Fallout 76 - Base Building For Beginners 

I got to say the game is kind of buggy but all in all it is still a super fun game. It's a shame that a lot of people that hate it aren't even giving it a try for themselves. They just let their favorite RU-vidr say that it sucks and they never even do research. If you liked playing Fallout 4 then you'll like 76 well enough. I was on the fence when I bought it and now I can't put it down

Ya I picked this up on sale, and im really pleasantly surprised so far.

-= SOME MORE TIPS FOR BASE BUILDING =- - When you store a camp item that has multiple variants (e.g. wood wall, wood wall doorway, wood wall window) you can place any of its variants from the STORE tab. (e.g. I make a wood wall, store it, highlight it in the STORE tab, scroll left or right to the variant I want like the doorway, and place the doorway without wasting materials on scraping or crafting a new one) There is currently a bug that will let you place locked items you have yet to unlock if you can at least make one variant of the item. (e.g. A standard bed can be stored, then place a locked hospital bed) - If your build budget keeps getting filled up too quickly with very little items placed, try scraping any unused items in the STORE tab. Stored items count against your budget even if they are not placed. This also includes stored blueprinted items which will be at the top of your STORE tab list. - Keep room in your budget for the essentials. Make sure you have room in you budget for all your crafting/cooking workstations, one bed, and any turrets you may want. The best way to do this is to make first and immediately store them once you've made your base. - Before moving your C.A.M.P location, manually store items from your old location. There is a bug I've notice that some items will get lost when moving. My crops, generators on the ground, water purifier, to name a few. Most things stored without any problems but make sure to manually store anything expensive to rebuild. - Location, location, location. Unless you only use your camp as a quick and free fast travel point with only the crafting/cooking stations put down for simple repair, you will want to be sure the site you want to build suits all your needs. Some items have special requirements to be place. Crops, and some water pumps require access to dirt. Other water pumps require access to a body of water. Resource pumps need to be built on a resource pit (small crater, sometimes can harvest said resource manually at the bottom). Also check to see what the local enemy levels are. If you're level 10 in an area where enemies are level 30, you might have a bad time. If you are in a area where a Scorchbeast frequently spawns, you may want to think again about your camp placement. A camp should be a place to recover. If your base keeps getting destroyed by the Supermutants who's base is 10ft from where you set up shop, you are going to go through resources and stimpacs fast. - Want to get more stuff to decorate your base? Then you'll need plans. But plans can be expensive. So what do you do? Claim the unowned workbench around the map. There are a few workbenches around the map. Just clear out a few enemies, pay a small fee (20-40 caps) and the quest is complete. You get a few rewards but the big one is a random plan used to unlock something for the camp. A quest to defend the site will shortly pop up. If you want, you can defend the camp and get another plan. You can do this with multiple workbenches across the map or you can quite to the main menu, start up the game, and reclaim the same workbench again. When you log out of a server, you lose claim to all your workbenches. So you can just claim them over and over again. I don't believe you can unlock ALL the plans with this method, but you can get a lot of them. - DON'T PAY FOR WORKSTATION PLANS!!! I made the mistake of buying a 660 cap plan for the Tinkerer's Workstation and found out that all I needed to do is go through the main story quest for just a little while and I had all the workstation plans rewarded to me. Even the power armor workstation plans were given after a quest. That's all for now. I hope this helps people with there camp building.

I had the same problem moving the base in the BETA, try this: When you make your blueprint of your base, don't select your foundation. When you move your CAMP, just rebuild the foundation and slap the base on top of it.

I put down one foundation, put some stairs on it and then put a floor on the upper section and built from there. Like that you only have to put down one foundation when you replace your base with the blue print. Works nearly every time.

This is the best base building tutorial on RU-vid so far, I've seen all the others. Sharing this. 👍

Wish I saw this before building my base this morning. Made a three floored house with huge church like room and then ran our of space and had to start over 😂 thanks for the info ian would love more advance stuff

Anyone else watching this 2 years later

Incorrect, workshops do exist, you just have to claim them before you can begin building in them.

One way around all this (at least for the house part if not externals) is the good ole Sky House. Just place a single foundation block, then a staircase rising off it, and then build your entire mansion off the stairs. You get the fun of a house floating in the sky, and you only need to place a single foundation block to set up your whole house.

3:38 in the words of Civ VI, "Defense is Superior to Opulence".

Just started playing and this is a huge help. There is practically no tutorial on this in game. It was hell just finding somewhere to place a basic camp to make a sign for that quest from Duchess.

Just started last week and this is really helping me building my camp thanks

is there a way to increase budget? Is there any point in leveling after you get all of the perks? thanks. I haven't purchased the game but I don't want to feel like I'm just working toward a cap.

Has anyone tried a "howls moving castle" approach, where the foundation is a 1x2 or 2x2 platform.. and all the rest of the base is "upstairs" from a relatively small footprint? Seems like most of the errors are terrain based not elevation based.

1:12 workshops do exist such as the ones from lakeside cabins Poseidon energy plant workshop etc.

LOVE the intro bro!!! Keep up the great vidz!

Just came back to say thank you,I watched this 2 years and made a crap little base on a train track but now I have a fully functioning diner,so thank you.

Why are you blueprinting the foundations? Of course the ground is going to be different when you move your base but I would imagine you should only be blueprinting the actual structure on top of them so that the foundation placement can deal with whatever the terrain differences are when you move. Is that not an option?

One tip I’d recommend is if you’re overcumbered just pick literally everything up from wherever you can and scrap the junk and after that scrap crappy armor and or duplicate weapons this’ll help unlock crafting options and materials at the same time

So I built a camp/base and now when I go into a world it’s not there, if I put down my camp/base will it spawn as long as if nothings in the way of it?

Thank you so much sir I could not figure out how to learn the plans. Went about 50 levels before I watched this video huge help sir thank you!!!

If you move your camp, does your build move with it or do you have to re-assemble it?

Is the floating moving base still an issue? I just started playing yesterday and just wanna know what to expect. Love thia video though!

I recommend a tower-type base, as with a small foundation it becomes much easier to replace. The issue I've had with this idea though is that you can't place upper floors on a wall, and have to build in interesting configurations.

Good video and well explained, although I do have to say I have never had the same problems that you report on here such as placing items or moving bases. Always works fine for me.

Some things that help me to build is create a 9x9 base blueprint, save that. Now when you get to new lands you can move just that around. The second blueprint you save is everything above the 9x9 foundation and it will snap right onto the base after you place it down.

How have I missed this game, I've been looking for a game like this for a while, I'm definitely buying it

I have started making my base lifted. I place 1 foundation square down, add a staircase in and then lay down upper floors. With just a single square on the ground to place it makes moving it super easy.

14 mins and 33 seconds to basically say “don’t bother as you’ll waste your time having to constantly rebuild your base when it inevitably gets packed away due to someone else building in the same spot as you when you’re logged out”

Question, One thing I've worried about is if i move my camp and haven't stored my base does it auto store everything or just delete everything and i have to pay the resources again to make my workbenches? I made a base and split it into 3 blueprints that thus far I've been able to put together in quite a few areas. But I always store everything manually before relocating cause I didn't know if it would just delete stuff or store it.

Is it possible to build on one of the destroyed and or damaged bridge?

Hey so a way that I find is working is to blueprint all but the foundation and snap that blue print on a replica of your previous one (and make a separate blueprint of your foundation to attempt to snap to in the future)

Thanks this was helpful :)

so you hold a to move things, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I built my camp at Whitesprings Resort. Flat, water source, next to buildings to loot, and best of all dozens of bots for free for defense.

Thx man I haven’t got fallout 76 yet but this will help allot! I’m getting it on ps4 so hopefully I might be able to play with you😂

pro tip to bases, build 1x2 base with a staircase then build your 3x3 base on top of that. much easier to plop at other locations.

Came here looking for tips on how to move my base without dismantling and rebuilding everything, only to find that you're having all the same problems I am with plonking blueprints down. Misery loves company I guess.

super helpful for new players

One possible way to move multiple items, this is untested and longer than the Fallout 4 method. Firstly create blueprint from items you want to move, then store the items, and finally place the blueprint. I wounder at what footprint size placing down a blueprint becomes a problem, as I have never had a problem with my 2 by 2 tower, but you seem to be having a problem with a 3 x 3 building.

love it am hooked on the game

I like that little introduction. When everything destroyed you will finally realize what you lost and should have appreciated it more.

One thing I noticed you missed was that stored buildings benches etc take up budget. I did not know about the hold A thing thanks

I appreciate these tips - most of all, how to blueprint a structure. I finally have a camp that is pretty good and I want to be able to replicate it if necessary. It seems that the cost of moving a camp increases each time?

Once you placed your C.A.M.P base, you can then move your C.A.M.P. without moving your base... i also noticed you can enter edit mode while in combat mode but cant really do anything to edit Workshops do exist, however they are only temporary (when someone else claims it or you log off or leave world)

Great vid

Put your foundations further up from the base ground. Makes it easier to place after a move as you have more play in your connection to the ground. Still doesn't work great. You can also drop the foundation from the blueprint and then store the foundation separately. Just rebuild the foundation and then drop the blueprint on it. Again, still doesn't always work. I've gone to a fence mindset, with a small hut for the bed. Works quick, resets quick, and just stores. Doesn't take long to drop the fence back around and place the benches.

The floating/support thing makes it sound like the problem is with the foundation. Can you exclude the foundations from a blueprint & place those down first in your new location, dumping the blueprinted building on top? It seems like that could work.

I don't play the game, but with the blueprints problem it seemed like the foundations were causing the issue because even 'flat' land isn't entirely flat. Could you blueprint the rest of the building and just redo the foundations if you want to move it? Especially if the walls automatically snap to a grid? Not ideal, obviously, but surely better than building from scratch?

Should you scrap/store everything in your base (disassemble it) before you move the CAMP somewhere else?

I ran into your house last night when i was playing!, i didn't know it was you, i just saw some guy on the map spending a long time out in the middle of that dry lake bed so i decided to go have a peak, i ran by and through your house then gave you a thumbs and ran off again lol

On tip #5, how do you move the pieces around on the PC? I know the mouse wheel moves it in and out, but I'll be damned if I can't find the controls to move the object in any of the other directions.

In my experience the best way to build a lit base to make all your friends jealous is as follows 1 find dope house in unmarked location flat inside is necessary porch waterfront good scenery nice school district all good things to be on the lookout for but not super important 2 plop down your camp to get the whole house along with ample flat yard space 3 water food lights get the basic necessities down 4 accessorize with tons of super cool furniture you picked up on your wild adventures 5 watch as the chicks swarm your doorstep waiting for some Bow chicks bow wow

*Workshops exist but you just have to claim them

Was hoping to find out why budget changes from place to place had a few times were i moved base and budget bar was full from start

@Eurogamer workshops do exist in this game and there scattered along the map like past fallout games

nice tips

5:07 "wondering around in the wilderness can also give you wood" lmao I guess it is a little exciting

What if for moving the base you build the 3 by 3 first and then attach rest onto it

Where did you find the small water purifier plan

Workshops to exist there's many of them located all over the map.you simply have to find them and claim them and you can set up resource extractors for the various metals and jump that's available all you can fill the house if you want you can set up defenses there's usually several events associated with them and when you set them up it's an opportunity for PVP meeting someone can come and try and take your established base from you.

13:10 could it be that the boats mast was in the way and blocked you from placing the blueprint?

I built my base on top of the mountain near the military training grounds. I completed the structure and wanted to build more in a certain direction, but couldn't without going over the border. So I tried moving the CAMP thinking it would move the border, but it didn't. I then tried moving my camp from the Pip-Boy and deleted my whole base. I couldn't place the blueprint because I built it around a tree.

I just set up my CAMP at a abandoned house with craft accessory spawns and health item spawns in the house. Then I just put turrets around it and added a few work benches and it became the perfect safe house. Came with a nice bed already. House near the Nuka factory near the water. Came with both doors attached and no exterior holes in the roof or walls. Just a hole from the bathroom to the bedroom. Decent condition. Both porches had no damage. Set up your camp there for a perfect spawn location. Only bad parts about Fallout 76 are the lack of missions, asshole players, buggy lands and creatures, and crashes. Thank God they put the block from session option. Quicker to get rid of a annoying player than GTA's kick button. Easy to get weapons, ammo, and items. If you can, Find a good pre built building and set up camp in it. Just make sure it is not an enemy spawn location. Mine came with a dead radroach sitting on the crapper with a gold wedding ring spawn. Just wish that health items didn't have weight. Tired of getting bogged down. And wish they would get rid of the eat and drink to live option. Really annoying! And get rid of the disease option. Tired of getting a fucking disease every time I eat or get hit. And the random enemy spawns.......... ..walking Then proof! A group of 20 scorcher appears around you. This game doesn't seem like a group game. Everything can be done solo. Even the events can be done solo.

I found out along time ago. That using a gatlin laser is the best way to conserve ammo and obtain xp through events. you can litreally farm 80+ fusion cores in a single day thats 40000+ rounds. Do that and save your missiles use the hellstorm missle launcher. You litreally can run through events.

Nice BGM!

My base is more like a military themed one it has a wall with a perimeter bridge going around most of the front and has turrets and in the centre there’s a big cabin. I also have a siren there so that works as an alarm and 2 water purifiers currently and a small farm. Sadly due to the budget I can’t seem to build a wall all the way around the base meaning players can get in with ease but AI well they are more about trying to destroy your walls.

They do still have workshops, they are at the locations were the events happen where you have to claim the workshop and rebuild the power supply

Several weeks ago when at Level 8 in Fall-Out 76 I decided to build my camp. Once completed I continued with the game until the next Checkpoint. The following day I loaded the game only to discover that my Camp had completely disappeared due to one of the many glitches and bugs in this game. ​I read somewhere that the higher the level of the player the more budget there is. So I waited until I reached Level 58 and again began to re-build my camp. The first thing I noticed was that the budget size was just the same. So, where did that rubbish come from ? ​Anyhow, my main point is this, I set down all my foundations but decided it was too spacious, too large, and so I tried to store several foundation items in an attempt to reduce the size of the perimeter but the game told me that 'The item cannot be stored' nor deleted. These items were already stored from the previous build several weeks earlier which disappeared due to the glitch. So, I'm asking is there a way to reduce the size of a camp by way of storing or deleting items which have already been laid down. I'm almost certain that there wasn't a problem doing this in the first build but now there is. Thanks.

May have to buy this game soon thanks Ian!

I only want this game because of the amazing soundtrack

For turrets, I would say a max of 3 or 4 turrets for defending

Uh workshops do still exist. Other than that great guide for fallout:inventory managment simulator.

I made two blueprints, one for the floor and the other for the rest of the house and it works for me.

Just brought this game I love it so much so much fun 🤩

I don't know what ads you looked at but Base building was not the main selling point of this game. The massive map compared to previous Fallout, the introduction of the opportunity for PVP and of course the introduction of multiplayer environments or the main selling points is this game

I have a 3-4 story tower on 2x2 stilted foundations that I never have a problem moving, perhaps the concrete foundations are more problematic.

There actually is workshops, they’re at certain locations and you have to defend them for waves of enemies every now and then

step ONE should be mentioning which actual smeggin button you push/hold to bring up the build menu. which one is it?

Baeemoving tip Found out by accident but if when you build base you put 1 foundation platform then stairs up, and continue every think there on up moving base is easy. Note haven't tried this with water purifier yet.

Someone told me that you can make a blueprint out of all your house EXCEPT the foundations, then lay the foundations by hand and place the blueprint above it without any hassle.

Got a question (im new to the game) cant players destroy my base? And if they can do i lose the structures, lets say they nuke me do i need to rebuild everything?

LITERALLY EVERY FALLEN TREE GIVES WOOD

workshops still exist. once you cap them you can build there and set up extractors that auto mine materials while you explore

I'd like to add that stored items still consume your budget

I’m probably gonna build it in this green golf course, there a ton of friendly robots near by to protect me and it’s pretty

My hint about the "moving multiple objects" issue: You can store the whole structure and put it all down again somewhere else

The ground floor of my base is 3 squares. A rectangle. The second and third floors are 12x8 squares. This seems to make it alot easier to move camp. I built it on a riverbed then popped it up on a cliffside no problem.

The best way to build a base is to make the foundation 1x1 made of wood, then build up so you can place it basically anywhere and dont gotta worry about concrete

If it weren't for you... I would've had enough plans in my goddamn inventory to rival Dutch's plans from RDR2

Can you share the base building commands for mouse and keyboard users?

I'd just like to figure out how to regain all the stored items in my CAMP that were deleted by my CAMP when I moved it to a new location. Had walls, plants, a bit of furniture in the CAMP storage. All gone (and no, I did not hit the delete button). Hoping the new patches will fix that annoying issue.

I solved the base moving problem by making my first floor just 2 foundation blocks with set of stairs on them, the main floor with all the stuff was the second floor.

Are there still settlers that come to your camp?

And if you ever place foundation underwater... Just forget it exists, It's gone forever

My biggest issue is being _constantly_ over-encumbered. I have so many perks that make things lighter, most maxed out, but I just can't manage to keep an organized inventory to save my life. My stash is always full yet I only carry like 3 weapons at a time and the clothes on my back. I even took up cannibalism so I wouldn't need to carry so much food. Should I just try and figure out which materials are less useful and sell them? I feel like I'm just missing something. lol

What happens if i log out on ps4 but have stuff placed down in the camp area?

u can build a small house or u can just make things modular and have a turret tower of power and just put ur crafting stations on a floor foundation to drop where it can fit. this is an issue when trying to put down an entire small house, u dont always get a large enough clearing to place the entire thing. good luck.

Im addicted to this damn game...