An Introduction to Manufacturing 🏭 Fallout 4 No Mods Shop Class 

respect for anyone that plays with no mods

5 years later and your videos are just as fun and informative. Thank you for everything!

I know I'm 2 years late but thank you so much for this in depth and informative video. Was confused about manufacturing, not anymore!

Most builders flexing = Marvel at my Amazing Complex Factory and despair! Skooled flexing = check out these two chairs i merged together... Pretty neat

I've been playing the same save on Fallout 4 on Xbox with no mods since 2016 on and off and never really got far in the game because I've always been addicted and distracted by the building. Your videos are awesome in 2023 I'm watching them all and using your tips. All I see myself doing is just building more. I appreciate your Channel!

2 years ago a great man made great tutorials... later in the wasteland a wanderer through the Covid mist settles to learn to build! Mucho respecto! This is a channel!!!

This video is not OSHA compliant.

this was soooooo Awesome... thank you... you teach in a very good way. I can understand it … I have dyslexic. and you don't swear. and you sound gentle... thank you again … GREAT VIDEO , KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK....

This was a very useful video. Nice work. Still very relevant in 2024.

So.... I've gone and fallen in love with Fallout4 all over again. To have a big part of the game so confusing and then watch this and realise I can do this... Thanks for the tutorial on this more technical stuff. You've made my gaming experience way more enjoyable

Thank brother. I have been playing this game for years, and never knew ANY of these tricks.

31:45. "That kinda startled me. LOL" You aren't the only one...

51 minute video? Lemme get my popcorn!

My main use for the manufacturing was crafting .44 ammo. Normally the standard vendors would only have a few dozen rounds, and the unlisted vendors like the woman near Fairline Hill Estates still only had 100 shots. With the ammunition plant though I could craft a 1,000 rounds for myself and use that to take on the entire Commonwealth.

When I started your series I was barely able to string together the most rudimentary shack. I can't believe I've made it to your manufacturing and logic gates videos, and that I'm actually following what you're saying now. Too crazy! From kindergarten builder to AP class bonus features......way to go skooled zone. You're a great teacher. And I've been having so much fun in the process😊

i never even knew you could manufacture in fallout 4 or mass produce and this has really blown my mind, thank you for popping up in my recommended and showing me a whole new creative light in fallout 4 that will refresh the fun i will have :)

The fact that you can do these builds so clean with no mods is astonishing! Well done!

I love that it’s years later and I’m still revisiting your videos to help me with settlement building. Thank you very much 🙏

A very BIG THANK YOU Skooled Zone for teaching me how to manufacture items. FALL OUT 4 never ceases to totally amaze me with the things that can be done. I have been playing Fallout 4 for about a year now, but because of your videos, I've been Skooled! Thanks again. I'm very grateful to you for sharing your great knowledge. I'm 55 years old, but it's never too late to learn new tricks. I wish you and your family the very best.

i’ve been playing 4 since it came out (on my birthday:)) and never once did i get into the manufacturing until i was trying to 100% the game. thank you sm for this video bc trying to start with no experience working with that part of the workshop was very daunting but you explain it so well!

The best tutorial on this I've seen yet.

I skip the whole starting container thing. I just put the raw materials directly into manufacturing machinery and then set what I want to build. It goes from there. Granted, its not as cool looking/fun as watching raw materials getting loaded into the builder. It does, on the other hand, save space and speeds things up.

Im taking a deeper play with settlements and this was truly helpful thanks

18 Minutes in and i've already learned so much, Thanks for the Excellent Tutorial!

I use the pressure plates in junction with the various "scave stations" as a means of production regulation so there not running 24/7 which also ads some immersion. Looks like a settler is running the line during the work day. You can also set up another vac hopper to turn on when the line is off to pull the unused stuff back out of the manufacture and back into the container or into the workshop.

I am so late to the party but you sir are the bob ross of settlement building.

I am so happy I came across this video. I’m finally doing a second Playthru and I’ve always wanted to make a Manufacturing settlement! 🤘🏽

Five years later, my second Playthru of the game and I’m barely learning all this stuff thanks to your channel.

I just got Fallout 4 after seeing the modding community videos randomly popping up for me on YT. Then I wanted to learn about the whole conveyor thing, and found this and wow, I know way more than I did before watching it! Thank you!

You are so great at explaining things! I’ve seen so many videos that go to fast or take steps for granted, but you explain everything so well! Thank you! :)

3 years later this videos is still a big help. Great job man

Great great video man. I love the way you explain everything. Been watching you for a while now (since right before you started the NMSC) and you always amaze me with your ideas. Keep up the good work man. I can’t wait to see what else you’re able to figure out

Thank you for showing this, I assumed it just automatically pulled the ingredients from my workshop, I never got far into building my ammunition factory in the castle.

You sir are one of the best builders I've seen on here, and an even better teacher! Love your videos!!

great video, thanks for posting. these are always helpful. the stacking rugs to help prevent placed item drop is a great tip. 👍 edit: thanks for waiting to continue the demonstration for daylight, i find it irritating when someone post's a "how to" at nighttime. usually i can't see what their doing.

You always do such a great job with these subjects. Nicely done, and thanks for your time in doing them.

What a fantastic video, definitely worth staying till the end. Mate, you're a fantastic educator and one of few RU-vidrs I never skip adverts on. Though I've not got the £ to subscribe via Patreon, from what I'm aware you earn more if one doesn't skip the ads.

From what I have seen (tested), each manufacturing line has to be isolated in a closed loop, meaning they must each be powered by their own generator(s) and not connected to another line (if you wish to run multiple lines at a time) or the terminals will be in conflict with one another and won't initialize the option sequence. For those of us who wants functionality over form, I recommend inputting resources straight into the builder and not wasting resources building a vacuum hopper as it takes way too long to carry from container to hopper and into builder.

I looked for so many informative videos of this stuff . 5 years later I want to replay the game... the many videos we all wanted to see. It's really a shame I would've gave you big likes.

Your videos are awesome and very well explained. I love watching them. I've used the ammo plant, noticed it only runs when ur actually AT the settlement. Thank you for another great lesson Paul!🐱🐈

I just picked up this game on steam last weekend, looking forward to fixing up sanctuary. I don't like mods, thanks for these videos. Never knew about the rug and pillar glitches

I like the hypnotic patreon background. You can hook doors up to manufacturing sets like an armoury. Walk in which starts it up, sort a few bits, grab the ammo that the door opening made and go.

This is absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for all of your videos. I'm new to this game and your videos have helped me so much. Appreciate it.

A good design I use (IMO) is to have multiple manufacturing plants drop their output into a single hopper from elevated slopes and belts, and that hopper drops items onto a belt that carries it to a storage unit. Then all my stuff just goes to one place! The big hopper is a pretty useful item for collating everything together. It's finicky to set up, but so satisfying if you pull it off! Great intro, man.

Awesome video dude, I love the little chair-bin idea. The Idiot Savant perk startles me every time.

Wow, this really helped me in my role-playing world. Thanks for the amazing tutorial. Now I just need the signals

I like how you got the direction of the top level belts and fireworks manufacturer wrong, and then sneakily switched them in between cuts.

Took me days of trying before I figured out manufacturing. Thanks for showing this in a way people can easily understand. Keep up the great work!

I like using my hopper to pull stuff straight out of the workshop, using sorters to only pull the items I need into the manufacturers and send the rest to the workshop for another pull-through.

Really good stuff. Thanks for making things simple and clear

A reliable way to make money of manufacturing is to make cloths cos they only cost clothes, cos give a good amount of caps

I have been waiting for this lesson❤

Your voice is perfect for these kinds of videos lol thanks for the tutorial! It was very helpful. Awesome side tips!

It's funny that I just started playing Fallout 4, and I'm watching these helpful videos that are 4-7 years old. :P

Woot! I been waiting for this lesson!

I know these videos are a bit older at this point but I want to let you know that I only just recently got back into fallout and these videos are exceptionally helpful! Thanks!

I hope you see this comment. I am so grateful that you have gotten into manufacturing. I will admit I don't like many videos but I definitely put one on this. And if you want themed settlements manufacturing can make that alot simpler. If you want all the settlers to have the same armor clothes and guns because your looking for that certain feel, the machines can mass produce the same copy of weapon and armor. Can't wait for the next video. Thank you for taking the time to read this and have a great day :)

I know I'm VERY late, but in my experience, supply lines don't connect the inventories of settlements, it just lets them pull from their junk pools for crafting and building. So if you have a settlement you never do manual crafting at, you can put the vaccume hopper on the worshop to allow for fully automatic crafting.

Disappointed that the Ammo Factory doesn't make energy cells or flamer fuel and so on. Just ballistics. Liked and Subscribed.

Hey man, as an fyi you only have to power one machine in the line to supply them all. Took me awhile to figure that out but it's helpful to know. Love the videos BTW! You have some great builds going on. Keep it up!

HOORAY!!! I can wait for more! I always look forward to a new class!

I didn't realize this was released a few weeks ago till I saw the comments, thanks for making these, I'm tryna make an efficient wasteland

Can’t wait to see those reveals!

Great video as always. I messed with the machines a little bit. I am always running low on ammo for the last minute. Just couldn't figure out which containers were to be used. Thanks a million.

Love this series bud!. Great work bro keep em coming.👍

That's crazy cool, has no idea you could do these sorta things in fallout 4. I've been playing like a "simpleton" so to speak. It was kinda fun yet boring. This definitely has my intrigued, I may be dusting off the old Xbox one and building wild settlements 🤘

this was so cool! a terminal is what i was missing. now to make ammo for my fave gun!

Thank you, I was intimidated by this add-on. Its appreciated bro, once again thanks.

This is what many were waiting for good job man, I'm sure some on has said it but the vacuum hopper can also pull straight from the work bench as well. Little note didn't get a chance to watch the whole video at the time of comment because of work so you may have said it later on.

one tip i have for people, set up one settlement for automatrons(since robots hurt happiness as they are locked to 50 happiness) and use automatrons for connecting settlements, that way your not using a valuable settler for caravan work.

Brilliant video. I'm new to Fallout 4. Been playing Fallout since the PS2 days. I love going back to FO3 GotY and New Vegas. However my PoS laptop refused to let me play FO4 even with everything turned down to 0. Finally got a new laptop and I'm on my second playthrough in a month. I did a little building on my first playthrough, but realised I was missing so much when I spotted just how much stuff there is to interact with. My first attempt at manufacturing had my machine spitting out balls all over the lawn. I just left and never went back to it. I knew I would figure it out eventually. Or maybe not. The more I explore the more I have RU-vid and the fallout.fandom wiki open almost constantly on my phone. I stuck around for the tutorial where you tidied and hid all your wiring and I found this to be super cool and really, really helpful. My place looks like a scene out of madmax. I'll definitely be taking a look at some more of your videos as I progress into the world. Thank you.

I have been manufacturing my own ammo on my achievement cleanup run I’ve been doing and it is such a tremendous help keeping myself stocked on ammo.

I just found you and I'm happy I did! I was really confused about the machinery stuff but now I understand it better! The way you explain things makes my ADHD go wHEeEeEeeE (aka you do it very well :D). You are very kind sir, thank you for existing and making my day better.

Paul, i'd love to see you do a wall-clipping restoration video of Croup Manor. it's an excellent site for wall-clipping and makes a great example of how to restore a pre-war building. [edit] i wanted to suggest that armor, clothing, and weapon mills are really good for outfitting your large numbers of settlers if you are going for themed outfits.

stumbled on this video, you’re a well spoken dude keep up the work I wasn’t aware of you but I’m tapping in.

This is so incongruous with blowing Disciples into bloody messes.

Gday! Always go for your vids when I’m lost about this game lol, brilliant video, brilliant explanation, thanks!!

the vacuum hoppers cannot pull items from other settlements out of the workbench, that are connected via a supply line. it would be awesome if that would work (on the one hand to have all items in one place, on the other hand to lower the chances for attacks in the other settlements), but unfortunately it doesn't work.

I’m late as hell but I finally got to download every add on and add mods and update my game ty for your very useful tips I spend time more building then playing the game itself

Every year I come back and see the video

I like this, now I can combine this with the settlement ambush mod and equip all of the defenders with advanced equipment. Such as heavy weapons, heavy combat armor, and plasma grenades.

31:49 I fell out of my chair, that scared the hell outta me LOL

Hold on 10 more visits to diamond city Thanks for the tutorial SUPER HELPFUL

Awesome Job Paul! Love it!

Build a few factories with and without mods (with mod was so i could scrap everything in to its components). Always had a lot of fun building them, figuring out how to wire them so i could sit i my office and control and receive everything.

If you don't want to have to collect redundant junk from the Builder, you could use another vacuum hopper from the builder and connect to the same output hopper. It would take more space, but you wouldn't have to run all over to retrieve your components.

Those bucket type chairs you put together. I keep forgetting to try that and see if maybe you could put a plant pot in it. I hope that would work as it would make a nice looking planter. Thanks for your videos. Hubby and I have picked up a lot of good tips and general knowledge from watching you.

Great video, loved the extra credit in there too,

I on pc and don't like to play with mods. your videos are such amazing tips for who also want to enjoy everthing in this game. tnx

Went back to old school.. I'm going to do a run with no mods. Re installing fallout 4 tonight

Excellent video! Very informative!

i highly appreciate the short attention span out

Yeah I've been watching you for some time now. And I still suck at building. But I am getting better at it. So thank you.

I really liked the rug glitch into the dumpster - it gave me an idea I'd been thinking about for quite some time. Basically, I want to create a Harry Potter style castle out on Spectacle Island, but was having trouble coming up with a good way to give the walls a bit better texture than the starkly smooth concrete foundations offer. Now, I might end up using crates, radios, etc and play around with creating a decent castle wall.

I use conduits to "hide" my wires I think it fit perfectly with the facility theme ! Just use it wisely

I love your videos helps me in my castle base

another tip is if you have something like a bathtub as the catch basin for let's say guns and ammo, settlers will arm themselves when the settlement gets attacked. i believe they can do the same with armor as well but i can't swear to that one.

1:52 I made a gates like this in few of my Settlements as well. But I decided with the Inside-only Switch. Because if I'm already going to o any of the Settlements, I do so thought Fast-Travel (and I have F-T set up inside the Settlements).

Even though I use mods , your videos still help me alot. Thank you

The height matters too, if you sink the container or the hopper, it can mess it up. I generally just use it to break down the junk in my workshop, and then store them so that it makes us less likely to get attacked. ;p I like to keep my workshops mostly empty. It is best to use the recycler first, as sometimes when it automatically breaks down items, it will not give you all of the components it should. As someone who used mods, I also used the Manufacturing Expanded mod to use the Auto Butcher for more food.