Fallout 4 - Pros & Cons: Spectacle Island (Fallout 4 Settlement Review) 

So wait your base is built around the docks? And settlers who venture to other parts of the island end up dying? Your Spectacle Island sounds like Far Harbor on a budget.

possibly missing a pro that you get free power and power lines

The uneven terrain really isn't a problem, like, at all. Just build on top of concrete foundations or raised shack foundations. It looks realistic, and it's pleasing to the eye.

I don't like sand.

I vote for Starlight Drive-In next

It's funny - I've spent such a long time making Sanctuary my primary settlement...and now I'm thinking, hmmm, I might up and move everything to Spectacle Island. I like the idea that it's surrounded by water, making it (theoretically) easier to defend. If the workshop boundary at Sanctuary extended to the water (albeit a trickle in some places) all the way around, I'd stay there without a doubt. Oh, the agony of choice. And the thought of moving TONS of stuff...

Leave a like if you enjoyed the video! What settlement would you like to see next? P.S. The volume for my outro is really low due to an editing mistake :/

They really need to give us an option to manually despawn bodies and ash/goo piles.

Cons: settlers have daily migration to the other end of the island

I turned the cargo ships containers into little settler houses!

you left out that spectacle island starts with 20 power

mods fix every Con

You should make a light house there

I'm going to turn my Spectacle Island build into a sort of Jurassic Park. No settlers, just monsters for big game hunting.

for my settlement I built around the boat. I also put water purifiers everywhere so I get like 300 purified water to sell to my shops. caps fo days :D

Wait... the distance from 111 influences the settlement raid enemies' levels? Not your character level? WUT?

Hey cb,great video! I wanted to add that you can try disposing the body part by opening console and press disable,hope this helps for everyone :)

I have an idea when I build on this. I will divide the Island into 3 sections, similar to the whole 'District 1' thing in The Hunger Games. Now, there will be a fence with no gates to keep settlers who work for one of the 3 sections to their home. This means no wandering off and getting killed. They all have equal defences and food and water supplies, the basic. However, they are built up differently. The one that you called the docks would be Number 1. This will be higher then them all and stars in defence as it has a better overview of the Island. The 2nd one would star in electricity and will home many of the generators and other items with the job of supplying electric. The 3rd section will star in farming and water, however it will have a more advanced facililty compared to the other 2. By this I mean the farm will be larger, better crops and water purifiers will be better. I haven't tried this out myself, but I think it is fairly decent in dividing and controlling this settlement :)

I use the Castle as my base, and Spectacle Island as a jail. Haven't started doing much as I'm focusing on adding missiles to the castle before I fight the brotherhood, but I'm gonna begin soon.

Wait.. HOW THE HELL DO PEOPLE (except the institute) GET ON THE ISLAND WITHOUT BOATS

can you do a pro and con video for tafingtin boat house

Spectacle Island is a very interesting location it's sheer size and plentiful resources/scrap means you can literary build cities. How ever I'm surprised this con was not mentioned and that is securing the island, yeah your going to have to fight for this one. After turning the two breakers on the island you have to deal with a Murlock Queen and possibly worse including legendary monsters. So either be packing a Fatboy and/or a Power Armor, it's also best to be a high level character, (I'm level 95 so it was actually pretty easy). I'm not worried about the spawning enemies(can't wait for the mods), with a little creativity and time you can build suffeciant defenses regardless of where they spawn. Rocket Turrets many many rocket turrets. Provided you got the DLC for it, start building a few Robots with enough firepower to ahniahlate an army of ledgandary Deathclaws in 15 seconds.

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Speaking of dead bodies... There is a dead wastelander and dog, lying in front of the bridge to Sanctuary. I blew him up and sent him half way across the map; three days later, he is back.

my spectacle island settlement is a large building that completely encloses the shack with the workbench and the transmission tower. and a couple other large buildings all connected by walkways

I’ve never seen someone use four ten second clips just over and over again for over six minutes. Amazing.

Theres a mod called manufacturing extended that adds to the contraptions set an "Auto butcher" that you can feed corpses into for permanent disposal.

The slog

So are you recommending only build on one section of the island with a lot of defences to avoid your settlers getting lost?

I thought of one more pro. Since the island is so massive you can basically build a power plant on one side of the island without having to worry about the noise it creates.

For those on PC that want to get rid of corpses in your settlements, open the console (usually the tilde key), click on the corpse and type the command "disable".

The first con of it is a good point but for me I use the vertibird signal grenades to be able to get to place to place, when it comes to a hardcore role playing

Spectacle island is always my final build. It is reserved for just me and the chosen slaves.. settlers I mean. I build some sort of over the top huge house on the hill and the slaves.. I mean settlers get boxes with beds somewhere over there .. As long as they garden and stay out of my house they live ..If not they become mirlurk food. The build Im doing now is probably my coolest one .. Not the biggest yet but the coolest so far.

My Spectacle Island is kiunduv glitched. When ever I go there I get attacked by Mirelurks, like every single time. My guess is something happened when the game was exposed to get rid of them after completing the mission, so now every time it gets loaded up shit spawns everywhere destroyer everything etc. The only thing that keeps me alive is the 12 or so Death Claws I have running around the place. Oh and the fact that I got so tired of the constant fighting I decided to build a wall, (i call it trumps wall, it keeps out the sneaky illegal crabs from getting into my settlements) and spend several hundred thousand caps on equipping all my settlers with complete Marine Combat armor, and the best guns I you can make.

This one is perfect for me because I’m going to build up the whole place have a village/shop area, a fighting arena (death claw fights) and amd a base/iron man like power Armor storage. Also the high level enemies shouldn’t be a big problem since everyone will have mini guns and power Armor. There will also be tamed deathclaws roaming(I have all the dlc)

I also noticed that the numbers from improvements by the generator ship did not show when by the cargo barge. It seems that about 1/4 of the island does not register from north to south under the build interface. So power from generator ship did not work if connected to a water purifier by the boathouse. I just build everything by the workstation to help get around that though. I cannot really tell if the overall numbers are right as the pipboy still does not show all the time correct numbers on the workshop menu screen. Another thing is if doing the railroad quest to build defenses did not seem to work properly. I had well over the number of defenses already built before the quest, but had to build 1 more for the quest to recognize it.

In my game the mirelurk repelling device is off and there are tons of gunner, super mutant and raider cages all over the island. I built interesting combat areas divided into faction-based districts that are close enough to each other to allow each group of enemies to engage, with mirelurks helping keep the heat on. It's not a settlement. It's my own personal battle island.

foundations fix the hilly terrain. the way i built it, the center of my island is like a labyrinth of concrete trenches from foundation work and enemies get funneled in there and turrets get em. took a bit of tweaking but it works really well. i use automatron dlc robots a lot for settler replacements.

I always take the high ground first because it is easier to defend. Find some concrete and build a foundation at the top of the hill.

Idk why but I like to use the place anywhere Mod to build a bridge from Spectacle Island to the Castle and to Warwick Homestead. I also build a huge base that takes almost the entire island (and I can destroy the ruined house c: ). Sure, it takes weeks to build, but when you got god mode on and you’re on summer break, what can you do?

If fixed the problem with the body near the destroyed house with the Spray n Pray weapon because it has explosive bullets you can shot the body and just pick it up

What about the whole killing all the mirelurks to be able to build onto the settlement? Wouldn't that be a con?

if you use shack foundations for the island terrain and house debris is not a problem

I had that stuck body glitch too. Lorenzo's Artifact gibbed the body after 4 or 5 shots, and then you can move it. I had no luck with other weapons.

Try filling this place with ONLY essential characters That way they can’t get killed.

I used a scrapping mod that allows u to remove almost everything in each sttlement and transformed the cargo ship into a medum wood house neighbourhood

I know this is a old video, but is the snap and build mid good?

My 2 favorite places to build up are Spectacle Island and the Starlight Drive In. One of the cons I had with island is my provisioners would die. That got better after I was able to use robots to run supplies.

u can use the place anywhere mod to build a bridge to the mainland and the unnofficial patch or maybe another mod might fix the super mutant spawns

did a really rough measurement of how big Spectacle Island is, and I came up with 23850 concrete foundations. this is measured from the highest point of the island to the build height limit.

What about getting your settlers there with the highly radioactive bay all around? Or for that matter, your supply line person? Do they die off like crazy? Do you have to equip your supply line person with a hazmat suit?

built my spectacle island fortress around the "anti mirelurk" tower can only go up 4 floors but have about 4 months in it, pumping out 750 purified water a day

For a non fast travel play through you can get a lift in a vertibird to spectacle island

And there is the issue with the broken supply line too. Great video tho 😀

with spring clening you can clean both the house and the body

In the mods section of Xbox one fallout 4 their is a mod called spectacle revamp and it gets rid of that house and body and adds a highway so you don't need to swim around.

Another Pro is that you get free power from the boat...

I'm planning on starting a settlement walkthrough series, but i need a photo of spectacle island from above to showcase the transformation/plan out where things go. Does anyone know where i can get a picture of this?

What if we build a small settlement on the water? Will enemy spawn on it?

The corpses in my game despawned once i moved them to the barge with all the cargo crates on it

right from the beginning of the video I noticed you tried to chop up the dead settler that is stuck in the floor boards just like I did and it doesn't work he stays right there

I've had a few deathclaws appear on the island. they took about twenty steps forward and were mowed down by my defenses. Over 800 defense!

If you're on PC the Island is a dream.

Dont forget you can place a floor near a water purifier... And then drag it onto land ;) still works

You forgot to mention to attain spectacle island you have to defeat a mirelurk queen. Aka another con

Make a story line for that body like he got drunk and fell off the roof and died.

I build walls all around starlight drive in but building capacity Goes up realy fast does anyone else have this problem That your building capacity Goes up real fast?

I’m gonna turn it into my supervillain esque lair. Only living person on the island is gonna be me and all the other inhabitants will be robots and or Strong.

does it get attacked less often because its surrounded by water?

All the spawn points for enemies are on or near the shorelines, where you built everything. Thats why mutants are magically appearing in the middle of your shit.

I manage to get rid of the settlers body. I used the lorenzo artifact and combine it with the two shot effect, thus create a powerful force, but you have to butcher the body first then shoot on the stuck corpse.

What sword was he using in this video? The one that was gnarled and twisted looking?

click the tilda key,then click on the body then type "disable" and it will most likely go away.that is if you have a pc

I transferred settlers from a couple different settlements to Spectacle Island and they haven’t showed up yet. Does anyone know why?

Dude, you need the Scrap Everything mod. And also try building at the other end of the island - the spawn points are at the other end.

All I really put in that island is a bunch of deathclaws (with the wasteland workshop dlc of course) and sentry bots (with the automatron dlc as well) and called it "Death Bot Island".

any tips on getting more building supplies. I have all the settelments and looted every thing and running low

Does supply lines and caravans work well with Spectacle island?

Oh coastal cottage or the kingsport lighthouse!

hey, new to the channel, just a suggestion. Do a competition with other people to create a ww2 Japanese defense fortress. Like see who can create the best ww2 like defense and test it against waves of soldiers storming the beach.

It would be cool if you could rebuild the house and broken down structures

Hey i cheked the island, wanting to build like big arena, factory, vault powerhouse, big garden for plants, and a bunch of other stuff that i cant think of many ways to put them all in the castle, so i checked the island and its just too up and down, too many hills! For what i wanted the best terrain would be a big empty and flat area...i think what can be done here is to pick the most high place and start buinding ground from there and then fill the space underground by using those big blocks of cement around it! Although there would definetly be there some issues like that planted house but its workable lol

Maybe you could try patching the destroyed house up? I do that kinda thing a lot like in Sanctuary where I patch up holes and windows with boards and stuff.

There are scrap everything mods that let you scrap all the colored crates and the old torn down house and nearly everything in the game.

for pc users or people who surcomventend the build limit i have one extra con spectical island wasn't designed too be used its not optimized and if you go over the build limit you will be likely to crash this place is not designed to be filled to the brim with stuff so save allot

Yea, I had a bunch of super mutant masters spawn in when I had only 20 people in my settlement (up to 60 now; over 130 plots). What a shitshow. The moment I spawned, it was explosions everywhere. And those guys were tough at the level I was at. Now, my defense rating is so high I doubt they will spawn again; and if they did, 60 settlers + turrets will make short work of them. I did end up scrapping that house. I have several mods like Scrap Anything running.

How Did Yall get the mirelurk queen? I got the mirelurk king......

#1 Pro that makes it the best settlement in Fallout 4 hands-down: No lag Spectacle Island is separated completely from the mainland, and so much of its natural resources can be scrapped that, by the time you've scrapped everything you can possibly get your hands on, not only will the Island be cleared up and clean, it'll also be lag free because it won't be so dense like those god-forsaken downtown Boston areas that set your computer on fire.

I have one: it is so hard to kill every single enemy/mirlurk just to get to build here! I have too kill a mirlurk queen just to build!

I've never had super mutant attack my spectacle island settlement before, but I have had like 20 mirelurks attack at once. I guess that's another con of living on an island.

you can stop the settlers getting lost by fencing the important bits e.g fencing housing and farming together

How about abanarthy farm or starlight drive in

If u take your time the house can be rebuilt. I fully rebuilt the house and it looks great

if u wanna Despawn bodies open the console, click on the body, then type disable

I walked across the ocean floor with only power armor and a hazmat suit (no Aquaboy or mirelurk cakes) from the Castle to discover the island. *sure* I almost suffocated, had to get out of my suit and swim to the surface, then swim back and re-enter my suit twice to survive and reach the surface but it was so sick

How do settlers arrive to the location?

For some reason I can’t get No settlers at all even with a beacon I don’t know what to do

I built my settlement around the station at Oberland Station

I agree but would also consider the power from the boat to be a con

All my settlers have combat armor at spectacle island and laser rifles.