I am just going to say in advance that I won't mind a really long video for you final vault tour. In fact I would prefer it. If necessary, split it into parts if you think viewers would prefer that.
Not only do the power connectors snap to the outside of hallways, you can also cover them up afterwards with room walls. That way you can power your lights without unsightly connectors in the rooms
Thanks so much for this. When I saw the scope of the space and all the pieces, I was sooooo overwhelmed. Fortunately, my settlers are so happy to be there they don’t seem to mind all sleeping in one area and the super lame and awkward food production. Also, very little light. But they are always happy to see me, unlike those Sanctuary ingrates!
@@redwind5150 I have since seen builds that just ignore the whole vault concept and build a cave settlement. There's a really beautiful one by a youtuber by the handle Sanghelios. It's insanely ambitious but inspiring. The video is called "Vault 88 after 600 hours of settlement building". Another thing that made me look at it differently is Sim Settlements 2. Not to spoil anything if you plan on using the mod but there's a bit featuring a fungi farm in a cave. It's done fairly simply, considering, and looks really cool.
@@Mixxie67 I followed a series by wasteland dovakiin myself. I plan to start out with shanty towns, and connect each section. Also, I sent Preston to the construction site. He can defend that spot alone until he grows old.
I'm really late to this game. Started playing it last summer. Just got the "Season Pass" a month or so ago. This video in particular was extremely helpful for the nuts and bolts of how to build the vault. How the pieces go together. A vault tour (which is how I found you) is cool, but it didn't tell me how you did it. I still can't figure out how to build more than three stories, but hopefully in another episode you explain how you did it. I won't copy your vault, but I do like the open-air concept. A bunch of metal rooms feel almost the same as being in an underground tunnel. I think the openness of your vault "feels" like it's almost outside. I'd rather not load any "unofficial" mods, so I'm trying to do this with vanilla Fallout plus Season Pass DLCs. I know it's late, but thanks for doing a video explaining how these build pieces actually work. So many other youtube vids just show off the final result without explaining how they got there. I'm also hoping you cover other settlements, also. For example, I have difficulty in Sanctuary because the structures are already there, and defy modification or enhancement. I can rearrange the furniture, but the roof still leaks like a sieve. Same for Croup Manor. For example. I'll be mining your 4-yr old vids for tips and tricks on how to use the tools available to me.
after watching your "tour of the vault" video and both of your tips videos for vault building, i think i actually understand some basics and i'll have to try them so my vault doesn't look like crap hahaha, thanks again for the insight Oxhorn, you're awesome!
You definitely earn my subscription mister. How I wish I could take your vault and install it in my game. I didn't see everything in it and I already know I want it. It's so good looking. Good work sir.
I was really happy with this video, the last one occasionally irked me because of the inefficiency that you sometimes used, i liked that you correct it and you even taught me a few new more efficient techniques and gave me some good ideas for my work in progress vault in this vid. You earned my subscription a while ago and I enjoy most of your videos
Sasqmo, I hadn't thought of that. I've been trying to decide where to put it in my game that isn't so....tacky? or would seem out of element in my settlements and the vault would be a good place to start with it. Thank you.
+Oxhorncould you make a handy list of what parts work best where. So I have it written down, I tried doing it myself but I couldn't word it right.thanks for the happiness calculator I finally got the Benevolent Leader achievement thanks to it, it was in Sanctuary with 19 Settlers, I had to completely ruin it, with 5 Bars, 3 Barbers, 1 cling, 2 general stores, 2 clothing, 6 cats, 6 dogs, 70 pummel horses and 40 weight machines.I reloaded a previous save so it's all nice again with 89 happiness.
Thanks a lot. I was very lost when I came across vault 88 and had all that stuff to deal with. It was really confusing. Now I think I can build at least a simple vault.
Handy tip that I discovered today: If you leave the vault and go elsewhere, it will refill the vault crate by 10 I think each and refill/reset the pip-boy crates.
Very well done. I really like your demeanor and explanations. What I am looking for is tips on how big one should build a room, what rooms should be built, and how far one can really stretch that build budget. Your vault looks amazing, and I hope Bethesda is taking notes on design. Not to say they are not great, just to say that you really have some great ideas as well. I am a numbers guy, so I look at what really needs to be built vs what is just for fun. For instance, how large should a dinner be? How much room should be allocated for recreational/happiness? With current game mechanics, do I really need a Nursery? Again, great videos. Any chance you will provide a "by the numbers" segment to explain your logistics for building the size and orientation of the rooms? Or is it really just a "feel it out" kind of procedure? I look forward to more videos either way. Thank you.
Not gonna lie, every correction you've made sounds so simple once you've said it! Yet almost all of those mistakes were things I've done! Nice Vault! Gonna help me with mine! You've got yourself another subscriber!
Fun Fact: If you turn on no clip on PC and select and item, and then cancel moving it, it becomes undetected and unable to be selected, and you can build as if it is not there. Same as placing building pieces down in no clip. This really helps when building and can help you get around the really annoying restrictions of building in fallout 4.
This series has been such a big help so thank you... but I have to ask how you're able to build such a large structure without the settlement size meter moving at all?
Love your vids. I just have a comment on 4:36 - OK, you have traded one "extra" item (the doorway endcap) for another item (wall endcap). So there's actually no save at all as to the number of items needed :) However nice thing is you have actually removed the glitching around the doors (whis makes me mad) but as you have said the drawback is the continuing hallway suddenly ending with a wall. I guess it's a matter of personal preference. I guess corner with door endcap looks better and let's hope Bethesda fixes the glitching :D
Excellent video! What mod are you using to build such large settlements? I haven't been using any mods, but instead have just been doing the gun storage thing in the workbench. But, it causes problems once you get to a certain size. Do you have any recommendations?
it was shown in your previous video, is that a mod that you use to have really nice and fancy looking shops in your vault? because i like how that looks much better than the little wooden kiosk shacks normally available. just wondering :)
Your vids are on point, bc i dont normally subscribe to a channel. I could describe why, but im sure you get good feedback. I havent checked your vid list and i do know of the better stores mod , but i honestly still cant seem to make a manned store without using the big corny booth which doesnt fit indoors
Hey pal. Any tip on how to get my settlers to walk around and congregate to different sectors of my large vault? Drives me crazy that my morons stand around the main area.
Might help if you give them jobs far away. Not sure about the unemployed. They just walks around the spawn point without anything to occupy them. Would be nice if we could assign them to desks and chairs and the like. Give each one a routine of sorts...
Erich Salvesen Thanks. Guess I'll have to wait for that update to spread the new shops around. I'm not placing those ugly lemonade stands in my pristine vault.
Adoniss2yu hell no. I already have areas set up for the different shops spread around the cave complex. Just can't bring myself to wasting money on those stupid stands.
I just built a concrete windowed enclosure and surrounded it with missile turrets. If you really want the vault door there, I'd suggest using the rug glitch to trick it in place.
I know it is way to late in your vault build to try to change anything but personally I don't like (and don't take this as a diss because I love your work) the way that utility stairway goes up to your water room/garden. have you tried other ways to make the climb up that rock side? I'm thinking of trying a large atrium style room with a stairway going up to the water generator area. sucks that the tunnels leading to the front door are useless for vault pieces.
I've been subscribed for a while but what might make your videos a bit more entertaining is a little background music. Nothing to loud that drowns out your voice but something a little subtle that is similar to what you play for the enemy spawn video.
I think what he's trying to say is that you need to place the window glass in the window frame before you add a wall on the other side to sandwich the glass in.
my question is.... you had a video hooking up power from the reactor room to the hallway, I tried looking for the video you got the conduit to poke through the door, can you tell me what video. Thanks
So there's a piece that easily snaps to an exterior wall and provides power? I wasted like 4 hours yesterday using the wire trick a couple hundred times in difficult spaces...
I'm having trouble with trying to build a atrium The most problems I have is snapping the ceilings and having rooms on different floors(bottom , mid , tall)
hey this build of vault is the best you feel it like your home congratulations.I triet to do the same think but i nead i litlle help may you show photos of all sides of your vault if you want , thank you and good builtings.
hey oxhorn I had an idea to make 3 settlements with the 3 entrances in vault tec workshop instead of 1 massive vault [1. vault 88] [2.brotherhood bunker based off of the safe house in new Vegas using pharmacy entrance] [3.hidden shanty town in the subway entrance] so if you see this what do you think and what would you build if you were to build 3 instead of 1?
I have a question, but it's not about building the Vault. I wanna know if you can rebuild the prototypes of the experiments again, as I scrapped them thinking I could still do the experiments with the final ones.
This was from the Build your own swimming pool mod, or something of a similar name. As well as adding tiles to add the illusion of water, and flowing water, it can also be used to assign relaxation points for settlers. Think he covers it in his Greygarden lived in settlement video
Yo, vault building in Fallout 4 is enough to drive someone to drink... The railings and bridges alone, man... There's no prefab pieces that are U shaped with walls... Because I'm sorry, settlers don't need more than two build squares with a window and bed, lol.
anyone else wish that while you're away the "overseer" would kinda build the main atrium(in the room you start) and let you do the rest? since, i suck at building homes
so how does the settlement size work? is it a flat size cost for everything you place? or are they all different sizes? sorry if this is super noob question.
Different Vault stuff is smaller. When trying for max happiness one chair was made way for 10 weight benches. You can use the exploit of removing all the junk items from the workshop drop the inside the vault and scrap them manually, the reduces the build cap meter. I got sanctuary down to 1/4 from full doing it.
Pretty much yeah. I use all the junk my scavengers collect from the workshop and scrap them for parts. It takes a long time to do (I consider that the tax for the exploit) but do that enough you see the bar drop.
+addz777 it seems like dropping weapons with mods works really fast. in most settlements I can drop 5 heavily modded weapons a few times and it gives a noticeable drop in settlement size.
Did you have to use a mod to increase your budget in order to get the size Vault you built? Edit: I'm not asking for the name of the mod, just wondering if it's possible to build a Vault of your size without a mod.
please help me out here, I do have a few mods installed that adds things to the vault, and everything will be fine, but once I go so far I get a masive lag spike every time I place something. help
+Oxhorn And as you perfectly show......not ALL those pieces work.Ohh Bethesda.... Just thought I'd mention it since I didn't see it in the video. This was(for me)the most stressful & tedious DLC. Got it day 1 & still haven't built a vault. After hours of this not sticking to this & that not sticking to this....i quit. Had no more hair left to pull out😉 Watching your stuff to try & start again. I feel everything should be more cohesive.
if you go to the utility hallways tab, towards the end are the room parts. I used them because the flooring matches the flooring around the generator. To make a two story room use a two story atrium wall piece to clip the second story onto.
So sorry if I am spamming but I just wanted to recommend a mod that is also about vault lighting, but it works slightly different. My apologies if someone has already sent you this, or it has found your attention through another way. www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/17174/?
***** LOL This is much of why I am holding off until after Nuka World to put together a good load order. I put in 200 hours in the first couple weeks after it launched and haven't touched it since. :)
I Made defended concrete walls in the entree ways of the spawner tunnels not counting the vualt door. Tweet: twitter.com/DeathStrike18/status/762254663441801216?s=09
I know it is way to late in your vault build to try to change anything but personally I don't like (and don't take this as a diss because I love your work) the way that utility stairway goes up to your water room/garden. have you tried other ways to make the climb up that rock side? I'm thinking of trying a large atrium style room with a stairway going up to the water generator area. sucks that the tunnels leading to the front door are useless for vault pieces.
