Simple fix; use the tiny wooden flooring to make a thin walkway beside the stairs. Notice the gaping hole? 2 wooden squares per level, don't need to run the length of both traincars that way. Add railing from the scaffolding miscellaneous to prevent falling to one's death. This vid REALLY made me appreciate the 'Place Everywhere' mod, reminding me how annoying it used to be to build things sometimes.
A small suggestion: alternate your stairs from side to side, using both sides of the square between the boxcars. So you walk up the first stair, make a complete 180 turn and the stair to the next floor is right there. It would mean less open spaces for people to fall out of, and your settlers wouldn't need to go all the way around the floor to reach the next set of stairs, Instead of \ \ \ \ Go with \ / \ /
+Oxhorn NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I HATE YOU (not really)I made a cool boxcar double house but I used the small halfway boxcars as beds and made a dining/drinking under them also it has space so no stairs. So beat that😏
"...and at the top floor of this beautiful boxcar tower home, you can open these doors and have your choice of a gorgeous view or gruesome suicide. Perfect for all your post-apocalyptic needs." Any viable way to build a deck or something? lol
Easy to build a deck just put steps or ladders up to the area then attach the platform, then you can remove the ladders and put railings around them. deck might just snap to it directly without ladders. I haven't tried it on boxcar yet.
Boxcar beds are considered unsheltered giving you a penalty. I verified this using console commands. I built a nice boxcar shelter my happiness dropped significantly. I had to put a roof over the boxcar to fix this.
In the orange tower, why not put half floors directly next to the stairs/ramps/ladders? That way, you wouldn't need to run all the way through the length of the tower and back to get to the stairs for the next level! And in the blue tower, why not do the same, and then use the elevator INSTEAD of the large floor pieces between the two corridors? Also, there should be walls around the stairwell as well. Otherwise, raiders will shoot any settlers moving through the stairwell. Still cool builds, though!
Bobo Sims I've lived in barracks where the stairs are only at one end so if you lived in a certain section you had to walk all the way to the other side to go up or down floors.
Awesome build, especially the blue one, love the glass windows and the elevator just tops it off nice. Love to see what you did decoration wise on the interior. Keep up the great videos 👍🏻
Love it Oxhorn, thanks. Now all I have to do is make it through the rest of the day at work so I can go home and start building. P.S. I really appreciate you doing some things like this mod free (PS4 user here). It's great to know some kool things are available in vanilla with the right amount of patience and ingenuity.
Though I play modded it is great to see the un-modded builds. Starting from simple can be made complex. Starting complex is harder to develop one's own style. Never thought of using the box cars in a tower like that.
Just a tip for towers. Finch farm (near where the forged are) although it does not have a wide area, you can get 11-13 floors using wood building (not sure for other sizes of buildings).
Nice idea however i would make the stair structure going up the middle so you could use the end boxcars as little apartments like Chinese apartment buildings
This is really cool! I'm gonna build a few of these in my settlements, but on each end, instead of a connector with a wall, I'll put another boxcar on the end to act as a bedroom. Thanks Oxhorn!
Thank you for this great tutorial! I just built a lovely 3-story tower at Oberland Station, and for the open sides I was able to snap on the scaffolding guard rails AND snap the boxcar doors on for a lovely window-like feel. (No mods, I'm on the PS4) Because even though my settlers may be smart enough to not go plummeting to their doom, I have backed off many a tall platform on accident and nobody needs that headache.
You can make it a bit more compact than the blue tower if you have the passageway in the same opening as the stairs, and finish it off with a 2 segment endcap. it can be a bit more work placing the walls in those cases but it would be possible to enclose even the stairs.
Maybe you could make some balconies at the outer side on the connector piece. So your settlers can't commit suicide because fo4s ai is too dumb to jump. Apperently radiation made their knees fail. I am going to try it soon. Thanks ox!
This has inspired me to attempt to make a kind of Kowloon walled city at starlight drive in. Something satisfying to see you spiralling down that tower just made me think of making a packed living space with ramparts and gantries and balconies all over it.
Interesting idea, I shall have to try it out myself. Though I think I could modify it to be used for building a wall out of Boxcars around a settlement.
Would love to see this decorated and "Lived in" Abernathy farm does have the tallest limit (about 20 stories, I think) I built a towerblock there with the top floors as a display area for my armour, weapons etc and using the institute pieces (homemaker mod), I built myself a luxury apartment on the very top, with an open patio/dining area
I've always wished that the building sets would lend themselves to better use of the vertical space in some of the settlements. For example, the Abernathy Farm build area extends to almost the tippy-top of the utility tower. I tested it with the concrete build set and got to at least 20 floors. If you're looking for new build ideas, I would LOVE to see what could/would do with all of that space!
I would open the doors on the outer side and add defense platforms and turret stands as well as nooks for individual rooms. Top floor I would use the mod for crop planters. This gives me big ideas too. Steel and wood are very common so you could go pretty big without having to farm resources.
Finally a method for some of the smallest most annoying settlements to build because of lack of space. Thank You Oxhorn!! Once again you deliver the best build option for the simple player (One who dosen't use mods or is very, VERY! inexperienced with mods)
If you take off the doors you can clip the balcony wall pieces to the door ways to make look out posts or something. I might play with this idea to try making a watch tower.
I like to use the boxcars as walls to limit the entryways for potential pirates. I build these boxcars and use them as shelter for guards and farmers and I plant turrets on to of the boxcars and link them up to a terminal and their respective generators to spray them down like a firing squad. It works so well for me that it's like shooting fish in a barrel when gunners, raiders, and super mutants attack.
Looks like if you had to you could use the floor bolts for alignment. I’ve been trying to build an apartment style stack of busses. Problem is the bus is taller than all the building tiles.
Fun with boxcars, i also use them as a defensiv structure, just throw some walls under it and a defense post and you are done. Looks awesome if you ask me. Maybe you could widen the center by using 1 of the small piece and 1 big piece snapped to each other.
heya all, I've been having the pathing issues too, so I did what some people suggested and alternated the sides that the ladders (ok stairs @Gryff) were placed. How mine are built are 1st floor: endcap w/ ladder down (out) + door (non-endcap) piece + endcap w/ ladder up; 2nd floor: endcap + door piece w/ ladder up + endcap with ladder down (from 1st floor) and so on alternating. After I did that my settlers could walk up to their beds and would stop complaining about beds even though I had 30 beds and 10 settlers.
I thought some towers made sense for Starlight too. I used the vault pieces. I really wish we had some rusty old exterior vault pieces. Coloured paints and textures like the winterized power armour paint would work really well, as well as patched over with bits of metal, or bits of diamond city texture here and there. It's frustrating sometimes, the ideas I have in my head but the workshop doesn't contain the pieces I need. I've genuinely thought about building some real models. I might do that if I knew how to get good floorplans and dimensions of the settlements
I think I would've used metal prefabs for the middle parts. and what about all the wasted space between the railcars? that space could be used for a large patio or covered common area. :)
did you consider stairs going up from the opposite tower for the orange build? so like when you walk up a flight of stairs, directly next to it is another flight going up? could effectively shorten the time to climb as well as create and interesting X look when looking at the stairs from the outside
Tried this technique but ran into a slight problem: The settlers had trouble navigating past the 2nd floor. For some reason they have trouble pathing when the stairs are stacked on each other. I had a bigger building (3 across) so I put the next level on a different set and that seemed to help them find a path to the upper floors. Though I had the stairs in the center of the box car opening, not on the right. Not sure if that would cause a problem or not.
Wire floor=upskirt view. You chose rightly. You could just have 2 ladders in the same door hole. Just have them pointing in the opposite direction each time. As for open doors to the outside add a half floor part and railings to make decks. What you had with the full tile hall... I would've alternated the stairs direction or add a walkway in the open space. The full floor piece bridge on the opposite end is not needed but nice to have when decorating but I would've added stairs..
Can't you use double stairs for up & down (Like two next to each other)? It would just fill in that awkward gap next to the stairs... just my thought! Although, I'm not even sure if that would be possible without mods!
you can make it smaller, only use the elevator and eliminate the other side of boxcars with stairs, then open up the wall on the other side of the elevator on the first floor and make stairs and a door for it. I have not tried this but it makes sense. Also, can't you just add some 1x1 platforms on the side of the stairs so settlers don't have to go trapesing around the tower to get to the next stair? Cool build anyway though thx for the idea.
My first attempt at a shack of boxcars was three wide - door opening to door opening - without a gap as you have between the ones you have here (mine would thus have a third row running between the two. I had a scaffolding setup to reach the front door with additional access up the side to a second story made of wood flooring/walls/roof lying on top. Sleeping bags inside with a radio and such, with a bar area up top. Sadly I got completely fed up with it and scrapped it after being electrocuted the fourth or fifth time striving to get the lights set up. Electricity + big metal box = not good.
@ Oxhorn - Its nice that you show s how the warehouse stairs will conect perfectly to this, but the thing is, i came here thinking there was going to be a elevator snap n build showcase, but no there were no elevators... also this shows us that the heightlimit is 7 floors.. is it possible to get the elevators from contraptions workshop to snap to boxcars?
@SonicJosh_23 - yes its true i posted that while watching the video, at the end of the video all my questions got answered and he did show a way to conect elevators to boxcars. this kinda building i dont do in my settlements i was just here to look at what i call "alternate settlement designs" , i think that the boxcar tower would be a interesting junk city concept. i dont like to build junk towns though i try to make them look for organized, i cant really find anywhere to put something like this in my settlement i just wanted to come here and see someone making strange fallout 4 creations just for the fun of it .
and why are you building over the water? I always use that water to put 1 of the big water pumps in it so I don't have a lot of little ones in the dirt to hook together..
Nice! Thank you so much for being original and not the 400th person who just personalized "their own" settlement!! Awesome job!! Also I thought it was nice you didn't use any mods... that kind of kills the "creativity" to me
how do you turn the vertical build limit off? when I go high up it says I'm leaving the workshop area and stops my workshop.. like at Bunker Hill in the watch House tower.. and many more places
Ox, I've not really looked at the Boxcar sets since Wood all the way ;p But aren't the blue set the same as orange? Because you could alternate the towers so you could either each level being a colour OR each tower.
It's just so much fin listening to you as you build this tower. I'm going to be trying one, myself. Not sure where though. I was thinking of stuffing one into Hangman's, somehow.
Couldn't you run the stairs up on the long side of the tower rather than the short side? It would let you use the boxcar connectors on the short sides. Of course that might not look as good as this does.
Yoo oxhorn, love the videos man. Something cool you can do with the open doorways is add a couple single squares or one 1 by 2 square, and a couple railings to make it like balcony.
This looks awesome :), I did have a question though. Are the box cars sealed enough to prevent the radioactive storms? It's something that was bugging me to no end, in a few of my shack settlement builds. I was also thinking you could build ends with widows coming off the outside door areas, this would give you an awesome view with lighted box cars shining in the night.
Oxhorn, could you show us how to build different kinds of houses made out of wood or mixing the wood with warehouse/barn pieces? My housing is so boring, and I love the way you build and explain things. More let's builds! :)
I did this exact same thing well almost before seeing this video. I used scaffold and the scaffold ramps to get mine like this and they dont look quite as nice but I got the cars as bridges in the center as well as had the ramps in the center connecting the floors but settlers would open the doors up top and fall to their deaths..... had to put railings
nice video but i still don't get it. why should i use boxcars to create sth? i mean they are friendly for fallouy theme but still ... what else i can make with these?
Instead of using stairs, the 4x height elevator piece will snap in nicely. I suppose you could alternate which side has the elevator if you wanted anything than that.
Thanks for this.. I'm new to building but am getting it. I started experimenting with elevators and having a blast. So I put a 4 floor elevator in then added a 2 floor elevator going up to floor 6 to the penthouse all doors opening. Now to learn to upload videos. Lol thank you all.
If you needed to make it more compact and you were using an elevator, you could just make the tower one wide instead of 2, put the elevator in line with the box cars then it would be even smaller :) then you could make the little rooms off the side
This reminds me of a book called Ready Player One, they use trailers instead of train carts and call it "the stacks". It's a great book and you really should look into it Ox. Keep up the awesome content! Bye!
"No, cement will be too heavy"
*just stacked 70 metal boxcars on wooden stilts*
I can hear Nick Valentine say, "more stairs, who built this? A fitness instructor?
Simple fix; use the tiny wooden flooring to make a thin walkway beside the stairs. Notice the gaping hole? 2 wooden squares per level, don't need to run the length of both traincars that way. Add railing from the scaffolding miscellaneous to prevent falling to one's death. This vid REALLY made me appreciate the 'Place Everywhere' mod, reminding me how annoying it used to be to build things sometimes.
Nick is honestly my favourite companion in Fallout 4. So much sass but he has a good heart. Danse is my second favourite.
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A small suggestion: alternate your stairs from side to side, using both sides of the square between the boxcars. So you walk up the first stair, make a complete 180 turn and the stair to the next floor is right there. It would mean less open spaces for people to fall out of, and your settlers wouldn't need to go all the way around the floor to reach the next set of stairs,
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Thank you!
A little experimentation shows that the flooring will snap in under the ladders, and walls can be added, as well.
STAIRS. OXHORN. STAIRS. THEY ARE STAIRS.
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Ladder, stairs, whatev!
exactly what I said and I got hate
As a French I thought it was my english that was awful lel
+Oxhorn NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I HATE YOU (not really)I made a cool boxcar double house but I used the small halfway boxcars as beds and made a dining/drinking under them also it has space so no stairs. So beat that😏
"...and at the top floor of this beautiful boxcar tower home, you can open these doors and have your choice of a gorgeous view or gruesome suicide. Perfect for all your post-apocalyptic needs."
Any viable way to build a deck or something? lol
Easy to build a deck just put steps or ladders up to the area then attach the platform, then you can remove the ladders and put railings around them. deck might just snap to it directly without ladders. I haven't tried it on boxcar yet.
Oxhorn, health and safety want a word with you ^_^
Bah, I'm not scared!
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"Who built this vault? A fitness instructor?" (c) :D
Boxcar beds are considered unsheltered giving you a penalty. I verified this using console commands. I built a nice boxcar shelter my happiness dropped significantly. I had to put a roof over the boxcar to fix this.
In the orange tower, why not put half floors directly next to the stairs/ramps/ladders? That way, you wouldn't need to run all the way through the length of the tower and back to get to the stairs for the next level!
And in the blue tower, why not do the same, and then use the elevator INSTEAD of the large floor pieces between the two corridors?
Also, there should be walls around the stairwell as well. Otherwise, raiders will shoot any settlers moving through the stairwell.
Still cool builds, though!
Bobo Sims I've lived in barracks where the stairs are only at one end so if you lived in a certain section you had to walk all the way to the other side to go up or down floors.
Awesome build, especially the blue one, love the glass windows and the elevator just tops it off nice. Love to see what you did decoration wise on the interior. Keep up the great videos 👍🏻
Love it Oxhorn, thanks. Now all I have to do is make it through the rest of the day at work so I can go home and start building.
P.S. I really appreciate you doing some things like this mod free (PS4 user here). It's great to know some kool things are available in vanilla with the right amount of patience and ingenuity.
You bet!
Though I play modded it is great to see the un-modded builds. Starting from simple can be made complex. Starting complex is harder to develop one's own style. Never thought of using the box cars in a tower like that.
Brady L Smith also check out Skooled Zone if you want to learn all about vanilla fallout 4. The guy does everything in-game without mods.
@@timmyteaches7663 I agree.
Just a tip for towers.
Finch farm (near where the forged are) although it does not have a wide area, you can get 11-13 floors using wood building (not sure for other sizes of buildings).
Nice idea however i would make the stair structure going up the middle so you could use the end boxcars as little apartments like Chinese apartment buildings
This is really cool! I'm gonna build a few of these in my settlements, but on each end, instead of a connector with a wall, I'll put another boxcar on the end to act as a bedroom. Thanks Oxhorn!
Great idea! I will build one tonight with a little balcony on the top level as befits the Penthouse suite.
I love this idea, very creative.
Great vid. In starlight I have a long row of boxcars and attached end cars to the door holes and made a long hallway of small rooms for settlers.
Thank you for this great tutorial! I just built a lovely 3-story tower at Oberland Station, and for the open sides I was able to snap on the scaffolding guard rails AND snap the boxcar doors on for a lovely window-like feel. (No mods, I'm on the PS4) Because even though my settlers may be smart enough to not go plummeting to their doom, I have backed off many a tall platform on accident and nobody needs that headache.
You can make it a bit more compact than the blue tower if you have the passageway in the same opening as the stairs, and finish it off with a 2 segment endcap. it can be a bit more work placing the walls in those cases but it would be possible to enclose even the stairs.
Maybe you could make some balconies at the outer side on the connector piece. So your settlers can't commit suicide because fo4s ai is too dumb to jump. Apperently radiation made their knees fail. I am going to try it soon. Thanks ox!
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This has inspired me to attempt to make a kind of Kowloon walled city at starlight drive in. Something satisfying to see you spiralling down that tower just made me think of making a packed living space with ramparts and gantries and balconies all over it.
Interesting idea, I shall have to try it out myself. Though I think I could modify it to be used for building a wall out of Boxcars around a settlement.
That profile pic.
Ghost of Coprolite
It's the Snow Beast from an episode of the Scooby Doo Show...don't judge me lol!
Would love to see this decorated and "Lived in"
Abernathy farm does have the tallest limit (about 20 stories, I think) I built a towerblock there with the top floors as a display area for my armour, weapons etc and using the institute pieces (homemaker mod), I built myself a luxury apartment on the very top, with an open patio/dining area
I've always wished that the building sets would lend themselves to better use of the vertical space in some of the settlements. For example, the Abernathy Farm build area extends to almost the tippy-top of the utility tower. I tested it with the concrete build set and got to at least 20 floors. If you're looking for new build ideas, I would LOVE to see what could/would do with all of that space!
The first one I built was 4 cars wide, and mostly used the elevators because I didn't know any of the stairs were taller. That was fun.
I would open the doors on the outer side and add defense platforms and turret stands as well as nooks for individual rooms. Top floor I would use the mod for crop planters. This gives me big ideas too. Steel and wood are very common so you could go pretty big without having to farm resources.
Finally a method for some of the smallest most annoying settlements to build because of lack of space. Thank You Oxhorn!! Once again you deliver the best build option for the simple player (One who dosen't use mods or is very, VERY! inexperienced with mods)
If you take off the doors you can clip the balcony wall pieces to the door ways to make look out posts or something. I might play with this idea to try making a watch tower.
Are we just going to ignore his 7 happiness.
No settlers, 7 happiness and going down. That is worth noticing.
I will actually try this and combine it with your Glass elevator idea as well. This would make a really nice (and compact) Player Home.
This gave me a lot of inspiration to make a settlement entirely out of boxcars and buses.
Interesting, I never thought about using boxcars in this fashion. Nice job Oxhorn.
Do the boxcar doors open on the sides facing out? You could use this as a defense tower in some of your settlements.
I still find it hilarious that you can craft an entire train boxcar from eight tin cans and four pencils. That's less than half a pound of material.
I really hated this idea UNTIL you showed us the interior.. Now I can't wait to build one.
I like to use the boxcars as walls to limit the entryways for potential pirates. I build these boxcars and use them as shelter for guards and farmers and I plant turrets on to of the boxcars and link them up to a terminal and their respective generators to spray them down like a firing squad. It works so well for me that it's like shooting fish in a barrel when gunners, raiders, and super mutants attack.
Looks like if you had to you could use the floor bolts for alignment. I’ve been trying to build an apartment style stack of busses. Problem is the bus is taller than all the building tiles.
You can use a half grate to connect the boxcars next to the stairs. Then add a wall on the inside. Just a thought. Love the videos
Boxcars are great for building quick housing. I never thought to turn them into a skyscraper lol
Fun with boxcars, i also use them as a defensiv structure, just throw some walls under it and a defense post and you are done. Looks awesome if you ask me.
Maybe you could widen the center by using 1 of the small piece and 1 big piece snapped to each other.
How do u get the boxcar building plan?
heya all, I've been having the pathing issues too, so I did what some people suggested and alternated the sides that the ladders (ok stairs @Gryff) were placed. How mine are built are 1st floor: endcap w/ ladder down (out) + door (non-endcap) piece + endcap w/ ladder up; 2nd floor: endcap + door piece w/ ladder up + endcap with ladder down (from 1st floor) and so on alternating. After I did that my settlers could walk up to their beds and would stop complaining about beds even though I had 30 beds and 10 settlers.
Metal prefab pieces pair really well with box car pieces.
I thought some towers made sense for Starlight too. I used the vault pieces. I really wish we had some rusty old exterior vault pieces. Coloured paints and textures like the winterized power armour paint would work really well, as well as patched over with bits of metal, or bits of diamond city texture here and there. It's frustrating sometimes, the ideas I have in my head but the workshop doesn't contain the pieces I need. I've genuinely thought about building some real models. I might do that if I knew how to get good floorplans and dimensions of the settlements
I once got a Christmas present as a kid called Girders and Panels, this reminds me of that!
I think I would've used metal prefabs for the middle parts. and what about all the wasted space between the railcars? that space could be used for a large patio or covered common area. :)
That's a damn fine idea.
That little singsong laugh made my day.
did you consider stairs going up from the opposite tower for the orange build? so like when you walk up a flight of stairs, directly next to it is another flight going up? could effectively shorten the time to climb as well as create and interesting X look when looking at the stairs from the outside
Would something like this work with one end open, for you stairs. So you could set up those "apt" like sections between your towers?
Tried this technique but ran into a slight problem: The settlers had trouble navigating past the 2nd floor. For some reason they have trouble pathing when the stairs are stacked on each other. I had a bigger building (3 across) so I put the next level on a different set and that seemed to help them find a path to the upper floors.
Though I had the stairs in the center of the box car opening, not on the right. Not sure if that would cause a problem or not.
What you could do is replace the walls that have doors with small end caps and make them bed rooms and stores or maybe garden flats.
Wire floor=upskirt view. You chose rightly.
You could just have 2 ladders in the same door hole. Just have them pointing in the opposite direction each time. As for open doors to the outside add a half floor part and railings to make decks. What you had with the full tile hall... I would've alternated the stairs direction or add a walkway in the open space. The full floor piece bridge on the opposite end is not needed but nice to have when decorating but I would've added stairs..
Can't you use double stairs for up & down (Like two next to each other)? It would just fill in that awkward gap next to the stairs... just my thought! Although, I'm not even sure if that would be possible without mods!
you can make it smaller, only use the elevator and eliminate the other side of boxcars with stairs, then open up the wall on the other side of the elevator on the first floor and make stairs and a door for it. I have not tried this but it makes sense.
Also, can't you just add some 1x1 platforms on the side of the stairs so settlers don't have to go trapesing around the tower to get to the next stair? Cool build anyway though thx for the idea.
The step ladder in the concrete section snaps to the bottom of the full ladder of the same section.
My first attempt at a shack of boxcars was three wide - door opening to door opening - without a gap as you have between the ones you have here (mine would thus have a third row running between the two. I had a scaffolding setup to reach the front door with additional access up the side to a second story made of wood flooring/walls/roof lying on top. Sleeping bags inside with a radio and such, with a bar area up top. Sadly I got completely fed up with it and scrapped it after being electrocuted the fourth or fifth time striving to get the lights set up. Electricity + big metal box = not good.
@ Oxhorn - Its nice that you show s how the warehouse stairs will conect perfectly to this, but the thing is, i came here thinking there was going to be a elevator snap n build showcase, but no there were no elevators... also this shows us that the heightlimit is 7 floors.. is it possible to get the elevators from contraptions workshop to snap to boxcars?
Jonathan Black yes it's completely possible but you might need to experiment with the box cars and he does show that they do near the end
@SonicJosh_23 - yes its true i posted that while watching the video, at the end of the video all my questions got answered and he did show a way to conect elevators to boxcars.
this kinda building i dont do in my settlements i was just here to look at what i call "alternate settlement designs" , i think that the boxcar tower would be a interesting junk city concept. i dont like to build junk towns though i try to make them look for organized, i cant really find anywhere to put something like this in my settlement i just wanted to come here and see someone making strange fallout 4 creations just for the fun of it .
and why are you building over the water? I always use that water to put 1 of the big water pumps in it so I don't have a lot of little ones in the dirt to hook together..
Nice! Thank you so much for being original and not the 400th person who just personalized "their own" settlement!! Awesome job!! Also I thought it was nice you didn't use any mods... that kind of kills the "creativity" to me
how do you turn the vertical build limit off? when I go high up it says I'm leaving the workshop area and stops my workshop.. like at Bunker Hill in the watch House tower.. and many more places
I started getting reminded of the mobile home towers/stacks in the Ready Player One novel.... BRAVO!
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Are you talking about 'Gerry built houses'?
Narred Darr please stfu with your gęrrÿ būįłt houses
You should build a walkway between the towers and include one to the top of the drive-in movie screen.
Ox, I've not really looked at the Boxcar sets since Wood all the way ;p
But aren't the blue set the same as orange? Because you could alternate the towers so you could either each level being a colour OR each tower.
It's just so much fin listening to you as you build this tower. I'm going to be trying one, myself. Not sure where though. I was thinking of stuffing one into Hangman's, somehow.
Hrmmmm I'd use some of the smaller end caps instead of doors. Might save some build space.
you made the halway, now you put a boxcart at each opening and the you have a appartement blok
on the outer doors with no stairs or ramps, build balconies or add more rooms and make those the apartments
That would look great at Oberland Station (where they might have had access to boxcars) :)
How many of each resource did you use for each tower? Including the stuff needed for the elevator and the generator to power it.
I'm sure that the inspiration for this would have come from the "Stacks" in Ready Player One
Are anyone else's elevators bugged to where the buttons are hovering in the air three stories above the top of the elevator?
Yes. Happens often. Only thing I could do is erase it and re build it.
Yes all the time on ps4 as well..
Sean Darling it might have to do with a mod your using. Same thing happens for me, but with power armour jetpacks. Frankly it's hilarious.
Sean Darling it only happens when using 4 story elevators
Love this structure, Oxhorn! Gonna steal and modify it
Sweet box car apts. I'd love to see you detail them out!
Hiya Ox. you probably need to scrap the metal speakers to place that scaffolding underneath (19mins)
Oxhorn, have you ever tried using the vanilla 1x2 bits with the slanted roofs as balconies on boxcar houses?
Couldn't you run the stairs up on the long side of the tower rather than the short side? It would let you use the boxcar connectors on the short sides. Of course that might not look as good as this does.
Finally, a useful and cool way to use the boxcars. :D
I'd widen the space between the two towers to a 6 block and have it turned into an enclosed atrium. Then the outer doors would be made into verandas.
Thank you for the great idea I just did it and incoperated the elevator for fast floor acess!
the wooden balconies will snap to the door opening of the boxcars btw
Hmmmmm..
perhaps a 3 story square using scaffolding and a lot of doors with railings!!!!
Thanks for the inspiration ox
Yoo oxhorn, love the videos man. Something cool you can do with the open doorways is add a couple single squares or one 1 by 2 square, and a couple railings to make it like balcony.
This looks awesome :), I did have a question though. Are the box cars sealed enough to prevent the radioactive storms? It's something that was bugging me to no end, in a few of my shack settlement builds. I was also thinking you could build ends with widows coming off the outside door areas, this would give you an awesome view with lighted box cars shining in the night.
Oxhorn, could you show us how to build different kinds of houses made out of wood or mixing the wood with warehouse/barn pieces? My housing is so boring, and I love the way you build and explain things. More let's builds! :)
I did this exact same thing well almost before seeing this video. I used scaffold and the scaffold ramps to get mine like this and they dont look quite as nice but I got the cars as bridges in the center as well as had the ramps in the center connecting the floors but settlers would open the doors up top and fall to their deaths..... had to put railings
Have you tried fitting the long ones in sideways? Bet that would work!
Please answer my question I finsh the story and I don't have any sied quests just the muntman and keep replying the muntman quests??
can you not fit 2 stairs on the same door so you can just spiral up the stairs instead of running around the entirety of each floor?
nice video but i still don't get it. why should i use boxcars to create sth? i mean they are friendly for fallouy theme but still ... what else i can make with these?
Cool tutorial. Can you incorporate one of the contraptions elevators into this? I may try that myself...
Instead of using stairs, the 4x height elevator piece will snap in nicely. I suppose you could alternate which side has the elevator if you wanted anything than that.
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Thanks for this.. I'm new to building but am getting it. I started experimenting with elevators and having a blast. So I put a 4 floor elevator in then added a 2 floor elevator going up to floor 6 to the penthouse all doors opening. Now to learn to upload videos. Lol thank you all.
If you needed to make it more compact and you were using an elevator, you could just make the tower one wide instead of 2, put the elevator in line with the box cars then it would be even smaller :) then you could make the little rooms off the side
how would farming work? The cars seem like they are too narrow to allow for farming and transit.
This thing looks like something NPCs from fallout 3 would live in
I imagined the Pitt for some reason
If you could do a larger, more square tower, you could work on replicating the apartment towers of Megacity 1 from Judge Dredd.
I'm working on a boxcar brothel tower at the starlight drive in.
I'm totally gonna build this tonight. I have so many ideas.
By the way there was a startlight drive in speaker where you tried to place the support framework.
This reminds me of a book called Ready Player One, they use trailers instead of train carts and call it "the stacks". It's a great book and you really should look into it Ox. Keep up the awesome content! Bye!