19 Awesome Tips for Fallout 4 (that I wish I knew before I started!) 

You forgot one thing, always help the settlements. It will help our cause

When I Played the game, I accidentally turned on my Pip-boy light and thought I was glowing from radiation

Just like the title says I wish I had seen this before I started playing. It would have saved a lot of aggravation on my part. A few things to note: 1. If you are playing console your experience will vary slightly. Everything he says still works you just have to figure out which buttons on your controller do it. 2. Before you feed points in to local leader and can establish supply lines breaking items down by hand make them lighter to transport between settlements. 3. On the topic of supply lines don't forget it will take a settler away from your population that could otherwise be used in tending crops, defending your base or some other task. 4. Once you have a companion they don't go back where you found them to wait, they go to where you assign them (in most cases). Be aware that if you assign them to Sanctuary it is a very big settlement space and they might be a little hard to track down (Dogmeat is almost always in front of one of the dog houses in the settlement so it's a good idea not to scrap every single one of the dog houses.) 5. Yes your settlements will provide you with purified water provided your settlement is not using all that it makes. This is a life safer and a game changer when it comes to healing early in the game. 6. Yes you can buy cores almost all the time from merchants in Diamond City, but they are expensive early in the game. 7. Ammo weights nothing and can be a valuable way to make money while wandering the wasteland. I stopped using .38 ammo and .45 ammo awhile back but I still pick it up and sell it to merchants. Likewise planting tons of crops in a place like Sanctuary can be a good way to earn some cash as well. 8. One thing not mentioned here that might not be obvious, you can't take a magazine or scope off of one type of weapon, say a 10mm pistol and stick it on to another weapon like say a combat shotgun. Also mods can be sold for a small amount of money if you no longer think you will need them. 9. In my experience you need a long range rifle, a short range hand gun and some type of high damage crowd control gun (shotgun, minigun, laser scatter gun, missile launcher, etc). A melee weapon is nice and some people swear by grenades but the long range, short range, crowd control route has been working really really well for me. 10. When you first get a settlement clean it up by scrapping everything that is not of value to the settlement. It stores the goods scrapped in your settlement workshop for that settlement, and you will need the components you create. Most settlements need something when you take them over. If you are lucky you will have what you need between whats on you and what the settlement has in scrap value to at least get started. Also clearing out all of the dead trees and broken cars makes for better fields of fire and less places for attacking enemies to hide. 11. On that note you want to make sure any settlement you take over or found has the minimum needed to survive. You want to make sure before you walk away that they have food water, a place to sleep and some defenses in place. In the beginning I was fanatical about defenses but now I usually just make sure they at least have a couple of machine gun turrets. Likewise settlers don't seem to give a crap if you give them the best bed you can or just a sleeping bag as long as they have a place to sleep. 12. Be careful using that PIP boy light out in the wild unless you want to make yourself an easier more noticeable target. It's great in some situations but remember a person in the dark can always see the person with a flashlight before the person with the flashlight can see them. 13. Unless you like running into an unknown unforeseen firefight it's better to sneak your way across the landscape. It might take you longer to get where you are going but it keeps you out of trouble and gives you the chance to plan out how you want to engage. 14. Fire discipline is essential in this game especially with certain guns automatic weapons or those weapons which use rare ammunition. Like Corporal Hicks in the movie Aliens said, remember quick controlled bursts. 15. Learn how to use cover and how to move quickly but carefully from one piece of cover to another. Also give yourself a line of retreat if at all possible. Tactics save lives. 16. Learn how to use a sniper rifle and use it well. One shot, one kill means less pain and more loot. 17. Once you have a few settlements don't forget to check on them periodically to make sure they have what they need and are happy. You can do this by accessing your workstation logs on the Pip boy under the Data tab. 18. Learn to quickly scan all parts of every room or area you visit for loot, and learn what is common and what isn't. Wood and Steel are not that hard to come by. Copper screws and nuclear materal are a little harder to find. The best junk to pick up is either super light in weight like a scalpel or has multiple components like a microscope, or a hot plate. 19. Learn what to leave behind. In the beginning you pick up everything because you start with nothing. Eventually you get to the point where you pass over a lot of junk, armor and weapons because it's simply not worth the carry weight. 20. Unlike in Skyrim perks do not land on a perk tree. You can get a perk that is level 4 without having to have any perks at levels 2 or 3 provided you have enough base points. That's handy considering that this game won't even let you try to pick a lock or hack a terminal that is above your perk level. 21. Speaking of lock picking you want to buff your lockpicking, and computer hacking ASAP, otherwise you are going to miss out on a lot of valuable loot. 22. I thought I had to max my beginning stats before I could start picking perks when I started playing. You don't. Each perk has a stat requirement and some have level requirements but you don't have to have max stats in anything to start getting perks. I really really wish I had known that in the beginning. 23. More strength means more carry weight, something to keep in mind as you are schlepping your gear across the wasteland. Oh and of course more agility means more stealth. 24. Save clothing and accessories that buff your charisma and change into them when you buy and sell with merchants. Currently I have a dress that gives me plus 3, a hat that gives me plus 1 and fashionable glasses that give me plus 1. It makes a big difference in prices.....and those clothing items only cost me about 3 lbs in my inventory space. 25. Some weapons are worth saving for later use in the game. I didn't need to launch missiles or mini nukes as a level 5 player. But I was damn glad to have plenty of missiles and a launcher when I went up against a boss level creature on a mission at level 20. Likewise you don't really need your power armor at the beginning of the game. Save it and the fusion cores you find or buy for the really tough stuff that you run into later on. If I think of more helpful tips I will add to this list in the future.

If you want an easy way to find your settlers at Sanctuary, build a Bell in workshop! Every time you ring it, everyone at the settlement comes walking over to you.

Put your gun away 0:17 Pip-boy light 0:28 How to wait 0:52 User interface color/Pip-boy color 1:53 Scroll perk chart 2:59 Lone Wanderer/Dogmeat exploit 4:06 (According to load screens this was unintended) Trade/equip with companion 5:04 Component view 7:21 Produce adhesive easily 7:41 Purify your own water 9:18 Saving and re-equipping weapon mods 10:19 Fusion cores 12:59 (Red paint doesn't actually make you go faster for those who didn't get that was a joke...lol) Pickpocket fusion cores from enemies 15:28 Rename your guns and tips with renaming 16:16 Don't need to breakdown junk items by hand 19:06 (NICE I was doing this) Move settlement items up and down 20:49 Assigning settlers to a job 21:21 Hooking up power 22:48 Supply Lines 24:39 This was extremely helpful on the stuff I didn't know about... but it was brutal when you started with the common knowledge tips in a 34 min vid! (I watched anyway, haha) This breakdown should help others that don't have that time.

Only thing worse than Dogmeat running away is dogmeat running away when you can't run and need him to carry some junk.

If you are allies with the brotherhood, the stationary guards at the airport can be used as unlimited sources of fusion cores if you pickpocket them. They cant leave the suit so it always spawns another

Good ol’ Adeesive

I built around 5 industrial water purifiers and made about 60,000 caps selling water over and over again in diamond city, which is THE MOST useful trick I know

It's insane how they poured so much importance into this whole crafting thing and then not really explain how to use it properly.

Dogmeat always gets in the way, I swear he gets off by just standing in the doorway mocking me.

The only thing that matters: YOU can Dress up the DOG

The reason Dogmeat is my favorite companion are,he's adorable (give him a teddy bear and you'll see why),he is super fast and with the right perk pick he will hold down enemies while ya shoot them, also he is the only NONjudgemental follower,meaning no matter how you live your game life,he loves you unconditionally!

Two things I really wish they would patch into the game: 1) Scrapping equipment also removes the attached mods. 2) There was some sort of "settler list" in each settlement that tells you what job each settler is doing. The only way to figure out which settler has which job is to hover over the settler in workshop mode and hope you're nearby wherever they work. For example, if they work in the fields, it will highlight the crops they work on each day. If you aren't nearby anything, you can't tell if they have a job or not, so the only way to figure it out is to assign them to something new and see if your food output drops.

1. Extra tip: crouch fo your companion to walk to you (like if you're overencumbered) 2. Your Vault-Tec Rep wasn't showing the plants he was assigned to, not because he wasn't actually assigned, but because you were still in 'Settler Command Mode' (as I call it.) 3. The yellow table lamp item wasn't lighting up, because it is a junk item, and you can't pick up workshop built items like an item. (Also you can't build yellow table lamps without Contraptions DLC or Wasteland DLC (can't remember which one)) 4. The characters assigned to provisioning (supply lines), are like important NPC's, basically meaning; they can get attacked on the way from dest. A to dest. B, but if they 'lose' the fight they'll just sit on the ground like a companion. To make a long explanation short; provisioners can't die.

I like how fo4 is literally my most played game and I’m still watching this

YOU CAN FUCKIN' SCROLL?!?!?!?!?!?!

Finally, pro tips done with style. Stright to business, no long intro, no bullshitting, no philosophy or other shit. Love it. And actually I did find some useful stuff.

The amount of stuff they left completely unexplained is crazy. Thanks for the vid. Just bought the game on sale a few days back and have poured tons of hours in just trying to organize my inventory. Re-naming weapons, etc. will be a great help. Not to mention setting up those supply lines between settlements! Thanks again.

Pro tip: if you have the Automatron DLC you can build robots to run your supply lines between settlements. The more robot parts you collect the more heavily armed you can make them. I build them with brainbot treads, sentry bots torsos with shoulder cannons and sentry bot arms , laser Gatling guns for hands, and an adult Ron head with a head death ray, and but the Tesla coil armor mod on all of it. Not only will they run the supply line but also act like a patrol capable of taking out raiders and super mutants alike.

AD-hesive *

Extra tip: You can make your companions (including dogmeat) have unlimited carry weight. Just drop what you want them to carry and then tell them to go get it. I have made Cait carry various fatmans, miniguns, grenades, etc.

I'm watching this video when this game is almost five years old. I've been playing this game for three years. I'm just making sure I didn't miss anything...

Don't forget, if you equip settler with a weapon and only one round of ammunition, then it becomes infinite for them. A great little trick. This post was edited from "Companion to Settler" to correct false information.

I like how you're trying to give a bit of logic to the game, like vendors measuring the wattage of fusion cores or something, when in fact it's just an exploit some programmer forgot about. But it's nice to know, I didn't realize it. Another thing I have to thank you for is the adhesive trick, that's really amazing.

Todo tomorrow: Get Lone Wanderer Not tell my friends Lone Wanderer works with Dogmeat Look pro

You’re still helping people brand new to the game in 2019 ! I just got the game a couple of days ago. I found the tutorial hints are atrocious and clearly target previous players of the franchise only, so I’ve spent the last two days asking friends “how do i...?” I wish I had seen your video earlier. It would have saved me from annoying them. Better late than never! Over half your tips were still brand new information. 😀

I literally JUST got the game today (I never even knew it existed... lol) and I am in love with it!

I know some people are saying "Everyone knows these", well I don't agree. If Fallout 4 is someone's first Fallout game (Which is true for SO MANY people), this is a great video for them to watch to get them started on some helpful features!

you can also hold right click and scroll your perk chart up and down quill

The action point cost is in direct proportion to the ability to aim the weapon. 11.6 lbs Hunting rifle does not bounce around as much when standing still, but if you pay attention to the bulkier faster firing rate gun, you will see the muzzle is moving around alot. Bulkier weapons have a slower firing rate in Vats as they use more action points for steady aim. The hunting rifle while weighing more is not bulky. Bulky = less balance = more barrel sway = longer aim time Recoil is how much the weapon pulls up and back with each shot, better recoil keeps you on target better outside vats. You can reduce recoil by adding a silencer to your automatic weapons, and while you also reduce damage you will be more able to control the weapon outside Vats. Vats is essentially taking you out of the equation and changing your accuracy via Random number generator. The higher the % the less chance of a miss. You can get quick easy kills with head shots in Vats and force a critical hit on the biggest baddest beasties for a single shot kill, you can do this out of Vats but cant force the critical hit but will need to aim carefully for the most vulnerable part of the head, the Eye(s). When you one shot the Mirelurk Queen outside of Vats then you got the critical hit. If you hit the eye and still failed, 2 more shots in same spot will do it normally with maxed damage on Gauss Sniper but random number generator is not in play, just skill and sweet sweet patience. 3 Shots with Guass Rifle in Vats is about max , but 4 if you have one with Deliverer pistol mod... but I digress... 1. Receivers can greatly impact the rate of fire, a receiver that is not automatic yet says it increases the rate of fire, light, or has a hair trigger, is going to let you reduce AP cost in VATS. 2. Barrel IE. Shorter barrels lower AP cost in VATS 3. Stock, a shorter stock reduces AP usage in VATS, but gives you more recoil (harder to aim subsequent shots) with the weapon when firing manually. 4. Magazines....Magazines have no effect on VATS AP usage as far as shots you can make at full, although a slow reload/high cap weapon is going to be reloaded in VATS and take more points to do so. Faster reload will use less points. 5. Scopes... Sights and Scopes - Having a normal sight is a not good as it takes your character longer to aim, so that increases the AP cost by a little bit. A reflex sight on the other hand is going to reduce the AP cost to fire the weapon in VATS. Scopes, they pretty much double AP usage if you use a long scope but greatly increase accuracy, which is used along with line of sight and range in VATS to determine hit rate. Medium scope naturally do not cost as much AP. 6. Muzzles do not impact the AP cost of shots in VATS, even on energy weapons. These are for your use when aiming manually, although some might impact accuracy at the reduction of range. Bayonets are junk, but muzzle brakes compensate are useful if you fire your weapon manually a lot. This is going to keep your aim on target without the weapon drifting upward so much (recoil). Your manual aim will be better, but you will sacrifice accuracy in VATS. You maximum number of shots in Vats is 16.... unless you have the right gear, drugs, perks and the Deliverer Pistol (unless the fixed that) which will allow you to fire about 30 times in Vats.

Man. I remember watching this the day it came out and everytime I go back to try a new build in FO4, I rewatch this video. It's by far the best guide/refresher I've seen for any game. Thank you for this. See you in another 8 months!

You can't equipped Dogmeat with a Missile launcher....YET.

I just found out that I can fill empty bottles with clean water. I had been buying water and leaving the bottles by the dozens. Now I find myself taking every bottle I can find, I saved so many caps in survival mode.

FO4 Pro Tip: When constructing a settlement, including Sanctuary, build a basic 4x4 sized (or larger) room with walls and ceiling. Add a lockable door and keep it locked. Put all your containers into this room, other than work stations. That lovely gun you just got? Keep a Settler from using it to arm themselves by raiding your unguarded containers by keeping it in a container in the locked room. I tend to find power armor and march it back to sanctuary. I exit it and pull the core. Cores go into a container in the locked room. NEVER leave power cores in powered armor because settlers WILL use them to protect the settlement and use up the core's power until it's totally depleted and then exit the armor. If you have the resources and a good water supply, always build lots and lots of water works. Water, in the middle and late game is a prime way to get lots of caps. Your player self can fast travel from settlement to settlement, taking all the stored water unto themselves, and when done, you sell the total to vendors for caps (remember to ONLY sell up to the total of caps they have on hand, then sell more water to another vendor, and so on until you're out of water). Water selling dodge: If you come up short on buying some expensive item, you can sell water to the vendor to gain the caps to buy the item, buy it, then sell MORE water to wipe them out of caps. It is a good idea to have plenty of containers for your stuff. I usually have one for ammo, one for pistols, one for rifles, one for shotguns, one for energy weapons, one for other weapons, one for clothes, one for perk clothes, one for armor, one for perk armor, etc. Get as 'anal' as you wish on this, organization helps! Food and Water are always good sells to vendors. Always keep cores that are nearly depleted.. they sell for good amounts of caps as if they were fully charged to vendors. Vendors can and do have partially charged cores, and fully charged ones. Only buy the fully charged ones and sell any of yours that get below 10%. If you are a klepto like me, scrap can be good for funds too. Middle and late game, I can often have hundreds of units of most types of scrap, like glass (thousands sometimes)... you can easily keep a few hundred and sell the excess for caps. Doing this with several types of scrap you just don't use much of can garner the funds needed to purchase some item you need, or desire. Scrap usually weighs far less than items. So scrapping what you find is a way of saving carrying weight. And yes, your companion can carry all that excess scrapped stuff for you. Nick? Mind if I call you Mule? :) In some locations in the late game, make sure that you have plenty of cores and both yourself and companion armored in a full suit of power armor, and armed with the best weapons you can. This gives better chances to defeat the 'bad guys' or powerful creatures far more easily. Always take the time to answer a settlement's distress call. You CAN lose settlers, and take damage to settlement buildings and installations. Since scrap is readily available, the cost to build multiple turrets is not that high and worth the investment to protect settlements. I have yet to see a Raider group survive a 10 turret barrage and settlers defensive fire. Oh! Figure out how raiders attack each settlement. There are avenues of attack each uses, like the bridge and across the river in Sanctuary, as well as the 'back' area past the cul de sac. Setting up half a dozen turrets at each location is well worth the cost in resources. Remember to go back to previous settlements and improve them. The more defenses they have, the better. And always remember to assign guards to guard posts. Flank them with turrets. Force the enemy to brave the turrets to destroy them while the guards shoot from the safety of the guard post. Unless you are doing a 'speed run', always build up your settlements and return to improve them from time to time.

12:46 "But it's not really the end of the world" Welllllll

When is Fallout 4 coming to the ps2.

here's a tip, don't ignore the Luck tree. arguably the best overall tree. In fact if you rush the extra find caps and ammo perks, i found i was pretty wealthy early on and rarely ran out of ammo.

Literally tried for like 2 hours off and on of course to figure out how to put my gun away. You blew my god damn mind. Hats off to you sir

A little late but another tip is that the game actually has a crude cover system. When standing behind something with your weapon out, if you ADS (aim-down-sight) when standing at the edge of your cover, you will actually peek out around the corner. When you stop aiming, you drop back into cover. It's a little feature/mechanic that the game doesn't tell you (to my knowledge) that is actually pretty helpful when playing on harder difficulties like Survival Mode.

It's funny how consoles don't have consoles.

All of this is in the HELP option in OPTIONS. I dont know about you, but that is betther than having to read 111 pop-ups

Ive been using Dogmeat as a suitcase for 5 hours

I restarted this game recently and focused on settlement building, setting up supply lines makes it so much easier. I also find the best perks are the STRONG BACK perk which when levelled up, let's you fast travel when over encumbered. the SCRAPPER PERK means you break down more rare components & the SCROUNGER PERK which helps find more ammo. I levelled these up as soos as I could.

A little side protip, around diamond city is gun seller(she moves around with 2 guards) that sells a unique weapon. let's just say it it worth checking out.

I dont know if this is a bug or what. But the Gatling Laser - a late game weapon that uses fusion cores as ammunition- does NOT deplete the fusion core at all. Basically what im saying is.. It has unlimited ammo.

Probably the best tip video I've seen for quality of life game mechanics that are not well explained in-game.

Finally playing this again and trying to finish. About 8 days play time and level 78. Playing regular on Xbox. Here's some of my tips and flow: 1. I have one main settlement where I start. Here I store items in a particular way. Non legendary guns in one dresser armor in another. Legendary items separated elsewhere. In kitchen by stove shelf holds all cooking ingredients, meat dirty water etc. Cooler by chem station has ingredients for chem station. One dresser is dedicated to Charisma items while one is dedicated to intelligence and xp. 2. Making money becomes pretty easy however how I do it is equip summer shorts( you can wear all armor over it). Equip legendary sharp armor ( power armor doesn't stack/no paint job boost). All of these boost charisma. Take a drink with you that also boosts charisma. I usually go dirty wastelander so I can carry more too. Take drugs on top of to boost charisma. Grape mentats or day tripper should do. This gets your charisma easily over 20 and maximizes profits. I generally find that the best weight to caps items are drugs, food and ammo. 3. Leveling up quickly I occasionally do build and craft runs. Have your romantic companion with you and sleep often to keep the 15% xp bonus active( it doesn't last long.). Equip intelligence gear, I use press cap and vault tech coat for now. Eat squirl stew for another 2% xp buff and take intelligence drugs usually berry mentats. If you stored and sorted your items before it goes pretty quick. Open container take all, cook all items store items for selling and cooking again. Same goes for chemistry station. I jumped a level and a half at level 77 doing this. Do this intelligence/xp boost before large construction projects as it can almost double the XP for placing items. 4. I do runs to my settlements and arm them with a set of armor , one good weapon with one bullet and sometimes a melee weapon. The enemies usually spawn in the same location so defense is pretty easy. 5. Give companions items with strength boost and deep pockets mods to further carry capacity. You can order them into a power suit and get the visor perks(highlight targets). There is a mission later in the game where you escort a brotherhood member. You can trigger the mission and have 2 companions at once. If he dies you still get XP for completing the mission and can get another. I find giving my companion some of my legendary items effective such as disarm or reflect damage.

HOLY CRAP YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN ON PERKS. I have 150 hours...

CODSWORTH NOT COGSWORTH

I love this. Brings back memories of vanilla fallout 4. I was so obsessed with the settlement system

That adhesive hack just saved me a year of my life. 💀

it's AD-HE-SIV. Holy shit

An enemy raider got into my power armor... Then he despawned 😩

I just got back to Fallout 4 and this tip you gave about naming A and B for gun comparison was great. It really was worth mentioning.

For farming, per settler, (particularly survival mode): Plant 2 mutfruit, 2 corn, 2 tato, 2 razorgrain, 1 carrot, 1 gourd. (Melons aren’t involved in recipes, but eating 2 melons removes both 1 level each of hydration and hunger.) Once you’ve got a stock of carrots and gourds in inventory, switch them to 1 corn, 1 tato. Do this, and you can make all the recipes. Especially Vegetable Starch ( adhesive), and Noodle Soup (removes 1 level of hydration, and, combined with cooked meat like mutt chops, removes hunger. ) The extra mutfruit is used to remove hunger, when combined with cooked meat. Mutfruit gives the lowest rads, and is .1 units weight. Some of the expensive cooked meats remove an entire hunger level. But you’ll need to combine most meat with one small thing, like mutfruit, gum, squirrel on a stick. You can find vegetables on settlers, settlements, dead enemies, as loot, in shops, and rarely in the environment. Adhesive is super important, and definitely the throttle on making stuff.

Hey quill here's a tip, if you want a better pip boy light and the whit color doesn't suits you, you can change it to yellow, GOOD LIGHTING AND GOOD PIP BOY VISIBILITY

Idk wtf all y'all are talking about. plenty of duct tape all over the damn place

'Cogsworth'... Oh my god.

Also I noticed yesterday you can shoot the fusion cores out of the suit, they explode damaging the armor and injuring the wearer and prevent use until a replacement core is inserted, ideal if you've set yourself up as a long ranged stealth build/don't want your companion to throw a hissy fit about you pick pocketing.

if your pickpocketing fusion cores to disable power armor then you might as well add a handgranade to their inventory so they explode after leaving the armor :p Instant kill by pickpocketing :p

About Power Armor: You can also snipe the power core to get them out of the power armor. Wait for them to be facing away from you, then either snipe or use VATS and pop the power core. When it's destroyed, it will pop out and explode, allowing you to snipe the user (before they climb back in), and you have a new power armor frame

It's 2021, I've had this game for 4 years and I still can't figure it out. I really can't seem to nail this game's mechanics and I'm always dying I've not even past the 3rd level. I feel like Fallout 4 is made for those that were great and very familiar with the last 2 games. If you're a beginning, Fallout 4's learning curve is quite insane.

Action points in VATS are effected by the sight that you are using on the gun, your overall agility stat, legendary effects related to VATS, and perks. Your scoped rifle/pipe submachine gun gets fewer actions than your tactical sight.

5 Endruance for Aqualad/Aquagal Perk. The ability is not spectacular but being able to breathe underwater and not taking any rad damage from water is super great in some of the areas. 6 Charisma for the Local Leader Perk. Apparently if you do any of the base building stuff, it's basically 100% essential. Also note those weapon mods all have weight so be sure to put them back into the workshop after you take them apart. The game has no "Karma" system, but different companions will respect your choices differently. So if you go without a companion (or just Dogmeat) feel free to steal and be a big jerk. When you disarm a trap, don't forget to also disarm it's device as well. That is if you spot a tripwire and cut it look for the device it was meant to set off and you can disarm that as well for loot and points Cook food all the time. Cooked food has no rad damage (in fact some can take away rads) and healing is different in this game as limb damage can be corrected by resting or using various healing items.

A tip for getting fusion cores. Get yourself the Automatron DLC. This also adds many robot enemies to the world, each of them has a chance to drop cores. if you don't have it, then hunt Sentry Bots. Each Sentry Bot drops at least 2 fusion cores (and more sometimes) But they are strong, so be careful.

By far best tip was i can use E as Enter.

Not sure if it’s been mentioned but if you drop your scrap on the floor and scrap it helps increase the build limit of you settlement.

Trading with dog meat is the most useful thing i ever found out

Can you inhale asbestos?

A friend and I literally used the drop-and-scrap method for like 3 real days until I randomly saw the option in the workbench lol. There were a lot of cool little tips here. Great job and thank you.

24:20 No they have a certain radius. It won't power the whole building. The lamp was just outside the radius, or it was broken. You have to loop the wall mounts around the building.

Fusion Core tip: (not sure if this is a commonly known fact, but whatever.) If you're lucky enough, and your game glitches out on you, one of the BoS Knights at the Boston Airport will stand with his back too close to a trash can, and won't get out of his power armor, no matter what. The nice part is that whenever you steal a fusion core from him, he can't exit the power armor, so he just gets another full fusion core, and you can take it again. I exploited this cheat, and got 25 fusion cores in less than a minute.( Be sure to save every 5 cores or so, in case they catch you and start shooting.) So, if you don't care for the BoS, or have Dogmeat as a companion, you can use this cheat to get unlimited fusion cores with no repercussions.

If your settler gets in your power Armour you can actually initiate dialog with them and tell them to get out...

This is a great starting guide! I'm 10 hours in on my first ever playthrough (!!!) and this was still extremely helpful.

The reason for the lone wanderer thing is, he was originally able to come with you, along with other companions, but was removed upon release due to complications. If you care for modded runs, there's a mod that re-enables this.

If you use a weapons or armor bench outside of a settlement, be sure to check the inventory of the workshop when you're done. Any spare materials from junk you break down in the process of modding will be stored in the workshop's inventory. It's like what he mentioned with the alarm clock, using it for just nuclear material ( 19:50 ) and the other components enter the workshop. Except if you're out in the wilderness, it stays in THAT bench's inventory, which isn't very helpful. (Yes I know I'm just a little late on this vid and this has probably been mentioned somewhere else in the comments lol but there's a lot of them)

I admit it, it took me forever to figure out you can hold right click and scroll through the perks. I think its a bad design because it's not too intuitive. All they needed to do was add a scroll bar on the right.

You can also have your turrets and other electronics float in mid air by storing the floor they're on back into the workshop. Store the floor and the item floats where it was put.

I actually searched for this 5 years later idky I just felt like playing again

I wasn't too thrilled, at first, about the *'Fallout 3/New Vegas - Fallout 4'* Changes. They certainly took some getting used to. But now, a couple days in, at level 17, I'm loving it all. Especially the building communities thing. Love it!

Reload was in previous fallouts.. Light with TAB was in previous fallouts..

I am so glad I watched this video! I’ve played fallout on and off for a while but recently started getting into the game more and everything you can do within. A lot of tips I did NOT know I could do!

Another tip regarding perk points, so as with any game that has an upgrade tree, I was very frugal and intentional with my perk points spending a couple minutes each time reading through and planning out while in the perk page but according to Google (which is ~70/30 average accuracy lol) the max level in fallout 4 is like 3.6k and it is actually unlimited but is reported to glitch around that level 3600 mark so spend your points willynilly! just get what you want when you want because there are always going to be more points around the corner!!

Thankyou so much quill! Its nice to see someone not doing a let's play of this :P I don't want to watch other people play Fallout 4 until I'm finished, what I want is helpful stuff like this. And Mods. Always Mods. Need Mods. Gib.

Put a bell in every settlement so you can call all your peeps and assign them.

I've put over 4 days of playing time and just now found out about the thing where settlers can get in power armor if you leave the fusion core in. Insane.

Another tip. If you drop all your junk on the ground to scrap it, it increases the number of settlers people can have in that settlement

Never knew the supply lines.Also you can recharge your empty fusion cores from the places you pick them out from. Another one is that there is a cover system that works if you stand close to the side of the building at a corner and you scope in.

Hey quill, fusion cores count as ammunition so you can get them from ammo boxes at a rare chance, so, you can get the scrounger perk and find them more often.

on my fifth playthrough & just learned to sell mostly drained fusion cores 🤔ya learn something new every day! thank you, very helpful video!

You can scrap certain items outside your settlement by picking them up and dropping them in your settlement boundary. Small tires, tricycles, safety cones, safety barriers, shopping carts, oxygen bottles, trash cans/lids, barrels w/o tops can be picked up and dropped in your settlement to scrap. It's kind of tricky at first, but you'll get used to it. And it can be anywhere in the world, just carry it to the nearest settlement. You get mostly steel, but rubber is plentiful too, and some wood and plastic.

the power connector on thge house you put on doest power the whole house it has a radius

As far as I can see you yourself learned a few things by doing this video. :D Nice one anyways. Good job and thanks. A little addition. Supply line connects all the junk, all ingredients like flowers and stuff, all raw food and all water. Basically anything that is already build will remain only in your current workshop. As far as I know this includes weapons, armors, chems, cooked food, any piece (wall or door for example) you store in your workshop, also misc items if you store them there. Oh and ammo. Note that settlers get their food portions directly out of the workshop storage. This means that once per day they will want to eat one food and drink one water. If you connect your settlements with supply lines, they will share all the food and water. This means that one settlement may produce tons of food and feed all the others. Same with water. This is quite neat because a settlement with a lot of land can become farming town, a settlement with a river can become water producing town and more central settlements can be commercial places with stores, bars and what not. Also if you are playing survival its vital to build a few hospitals here and there because illnesses, crippled limbs and radiation are the things that will end you very quickly.

well quill, thanks again. Thanks to your amazing tutorials, I was able to get into ck2 and hoi4. Now thanks to you im about to get into fallout 4. You deserve all the views you get. Great work.

In terms of AP use of a weapon in VATS it depends on what weapon type it is such that an assault rife will use less ap that a sniper that's why when you had the hunting rife with the reflex sight you could get 5 shots but the second you put any scope on it becomes a sniper so could only get 2 hence why when you scoped the pipe rifle it thought it was a sniper so increased its AP usage if you put a reflex sight on the pipe weapon you would get around 6 shots in VATS, obviously weight plays a big part as well as you proved by increasing the weight by as little as 1 you lost a shot in VATS.

Hello, probably a lot of people pointed it out but the difference between the vat points is because one is considered a rifle and another a handgun(you can change this in some weapons when you mod the handle) I realize this after I got the gunslinger perk. Cheers :)

How in the world do you manage to mispronounce ad-HEE-siv...

One wee tip that I've done in both my 2nd & 3rd playthroughs, & that's once I'm about Level 10, & have a reasonable sniper rifle, I head on down to Big Jim's Scrapyard to get ahold of the awesomely fun Railway Rifle. It deals 100 damage, & once you slap a long-range sight & long barrel on it, it's a great early sniper (at least until I had Gun Nut Level 4 to improve the damage on my standard sniper, that is...). The Railway Rifle's well-hifden in an overturned blue boxcar, which you need to power up to open, but there's another walk-through vid on RU-vid that shows you how to do that. Trust me, as an early overpowered gun, it's well worth it (just so long as you have the patience to sneak-snipe the horde of Super-mutants holed up in the yard as well, of course! LoLoLoL). Cheers, & enjoy! (Oh, p s: Railway spikes ammo is hard to get, but both Arturo & Myrna at Diamobd City & the traders at Good Neighbor sell them - not many at a time, but you don't need many with this one-or-two-shot gun. Plus, the "toot-toot" train sound the Rifle warns the cockles of my merciless wee heart! And often, you get the chance to pluck the spike out of corpses, presumably if they're undamaged? I'm just guessing that appears to be the reason why that sometimes occurs).

When it comes to customizing gear, each part has an action point value, or how many AP it uses in vats. Also, some weapons are meant for "run and gun" while others are meant for sniping. Example: a short hunting rifle with reflex sight and a .38 receiver will get 4 or 5 shots in vats, but be short ranged, inaccurate, and weak; the same rifle with a long light barrel, marksman stock, large scope, and a .50 receiver will only fire 2 or 3 times in vats, but will have awesome range, be very accurate, and deal around 100 damage per shot. Which you use depends on the situation and the opponent.