2024 Benevolent Leader (100 Happiness Settlement) Guide Fallout 4

[@Volatile02]

might be the most simple and well explained guide out there, thanks a lot brother

[@Nick.Candy808]

Imagine being a settler and the sole survivor sends you to his settlement and you see a bunch of toilets, chairs and boxes outside😂thanks for the guide my dude!

[@JacobReid]

😂😂 best comment so far

[@DieselEffect]

At 23:29 CST on November 9, 2015, I first fired up Fallout 4. (Hell yeah I have a pic of the screen. I was stoked. Even went to the GameStop midnight release). Over 1000 hours of gameplay and almost 9 years later, I got this achievement. Thanks a lot my dude.

[@JacobReid]

Best comment yet. Thats incredible! Congrats on 1000 hours and getting the trophy

[@sir_cheeks445]

Just got the trophy after years of attempting. Thank you for your help.

[@JacobReid]

You’re welcome!

[@Psmo0179]

This is by far the best guide. Followed with a few minor changes (just added some more happiness activity, weight bench and pommel horse ) …… but your blueprint was awesome and spot on. Thank you.

[@Trentherrera]

Best vid. Only needed one settler and one level 3 bar. Filled up w crates, paintings, bare minimum defense water and food. 2 beds. The key was sleeping in 2 different beds for the 48 hr sleep cycle, and making sure your settler was working when you woke up. Sleep immediately after happiness ticks up and it goes quick

[@nurgspestilence9352]

This guide works!! This man deserves an award . Highest i ever got was 95% and it had stalled . Kudos to you young man , subbed , liked and spammed this link in multiple discords .

[@JacobReid]

Thank you, I really appreciate it!

[@helcarloki1887]

Vault tec dlc makes the achievement easy. I got it with only the single settler. Just built it up first, once I turned on the beacon....

[@lencow2314]

Hey i'm currently doing it, i noticed something, robots like cury or ada doesnt count in the settlement number but can be assign to shop. will it work if i have like 5 regular settler and one robot ?

[@JacobReid]

I think it would!

[@lencow2314]

@@JacobReid yup all good it worked out ! thanks for the tutorial

[@sonogameplay]

Because of this video, I got the platinum 6 years after the last trophy! I dropped this game in 2018 because of the benevolent leader, but thanks to this guide, I managed to achieve it!. Thank you so much!

[@JacobReid]

I’m very happy I could help ya get it!

[@andrewz4135]

wondering what I did wrong... I am stuck at 80 ^ happiness followed the list of instructions exactly... UPDATE: This completely worked. Just had to wait for it to tick up before sleeping again (used different bed each time). Followed the instructions exactly.

[@KoloStories]

Best straightforward guide period. I was Dreading this achievement but you made it so much more simple. Thanks man!

[@JacobReid]

Glad I could help!

[@cwmodeler8887]

Just wanted to say thank you very much for getting me that platinum trophy. I had some other things to do in the game, but they were very easy. I just wanted to say thank you. I did like the video for you. And now i'm gonna go get platinum on fallout76. Keep posting helpful videos.

[@JacobReid]

I’m happy I could help! Thanks for subscribing!

[@SleekStarlovers]

YOU ARE AMAZING THANK YOU! I put this game off for so long because I couldn’t get this stupid achievement! THANK YOUU ✨✨✨✨

[@bchandler8945]

Literally on 99% just need one more, got 20 settlers, 108 df, 30 water & food. What am I doing wrong?

[@JacobReid]

Everything I’ve read is it’s next to impossible with that many settlers because it’s too difficult to control all the variables that negatively impact happiness. I would consider just sending away some settlers to see if a smaller group can get it done

[@swaeshow]

This guid is by far the easiest guide I've found. I have been trying a tone of other guides but kept having the increase stop somewhere between 85-90 with every method. Then I found this. at 99 i saved and got the trophy on PS4 then uploaded that save and got the trophy right away on ps5 version. Done and done thanks to you man! Great guide. I just had to sub after this!

[@JacobReid]

Just out of curiosity, how do you do the thing to get the trophy on ps5? I’m currently plating the ps4 version and want to plat ps5 next

[@habskid9572]

Same

[@patg4670]

@@JacobReid It's fairly easy, you save at 99 happiness, (or anywhere to pop easy trophy, you can do this with level up trophies as well by saving before you pop the next level), then you upload the save through the main menu on fallout 4 ps5 version, load it up wait for happiness to reach 100, or level up for level up trophies. I'm not sure if this works with bobbleheads and magazines and 50 lockpicks and 50 hacks though.

[@alonsotorrens]

@@patg4670 for the level up trophies you dont need to save before leveling up, if you are over level 50 and you level up once you get all 3, also what the game counts as "hack", "lockpick" and so on is the exact moment that you do it and not the stats by itself, sometimes if you delete the game the progress restars, even if you had 49 hacks or so, you will start from 0 but the game wont tell you, however im not 100% sure about the magazines and bubbleheads, i guess its the same

[@HectorAgostoOne]

Geez...this totally worked. I didnt just put random items to fill the size though, i figured if i had to fill the size meter might as well create the full settlement so that once i get the achievement I can recruit settlers. Not bad. Best guide.

[@marronnorram5881]

Thank you !! I followed your guide, and just finished it .....best one i could find !

[@djstar6320]

I'm at 94 right now. I probably need one more clinic and more stuff. I was keeping my size bar out of the yellow. I'll if it works tonight.

[@troyillson2068]

100!! Thanks buddy. Much appreciated.

[@JacobReid]

@@troyillson2068 happy to help!

[@KelinCalcetin]

Thanks man it worked June 2024, I got the trophy and I did it in Starlight Drive In of all places 1 settler farming, 1 in a bar, 4 in clinics

[@tannertairent1356]

So you do not actually need a "large" settlement to get this trophy. My yellow bar was only half full and I got the trophy. Also, you do not need all of the things you built. You just need a level 1 bar, a turret (5 defense), a water pump (3 water), 2 beds, a settler, and about 30 food items in the settlement storage - I had about 30 tatos. Assign the settler to the bar and wait. When doing the waiting game all I did was sleep for 24 hours then wait on a bench that I also built for 24 hours then idled for about 3-4 minutes in real time. Making sure that the 24 hours ended around early afternoon (1pm), although I am not sure if that was necessary. As soon as the happiness rating went up, I repeated this process. I brought my happiness from 60 to 100 in exactly an hour and about half of that time was set up.

[@robinlomax1870]

I did exactly what u said with the 1 person and the bar and got the trophy last night . The happiness stopped at 95 and 99 % after some head scratching managed to get it going again . So pleased it’s done

[@benmcpeek1633]

this strategy worked great, i did everything the video said up until the build limit part, and then followed this comment and it took around 30-45 minutes of sleeping and waiting before i got the trophy. i would recommend doing this 100 percent

[@Statikshade]

Used the Red Rocket Truck Stop. Built 6 turrets (can never have enough security), stockpiled the workshop with all types of food, built 6 water pumps, built 2 beds and built the level 1 bar and 1 generator with lights for aesthetics. Assigned one settler to the bar. When the settler went to bed at midnight I would sleep for 8 hours. Go outside and wait for 15 hours immediately followed by waiting 24 hours. Settler goes to bed and you repeat. Took about 1 hour to rapidly climb to 100.

[@har1sma300]

This video is valid

[@ox9717]

This worked for me really well did everything in the video except the sleeping I set it up exactly like you did and just played the game normally and the happiness was going up. Thanks for the video I almost have the platinum trophy now cheers.

[@KrazyPlays_]

@jacob Thank you so much for this info, it worked 100%! All three other videos were so bad at the info.. said to use bars tier 3 which did not work for me! Thanks again! I got the Plat.

[@JacobReid]

I’m happy I could help you get that plat!

[@MMichael69]

Thank for this guide! I also have been through a lot before this one. Just got the trophy using this method in 1.5h, I could’ve done it faster but I dived into the building a bit too much haha Anyways… I’m completely new to Fallout universe, Amazon Prime series lured me into this post-apocalyptic world and I totally love it! I started before next gen update on PS5 so I’m doing PS4 trophies atm. Right now while I’m writing this comment I’ve got 3 trophies left to go, which are: Mercenary ( Complete 50 Misc. Objectives ) and 2 more with Bobbleheads. I think I might come back to it after some time, just to do a PS5 platinum trophy speed run haha

[@joshuatealeaves]

This is THE way to get the trophy. This took me around 4 hours to get. I’ll add, once you get to around 96 happiness make a save because the game can be real buggy. If your happiness starts to go down for whatever reason or won’t climb reload the save & try again. You’ll get the trophy eventually. Thanks bro 🙏🏻

[@lucassimonson1274]

My game keeps crashing when I do it on survival…it crashes when I hit 80%. Any thoughts?

[@NotaVampyre111]

I got it by maxing out Sanctuary Hills back in 2015. I have no idea how I did it. I always use Mutfruit. I rarely ever use anything other than the basic machine guns, I used a lot of restaurant food booths. I used a lot of statues , flags and posters to. There's more but I don't remember everything.

[@bryguy615]

After 4 hours, What a dumb trophy. 6 S, 6 F, 21 W, P 9, D 80, Beds 8 6 Mutfruits, 5 Bars, 5 clinics, 12 turrets, 3 guardposts, 3 😀dogs, 1 cat, 1 pommel, 1 weights. I scrapped everything & filled it out with rugs & carpets that make 😀 & paintings. 2 sets of stairs onto the roof, 3 small generators a recruitment beacon & HR flames T60B power armor

[@325hpls1]

OMG! AFTER YEARS AND YEARS OF TRYIMG TO GET THIS....I FINALLY DID!!!! thank you, i had actually deleted the game because of this stupid trophy...nice to get Platinum on Fallout since I also had it for Fallout 3

[@MocarnyGrzechu]

hey, I'd like to thank you because it worked for me too - with one BUT... if anyone has a situation where despite meeting the building conditions, sleeping and waiting, popularity doesn't grow, go play again, mine was constantly at level 56 - no matter how much I didn't sleep for 48 hours and walked around the toilets. I went on to spread order in the Community, finished the game with the Minutemen, noticed that popularity grew by itself without my presence in the settlement at level 96, I returned to the settlement, slept and waited, it grew to level 99, I went again to see the big nuclear hole of my actions and the trophy popped.

[@bizs_backloggaming]

After 5 years I finally got this trophy...THANK YOU!!!

[@JacobReid]

You’re welcome!

[@Therap3]

Thanks for this vid. It took me longer because I had to level up and allocate two points to medic and local leader to be able to build those clinics. After that, it took about a day to get from 70 to 100.

[@MWittebrood]

Worked perfect, thanks!!!

[@JacobReid]

@@MWittebrood happy to help!

[@caffeinedriven1588]

I don’t know if it’s going to work. But I am absolutely going to try it. I’ve done it once on ps4. At sunshine company and it took forever. This sounds great to me 😊

[@mrunknown138]

I’ll be trying this soon, bro I remember the best guide like 8 years ago saying to “leave your system on overnight” just for it to tick and pop

[@Orson_Welp]

Will bars work instead of surgery centers if I don't have enough INT?

[@RobiiShadowRunnerBuckland]

My man thank you so much i was dreading doing this achievement but you smashed it with the useful info just want to personally say thank you so much. Defo earned a sub

[@JacobReid]

I’m happy I could help you out with it!

[@mightypouce1217]

IT WORK! Its the easiest guide on the internet yet! I already had all the material and it took me around 2h to complete! Thanks 🤘

[@mrunknown138]

Yea this worked, and helped get this trophy. Making what was an 8 hour overnight hell. Into a breeze.

[@JacobReid]

@@mrunknown138 I’m happy to have lended a hand

[@mrunknown138]

@@JacobReid thanks, I was worried how I’d get it again.

[@ToliG123]

No mention of provisioners, but assuming I should remove them right? Even if they’re coming from a different settlement?

[@doktorcito2629]

Thanks a lot for the guide! Just FYI, I just got the trophy with only 3 people and also didn’t have to full the Happiness meter bar (it was approximately 80%) and achieved 100 Happiness anyway

[@matteomorini8714]

I've 100% of happiness but I still see no trophy

[@JOSEMIGUELP8013]

This video is a 10/10!

[@JacobReid]

@@JOSEMIGUELP8013 I’m happy you think so!

[@DrOlzy]

Took a little while but i did it in the end Thank you very much for this tutorial 10/10 recommended 😁👍

[@Stephlefan6]

i did it with oberland station and had a lot of trouble. sometimes iit won't raise but was going down. so i had to redo things like removing my clinic and install a restaurant. Also sometimes add or remove aid in my workshop to make it stop decreasing happiness or to stat raising again.

[@Mina_Angel]

This helped immensely thank you

[@JacobReid]

I’m glad I could help!

[@crimscorpion]

I was today years old when I learned you need 3 water per settler 🤣🤣

[@smurfatar601]

I heard that radios help too, so i put em everywhere.

[@JacobReid]

I heard that too. Good tip!

[@ericredman6037]

ur a damn genius my friend well done been trying this for YEARS and because of u I have it

[@142readyrock]

Great guide only took 2 hours. Thank you

[@Josh-ns8ij]

Thank you so much! Finally got this achievement after following this video, never thought I was gonna unlock it! 1600/1600

[@wejdan6528]

Worked perfectly thank you 🔥

[@TheDavid488]

I rarely like or comment, but this should be required viewing for any trophy/achievement hunter. I set this all up, completed quests, etc. Trophy popped while i wasn't even there. Just set this up as soon as you have the resources and this trophy is no problem. Thanks brother!!

[@JacobReid]

Thanks for leaving the comment! I’m glad do could help you get the Trophy!

[@BSHokke]

Thanks for the guide!! 🎉 instead of filling up your settlement with wouden boxes and toilets. Can’t you just wall it off with concrete walls? You know , just make a wall around as long as I have those 6 settlers, the stores, the fruit, defenses, the waterpumps and the 7 beds

[@JacobReid]

Yes, absolutely! I tried that before and ran out of resources

[@thealmightyG]

Dude, I could (almost) kiss you (not quite, obviously). I’ve been trying this since firing the game back up in March, with only a handful of trophies left from my first run, back in 2015. Managed all the others but the Benevolent Leader evaded me. I’d seen a few guides using the same place but only one person, however, I was constantly stuck on 99% with food being zero. Anyhoo, I used your method and it literally just pinged, so now I have the platinum. Thank you, for the guide.

[@JacobReid]

You’re welcome!

[@johnhernandez9863]

Thanks for the well explained guide. I appreciate you

[@franklinmurillo5179]

This guy is an absolute monster, 💪🏼💪🏼🤝🏼 thank you king

[@murphballstom4595]

Stuck at 90% happiness…

[@xeno_xiv8380]

Same as you. Do everything like the video and constantly stuck between 89/91%

[@THC420xan]

This is the real deal. It works. Thank you so much. Your explanation was clear and very helpful.

[@JacobReid]

I’m happy I could help!

[@rageplayz6381]

THANK YOU SOO MUCH DUDE ❤

[@TunzoFun]

Where tf is that music from?! It's bugging me I can't figure it out! Is it GTA or something?

[@JacobReid]

@@TunzoFun it’s just some generic intro music that KZbin has available to use - not sure where else it could be from

[@Coolplastictoys]

Wow incredible I just did it after owning this game from day one when it was released. 😂

[@JacobReid]

Same! Thats why I made the video in the first place!

[@bcchronic-nn5pf]

Thanks! when I did this on ps4, I only had 2 people

[@bluesoblue8470]

My happiness just lock on 89, don't know what to do :(

[@sci6769]

Thanks, this worked!

[@DaLuvShaq]

Thanks a lot bro just got this now I’m one trophy off platinum!! Subbed!!

[@JacobReid]

Go get that plat!

[@militaryeat]

I just used your method to achieve the achievement, and it worked. Thank you!!

[@JacobReid]

You’re welcome!

[@RealMonkeh]

Thank you, gonna try this when I get on and it should pop my plat 👍🏻

[@Here_is_Johnny_666]

At last I have platinum. Thanxxx to You and your tutorial. Cheerz from Poland!

[@JacobReid]

Cheers!

[@tjroberts22831]

I just got it following this guide!!!!!!!! It took me about 2 hours. Thank you!!!

[@JacobReid]

You’re welcome!

[@Sp00ken]

This is definitely the best video for this trophy, thank you kind sir

[@JacobReid]

You’re welcome, kind sir

[@gamingtime3150]

this method needs a lot of caps ? Do I understand correctly?

[@JacobReid]

Yes, it requires caps for the clinics

[@ananassaft1283]

Thanks worked perfectly

[@JacobReid]

You’re welcome

[@theachievementplanner]

So I used your great guide and it worked perfectly until 95. When I got to 95 the arrow disappeared completely and it’s just staying stuck. I’m confused how to get that up arrow back.

[@pssy7271]

I did his method do 6 clinics instead of 5 it ends up working

[@JacobReid]

Try to increase your defense if it’s not already closer to 100. Try saving and reloading in. If that doesn’t work, try an extra clinic, or try sending a settler away and sending a new one in. You could also try adding a bunch of mutfruit to the workbench. They can pull food from there, and food can sometimes be a glitchy limiting factor

[@JacobReid]

Another thing you could try is sending your love interest, whoever it is, to the settlement as one of the 6 settlers. I’m not 100% sure if this does anything, but I did it just to be safe

[@Galiamantis]

Cheers man, the info on the web was a bit inconsistent but this was easy.

[@JacobReid]

Cheers!

[@mickhtube7]

I got the trophy thanks to you God Bless You, Jason 🙏

[@JacobReid]

I’m happy I could help!

[@Captain0bvious3]

This is a great guide except for 1 thing. I also built up red rocket, there were 12 settlers there. I got 10 to leave. 2 won't leave no matter what I do. I can find them both, I try sending them, but they don't leave. Any idea why? I've left and come back, I've restarted the game. Nothing works. It's always the same 2, a woman with a hat and a ghoul looking man. The woman used to always look like she's leaving, then sat in a chair at the edge of the property instead. I scrapped her chair and she still doesn't leave. I've gotten rid of all beds, buildings, food, defense and water and they don't leave......

[@PlagueDemonn]

This helped me so much. I remember playing this game on ps4 and got this trophy. Don’t know how tbh lol. I’m now on the ps5 version going for the platinum again. Thank you so much man.

[@matthewfuller431]

Does anyone know if sleeping bags vs. the best beds make a difference?

[@matthewfuller431]

Update: not sure if it does, I had a mix of sleeping bags and different beds, but I still managed to get this trophy finally, thank you so much!!! I didn’t follow it exactly as the video says because I didn’t want to redo my whole truck stop, but I implemented some of the tips suggested and they 100% work. My biggest problem was that Nick Valentine kept randomly getting unassigned from his Surgery Center lol

[@JacobReid]

@@matthewfuller431 I’m not sure about the beds, but I’ve started using sleeping bags recently and it doesn’t feel like it makes a difference. Glad I could help you get the trophy!

[@eugenec1733]

what about cats?

[@DavidSmith-fk8un]

Just got the achievement 😊. Gotta say my size metter was nowhere near full, but i got it anyway. This video totally helped.

[@ItsJamieMateee]

Trying to get the trophy, driving me wild. When you say go to sleep after the happiness ticks, do you mean repeat the 48 hour sleep?

[@JacobReid]

Yes!

[@ItsJamieMateee]

@@JacobReid see if this works you might have to marry me mate, the show made me go back and try to platinum fallout 4... And this is the only trophy I need 😂

[@JacobReid]

@@ItsJamieMateee 😂😂 hope you get it

[@ItsJamieMateee]

@@JacobReid 91 so far 😂. Cheers man you gained a sub

[@not_def_shadow820]

I did not understand why you placed toilets and chairs. Can someone explain please?

[@JacobReid]

@@not_def_shadow820 it’s about the “size” of the settlement. There’s a bar in the corner that fills up as you place more stuff. The description of the achievement requires you to have a “large” settlement. You do that by building more things and making the bar mostly full

[@not_def_shadow820]

@@JacobReid thank you, didnt know it

[@ObamaTheHedgehog]

This video was so helpful, its wild how much conflicting information there is on this trophy, but you cut through it all. Thank you

[@chadwickmouser6053]

You’re my hero ❤

[@imamzzanderson3330]

I did this about 2 days ago, and it popped randomly on my screen.. I was on Far harbor DLC, doing some quest from DiMa.. to launch nucleus key. Lucky me, i don't have to do this entirely. When i checked on pipboy stats, the highest happiness are 69% on sanctuary hills.

[@CBales742]

This really worked for me. Took a few hours but if you just sleep twice and come back 10 minutes later happiness will start climbing.

[@christoslianos3356]

I’m at the sleeping part and at 79 happiness with the meter up. If I mess up this process do I need to start over?

[@325hpls1]

Don't think so, just make sure you build to the limit and build ten toilets them delete them

[@325hpls1]

5 people in clinic and 1 in food.

[@derekvalenti9365]

This annoying achievement took me like 6 hours, but I was originally trying the single settler method where you station him to a bar, and you supply him food via the workshop…. Didn’t work, and I wasted so much time…. But then I saw this, started working on this, and it did take probably 3 hours at least, but it worked…. Thanks so much!!!! Just remember this does cost like 9,000 coins tho, to build the 5 bars, I literally had just enough, left me with about 500 coins to spare , AWESOME GUIDE, and WORKS!!!!

[@HermanBogaers]

Red Rocket will be to small I believe, but yeah good choice if it works. You actualy need 1 settler in Red Rocket, doing a lvl 3 Bar. Adding a Guard dog makes it quicker. Run a suplyline from Sanctuary too, yeah Ad a bed some defence. and done you can choose all empty settlements to get 100% in notime this way. You can easily go do some missions or other building somewhere else while waiting. I have the trophy 3 times on different consoles. I have the trophy on pc too. All those times using this trick. After hitting the 100% in any settlement extract that settler(s) and it stays empty with100% happiness.

[@tjroberts22831]

Hello! Does it have to be settlers? Can it be one of my companions? Also, do i need to have power or is that optional. Love the guide!

[@queso6768]

While watching this video I heard a noise and the trophy popped!!! None of my settlements are even close to 100%, This is insane

[@OSHSTO]

Just got this trophy thanks to you, this really is a no nonsense guide, easy to follow. Although i did it with one settler. I cleared out red rocket and sent dogmeat to sanctuary. Set up a bar, 2 beds, 2 water pumps and loaded the work bench with water and mutfruit then set up a beacon, waited 1 day and 2 settlers turned up, i sent one to sanctuary and assisted 1 to the bar, happiness started at 80% and jumped up to 95% using a different method but after that it would bearly move and the time keeping was awkward, i used you sleep 48 hours in 2 beds then waited for a couple minutes and it was ticking up 1 by 1 everytime. Much appreciated video 👍

[@reggiesadventures6326]

Can you not do the trophy with less… ie 1 settler, 1bar, 1 turret , food & water?

[@JacobReid]

You can, but it’s a real pain in the butt if you ask me. It’s also less consistent

[@reggiesadventures6326]

@@JacobReid got the trophy last night done it in about 3hrs of game play and upped the settlers to 4, bar and medic station 👌

[@godreaper4204]

U don't need any of this only thing you need to is get 3 companies to max appreciation settle them to one settlement have 3 beds and food and wait 5 mins and u get it I got I randomly by moving settlers

[@bcchronic-nn5pf]

Do you have any ideas why my size bar isn't moving? it did at first but now its disappeared completely

[@tuc5895]

You’re the 🐐