Settlement Builds for Noobs: Sanctuary Hills 

I respect you for doing everything without mods. Place anywhere and scrap everything is a must have mod for me.

In survival mode, if raiders attack Sanctuary I always drag the corpses to the other side of the bridge and line up their headless bodies with the side of the road. Just a little reminder to travelers stopping by that we don’t tolerate violence.

Few enemies will try to cross the south bridge. Very occasionally one or two raiders will come walking down the road from Red Rocket. A single small turret will take care of them. Sanctuary has 3 enemy spawn points, and none are at that bridge. The one in that area is about 15-20 yards west of the southwest corner of your gym, on the water's edge and about 10-12 feet high. They spawn in the air, fall to the ground and charge off mostly east, some may charge off north looking for a way between the houses to get into the interior of the settlement. The north spawn point is well covered. The east spawn point is a half dozen feet outside the settlement area, east of the eastern most hedge almost even with your tree ring. You have a few turrets that will likely never fire a shot but any enemies that escape your turrets will have the entire settler population charging them with guns a-blazing. I loved your build. It looked good and was well done.

Wonderful video. I really hope more people come along to these videos, they're amazing. I'd love to see sunshine tidings

When I build my Sanctuary, I always use mods. I treat it more like a proper settlement, like Diamond City or maybe more akin to the Hub in FO1. Nothing fancy, grungy and lived in. Renovate the houses, turn some into businesses, build a lot of them as homes though. Then make a market circle around the big tree for the traveling merchants. One building is dedicated to “Minuteman Operations” with a ham radio, lockers, barracks, and weapons. And around the old playground I build a few extra homes to look more like what you’d find in Junktown or Goodneighbor. A train car, flaming barrels, a shambled food market like in DC. My main Minuteman base is always the Castle. But I never want it to just be a military outpost. I build 3-story apartments in the courtyard, main businesses are in the walls, barracks in the west broken wall that also acts as a police station. There are smaller homes outside the walls that are for those that are in need and can’t fit inside. And the north broken wall is turned into the main entrance with a closing garage door for attacks. MM are stationed on the walls, outside in Vault-Tec overlooks, and of course on the artillery. I use a modded version of Hangman’s Alley so 8 can use the actual buildings for homes and businesses. It’s a key trading post with Minuteman guards and even artillery on the roofs. Think MM Bunker Hill. Jamaica Plains is also modded so it’s easier to build in. That’s more of a MM outpost and small village. Starlight Drive-In is a factory settlement that makes weapons, armor, ammunition, everything from contraptions.

The one thing I focused on in Sanctuary was building a fortified wall around the entire settlement. Three times - first with wood, then with steel, and lastly with meter-thick concrete. And then I found out about the stupid spawn points _inside_ my impenetrable fort and gave up on finishing the settlement. Built a skyscraper at Red Rocket and then completely lost interest. Because with enemies _teleporting _*_inside_* your heavily fortified settlement,... ... what's the point??!?

This is dope af. I just hopped bk in (lvl 3) and this has definitely given me ideas!! Thank you man

You use more concrete than the USSR . Papa Stalin is proud of you.

I'm a big fan of building on the little flat bits where houses once stood. I'll usually start at the end of the road and slowly expand towards the bridge, filling in gaps between buildings with fences and walls if desired. This leads to me making the buildings near the entrance fancy for traders and guests while practical housing is hidden away safely at the rear.

You know I actually like your fallout 4 sanctuary build and you gave me some really good ideas thank you dude

I love the hedges. It creates a solid wall around most of sanctuary that you can place turrets on all the way around

This man speaks with a lot of passion. I love the world building!

I have been so spoiled by infinite carry weight these builds with no mods are super impressive

Much more organized than my sanctuary lol. I turned all the original houses into appliance buildings. Outhouse, bathhouse, kitchen house, the ones by the roundabout tree are the trading areas, barhouse full of bars, armor and weapon shop, and the general shop. The scrapable spots I turned into bunk houses and armory’s/barracks. The one by the bridge is security house/ artillery building with 10 artillery’s on the roof!!!!

So happy people are still building in this game!

Thank you for this video! I’m on the lookout for all Settlement vids I can find that use neither Mods NOR Console Commands, and this certainly looks like it might fit the bill. I need some massive inspiration since I’m new to building in general.

I built at Oberland Station and Taffington Boathouse before doing anything in Sanctuary, a memorial to the past...a fortified tower mansion by the bridge, and a new roof across the street from the house (with the workshop in it), to keep Carla's brahmin off of it...and out of the house...a couple dog houses and feed throughs...put the cooking station in my driveway...lights for the shop and the house, and the tower, the rest is left alone, which is good, when you have lots of heavy lasers... No one else lives there...besides a robot two dogs, and a couple brahmin... Nice base 😃

Your water pump building, you could use a electric switch type door. NPC's wont use them. They can spawn and teleport into the room though. Like the Brahmin sometimes do into the houses. NPC's will teleport if they cant figure out the navmesh. They get 3 try's to figure it out and get the option to teleport to a nearby navmesh. Its how they end up on the roofs. They also wont try to unlock doors. So hangmans ally you could leave one door locked and they will have to walk all the way around. If you wall off your settlement completely the AI will assume they just cant figure it out and teleport. Make entrance paths and load it up with turrets.

I tend to wall the entire settlement with junk walls. I have two or three gatehouses if I am feeling generous and if not just one way in at the bridge. I protect the gatehouses with level two machine gun turrets which appear to be sufficient. I'll also stick several turrets on the roof of the house with the leaning log, as it is otherwise the only way in for raiders. I use the existing houses for settler sleeping areas and one for generator housing. I plant industry crops out in the open for my settlers to work for me, taters, corn and mutfruit. I plant them in easy to pick rows so I can harvest them myself for when I need to make adhesives. I have a single structure I build to hold all the merchant and recreation areas. I also build a huge number of water purification plants so the settlement generates several hundred purified water per day. I use that water to barter for any scrapable junk useful for raw materials at the games shops, not to mention of course any other gear I might want.

I'd love to see you do hangman's alley, as a survival player it's an essential location for me to build in and I'd love to see your take on it!

Been meaning to rebuild my Sanctuary for a while. Started off with a central sleeping tower and a few turret towers. Planning on rebuilding everything in a centralized pyramid topped with a turret array. I try to keep turrets at a lower amount with an eye for versatile fields of overlapping fire, to keep Defense # low to encourage raids. Need to keep that raider scrap flowing to feed the Scrap Throne. I arm my settlers to the teeth so raiders get torn to pieces before they reach the front lines. My turrets really just act as pointers to tell me where the attackers are.

Lovely Settlement.. im always amazed at such settlements ..i do not have the talent or patience to build like this..i try then it doesn't work i get mad and just go kill some things :)

solid build and no major frame rate drops too!!!

I never went that far, Starlight Drive in is more fun to build on. I did maybe 80% of that once. I got the Slocum Joe's CC so every settlement needs one. Also like you said Arty is a must. You had a few ideas I wish I'd thought of! Still now I know a thing I didn't!

Great video , I’m planning on a bar & since this takes place in Boston- I thought a Cheers theme layout would be great - sturgis will make a decent Ted danson / Trashcan Carla can be Carla

Love the videos keep it up

i like the lineup of power armors, it really says "get the hell off my lawn"

Wow your settlement is amazing

Wow! You weren't kidding about the spoilers. I am a fallout noob and I must admit that I never realised just how big the game was, till I watched the show on Prime video. Playing and loving Fallout 4 on my series S currently. 👍 ✌️

Hey man, recently got back into F4 and was wondering, given the crap spawn points for raiders, could you not in theory wall off the inner portion of the settlement? From the sidewalks, leaves alot of building soace outside but could that not work?

I want to put all the weights and everything on the ground of the settlement make it feel more immersive but it is a awesome little settlement

You: "My power armor is being displayed without a fusion core inside so nobody can just hop in and run off..." Me: *remembers when I stepped out of my suit to hack a sit-down terminal and my companion fucking stole it*

Hey this is a really cool build

I have the new vault tech reactor and super reactor. So I built the building that houses the reactor with vault stuff and everything else is cement and warehouse buildings. I also use my companions as traders between my settlements. Although I hate that Garvey makes me lose my settlements by not stopping with the radiant quests. I have more problems and more settlements then I am supposed to have at my stage in the game, because of him.

When it comes to defense, I try and stick with the heavy laser turrets as much as possible. I've used missile turrets before and have had some of my settlers get badly injured from the splash damage they create.

Love this 😀

I ended up using the existing buildings and turning the kitchens into the shops, and the living rooms became whatever I thought would be appropriate with the shops. Most bedrooms I fit 3 beds, wardrobes and lamps, the furnace rooms could fit one or two beds and a footlocker, and the bathrooms got to be bathrooms haha. I have about 30 beds doing this, if I turned my own bedroom and baby room into guest rooms, I could probably fit 35-38.

do you have a basic build video for you apartment buildings?

Oh, my God - the outside of those showers has me thinking "Auschwitz"

6:15 Ahhh that's where the grills at. I was looking for em' :D

My sanctuary hills was boss. Had like 80 residents, two turrets (light and heavy) per settler. Enough water for five settlements, enough food for several settlements, and a shit ton of custom buildings and vendors. It got attacked exactly one time. I guess a turret every three feet on a tall concrete wall wasn't something raiders wanted to test. :P

Where in the workshop is the heavydoor at murphys located?

'The jungle gym isn't safe to use'... as we go around getting into fire fights and blowing things up 😂

How did you get the garage door thing

I sort of just put a Gunter on that rickety Old bridge and yes there's a couple dead raiders on it in my game too because the minigun worked

Hi, love your builds, how do you do the thing where you can pick up a few bits of joined up structure at the same time please, ive seen you do it loads of times in other vids

@GreyGaming How did you place those Vault Tec items outside of the Vault? Do you have to complete the questline to do that? Edit: I just Googled it quickly, so I'll quickly finish the questline 👍

Now, was this all built without mods, I recently started playing Fallout 4 again just to build and what you have us very similar to what I have in mind for Sanctuary hills.

How did you get all the arcades games and stuff i dont have them when i build my settlements ?

Of course Strong hangs out in the greenhouse all day. He's green, therefore that must be his house.

Where in the world do you get all the scrap to build this kinda stuff? I have plenty of wood and steel but the rest seems like it takes forever to accumulate.

Do you use any mods ? Because i have hard time to put that wood barricade around.

That’s pretty epic

What did you use to make the platform for the artillery? I cant find those frames anywhere in the crafting menu

Not to mention how in the he'll are the arcade machines powered without a wire and or hole in the wall to run wire to them ??

0:16 How are you flying around like that?

How did you build the estates? I cant get everything to snap. Also it looks like you are using floors for the ceilings. If build the outside structure and put upper floors in, then the walls wont snap. If I build the walls first then the ceiling wont snap.

how i can get the light street and the big generation

Be careful with the creation club skins. Last valentines day I bought Charleston condo and downloaded the free skins from that month and it broke my 3 year runthru

Thanks.

Maybe I just don't have them, but what are those big white things on the entrance into sanctuary hills?

I (almost) always 1st build a wall around the whole settlement.., sometimes a fence, but prefer walls ... (usally doesn't even take up that much "settlement space", when building a long, round wall around the whole settlement, so you can still build plenty of structures inside the safe wall;.. without a wall, just don't feel safe.., and it's easy to put roofs on some corner parts of the walls, to put guns / rocket launchers on them ... then I start building (big) structures, step by step, while making sure basics like food, water, beds are covered and increased step by step ... even around Sanctuary, you can easily build a wall completely around it, using some house back walls as part of the wall (just clog up some of the back wall windows)

How did you get that builds I have only steel and wood

How the hell did you manage to put inner concrete walls?! I've been trying for sooooo long

for a roleplay perspective, its really good, but i personally wouldnt put time and effort to put ventilation, or a hangout area or whatever, as it just takes to much effort when the settlers wont even go in that area or certain features arent even in the game (ventilation, water stream droughting, or bathrooms)

Jeepers, how fid you manage to get all that? I struggle for the materials.

What mod are the white towers in at the front entrance

Fairly new to fallout four question can they blow up settlements like if I have a fortress floating in the air only held by stairs and they just so happened to set it on fire or head with a nuke and crumble asking for a friend 😂

I respect the build as I did one on my first play through and figured out it isn’t worth it cause unless you make a video and post it nobody’s gonna see it and none of it really matters towards settlement happiness cause all you need is the basic’s and as long as you have them covered you are good cause after you get the achievement you really don’t have any need to get 100% happiness and can concentrate on all of them never ending radiant quest

7:13 How did you not run out of build space?

I like using the wood pieces for my settlements because I struggle to place the concrete pieces accurately and the metal parts just bother me. Wood and scaffolding for me

Do you have a guide on how to build it?

What are the white platforms at the bridge? I can’t find them in my game

If you add artillery will they use it without ou having to throw the flare?

How have you got half of these buildings?

Do you have a video of you building the flats?

God bless the minutemen

Did you finish the game?

Can you do like house designs with and without mods that you can put in any settlement just like cordless does

which mods do you have? I am planning on my second run to go bonkers on building mods.

what mode is this concrete buildings????

Hey brother I'm new to fallout 4 how do you get all that stuff? The only building choices i have are like dingy wood, and ragety looking metal buildings?

You don't need the minute men to do the settlement you can do it after escorting the robot

You said mod free, but did you break the console or is this in standard game form.

I always have trouble getting interior concrete walls to place in between floors. Is there a trick?

Curious where you got the bike thingys at 4:08 anyone know?

I wondered if you would ever show this one off

So, clearly you know your business, but I heard you mention Oxhorn in another video .. have you ever utilized his turret platforms? Heavy machine turrets, cardinal directions, two levels high -- IMHO, makes absolute MINCEMEAT out of practically any adversary, especially if positioned in support of another turret platform!! Super-easy build, non-powered, unless you want to add spotlights, or if you want to utilize the platform height for a recruitment radio tower.

“What is up my homies” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I cant seem to find the benchpresses.. a cant find anything that generates happiness, is it a add on or dlcs?

The game always says I can’t buil any more on this map, it’s just full, but I don’t have half of the buildings that you have. What’s going wrong with my game?

I sent codsworth to gray garden it seemed fitting

how do you get this thing ? like steel stairs steel platform

11:57 Cool build. What do you mean you waited for them to go on sale for free?

How is this for noobs? IDK how to make any of this

Piper is bae, atleast for me. Could you do Hangman's Ally next, please.

You ought to see My sanctuary hills build the floor squares that are made of wood I used them on the cover of the holes in the roof and the way I did it just built a platform over the house on one of the empty foundations I built a stairwell go up to flights and then there's a four-story tower and then from that Tower is four squares going all the way around to all the rules where I put the floor square roofing on and you can literally walk from house to house to the Tower without touching the ground

raiders do not attack across the bridge.

I play sim settlements 2 all the way. Been playing too long lol.

Where did you get all that concrete from?