Settlement Builds for Noobs: The Castle 

Minor correction: the Castle is unlocked via Minuteman questline, not Railroad. Not sure how that slipped through.

It's good seeing people still enjoying the crafting in this game.

For the turrets you might want to use connectors for each turret, because if you connect the wires to each other and one turret is damaged, the following turrets will be deactivated since energy stopped running at the broken turret

Quite rare to find stuff like this these days

Thanks for these videos man! As a late comer to Fallout 4 I have to say creators like you still doing this in 2022 gives some awesome insight on how to work these bases in the most upgraded versions. Thanks a lot

Great settlement. This is exactly the kind of style I try to go for in any settlement that has pre existing/partial structures and Ive always felt there should be a better way to repair buildings without it looking all wonky

I use the mod "Castle Walls Restored" (place late in load order) will not only fix the walls, but add several rooms to the castle that were before useless rubble areas including a matching door facing the diner. Also while Bethesda misses stuff all the time, I do like how they connected those sinks through those pipes all the way out to the ocean where the water pump sits. Its a nice touch and one thing you don't have to bother, even if it locks it into that room.

The clinic feels like it needs a window or two. As it stands now, your doctor is going to turn into some kind of cave creature.

For heavily fortified settlements like this, I'd love to be able to assign a settler as a door guard. They'd basically be like any defense assigned settler but would seal powered doors. Doesn't matter too much when attacks spawn within the walls but still...it would eliminate that weird feeling when you walk away from a fortification leaving the door open or with a way to open it. Maybe that's just me

This is exactly how I did my castle walls. The only difference is the garage door is on the inside of the castle wall, and I used a junk gate for the outside. The area in between has turrets set up for any unwanted visitors that happen to get inside the junk gate. I have the inside completely wired almost identically. Just don’t have the wall for the generator room. Lol. I use the inside for shops and sleeping quarters. I even created a nice bar/restaurant in the room you made the bathrooms. I also have 2 jail cells. I have inside bathrooms and have outhouses as well. Awesome build!!

This is very good The Castle settlement build. I especially like you're northern wall entrance part. The other parts of the fort are really well done like the baracks, and the generator. The only thing that I would put outside near the water purifier would be the farm since I like to be historically accurate, so the attackers won't damage the crops, and to save up some space for other future base developments. For the crops I usually go for the Tato, Corn, and Mutfruit to create Adhesive in almost every settlement. Now for the future settlement builds videos I would recommend Sunshine Tidings co-op farm, or for more chalenge Coastal cottage settlement. Ps. I hope that you will get subs in the future.

I love building up the acastle to be a beast so when I side with the Minute Men it turns into one of the best synth slaughter houses.

Lovely looking build, and far better than the ramshackle stuff I usually do!

My build was practically the same thing (with minor differences here and there), but I also built a platform around the water filtration system, with stairs leading down to it, walls all around it, and a little guard shack. I guess I just felt like it needed to be protected, though I can't remember ever seeing any enemies appearing back there. Oh well. It still looks cool.

If you do the MM ending, its good to gave a few turrents pointing inside the castle. At least one or two Coursers will spawn in during the Institute assault on the Castle. I use mods, so I had all my MM and Settlers armed with Gatling Lasers. During the last attack wave, 2 Coursers spawned in and one was immediately cut in half by laser fire. The second survived a little longer, but I think he blew out his brains because the attack ended before I noticed him get killed by my settlers😉

Here's a trick I've used for powered doors that block entrances: put an additional switch on the outside, connect the output from both switches to an XOR gate, and connect the XOR output to the door. This makes it so both switches toggle the door and you can open and close it from either side.

Decent build. I like to make use of the ground on top of the wall for gardens but this quite nice indeed

You can also unlock the Castle as a regular settlement without the Minutemen, but you won't get access to the armoury unless you do the mission for the Minutemen.

As a noob I don't need to see what you did, I need to see how you did it.

The thing I love about build videos is usually I would do a lot different in mine, but you always see little things in videos like this that give you ideas and new things to try. Such a fun game!

I ended up getting loads of different mods and all sorts to try and perfectly fix this every time I've played through, I can't help myself!! I think it's just the curiosity of the location

It's really simple, but practical, I like it. I've also started building those holes in and put up some turrets along with the big artillery guns. Then I never really thought about anything, I was concentrating more on Sanctuary Hills. I've demolished most of the old houses and used Snappy Housekit and Scrap Everything mods to clean up the place and built some new buildings, like a big two-floor market, a generator room, 3 residential houses which are almost fully decorated, a barn for the brahmins, and a private house. Now I'm planning a basketball court with some stairs on the side. And I also have a big Power Armor showcase house to let me put out my 10+ different type or painted power armors. I've also fully restored Croup Manor using the Snappy mod, then I went to County Crossing to build an art-deco-like house and some defense for the 2 settlers there. My next big plan is to make something monumental out of Spectacle Island, which is maybe the biggest buildable settlement. I like watching, how others make nice settlements, the ideas are almost infinite, especially if you happen to use mods too. Actually I like building some more than playing the game itself.

I have used concrete walls to do the repair. This allows me to build an entry room in the large opening, and a 4 season store in the small opening. Over the large opening is an open bay barrack for the troop. The hallway bays are close off into officer quarters. I furnished the kitchen so it was functional. A second corner I made into a shower room. The third one was made into a clinic. A the 4th one with the stairs is the general's quarters. While I do use mods I added as few extra structures as possible. One of the optional mods I sometimes use is grass floor square mod to torn the grass green. I have also used sim settlements to plant crops on the brown grass roofs. I try to make it as functional as possible and still put as few alterations inside the courtyard. Keeping it a practice, exercise and recreation area.

It is nice to see a simple, well-done version of The Castle. Hopefully this will inspire me to play the game again.

Nice build, what you did with the walls is almost the same as I do, that's actually what made me watch this. The one thing I hate about it though (the build itself not your video) is that one corner at one of the gun emplacements at the most heavily damaged wall. The one that keeps it from being uniform due to the lack of a triangler block in the building options. I've yet to find a solution to it

Excellent work. It looks great!

loved fixing the castle walls when the game came out, made such a nice settlement

Cool, I enjoyed building a small settlement here.

I mean this in a complete funny way. Quote: "Minor correction: the Castle is unlocked via Minuteman questline, not Railroad. Not sure how that slipped through." That's a cough, ahem cough-noob-cough mistake. lol 😄The concrete foundations, you can snap the concrete walls starting above, then down the sides of the foundations, all the way into the ground. It will help make it nearly seamless in some spots, and eliminate some gaps. Takes a little practice with your technique though.

This is one of the best castle builds I’ve seen. I really love the no mods builds. So I subbed and can’t wait to check out more. Thank you.

Great settlement. I’m addicted to your videos.

Thanks for this! Definitely using this as some inspiration for my castle build as it's my main base of operations.

I didn’t realize this vid was new. Keep making these!!!

I'm suprised you didnt keep the general's quarters and turned it into another barracks. The Castle is one of my favorite build areas because of its importance in the game and i like to see what people do with it

Did you know you can snap wood structure pieces to the radio shack? I add a small bunk room there for the radio operator(s)

I love this stuff! I just love watching this kind of content lmao

how precious

digging your videos, keep uploading cool settlements :)

Some nice touches i hadnt thought about..ie.. roller door.. placing of other lockable gate.. When i rebuild outer wall, i build into the yard deeper, fronting with Warehouse build parts.. My (god only knows) many play throughs and ive only just started using warehouse bits.. they look nicer than concrete and makes building forts with crenilated walls looks pretty cool

Simple and well done

This is a good idea! I expand castle by making a 2nd floor flush with the ramparts

Love the idea behind having a better ratio of power armor to people than the brotherhood. I’ve also been hoarding every old hellfire enclave power armor and painted it with the minuteman logos

Very fun and creative

i love your builds so much its really inspiring the problom though it makes me want to start a new game XD

Wish i had this vid when tbe game came out and all i did was build. Amazong work grey!

It's amazing!

Keep up the good work man! Love the content

I loved my build of the castle.

I think you did pretty good bub. I have repaired this Settlement a few times. Always fun. Lol

Great job man

Looked at your mantrap build and then rewatched this one...gives me a thought to try and combine the 2. Another person built an exterior fortified wall also, which is interesting but I'm not sure that idea would exclude the enemy spawn point. Regards

Just saw this Great videos guy I've been grinding fallout 3 since new show came out havent played fallout 4 In a few years using ur videos to help get some ideas for when I go from fallout 3 to 4

I don't know if it was just a glitch or if it was because I had a supply line to The Castle, but I didn't need to plant any crops because there wasn't any indication that they needed food. They didn't complain about lack of food nor did a warning sign show up on my pipboy.

I love building up the castle to be a beast so when I side with the Minute Men it turns into one of the best synth slaughter houses.

Really good man!😊

money and resources were never a problem for me. lol. i always water farmed. starting with sanctuary and then moving to the castle. got to a point where every couple days i would have 1400+ bottle of water to sell. then i would go to the main settlements that have shipments of resources and trade the water for the resources. then i would build the castle into some magnificent monster.

Very nice. I don't remember my decorations of settlements but I know I've spent hours on them. I haven't played in a year or 2 but I'm getting back into it from scratch. I got so drunk yesterday I already fucked up some important NPC storylines lol.

Holy CRAP. The Castle is a pentagon? That makes so much sense! I can't believe I didn't realize until the bird's eye view.

Nice build

Great work the castle is one of the harder settlement builds in fallout 4

I also like to fill in the walls, but god damn do I have issues with it sometimes, and I can never truly do so perfectly with tiny holes here and there or spots I cant place anything that just BOTHERS me and I try to eventually remove from my mind. Though I dont really try to make use of the internal wall 'repaired' sections. I prefer to keep the doorways small though, if caravans show up they can sit outside thank you very much, im not compromising on security for the HQ of my private army.

nice build! The overhang on the one side, would allow attackers to run under, and out of guns view. Just thinking from a tactic view..

I have made the castle into a star shaped dome bunker would definitely recommend this settlement as a main settlement location

I have to fix those walls every time! Brick texture mods allow for a perfect match.

I cant wait to get that place i started a new character with 8 luck points in Survival Mode and your Video is really good i am gonna try to make it almost like that :D

I could never get that creative with the castle (except for a pier outside its' western wall). Most of the inside rooms are generally set up how I want them. The place that starts with the first aid is an aid station, the room at the end with sinks is the dining hall, the arms room stays the arms room. I change only a little; the big officer rooms into bays for the foot sodier minutemen and the central yard is for pushup mats, workout gear, and the rubble pile is a CQM range. TLDR: It starts close to how I would want it anyway.

Nice facility

Bahut badhiya

Former gymnast - Seeing the pommel horse surrounded by concrete walls and floors gave me a chuckle.

Looks good dude

God bless the minutemen

Watched the tv show. Pull my ps4 fallout of the shelf since 2015. New ps5 upgrade is nice. Looking forward to fresh start. My old save has 470 hours. Mostly base building. Maximum value for this game !!

I did do this in my first playthrough. Arduous torture but damn is it nice to look at when you're done with it. Now though I can't take the horrible building mechanics like I did back then so I just connect them to my supply line via Local Leader and I build a few necessities and leave.

This game is great!

This is actually very similar to what I did with the castle back in 2015 when the game came out, I had to use wood foundations and shacks since the workshop DLCs weren’t out yet and I also didn’t have the powered doors, but the artillery and turrets are mostly in the same spots, the crafting area is behind the big metal door that’s a part of Ronnie’s quest, buildings are set up against the main wall of the fort for your traders, turned the areas under the artillery platforms into the barracks, the only major difference is that I turned one of those into my personal room and had a larger farm and hit the population cap, my farm was also more geared towards vegetable starch production.

The builds look good

Good Job

I always grow the food outside the castle, like they did in medieval ages.

Best I have seen.

Love it

I would love to see builders try and make builds but without DLCs as well with just vanilla stuff! Just to see if it's possible and to see what's possible!

There was a mod I saw awhile back that oxhorn talked about called scrap scrap. It makes all the stuff on the ground scrap able, and you may want to look into it for some of the stuff around this fort. It may work on every settlement too, since it's a mod, but I don't use mods because I don't know which ones will glitch and destroy whatever progress I have.

Wow, this looks so much better than the abomination I made 2 years ago

I usually just put disgusting amounts of those cannons and request fire mission on the nearby sea lol, it's funny and i love it

Looking for inspiration and ideas for fixing up my castle, this is pretty damn good.

The castle is a settlement along with a few others that (in my opinion) needs it's build limit increased. The location has a ton of potential. I like it, but once you get rolling on a build plan, you'll get close lined by the limit. Then it feels like a waste time. However, your repairs to the wall do look damn good👍

Nice build but I feel like you could make more barricades on the wall and maybe more shade. Is it possible that you could build some shacks or lookout posts outside the entrance?

Thanks GreyGaming for that inspirational build video. Subscribed for more :)

Take a shot every time grey says "fortification"

love the castle you made, but did you put it to download or semthing mayebe ?

I kinda did something similar except i put all the shops in the middle in a makeshift housing and made the wall into rooms

The roll-up garage door in the fortification where you repaired I would have Sally ported it put another one of those doors right behind it on the inside of the wall so they have to go through two lockable doors to get to the main courtyard

Ahh, the Castle, the only reason I continue the Minutemen quest line after ditching Preston at Sanctuary. I then only come in to sneak the six mutfruit, corn, and tatos from their garden and never stick around.

I have found the block foundations are a little taller than the concrete. It you replace them you might be able to plug that little gap the the begging. I like the look of the stone block more than the concrete foundations.

Looks good. I did similar

Just makes zero sense that you can't have an option to properly fix that damn wall in vanilla. Thanks for the help though xD

Good at three-story Barrak on the Northern wall opening, so the only entrance is on the Southside. I placed missile turrets on the East wall because of The brotherhood. My castle can hold 52 minutemen.

You can also get t60 armors from atom cats garage. It's only place you can buy the armors, other apparently is prydwen but it won't work if you wiped brotherhood out.

I gotta see what you do with the vault 88 expansion

Hello, I am impressed with this build. I will certainly try it! How did you get rid of the Mirelurk nests, and the large dirt piles inside the Castle? Thanks!