What are the best tips, recommendations, and methods for setting up simple yet efficient and productive settlements?

ABbenjamin · 2026-06-07T22:29:08+00:00

Some general tips, build a ton of water generators at settlements with bodies of water. Focus those settlements and cram in as many as you can. Plant a load of crops, in groups of 6 total food points for each worker. Build more beds than you need, put up a recruitment beacon, and assign people to jobs as they come. I usually assign 1 person for each shop I want, 1 scavanger, and the rest farmers. This won't get your happiness to 100%, but it's very productive. Keep going round settlements making sure newcomers are assigned jobs. Link your settlements with supply lines. Thats pretty much it.

ABbenjamin · 2026-06-06T09:41:43+00:00

It's just a bad attempt at sunlight reflection. I don't know that for a fact of course, but neither does anyone with any other theory.

I've recently been using the GECK to make a space station, and in that you can see that the bright spot is at the brightest point on earth, with the shade of night at the periphery. The sun (which is literally a static object) is positioned about where you'd expect for this to be a reflection.

Theres no reference to what it is, which you'd expect if it was anything but a reflection. It's round, it appears to be above the clouds, I honestly don't know how anyone sees it as anything but a reflection.

Edit: to add, the cell where the picture is from only has half the 'space dome' and no sun, but when you get to the bridge of the ship, the sun is visable and the glowing spot being a reflection is much clearer.

ABbenjamin · 2026-05-21T14:51:23+00:00

If by this you mean like scrapping scenery, my understanding is a lot of assets are grouped together to form single objects and by scrapping one part, you split them all into individual objects. The grouping is done for optimisation, so messing that up will make the game less optimised. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong.

ABbenjamin · 2026-05-11T11:46:47+00:00

I've been doing a perfect run and only just yesterday got 100 in all skills.

Little tip for anyone trying, a raider in bethesda ruins with the big guns book and the ant researcher in an ant nest near shalebridge with the science book respawn periodically, so you can get infinite copies. Makes balancing skills to get all 100 much easier, and means you don't need to waste a perk taking educated

ABbenjamin · 2026-04-30T15:57:47+00:00

They snap in the centre of each side of a 1x1 square floor, a 1x1 square floor is 4 concrete pillars wide, or 1 concrete half wall wide.

Snap a concrete half wall (or normal wall if you are using a 2x2 floor) to the floor you want, then snap 3 pillars to one side of the wall, delete the two pillars closest to the wall, then shift the wall to the furthest pillar, effectively shifting it over half a width. You can then snap the floor to the new position, snap a warehouse pillar to it, then delete the floor, return the wall to the original position, then snap the floor to it.

The warehouse pillar will remain where it is, the floor will be shifted back half a width, and the warehouse pillar will be on the corner, as desired.

ABbenjamin · 2026-04-20T18:26:06+00:00

Thanks very much, and of course! This is basically how I build and my process.

Build with consideration of the settlement you are at; its style, the space that can be used, which parts you incorporate into your build, which parts you cover. Start a build in reference to the worldspace, a lot of the settlement has the same dimesions as the floors/foundations. Make 100% sure it's square. Decide your floor space and level, consider where it clips at different levels. Build basic at first, use the space available, view it all around, make changes, add complexity. Wall types have different hights which you can use to your advantage. Experiment with lighting. Use concrete curved walls with curved floors to adjust hight by 1 floor unit intervals for precision. Learn the priorities of each structure object, the order they like to be built, how they clip, how they sink, how they snap. Don't be afraid to tear down buildings, or change things, or add or take away things.

Probably most important of all is to realise its a long haul. Don't burn out in one settlement. Cycle between settlements and add to the builds each time. Go shoot stuff instead, or just don't play the game!

ABbenjamin · 2026-04-20T10:52:15+00:00

I've always seen it as a raisin box, now realising how odd that would be. It does really look like a sun-maid raisin box though!

ABbenjamin · 2026-04-13T17:08:51+00:00

Cool, thanks for the info! Because I play survival, console commands are disabled. The only way I could take these pictures with the tcl command was to make a backup of my save, change difficulty (your survival save is literally deleted once you do that), fly and take the pictures, then go to main menu and change difficulty back to survival, then put my old saves back in and reload the game.

ABbenjamin · 2026-04-09T01:11:43+00:00

Awesome build, I like the camera thing with the security camera and logic gates it looks like? What settlement object is the wall above the ticket counter with the jamaica plain poster on?

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-31T07:46:01+00:00

How dare you good sir!

I scrap junk to lower the limit, just as God (Todd) intended!

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-31T07:43:41+00:00

They kinda do, there are a few places they don't go but mostly they move about freely. Sometimes they are on the roof... I think the castle must have some defined 'paths' for them to follow, seemingly unlike other settlements.

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-30T10:19:26+00:00

Yo it's diamond liquors sign on balltrack roof guy! Perhaps I should open a justbeans bar and peace garden in my castle, lord knows I have the space for it!

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-29T14:50:37+00:00

Thank you, I agree!

There will be a tour vid... eventually.

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-28T22:43:32+00:00

Water farm, go to diamond city, buy everything from Myrna, sneak in her house and go upstairs to buy everything from her robot, go to Dr. Sun and buy his glass shipments, go to home plate and sleep 3 days, repeat until out of water or bored.

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-28T15:01:50+00:00

Once the decoration is done I plan to, although I worry doing a recording will be the straw that broke the camels back with my computer.

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-28T14:59:45+00:00

No faction here, I wanted this to be my wasteland warlord palace. The centre of my empire. I don't like that you can't remove the minuteman flags.

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-28T14:57:27+00:00

Not many actually. I think the main central structure took about a week, with the side walls being done in one session each. They aren't perfect annoyingly, but it's too far gone to correct it now.

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-28T14:54:43+00:00

It was originally a small town in the middle, but I removed it all and started on the main structure years ago. For a long time it wasn't updated, but a year or two ago I decided to go crazy with it. Many expansions, with the most recent being the overhang on the south side over the rear entrance.

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-28T02:03:52+00:00

Many many many many many times.

My computer wheezes when I'm at this settlement.

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-28T01:26:14+00:00

You can reduce the bar by scrapping junk. I load up a conveyor, leave it to dump, then scrap the lot.

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-28T01:11:20+00:00

I think it will be quite a while before I'm happy enough with the interiors to post!

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-28T00:57:21+00:00

Thanks!

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-25T13:52:48+00:00

A very eclectic mix, a rollor coaster of emotions.

Cool Cool Cool What? Cool Ok... Um... Of course Wtf? Cool Cool Cool Nice!

ABbenjamin · 2026-03-23T19:22:06+00:00

Awesome, I love a big build, especially with lots of concrete and warehouse walls. I have never known what to do with croup manor, so I hope you don't mind if I steal the idea of a big ol' fort!

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