, which make builds feel that much more real in the world.
That's actually an awesome idea!
Love this! I always build a second floor apartment on my stores, and assign whoever is the storekeeper to stay there. Fits lore wise.
I do the same lol
I like shophouses
tysm for making fallout 4 settlement tutorials again, especially in this time that i decided to pick up the game again
I literally started a fallout 4 playthrough yesterday for the first time in 5 years, I appreciate the help!
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There was a spreadsheet made by a couple of the older mod makers, and Fallout 4 build guide makers. It showed that around 250ish defense on a settlement meant you would really have to go overboard on water and food, before you would be attacked, the very basic defense number was shown to be 2x the food and water added together, any less and you might as well not go exploring very far.
A defense number that's higher than 2x food and water together just makes for a base 2% chance of being attacked. Without mods there is no way to completely negate the chance of being attacked. It feels like there is a bit of a random variable on how well settlements do without the player present- I've had settlements fail to defend that have over 100 defense and others that succeed even with 0 defense while still having food and water.
Here are few of my tips:
- sleeping bags are excellent since they take very little space in settlements,
- plant tato, corn, and mutfruit for adhesive production,
- using the basic electric generators can be really useful early game for your settlement,
- build your structures out of wood, and concrete to save up on resources,
- don't cheap out on turrets,
- build the highest tier class of your shops.
How do I turn mutfruit into adhesive??
Iirc it's in the cooking station, in the utility section.
yeah you craft starch and that scraps for 5 adhesive@@TheBestSam42
@TheBestSam42 make vegetable starch at a cooking station. It's the recipe at the very bottom of the list.
@@pat2rome thank you
I just realised I’ve been making the wrong wooden floors! No wonder I’ve no steel left, I should have used the warehouse floor not the wooden floor with the paint marks. Oh well only 6 or 7 settlements built! Very much enjoying my second playthrough some years later. Really glad to have found your channel 👍
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
Nice shoutout for Skooled Zone. He has great videos on all sort of settlement workarounds and tips without needing mods.
The Bob Ross of Fallout. I learned a lot from him.
Dude, don't know you, never seen your content, but I needed to know this stuff and you just so happened to post this. Thanks
Lmao I literally preordered Fallout 4, have the collector’s edition wearable pip-boy sitting on my shelf, and am just now trying to figure out how settlements are supposed to actually work 😂😂
"People need a place to poop and take a bath." You take a bath in the outhouse? You're going about this whole hygiene thing all wrong LMAO
Some might poop in the bath.😂
One thing you forgot to mention that is useful. In the contraptions or far harbor dlc they gave us a bell on a pole. You build it in a settlement and activate it and it draws everyone assigned to the settlement to itfor kond of a settlement meeting. I use it to figure out who has work and assign those that don't.
Can confirm people are only just discovering fallout 4, got later last year. Love the settlement building, all and any advise is welcome
Definitely watch Schooled Zone. Lots of great building tips and tricks.
This looks so much nicer than the shoddy, makeshift "houses" I've made for my settlers in Sanctuary 😆 Maybe after this, I'll be able to build a cozy settlement for them 😌
Yes, Recruit as many as you can. Kremvh needs his snacks.
but will he want them so much when they bear the Krivbeknih?
If settlement building is your thing remember to also download creative clutter and it's requirements. Adds a lot of decorations.
I also recommend cVc Dead wasteland, kuro tab, homemaker, renovation decoration and furniture, and snappy housekit
Snappy housekit is the black diamond of building mods. I still haven't got a full grasp on that mod.
is that on the ps five though
@@r.ndomperson Pretty sure it is.
Long time settlement builder getting back into the game again, needing to re-learn the tricks and mechanics. Not only is this an excellent tutorial, it shows "recent" DLC parts to good effect
That is a very good tutorial full of actually useful tips. From a building veteran (started building day 1 never really stopped since) very well done :)
I could watch you build for hours… thank you for this!
I'm not a noob to the settlements whatsoever. Even still this video was so helpful!
I liked, subbed, watched the adverts 👍
Hey Grey! Stumbled across your channel a week ago and I’ve been binging your content, wanted to say thank you for the hours of entertainment you’ve provided, you’re a cool dude.
thank you so much, I try if nothing else to provide decent entertainment, and if I can give some useful information along the way, all the better. welcome to the community.
Found myself on Fallout 4 because of the show. Found myself here because i wanted to understand settlements. Didn't know it was this detailed. Im now hooked. 😂
OMG, I have a lot of tedious work to do and this video is perfect for it. Thanks for the upload, Grey!
I have 1600+ hours in FO4, but I still learned a few things in this video, so thank you!
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.
After years of playing Fallout 4, the settlement system and building never really clicked with me until recently, built my own little place in Starlight Drive In.
I was looking for settlement videos and cane across this, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! 😊
Fallout is back, baby! Awesome to see and glad to be a part of.
Long-time player and settlement build lover. Just here to add a like and watch time for your stats.
Keep up the good work, man :)
Thank you for this video, I finally got FO4 and was overwhelmed with the building aspect.
This is so cool! Great video, you're really creative. This gives me tons of ideas i didnt even know were possible, i largely ignored the building mechanics until recently, but its fun roleplaying as a settlement manager.
This is exactly what i needed and more! You made this so entertaining I came to understand the first 11 min of video but stayed for the whole thing. Cool, thanks for the entertainment
You did a excellent job teaching us how to build .😊
Currently doing my first playthrough on my channel so I'm gonna focus on the main quest but damn this video helped so much to grasp this new concept in Fallout. Had yo sub man, thank you so much!
Man great video. Didn't think I'd get this into watching a settlement being built. And the stuff I learned is good too.
@10:50 try the vault Tec population management system! It helps with this specific problem
Great tutorial! I'm kinda lazy so I usually just download some mods that have pre built houses for my settlements, your video motivated me to start a new play through to just build settlement!
April 25th cannot come fast enough. Thanks for this series - I can’t wait to get back into building.
:) Incredible, this one video demonstrates and explains most of the Settlement issues.
Sounds very informative indeed, I discovered that if I cleared the settlement earlier and then interact with the workshop, that is where my purified water is going . Prior to this, had no idea where it went. Lots to learn definitely.
Prefect timing. I need a refreshing. Braving the wastelands again.
I have been playing Fallout 4 since it was released, and I still found ideas from this video great video.
Very cool! I really like this! I love Far Harbor & you gave me a ton of awesome ideas! Great vid like always! Keep up the good work!
I'm someone who's played since launch
And I JUST NOW find out about the grouping thing, so much unnecessary frustration.😂
Great guide, cheers.
These settlement videos are always fun to see even if most times I just make a multistory open-air bunkhouse using the wood structures building kit. The exact design can vary depending on what settlement it's at and some of them I'm just not a fan of trying to build at. The biggest problem is typically when I have a lot of enthusiasm in building is early in a new run when ample resources are hard to come by or I don't yet have the perk to build a particular thing/haven't initiated a DLC yet. One of my most challenging attempts (but was oddly a lot of fun) was doing a run with 1 charisma and intelligence.
So we’re all here then 😂
Thanks for this! It's awesome
Outstanding video, gave me some ideas lol. Enjoyed the settlement building back in the day, thinking of it more style wise this time around. Tho some places are just a nightmare 😂
I really liked this guide, thanks!
Thanks for this video. Always wondered why the snapping was so damned bad. Thanks for all the clever workarounds.
I have played FO4 since drop day. I love building and moved to PC that I can leverage mods like place anywhere and furniture stuff. After watching this video I subscribed to your channel and wanted to let you know great video. you show and explain very well how to think when building. I look forward to gpoing thru your other FO4 videos.
Well, this is incredibly useful, I was having trouble trying to use the structures, but it seems the most reliable parts are the warehouse/barn pieces. Just for testing pruposes I created my arcade at Sanctuary with the Nuka World games and boy it looks glorious, full of neons and lights. The settlement's happiness went up to 95%. I'll try more of these ideas myself. Thank you so much.
This is a pretty decent tutorial on building a settlement.
Even after all these years, I actually learned you could move the entire build segment at once. That I wasn't aware of. So it's good to review stuff aimed for new players, even if you think you know everything, you might just get a surprise.
I definitely appreciate this. It is an excellent tutorial for those of us who have just started. But some of the items are locked and I was hoping you could tell us where to find or unlock them.
Sim settlements 2 is something anyone who likes f4 building should try
I assumed Sim settlements let your settlers build so you didn't have to. I haven't tried it because I like building.
Well, you are still the one to decide where different types of buildings are going to be placed, unless you choose a pre-made city plan. Also, the story is better than the origianl game@@SamHell-wr8bi
Glad I got back into fallout 4 new videos are good to see
Really enjoyed your video and I also love sckooled zone!
Ive played fallout 4 for a long time and never new that you can move a building i always moved it one by one so this helped thank you
Bro i just started watching you yesterday and wanted to start actually building but I couldn’t find a fill fledge tutorial perfect timing
So useful. Thank you!
Your videos alone must’ve increased sales for Bethesda 😂👍🏼👏🏼
For settlements, the "best" crops to plant, IMO, are an equal number of corn, tato, and mutfruit. Your settlers don't care, and you might just like variety, but this combination, along with excess purified water from your purifiers, can be crafted to create vegetable starch, a source of adhesive. Adhesive is a rare crafting material that is needed for EVERY weapon and armor mod in the game. Plant multiples of three, since the recipe needs three of each.
ermmm acktually paints are technically mods and they dont require adhesive
This whole settlement building system is one of the coolest wastes of time I’ve ever experienced
Looking forward to your FALLOUT LONDON builds as soon as it releases!
does London have settlements? I know they intentionally went away from a lot of the things the community hated and I doubt there was a vocal minority loud enough to make them include it. that said... I'm totally planning on playing it.
@@Theegreygaming Not sure, but in the video I saw I remember they mentioned settlement sites
whether you can build on them, IDK
Thank you your video is very helpful .😊
Thanks 4 the help big dawg
I hadn't played Fallout 4 since 2019 but after watching the show AND waiting for season 4 of Diablo 4 to come out, getting back to the endless fun and creativity that is building settlements in F4 has been so much fun.
Honestly you could make a video about your favorite non interactable buildings in the game and I would still watch it
Skool'd Zone has great videos & ideas. I play on vanilla survival, at least until the update which was guaranteed to drop in 2023 arrives. Didn't want to get hooked to a mod only to have it broken. So mod-free building tips are what I search for.
His gun turret towers built from the atrium pieces is a mainstay I've used and tweaked at nearly every settlement I build. The AI often struggles to target elevated firing platforms, and when it does, they're left open. They're aiming up and exposing their chests.
Strongest concrete outhouse ever contructed this side of Boston lol
Great guide btw!
Missile turrets are most effective, I find, if placed on the corner of raised concrete platforms with an L-shaped pair of walls behind them to keep them from firing on the settlement they're guarding. Used this way, they are almost guaranteed to stop most attacks quickly at long range.
The "next-gen update" dropped and I am revisiting F4 to do something I never really had done: a full melee-only run.
Gonna try and put some of these tips to use, thanks for the video! 😎
The terrain there lends itself well to WWI style trench structures. You can sink guard posts, various small floor pieces and the various wood walls, stairs, sandbags, tires, etc with turrets here and there. The attacking raiders and animals CAN get a little confused, which buys you a few seconds in a fight.
Absolutely informative and fun😸👍🏾
Oh I get it now, when he says "It just works" he means "It just about works!"
That makes way more sense.
Love this settlement!
Your work is fantastic as always. Never thought of building at Old Longfellows... might have to try.
It would be cool if you posted a long video of you building one of these settlements. I'm not aware of there being any videos of like that on youtube. Would help imo in showing the full process of an elaborate build.
so advanced advice at level 15 & getting the robot work bench just make a ton of Atomatron robots & boom no settlers needed no food used & full water to the crafting of Adhesives. My common settlements for water collection for this is 200 water production & NO Organic settlers, Just 4 Warbots & a tone of Gardnatrons
i wish the settlement mechanic was done differnetly, so you could choose throgh a terminal or something a part of the settlement and set it to e one way or another, so while it would be player's choice on what that part would look or be it would still be pre-made, this way it would allow for not only a good city building mechanic, good enough for a fps shooter anyway, and it would also allow for a more lively settlement, with settlers that actually can have unique dialogue, give you quests, actual one not the stupid radiant ones, sell things to you, set up their own hommes without you having to do even the smallest thing for them, and the npcs wouldnt be just boring no-names that say "Did you hear of that farm run by ghouls?" all the time
By the end, you seem to be proposing a drastic overhaul of the entire game so that unique NPCs with backstories are generated constantly for settlements. This would be major scope creep for a project like _Fallout 4_ and wouldn’t be a good idea for the game as a project.
@@MegaZeta not constanly, i meant that they would appear after some time, and that they would be still limited in number, most settlers would still be generic after all
You should check out the mod Sim Settlements 2. It has pre-built structures (even entire pre-built settlements if you want) and a well made questline, complete with voice acting.
@@evilbob840 i tried it but it wasnt exactly what i wanted, it was more like simcity, im thinking of something similar to the mod Nipton Rebuilt for Fallout NV but with more choice in terms of how you want to built the settlement, i think grey gaming described something similar to that when he reviewed vault 88 in one of his videos, top 5 worst settlements i think but im not sure
@@tnogaming6903 Fair enough.
If you want a more colorful settlement or are just running out of space to make a farm, try planting some crops on roofs using the dirt plot you get from one of the DLCs
I'm playing F4 atm. You made me reinstall it with your excellent videos.
I love to build in F4. Most of my settlements are self-sufficient fortresses of humanity, with sky high walls, billion of turrets and everything within those walls, including my own "bunker" with it´s own reactor, food and water. Once you know how to infinity building space (at least on PC), you can build crazy stuff.
This is really cool. I am going to try building better settlements from now on. I’ve always just stuck turrets around the perimeter, few water pumps, scrap the crap, build a generator and lighting in the main building, drop down a few crops, and a couple of beds. If the site is a good size I’ll put a beacon antenna down and sometimes build a prefab tin shack with a couple of beds inside.
I’d really like to go all out in sanctuary it’s just a shame you can’t scrap every house to start fresh
That was quite a useful guide to settlements. I think I'll go and add lavatories to Spectacle Island now.
not something a lot of people think about... I think I played for 2 or 3 years before I asked... where the heck are people pooping?
@@TheegreygamingThere's a great mod on Nexus just called: Toilets. It has several varieties, some raised, some not. Plus you can choose between facilities that provide a little happiness, and no bump to happiness. I personally like the happiness ones, as an alternative to the pommel horse/weight bench. Also I would think that RP-wise the ability to go in a designated bathroom would make one happier :)
CWSS was also good but I think it has been removed from Nexus.
Love the music you used
You’re so considerate to your settlers. 😂 I usually throw up a half assed awning with 30 sleeping bags. 😂 that being said I’m enjoying this play though and actually building settlements instead of JUST being a bloodthirsty murder hobo.
Good job! 🤠
Thank you!
4:14 you can hold shift and navigate the menu using WASD. i literally just learned this a few weeks ago and have been playing fo4 on pc for a good few years now 😅
Thanks for great tips! Buildings look proper. How is the interaction with settler ai? Are they good with ramps and walls?
Great video
I'm freshly into this (watching at less than 5 minutes), but if Grey doesn't mention it, "Place Anywhere" is an essential mod for settlement building. No yellow outline, any object can be placed anywhere; just makes settlement building so much more relaxed and fun.
Love your stuff. Ive picked fallout up again. Do you know how to fix some items that are pink in workshop??
With the next gen upgrades the game looks much better on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. I'd like to finally master this technique as someone who always enjoys city building games. Thank you for this tutorial, I never understood how developers just didn't explain this mechanic in the game.
this is just what i needed to fall asleep :3