my xbox is still sitting in my room because as soon as i hook it up again i’m going to be stuck there for hours/days with skooledzone playing on my phone
I recently read an article from Game Rant, that essentially said the only way to repair buildings in Fallout 4 was with heavy modding. I took exception to this and commented all one had to do was watch Skooled Zone on UA-cam and one could build away with the included game tools. Also, both of my daughters have started playing and my granddaughter, yep, I'm that old. Once again steered them to the headmaster of Skooled Zone. Looking forward to the Coastal Cottage build.
If someone's on PS, they're kinda screwed and do need all the tricks. If on PC or Xbox? Place Anywhere is 120Kb... and it transforms build mode. The best, easiest results are always going to be mods with exploits combined.
@Skooled Zone if you want my honest opinion - I think with Fallout 4 being a Single Player game, and the Glitches generally making the game MORE FUN, Bethesda will NEVER patch them! They seem to be one of few Games Developers that understand that a "glitch" only needs to be fixed if it HARMS the game... For Fallout 4 they help fix something Bethesda never got right! Now with Fallout 76, being Online and being Multiplayer - OH THEY PATCH A LOT! And its understandable! Glitches there can be exploited to ruin another players game! Lord, I remember when I first started playing Fallout 4, and believe it or not, it was only about 2 or 3 years ago... You had Videos about 4 or 5 years old when I first started playing! And I am glad you keep going... No Joke, Your videos have been a godsend to me!
@@SkooledZone I just might have to look into that, its just weird just don't get the text box to write anything lol, but I was just wanting to update you on that beautiful vault I was building..... Bad news is that playthrough was doomed from the start as my game was broke from another mod (the unofficial patch) broke the Nuka world DLC :( but I was reaching the limit with the vault anyway as I was getting the crashes from loading into the build mode. Keep posting, still love seeing your videos even if it's a 20 year old game lol 😂
It was probably too obscure to make the list, but as a decorating glitch variant, it is nice to force rugs into tables and cabinets to prevent loose items from falling through them due to how the meshes load in tandem with clutter. It is also one of the few things that Bethesda seemed to take some cues on for Starfield as they provide a way to place/move clutter items in a static manner for outpost building.
Even as a PC user (although I started with Xbox One) with mods, your videos are constantly useful. I literally couldn't have done building without them.
The most creative thing I've done so far (bare in mind I've only just started building properly despite playing Fallout since release) is I rug glitches and armour workbench into one of the long metal cabinet containers for my garage in sanctuary it looks cool cause you can place items on the unused part of the cabinet and the little fire bucket thing hangs out to the side but there's still a clear work area with textures from the armour bench sitting snugly in the top of the cabinet...try it for a scrappy garage build it looks awesome 👍
In my first try at the rug glich I put a file cabinet in a tier 3 vendor counter so a Nuka cash register would sit on it. And you can still access the cabinet from behind the counter.
My 1 would be the wifi glitch. I use it more than any other. I rank it higher because it's a mix of ease of use, most used (since a ton of stuff requires power - not that I spend the most time using it), and I imagine it was the hardest to discover. Once I unlock heavy laser turrets, that's when the real (game) building begins. All the turrets and lights go up. Wifi glitch a radiator conduit x or t, connect a bunch of pipe capped with another radiator, then pillar glitch it into a ceiling or wall for all the lights.Also individually link all turrets to a conduit node or switch. The last bit makes it so convenient when the spotlights go out from that bug. Just personally, I still fail with the rug and pillar glitch. They can be so finicky. Spend more time group select-move-nudge-nudge-place-look-remove-remove-remove-place-place-place-repeat than anything. I rank settlement size glitch lowest. I never use it after the first time I tried and crashed the game (I play on console) more than play it. I know you're busy outside of content creation, but I only watch your building videos. I know you don't use mods while a lot of others have amazing builds but all done by mods. And I'm too lazy to look for others that don't use mods. Also you explain and show how you did something - not just show the result. One of these days I'll finally play on my PC and really get into building settlements.
The wire glitch: number 5 on your list; number one in my heart! It's the one tip I picked up from your channel that I consistently use in every settlement.
first off i will say that i do use mods. with that being said - the amount of times i use the pillar glitch to lower floors and line up things especially at Star Light Drive In its probably the 2nd most common glitch i use behind the wire glitch which i use to run power lines underground thanks to the conduits. Its also great for putting the large generators underground as well protecting them from raider attack (especially if you sink them in the ground and put an outhouse over them with the electrical connection poking out of the floor). As I said I do use mods but I do find that using these glitches works much better than most of the place everywere mods due to the small changes you can make with them. One tip I love telling new players when it comes to defense for sanctuary hills is to place a large metal support pillar and at the top place the curved concrete set metal floor before adding a snapped pillar to the other side and then repeat to make a half circle. then with the conduite with electrode pointing up place on the seam and then add a electrode pointing down to the end. 2 turrets with short power lines (you can even make this 2 layers if done right) same pattern on the ground then connect the two and from there use wire glitch to connect to a junction box that is connected to the generator or directly to the generator. If you place 3 of these setups, 1 at the bridge facing to the small island on the right (as your looking towards red rocket) one at the top of the foot path leading to 111, and one in the back yard with the 2 burred bodies and the dog house on the east side of the settlement (where the boundary bumps out and face it north you can stop 99.99% of attacks without needing your settlers to get involved. And again your generator is underground and protected by a random outhouse (barn build set) with all your wires running underground.
In regards to the size glitch issue. One way to help with keeping track of how dense your settlement is by using a simple pad of lined paper. You just take a ruler and a pen and make some straight column lines the length of the paper. Making a speadsheet. Now just add a note on the left of each margin line when you unlock a new settlement location. I put at the top of each column, things like 3 spots for storing gamma guns from max size to empty, and dropping the size one. I've heard that more than 3 sizes, and things start to get a bit unstable for average systems. I like to put things like whether or not a place have a suit of power armor stationed there. I love them for building, especially with jetpacks. So many early falling deaths while building :)
I can't imagine trying to build most locations without the rug/pillar/spike glitch. Except for the airport, which is limited in what you can build, none of the settlement locations are level.
@christopherconard2831 ever sense the big updat fo4 hasn't played right. I even upgraded my gpu and the games graphics run really fast with everything set to default. I had to dl the cheat mod to slow the game down
The Wi-Fi glitch is a fun one to mess with. I’ve used it in combination now with switches and power doors. Meaning, one switch is powered via the glitch. Then that first switch is used as the power source to then glitch a new second switch. Then the 2nd one is glitched to power the door. Cleaner aesthetic with zero wires touching the door.
I never heard campfire glitch and thought over many years I had watched them all. But Paul, I have not played Fallout 4 in a long while, and it was a game I kept running for years to play quests mods. So now I don't remember how to do any of the glitches AND the update took away required mods and ruined my game. I'm playing Starfield and others but I sent this video to a friend and hopefully he will watch all the glitches. We bought Fallout 4 when it first came out, and he never got very far with it. So he started a new game and mentioned a glitch. Anyway thanks for the video.
An important thing to remember is to build in order. I spent a lot of frustrating time trying to get things to move where the game wouldn't let me because something was already there. After checking and rechecking I discovered I was running into wires I'd hidden underground and couldn't see. Had to get rid of almost everything electrical and start over, then go back and rewire everything.
Yeah, I wondered why you didn’t mention garden plot for pillar glitching in the Croup Manor video. That is all I had ever used. But I would have never thought about using the campfire for pillar glitching! As you mentioned, it would be perfect for tight spaces! I really appreciate your videos! Thanks!
There is one building glitch you did not mention. I've never seen anyone else mention it either, it is pretty obscure, and its usefulness is limited. But here goes. There is a way to get concrete pieces to overlap. Yes, placing entire wall sections on top of each other is cool, and lets you make windows with a mesh in them, but this is something different. Suppose you are working with concrete pieces, and you want to snap something to a piece already placed. It snaps to the wrong place, because concrete pieces have many snap spots. So, suppose you want a wall to snap a little farther to the left or right, or forward or back, so you walk in that direction without turning the camera. In some circumstances, the piece you are placing does not move to the direction you are walking, but instead in the opposite direction. And when this happens, the piece may ignore overlapping with other pieces, probably because they are so far off camera. As I said, the usefulness of this glitch is limited. With concrete, you could always use the narrower walls and pillars, but it will just not look the same. I've only used this glitch once intentionally in Jamaica Plain, where I managed to get three concrete pieces overlapping in one corner of the building I repaired.
There are a number of other things I use all the time and find very useful, though they are not glitches, rather just practices how to do things. If you want an item to be aligned perfectly with your building, but which does not snap, just select whatever piece you want to the copy the orientation of as you start building. I use this all the time with furniture and decorations when I want them them to perfectly align with the walls. Of course, you can't move the camera when you do this, but that is simple on a console. Can't find a piece with the exact right angle? Copy one piece, place down a small floor piece, then rotate another floor piece and snap it to the first to get the exact orientation you want to copy. Want to repair or add to an existing structure? Fiddling with the orientation is a pain, and it will never be perfect if you try to do it manually. Instead you snap something to a wall, such as a power connector, then copy its orientation. The result is quick, and will be more accurate than you could ever achieve manually. You can use other pieces to adjust the location of building pieces beyond what the normal snapping points allow. Concrete pieces are great for this: using them you can adjust the location of any other piece in small increments. The width of one concrete pillar is trivial, but by snapping a concrete pillar above or below a normal wall, you can even achieve snapping in increments half the width of a pillar. This is a key feature in most of my builds. I've also used wooden ladders for similar results, and created large sloped roofs without the change in elevation between adjacent roof pieces.
I love this channel. I use it all the time, especially when I return to fallout 4. You inspired me to actually play the game without mods. Appreciate all the work putninto this.
With the girl in the thumbnail, I was expecting you to also say you're now engaged... or a face reveal (and omg at her voice!?) or that you hired someone to help... but no. Nothing. Not even a hint of who/what that's all about. WHY YOU DO THIS TO MEH!? Seriously though, great videos! I started playing /again/ about a month before the Prime series was announced. I was in about 250 hours when I found your videos. Now, I'm about 350 hours in on a new run (NextGen update + PS5 native) Unless I missed it, there was no mention of the VLC glitch. (btw, I figured out why that happens, and how to set it up 100%) Anyways, I was kind of sad that wasn't in there, but then I remembered you saying it was about build glitches (& exploits) so then I was happy again.
Haha, not engaged. Face reveal at 1 million subs. ;-) I used the girl in the thumbnail because my analytics says there's been a spike in female viewers since the Amazon show came out. So it was a little acknowledgement to them.
Idk if you cover it in this yet but there's a variation to the build limit glitch that I stumbled on. If you store a wire while highlighting something to build you can place 1 item per wire stored when you hit capacity. So I made a small floor piece with multiple conduits and wired em all together. Seems faster than dropping and storing, and you never have to exit the build menu. You've been an invaluable inspiration to me as a builder so if there's anyway this helps someone else I'm happy to help.
If Fallout 4 's building glitches where ever ironed out it would be as dead as Starfields Building scene in comparison... My most creative build using any glitch from this list might be my Atom at build from 62 Coffeemakers...
Up until a year or so ago, I'd never seen the campfire glitch. 😅 Have done everything else extensively and agree with your countdown. I just found ways to do what I wanted with the others that I didn't need the campfire I guess. Keep finding new ideas for vids Paul !!
The rug and pillar glitch are so common that the mod I use has versions in the build menu that I can use specifically for that. True is, I never use anything but the hidden wires trick.
I feel like these should be called techniques, not glitches. This vid is so helpful. It’s like a Table of Contents at the start of my Building Techniques Manual. 😍👍
Hey, just wanted to say I'm really interested in your videos. I can tell a lot of work has gone into them. I like the inventive ways you use those glitches and exploits.
The Homeplate build has been a real challenge because of the crazy things I'm trying to do in there with such limited space. I can only work on it a couple hours a week while trying to get other videos ready for the channel. But it's definitely in the works!
@@SkooledZone I think I've always underutilized that space myself. I tend to put a 'concession stand' theme in there, adding in soda fountains, coffee makers, donut fryers, etc. I also like to keep some of the original scrap stuff in there, as it still functions as storage and decoration.
There is a fantastic way to stop Furniture and Decorations from dropping through the floor after using the Rug Glitch. (Credit to Sardeliac who mentioned it very briefly on a ‘Settlements and Survival’ episode about 7yrs ago, but i only found it recently so i’ve been playing around with it). Once you have got the item in it’s place, using the Rug Glitch; select it to move (just the item, not the rug) and turn the camera round. When the rug isnt on screen, and (IMPORTANT BIT) the item shows RED so it can’t be placed - hit O/B/[whatever it is on PC] to cancel the placement. The item will pop back onto the rug. Now, when you remove the rug, your item shouldn’t drop into the floor. It’s not perfect, but it seems to work ~8/10 times for me.
Got fallout 4 on ps4, great. Got fallout 76 on ps4, broke my disc in half, godawful garbage at launch. Now back at 4 on a ps5❤. Still a diamond of a game. Now watching the diamond of a UA-camr that is the build glitch master. Creative greetings from the Netherlands
@SkooledZone thnx. To talk dutch, I found 2 metal prefab biggest ones with 3 exits,and the barn prefab ,connected by 2 warehouse smallest seethrough floors and 1 wharehouse short stairs the cheapest way to put down stuff for 20 settlers. 1 metal prefab holds 20+ sleepingbags, 1 metal prefab holds scavenging stations, pommel horse , weightbench, barber, trade shops , small generator with settlerbeacon and vaulttecterminal,and cat/dog places with the barn prefab holding 4 plots with waterpumps and crops stacked for 24 food and 24 water...all off the ground, turrets on top. Do you have any cheaper way to protect it all? I even don't like spending stuff on repairs so i scrap all crafting stations except sanctuary lol.
@@SkooledZone I got something special, a functioning underground settlement and a live mirelurk queen and observatory in vault 88,possible thanks to your teachings.
I came into this franchise, maybe last year. Possibly the beginning of this year. At the time, I had not heard of the show yet and found out about after I gained a healthy thirst for more Fallout. It was alright, but since I don’t have an extensive knowledge of Fallout lore, I wasn’t disappointed by anything not being exactly correct.
Fallout has its flaws (and plot holes), but it's still one of the best "sci-fi" games I've played. And the building system makes it a game that keeps on giving 😊
I know it's technically a duplication glitch and not a building glitch, but the scrap/store glitch helps you never run out of material to build with. I know it's my most used glitch when setting up settlements.
Love your channel, was curious if you had any tips on how to decorate the shops with junk items? I hate how barren the emporiums look in my otherwise highly decorated "settler mall" - drives me crazy I cant load the shelves with clothing items / Ammo/ etc
I haven't made a video on _how_ to decorate but I made a few videos on what to decorate _with_ 😉 1) ua-cam.com/video/2mOM6U3n8SM/v-deo.html 2) ua-cam.com/video/RiJoqYvMt9I/v-deo.html 3) ua-cam.com/video/Fwb_R2KUPgc/v-deo.html
Remeber tho, The whole building aspect was a late add on to the game. The fact that they got this much from the vanilla and DLC's is rather impressive. I'd expect major improvements in FO5.
Hey @SkooledZone - Yup, I keep coming back to your videos trying to learn more... And one I want to do but have not figured out - I can get a Ceiling into Taffington Boat House, But has anyone - even you managed an actual reasonable roof repair? It something I want to do but have not found a solution yet!
@@SkooledZone oh I used to also. make jet then buy, buy buy, just found the duplication worked easier for building. plus I can pick stuff up and drop them for the settlement size glitch.
On Xbox - are all of these glitches still working? Because I'm having a wicked hard time getting may of them to work anymore (pillar and rug glitch are, well, glitchy and don't always work as advertised)
New to the game and I can't hook up my water processor to the generator. I have no wire. I click on the tips of both and nothing happens. Do I need to make or find wire? Please help me. Thank you. PS5.
Make sure you have copper in your inventory (or workshop) since wire requires that resource. But if you have the materials and you click the attach button on a conduit of any kind, then you should hear a spark sound. Then you need to go to where you want to place the wire and press attach. That should do it. And if you want to know how to do the basic wire glitch, this video might help: ua-cam.com/video/36lgmEaprio/v-deo.html
All things considered, while a comprehensive top 10, the endless build limit must be number 1. Without it, the relatively minute limitation on how much a player can build is prohibitive such we'd all have stopped playing.
The rating system I used (frequency of use + impressiveness) made it come in right behind the pillar glitch. I don't use it that often and it's not very flashy. But you make a really good point about necessity!
I find that 90% of the time I Cannot get any rug / pillar glitches to work when trying to place junk walls .. is it something to do with y version being PC, i see a ton of channels doing building tutorials and using glitches but they all seem to be consoles ... or am i just missing something really obvious :D
Re: Settlement Size Reduction causing game crashes… Is this less likely to happen with the Next Gen version of the game? I’m playing on a PS5. My load screens are so fast, I don’t have time to read the text. It’s a very different experience than playing Skyrim on a PS3 when it first came out. 🤣😍
What about using objects like one of the ships outside the settlements boundary line, I've grabbed boats cars and even the trashed vertabirds laying around and then used those objects in my settlement but I can't figure out how I did it.... anybody???
If you can push them into your settlement boundaries, they can make cool props. Here's a trick for that: ua-cam.com/video/xKX4E1yQkig/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared&t=556
Ouch, sorry to hear that. Before you give up on your PS4, it may just be a failed power supply unit. Sometimes if you replace that and check all the cords, it might work again. That's what happened to my XBox 360 back in the day. :)
@@SkooledZone I was being a bit facetious there. I want a PS5 from J.R. like I want to punch that Murphy bloke in the nose for all my bad luck. I have a feeling it’s the HD. Will have a pro look at it. Thanks for the advice, teach. 🫡
How much of this is necessary if you have Place Anywhere, I wonder? I've spent a lot of time building in F4 (on first release), but didn't know about any of these... The wire glitch would've been so helpful. Not tried the wi-fi version yet, but I definitely will. But with Place Anywhere I think stuff like the rug and pillar become redundant. I don't yet know how they work, precisely, so I'm not sure yet.
@@SkooledZone I care about achieving a certain result, and not so much about the method. The good thing about Fallout 4 is that both paths are available depending on taste. What's awesome is a combination of the tricks (really knowledge about the system) you demonstrate and explain, and mods. For example, I've been building an armoury/power armour bay for my house on Spectacle. I wanted to use the big, powered garage door (from the warehouse set) to make for a practical yet dramatic exit when in power armour. I didn't want the door open switch on a wall, especially not on the bay door itself. I used the wire glitch I finally learnt from your channel (many thanks. it's so incredibly useful), and linked it to a conduit sunk into the ceiling. Then I placed a power switch from the CVC mod pack (it's the normal blue wall switch, but it has 3 power by itself) in mid-air, just under the power node. I then used Place Anywhere's object menu to reduce the object scale by about 50%, and wired it up to the ceiling. Hey presto, a small remote door switch dangling via cable from the ceiling - just in front of the power armour station. So you can climb in, then pretty much immediately hit the switch, and you have a cool, dramatic exit in armour. ; -) Looks realistic/believable, and it's practical. And it wouldn't be possible without both the knowledge you put out there, plus the talents of modders. I really hope the next Elder Scrolls has a build feature to at least match F4s. It'd be great to see the mode get built upon, and inspire more tricks, and more mods.
@@SkooledZone Sod castles, just let me build very detailed, cool little wood cabins. ; -) In the meantime, I'd settle for Starfield's build mode being justified *at all*... Btw, have you documented a solution on your video of 'floating' foundations, e.g. the wooden shack pillar foundation, and how when you build on an incline, part of the building will invariably be levitated? CVC actually adds custom, vanilla snapping wooden supports - the MA has just removed the floor tile, and so you can lay the legs down to then place the vanilla piece on top, letting you increase pillar height. I did not know those pieces were there when I started building... I can use Place Anywhere to try to 'fix' the floating struts, but I'm curious as to how you'd head off that build problem. Would you pre-build the necessary depth on flat ground, and then use the techniques you did on fixing the large gaps in the Castle wall? Would that work?
This is a good video for console users. For PC users, the mod called Place Everywhere does everything the glitches do. I've said this on other videos but it bears repeating: the wireless/wifi glitches tend to be the fastest way to cause a settlement to crash to desktop. It causes errors in the power grid (this is well documented in many places on the internet). A mod call Workshop Framework includes tools to repair and/or destroy a broken power grid. Assuming you can get into the settlement without a CTD in order to use those tools. :)
Yeah, I know what you mean. A certain giant Fallout 4 tuber got quite popular back in the day with more 'extreme' thumbnails, hehe. But the reason I used a woman in the thumbnail is because my analytics show a big spike in female viewers after the Amazon show came out. So it was a little acknowledgment to them.
Oh wow, that's a shame. I've been posting pretty consistently all that time except for a few months I took off to work on my novel. You can always check new videos here: www.youtube.com/@SkooledZone/videos
The amount of time I still re watch the old videos from picking the game back up again
my xbox is still sitting in my room because as soon as i hook it up again i’m going to be stuck there for hours/days with skooledzone playing on my phone
I still refer back to the original Skooled Zone videos when building. The Commonweath wouldn't be the same without this channel.
Aww 😄
I recently read an article from Game Rant, that essentially said the only way to repair buildings in Fallout 4 was with heavy modding. I took exception to this and commented all one had to do was watch Skooled Zone on UA-cam and one could build away with the included game tools. Also, both of my daughters have started playing and my granddaughter, yep, I'm that old. Once again steered them to the headmaster of Skooled Zone. Looking forward to the Coastal Cottage build.
If someone's on PS, they're kinda screwed and do need all the tricks. If on PC or Xbox? Place Anywhere is 120Kb... and it transforms build mode.
The best, easiest results are always going to be mods with exploits combined.
Sensei Skooled still teaching Master Classes with every video.
@Skooled Zone if you want my honest opinion - I think with Fallout 4 being a Single Player game, and the Glitches generally making the game MORE FUN, Bethesda will NEVER patch them! They seem to be one of few Games Developers that understand that a "glitch" only needs to be fixed if it HARMS the game... For Fallout 4 they help fix something Bethesda never got right!
Now with Fallout 76, being Online and being Multiplayer - OH THEY PATCH A LOT! And its understandable! Glitches there can be exploited to ruin another players game!
Lord, I remember when I first started playing Fallout 4, and believe it or not, it was only about 2 or 3 years ago... You had Videos about 4 or 5 years old when I first started playing! And I am glad you keep going... No Joke, Your videos have been a godsend to me!
So glad you’re still making content
I still can't seem to post a comment on my own and have to reply to other people's comments?? It's only with your channel
That's strange @DamienHaze. I don't have you blocked or anything. Have you tried submitting a support ticket with UA-cam?
@@SkooledZone I just might have to look into that, its just weird just don't get the text box to write anything lol, but I was just wanting to update you on that beautiful vault I was building..... Bad news is that playthrough was doomed from the start as my game was broke from another mod (the unofficial patch) broke the Nuka world DLC :( but I was reaching the limit with the vault anyway as I was getting the crashes from loading into the build mode. Keep posting, still love seeing your videos even if it's a 20 year old game lol 😂
@DamienHaze did you re-download all your dlcs?
@@AlecPerrier No, I have the GOTY edition.
I love that the new show has brought the game back and rewarded you and your channel for your dedication to the game.
It was probably too obscure to make the list, but as a decorating glitch variant, it is nice to force rugs into tables and cabinets to prevent loose items from falling through them due to how the meshes load in tandem with clutter. It is also one of the few things that Bethesda seemed to take some cues on for Starfield as they provide a way to place/move clutter items in a static manner for outpost building.
Good point!
Glad you are still uploading, your content is very wholesome and you have a likeable personality over video.
Even as a PC user (although I started with Xbox One) with mods, your videos are constantly useful. I literally couldn't have done building without them.
The most creative thing I've done so far (bare in mind I've only just started building properly despite playing Fallout since release) is I rug glitches and armour workbench into one of the long metal cabinet containers for my garage in sanctuary it looks cool cause you can place items on the unused part of the cabinet and the little fire bucket thing hangs out to the side but there's still a clear work area with textures from the armour bench sitting snugly in the top of the cabinet...try it for a scrappy garage build it looks awesome 👍
Sounds very creative!
I have a few chores to do today, it's cold, and I'm so tired. A new video from you on Fallout 4 makes my day better tbh.
Thanks for the round up, Paul! I've been referring people to your videos whenever I can when they ask me how I did certain things. :)
I really appreciate that Benson 👍
In my first try at the rug glich I put a file cabinet in a tier 3 vendor counter so a Nuka cash register would sit on it. And you can still access the cabinet from behind the counter.
My 1 would be the wifi glitch. I use it more than any other. I rank it higher because it's a mix of ease of use, most used (since a ton of stuff requires power - not that I spend the most time using it), and I imagine it was the hardest to discover. Once I unlock heavy laser turrets, that's when the real (game) building begins. All the turrets and lights go up. Wifi glitch a radiator conduit x or t, connect a bunch of pipe capped with another radiator, then pillar glitch it into a ceiling or wall for all the lights.Also individually link all turrets to a conduit node or switch. The last bit makes it so convenient when the spotlights go out from that bug. Just personally, I still fail with the rug and pillar glitch. They can be so finicky. Spend more time group select-move-nudge-nudge-place-look-remove-remove-remove-place-place-place-repeat than anything. I rank settlement size glitch lowest. I never use it after the first time I tried and crashed the game (I play on console) more than play it.
I know you're busy outside of content creation, but I only watch your building videos. I know you don't use mods while a lot of others have amazing builds but all done by mods. And I'm too lazy to look for others that don't use mods. Also you explain and show how you did something - not just show the result. One of these days I'll finally play on my PC and really get into building settlements.
Everyone at my work listens to you sometimes...
I play the videos through the speakers at work
Wow, thanks 🙏
Glad to see new Skool Zone Drop
Cheers chief, came back to FO4 not long ago and your building guides are a must
I know them all and I learned them all from you & the Skooled Zone :)
The wire glitch: number 5 on your list; number one in my heart! It's the one tip I picked up from your channel that I consistently use in every settlement.
I'm just WAY too happy when you drop a new video Teach!! Welcome back!!❤
You Son ofa Glitch!😂
first off i will say that i do use mods. with that being said - the amount of times i use the pillar glitch to lower floors and line up things especially at Star Light Drive In its probably the 2nd most common glitch i use behind the wire glitch which i use to run power lines underground thanks to the conduits. Its also great for putting the large generators underground as well protecting them from raider attack (especially if you sink them in the ground and put an outhouse over them with the electrical connection poking out of the floor). As I said I do use mods but I do find that using these glitches works much better than most of the place everywere mods due to the small changes you can make with them.
One tip I love telling new players when it comes to defense for sanctuary hills is to place a large metal support pillar and at the top place the curved concrete set metal floor before adding a snapped pillar to the other side and then repeat to make a half circle. then with the conduite with electrode pointing up place on the seam and then add a electrode pointing down to the end. 2 turrets with short power lines (you can even make this 2 layers if done right) same pattern on the ground then connect the two and from there use wire glitch to connect to a junction box that is connected to the generator or directly to the generator. If you place 3 of these setups, 1 at the bridge facing to the small island on the right (as your looking towards red rocket) one at the top of the foot path leading to 111, and one in the back yard with the 2 burred bodies and the dog house on the east side of the settlement (where the boundary bumps out and face it north you can stop 99.99% of attacks without needing your settlers to get involved. And again your generator is underground and protected by a random outhouse (barn build set) with all your wires running underground.
Hi, Paul. Great list... timing is good, what with so many new FO4ers from the influence of the show.
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In regards to the size glitch issue. One way to help with keeping track of how dense your settlement is by using a simple pad of lined paper. You just take a ruler and a pen and make some straight column lines the length of the paper. Making a speadsheet. Now just add a note on the left of each margin line when you unlock a new settlement location. I put at the top of each column, things like 3 spots for storing gamma guns from max size to empty, and dropping the size one. I've heard that more than 3 sizes, and things start to get a bit unstable for average systems. I like to put things like whether or not a place have a suit of power armor stationed there. I love them for building, especially with jetpacks. So many early falling deaths while building :)
I always liked the rug/pillar glitch.
I can't imagine trying to build most locations without the rug/pillar/spike glitch. Except for the airport, which is limited in what you can build, none of the settlement locations are level.
@christopherconard2831 ever sense the big updat fo4 hasn't played right. I even upgraded my gpu and the games graphics run really fast with everything set to default. I had to dl the cheat mod to slow the game down
The Wi-Fi glitch is a fun one to mess with.
I’ve used it in combination now with switches and power doors.
Meaning, one switch is powered via the glitch.
Then that first switch is used as the power source to then glitch a new second switch.
Then the 2nd one is glitched to power the door.
Cleaner aesthetic with zero wires touching the door.
Right on!
I never heard campfire glitch and thought over many years I had watched them all. But Paul, I have not played Fallout 4 in a long while, and it was a game I kept running for years to play quests mods. So now I don't remember how to do any of the glitches AND the update took away required mods and ruined my game. I'm playing Starfield and others but I sent this video to a friend and hopefully he will watch all the glitches. We bought Fallout 4 when it first came out, and he never got very far with it. So he started a new game and mentioned a glitch. Anyway thanks for the video.
I appreciate the referral 👊
An important thing to remember is to build in order. I spent a lot of frustrating time trying to get things to move where the game wouldn't let me because something was already there. After checking and rechecking I discovered I was running into wires I'd hidden underground and couldn't see.
Had to get rid of almost everything electrical and start over, then go back and rewire everything.
Good point.
Skool in the middle of July! Speaking of skool, I had to look it up. Eucatastrophe is the word for anyone else wondering.
Yeah, I wondered why you didn’t mention garden plot for pillar glitching in the Croup Manor video. That is all I had ever used. But I would have never thought about using the campfire for pillar glitching! As you mentioned, it would be perfect for tight spaces! I really appreciate your videos! Thanks!
There is one building glitch you did not mention. I've never seen anyone else mention it either, it is pretty obscure, and its usefulness is limited. But here goes.
There is a way to get concrete pieces to overlap. Yes, placing entire wall sections on top of each other is cool, and lets you make windows with a mesh in them, but this is something different.
Suppose you are working with concrete pieces, and you want to snap something to a piece already placed. It snaps to the wrong place, because concrete pieces have many snap spots. So, suppose you want a wall to snap a little farther to the left or right, or forward or back, so you walk in that direction without turning the camera. In some circumstances, the piece you are placing does not move to the direction you are walking, but instead in the opposite direction. And when this happens, the piece may ignore overlapping with other pieces, probably because they are so far off camera.
As I said, the usefulness of this glitch is limited. With concrete, you could always use the narrower walls and pillars, but it will just not look the same. I've only used this glitch once intentionally in Jamaica Plain, where I managed to get three concrete pieces overlapping in one corner of the building I repaired.
There are a number of other things I use all the time and find very useful, though they are not glitches, rather just practices how to do things.
If you want an item to be aligned perfectly with your building, but which does not snap, just select whatever piece you want to the copy the orientation of as you start building. I use this all the time with furniture and decorations when I want them them to perfectly align with the walls. Of course, you can't move the camera when you do this, but that is simple on a console. Can't find a piece with the exact right angle? Copy one piece, place down a small floor piece, then rotate another floor piece and snap it to the first to get the exact orientation you want to copy.
Want to repair or add to an existing structure? Fiddling with the orientation is a pain, and it will never be perfect if you try to do it manually. Instead you snap something to a wall, such as a power connector, then copy its orientation. The result is quick, and will be more accurate than you could ever achieve manually.
You can use other pieces to adjust the location of building pieces beyond what the normal snapping points allow. Concrete pieces are great for this: using them you can adjust the location of any other piece in small increments. The width of one concrete pillar is trivial, but by snapping a concrete pillar above or below a normal wall, you can even achieve snapping in increments half the width of a pillar. This is a key feature in most of my builds. I've also used wooden ladders for similar results, and created large sloped roofs without the change in elevation between adjacent roof pieces.
Interesting. I'll have to try and play with that. 👍
I love this channel. I use it all the time, especially when I return to fallout 4. You inspired me to actually play the game without mods. Appreciate all the work putninto this.
With the girl in the thumbnail, I was expecting you to also say you're now engaged... or a face reveal (and omg at her voice!?) or that you hired someone to help... but no. Nothing. Not even a hint of who/what that's all about. WHY YOU DO THIS TO MEH!?
Seriously though, great videos!
I started playing /again/ about a month before the Prime series was announced. I was in about 250 hours when I found your videos. Now, I'm about 350 hours in on a new run (NextGen update + PS5 native)
Unless I missed it, there was no mention of the VLC glitch. (btw, I figured out why that happens, and how to set it up 100%) Anyways, I was kind of sad that wasn't in there, but then I remembered you saying it was about build glitches (& exploits) so then I was happy again.
What is the VLC glitch?
He might be talking about this glitch: ua-cam.com/video/41mlJVYI7Ec/v-deo.html
Haha, not engaged. Face reveal at 1 million subs. ;-)
I used the girl in the thumbnail because my analytics says there's been a spike in female viewers since the Amazon show came out. So it was a little acknowledgement to them.
Idk if you cover it in this yet but there's a variation to the build limit glitch that I stumbled on. If you store a wire while highlighting something to build you can place 1 item per wire stored when you hit capacity. So I made a small floor piece with multiple conduits and wired em all together.
Seems faster than dropping and storing, and you never have to exit the build menu.
You've been an invaluable inspiration to me as a builder so if there's anyway this helps someone else I'm happy to help.
Brilliant! The video we didn't know we needed.
If Fallout 4 's building glitches where ever ironed out it would be as dead as Starfields Building scene in comparison...
My most creative build using any glitch from this list might be my Atom at build from 62 Coffeemakers...
The wifi glitch is #1 for me.
Me, too! First thing I do in a new settlement build is a generator and some wi-fi conduits to move around!
Can't argue with that top 3
Up until a year or so ago, I'd never seen the campfire glitch. 😅 Have done everything else extensively and agree with your countdown. I just found ways to do what I wanted with the others that I didn't need the campfire I guess. Keep finding new ideas for vids Paul !!
Great video, man! I used some of your tricks to replicate what ya did at Croup Manor and made my Nora a huge walk in closet.
The rug and pillar glitch are so common that the mod I use has versions in the build menu that I can use specifically for that. True is, I never use anything but the hidden wires trick.
Bro a brand new vid from you is the highlight of my social media day lol
I just wanted to say thanks for making these videos I've been watching your videos for a long time and they have help me out so many times
Glad to help 😊
I feel like these should be called techniques, not glitches.
This vid is so helpful. It’s like a Table of Contents at the start of my Building Techniques Manual. 😍👍
Hey, just wanted to say I'm really interested in your videos. I can tell a lot of work has gone into them. I like the inventive ways you use those glitches and exploits.
I definitely consider the duplication glitch a building glitch. Other than that, I always think using the pillar glitch is cool.
Release the final Homeplate rebuild video!
Jk, just keep doing what makes you want to create
The Homeplate build has been a real challenge because of the crazy things I'm trying to do in there with such limited space. I can only work on it a couple hours a week while trying to get other videos ready for the channel. But it's definitely in the works!
@@SkooledZone I think I've always underutilized that space myself. I tend to put a 'concession stand' theme in there, adding in soda fountains, coffee makers, donut fryers, etc. I also like to keep some of the original scrap stuff in there, as it still functions as storage and decoration.
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Wow, that's awesome. Thanks!
There is a fantastic way to stop Furniture and Decorations from dropping through the floor after using the Rug Glitch. (Credit to Sardeliac who mentioned it very briefly on a ‘Settlements and Survival’ episode about 7yrs ago, but i only found it recently so i’ve been playing around with it).
Once you have got the item in it’s place, using the Rug Glitch; select it to move (just the item, not the rug) and turn the camera round.
When the rug isnt on screen, and (IMPORTANT BIT) the item shows RED so it can’t be placed - hit O/B/[whatever it is on PC] to cancel the placement. The item will pop back onto the rug.
Now, when you remove the rug, your item shouldn’t drop into the floor. It’s not perfect, but it seems to work ~8/10 times for me.
Thanks. I'll try it out in my next video.
2 hrs from upload nice to see another video
Time for Skool 😀
me thanks to your videos i am now, from a novice to a better-now builder
I started fallout 4 last week. Learning to build…well now…I only know 3 building glitches so far!! Fairly certain two of them will be top two lol
Right on. And welcome aboard!
Love your videos you have helped me out more than you known
even having a 500+ mod load order does not stop me from watching you.
Thank you .
🐺Loupis Canis .
Those glitches are lifesavers. I stopped counting how often I ragequitted because of the braindead building system
😂 I feel ya
I use the og wire glitch, rug and piller glitch the most. I dont mind the wires i just want to be able to run them where I want.
Spent too much time on 76 I decided to jump back into 4 for the added next-Gen content. Went back to this channel to re-learn old tips and tricks. 😊
Welcome back!
top works as usual paul
Got fallout 4 on ps4, great.
Got fallout 76 on ps4, broke my disc in half, godawful garbage at launch.
Now back at 4 on a ps5❤.
Still a diamond of a game.
Now watching the diamond of a UA-camr that is the build glitch master. Creative greetings from the Netherlands
I really appreciate the kind words. And hello to you in Netherlands. I've actually been there (family trip after graduation)!
@SkooledZone thnx. To talk dutch, I found 2 metal prefab biggest ones with 3 exits,and the barn prefab ,connected by 2 warehouse smallest seethrough floors and 1 wharehouse short stairs the cheapest way to put down stuff for 20 settlers. 1 metal prefab holds 20+ sleepingbags, 1 metal prefab holds scavenging stations, pommel horse , weightbench, barber, trade shops , small generator with settlerbeacon and vaulttecterminal,and cat/dog places with the barn prefab holding 4 plots with waterpumps and crops stacked for 24 food and 24 water...all off the ground, turrets on top.
Do you have any cheaper way to protect it all? I even don't like spending stuff on repairs so i scrap all crafting stations except sanctuary lol.
@@SkooledZone I got something special, a functioning underground settlement and a live mirelurk queen and observatory in vault 88,possible thanks to your teachings.
"Smaller and more manageable in tight situations". That's what she said. Heyooo
I came into this franchise, maybe last year. Possibly the beginning of this year. At the time, I had not heard of the show yet and found out about after I gained a healthy thirst for more Fallout. It was alright, but since I don’t have an extensive knowledge of Fallout lore, I wasn’t disappointed by anything not being exactly correct.
Fallout has its flaws (and plot holes), but it's still one of the best "sci-fi" games I've played. And the building system makes it a game that keeps on giving 😊
Interesting. Can anybody tell me what other building glitches there are?
Don't play fallout 4 anymore just nice to hear ya voice❤
Haha, I'll take it 😉
I know it's technically a duplication glitch and not a building glitch, but the scrap/store glitch helps you never run out of material to build with. I know it's my most used glitch when setting up settlements.
I just buy all my supplies: ua-cam.com/video/OE0tLm3wgFc/v-deo.html
Love your channel, was curious if you had any tips on how to decorate the shops with junk items? I hate how barren the emporiums look in my otherwise highly decorated "settler mall" - drives me crazy I cant load the shelves with clothing items / Ammo/ etc
I haven't made a video on _how_ to decorate but I made a few videos on what to decorate _with_ 😉
1) ua-cam.com/video/2mOM6U3n8SM/v-deo.html
2) ua-cam.com/video/RiJoqYvMt9I/v-deo.html
3) ua-cam.com/video/Fwb_R2KUPgc/v-deo.html
This channel will be in the Smithsonian one day.
Haha, not likely but I appreciate the compliment 😄
Not making these official aspects of the game is a missed opportunity for Bethesda.
Remeber tho, The whole building aspect was a late add on to the game. The fact that they got this much from the vanilla and DLC's is rather impressive.
I'd expect major improvements in FO5.
Thanks 👍
Hey @SkooledZone - Yup, I keep coming back to your videos trying to learn more... And one I want to do but have not figured out - I can get a Ceiling into Taffington Boat House, But has anyone - even you managed an actual reasonable roof repair? It something I want to do but have not found a solution yet!
I'm actually actively working on a video about that! Stay tuned 😄
Are these glitches good for PC version Fallout 4?
I've heard they all work the same but I use an XBox so I don't know for sure.
Excellent video!
Thanks man 😊
I need to go back and watch the wifi glitch video again. I don't remember how to do it at all. How soon we forget!
Here's a slightly quicker way actually: ua-cam.com/video/Jl-idDvy-PE/v-deo.html
@@SkooledZone Thanks! That was super helpful! I never new you could link to a specific spot in a video. I'm learning lots today!
These techniques actually make the build system tolerable.
I still say that the Duplication Glitch is needed in Building. "don't have enough wood?, Duplicate" same with steel, concrete, anything.
I just buy all my supplies: ua-cam.com/video/OE0tLm3wgFc/v-deo.html
@@SkooledZone oh I used to also. make jet then buy, buy buy, just found the duplication worked easier for building. plus I can pick stuff up and drop them for the settlement size glitch.
Everytime he says glitch, take a shot.
Give me a shout-out if you survived. 😄
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On Xbox - are all of these glitches still working? Because I'm having a wicked hard time getting may of them to work anymore (pillar and rug glitch are, well, glitchy and don't always work as advertised)
They still work for me: ua-cam.com/video/xKX4E1yQkig/v-deo.html
New to the game and I can't hook up my water processor to the generator. I have no wire. I click on the tips of both and nothing happens. Do I need to make or find wire? Please help me. Thank you. PS5.
Make sure you have copper in your inventory (or workshop) since wire requires that resource. But if you have the materials and you click the attach button on a conduit of any kind, then you should hear a spark sound. Then you need to go to where you want to place the wire and press attach. That should do it. And if you want to know how to do the basic wire glitch, this video might help: ua-cam.com/video/36lgmEaprio/v-deo.html
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All things considered, while a comprehensive top 10, the endless build limit must be number 1. Without it, the relatively minute limitation on how much a player can build is prohibitive such we'd all have stopped playing.
The rating system I used (frequency of use + impressiveness) made it come in right behind the pillar glitch. I don't use it that often and it's not very flashy. But you make a really good point about necessity!
I find that 90% of the time I Cannot get any rug / pillar glitches to work when trying to place junk walls .. is it something to do with y version being PC, i see a ton of channels doing building tutorials and using glitches but they all seem to be consoles ... or am i just missing something really obvious :D
Wait! I need to know what the rug glitch is! What's an old video? Nah...😅😅😅
Re: Settlement Size Reduction causing game crashes… Is this less likely to happen with the Next Gen version of the game?
I’m playing on a PS5. My load screens are so fast, I don’t have time to read the text. It’s a very different experience than playing Skyrim on a PS3 when it first came out. 🤣😍
I haven't tried it on my Xbox X yet but I imagine there'd be less crashes because of better processing power on next gen consoles 👍
What about using objects like one of the ships outside the settlements boundary line, I've grabbed boats cars and even the trashed vertabirds laying around and then used those objects in my settlement but I can't figure out how I did it.... anybody???
If you can push them into your settlement boundaries, they can make cool props. Here's a trick for that: ua-cam.com/video/xKX4E1yQkig/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared&t=556
Eucatastrophe? My PS4 won’t turn on as of 2 hours ago. I’ve lost FO4 and all dlcs. J.R. Gonna hook me up with a 5?
Ouch, sorry to hear that. Before you give up on your PS4, it may just be a failed power supply unit. Sometimes if you replace that and check all the cords, it might work again. That's what happened to my XBox 360 back in the day. :)
@@SkooledZone I was being a bit facetious there. I want a PS5 from J.R. like I want to punch that Murphy bloke in the nose for all my bad luck.
I have a feeling it’s the HD. Will have a pro look at it. Thanks for the advice, teach. 🫡
@@SkooledZone Beep, she LIVES! New power supply ftw. Now back to the commonwealth I go.
How much of this is necessary if you have Place Anywhere, I wonder?
I've spent a lot of time building in F4 (on first release), but didn't know about any of these... The wire glitch would've been so helpful. Not tried the wi-fi version yet, but I definitely will.
But with Place Anywhere I think stuff like the rug and pillar become redundant. I don't yet know how they work, precisely, so I'm not sure yet.
You're probably right. But I like to do things without mods. So we resort to these clever tricks.
@@SkooledZone I care about achieving a certain result, and not so much about the method. The good thing about Fallout 4 is that both paths are available depending on taste.
What's awesome is a combination of the tricks (really knowledge about the system) you demonstrate and explain, and mods. For example, I've been building an armoury/power armour bay for my house on Spectacle. I wanted to use the big, powered garage door (from the warehouse set) to make for a practical yet dramatic exit when in power armour. I didn't want the door open switch on a wall, especially not on the bay door itself.
I used the wire glitch I finally learnt from your channel (many thanks. it's so incredibly useful), and linked it to a conduit sunk into the ceiling. Then I placed a power switch from the CVC mod pack (it's the normal blue wall switch, but it has 3 power by itself) in mid-air, just under the power node. I then used Place Anywhere's object menu to reduce the object scale by about 50%, and wired it up to the ceiling.
Hey presto, a small remote door switch dangling via cable from the ceiling - just in front of the power armour station. So you can climb in, then pretty much immediately hit the switch, and you have a cool, dramatic exit in armour. ; -)
Looks realistic/believable, and it's practical. And it wouldn't be possible without both the knowledge you put out there, plus the talents of modders.
I really hope the next Elder Scrolls has a build feature to at least match F4s. It'd be great to see the mode get built upon, and inspire more tricks, and more mods.
I agree. And how awesome would it be if you could build custom castles in the next Elder Scrolls!
@@SkooledZone Sod castles, just let me build very detailed, cool little wood cabins. ; -)
In the meantime, I'd settle for Starfield's build mode being justified *at all*...
Btw, have you documented a solution on your video of 'floating' foundations, e.g. the wooden shack pillar foundation, and how when you build on an incline, part of the building will invariably be levitated? CVC actually adds custom, vanilla snapping wooden supports - the MA has just removed the floor tile, and so you can lay the legs down to then place the vanilla piece on top, letting you increase pillar height.
I did not know those pieces were there when I started building... I can use Place Anywhere to try to 'fix' the floating struts, but I'm curious as to how you'd head off that build problem. Would you pre-build the necessary depth on flat ground, and then use the techniques you did on fixing the large gaps in the Castle wall? Would that work?
This is a good video for console users. For PC users, the mod called Place Everywhere does everything the glitches do.
I've said this on other videos but it bears repeating: the wireless/wifi glitches tend to be the fastest way to cause a settlement to crash to desktop. It causes errors in the power grid (this is well documented in many places on the internet). A mod call Workshop Framework includes tools to repair and/or destroy a broken power grid. Assuming you can get into the settlement without a CTD in order to use those tools. :)
I could never get the rug glitch to work, I think one of my mods was to blame
Perhaps: ua-cam.com/video/xKX4E1yQkig/v-deo.html
Is Fallout London have base building?
Firs… damn.
Paul, you should check out this guy's video "My Abernathy Farm skyscraper build with no mods in Fallout 4". Freaking cool.
Thank you for having a thumbnail with a woman who looks normal! Most men doing Fallout videos have more 'extreme' taste.
Yeah, I know what you mean. A certain giant Fallout 4 tuber got quite popular back in the day with more 'extreme' thumbnails, hehe. But the reason I used a woman in the thumbnail is because my analytics show a big spike in female viewers after the Amazon show came out. So it was a little acknowledgment to them.
I thought this was an inactive channel at this point, first video I’ve seen less than 8 years old
Oh wow, that's a shame. I've been posting pretty consistently all that time except for a few months I took off to work on my novel. You can always check new videos here: www.youtube.com/@SkooledZone/videos
@@SkooledZone I blame the algorithm
Man this is your time. Slightly retune all your old videos and post them again.
Pro move would be ot install Place Anywhere :P
Exactly what part of "no mods" do you not understand?
I am a cheater I use modpos and modangle to put it where I want . Really comes in handy to get brahmin out of a house.