10 Advanced Tips & Tricks for Settlement Building in Fallout 4 

You can group select by holding down the place button instead of pressing it (A on Xbox, X on PS, E on Keyboard). I have made the assumption that everyone knew how to do it or has accidentally done it at some point but I was mistaken. //Tip Timestamps// 1) 0:50 Settlement Size (How to get Infinite Build limit) 2) 1:35 Group Select/Pillar Glitch (More accurate object placements) 3) 6:20 Rug Glitch (Placing non snappable objects anywhere you want) 4) 8:40 Campfire Technique (Sinking objects inside floors) 5) 13:00 Wire Trick (Wiring electrical objects together regardless of distance or collision) 6) 15:00 Decorating with Items (Dealing with items falling through) 7) 19:10 Creative item Decoration (just introducing some items you'd normally wouldn't think of building with, will cover more in a future vid) 8) 20:30 Settlement Population (how it works and how you can get infinite population) 9) 22:25 Building Resources (Useful Perks to acquire + a dupe exploit if you want to cheese) 10) 24:50 Unlockable Workshop Item List (I COULD be missing any but I think I got them all) 27:40 A quick building timelapse just to show examples of the building techniques. Notes: I didn't put the wifi glitch in this vid as I have had actual issues with it (crashes), so Its not something I do in my builds nor is it something I recommend.

With so many people playing Fallout 4 right now, this is such a useful guide.

Ive played Fallout 4 since the day it came out and im just now learning about MOVING OBJECTS WITHOUT MOVING THE CHARACTER.

the vertibird blowing up was just gold

I just don't understand why we can't just clip things by default. It's a single player, survival, RPG if I wanted to build a dresser that is half embedded into the ground let me.

The pause you made to witness the whole action in sight... That was amazing.

I've played this game and built vanilla with glitches for a good 4000 hours, yet you still have tips in here I haven't even considered. Great video

(YT) “How far into Settlement building do you want to go?” (Me) “Yes.”

Tip 1 is already a HUGE game changer! I had no idea you could "reset" your build size. I've kept wondering how so many videos were able to make "small cities" like that. Thank you!

I literally didn't know a single thing from this video. This has to be the single greatest tips and tricks guide I have EVER seen, and i've put hundreds of hours into Fallout and building. No more being frustrated that things won't go where I want them. Thank you so much!

Dear lord, that break in the video where he just stops to take in the Vertabird chaos is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Well played, squeasy...subbed.

I wish Place Everywhere mod was made baseline. I was often frustrated by the limitations of placing objects even in places where it seemingly had no reason to not work. Once I got the mod, building became 10x more enjoyable.

now this is the most informative and helpful settlement vid I saw yet

This is the greatest guide ever. I've always struggled making Sanctuary look better, but with your help, I can finally turn it into a nice looking settlement

Its so funny that builders have to gaslight the game to be able to build the way they want

Found this video right when I was about to do a junk grind and focus building up some Settlements. Thank u, helps alot

This is probably one of THE most easy to comprehend videos on these glitches i have seen yet and its really nice to hear it be explained so well but with little jargon and all

The sanctuary house floor fix it is genius. Never thought about that. And the ceiling too! Edit: never knew about the rugs item proofing. Will use this next time thank you!

I thought I knew so much about all these principles already but now I've learned so much more. Thanks for this.

I gotta shout out the quality of your production. It's pleasant, fun and crystal clear. Great video

You're an absolute legend, the tips are greatly appreciated!

The weapon display board behind the counter is a great tip I'll be using!

Dude thank you so much for making this fairly comprehensive guide! I am getting back into the game after a few years, and forgot most of this stuff. Rather than dig through a dozen 7+ year old videos, it's really nice to have just a single recent one

The most helpful video about settlement builds i find. Thanks a lot!

the vertibird segment killed me lol! as well great video about to go get lost in the settlement building sauce!

I've been playing fallout for a very long time and this is the best and most useful tips and tricks for building settlements. U rock dude!Thankyou for sharing!

Dude omg. I came into this thinking it would be some simple decoration tips. This is game changing! You’ve blown my mind. I wish I knew all these things years ago

This is so good edited that should be a perm settlement building tutorial for the game. Really well done

So happy to see you post a video!

By far the best out of the countless 5000+ building videos I’ve seen. All of schooled zone and more put into one video!!! Plz make more if you have any ideas left. Settlements are my favorite part of fallout 4 and that bus build was badass. Even build ideas would go crazy!! Thanks again for this hard work ❤

I spent the last 2 days trying to do up sanctuary without mods. I think i can remake everything in a fraction of the time thanks to your tips. These make the settlement build system worth using. Good stuff 👍👍

This is incredible, I've been playing for so many years now. All the way back to New vegas and I just learned about the rug glitch and now this?! I've got too upgrade everything and make things better thank you for this awesome help. Your a lifesaver man.

I remember I tried to decorate my settlements years ago and when I came back all the objects bounced and fell over. I had spent 3 hours setting them up and was so done with it. It was on ps4 so I couldn’t mod it to fix it. And now I finally can decorate. Thank you

Dude, bathesda should hire you to decorate all the houses! Your video and sensational tips are too good

This is a great video, thank you so much! You are very good at concisely conveying information without making it feel dry or stiff, I envy that skill! I'm looking forward to see the videos in which you delve deeper into some of the techniques you mentioned.

You are the only person to explain the pillar vs rug glitch! Thank u! I was so frustrated with my walls lol

A fallout 4 settlement guide in 2024??? Very nice.

Wanna say thanks on behalf of all people who suffered with ugly, floating camp objects in the past. Your guide has completely changed the way I build in settlements. Now I no longer have to wiggle around constantly trying to get one thing to fit alongside something else, and I can fix up Castle properly like I wanted to before

Broooo! Thank you so fkn much for making this! Settlements always bothered me since I couldn’t perfectly line up floors with foundations. That Pillar height glitch is genius!

This is a very informative video squeasy, I have alot of questions but one specifically comes to mind: whats going on at 14:57?

Hopefully they don’t change anything with the upcoming update. I love rebuilding atm. It’s kinda meditative 🙌🏻 Edit: I only got that deep into building because of ur sanctuary build. So inspiring, now I‘m fixing walls, reroofing, it’s kinda crazy like learning illustrator or photoshop just in Fallout. I even bought a new pc to increase the size of my buildings. Last time I checked my sanctuary with 2070RTX on my msi Laptop I had average 18 Fps cause it’s just toooooo huge. Bro u’re just the baddest motherf**** of building I‘ve ever witnessed but since I watched the Fallout show I feel inspired by their builds. Pretty much comparable to urs. Whatever keep it up lad. I have to make some vids on my own which program do u use? Adobe Premier?

this video popped up on my recommended feed as soon as i hopped off of fallout a few nights ago. decided to give some of the ideas a shot and i've never seen my settlement look so fucking gorgeous. Thank you!

I was watching your hangman's alley tour to get inspiration for my own build when I stumbled on this tutorial, gotta say this is going to be a lifesaver for making a really good build, thanks!

someone who also says the pc controls 😘

Bro, can you give me an idea about a bat cave?

Your builds are cool and inspiring. I also loved your choice of easy listening music during the final build. Great video

Thank you for this! I just got into FO4 for chiefly the settlement building, so videos like this are a godsend. I’ve rage quit a couple of times due to trying to fix up the ceilings/roofs and floors of sanctuary in the last couple of weeks. But videos like this make it actually fun! So thank you.

Modding really ruined settlement building. The limits in place made all the glitches and snapping techniques to be used imaginatively. Mods made settlements deeply boring because people could just build anything. I appreicate you teachihg people the techniques to build without mods. After years I can create some great structures. Buildings that look like Bethesda made them with the tools they have available to them. At some point I plan to make some mini-build tutorials, but I'm just too busy with work most of the time. OR I'm playing Fallout. The biggest tip I can give is: Learn the order than items can snap, this will allow you to create far more intricate structures that remain inline with the relative snapping grid. Because if you glitch too many items in place, it makes snapping anything together next to impossible without continuing to use glitches.

Thanks great guide, looking forward to trying them out. When I started replaying, I don't think I anticipated how obsessed I was about to get with settlements. Also commenting to boost.

Thank you. I replay every year and this time i was avoiding settlements because of frustration with building. These tricks mean I might actual do something with them again.

Man these vids are coming at the perfect time, makes me antsy to get back into FO4 and just goof around

I just started playing Fallout recently and one thing that bugged me was the floating and not being able to build in certain places. Your video just opened many possibilities for me! Thanks a lot for the tips! 🤯🤯

I've been playing since the game came out and never knew about most of these. This is great! Thank you!

Probably the absolute best build tips vid I've come across 👌

I just watched your one hour video about you strolling and literally didnt move an inch. I hope you make more videos, i love it. Subbed!

As someone who's never bothered to glitch placing objects, pulling off even the ashtray glitch feels amazing. And I never would've known without this video, thank you!

Super helpful. Ive been avoiding building at all costs due to, mostly, the lack of being able to clip things. So this is really neat!

This is so helpful! Holy crap, I've been playing since release and never knew some of these. Thank you

This video just changed the game for me. I am not being dramatic when I say this. I had NO CLUE you could do half of this. Thank you so much for sharing all of this!

I've been playing the game on/off for 6 years and watched other videos but still learned quite a bit from your video. I get frustrated with settlement building and kind of just started to do the very least to get by like having hole filled roofs, LOL. Going to rethink how I'm doing my settlements now.

This is so cool, I'm so glad I looked for tips before building in my new playthrough!!

That bus build was awesome! Thanks for sharing your creative process!

This is cool. I started a new playthrough on PS5 and I've been building a lot more (and generally putting more work into the settlements) than in my previous one.

This couldn’t have came at a better time thank you!

Omg this is the exact video I have been searching for!! I play on ps4 and it's so hard to make a nice settlement with the vanilla game not knowing these tips and where to find things. THANK YOU!! I can't wait to play after work tonight now. ❤😊

Been feeling out of it for a couple days but this vid made me real happy. Idk if ill ever implement the methods you did but this was a mighty fine watch

I honestly appreciate the pause to watch the battle. As soon as the first explosion happened I was like damn I really wanna see how this plays out

You are smooth with it my guy! Fantastic video at the end too!

You have no idea how great this vid is ..thanks for the tips

I hope the traction you'll get with this video encourages people to check out your older videos with all the amazing settlements builds you've done, they're trully something else.

I'm a vet player and one of the things I hated most was items falling out of displays. The rug trick to fall proof items is genius and something new. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you, I had completely forgotten about these and was scratching my head trying to remember which mods I must have used in the past to get stuff built properly. Oh of course. i had forgotten about using a shopping trolley to carry a bunch of junk items at the same time.

If you use two power conduits connect them, scrap the wire with the item you want built ready in selection and you can keep building, but it doesn’t lower the meter, you just have to keep scrapping wires, or I noticed if you scrap anything with an item you want built. You’re work is amazing thank you for sharing your wisdom

This is soooo game changing! Just started a new vanilla play and have been struggling to build anything. Only knew about the rug ones but since forgot cause I haven’t played unmodded in a long time.

Such a good Video and so relaxing with the music. Thank you good sir

i happened to click on this video entirely by chance, and holy hell i am SHOCKED that there were so many immensely useful mechanics in the game for settlement building this whole time that i had no idea about! I have no qualms with modding my games and i participate in it sometimes but most of the time i would honestly rather play without mods, so this video is lifechanging. i will now be binging this entire channel, thank you orange squeasy 😂

Yo this video if fuckin great! I’ve watched a bunch of building tutorials and I learned WAY more from this than any other. Great job. With that post glitch, you can put neon signs/letters basically anywhere. It’s cool to have them on the ground and finding a unique way to get power to them

Tremendously useful information and very well presented! Great music too!

The collision glitch has made my store concepts become unstoppable This is brilliant

I've played this game so much, and most of this I didn't even know. Great video.

I was lookin for a helpful video for building in FO4, Yours is by far the best i've come across. Thank you

Amazing guide! And the trailer build looks so spiffy!

Definitely going to use all of these now. So excited.

This is a very informative, interesting and helpful video. Lots of good tips! Thanks !

I've been struggling with my builds you shown me a lot thanks😀😀

Nice helpfully video, thanks. I enjoy the settlement building too. One trick I have used is with the fast travel rug. Example: at Oberland Station I have living quarters built in the lower level. That rug will pass through the wall, so just place it inside with a little outside so most of the rug is inside. Now I can fast travel to the inside. Then install a floor, walls, and furniture. Leave a small gap or door to pass through to the outside.

This is the first tips video I’ve seen that is actually helpful 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Thank u so much! I've started to play Fallout 4 again after the show and haven't played it since 2016/17. I downloaded every mod i had when i last played the game, but unfortunately some of them don't work anymore, because of Bethesdas Update. But you 're showing stuff that's exactly what i need! Especially the first ones! (Settlement Size, Pillar/Ashtray Glitch etc.) 😍

i remember knowing few tricks back in the days this guide helps alot man

Ahhh the legend is back with a very helpful vid It’s because of you I made a beautiful sanctuary hills

extremely helpful and well explained, I only knew about the rug glitch. Cheers! 🤙😁

Awesome video! I'm so glad you did this because I've been getting more questions lately about some of the tips you show off here. Now I can just send them your way! :)

the settlement building tips were a god send thank you

This is really helpful and good timing for an upload lmao

I didn’t know about the water purifiers or the movement of floors in Sanctuary. 😮 I Immediately subscribed😂

Based on the wealth of clear & concise information and the professional presentation you deserve more subscribers. Consider me one.

That Uncle Ruckus theme caught me off guard 8:28 and I just had to subscribe for that alone.

Very cool. I played the game for 400 hours and this is pretty new to me thank you very much

I watch many YT videos in my niche and in the game one... Dude.. loved this so much. Thank you for all the tips and I love your editing style. Ya earned my sub for sure.

thank you soooo much, you have made this game even more enjoyable.