In-Depth Beginner's Guide to Fallout 4. 

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I just wanted to come and say thank you, and that hands down this is one of the best tutorials I've come across so far. The TV series got me into the game and I proper love it! I've (naturally) made a couple of mistakes but watching this has helped me with getting through that initial period of the unknown and helped get me set up. Now I've got a set of power armour, cleared the first few quests and got settlers into Sanctuary.

I've been playing the game for about 10 hours blind, for the first time ever, and there was a lot of this I still didn't know. This def seems like the kind of game you could play hundreds of hours and still discover new things. What a great well put together video. Subscribed.

Been playing fallout 4 since day one. This is one of the best videos for beginners I’ve seen. Good work watched the entire 3 hr video

Timestamps: 0:00 The menus 5:03 The prologue 9:42 SPECIAL Stats explained 23:20 Escaping Vault 111 37:35 Pip Boy Explained 56:45 Settlement Building 1:07:02 Root Cellar/Rooftop 1:11:00 First set of armor 1:16:00 Radstorm/Changing the Weather 1:28:00 Leveling Up 1:37:10 Army Helmet/Damage Resistance 1:40:10 Dogmeat 1:41:07 Mole Rat Den/Black-Rim Glasses 1:47:23 First Quest (Spoilers from here for the first quest) 2:00:00 Making new friends/Bobblehead 2:06:00 Power Armor explained 2:10:15 Deathclaw Encounter 2:17:30 Trashcan Carla 2:20:00 Drumlin Diner/Charisma Speech Checks 2:24:20 Legendary Weapons Explained 2:27:10 Power Armor Fusion Cores Explained 2:32:40 Save Scumming for Idiot Savant Boosts 2:35:45 Providing Basic Needs for Settlers 2:46:30 Abernathy Farm/Tatos 2:55:00 Recruiting more Settlers

I know the video just launched, but for something like this where it is 3 hours long, it will be way more helpful if you add timestamps!

Good timing with the tv show coming out. I bet people will find this very helpful. I love watching videos like these even though I'm not a new player because I always learn something new.

Glad i found this channel. Just started playing FO4 and didnt know about scrapping and setting up and moving things around. Man, loving this game more and more everyday!!!

Instead of building a ladder to get onto the roof of the house in Sanctuary, just walk up the tree that’s leaning on the roof in the back.

Just got fallout 4 and I had barely played any fallout before. I jumped in and realized if I really wanted to have fun I had to figure out what I’m doing. Your video came out a month ago and it’s exactly what I needed lol. Thanks a lot man.

You should continue the live perfect play through it was very intriguing

I've never seen anyone mention this, but if you DON'T loot the Mole Rat Den you are able to use a rendering glitch to respawn the items outside the den, in the chest near the water tower, and in the 2 buildings along the first road in Concord. Then you are able to continually loot them all (multiple chests, a nuka cola quantum, 2 lockpick safes, bobby pins, nuka cola bottles, food for those playing survival, as well as 7 wild mutfruit trees and 5 gourds) just by running back behind Sanctuary to de-render. It's an added little cycle you are able to do while recruiting settlers and building up your stockpiles of meds/caps/armour. Also works with your Perfect Playthrough and recruiting the early vendors

What a Legend. Boutta pump out hella fallout videos because of this man :)

Excellent video, thanks man, i am just starting to play this franchise now and this is an awesome introduction. Much appreciated.

This is a very well explained and in-depth video for absolute newbies. Thank you so much! I had the game for a long time sitting in my library, but after watching the show I finally decided to start it.

Just starting out, thanks for this! I did watch the whole thing and plan to rewatch a few times.

Man this video came out right when I first started playing this game (3 weeks ago). I was looking for something exactly like this but it hadn’t exited the vault yet 😂

Great video as always

Also I have watched this 3 times already. I love all your long form episodes like the overpowered in two hours melee build

i watched all 3 hours, and applied much of it to my game. thank you

I LOVE THIS GAME! Thanks for the guide!

Thank you for doing this! Very helpful!

I tried survival mode a couple of years ago and really liked the challenge of it and never had any issues. However, when I got to around Level 60 and went to Far Harbor, the game would freeze/crash whenever I left Far Harbor to go do a quest, so I always have to sleep in a rented bed just in case. Then when I went to the Vim Pop Factory, I got inside the building just fine, but once inside whenever I went through a door that involved a loading screen, the game would crash. After it did this 3 times, I said screw it, going back to very hard mode.

AWESOME THANK YOU I WAS STUCK IN THE SHELTER😭😭

Well I’ve played for 500 hours+ I had no idea you could align floor structures by holding down select key. 😂 it was good background noise while going for the level 4 merchants at the start. So thank you ❤

Enjoyed this a lot. Thank you!

Very good in-depth video. I haven't watched it all yet, and I am out of time for now; but I will pick it up again and finish it later. There is one mechanic I've noticed that many people seem to be unaware of - containers in settlements that are empty when first checked may fill with items if you leave the area and come again. Using/abusing this mechanic is one way I'm almost certain to get the Vault-Tec Lab Coat in the vault if I'm not lucky enough to get it the first time. I just leave and come back the next day or so and it has often spawned into one of the dressers adjacent to the overseer's office. I also sometimes use this in Sanctuary - by not immediately scrapping any containers that are empty, then leaving to go to Concord, etc. Often those containers have spawned items when I return. I use this particularly if, although rare, I'm not lucky enough to get any "Charisma" clothing on my first check. To get something with +2 Charisma in Sanctuary is, after all, pretty much guaranteed.

Watched over the weekend thankyou. I am starting again

Great video! So helpful!

Thank you i just played up to lvl 5 and I need to start a new game since I missed out a lot, this was truly helpful 👍😃

Completely new to Fallout. Most helpful video so far!

This is a great guide. It will definitely help me when I play Fallout 4 for the first time. There is a lot of stuff to do in this game outside of the main story quests. That's a benefit because a player can get 'burned out' on the usual gunfights and fast-traveling everywhere. Being able to build a base or small town is pretty cool. I'll definitely have to play this game now.

This was a great video.really helpful and explains stuff that I didn't know. Goanna start a new playthrough cause I botched the current (about 6 hours).

Very informative, thank you 🙏

Great video, love the fallout 4 content.

I suggest for anyone who wants to sleep in sanctuary hills use the root cellar bed. Without mods sanctuary will crash or freeze the more the settlement is built up.. charisma will get a boost as well with the Sharp legendary clothing.

Great guide. Thank you

Thank you very much for your work

I started playing Fallout 4 a couple weeks ago. I wish I had seen your tutorial first, my first couple days were rough figuring even basic stuff out on my own. I just learned I had a flashlight yesterday lol.

Very useful video. Thank.

How do u guys do quest? Do u do what’s near by ? Or you finish a quest line first and so on?

I like to max STR and INT then dump the last bit into END when I make a new character. I can one shot the roaches in V111, get the max XP per kill, and have enough HP to tank some inevitable dmg. Then once I hit the exit I respec for my actual build And remember to always turn off the radio to avoid demonitization

For a first play through you probably should of done an all 4 special stat character. And stuck the special book into luck. And perception bobble head from Preston. Reason being you'll have access to everything. Explosives, lockpick, hacking, automatics, handguns, rifles, sneak, idiot savant, crafting, the lot. (No ammo for heavy weapons so no loss on not having that perk) Distributing special in any other fashion only makes sense in a dedicated build.

Really excellent video

I want to Add an advanced tip. If the player creates a large cage to trap a settlement guardian if you save the game before opening the cage you can Roll throw the variations of creatures. For instance if the player creates a Mirelurk cage you might catch a common Mirelurk. If you save beforehand you can reload a save and get a Mirelurk king or a Mirelurk hunter etc etc.

the first things I do in the game when I start a new game get my carry weight , lock picking and hacking the rest I'll deal with as I see fit

Thanks! helped alot!

Thank`s so much! i have looked alot for a real beginners guide when you have no idea of anything, and all i find is some sort of optimize guides. so this is awesome! maybe do some shorter more specific ones? i would watch the to! (yes i watched all 3 hours of this one)

First fallout game for me, after 10 hours I was still waiting to find out what VATS was so this was very helpful 😂

My *_TOP TIPS_* (especially _Survival Mode_ )---> --> _Codsworth_ is available as a companion without first needing to free *Preston.* Simply enter _Concord_ far enough that Preston and the Raiders start fighting, return to Sanctuary, and he can be hired. Taking him along to free *Preston* can give some _affinity boosts._ _Codsworth_ will give you a Purified Water on a continual basis just by talking with him, making him a solid companion for _Survival Players._ --> *_Need Caps?_* Stop at nearby *Abernathy Farm,* under the Power Pylon. Grab the 9 Melons, then speak with the daughter _Lucy._ Keep picking the top dialogue choice about caps as currency. This will trigger an Easy speech check, and she will offer to buy Melons for 5 caps instead of 3. She can buy every Melon you have, _on an ongoing basis,_ which can be lucrative if you turn Sanctuary into a Melon farm. However, if you make the Farm a settlement, she *stops* buying them. --> *_Survival Players,_* besides planting *Tato,* *Mutfruit* and *Corn* for _Adhesive,_ plant *Razorgrain.* Cook *1 Razorgrain /1 Dirty Water* to make rad-free _Noodle Cups._ They lower thirst one level, hunger half a level, _yet weighs the same as Water!_ Check wandering vendor _Trashcan Carla_ and _Trudy at Drumlin Diner,_ South of Concord. Or find randomly as loot. --> *_Weapon and Armor modifications_* can be _stripped and swapped_ onto your better gear. You can _remove armor mods_ for free, but you will have to _build a new gun mod_ from components. Even without Gun Nut, you can build the base level gun mod, which will put the previously attached modification into your inventory, and put onto your new hotness. --> _Survival Players_ should build *15 more water supply than they have settlers,* minimum. This will _accumulate_ extra water from the Workshop *every day,* so take it out store it separately in another container. New Purified Water will be added every day *_if_* there’s little to no water already in the workshop. If you build a large enough water purification operation, a huge amount can get added daily. Use this for your travels, or stockpile, and sell the surplus. --> _Survival Mode_ features *Diseases,* acquired numerous ways. You can take *Antibiotics,* visit a *Doctor,* or *Wait* until they go away eventually. Each disease has _different durations,_ lasting from *2-7 days.* The most debilitating are _Weakness_ (receive +20% damage), and _Infection_ (take damage over time, though it won’t kill you, will leave you with a sliver of health). These two diseases take *2.5 days* to go away. Find something safe to do, like decorating Sanctuary, or sleep it off. Sleeping causes a _disease check,_ so you might get sick again, but anything is better than Weakness or Infection. *Early game,* when resources are tight, you might be better off saving Antibiotics just in case for the debilitating diseases, and living with the others until they go away. -->Want to play _Survival Mode,_ but aren’t sure what starting SPECIAL to use? I’ve found it’s worth going for strong combat skills first, and then flesh out your build. *Melee Builds,* get _Rooted_ (STR9) and _Blitz_ (AGI9) immediately. *9,1,4,3,1,9,1* _(Book END)._ *VATS Guns,* get _Penetrator_ (PER9) and _Concentrated Fire_ (PER10). *1,9,3,3,3,7,2* _(Book AGI)._ You’ll get the *Perception Bobblehead* when you free Preston, so have a point saved, and put into Concentrated Fire mid-rescue. --> _Survival Mode_ players should seriously consider _not_ using Power Armor. _Swimming_ is Survival’s Fast Travel. You’ll get around much faster and safer. *_Aquaboy/girl perk_* will save you a ton of time! Without spoiling, the game gives you a quick means of crossing the map as you do the main story, if you dabble with the *Brotherhood of Steel.* --> _New Players:_ *Idiot Savant* isn’t a good choice for first timers. Enemies scale with you. You need to have good gear to survive, and easy and fast XP can leave you without enough time to explore and find good gear before the bad guys start hitting even harder. *You’ll get plenty of levels, faster than you think, even at 1 INT.* Growing powerful isn’t only a matter of levels. *You’ll be stronger if you have great gear when you pop your next level.* Take it easy, don’t rush, go slow, and you’ll be better for it. --> _Pass every speech check_ with *11 CHR,* 100%! Low CHR builds, don’t fret: assemble a 3-piece _CHR set of clothes._ *Hat/glasses/suit,* for _+4._ Most *Alcohol* adds _+1._ Find *Daytripper* _+3._ Better yet, craft *Grape Mentats* at a Chemistry Station _+5._ There’s other ways, but with these, that’s a +13 buff already. *Bonus!* Your companion will come to your side and stay there if you _crouch._ And if *Dogmeat* only carries _25_ units, put a bandana, welding goggles or dog armor, and it’ll bump it up to _150!_

this is really awesome

if you get tired of doing prewar/ vault 111 run you can make a skip character. pretty much make a character with 10 int for the little bit of bonus xp name it something like "Male skip" then save just before getting on the elevator at the end of vault 111 where you can change name, special stats, and appearance. sense FO4 has a character select based on character name you can always go back to that save and change the name to whatever before leaving the vault for a new run.

3 hours of watch time from me, well deserved man great video!

Great video! Is there any chance of you making a build guide on a vats stealth build? Similar to your gauss rifle build.

I have been getting the same bug with the stuff for Dogmeat not spawning in the first house lately. I'd say it was something to do with the update, but it did start happening before the update released (say, in the last couple of months or so), so I really can't explain it. Conversely, I've never been able to get the teddy bear in the Mole Rat Den until the playthrough I started after the update (probably my 20th run through the game). Whether that was just a freak one-off occurrence or something they fixed is something I'm curious about.

Phenomenal guide

Nice video. I noticed you mentioned Hubflowers being important but not why though

In the beginning, you can pick up dogmeat at red rocket. Go back into vault 111 with him, get him to stand in front of the Cryolator cage and order him to fetch it, he’ll pull it out of the cage for you. You don’t need to wait until you level up lock picking.

How is your map that bright? Is that a mod because mine is incredibly faded looking

I love all the long form videos. I've watched this one twice and I've watched the long form melee overpowered in two hours prolly about 15 times. Great work keep it up.

I understand how things work better after watching this.

A quick one. Trudi sells a silenced pipe pistol, allowing you to get a silencer to fit on a pipe rifle at very low level without the gun nut perk.

you are AWESOME ♥

a simple statement of how to connect the wires would have been so nice had to rewatch it 3 times to catch that it's spacebar.

58:19 Nice

My Carla didn't have concrete shipments or anything w crystal :(

Each settler can work up to 6 points of a resource.

I just started playing fallout 4 (I’ve watched video essays of it throughout the years but never played) and then watched the new series and I decided for try it out. I’m ngl I probably suck but it’s such a difficult game to get used to lol - the navigation system Etc :( the amount of times I died to a random raider etc lol cause I either fuck up the weapons etc or just am shit at aiming on the game.

Has anyone else had issues with the purified water? I’ve taken all my aid out of the workbench and it still won’t add anymore even after sleeping

I need easy. I still suck at this game and Skyrim V. I forgot how to play, its why Im here

This gonna be a long comment, sorry, i couldn't help it. :) -Clothes: yes they give stats like armor, attribute boost, etc. You don't have to guess what can be worn below the extra armor pieces, when you select a cloth on the right on the vault boy every slot will blink that is used by it. Labcoat: arms, legs, chest, etc. For example some dresses don't use shoulders, etc. etc. For CHA boost hat or wig, glasses, dress/suit is quite good, best is using armor pieces that gives charisma (2x arm, 2x legs, chest). In Power armor ONLY the power armor modifiers are given. Since every INT is +3% xp you can have INT gear and wear it when completing quests that give many hundreds xp. If you got the leather arms and legs and chest pieces you can mod all 5 into pocketed without armorer perk, giving +30 carry capacity if all modded. -Heal+Food+Radiation: every heal is X hp per second (higher difficulty slower heal), i recommend favor to quick slot for quick use not only stimpacks but 2 additional Foods/Drinks. This will help A. heal 3x faster in combat (use 3 heal source) 2. will use food more since don't have to search for it. Grilled food, purified water is perfect but regular radiated uncookable food is ok too... radiation isn't that bad. 50 rads is only -5%hp, for 100 hp it's 5hp... even 100 150 rads is minimal max hp loss (10%-15%), and one radaway cures 300 rads. By the way if you got the DLC build the anti radiation shower arc thingy in your settlement, cheap and removes all rads. I usually favor heavier foods and grilled if i have many. If got lot of water source in settlement that generates a lot purified water, especially if you empty it regularly (take our purified water from workshop's inv. -scrapping in workshop mode: the object you point can be outlined YELLOW, means unmoveable, can be scrapped; or GREEN (like a table or chair upside down) that still can be scrapped but also can be just picked up and moved, place it correctly, etc. If you scrap a box or furniture that had things on it some might fall to the ground but some might vanish. Like that terminal he scrapped the table below. 1:27:39 So when scrapping start from top. Also note ALL containers will respawn items time to time if you don't scrap them. If you got perk to find more ammo or bottle caps those will spawn too in such containers. By the way those that are outlined GREEN can also be stored. Later when you want to build such furniture it will say not build but place (or sg. like this) needing no material. There are many furniture that cannot be crafted, so once you scrap them they are gone gone. - materials are needed to build, craft, mod, etc. You can go to your inventory, junk, material view and mark those you search for, for example Aluminium, Adhesive, circuit, copper, gold, etc. Then every junk in the world will have the magnify glass icon next to their name showing you want to loot those they containt something you look for. Recommend putting pre-war money, gold, silver, cigarettes into separate container, and not use them as resource but sell them (unless you desperately need their cloth or gold material for building) -STEALING: when settlers, provisioners, traders attacked they will grab stuff to defend. They can steal your legendary weapons, Minigun, armors, power armor, etc. and use it. Enemy too. To avoid A. never leave Fusion Core in Power Armor B. Store your legendary valuables in the root cellar box/safe (100% secure) or at least in a settlement that has no settlers for example unpopulated Red Rocket Gas Station (99% secure). If you store it anywhere in Sanctuary there is a slight chance to be stolen. If they stole your stuff try to search your provisioners and settlers (build bell and and summon them with bell, then wait 1h) -Bobby pins: usually there is 1 in Vault111, and few in Sanctuary. Random. if you are super unlucky and desperately need one after the Red Rocket Gas Station in Concord in the first house there is 6 bobby pin. (1 on top, 5 in a box same furniture). A. avoid the 1:46:06 bloodbug hatchling mosquitoes from hell. on high difficulty they can kill you SUPER fast. they are DEADLY. 1:46:22 the house and you can see it in the video. - Settlers and provisioners only need 1 ammo if you give them guns, and/or 1 grenade/molotov but don't recommend this one they will blow you up. - Bottle Caps, trader cap limit: when bartering with trader you can buy a costly thing and sell your stuff in the same exchange before accepting the deal. If you only sell and trader out of caps buy some ammo. They weight nothing and can be sold (note you will loose some bottle caps). Also i recommend luck perk finding more ammo: not only it helps you have ammo all the time but soon you will only sell the 38 ammo for money. And later you will find even more Fusion Cores randomly! Some Traders will visit Santuary too, and some of your other settlements. I always buy cheap junk, some costs almost nothing but have good materials. It might even worth to buy common things if super cheap, that has steal or something, you will use a TON of such things too. - Settlers can be assigned: point at them at settlement mode, order, then go for food/guard post and assign, each tend up 6 food, or generate 6 defense if assigned to a guard post. If your defense is at least your food+water then it's less likely your settlement gets raided. Enemies are sneaky (...they spawn inside...) so walls don't work. Better arm the settlers and put turrets everywhere. For loot early i don't make enough defense, hoping for attacks, more loot. If you fast travel to help defend them i recommend build the welcome mat that sets you where you arrive on a spot where it's good to appear when enemies around (near parked power armor, or at a higher spot/roof, etc.) - Fusion Cores: Power armor contantly use Fusion Core. Remove it when parking to avoid others stealing it. Sprinting depletes it faster. Fast travel don't deplete it at all. Companion can be ordered (similar to assigning settlers to tend crops or be on guard duty in defense post) into power armor, they don't deplete it's core (and can carry more it set strength to 11). Settlers, provisioners can be ordered into power armor too. I personally only use Power Armor for big battles, where many enemies concentrated (like Corvega, etc.) then fast travel home and park it. If you remove FC just before depleted it sells for the same price. Also the game automatically uses one 100% FC when entering, so always check manually and tranfer one already used or you will have half a dozen various used ones. Fun fact: if someone dies in power armor (even if it was yours) you cannot get the frame back, remove the body from it. You can only loot the armor pieces (massive weight) You can repair power armor that has no fusion core in it, so always first remove the FC. -Guns, weapons: worse weapon can be still good, if different ammo. If easy battle don't waste your main gun's ammo, use a pipe weapon. Easy to mod, tons of ammo for it. Using 10mm ammo for rad roaches is a mistake. Sometimes early even for a shooter character a good melee can be practical. Beside damage the rate of fire and it's range are important stats too.

Ha ha you said 40 water 😂…. Those who know…know (additionally this video was great I just bought myself a ps5 for my bday and its my first time playing fallout, I started off randomly playing with 0 knowledge 😅 now I’m gonna start a new game

But do you actually want go level quickly? Given the banding system this just makes your opponents tougher.

I am pretty pissed. I started playing again on the "next gen" PS5 version. Got the blackface bug, met doc anderson early on and was not even 10 people in settlements let alone 20 to recruit her, and I got too many settlements early so preston gave me the castle quest straight away so I cannot even get him as a companion and get his perk. I hadn't even got to diamond city. Bad RNG, Gonna have to restart.

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Thankyou so much - I was told to start with 76... (no more needs to be said) I'm 6 hours into f4 and still in sanctuary - i didnt know i could deconstruct everything for loot ! its rare someone takes a game that's been out a long while and doesn't try to push bugs glitches mods etc - I'm pausing every 20 mins to go play then look here at what I missed :) Errorcode OR--RWE-03 is preventing donations :( srry bud

I do not think save scumming is cheating. because RNG is something outside of the players control. Not something you can overcome with skill or knowledge

Hey, hey Dan, I love the video. Tell your wife that your 6% grandma said hello.

fallout new vegas in-depth beginner's guide when? =)

So the new content is basically the mercenary pack from New Vegas? Just completely throws off balance

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Mechanical keyboards ftw. CLICK!!! CLICK!!!! CLICK!!!

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Does anyone else hate the new update? I lost all playthrough and there are mods I can’t even redownload. Plus it skips and catches so much now. I deleted everything then downloaded the whole game again and it still skips. And you can’t play the game without the update. I tried to not install the update but it won’t load the game without the update. There should have been an option to not use it. Bethesda screwed some of us with this.

Game is almost a decade old. No one is new to it. Try something original to get views.