Fallout 4: A Perfectly Balanced Early Game Build

Tired of struggling through the early game of Fallout 4 while on survival? Look no further! In this step-by-step guide you will see how to create the ultimate OP early game melee build that will have you dominating the wasteland.
No mods were installed during the playthrough and the build was played entirely on Survival Difficulty.
Please leave any feedback or questions in the comments and I will do my best to get back to you.
Build Complete at Level 20.
Level ups:
2 - Science R1
3 - Lone Wanderer R1
4 - Chemist R1
5 - Rooted R1
6 - Big Leagues R1
7 - Big Leagues R2
8 - Aquaboy R1
9 - Scrapper R1
10 - Life Giver R1
11 - Life Giver R2
12 - Chem Resistant R1
13 - Nuclear Physicist R1 ( Save point until Intelligence Bobblehead )
14 - Nuclear Physicist R2 ( Save point until Intelligence Bobblehead )
15 - Big Leagues R3
16 - Chemist R2
17 - Lone Wanderer R2
18 - Blacksmith R1
19 - Blacksmith R2
20 - Life Giver R3
Equipment:
Overboss Power Armor Set
Weapons:
Atom's Judgement
If you are having trouble with water purifiers.
Make sure all your aid is moved into a separate container.
Water should spawn in the workbench around every 30 mins you spend away from Sanctuary so normally 1 or 2 missions and the water should spawn.
Also make sure all fillable items are removed from the junk tab, this includes nuka cola bottles, milk bottles, beer bottle etc. Sometimes this can effect water spawning.
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Fallout 4 Interactive Map for locations: fallout4map.com/
Music used in order of appearance :
Electric Ballroom - Quesa
Runaway Reel - Moorland Songs
In the Cooker - Daniel Fridell
Golden Memories - Golden Age Radio
Epinephrine - Dissidence
The Night Attack - Bonnie Grace
Step on It - Golden Age Radio
August blues - Roy Edwin Williams
The Past, The Present and Future - Alphascan
The Piper's Circus - Piper Ezz
The Bait - Azucares
My Feet Don't Work No More - Splasher!
Fight For Glory - FormantX

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[@dislikebutton6269]

If you set your str to 10, you can become tired to drop it to 9, then use the special book to raise it back to 10 and when you stop being tired, itll go up to 11. Then with the bobblehead, it will increase to 12.

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That sounds less risky on survival than the "take day tripper before grabbing the book" trip.

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Closer to Mama Murphy level, but yet so far away

[@rustyjones7908]

@@TaurusTheCrazyBull my favorite character was the drunken barbarian build. Grognaks axe and costume, plus base str of 12 using the day tripper exploit, dirty wastelander, bufftats, psycho buff, weight bench buff, x-cell, Lorenzo's serum, and nukalurk queen roast. I had to level agility for blitz but once it was all together it was totally worth it lol.

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[@jacobalsop]

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[@Fevvy]

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[@Fevvy]

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[@Fevvy]

Thanks mate!

[@thegreywolf1043]

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[@Fevvy]

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6:00 a good tip to avoid the "dramatic walk", is to just kill a tiny roach in the police dep cross the street and put all the itens in it and carry the body around, u can scary some ladies too :). love u fevvy.

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[@Fevvy]

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[@Fevvy]

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[@an0rmalname179]

Oh God that looks very good, due to the fact the overboss' power armor shocks people, and Atom's Judgement is... Well it's Atom's Judgement. Combine that with a roast made of bear, and you got a heavy hitting build.

[@Fevvy]

Very quick to come together as well

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[@Fevvy]

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[@Rebelfr]

I never knew about the poisoned caltrops method for money. Thanks for the tip fr🗿 Also a fun fact: There is always a full suit of power armor in overpass near Cambridge Police station, following the road from Drumlim Diner. Its pieces are based kn your level, but after shelf spamming upto 13~ and doing a few quests , you should be able to secure a Full set of T51 power Armor.

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[@Fevvy]

Thanks for the feedback!

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[@Fevvy]

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[@Fevvy]

Glad you enjoy them? Is that the quest that gives you extra gems?

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@@Fevvy It's the one where we have to unite some couples for extra magic resist, the priestess that gives the quest speak nonsense-sounding stuff when we get the quest.

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[@Fevvy]

Thanks!

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[@Fevvy]

Hope you enjoyed it!

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[@Fevvy]

Been busy with RL work. Sorry about the wait

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[@elvatodelpueblo7007]

pretty good build and patting, i higly recommend to use the cancel mele atack animation to hit faster, just atack and hit 3rd person button just after dealing the dmg and u have it, start using it an literally double the dmg

[@Fevvy]

Thanks for the tip!

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fo4 build動画をアップロードしてくれる数少ない素晴らしいチャンネル。 実直な仕事には、ふさわしい報酬を。

[@hardestbutton4476]

Great video I am giving it a try but I have a question, Where do you put the bonus point from the You're Special book? I did not see it in the video

[@reimeta.n9209]

another great video I'm following the step by step for this build have you ever thought about making a build of heavy weapons? sorry for the spelling mistakes my english is not good i am using google translator once again i loved the video a hug from brazil

[@Fevvy]

Funny you say that, A heavy weapons build will probably be my next fallout video

[@TheRagingHardon]

This build is very underrated. By level 20 you are done - you can take on any endgame content on the highest difficulty. All leveling choices after this is just personal preference. Other builds take well into the level 30's and 40's before they really come together and feel equally as powerful.

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[@Fevvy]

Planning another soon!

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[@Fevvy]

Hahaha hope you enjoyed it

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Fevvy you have the greatest videos of all time. Also have you thought of doing any more Elden ring builds?

[@Fevvy]

I have but a lot of builds for elden ring have already been covered in detail. I would love to make some more though

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Fevvy this character is the FINEST!! of specimens to date

[@mcbuilds1141]

i know i might be late but if you get the mag at saugus ironworks that lets you place copper statues and if you get copper out and hit scrap and store at the same time and you can dupe resources and when you have a bunch op copper you can spam the statues and then you get a bunch of levels

[@Fevvy]

Not a fan of duping. Nice tip though

[@gajahterbang6969]

Fevy, maybe in the future you can make op ninja build? Using knife and ninja + blitz perk.

[@Iol3r]

can just run to nuka world at low level with a whole lot of poisoned caltrops to sell and grape mentats and buy the throat slicer which is the best knife/blitz weapon. ive done it before on survival but nuka world is difficult with a blitz build before you can get rank 2 which is 29, but if you start with kiddie kingdom which is just ghouls you can level up some amount and it makes the rest easier.

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"Still haven't had breakfast" was great.

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Hi. I love your fallout 4 builds. Would you maybe make a pistol/revolver build in the future ?

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@@psychofade2745 What you mean ?

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i dead have like 3000 hrs in fallout 4 and i still feel like you’re better then me

[@slyllamademon2652]

When you get into late game you should consider getting X-01 power armor to replace this because that armor can have explosive shielding which means you can absorb damage from explosions, which makes you even more invulnerable.

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Father has raised to once again bring us our daily bread in the form of absolute dinosaur strength, will and hammer

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thank you fevvy ^w^

[@Fevvy]

No problem 😊Thanks for checking it out!

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[@pathogenofdecay]

You may know this, Fevvy, and I may have told you before (x.x), but ending the Drumlin Diner dispute peacefully the way you did in the video also opens up Wolfgang as a chems merchant, at least if you agreed to talk to Trudy for Wolfgang first.

[@Fevvy]

Yep! very rare I use him as a merchant though now that I think about it

[@pathogenofdecay]

@@Fevvy Okay. I'll try to remember that then.

[@liamholloway9022]

Oh does one of the dlcs enable you to fill up empty cups with water? I couldn’t do that in my game

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Oh, this dragon is so cute, that sometimes I concentrate on him more, than on video ^^

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Hahaha I will pass that along to my artist. She will be very happy with that comment

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The Beowulf clip brought me joy

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Hehe glad you enjoyed that!

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I like the extra commentary uou added with the robot voice! But I think it's a bit too heavily distorted as it's difficult to underdstand

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No he doesn’t need commentary

[@Fevvy]

Fair, might start to taper it back

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Lol dino in power armor is adorable

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i kinda like the text to speech voice i think you should include it in more of your videos

[@Fevvy]

Thanks for the feedback man, I will see what I can do

[@Goyurt]

Fevvy is by far one of the most helpful youtuber for these games, he makes the hardest difficulty look like the easiest, You should try a grenadier build

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Sounds cool, can you give me any details on it? or is it just grenades?

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​@@Fevvy Grenades and the spray n' pray

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​@@Fevvy any grenades

[@Goyurt]

​@@CC-os6df Yep, you got that right

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Hope you enjoyed it!

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