This may sound absurd but your builds always evoke a twinge of nostalgia for me. Years ago, my uncle and his wife built a retirement house up in the mountains and it was their dream home. It was fit to the topography and so had three levels and multiple porches sprawled on the hillside. Each level of the house and each porch had seating areas with paired comfy chairs for reading or jawing or (often) napping. I guess he never wanted to have to go to far to have a comfortable place to sit, preferably with good company. Despite (or perhaps because of) the unrelenting violence of the post-apocalyptic Commonwealth, your settlers seem to appreciate the value of a good sit. Preferably with good company. Cheers, and thanks.
I took pleasure in going around this construction very well done the final with the decoration is great thank you for sharing, can't wait to see the rest of your constructions to come
Glad you enjoyed the tour! For some reason I did not find decorating this build as painful as others, and feel it helps to really finish off the build and give it a lived in feel. Also looking forward to seeing what you have in store for us with your next build 😎
your creations are great! I know I am 3 years late but I enjoy. looking at them and sometimes even replicating some of it‘s aspects, I have learned a lot from your work even after over 400 hours of gametime
Glad I got back to Fallout 4 recently because people like you breathe so much life into the part of the game I've always wanted to get into, but find myself struggling with. Playing in Survival is so immersive and challenging and seeing stuff like these makes the game so much more believable and lived in! Beautifully presented with the added bonus of providing us with a blueprint as well. Glad that you're a part of the community and I see you as an inspiration in this game. Looking forward to what else you can make in the future!
This is the first video I’m watching from you and It’s fantastic to see someone building this marvellous settlement. One thing I will do too is to make the guard as the Husband of the couple that originally lived there, and the Spouse gonna be the General Store trader. Giving a bit of more lore to the Settlement 🤩🤩
Many thanks! Really pleased with how the bar area turned out, just wish the owner would stop slacking off to chat with other settlers about the minutemen every few mins… Not sure where I am heading next but welcome suggestions - as long as they do not include Vault 88 or Spectacle Island 🤣
Wow this looks really amazing. I never thought that you could fit so many buildings into this rather small settlement. That ruined house has always given me a headache, I can tell you that. Yet another spectacular build, bravo!
I think that ruined house gives most people trouble 😣 Went through quite a few different designs before finding something I was happy with! I think the final plan of just burying the ruin under various pieces until it’s no longer a problem worked out quite well in the end 🤣 Many thanks and glad you enjoyed the build!
I have been doing settlement builds for years, literally since the game was released and some of the ideas I've seen here got me rethinking everything lmao.
Many thanks - glad you liked it! Is the ‘Tenpines Bluff Village’ blueprint on the Nexus yours? It’s a great build and something you should be proud of 😊 Also like the Children of Atom banners hanging from the power lines, nice little effect I have not seen before!
@@zorgnak3936 Cool - still looks good even if its one of your early builds, I’ll have to check out your other stuff as well. Always good to see vanilla style builds and its interesting to see other peoples takes on areas. Reminds me that I have to finish my own Castle build one of these days 😔
@@FiddleflapsVids check out my sanctuary build it is my "child" I hope you'll like it There might be a problem tho, i made only a few screenshots, and there are a lot of stuff that you might find only while exploring sanctuary
As much as I hate decorating I think it really helps to finish off a build, and I do like how it looks when it’s all finally done. Great to hear you liked it, many thanks! 👍😁
@@Thebluebridgetroll Never built there before so could be an interesting challenge, would need to grab a weather mod first to stop the fog driving me mad 😆
Great to hear you enjoyed the tour and thanks for noticing the decorations which I have a love / hate relationship - love how they look, hate having to place them all 🤣
DAMN EVERY Settlement I've seen you do is INSANE! Ive now gone back to settlements to go spend endless hours rebuilding HAHA; I finally redon Jamaica Plains but nowhere to this sort of extent but this gives me ideas to expand on with Tenpines
Glad you liked it and found the mod list to be of use! It’s not the most exciting of load orders but I tend to prefer a more vanilla style game, and feel those mods help enhance that without being too over the top 😀
Would love to see a video showing how you placed all the decorative/junk items. Because I find that tedious, so assume you found a better way (I am talking about things like items on shelves and on tables, etc.
Furnished and decorating is my least favourite part of settlement building, and sadly I do not have a method that makes it any less tedious. All the junk is hand placed and then made static using Place Everywhere, and then involves lots of fiddling around to get stuff looking right. As such its unlikely I’ll record a video showing that process - sorry! 😔
I really enjoyed Far Harbor and love the location so looking forward to building there. Think I’ll need to find a weather mod before I start though, my current method of setting the weather via the console seems to last for all of 5 seconds before the fog starts creeping in again. Honestly not looking forward to Vault 88, felt quite let down with the vault pieces it provided and its lighting options are also rather limited. As such I’ll probably be putting off building there for as long as I can.
The first thing that i build was a bathroom chair with pillar glitch near to water resource in a room with campfire glitch to placed them in wood floor. Using all size that game let me build i could build 1 big house with 3 beds and water resource. 1 regular house where plant crops more 3 beds and 1 combination of house with standard mini house that tenpiness bluff with 5 beds and turrets defenses with defenses wood walls over each house . Rock place are dog houses and caravan main place together to a mini bar where sit and hear radio with 1 shop and 1 bed. It was the max that the game let me build there with size limit standard being exactly 12 beds for 12 settlers with 12 food and water more 24 or more defense. Balanced.
I stopped ‘playing’ this save a long time ago (I started it back in 2020) and is just used for building settlements now, so all the resources are added via console commands.
Forgive me if I've asked this before, I have trouble with this settlement so are you using floor foundation for the starter on your walls and foundation, if so how do you control the leveling of those pieces?
Yes, I typically start my structures by placing flooring pieces as foundations and build up from them. I build using the Place Everywhere mod and make use of its option to disable Surface Snapping (F2) along with its Precise Movement features (Arrow Keys on the NumPad) to place and align the pieces. I did a building series for this settlement if you wanted to see how certain structures were put together: ua-cam.com/video/nEmkqs9aT1M/v-deo.html
I agree it can be a pain if you have lots of settlers and no bodies of water. I tend to prefer having around 10-12 settlers at most of my settlements so thankfully don’t have to place too many pumps if I can’t use a purifier.
Howdy Fiddle! I've been having a problem at Tenpines thats really been stumping me with my own settlement. Certain light objects just don't emit any light, specifically the Wall Light and Fancy Wall Light objects from Wasteland Workshop, and it seems to be an issue only at Tenpines as it works fine in places like Sanctuary, Red Rocket, and Taffington Boathouse. When I first placed them down after unlocking the settlement, they worked fine and emitted light like they're supposed to. However, when I came back later from a junk run, they stopped emitting light, but the bulbs still glow indicating they're powered. I come to you about this 'cause I feel I've asked everyone and tried everything I can think of to fix this and have found no solution so far. I've tried removing all my mods that change lighting to no effect. I've tried rewiring the entire settlement but they still remain dark. Some of the people I've asked even concluded that it may just be a bug with the game in general. I apologize for the long comment, but I'm really hopin' you may know something about this? Thanks!
I have seen this issue at the settlements you mentioned and a few others too unfortunately, and believe it’s due to some sort of filter the game applies during certain weather conditions. If you enter _fw 0002b52a_ in the console to reset the weather those lights should go back to normal. Sadly this is not a permanent fix as the filter will kick in again when the weather updates, and depending on the location (such as Murkwater) this might even only be for a couple of seconds 😔.
@@FiddleflapsVids Damn. Well I certainly hope someone makes a patch to this via a mod sometime soon. I was confused about it as this was the first time I've encountered this issue in my time playin' the game. As always though, I appreciate the advice!
My first settlement with people and all because o want gang outpost in sanctuary but i want to keep settlement attacks low so i do quest for preston which send to this settlement , after that send to everyone there with materials in inventory included codsworth and dogmeat and kill mama murphy with her chems quest to let sanctuary empty and only focus in tenpines bluff for 13 settlers because i will send longwolf and 6 far harbor settler there because far harbor obligate you to unlock settlememts there with 2 settlers each more new companion longwolf and considering 2 settler that cant be moved from tenpines bluff are 13 settlers. For some reason codsworth and dogemeat arent considered settlers in numbers so that is a benefit.
lol, thanks! 😊 Always had a soft spot for Tenpines as a location and really pleased with how this turned out, must remember to stop by in game at some point and see how its doing.
None… I used Gamma Guns instead as they are far cheaper and easier to get 😉😆. Not sure how many times I reset the build limit here, but its pretty small so I would guess its probably 3 full size bars.
Thanks! Always found the vanilla building systems limitations and restrictions to be incredibly frustrating to the point where I gave up trying to build. Thankfully Place Everywhere exists and allows me to build and place pretty much anything I want 😁
Depends on the settlement but I usually have just enough to fill the available job’s. This build had 7 settlers (x2 farmers, x2 guards, x3 vendors), with most of my other settlements having around 10-12.
OK Fiddleflap, out of all the shops you put in this build you placed the least important and left out the most important at least in my opinion. Weapons is the least important due to weapon mods but medic is a must as for those playing in survival mode, I went ahead and scrapped the weapon store and replaced it with medic.
I don’t play survival and so never really had a use for the in-game clinics. Of course the benefit of the blueprint system is that you can customise each settlement to your own needs 😉
The blueprint for this settlement is now available on Nexusmods: www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/53289
This may sound absurd but your builds always evoke a twinge of nostalgia for me. Years ago, my uncle and his wife built a retirement house up in the mountains and it was their dream home. It was fit to the topography and so had three levels and multiple porches sprawled on the hillside. Each level of the house and each porch had seating areas with paired comfy chairs for reading or jawing or (often) napping. I guess he never wanted to have to go to far to have a comfortable place to sit, preferably with good company. Despite (or perhaps because of) the unrelenting violence of the post-apocalyptic Commonwealth, your settlers seem to appreciate the value of a good sit. Preferably with good company. Cheers, and thanks.
Sounds like a beautiful spot, you can never have enough places for yapping or napping 😀
I took pleasure in going around this construction very well done the final with the decoration is great thank you for sharing, can't wait to see the rest of your constructions to come
Glad you enjoyed the tour! For some reason I did not find decorating this build as painful as others, and feel it helps to really finish off the build and give it a lived in feel. Also looking forward to seeing what you have in store for us with your next build 😎
your creations are great! I know I am 3 years late but I enjoy. looking at them and sometimes even replicating some of it‘s aspects, I have learned a lot from your work even after over 400 hours of gametime
Great to hear that you have been enjoying the builds and that they have been able to provide some ideas, many thanks! 👍😁
Glad I got back to Fallout 4 recently because people like you breathe so much life into the part of the game I've always wanted to get into, but find myself struggling with. Playing in Survival is so immersive and challenging and seeing stuff like these makes the game so much more believable and lived in!
Beautifully presented with the added bonus of providing us with a blueprint as well. Glad that you're a part of the community and I see you as an inspiration in this game. Looking forward to what else you can make in the future!
Thank you for the very kind words! Always great to hear when people return to the game, and glad you are enjoying the builds 👍
This is the first video I’m watching from you and It’s fantastic to see someone building this marvellous settlement. One thing I will do too is to make the guard as the Husband of the couple that originally lived there, and the Spouse gonna be the General Store trader. Giving a bit of more lore to the Settlement 🤩🤩
Great to hear you liked it, many thanks! 🙏😁
Doing that much stuff for a pretty small settlement just wow your creativity is something else mate
Great to hear you liked it, many thanks! 🙏😊
Great work as always. Your builds are on a whole other level and I really dig the back bar. Can't wait to see what's next.
Many thanks! Really pleased with how the bar area turned out, just wish the owner would stop slacking off to chat with other settlers about the minutemen every few mins… Not sure where I am heading next but welcome suggestions - as long as they do not include Vault 88 or Spectacle Island 🤣
Wow this looks really amazing. I never thought that you could fit so many buildings into this rather small settlement. That ruined house has always given me a headache, I can tell you that. Yet another spectacular build, bravo!
I think that ruined house gives most people trouble 😣 Went through quite a few different designs before finding something I was happy with! I think the final plan of just burying the ruin under various pieces until it’s no longer a problem worked out quite well in the end 🤣 Many thanks and glad you enjoyed the build!
I have been doing settlement builds for years, literally since the game was released and some of the ideas I've seen here got me rethinking everything lmao.
Happy to hear the video has provided you some ideas for your own builds 👍
This is amazing! Just as always! Great work, this is far beyond my tenpines!
Many thanks - glad you liked it! Is the ‘Tenpines Bluff Village’ blueprint on the Nexus yours? It’s a great build and something you should be proud of 😊 Also like the Children of Atom banners hanging from the power lines, nice little effect I have not seen before!
@@FiddleflapsVids it's one of my earliest blueprints so I'm planning to upload a new version just like i did it with The Castle
@@zorgnak3936 Cool - still looks good even if its one of your early builds, I’ll have to check out your other stuff as well. Always good to see vanilla style builds and its interesting to see other peoples takes on areas. Reminds me that I have to finish my own Castle build one of these days 😔
@@FiddleflapsVids check out my sanctuary build it is my "child" I hope you'll like it
There might be a problem tho, i made only a few screenshots, and there are a lot of stuff that you might find only while exploring sanctuary
You always make your settlements look like there's someone actually living in there. I love it!
As much as I hate decorating I think it really helps to finish off a build, and I do like how it looks when it’s all finally done. Great to hear you liked it, many thanks! 👍😁
You did an amazing job, it’s very relaxing watching your build videos.
Many thanks - glad you are enjoying them 😁
Awesome work! Looking forward to what comes next!
Many thanks! Not sure whats next yet, so open to suggestions 🤔
@@FiddleflapsVids maybe some far harbor locations?
@@Thebluebridgetroll Never built there before so could be an interesting challenge, would need to grab a weather mod first to stop the fog driving me mad 😆
great build the decorations are spot on with a pleasure watching the tour
Great to hear you enjoyed the tour and thanks for noticing the decorations which I have a love / hate relationship - love how they look, hate having to place them all 🤣
DAMN EVERY Settlement I've seen you do is INSANE! Ive now gone back to settlements to go spend endless hours rebuilding HAHA; I finally redon Jamaica Plains but nowhere to this sort of extent but this gives me ideas to expand on with Tenpines
Great to hear you have been enjoying checking out the builds, and that they have been able to provide some ideas to add to your own! Many thanks! 😁👍
Best layout I’ve seen. Thx for sharing 👍
Great to hear you liked it, thanks! 🙏😁
Very well. Bravo! So much detail. Im impressed❤
Great to hear you liked it, many thanks! 🙏😁
@@FiddleflapsVids trying to build tenpines myself , but without the mod it is quite ugly lol.
Awesome!
Thanks for sharing your modlist too,...couple on there I shall be trying.
Glad you liked it and found the mod list to be of use! It’s not the most exciting of load orders but I tend to prefer a more vanilla style game, and feel those mods help enhance that without being too over the top 😀
Great job. Always look forward to your vids.
Awesome to hear - thank you 😊
Outstanding build. This looks really great.
Thank you - really pleased you liked it!
Would love to see a video showing how you placed all the decorative/junk items. Because I find that tedious, so assume you found a better way (I am talking about things like items on shelves and on tables, etc.
Furnished and decorating is my least favourite part of settlement building, and sadly I do not have a method that makes it any less tedious. All the junk is hand placed and then made static using Place Everywhere, and then involves lots of fiddling around to get stuff looking right. As such its unlikely I’ll record a video showing that process - sorry! 😔
Very interested on what you have for vault 88 and the far harbor locations
I really enjoyed Far Harbor and love the location so looking forward to building there. Think I’ll need to find a weather mod before I start though, my current method of setting the weather via the console seems to last for all of 5 seconds before the fog starts creeping in again.
Honestly not looking forward to Vault 88, felt quite let down with the vault pieces it provided and its lighting options are also rather limited. As such I’ll probably be putting off building there for as long as I can.
Nice
Thanks! 👍
The first thing that i build was a bathroom chair with pillar glitch near to water resource in a room with campfire glitch to placed them in wood floor.
Using all size that game let me build i could build 1 big house with 3 beds and water resource.
1 regular house where plant crops more 3 beds and 1 combination of house with standard mini house that tenpiness bluff with 5 beds and turrets defenses with defenses wood walls over each house .
Rock place are dog houses and caravan main place together to a mini bar where sit and hear radio with 1 shop and 1 bed.
It was the max that the game let me build there with size limit standard being exactly 12 beds for 12 settlers with 12 food and water more 24 or more defense.
Balanced.
Sounds good 👍
Do you duplicate resources or use what you get from supply lines? Not judging just asking?
I stopped ‘playing’ this save a long time ago (I started it back in 2020) and is just used for building settlements now, so all the resources are added via console commands.
Forgive me if I've asked this before, I have trouble with this settlement so are you using floor foundation for the starter on your walls and foundation, if so how do you control the leveling of those pieces?
Yes, I typically start my structures by placing flooring pieces as foundations and build up from them. I build using the Place Everywhere mod and make use of its option to disable Surface Snapping (F2) along with its Precise Movement features (Arrow Keys on the NumPad) to place and align the pieces.
I did a building series for this settlement if you wanted to see how certain structures were put together:
ua-cam.com/video/nEmkqs9aT1M/v-deo.html
Love how I have to spam water pumps because there is no actual water to put water purifiers
I agree it can be a pain if you have lots of settlers and no bodies of water. I tend to prefer having around 10-12 settlers at most of my settlements so thankfully don’t have to place too many pumps if I can’t use a purifier.
Whats the next project?
No idea at the moment, currently enjoying a small break from building before picking a new location.
Howdy Fiddle!
I've been having a problem at Tenpines thats really been stumping me with my own settlement.
Certain light objects just don't emit any light, specifically the Wall Light and Fancy Wall Light objects from Wasteland Workshop, and it seems to be an issue only at Tenpines as it works fine in places like Sanctuary, Red Rocket, and Taffington Boathouse. When I first placed them down after unlocking the settlement, they worked fine and emitted light like they're supposed to. However, when I came back later from a junk run, they stopped emitting light, but the bulbs still glow indicating they're powered.
I come to you about this 'cause I feel I've asked everyone and tried everything I can think of to fix this and have found no solution so far. I've tried removing all my mods that change lighting to no effect. I've tried rewiring the entire settlement but they still remain dark. Some of the people I've asked even concluded that it may just be a bug with the game in general.
I apologize for the long comment, but I'm really hopin' you may know something about this? Thanks!
I have seen this issue at the settlements you mentioned and a few others too unfortunately, and believe it’s due to some sort of filter the game applies during certain weather conditions. If you enter _fw 0002b52a_ in the console to reset the weather those lights should go back to normal.
Sadly this is not a permanent fix as the filter will kick in again when the weather updates, and depending on the location (such as Murkwater) this might even only be for a couple of seconds 😔.
@@FiddleflapsVids Damn. Well I certainly hope someone makes a patch to this via a mod sometime soon. I was confused about it as this was the first time I've encountered this issue in my time playin' the game.
As always though, I appreciate the advice!
My first settlement with people and all because o want gang outpost in sanctuary but i want to keep settlement attacks low so i do quest for preston which send to this settlement , after that send to everyone there with materials in inventory included codsworth and dogmeat and kill mama murphy with her chems quest to let sanctuary empty and only focus in tenpines bluff for 13 settlers because i will send longwolf and 6 far harbor settler there because far harbor obligate you to unlock settlememts there with 2 settlers each more new companion longwolf and considering 2 settler that cant be moved from tenpines bluff are 13 settlers.
For some reason codsworth and dogemeat arent considered settlers in numbers so that is a benefit.
Cool, hope your build at Tenpines goes well 👍
Not bad ☺
lol, thanks! 😊 Always had a soft spot for Tenpines as a location and really pleased with how this turned out, must remember to stop by in game at some point and see how its doing.
Damn, how many fat man’s did you use to expand the build limit?
None… I used Gamma Guns instead as they are far cheaper and easier to get 😉😆. Not sure how many times I reset the build limit here, but its pretty small so I would guess its probably 3 full size bars.
Things one can achieve when Bethesda isnt putting sticks in ones wheels...
Thanks! Always found the vanilla building systems limitations and restrictions to be incredibly frustrating to the point where I gave up trying to build. Thankfully Place Everywhere exists and allows me to build and place pretty much anything I want 😁
How many settlers do you usually get?
Depends on the settlement but I usually have just enough to fill the available job’s. This build had 7 settlers (x2 farmers, x2 guards, x3 vendors), with most of my other settlements having around 10-12.
Uma pena que o jogador não possa cortar esses matos. Deveria ter essa opção.
You can get mods that will allow you to remove them, but agree it should have been an option built into game.
OK Fiddleflap, out of all the shops you put in this build you placed the least important and left out the most important at least in my opinion. Weapons is the least important due to weapon mods but medic is a must as for those playing in survival mode, I went ahead and scrapped the weapon store and replaced it with medic.
I don’t play survival and so never really had a use for the in-game clinics. Of course the benefit of the blueprint system is that you can customise each settlement to your own needs 😉
@@FiddleflapsVids Oh ok myself I can't play the game unless I am in survival, just too boring.