I Am Addicted to the Fallout 4 Settlement System...

[@johnmorrel8735]

Sim Settlements is pretty cool. I love how 1) settlers build stuff themselves and 2) the lots uograde as time passes.

[@narivassandbox]

Until I get bored of this lightly modded setup, I'll try to avoid it cause I know I'll get addicted!

[@EJDubbz]

I dunno, I guess I played a lot with the vanilla system but once I tried Sim Settlements I was kinda mad I hadn't tried it sooner. It's so much more immersive.

[@randymuwardani1599]

@@narivassandbox just give it in bro, suck it up like u need to. it will a lot of funXD

[@SonicPhil3000]

@@narivassandbox Sim Settlements 2 is AMAZING and so much fun. It does add so much to the story too - all new quests, fully voiced by actual people lol. The settelment building and logistics upgrades are crazy good. It's all too fun. You should definitely give it a shot bro!

[@vegeta002]

Sim Settlements 2 is good, though I've found the "City Plan" feature to be a bit wonky. I always had trouble with the settlement population getting messed up and continuing to grow seemingly without end.

[@cicerothenekoknightplaysall]

Not me spending hours in survival mode doing mini scavenger runs so i can build more

[@narivassandbox]

I can't remember the last time I did a legit quest

[@noterrormanagement]

I'm always over encumbered cause i clear everything 😅

[@cicerothenekoknightplaysall]

@@noterrormanagement i just have my companion slowly pick up all the junk items

[@BeatsByGamer86]

0:11 piqued my interest into starfeild a little. I never got that far into it but I remember enjoying the combat 😅

[@narivassandbox]

The combat was pretty good, but the AI I think was pretty bad... Even Fallout 4 NPCs feel smarter

[@BeatsByGamer86]

@narivassandbox 😆🤣

[@ErosXCaos]

Fallout 4 tops the list of Deserted Island games, primarily because of the settlement system. It’s limited only by your imagination. It’s also the only game I own that can be modded on PS5, so I can either tweak it to my liking or overhaul it into something incredibly different. Also, the settlement size is based on frame rate and crashes, not an inherent mechanic per se. You’ll find out you can’t go crazy once you start dropping frames just while you walk.

[@narivassandbox]

Yeah it's amazing! Let's hope I won't go too crazy lol

[@maryjane9299]

i remember them crashes😂😂😂 and almost knowing when to stop and save. just to mess up and over do it again

[@helixsol7171]

Bro's modding Fallout 4 on PlayStation lmao

[@calelsun]

I just started a new save but on my old save I did too. I put down concrete foundations over an existing lot in sanctuary to make it look more legit in dimensions. Then I built a prewar style yellow house with a stocked kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room, and upstairs man cave/workshop. Then I added all the details to each. Plunger, soap on the sink, and hairbrush+toothbrush in the bathroom. The kitchen got dishes in the sink, a linen closet that also had cleaning supplies, food on the shelves, a jukebox, etc. Musta placed at least a hundred items individually all over. Even put an armor display mannequin in the kitchen with a prewar dress and wig to make myself a little wifey 😂. Really is as deep as you want it to be. I love armoring up my people and giving them good guns and assigning their jobs. Can't wait to get the perk to connect settlements to make each more focused on its individual task. Farming, trading hub, factory work, etc. Would be cool if the base game actually let you restore locations over time with enough materials as I don't like using mods to do it besides the allowed creation club ones.

[@noterrormanagement]

Hey great video, love it when people show their own original settlements

[@noterrormanagement]

Also, the most essential settlement mod for me is "place everywhere". It takes so long to properly place something in vanilla and it drives me insane 😅

[@narivassandbox]

Thanks for the tip! And Thanks for the compliment, I'm excited to show an update as I grow the settlement more :D

[@NekoNebula1313]

Merry Christmas 🎄 I was just decorating my settlements for Christmas as well 😊

[@narivassandbox]

Merry Christmas to you too! Decorating is super fun!

[@meteoro123OF]

Congratulations youtube. this video is trully a hidden gem

[@ThatSoddingGamer]

My last playthrough I mostly focused on Vault 88 (strongly recommend running that if you like settlement building. You unlock a lot of useful stuff, especially cheap nuclear reactors with tons of power, as long as you have high Science, and the vault itself is a big resource of nuclear material). Vault Tec housing is useful in that the material itself is conductive with power (there is a piece of equipment to make use of it), so you can more neatly get power to objects inside. Additionally, the experiments (at least if you go for the more benign ones) are beneficial for settlements too, and give your settlers something to actually do. Settlements can be a bit of a convenient source of cash early on too, since you can set up water sources (I prefer the industrial water purifier, which requires 1 science), and your settlers will place purified water into your workshop inventory. Doesn't take long (just a couple in-game days I think, to refresh), and purified water is a convenient saleable resource. The aforementioned Vault 88 has a massive water pump facility that will give you far more water than you need once you wire it up and power it, but it necessitates fighting a Mirelurk Queen which might be too challenging if you struggled at all to even get in the vault in the first place, just FYI.

[@narivassandbox]

I was no aware of Vault 88, but I already have a water factory and I use it to buy materials to expand the settlement hahaha

[@narivassandbox]

Thanks for the tips!

[@ThatSoddingGamer]

@@narivassandbox It's the Vault-Tec Workshop DLC, just FYI. It'd be included in the GOTY edition, naturally. If you play it, I personally recommend (unless you are playing either a jerk character or a goodie two-shoes type) performing the experiments in that DLC so they're mostly positive for the settlers. What I personally did was focus on avoiding the detrimental stuff, but if the notes indicate no particular adverse effects, it's fine to do. For example, with the drinking station, I use the mild hallucinogenic instead of the caffeine option (which is the 'nicest' option), and customer profiling for the slots (adds some happiness plus some income, but if you really want the extra happiness the most generous option doesn't actually cost you money). I think that's the best balance of beneficial with no detriment. Going wholly negative or positive can cause problems relating to the Barstow and one of the residents (neither are strictly necessary to keep, mind you. So do what you want, it's just a heads up). Oh, and final hint. Don't connect the prototype bike up to any valuable power source for the quest involving it. Just use a 3 point generator or something.

[@randymuwardani1599]

here is what i recommend to mod fallout 4 settlement: Homemaker,cvc,kuro tab,snap and builds,sandbag fortifications. it adds a lot of bunch new stuff or already existing stuff in fallout 4 world but u weren't able to build with vanilla

[@narivassandbox]

Thank you! I'll for sure check it out once I get bored of vanilla

[@randymuwardani1599]

@narivassandbox yeah, sim settlements 2 will also be good as its a dlc Size mod with good story and voice actor

[@CountessKek]

I like the settlement building and FO4, however..i started truly loving it when i got into mods....good video!

[@Munenushi]

3k hours in Fallout 4, totally forgetting the Main Storyline Quest and just building up Settlements for my people to enjoy.... love it

[@narivassandbox]

Shaun can wait

[@calelsun]

I get really addicted to weapon modifications when I start a new save. I'm constantly watching for weapons I already have but with new attachments I can take and use on my current ones. Took me a long time to even think of it because I was always thinking I was screwed until I got the perks to make them. Now it's possible to get some guns to basically max attachments relatively early without those perks. I spend 20 minutes at a time going through looted guns and stripping them down to mix and match pieces before selling the base weapons after.

[@3dartstudio007]

Cool video, you don't have to scrap weapons to increase build size. Just toss a hand full of guns down, and hit "store" selection. Then go take them back out and do it over and over as much as you like. Build on!

[@narivassandbox]

Oh interesting! I mean if I was on consoles, I would do that but on PC, I guess I might as well have the mod lol

[@世界-イシュタル]

No doubt I have lost HOURS in one settlement building out my imaginative thoughts, only to repeat the process at another settlement. And that’s without nexus mods. I know I’ll lose more if I ever decide to do a playthrough and checking out sim settlements.

[@narivassandbox]

Same here!!

[@makeitcraz6342]

It can get CRAZYYYY man. On my world I have a giant kill factory that has gunner cages and it spawns in about 20 of them and I shoot 1 fat man and get LOADED with loot every like 2 days and I also have a GIANT ammo making factory all automatic with a recycler to sort the scrap I dump in automatically too ALL VANILLA as well other than build limit and scrap all!. The building in Fallout 4 is amazing man and I agree easy get addicted !!

[@narivassandbox]

That is sooo cool hahaha, I didn't know kill factories were a thing

[@HattaTHEZulZILLA86]

Yeeeeeesssss... YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS... Give in to da powah of the daaaaaaaak saaaaaaaide....

[@JoMcD21]

Settlements are goated

[@SonicPhil3000]

By the way, keep in mind Scrap Everything literally does; it breaks precombines and destroys navmeshing which are fancy words for tearing holes in pathing for NPC's (amongst others). 😬

[@narivassandbox]

Good to know! Thank you!

[@CrashCraftLabs]

i suggest the place anywhere mod for building or learning the rug and pillar bugs. i tend to use sanctuary as my private player home base with only robots as guards and turrets, very minimalist, cause its really heavy of lag there with big settlements. i build allover tho, the slog being me fav.

[@narivassandbox]

Thanks for the tip, I recently started using those "bugs", they're so useful! And yeah, the lag is slowly starting in Sanctuary, but I don't wanna stop haha

[@smcfadden1992]

if your on pc check out the creation kit i liked fallout 4s settlements so much i started making my own camp items in the kit, like making all flora in game buildable at your settlement

[@Lordoftheapes79]

Beware building without limits. There's a point when your system can no longer handle the load and you'll get caught in a crash loop. The limits are there for good reason, but they were much more conservative with it than they needed to be. Also, Sanctuary, Red Rocket, and Abernathy Farm are often referred to as the Triangle of Death. They are too close to each other and if you build them all up, you risk killing your save file.

[@narivassandbox]

I learned about the triangle of death this week, good to know! Thank you!

[@MateriaHunterVII]

Same dude i get addicted to either Fallout or Skyrim every few months!

[@vegeta002]

I wouldn't consider the rebuilt Sanctuary to be "too clean", it's natural for a human to fix the walls and clean up the place they're planning to live. I'd actually consider the vanilla settlements to be not clean _enough_ for my liking; no matter how long people have lived there, settlements are usually wallowing in squalor and filth. Piles of debris and filth everywhere with seemingly no attempt to clean up. Even Abernathy Farm, which has had 3 generations of a family living there, still looks like its been abandoned for years and was only settled recently.

[@narivassandbox]

That's a fair point!

[@chaoslord8918]

I don't normally replay games that I've already completed, and I've long since had every achievement for this game on Steam. But, I decided to replay it because I love the feel of the Power Armor and all the crappy makeshift guns. I spent the past two days installing mods, trying to get my ideal experience. I'm going for a harder, more resource-scarce world, Survival Mode with fast-travel to owned settlements only, and of course a bunch of bug fixes and optimizations. I finally got the game to where I was ready to play it, started a new save... then my computer died. Won't even boot. Now I'm waiting for parts, and I have to rebuild my PC and reinstall all those mods again, on top of reinstalling my OS and all my programs. FML. Why does everything have to be so difficult? I just wanna play some Fallout.

[@narivassandbox]

Wow that's tough... Have some patience and hopefully you'll be able to get back on track!

[@chaoslord8918]

@@narivassandbox Thank you for the support. Thanks to the last day of my Amazon Prime free trial and some very selective purchases based on shipping times, I'm already up and running again, with a new PC for this modern age. On the topic of Settlements, when I played Survival, I wanted to be able to fast-travel between settlements based on my Supply Lines, and Journey seems to be the mod for that. Another mod, Settlement Progression, seems to rebalance what you can build based on your learned Perks (like Science, Blacksmith, etc.). Me personally, I'm looking for more gameplay difficulty and immersion. For this kind of Minecrafty freeform building though, there's an insane amount of mods out there, including plenty that allow scrapping and building of just about everything in the default game.

[@BillyBumbler-19]

To each their own i guess. I think the concept of settlement building is interesting for maybe 15 minutes and then i'm over it. I've never done a settlement builder playthrough ever in all of my hours in the FO4 universe. I always travel solo, have never used a companion, and always attempt to carry the least amount of gear as possible. A nomadic existence exploring every nook and cranny of the FO4 world. Playthroughs are always modded survival runs - with most mods being QOL mods, and mods to make the game harder. I'm the polar opposite of a hoarder... in this FO4 universe and in our own.

[@narivassandbox]

I actually couldn't care less about the settlements before, and I would play inky for the story and quests, but now I got into it and it captivated me

[@Insomniac_Joey]

SO REAL.

[@PrestonGarvey4President]

Oh, just wait until you figure out house kit and snappy builds.

[@narivassandbox]

It's like early Christmas

[@Privateinvite]

On Fallout 4 tough

[@chainreaction8977]

I always find it odd when someone starts a new Fallout 4 run without Sim Settlements.

[@narivassandbox]

I definitely will soon, but I wanted to have a settlement that will work even if I lose all my mods one day

[@mindbodyspirit3601]

What tree mod are you using?

[@narivassandbox]

I think it's called Another Pine Tree Mod

[@mindbodyspirit3601]

@@narivassandbox thanks!

[@wrenblythee8678]

I get addicted to a bethesda game every month, goes from fallout to skyrim

[@Modhunter42]

Once you're done, go for Sim Settlements 2. Although SS1 is arguably better, it is Not complete, and is sadly not likely to ever Be finished. Almost all of the functionality has been put into SS2, it's quests and characters that have changed the most.

[@fladi111]

Hey man, look up the Triangle of Death (Sanctuary, Abernathy Farm, and Red Rocket). It ruined my game where I spent hundreds of hours building settlements. Building big in Sanctuary is not something the game likes.

[@narivassandbox]

Holy crap, thanks for the heads up! I will keep going a little with Sanctuary to feel like a proper little town and then I'll probably move over to Starloght Drive-in or the Castle

[@SonicPhil3000]

@@narivassandbox You're ok with building up Santuary, just pick 2 of those 3, as their cells overlap, so the game tends to crash if you build on all 3.

[@fladi111]

@@SonicPhil3000 What I did is big Sanctuary, medium-to-big Abernathy (both had walls, turrets & traps and all necessities) and only scrapped Red Rocket and added doors, but I had no settlers there. So I basically did only the 2. But hey, I used a lot of mods for buildings and other things, so it may be possible to build big without problems (or have at least fixable problems).

[@SonicPhil3000]

@@fladi111 Building is ok, settlers are the issue. Like I usually only build a player home at RR to avoid the Triangle issue.

[@adanmontesdeoca2752]

Where's dogmeat

[@narivassandbox]

He's in Sanctuary somewhere!

[@kaerakapten88]

Wait till you start modding the settlement system and then kiss social life goodbye

[@narivassandbox]

Yeah, I'm tying up any loose ends before I can do that lol

[@kaerakapten88]

@@narivassandbox You should try Woody's Wasteland Stuff if you don't know it already

[@Gendor64]

I'm almost glad FO4 won't even work on xbox anymore even without mods. Because that'd be another 100 hours down the drain just menting that settle

[@edensavage8934]

This kid played starfield before new vegas?????? WTF!!!!

[@narivassandbox]

Nah, this kid REplayed New Vegas after Starfield

[@CrashCraftLabs]

yea i play fo4 just for the settlements, 76 ruined it imo

[@narivassandbox]

76 is not that great for settlements, it's true But I would like to try again one day

[@LobsangCollazo-m6m]

I love Fallout 4 but I hate the settlements system is unnecessary clunky and straight up bad...then again I don't like Minecraft like games

[@narivassandbox]

As someone who grew up playing Minecraft, I'm on the other end, I really love the settlements

[@adamb89]

Unfortunately your work goes poof. Everything you do, all the time and energy you put into it. You can't carry it over to your next game, unless you're on PC using a very specific mod, that isn't all that straightforward to figure out unless you're well versed on modding the game.

[@narivassandbox]

Well I'm not planning to start a new game soon, but I'm sure I will cry when I do