Hangman's Alley is one of the best settlements in survival. It's pretty central on the map (you gotta plan your routes in Survival). It's Close to Diamond City to shop for resources. It's close to the CIT ruins (the singular exit point for the Institute transporter) and it can easily be built in layers on top of each other (with the Wasteland Workshop DLC, I believe).
I built 3 floors for this settlement. First is mostly turrets, robots tending to plants, guarding Sentrybots, and shopping stores. Second floor is beds. The last one on top is 3 pieces of artillery. Instant heavy fire support with good coverage.
Oberland station too, not sure if it still works, but you can glitch a weapon workbench into the bottom room of the tower, and by interacting with a bench, you can glitch into there, making it a pretty good option
Sanctuary was my main base even after I retook the Castle. I built a laboratory full of Institute loot for Curie, a bank full of gold bars for Macready, a power armor museum for Danse, a well-stocked armory for Preston, a milk vending machine for Strong, and lots of drink stands for Cait
Jamaica Plain wayyyyyyyyyyyy too high imo. Outside of vanilla Coastal Cottage and Murkwater, every other base game settlement is far easier to build at and manage. It's also the game's biggest missed opportunity, as it should be a town the size of Sanctuary -- complete with diner, church and town hall. Instead, here's one ruined building and a one-third of a street.
I agree about the missed opportunity. However, most seem upset with the difficulty of build there. If everything in the game was easy, this would be a game for 6 year old kids. I build for 20 settlers, but not a highly decorated palace. The biggest problem I have there is I cannot give all settlers beds. Some have to sleep nuts to butts in bedrolls.
Croup Manor: If you place a floor tile in the corner of the lower roof, you can from there build to perfect dimensions all the way up, incorporating the building, including the taller floor above, in to the ground floors of a massive tower. Use warehouse or barn walls, to get the height right. No rug or pillar glitches required.
It sucks you can't make West Everettes Estates an extension of Taffington Boathouse, being able to build a bridge to connect the two would make it an awesome settlement
Bro, I was so upset when I saw what was basically a mini Sanctuary Hills across from one of the most mid settlements. Mid for me at least Felt like I got the bargain brand steak when I could have had sirloin lol
im pretty sure one of the mods i have allows that or at least makes it pretty dam close to both being joined but with over 60 plus settlement mods that expand and add new ones i have no idea which one allows them to be considered one settlement
I preferred fixing up the SS' old home and keeping it as my home. Even added the fast travel rug right at the front door like you would a real one, and turned the small garage into a crafting station area, complete with my personal suit of PA instead of the car.
In my first playthrough it was my home but in my second playthrough, my home is just one room in The Castle. In my second playthrough red rocket is just an abounded tato farm. (There is people there but they don’t have enough food or water and they spend all day harvesting tatos for me to steal and sell.
I'm less concerned with build height than with maximum size. It's maddening doing all the work of building a structure only to find you've run out of space to decorate.
To remove the build limit drop guns on the ground then use the workshop/build mode to store them in the workshop, repeat that till the limit is empty and then take your guns back. You can only successfully do that 2-3 times before frame rates drop.
Your placement of Hangman's Alley has angered *_many_* Survival Mode players 😅. _Even without that I find the Alley my favourite as I always do my best to turn it into a Blackmarket Street Vendor Centre in my playthrough._
I play on survival exclusively. All my routes are planned, and I think of the map in 6 areas, each with a major settlement with traders and the like. Sanctuary is great for building, but I rarely go there, I make it into a major farm to set up vegetable starch farming and forget it exists the majority of the time. My main ones are starlight drive-in, the slog, county crossing, hangmans alley, the castle, and one in the southwest for the glowing sea. If I had to pick one, it would honestly be county crossing. It's close to Bunker Hill for supplies and a good jumping off spot for exploring, and it's pretty safe once you send the robot to the satellite array from the disposal ground from near sanctuary. If you follow it, it should agro everything and make any fights easier to clear the way. Hangmans alley takes a close second. The castle is fun to build at and is awesome overall, but it's an absolute pain to get there. There's always something around the corners of every building on the way there.
32:12 ... I understand not everybody knows the difference between a lobster and a hermit crab... but there literally is a giant RED NAME over his head ^^;
The only nice thing about coastal cottage is the proximity to the fish packing plant…but again, you could just fast travel to the plant instead of the cottage. Context: really, REALLY, nice source of aluminum.
Murkwater Construction inexplicably turned out to be one of my favourite builds. Atom Cats inspired garage surrounding the workbench, stilted apartments for the settlers, a fish market overrun with cats, an open air market and bar where I went nuts with neon and x-mas lights giving it kind of a bayou nightlife vibe. Razorgrain crops blend in nicely with the swamp grass. I wouldn't live there IRL but it looks cool and my settlers are happy. Probably because of all the cats.
I like to keep Abernathy farm independent for a while, Lucy buys melons for 5 caps. Good easy money at the start of a playthrough. As far as Hangmans Alley and Home Plate go, I steal the key to Kelloggs house for a free place to sleep.
Rear carpark thing after you delete the back wall is flat and defendable with it easily being able to have mortars if your thinking of messing up diamond city. Stop using the parts in between the shacks already there and it’s a good settlement that is in the ideal location to either rain down hell on Boston or as a simple storage place close to everything
One thing I love about the Mechanist's Lair is the potential for it to be a hub for all your supply lines if you want to use robots for that and have them base at the lair. They don't need food, water, defenses, anything. Yeah, it is kind of a boring way to do it but it keeps all your provisioners in one spot effectively, attacks are generally rare and it is always good as a hub spot for that since making it into a proper settlement can be a bit of a pain.
Also no rad storms there, fast travel if your difficulty allows it. the top sections are easily floored and walled to make very cosy rooms too. As a main home it rocks!
Hangmans Alley is a fantastic settlement, especially with Spring Cleaning letting you remove the 1st floor shacks. It has enough dirt even without Spring Cleaning to provide 200+ water and 30+ food, more than enough, you can build 4 stories if you are clever, very close to DC, you can jump out of it onto the roofs of Boston, etc.
So many places have so much potential but the vanilla game just don't allow you to make smth out of it. There is still a mod in which allows you to build a lot of vanilla structures which I love. Now I got a lot more options to build and close gaps between building that can't be destroyed
Every settlement has it’s pros and cons. It’s how they’re utilized and developed that counts. But they need to be a decent size, if you want it fully populated. Hangman’s Alley can never properly accommodate 20 settlers. It’s to small. So, it’s a pit stop for the player. Personally I think Starlight Drive-In has the biggest potential. Edit. If you’re worried about turrets, build scaffolding for multiple story platforms for turrets. I usually bother with two story height, so basically three turrets (gates/unwalled sections of the perimeter) or two turrets protected by walls.
You can get more than 20 settlers in Hangman's Alley, but you shouldn't. Settlers don't do multi level settlements well and end up clustered into a corner. It's still my favourite and always my player home.
@@somebloke3869 Hangman's Alley is the only settlement I do not build to accommodate 20 settlers. I can do it, but I don't like the settlement if I do.
@@edmartin875 yeah, it gets crowded quickly and the settlers get stuck. Normally I'll just have a few companions farming, with Sheffield on the artillery.
I usually take over the cabbot house after they’re dead. It’s a nice house and settlers can’t steal your weapons you store there. Put power armour in mechanist lair so they can’t get to that either so can simply leave fusion cells in them for easy access
I use oberland station as my personal home, because of location, next to diamond city and starlight drive taffington boat house is great because it has bunker hill, starlight drive. Short walk to the river offers a great cityscape view
Ironically, while I don't disagree with the settlement placements on the list, I laugh at the reasons they were placed so low (the non-creation club stuff at least). I've spent so much time and effort on settlements, I've actually learned to work around the weaknesses of the lower settlements. Hell, Croup Manor and Coastal Cottage heavily increased my understanding and versatility of the settlement system. I wouldn't be able to build Starlight Drive-In as elaborately as I do if not for spending hours building Coastal Cottage to a thriving 20 person settlement with houses, food, waters and defenses without mods.
There's mods that will allow you to scrap everything including existing buildings or repair broken walls on existing buildings. I find it's better & more satisfying than having to work with the frustrating vanilla system.
@@bhart3321The commenter: I've learned how to build without mods You: ThErE aRe MoDs ThAt ArR bEtTeR Like dude, let people have fun and enjoy working with the vanilla game's intentional (and unintentional) mechanics. No need to shout about how mods are superior all the time, we get it.
@@Tijuanabill You do remember it was like a year or more before mods came to console, don't you? Don't get me wrong STS is one of my absolute favorite mods and one that's on almost all of my mods lists, but I still had a long, LONG time to learn the settlement system without mods.
@@MandalorianRevan I'm not saying you can't fall in love with building, without mods. That's true of most of us. I'm saying you can't BOTH love building, and resist the urge to delete trash piles. If we are all being honest, the real issue here is not flagging trash piles for scrapping, is among the worst decisions Bethesda ever made, in the history of their company. It's not hugely impactful, but it's just fantastically stupid, and the chance that the decision was made by someone really smart, is slim.
I always make taffington a brotherhood outpost, if any ghoul settlers show up I send them to the slog. Don’t ask me how to get all the uniforms and bomber jackets though…
@@FuriousMaximum to each their own. I like covenant as a trading post, all maxed stores and free lemonade each visit for doughnuts. Taffington could be used the same, if you build a platform over the water and. Build a mall beside the main building. I just rather have guys in power armor, BOS uniforms and armor, and give them all Gatling lasers and automatic laser rifles. If you put up enclave turrets, it makes for quite the light show 😁
@@IamHomelander I mean, my Covenant has "Covenant Commissary" and "Covenant Cooking Corner" and Taffington has "Taffington Thrift Shop" and a diner I forgot to name. They're both good settlements.
At oberland I built a settlement with a bar shops and trader stop next to the tracks, traders and provisioners walk the tracks like it's a road anyway. I had two provisioners and a crew of minute men go buy just the other day. Named the bar "not so soberland station "
Every non-MM game I do I refuse to do their quest. Lucy gives 5 caps a melon but stops once they become a settlement. Even on MM runs I hold off on theirs as long as possible
@@toakongu1 even in the early game, it's not much of a money-maker. Far better to take a settlement with no starter NPCs and load it up with water pumps (Red Rocket is a perfect initial location, and then I use other settlements that are a pain to build up like Coastal Cottage and Murkwater Construction Site) and come by every few days and collect purified water to sell to the different merchants. It's best to use settlements that don't already come with settlers because there will be no attacks on uninhabited settlements. I tend to have my "999 water" settlements double as my personal residences. Just a lot less hassle all around.
@@geraldlamb9587 totally agree it's not a long term strategy if you're just relying on the ones they have. But if you set up a proper melon farm it could be done. Ideally you'd want 1 settler working a crop of tatos and the rest farming melons to maximize profits. Settlers are programmed to consume tatos before any other food item in a settlement, so that prevents them eating the melons. All the farmable produce, minus mutfruit, have to be planted in batches of 12 for max of 6 food units per settler. So 12 settlers, 1 on tatos to provide separate food source for them and the other 11 on melons for the empire. 11 workers x 12 melons = roughly 130 melons produced each cycle. Assuming you pass the speech check to get 5 caps per melon, that's 5 caps x 130 melons = 580 caps. Thats more caps than most actual merchants have at any point. In all seriousness it's not a viable strategy, but it would be damn funny to see somebody pull it off and fund the Minutemen through melon sales alone.
looks like its from that mod Sam describes later, or some other mod. I've tried **so much** to place those specific lights on many Vault ceiling pieces but it just wouldn't work, they'd always hover above it and it irked me. Vault 88 was what ultimately made me download the building mods that let you toggle snapping on and off.
Excellent video. I love the settlement building part of FO4. I wish the latest update had added improved default settlement scrapping or a creation club scrapping option. I started with a base game scrapping mod but found it affected floor collision in some settlements. The Castle is the worst where rugs can not even be placed. The Boathouse and Sommerville Place allow rugs to be placed and then furniture will be able to be placed. I disabled the mod and now all the floors have proper collision, but now all of the scrapped junk has returned. Thankfully that did not mess up the game. Also my flat roof installed at the Boathouse remains after the scrapped roof returned. I'm gonna try some other scrapping mods after I download Far Harbor and Nuka World.
I installed hte scrap everything mod so I can put a better potential for settlement building and I have to say that despite trying several locations, there's no place like home. Sanctuary Hills remains as my permanent base of operations, keeping two companion lovers living there with me (I'm using a female "Nora" called Ryoko) and demolished my old house and created a gorgeous modern two story house with stylish furniture and amenities and the second floor, a full terraced bedroom with bathroom, hacking terminal, TV, fully functional decontamination shower, curtain draped and gigantic windows facing the Commonwealth. I've never been so proud of a home. In town I built an arcade with Nukacade games, arcade machines, jukeboxes and slots, a small mini mall where all my high end shops are stationed, an infirmary with spare beds with functional doctor and pharmacy and, of course, the vault styled gym, which most my inhabitants spend the time exercising before grabbing a drink and heading to bed. I'm proud of my Sancturay Hills community. 💜💜🖤🖤
With some creation club item (the red white checkered upper floors with a roof underneath, the pillar glitch and a bit of self centered sadism it's possible to create awesome buildings in every corner of the Commonwealth. I even build a giant Cat Robot at Boston Airport.
In Easy City Downs, by the main building, there is a interior location shed (not the one w/ destroyed robots). In that shed is a workbench, and you can make it a decent player home. You do have to clear raiders, so it's kinda inconvenient, but it's near Boston location might make up for it.
A lot has to do with what you like. I love trying to rebuild the settlements. The Castle is fun. Fixing the walls is always fun. I keep the center open with the crops on the walls. I put the artillery back in the corners. The halls in the walls I turn into small rooms, bathrooms and showers, and stores. The large room with the sinks I run into a cafeteria style dining area. I keep the captains chambers as mine. The end one is a barracks. The room on the far end is for power. The armory becomes the weapon shop for Ronnie and the room behind her then houses all the workstations and storage. I put turrets above the radio station. I put extra turrets on the wall above the two ways to approach the Castle. I run a lot visual mods including a lot for settlement building so I can repair a lot of the typical houses in Fallout 4. It is like putting together a puzzle. You can not do much with ones like Sanctuary as the build is one asset, the foundation is another, and a roof is another and it is a pain to fix them. There are mods out there to fix the homes. I did find one that still has them rusted a bit but all the holes are patched as well as the roof. I do not like the look of the roof or the flooring. I do not like the ones I have to either start from scratch or what is there is just shacks or ruins. Sadly even with the mods I have to pretty much rebuild some because you can not snap anything to what is there... or even place things on them. This makes them MUCH harder to rebuild. I still try though. Covenant is a tough one because it is so small and if you put a beacon down there will soon be too many people to fit everybody. I put the power and water behind the building and run the power lines underground by putting a conduit on the edge of the foundation and glitching the wire to it so it is hidden. I then replace the turrets with the same type of wall mount and turret. One of the mods allows the larger beds to sleep 2 and the bunk beds to work (but you have to replace them with a mod one that looks the same), but that is not enough so I put a sleeping bag under every bed and a set of bunk beds in the little jail room. That leaves no bathrooms so I put outhouses outside the walls. The mod lets me place mats for guards to be assigned to so I can have guards outside the wall. Jamaica Plains is a fun one to rebuild as it is two types of building combined, wood and brick and I have mods that let me fix both. The tiffany Boat house and the one with the light house need to be completely replaced so I do it one section at a time to make sure it is identical. The lighthouse really bugs me because it is the roof. I can delete the damaged roof, but I can not get the new roof to place on it. I could install a place anywhere mod, but it does not work because of conflicts with some other mods I have. The Lumbermill in Far Harbor is a fun one to rebuild. It is a big place though and oddly shaped so it can be a pain to fix without just replacing whole sections. Plus some parts can not be deleted and get in the way. I wish I could do mods as I want to see a whole bunch of stuff, like children, mothers carrying babies in front packs while working, grandparents sitting in rocking chairs or playing checkers on the front porch... Maybe properly done seasons and the happiness be effected by homes with heating, kitchens, bathrooms... Maybe get one of the train lines working. That would be so cool to have a train slowly ride around the city.
What a fantastic informative video. Thank you very much. Your ladder trick, I used about a month ago. I use the ladder built into a floor space square. I love building in F4. The Starlight settlement is being built now. I will be releasing a video once I have built the North West Minutemen HQ.
The thing I hate about covenant is the fact that you can’t scrap any of the beds like I’m trying to make a base but most of the space is taken up the god damn bunk beds
In the nuka world red rocket settlement, you can build robots to farm, as far as i know, they dont affect raider happiness! (did have a few issues with the raiders attacking the robots, but since they dont die, they just return to work when they wake up).
Most of the lower tier settlements are good artilerry spots.Low tiers are generally dangerous on your list but it helps kill the danger with high precision artilerry.
heavent played fallout 4 in ages, but the noir penthouse really got that cyberpunk/art deco feeling i really love. its a nice home for solo relaxation, or to bring your loved one to impress them.
Wait, Vault 88 snaps lightning? I thought for sure that doesn't happen. It's one of the reasons I just grabbed a Bright Light mod and just used the basic light because it was the most affected to said mod and I simply got tired of fixing dark spots.
Covenant is also a great place to stock up on supplies without putting yourself at any undo risk in survival. From the Mystic Pines you can either walk around or swim across the river to reach the settlement and, if you're so inclined, obtain the Destroyer's Helmet and Justice combat shotgun. Otherwise its a great trading post for ammo early on
Scrap Anything and Place Anywhere are required to turn Vault 88 into a Mega Gem, just be very carful as to not remove cave floors. Here you can remove all the stuff in the Train Tunnels to include the added railroad tracks. You can also remove certain walls that allow access to other parts of the underground but, again, be carful because it's easy to remove game limit walls too which expose the dreaded White Light of Death... Remember to grab and item, cave wall or rock or machinery, and make sure you can first move it, then scrap it while it's in your grasp. This is the safest way to scrap without removing game limitations and whatnot. Also you can easily link the entire area, as you wanted to in this video, via the Vault Tech Workshop items and have it all match. If you do it right you can get double tunnels in the train tunnels to link the different areas. I start at the very beginning and attach the Atrium Door to the original door. Even with Remove Everything certain Vault 88 items are not removable. You can also remove all the Metal Structures too in order to reclaim a shit ton of metal and free up a shit ton of space. The main area is huge simply going up 5 or 6 levels and you'd not ever fill it regardless of what you do. You can section off the 3 tunnel dead ends with a door and put planters down to grow in that area because there's not much else you can do once you remove all the excess railroad items. Again, be careful removing the railroad flooring, especially near the connecting areas, as they lead to white light. If you don't know what white light is, you will find out when you delete the wrong thing. Make sure to first grab it and if you see the white light, every sink it downward or let it go. I've spent weeks just in vault 88 building and I'm here to say have yet to scratch the surface of it's true potential. Vault 88 RULES....
I love Sanctuary Hill and Spectacle Island so much that i spend most of the time building those two into the best place in Commonwealth that make Diamond "City" look like a little green slump.
Hangman's Alley is basically the best and the most logical one. It has very narrow and only two entrance points - making them easily defendable. It is surrounded by houses which make a natural wall of defense AND can be used as housing. Also, it serves as a nice entry-way to Diamond city, which would make it a perfect (cheaper) stop for many roaming vendors/travelers/mercenaries.
I do like Murkwater, it's nice having a large settlement down there and I like making a boardwalk style settlement there. I also like bringing the higher level monsters around the area for the settlers to fight.
I fixed the hole at costal cottage by using the group placement glitch to put a round metal shack into it, and from there it became a little bunker/ strong room 😁😃😃
I like making it in to Sheffield's Salvage, a huge junkyard. Placing all the junk was a unique challenge and it was fun finding all the weird stuff in the menus, since I use mods.
Glad Greygarden got a top 10 spot, one of my favorite spots for sure. It has an issue where the water drops back to 3 after its first attack, but it's not too big an issue to enjoy building and living there.
The worst settlement possible, for me, is *the Mechanist's Lair...* if you can EVEN call it a "settlement". No food or water allowed and confined inside a small (even if tall) room. And unlike Vault 88 and your room in Diamond City, you have to use the fast travel to get in and out, because it would take forever, by walking. If you think that *Hangman Alley* deserve to be one of the top "worst", then consider that is basically the same as *the Mechanist's Lair,* with the little difference that is has food, water, many "loading free" accesses and SUNLIGHT. (you can also reach the roofs easily and get in and out from the Super Mutants building nearby). And it's next to Diamond City, defended by the guards, instead of in the middle of nothing.
It's a player home, that you can use to build a supply hub to a lot of your other settlements. I usually have Red Rocket supplying my settlements north of the river, with hoverbots or Robobrains. ML supplies Red Rocket, Longfellows, and anything south of the river with SENTRY BOTS OF DOOM! Red Rocket is where I make my home until I complete Automatron, then send my companions and gear to ML via Vertibird transport.
Common practice for mechanists lair is to make one robot for each settlement you do anything with, set them as a supply line to that settlement. The lair becomes a supply hub with no concern for happiness, and that won't send you on any radiant quests.
I actually love croup manor, you can repair it pretty damn well, and if you use it more like a player home than a settlement, you can make it pretty cozy. The walls can be a pain in the ass to "repair", but I love it, the patchwork look after you're done, and if you did it good, feels really in the fallout theme. You can even build turrets on the roof, and because brotherhood vertibird patrols come close, you can have a free AA platform that looks sick as fuck while taking out the vertibirds. To be fair, I am also very slanted towards all of the singular dilapidated home settlements, I love the challenge of trying to repair
I have to disagree about home plate, whilst hangman’s alley is good to get early on having somewhere that’s customisable to your liking where you don’t have to worry about things going missing is a huge huge advantage and ends up paying for itself. Once you’ve set up base there you can begin funneling resources to hangman’s alley and set up supply chains. Plus all you have to do is a couple of quests for danse to get access to vertibird drops so if you’re on survival all you have to do is get picked up or dropped off at fens street sewer and then it’s a 10 second walk. And for people saying no water pump in diamond city, if you have the vault dlc you can build water fountains where you can drink and fill bottles from. Using them you can also do it at two to three times the speed of a water pump.
Croup manor is one of my favorite settlements in my current playthrough its my main base you can easily restore it with the floor mat/ pillar glitch and build a nice market around the statue in the middle
I've recently started using Scrap Everything and I'm here to say, it's a game changer. Be very careful because you can scrap things like Cave Floors which will cause a crash and force you to your last save; so save often using it. I've gotten used to it and learned not to scrap certain things as Cave Floors and Pillars. It also allows you to move things, such as huge rocks and various items, to patch holes or simply open up certain things that normally you won't have access to such as the few closed off houses you mentioned. Simply remove a door and you're in... I also use Place Anywhere as these two mods really change the game. In short, remember to grab the item first, via place anywhere, then if you don't see a white light, then it's ok to move or scrap. If you see a white light, and scrap that piece, just know death is imminent LOL... Enjoy....
mechanic's lair is the best place to build a player base imo; it doesn't get raided, and it has so many space that you can build decoration for your unique weapons and power armors. and it is really easy to crave out some nice room for yourself with some concrete building parts. in anyway definingly top 3 base for me
My top 5 settlements in Survival/Permadeath-Mode were: 1. Home Plate, I just stored all my stuff in there and used the workshops in Dimond City itself. Its central its safe and you can use the shops Thus I dind had much charisma in my build I never could make a supply-line 2.Oberland Station, central, near to Dimond City (hated hangmans Alley, never trusted that the vertibird would land there...^^"), save no risks or strange encounters. 3.County Crossing, also very central and good to reach from bunker hill, good for a safespot befor going further east. also relativly safe. Used it also for getting some quality sleep when visiting the railroad. 4.Taffington Boathouse, It was one of my best settlements in my first survival playthrough, send lots of settlers there and built a lot there, also used the house itself a lot for everything. nice little home^^ 5.Starlight-Drive-Inn, huge Place, build my home inside the screen-rooms. Best you dont claim it till you get the quest from the Railroad, becuase its an easy Settlement to get. I also build my Robo-station there and the thingy to get to the institute.
I don't know what it was that attracted me to it but my last play through i resided a lot between wondering the commonwealth at oberland station, perfect for me at the time but this was only because i had not explored the map fully, i used as a trading post being as pretty central, great place that can defend itself with proper defences without much if any help from yourself, as every time it was attacked, by the time i arrived all enemies were dealt with, especially with the high chainlink fence around the settlement, obviously there are better settlements but when you don't use fast travel it's nice to find a safe place to trade, rest up & dump supplies.
I built a huge settlement in Hangman's Ally using Vault Tech Workshop Stuff, it worked out great. I think I got 4 levels if not 5, I forget now as it was months ago. The Vault Tech Workshop DLC is wonderful for the added building items alone.
SAM!!! I am begging you please make a video about your PC specs and what mods you use to get your Fallout 4 to look and perform THIS GOOD!!! PLEEEEAAASEEE
If you are using any settlement building mods (like ss2), you can only build at 2 of 3 of Sanctuary, Red Rocket, and Abernathy. Doing 3 of 3 results in the triangle of death
In Survival, Murkwater is the best. You want an HQ in by far the highest level content area in non-DLCs. It also has water for purifiers to get that steady supply of water. Hangman is great for early-mid levels, but becomes pointless late game when nothing in those areas can really harm you. Great just as a junk dump if anything with local leader perk.
42. Download Scrap Everything, Place Everywhere and BYOP. Scrap all structure including around the hole. Then enjoy a nice area for your personal home with a pool
For Jamaica Plains, you only need to kill the ghouls on the 2nd floor of the Town Hall. There is 3 of them guarding a corpse with a full set of lvl'd combat armor sans helmet. Kill them and , even with every other ghoul alive, you can claim the settlement. This is bc each settlement where you have to clear enemies marks a small number of them as "Primary targets." Similar to how Knight Rhys' Cleansing the Commonwealth radiant quests go by picking a location and then marking an enemy as the "boss" or "primary target"
I don't consider Hangman's Alley as a settlement seeing that it's more of an outpost. Why we have that and Coastal Cottage instead of say West Everett Estate and even Quincy in the vanilla game is beyond me.
I think there's an issue with this video, you included player homes and creation club stuff. I was just expecting dlc and already in the game settlements. Still a solid video thx
those that dont know the mod combo of expanded settlements and SS2 make most of the bad ones better as they expand the area of the settlement and also the height and ss2 allows for better placement of defence points and even with the added enemy camps a line of heavy turrets on that top ridge line will cover the entire area when combined with the SS2 added manned posts
Place a radio recruitment beacon and then settlers should come. The limit can be increased with Charisma points. You can also fast track the process and directly move settlers from other settlements by selecting them in the build menu
you can give Sanactury to the raiders from the start if you just ignore prestons mission and never fully save the group they only travel there if you trigger the second part of the battle with the raiders which only triggers if you talk to them in the building you find them in if you dont then you can build it up as another free settlement and then five it to the raiders and well you have your commonwealth raider town
I use the Boathouse as my endgame "retirement" home. Repair the rooftop, build a new deck, and wall up around my entire settlement. Add a few resources for fun, paintings, and lived-in aesthetics. I keep Dogmeat and Piper around for that family feel. I'm sad there aren't children to find, save, or adopt. Taffington becomes my retirement home after I've rebuilt the Commonwealth and dealt with Synths. War never changes...but where you retire can.
I agree with this video. I have mods for all the crap settlements. Once you get to the fun to build on settlements I do it myself. While my order might be a bit different I play on survival mostly. As others have noted location counts for a lot on survival mode.
What’s the armor at 104:33 ? (It’s probably shown throughout the rest of the video but I had this on in the background and only looked when I had the opportunity)
I know you've moved on from it for the most part but I'd totally love to see a 1.0/1.6 vs 2.1 Cyberpunk comparison video, even tho it's a pita to downgrade to 1.0. I had a old copy on my PC and forgot about all the silly stuff like leveling perks, having to stock up on medical items or how it shifted the power of certain weapons entirely (silenced revolvers) the dogtown area looking entirely different, adam smasher being a limp noodle pre-2.1, hell you couldn't even wheelie on bikes for ages, how armor used to be obtained through clothing and not cyberware - the list goes on. you probably are gonna nail out some sick elden ring content but just tossing this one out there for a dry spell.
