+Jesse Bains ... OR with strategic farming (I mean crops, not grinding) and a water purifier, you can produce way more than you'd readily find from greedily grabbing all the duct tape or wonderglue you come across.
+Wow 117 i just meant having to dig and scrounge and getting excited for all the wonderglue like you're huffing it. I fell into that trap, and now I don't need to investigate every trader I see to see *if* he has rolls of duct tape so I can craft that next weapon. DIRTY water, on the other hand... geez. They made the pure stuff comparably readily available (as opposed to 3 or NV), but you need it dirty for some specific recipes.
RMJ I don't see it as a chore because I loot EVERYTHING and if it's useful or I need it then I grab it. I never have to scrounge materials unless I make a lot of upgrades at once.
+Jurgio Productions go to a cooking station, then to UTILITIES, vegetable starch makes 5 adhesive, requires 3 types of crop and purified water. Purified water is easily come by if you place one of the big water resource things in a settlement, then it will automatically add purified water to your workstation over time
The first time I was playing, I didn't knew anything, I thought mission can be completed without collecting or doing anything, But Hagen Tested my limit. Also I was playing without upgrading guns.
before i used the stores (the local leader ones not the emporiums) my cap numbers soared and some settlers had better weapons & armor. stores are a must
What is the point of building settlements with seamless fence-lines, walls, defences etc etc if enemies simply spawn slap-bang in the middle of your settlement ?
@MrOverCritical1989 There is always a chance of enemies spawning inside walls--there are some great videos explaining why this is, but it has to do with fast traveling and in-game mechanics calculating how long it takes you to get back to wherever it is you're defending. No way to avoid this--even if using a mod that stops them spawning inside settlements (in some the spawn points are naturally inside the green boundary).
Do I NEED to get settlements? Because so far it's been a damn chore and I honestly don't care about the people except for the few companions and my dog.
+Heartsickruben NEED? No, its considered side quest material. But there are advantages to having a lot of them as you can build artillery at them later on and can use it all around the map.
If it were more user friendly, I would enjoy it more. Managing settlers is a real ballache when you can't remember who's picking what corn and who you just assigned to pick their nose at the general store stand all day long. I know mousing over them in workshop mode highlights their current assignment, but these dickholes always wander off and it's extremely awkward to try and change their duties.
I know it’s a couple years late but Scrapping items converts their potential into the essential resources. This is recommended in order to allow you to transfer these essentials easily between settlements, if you do not have Local Leader. Hot items include Copper, Rubber, Cement, Oil, Crystal, Circuitry, Ceramic, and Gear. 8 simple items, excluding Steel and Wood of course. Those are a given. I’d say the most essential are Copper, Ceramic, Gear, Oil, and Rubber. The particularly rare ones are Circuitry, Crystals. Useful for essential tools like sentries and radio beacons. Cement and Aluminum are a bit specific, but important. Depends. Cement is particularly useful for settlements without nearby bodies of water. It’s your only method of water source in that scenario. Aluminum is mainly for higher tech gadgets. They’re uncommon, but inexpensive. Just purchase at a junk store if you’re running low. Just be careful toting Cement around. Other items like Copper, Rubber, Oil, etc., feel free to carry that with you every settlement you travel to. They’re light weight.
Already put like 30 hours in the game and I just sawed this. I didn't know about the radio one. Everything left was pretty easy to do. I already got some shops going and my happines % is about 91. Thanks for uploading this. It was cool to hear travis from Diamond City Radio anounce that sanctuary was a thing. I can't wait to to a mission for him. It's the best radio station that I've heard.
I only just found out if you hold down x after selecting an item, you can move it around while standing still, also if you select an item like a wall of a building you built ,and keep holding the x button down, it will allow you to move your entire base you built. : ) Found this out after spending hours moving my home aaargh!
Isnt it funny that after the release of Fallout 4 dozens of UA-camrs start to make "Guides" about stuff that you can find out by playng the game only a couple hours. Buts its cool for people who dont have the game.
+TsunaTsurugi I mean people like to share information, if it is an easy view grabber then I don't see the problem when a lot of people may be slower at figuring out stuff than others. Even if they don't have the game, let's plays cover that, or streams.
+TsunaTsurugi I found this handy as I wasn't sure how deep I wanted to get into the whole settlement thing. But it watching videos like this gives me a quick overview without giving too much away & makes me think, that while other people might not be a fan of it, settlements look like something I'd enjoy.
+BioBrain It seems that there's a command to make them glow : when you want to construct something, like a door for exemple, you can choose the pieces that you're looking for via the menu of craft... unfortunetly, I don't have the game, I can't tell which button do this action. It's said just after that part of the video, around [ 3:15 ]... maybe you'll find it in the screen ? (^_^)
It's really annoying when you have to go around your settlement finding that one guy who is still unnasinged. Like I have 16 settlers in most of my settlement but it feels like I only have 5.
Okay, so, you can build a settlement. But what's the goal, basically? How frequent are the attacks? How intense are the attacks? I kind of want my settlement to be in constant siege all the time so that I'll have a reason to make it better constantly.
WALLS! If you really want to defend your settlements from Bethesda knows what, Then you need tall walls. Get as much concrete, wood, and steel to form a physical barrier between your little place of civilization and the apocalyptic wilderness. And then craft a single entrance to your settlement. So raiders don't just grab your good weapons during a raid. Believe me. When I came back to my home base (Oberland Station) for the second time before finishing my walls, A small pack of super mutants took my Minigun! Almost died on survival difficulty putting them down.
@perry chirpy Circuitry is a bit harder to come by, but with it marked as searched the Sole Survivor should find it rather easily. The best place to get some circuitry is in destroyed turrets. I copied this from the offical Wiki. But it's true and worked for me well enough.
feels weird to be a very recent comment but, Because I love to detail all my Settlements and just focus on non-stop building everything, I just use a no build limit for mods and infinite materials. I just like to build, it's my kind of thing, one of my saves I turned Starlight into a town with a fucking hotel.
As for building settlements. Anywhere is fine. As for building the best home for yourself and wanting it to last. Do it at Starlite Drive-In............... Trust me :)
You have to flick the recruitment beacon on? FML! ... On a side note: i wished they gave us on settlement where you started in an open field or parking lot
Question about the local leader perk... Do the supply lines just transfer food and water? All the junk I have collected, I put it all in my workbench at Red Rocket because it is also where I have my Power Armor collection and other convenient things so I don't have to go to different settlements looking for the objects I need when I am repairing my power armor. If I put a supply line to another settlement, will the junk from my Red Rocket transfer to that settlement? its really annoying having to go to Red Rocket whenever I'm lacking materials in another settlement and then I end up forgetting to bring back something because I had a big ass shopping list..
Quick tip. If you never want to worry about caps, build 1 settlement for producing a bunch of water (999+) you will get around 700-1000 bottles of water every now and then. Get the strong back perk maxed and you will be able to fast travel with all that water youve been storing. I normally use the sanctuary Hills settlement for this purpose. I completely fill up the river with the big Water Production units. Also another eye that is kind of important for crafting that you left out is dirty water. But thats mainly for chems and ammo for some guns
Did that Super Mutant Warlord just survive that? :o Anyway I rly needed oil in my playthrough - had to buy 5 shipments...! Only shipments I ever needed
i agree, but the only thing i don’t really care for is how many settlements you have to maintain, id just rather have the sanctuary and maybe one other
I started building onto the red rocket gas station, can I just have it be my house and keep it at that for storing items and being cool and such? Or do I have to make it a settlement with more people
actually what I have a hard time finding its those damn screws, all of other materials I have been either lucky for I have a good amount of them to support 2 settlements so far.
+0bliterionX You can find desk fans (2 screws, 2 gears, and 2 steel) and typewriters (2 screws, 3 gears, and 3 springs) in virtually every building with a mission in it. With CHR=6 and Cap Collector perks, you can buy desk fans for $7 and typewriters for $21. Trashcan Carla and Arturo both sell screws in bulk, but they are expensive, at $30+ per screw
yeah i have been collecting every desk fan and typewriters i find in every building and yes i have been raising my CHR to get Cap Collector since traders thend to have some good loot with every material that i need.
Does anyone know why, no matter what I do, my settlements don't grow beyond around 80 happiness and about 18 people? I tried everything I could think of from planting more varied food to adding lights to all buildings and giving settlers personal spaces and privacy yet it's always at 80 Happiness, 18 people.
+Satoshi Matrix You can Google for more info, but from what I've read from people hitting 100% is to first get 20 people (get 10 Charisma, directly or indirectly), then use 3 of them to tend food and the rest to tend the biggest Stores. Next put about 100 points into Defense, then you apparently have to hang out at the settlement all the time until it hits 100. Doesn't seem worth the trouble to me.
+G-day mate Nonsense. My character has a Charisma base stat of 11, achieved by making it out through level ups and also getting the skill magazine in the asylum. Still my settlements have 18 people max, happiness 80.
I know this is old, but I want to note this for anyone that reads this that also has this issue. A high defence along with what Satoshi said should fix the issue. Build turrets preferably
I am having a problem with my settlement. I can NEVER get over 10 people in it and I desperately need more. I have 10 settlers, 18 food, 18 water, 18 beds, 9 power, 80% happiness and a recruitment beacon on full power 24/7, I've been playing for a week now and cannot get over 10 people. If anyone can help me put please gimme some words of advice! I wanna grow my settlement but no matter how hard I try nothing is working
Can you please explain what happens when a junk item is used for a mode etc. Some are saying that the leftover components are not discarded and are a visual bug while others are saying that they are permanently destroyed! The fallout subreddits are somewhat divided in half on this one. Both sides have said that it has been tested so I don't know who to believe either. Please help!!!!!
Ok so I set up a Weapons stand and assigned Valentine to it right, after a couple in game days I wanted to buy ammo from it. The thing is I didn't know how to do it. Later when I was traveling with Valentine I somehow opened up the menu to buy from him and I didn't know how I did it
you can consider it as cheating, but please dont judge me, after i played out the game on level 17 within 12 hours i had mostly nothing to do, then i discovered the workshop. i liked it so much that when i go into the workshop i enable God mode
This is unrelated to settlements. But between a Melee or stealth build. Which I better dmg output? I have about 20 skill points and it's hard to choose between them and don't really want to waste them on the wrong one. What's the benefits and cons of them for anyone who's playing one of these builds? Cheers
That’s the weirdest thing ever. I was thinking I wish there was a settlement building guide for beginners. I’ll check UA-cam. This was the first video on my feed without searching. Hahaha.
How do you equip the settlers with armor. Because I can give them armor and can't equip it on them like I can my follower or can't you do it? One time a provisiner had a suit of power armor though. Dunno how he got it but
How exactly do I have a search icon up for specific things? Somehow have one for concrete which I don't need too much as of now. Want more copper and the likes.
Is it normal that Preston Garvey always gets bugged on a defensive fence part? because i made one all around the settlement and i never find him when this happens xD
Why is my power icon always red in build mode? I have more than enough but the number is always red, its the only one. Do i have to power certain things? Please help.
I would love to build super sized settlements all day but by the the time I reach level 70 ish in the game it starts to kind of be laggish around all of the junk and shit I've hoarded over time while playing fallout. Does anyone have the same problem I'm level 102 now, the game runs fine the frame rates are smooth but when I drop off a load of shit into my settlement its like the controls and picture is sticky and slowish and it takes a minute to store everything.
i know i commented on this video a year ago but still settlement building is such a pain in the arse. having to run back and forth through them all making sure everyone has enough food water beds power and defense, also it can be stressful grinding for supplies to make all the stuff
I made dock town info: Stories:8 Location:High above any water Pop:709 (large rigth?) Features:Mall/Town Square, A crap ton of guard posts/towers, Hotel, shipyard, Farm, Restaurants, own Amry, other than that it's was a big project for me but it's now done I've been adding a few touches it's a masterpiece
"You must have settlers assigned to the garden." Settlers will tend the crops without being assigned. Only Stores, Crafting Stations, and some other things require assigning settlers to them; anyone not so assigned will tend crops. "An assigned gardener can take care of six individual plants." A settler can tend plants with up to 6 Food points. Some plants (corn, tatos) are 1/2 point each, so 1 settler can tend 12 of them. Mutfruit plants are 1 point each. (Since these plants are needed to create Adhesive, you want to grow them to the exclusion of other plants.) With 18 food points (e.g.: 12 corn, 12, tatos, 6 mutfruits), 3 unassigned settlers are enough to tend them. "Build turrets equal to the total of Food and Water points..." That is the minimum needed to discourage attackers, but the Help system says that to increase Happiness, put more points into Defense. People who have hit 100% Happiness have put around 100 points into Defense. Components to mark for searching: Oil is one of the scarcest items in the game relative to how much is needed. It is required for building turrets (of which many are needed per above), generators, weapon mods, etc. You can craft oil in the Chemistry bench, but it requires a lot of Bone which is also scarce relative to the amount needed.
how do you get settlers? sorry if this is a noob question i havent got the game yet im saving up for a ps4 this month just for this game. i just wanna know cause i heard this game is kinda hard at the beginning
Make a pure water farm and food farm use grape mentats or anything that will increase charisma if posible always loot raided and sell their items don’t destroy weapons that out their mods always pick up old money and sell it
anyone have a weird glitch where when you are in the building hud and you look at objects you can interact with your whole hud glitches to whatever color the object's outline is...
Guys please help me out. So I'v got the low down on basic settlement building ; food, water, electricity, defenses and supply lines. Heres what I cant figure out... Why would 1 settlement have a happiness of 60 (and not increase) and another settlement, with the same basic needs met, have a happiness of 80? Any advice/advanced tips would be awesome. Peace bitches.
The machinegun turret is really the only thing you should use for defense. They dont require any perks or power and you only need like a max of 6 to optimize happiness and defense. Addition turrets will help fight off raiders but thats all you need to minimize the chance of raider attacks. Dont bother with Guard stations your better off putting people to work. One point of food, water, and defense per settler and one shelter bed per settler to met basic needs which provides 80% happiness. Additional happiness bonuses are divided by number of settlers and added to your overall. Dont leave more then a few people unemployed dont have crazy excess amounts of food and water.
"Each settler can farm 6 individual plants" false, each settler can produce 6 FOOD most plants (with the exception of mutfruit which produces 1) produce 0.5 food meaning they will farm 12 plants
I'm late to the party since I've been playing all day and not watching youtube, however... Assigning a settler to harvest will actually cover 6 food, Not 6 individual plants. Most plants are only .5 food. Thus its possible for a settler to cover/harvest 12 plants alone.
sell watermelons for caps at one of the nearby farm. they give u 5 caps per melon. trash can carla as well as other merchants will sell shipments of items such as crystal and aluminum
I'm pretty advanced in my game since I started playing it, what with modding it etc lol.. but I see that this video will STILL be very useful for people starting out who have just got the game. I just didn't look for videos I guess I kinda picked it up myself but this is a great vid :) So, a belated thanks for sharing your advice with the community!
Scrapping everything but what is inside your original house will give you plenty of resources to but a wooden wall around Sanctuary and plenty of beds/ guard posts. I recommend a wall to prevent anyone from running into your town, have the "gate" at the bridge so it's a bottleneck.
The recrutment becon swithc should be green or red? When its green i am not getting radio signal but whwn its red i am getting radio signal, its a bit confusing
I am just about to level 50 and I did not know that one defense assigned settler could cover 3 posts.... it sure bumped up my defense now that you told me! I wish I never set up my supply routes the way I did either, it's hard to catch those buggers before they get to the green zone.
*INCORRECT "An assigned settler can take care of 6 individual plants" Settlers can actually take care of 6 units of food, that doesn't mean 6 resources
When you link settlements do they share resources? Like if I wanted to make multiple settlements should I specialize them with one being my plantation settlement, another producing a bunch of water, etc.?
I really want to see a fully built base on UA-cam. I come every day to see if anyone has uploaded. All I ever seen is how to build this then the video ends. please someone create something wonderful and share it. I unfortunately don't have the means to record or else I would make it my goal to share such a video
It drives me insane how he says settler i get many words can be said different ways but settler has 2 ts and theres no reason not to pronounce the second
Just wanted to ask how much food each settler in any given area requires? I have 14 settlers at the Castle and 43 food...not sure if that's overkill and would be nice to know if I'm just wasting space.
that sturges guy is so annoying you assign him and the next thing you know he is hammering imaginary nails into house walls!!
+TheFranny117 RIGHT
I cant even command him hes like the merchants that come through. I cant even select him in craft menu.
+nameless face in the crowd Do it at night or when he isn't working. You may have assigned him to a business.
Gettin' jiggy wid it :3 I didnt even have the ability to make a buisiness at the time of my last post but I will try the at night idea. Thanks
+TheFranny117 Damn synth.
adhesive=life. horde as much of it as you possibly can
+Jesse Bains ... OR with strategic farming (I mean crops, not grinding) and a water purifier, you can produce way more than you'd readily find from greedily grabbing all the duct tape or wonderglue you come across.
+RMJ Greedily? I'm like the only guy in the commonwealth that even loots places and who else actually needs duct tape besides me?
+Wow 117 i just meant having to dig and scrounge and getting excited for all the wonderglue like you're huffing it. I fell into that trap, and now I don't need to investigate every trader I see to see *if* he has rolls of duct tape so I can craft that next weapon.
DIRTY water, on the other hand... geez. They made the pure stuff comparably readily available (as opposed to 3 or NV), but you need it dirty for some specific recipes.
RMJ I don't see it as a chore because I loot EVERYTHING and if it's useful or I need it then I grab it. I never have to scrounge materials unless I make a lot of upgrades at once.
+Jurgio Productions go to a cooking station, then to UTILITIES, vegetable starch makes 5 adhesive, requires 3 types of crop and purified water.
Purified water is easily come by if you place one of the big water resource things in a settlement, then it will automatically add purified water to your workstation over time
Settlers do *not* take are of 6 individual plants, they take care of *6 food* worth of plants. It's a whole lot different
for most crops that would be 12 plants
Mods make farming and everything better
He didn't mention the the perk that let's you scrap weapons and armor. You get tons of springs, screws, and gears from guns.
GoldenBucket 890 you mean scrapper
Horde a ton of pipe guns and some combat weapons, and by later game, get scrapper and destroy them all,
It'll solve your inevitable screw crisis.
The first time I was playing, I didn't knew anything,
I thought mission can be completed without collecting or doing anything,
But Hagen Tested my limit.
Also I was playing without upgrading guns.
Love how the mutant just ate a mininuke and he is fine
I thought the Fallout 3 super mutants were scary. I was wrong.
THERE IS A MASSIVE SPOILER IN THE COMMENT SECTION!!! SCROLL AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
before i used the stores (the local leader ones not the emporiums) my cap numbers soared and some settlers had better weapons & armor. stores are a must
What is the point of building settlements with seamless fence-lines, walls, defences etc etc if enemies simply spawn slap-bang in the middle of your settlement ?
Decoration
TheBama8 Is that it ?
Yep
Not Science Oh well, on with some decorating then.
@MrOverCritical1989 There is always a chance of enemies spawning inside walls--there are some great videos explaining why this is, but it has to do with fast traveling and in-game mechanics calculating how long it takes you to get back to wherever it is you're defending. No way to avoid this--even if using a mod that stops them spawning inside settlements (in some the spawn points are naturally inside the green boundary).
Dammit Minecraft. Look what you did.
It's magnificent.
Most of the user who bought the game really liked the new system.
Fallout has been around way Before mincrap
@@bryon29able he meant the settlement system
What's wrong w/ Minecraft?
Ok I like minecraft
But this comment better than the game
Supply Lines are from the Local Leader perk rank one, not the stores.
I believe he said rank two right? he says it at 4:15 because you need rank 2 for the stores.
Do I NEED to get settlements?
Because so far it's been a damn chore and I honestly don't care about the people except for the few companions and my dog.
+Heartsickruben NEED? No, its considered side quest material. But there are advantages to having a lot of them as you can build artillery at them later on and can use it all around the map.
They are 1000% optional, you need them about as much as you need to do every single activity in the game
But the people that need my help are too nice so the game is in a way forcing me to do it =(Skaianet
+Heartsickruben For me it's a chore I do enjoy for once. c( ¯ ਊ ¯ )つ
If it were more user friendly, I would enjoy it more. Managing settlers is a real ballache when you can't remember who's picking what corn and who you just assigned to pick their nose at the general store stand all day long. I know mousing over them in workshop mode highlights their current assignment, but these dickholes always wander off and it's extremely awkward to try and change their duties.
I know it’s a couple years late but
Scrapping items converts their potential into the essential resources.
This is recommended in order to allow you to transfer these essentials easily between settlements, if you do not have Local Leader.
Hot items include Copper, Rubber, Cement, Oil, Crystal, Circuitry, Ceramic, and Gear.
8 simple items, excluding Steel and Wood of course. Those are a given.
I’d say the most essential are Copper, Ceramic, Gear, Oil, and Rubber.
The particularly rare ones are Circuitry, Crystals. Useful for essential tools like sentries and radio beacons.
Cement and Aluminum are a bit specific, but important. Depends.
Cement is particularly useful for settlements without nearby bodies of water. It’s your only method of water source in that scenario.
Aluminum is mainly for higher tech gadgets. They’re uncommon, but inexpensive. Just purchase at a junk store if you’re running low.
Just be careful toting Cement around. Other items like Copper, Rubber, Oil, etc., feel free to carry that with you every settlement you travel to. They’re light weight.
I love the Retro-Style of your videos! Fits great with Fallout!
Already put like 30 hours in the game and I just sawed this.
I didn't know about the radio one.
Everything left was pretty easy to do.
I already got some shops going and my happines % is about 91.
Thanks for uploading this.
It was cool to hear travis from Diamond City Radio anounce that sanctuary was a thing.
I can't wait to to a mission for him. It's the best radio station that I've heard.
Three-Dog from Fallout 3 was great too!
@@leebard9335 and don't forget about Mr. New Vegas, which in IRL is Mr. Las Vegas.
I only just found out if you hold down x after selecting an item, you can move it around while standing still, also if you select an item like a wall of a building you built ,and keep holding the x button down, it will allow you to move your entire base you built. : ) Found this out after spending hours moving my home aaargh!
Isnt it funny that after the release of Fallout 4 dozens of UA-camrs start to make "Guides" about stuff that you can find out by playng the game only a couple hours. Buts its cool for people who dont have the game.
+TsunaTsurugi I mean people like to share information, if it is an easy view grabber then I don't see the problem when a lot of people may be slower at figuring out stuff than others. Even if they don't have the game, let's plays cover that, or streams.
+TsunaTsurugi That's why there is "*Basics*" mentioned in the title.
+TsunaTsurugi I found this handy as I wasn't sure how deep I wanted to get into the whole settlement thing. But it watching videos like this gives me a quick overview without giving too much away & makes me think, that while other people might not be a fan of it, settlements look like something I'd enjoy.
Actually just basically guode to someone that need deeper festures in game
3:12 the loot-able items are glowing, how to do that?
+BioBrain It seems that there's a command to make them glow :
when you want to construct something, like a door for exemple, you can choose the pieces that you're looking for via the menu of craft... unfortunetly, I don't have the game, I can't tell which button do this action. It's said just after that part of the video, around [ 3:15 ]... maybe you'll find it in the screen ? (^_^)
+Jazz The Cabbit Yeah, I've done that unfortunately that only put the magnifying glass icon near the items name.
+BioBrain Rank 2 scrapper
+BioBrain It's scrapper rank 2, don't listen to what Jazz is saying.
***** They're right, my appologies. But for my deffence, I said that I have not the game yet... sorry. (>///< )
after character creation can i get s.p.e.c.i.a.l points from leveling?
+TyrantTeemo Yes, you can get them either from bobbleheads or just from leveling up and putting points into the desired stat :)
+todo ok thanks
+TyrantTeemo find the You're S.P.E.C.I.A.L book in your sons room
you eventually get every perk maxed and special attribute
It's really annoying when you have to go around your settlement finding that one guy who is still unnasinged. Like I have 16 settlers in most of my settlement but it feels like I only have 5.
you can create a bell it will attract all the settlers in the area
Okay, so, you can build a settlement. But what's the goal, basically? How frequent are the attacks? How intense are the attacks? I kind of want my settlement to be in constant siege all the time so that I'll have a reason to make it better constantly.
Thank you for this! Was going to try it out to see what it's like.
***** Hello
I'm glad that you do :)
Pretty good basic how to. informed me greatly.
So if you want more settler for your settlement
You have to make a radio station
It's sound pretty good
Well done
WALLS!
If you really want to defend your settlements from Bethesda knows what, Then you need tall walls. Get as much concrete, wood, and steel to form a physical barrier between your little place of civilization and the apocalyptic wilderness. And then craft a single entrance to your settlement. So raiders don't just grab your good weapons during a raid.
Believe me. When I came back to my home base (Oberland Station) for the second time before finishing my walls, A small pack of super mutants took my Minigun! Almost died on survival difficulty putting them down.
@perry chirpy Circuitry is a bit harder to come by, but with it marked as searched the Sole Survivor should find it rather easily. The best place to get some circuitry is in destroyed turrets.
I copied this from the offical Wiki. But it's true and worked for me well enough.
feels weird to be a very recent comment but,
Because I love to detail all my Settlements and just focus on non-stop building everything, I just use a no build limit for mods and infinite materials.
I just like to build, it's my kind of thing, one of my saves I turned Starlight into a town with a fucking hotel.
I just bought fallout 4 and I have no idea what i'm doing. Half the time i'm just running around dying.
That's the fun part. Haha
Lol that was my problem I used to try to make a break straight for diamond city and I'd die a relies I haven't saved for quite awhile
Tip constantly quicksave, get the overseers gaurdian in vault 81 very early oh wait this comment was 2 years ago a whatever
some random guy
I know how that feels replying to a guy that probably doesn't rly care lol great tip though thx xD
As for building settlements. Anywhere is fine. As for building the best home for yourself and wanting it to last. Do it at Starlite Drive-In............... Trust me :)
But... can the settlement make you money? And how?
You have to flick the recruitment beacon on? FML! ... On a side note: i wished they gave us on settlement where you started in an open field or parking lot
Sanctuary has a Lot of Open Space, Sunshine Tidings In is a Parking lot and you can go there early,(can't remember the name exactly)
Starlight Drive in is literally just a massive parking lot. All you have to to is clear out some leveled molerat.s
just what i was looking for, great video.
Question about the local leader perk... Do the supply lines just transfer food and water? All the junk I have collected, I put it all in my workbench at Red Rocket because it is also where I have my Power Armor collection and other convenient things so I don't have to go to different settlements looking for the objects I need when I am repairing my power armor. If I put a supply line to another settlement, will the junk from my Red Rocket transfer to that settlement? its really annoying having to go to Red Rocket whenever I'm lacking materials in another settlement and then I end up forgetting to bring back something because I had a big ass shopping list..
Jacques Ji ok so it's only one settler per supply line?
My first settlement was the Castle.
Quick tip. If you never want to worry about caps, build 1 settlement for producing a bunch of water (999+) you will get around 700-1000 bottles of water every now and then. Get the strong back perk maxed and you will be able to fast travel with all that water youve been storing. I normally use the sanctuary Hills settlement for this purpose. I completely fill up the river with the big Water Production units. Also another eye that is kind of important for crafting that you left out is dirty water. But thats mainly for chems and ammo for some guns
By far: the shortest tutorial I've watched on the subject. And by far: the best 👍
Did that Super Mutant Warlord just survive that? :o
Anyway I rly needed oil in my playthrough - had to buy 5 shipments...! Only shipments I ever needed
it sounds like everything I've ever wanted in a survival game. Why is it though I hear so many gamers bitching about it being a nuisance?
i agree, but the only thing i don’t really care for is how many settlements you have to maintain, id just rather have the sanctuary and maybe one other
I'd love to see a "setting up a base from ground up" walk through.
i tend not to build settlements, i much prefer just exploring the world, picking up new gear and fighting enemies.
Yeah crafting games are so played out by now.
I started building onto the red rocket gas station, can I just have it be my house and keep it at that for storing items and being cool and such? Or do I have to make it a settlement with more people
It can be just your house just don't build recruitment tower for settlers
actually what I have a hard time finding its those damn screws, all of other materials I have been either lucky for I have a good amount of them to support 2 settlements so far.
+0bliterionX
You can find desk fans (2 screws, 2 gears, and 2 steel) and typewriters (2 screws, 3 gears, and 3 springs) in virtually every building with a mission in it.
With CHR=6 and Cap Collector perks, you can buy desk fans for $7 and typewriters for $21.
Trashcan Carla and Arturo both sell screws in bulk, but they are expensive, at $30+ per screw
yeah i have been collecting every desk fan and typewriters i find in every building and yes i have been raising my CHR to get Cap Collector since traders thend to have some good loot with every material that i need.
Screws are worth more than a radiation free child so SHUT UP SHAWN TYERES SCREWS HERE I SMELL EM
modding, do modding... i know gopher already has the good guides down but more people doing guides to differing audiences is always good
You want the game but don't got $ ? Just wait for steam -90% in 10 years. :d
Does anyone know why, no matter what I do, my settlements don't grow beyond around 80 happiness and about 18 people? I tried everything I could think of from planting more varied food to adding lights to all buildings and giving settlers personal spaces and privacy yet it's always at 80 Happiness, 18 people.
+Satoshi Matrix
You can Google for more info, but from what I've read from people hitting 100% is to first get 20 people (get 10 Charisma, directly or indirectly), then use 3 of them to tend food and the rest to tend the biggest Stores. Next put about 100 points into Defense, then you apparently have to hang out at the settlement all the time until it hits 100. Doesn't seem worth the trouble to me.
+G-day mate Nonsense. My character has a Charisma base stat of 11, achieved by making it out through level ups and also getting the skill magazine in the asylum. Still my settlements have 18 people max, happiness 80.
Stores
I know this is old, but I want to note this for anyone that reads this that also has this issue. A high defence along with what Satoshi said should fix the issue. Build turrets preferably
I love the new fallout 4 building it is really simple and fun.
Technically you’re first settlement is red rocket truck stop although the first settlement occupied by a large amount of people is sanctuary
When you got all the DLC and there are too much thing to build, you simply don't know how to build them correctly.
How do you loot profit from the stands?
+JohnnyPuckGaming Go to the workbench and the caps will be in the miscellaneous tab.
I was wondering this too. I was confused why I have 1000 caps in my workbench and didn't put any in there lol
how do i share resources like water? i have 2 large waters in Sanctuary and a supply line with rocket but it doesnt seem to give them water
I am having a problem with my settlement. I can NEVER get over 10 people in it and I desperately need more. I have 10 settlers, 18 food, 18 water, 18 beds, 9 power, 80% happiness and a recruitment beacon on full power 24/7, I've been playing for a week now and cannot get over 10 people. If anyone can help me put please gimme some words of advice! I wanna grow my settlement but no matter how hard I try nothing is working
Thank you very much I appreciate the guide love it.
Can you please explain what happens when a junk item is used for a mode etc. Some are saying that the leftover components are not discarded and are a visual bug while others are saying that they are permanently destroyed!
The fallout subreddits are somewhat divided in half on this one. Both sides have said that it has been tested so I don't know who to believe either. Please help!!!!!
Ok so I set up a Weapons stand and assigned Valentine to it right, after a couple in game days I wanted to buy ammo from it. The thing is I didn't know how to do it. Later when I was traveling with Valentine I somehow opened up the menu to buy from him and I didn't know how I did it
you can consider it as cheating, but please dont judge me, after i played out the game on level 17 within 12 hours i had mostly nothing to do, then i discovered the workshop. i liked it so much that when i go into the workshop i enable God mode
This is unrelated to settlements. But between a Melee or stealth build. Which I better dmg output? I have about 20 skill points and it's hard to choose between them and don't really want to waste them on the wrong one. What's the benefits and cons of them for anyone who's playing one of these builds? Cheers
That’s the weirdest thing ever. I was thinking I wish there was a settlement building guide for beginners. I’ll check UA-cam. This was the first video on my feed without searching. Hahaha.
How do you equip the settlers with armor. Because I can give them armor and can't equip it on them like I can my follower or can't you do it? One time a provisiner had a suit of power armor though. Dunno how he got it but
How exactly do I have a search icon up for specific things? Somehow have one for concrete which I don't need too much as of now. Want more copper and the likes.
Is it normal that Preston Garvey always gets bugged on a defensive fence part? because i made one all around the settlement and i never find him when this happens xD
Why is my power icon always red in build mode? I have more than enough but the number is always red, its the only one. Do i have to power certain things? Please help.
I would love to build super sized settlements all day but by the the time I reach level 70 ish in the game it starts to kind of be laggish around all of the junk and shit I've hoarded over time while playing fallout. Does anyone have the same problem I'm level 102 now, the game runs fine the frame rates are smooth but when I drop off a load of shit into my settlement its like the controls and picture is sticky and slowish and it takes a minute to store everything.
any guide for settlement happiness would be appreciated
forgot to tell you that the guide was awesome man. thanks!
+Johnnatan Da Cruz In my experience, putting down decorations tends to raise the happiness bar
Spent like 30 minutes trying to ant wild crops
same, same
i know i commented on this video a year ago but still settlement building is such a pain in the arse. having to run back and forth through them all making sure everyone has enough food water beds power and defense, also it can be stressful grinding for supplies to make all the stuff
very good video I appreciate the effort
I have been playing fallout 4 for 3 years and I had NO IDEA settlers can give you stuff from pruduction
I made dock town
info:
Stories:8
Location:High above any water
Pop:709 (large rigth?)
Features:Mall/Town Square, A crap ton of guard posts/towers, Hotel, shipyard, Farm, Restaurants, own Amry, other than that it's was a big project for me but it's now done I've been adding a few touches it's a masterpiece
I have this problem where my happiness is going down but nothing is red all of my requirements are WAY above requirements
What kind of settlement that gets attack very often even tho the defense is higher than the food and water?
"You must have settlers assigned to the garden."
Settlers will tend the crops without being assigned. Only Stores, Crafting Stations, and some other things require assigning settlers to them; anyone not so assigned will tend crops.
"An assigned gardener can take care of six individual plants."
A settler can tend plants with up to 6 Food points. Some plants (corn, tatos) are 1/2 point each, so 1 settler can tend 12 of them. Mutfruit plants are 1 point each. (Since these plants are needed to create Adhesive, you want to grow them to the exclusion of other plants.) With 18 food points (e.g.: 12 corn, 12, tatos, 6 mutfruits), 3 unassigned settlers are enough to tend them.
"Build turrets equal to the total of Food and Water points..."
That is the minimum needed to discourage attackers, but the Help system says that to increase Happiness, put more points into Defense. People who have hit 100% Happiness have put around 100 points into Defense.
Components to mark for searching:
Oil is one of the scarcest items in the game relative to how much is needed. It is required for building turrets (of which many are needed per above), generators, weapon mods, etc. You can craft oil in the Chemistry bench, but it requires a lot of Bone which is also scarce relative to the amount needed.
how do you get settlers? sorry if this is a noob question i havent got the game yet im saving up for a ps4 this month just for this game. i just wanna know cause i heard this game is kinda hard at the beginning
Make a pure water farm and food farm use grape mentats or anything that will increase charisma if posible always loot raided and sell their items don’t destroy weapons that out their mods always pick up old money and sell it
anyone have a weird glitch where when you are in the building hud and you look at objects you can interact with your whole hud glitches to whatever color the object's outline is...
If you want to increase so much materials and throw your junk while didn't has junk jet go to workshop and store all junk there you got both
Guys please help me out.
So I'v got the low down on basic settlement building ; food, water, electricity, defenses and supply lines. Heres what I cant figure out... Why would 1 settlement have a happiness of 60 (and not increase) and another settlement, with the same basic needs met, have a happiness of 80?
Any advice/advanced tips would be awesome. Peace bitches.
i would recomend using the sleeping bags that way the NPC won't get confused and they are the smallest sleeping space
The machinegun turret is really the only thing you should use for defense. They dont require any perks or power and you only need like a max of 6 to optimize happiness and defense. Addition turrets will help fight off raiders but thats all you need to minimize the chance of raider attacks. Dont bother with Guard stations your better off putting people to work.
One point of food, water, and defense per settler and one shelter bed per settler to met basic needs which provides 80% happiness. Additional happiness bonuses are divided by number of settlers and added to your overall. Dont leave more then a few people unemployed dont have crazy excess amounts of food and water.
"Each settler can farm 6 individual plants" false, each settler can produce 6 FOOD most plants (with the exception of mutfruit which produces 1) produce 0.5 food meaning they will farm 12 plants
I'm late to the party since I've been playing all day and not watching youtube, however...
Assigning a settler to harvest will actually cover 6 food, Not 6 individual plants. Most plants are only .5 food. Thus its possible for a settler to cover/harvest 12 plants alone.
sell watermelons for caps at one of the nearby farm. they give u 5 caps per melon. trash can carla as well as other merchants will sell shipments of items such as crystal and aluminum
I started playing now. October '23. And THIS should have been a valt tec into
But, what do you get for building one? What do they do? Aren't you busy saving the world or something?
I'm pretty advanced in my game since I started playing it, what with modding it etc lol.. but I see that this video will STILL be very useful for people starting out who have just got the game. I just didn't look for videos I guess I kinda picked it up myself but this is a great vid :)
So, a belated thanks for sharing your advice with the community!
i want to see the electricity tutorials.
Scrapping everything but what is inside your original house will give you plenty of resources to but a wooden wall around Sanctuary and plenty of beds/ guard posts. I recommend a wall to prevent anyone from running into your town, have the "gate" at the bridge so it's a bottleneck.
The recrutment becon swithc should be green or red? When its green i am not getting radio signal but whwn its red i am getting radio signal, its a bit confusing
Does ANYONE here know if settlers can use stimpacks or drugs? (jet).
I am just about to level 50 and I did not know that one defense assigned settler could cover 3 posts.... it sure bumped up my defense now that you told me! I wish I never set up my supply routes the way I did either, it's hard to catch those buggers before they get to the green zone.
*INCORRECT
"An assigned settler can take care of 6 individual plants"
Settlers can actually take care of 6 units of food, that doesn't mean 6 resources
When you link settlements do they share resources? Like if I wanted to make multiple settlements should I specialize them with one being my plantation settlement, another producing a bunch of water, etc.?
Those materials are pretty uncommon, but its easy to find it at alot of vendors at Diamond City.
I put a big Donald Trump wall/fence around Sanctuary hills... Lol
I really want to see a fully built base on UA-cam. I come every day to see if anyone has uploaded. All I ever seen is how to build this then the video ends. please someone create something wonderful and share it. I unfortunately don't have the means to record or else I would make it my goal to share such a video
It drives me insane how he says settler i get many words can be said different ways but settler has 2 ts and theres no reason not to pronounce the second
Shaun is the main characters baby and gets stolen from them in the vault and the story is about looking for him
Im starting my settlement at the Red Rocket Truck Stop and im missing a lot of oil but other than that its good
fucking sanctuary is a haven for me, i even built a town hall, and everyother settlement is shit
Well done very informative 👍
what are the points of having a settlement? how does its benefit me?
Just wanted to ask how much food each settler in any given area requires? I have 14 settlers at the Castle and 43 food...not sure if that's overkill and would be nice to know if I'm just wasting space.
+Monolith174
See the F4 Help system. (Pause - Help)