Sim Settlements: In-Depth Series - Holotape Options

[@ljj9494]

Could be cool to have laws for your settlements. Like free healthcare gives a boost to happiness but costs resources, censored speech gives boost to defense at the cost of happiness, mandatory service at cost of resources arms all settlers with weapons, immigration controls on new settlers, etc.

[@kinggath]

Awesome idea!

[@flyingpaladin617]

Make the Commonwealth great again!

[@Jognt]

My god man, all this is so polished I can't believe it's free!

[@Qardo]

I will admit. I heard of this mod from Oxhorn's overview. I went back to Fallout 4. This makes settlement management far more enjoyable and less of a headache. Sure you can still build some awesome structures...for yourself. Yet trying to build one for the settlement at times can be a hassle. When you have all of the standard settlements and even modded in settlements. So I think this was the best idea ever to be modded.

[@ottodovahkiin7348]

i normally don't talk in chat, but i'm a xbox user. never thought id ever see mods, let alone a mod this great. You have completely changed the game for me. ty very much. p.s. i just watched all the vids on this mod and you explain everything perfect and easy to understand

[@ronarndt6722]

Great Video series! Thanks for all your effort and time on this mod. I just started playing Fallout 4 and I really like the "Settlement immersion" game play added to Fallout 4 and Mods like this make the game so much better and realistic. Thanks again and please keep adding to the Mod if you have time. Thanks again!

[@zingleplatz]

Fantastic Kinggath! I will be happy to send you my thoughts on this mod. I said from the start that one of the biggest disappointments was the settlement system. I really appreciate the "Sim" connection too, very funny. That being said, it appears you have laid the groundwork for a much larger and in my opinion better game overall. To imagine that those of us who thought about making a "better" settlement and perhaps making it into a full on town or city level i.e. Sim City, would be fantastic! Could see perks like "Wasteland Builder" which would provide a happiness bonus. The possibilities are really endless. Thanks again and happy modding!

[@bjornironborn8967]

adding crime would be cool, and having the guards as cops.

[@treedog4692]

this is Fallout 4. There's only so much he can do with a shit engine

[@kvin51]

theres enough crime in fallout

[@matthewmendez3632]

This might be outside the scope of this mod, but how about naming settlers? Each settler having his/her own story does a great job differentiating them, but that's kind of lost when they're all just "settler". "Don't Call Me Settler" fixed this, but it was removed for causing serious bugs. If technically possible, having a settler assigned a name after assigning them a home would go a long way towards them feeling like a part of the settlement. I believe the aforementioned mod drew from Codsworth's naming bank to assign names. So excited for this mod and what it will include in the future, thanks! EDIT: Just saw your "Living Settlements" video, seems like you've already thought of this lol

[@justanotheremptychannel2472]

Matthew Mendez Yeah, a 'name your settlers' mod would be cool

[@brianwiggins3870]

first off this is a great mod and I wish it was a feature in fallout 4 because it fits so well in the game. The only 2 things I could think of that I would want are a new home site like an apartment (with maybe the large building preset) and a commercial site like a hotel that maybe you could combine a bar plot making a hotel with a bar. thanks and keep being awesome :)

[@TheDanlovejoy]

i love the marcy example. beats my idea of putting her and strong in an infinite gladiator battle

[@alanmaybin5314]

Just what this game needed. Excellant.

[@katherineprewitt8851]

I prefer "Ms. Mayor", but this mod is so cool I practically forgot that this software was written for pre-war government!

[@Efeproductyons97]

You are a god, im waiting for more updates, but for now its amazing what you have done Btw is this compatible with loot overhaul 2016? Cause a feature of this mod tweak crops, and the ability of harvest by the player And if i change the timescale value to a lower one it will affect it of any way?

[@kinggath]

Unfamiliar with loot overhaul, but all of the crops in this are custom, so they probably won't be affected by other mods. Timescale will affect the time between upgrades, and if you turn on the immersive mode (Regular Inspections in the holotape), it will affect the build time as well.

[@Efeproductyons97]

Then i can use both Thank you for answering, and keep up with the good work!!

[@ghostx420x]

you sir are a mod god. one of the best mods for fo4. thanks for the mod, porting it to xb1, and all the hard work. where can i donate?. i feel like this is one of those mods that i would pay for. thanks again. keep up the awesome work.

[@5c077andstuff]

I believe that this is the coolest mod I've seen for Fall Out 4. I have a play through where I built up every settlement and it was very time consuming. This would make it seem more organic. I can zone out the area and set up a beacon. Make doing another play through less daunting. Not sure how well it will work for hang man's ally though. Can't wait till it becomes available for the Xbox.

[@kinggath]

Hangman's Alley and a few other tiny settlements will mostly have to be built the old-fashioned way. In a future update I'll add multi-unit buildings like apartments to help with those settlements.

[@antonsandkvist4785]

Honestly love this mod! Never really had a grudge with the vanilla settlement system, although I pretty much just made red rocket truck stop into a fortress for my self and Buddy. Pretty much only used settlers for supply lines and nothing else. This mod makes it a bit more intriguing and that it has that automated feel for some parts but not everything makes it a lot better.

[@pytho8]

Really like the mod, and in the future I hope to see "security" or "medical" buildings. Basically utility for your settlements. Such as a "policestation" with a jail for criminals. Maybe adding some minor quests to hunt down criminals on the run for your jail. Maybe it reduces safety a bit, but gets restored once you "transfer" the criminals to other cities more capable? Just some thoughts. Also some larger plots would be nice. Got some two story house designs, but they are double the normal size. Anyway. Great job!

[@QBlitz187]

Damn I'm on Xbox and I'm loving this mod already! Gunna keep me going longer on Fallout Now Great Work

[@v-alfred]

Finally I can be mayor!, and dont need to make rooms/house for my settler. :D I hope there will be bigger plot size for multiple settlers (if its possible tho). This mod is really great game changer, awesome. Will wait for future update.. :)

[@Kainoa_25]

Subbed. amazing mod, amazing passion, amazing work, amazing videos and tutorials. Great work and keep it up this mods damn awesome and thank you for bringing it to console. :)

[@loganr6203]

i live this mod so much

[@mw47]

will the tax be collected even if a settler has no home/ is just assigned to a bed? i really like using preset houses like in sanctuary

[@kinggath]

mw47 Taxes are based on the plots only. Part of the reward system for engaging with the Sim Settlements mechanics. If your settler is working a job from Sim Settlements, they will pay taxes on that! So you can definitely mix and match.

[@raybristow4949]

good and thank you it really looks so cool

[@Aryon1969]

Maybe I missed it but does the tax rate or just taxes in general affect happiness? Awesome mod this is more useful than all of the workshop DLC combined and I can't help but be excited by the ideas to come. Very well done sir!

[@kinggath]

Not yet, I'd like to integrate taxes more but I kind of half to re-write the entire workshop system from scratch. I've already started (and is why you'll find that plot assignment is a little more reliable than assigning vanilla items), but it will take a while to get the whole thing under Sim Settlements control without breaking other mods (I want ZERO compatibility issues - we can all place nice together :) )

[@Aryon1969]

I am using a high level save and I have seen some issues with happiness and already built up settlements and I was hoping it was tax related. Not a big problem just have to redo stuff however I did find that this mod kind of breaks somerville place. Because we can't assign roles for the 2 kids there I can't hit 100% on the housing,job, and power tabs. I have seen the housing upgrade but not any of the commercial buildings yet while the other two settlements I have been testing are all upgrading at a reasonable speed.

[@neildunham2328]

preston garvey: another settlement needs our help me: why can't these damn settlers defend themselves for a change?

[@stuartgall4003]

Some mods you think are awesome but this one is on a level of its own it's that good - tremendous work. A question - I haven't reached the point of using up all the sensors from Museum of Freedom, but to build sensors by yourself they need fibre optics that I've only found in microscopes and biometric scanners which are not too common. Is there a possibility of running out of optics if someone tries to build up every settlement spot ?

[@igotasweetass]

fiber optics can be bought in bulk; teagan on the Prydwyn, or Alexis at vault 81. You're welcome.

[@stuartgall4003]

Thanks for the reply, haven't checked these guys out so good to know. My initial question was not quite correct as it took me another visit before I realised that there were 3 more sensor boxes close by which gave a total of 150 or so rather than my starting 50 !

[@SallinKari]

I just came back to Fallout 4 and discovered this mod and I really like it, I would like to suggest a tweak where there is an option that once a day you get a message that says how many residences are upgraded rather than an individual message every single time one is done, since I like to do a lot of expansion at once, so I'll get bombarded with several messages stating a settlement has upgraded a house in quick succession.

[@jasongilek]

kinggath Idea for you, ( because you need more stuff to do with this truck load of AWESOME youv dumped on us) lol. A mayor. Someone to use as a work around for people without HUDFramework. Also can be used as a "shortcut " for some of the mod options.You said that you wanted to make a sensor for finding synths. The mayor can point them out and ask if the player wants to kill them or have settlers kill them, or let them be. THANK YOU for giving us free content that puts Bethesda to shame. YOU and all the other mod authors, (big and small) are awesome!!! and are the people that make this game great.

[@kinggath]

You read my mind. I actually have a character already developed :) Going to be a bit as he needs voice acting and a lot of scripting - but definitely want that SO bad!

[@jammeranimated2627]

4:30 Nobody builds these structures in 60 seconds. Sole Survivor : I do can materialize a house with my mind in an instant.

[@lassec.larsen3770]

Good job man!! You made one of my fallout 4 dreams come true! I'm looking forward to a new playthrough with this mod in it! By the way, did anybody tell you that you sound a bit like Deacon from the game ?

[@kinggath]

If that's true, I should add some more dialogue and see if people notice. ;)

[@AishaDracoGryph]

Maybe an optional system to set settleers a managers. So if you had a zoning manager, thwey could place and manage the plots for you, a industrial manager might influence how your industiral plots are doing ext... Maybe you could set tax collectors too like provisioners only to grab your caps for you. letting you collect taxes more often but you have to pay the tax man.

[@kinggath]

Great ideas! The zoning management is pretty challenging without going settlement by settlement and pre-recording potential coordinates. Though if I think of some way to get around this limitation, I would love to give an option so that players can skip placing plots altogether - maybe one day!

[@AishaDracoGryph]

If you are interested in any of my other ideas, try looking up my posts on the mod requests. Maybe zoning could work more like a global thing, like you can flag certain settlements to specialize in a certain zone, so that settlement would then build itself complete with all the plots ext... based on a similar system to the indevidual plots. So you could have residential, industiral ext... based settlements.

[@kinggath]

I've thought about doing that, but it would require going through and coming up with an optimal plot layout in each settlement, which would be quite an undertaking. Totally possible though, if someone was interested in doing the leg work of reporting back coordinates and rotation information for such a project, I might be willing to set something like that up!

[@AishaDracoGryph]

I was thinking more like have a set of pre-built settlements, that specialize. So if you set a settlement to specialize in residential th mod would pick a settlemtn with mostly housing to load. I was just thinking make the pre fab settlemtets using your plots and extras. People could even submit thier own settlemts though the new settlement import tool.

[@kinggath]

cdante and I are going to work together on adding support for Sim Settlements to the Transfer Settlements mod at some point - so I guess this is coming at some point!

[@berserkercookie2645]

Rly awesome work. No really i mean it this is exactly what the game should feel like. Oh 3 hours i need to go back and build another industrial plot. Oh whats this they upgraded it? Awesome let me take a look. I cant stop replaying it. Thanks for this mod. Do you plan on defence plots in the future? Also what about combining plots in the future? Like 2 residental ones to make a bigger one? BTW how come you get so few views when your mod is one of the if not the best on Nexusmods since ever? o.O

[@kinggath]

Defense plots are absolutely coming. New plot types will be added in the expansions for the mod - the first is in development right now. Combining plots would be quite the technological nightmare - doubtful I'll implement that. I thought my channel was doing pretty damn good! Went from 70 subscribers to almost 7000 in 6 weeks.

[@berserkercookie2645]

I already thought this would be taking alot of time and effort for a small change ingame. On the other hand i can only imagine the amount of time and work you put into this mod already. Wow from 70 to 7000 in 6 weeks is awesome. I hope it keeps rising that fast cause you deserve it. :)

[@MrFirderis]

Just wanna give a short shoutout how much I like your work so far. Defently one of those mods that keeps you playing. Well done, and thanks to your amazing work!

[@LordHammer33]

Might have missed it in the videos but does the systems interact with vanilla buildings as well? Say that I want to continue building my own set-piece buildings and stores and use this system to fill gaps and extra housing beyond the set-pieces? Will I only get the benefits if I use the plots for all buildings?

[@scoorp8]

is there any idea when a tutorial about how we can submit or add our own designs into this without being a "mod creator" because I remember you saying something about it being pretty easy and I am interested in making some of my own houses for them to build. I would also like to see more in the unlock progression you mentioned earlier a way where you could get a larger foundation for a house or store, nothing huge but like a 2 x 4 square house next to a 2 x 2 square house would add some nice diversity to settlements I think

[@kinggath]

The Builder's Toolkit (www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/22808/) was written for anyone to understand as long as you've got some patience to read through documents and follow along. I also just released the first video tutorial on doing so (kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4fcYX2QrJaWkNE) Larger plots will come in a future update.

[@voltairefelgrand8508]

This is a quality of life problem, but would it be possible to add a feature in where we could move the settlement status bars? I know the HUD clock mod has a similar feature and I use it to reposition the said element when I play on a tv that clips the edges of the screen. Thanks for making such a great mod and fore making it immersive.👍

[@kinggath]

Hopefully you'll have that soon. It won't be full pixel control, but I'll give you some position and scale options for it.

[@TravDickerson83]

Amazing

[@jamesgellert1263]

Why are my building won't upgraded?

[@scottspicer1082]

Great Mod, keep going with it. Is there a way to make the notification messages last longer on the screen. Bye the time I notice them they are gone.

[@kinggath]

I've gotten that feedback a lot recently. I"ll be extending the message time in a future micro-patch!

[@timothynorman9170]

I love this mod, but I feel like the asam sensor is too valuable (its worth like 40 caps with a very low weight right?). I can basically farm them. I know I can just refrain from farming them, but I don't like feeling like a restrained god.

[@joey4track]

Is there never going to be a MCM style menu setup for Fallout? Is there some reason why it doesn't already exist? You would think it would be pretty similar to Skyrim.

[@kinggath]

One was released recently that's in it's infancy. I will most likely tap into it at some point in the future.

[@sergiotamayo89]

@kinggath I'm inserting the holotape and I press ok to continue but nothing else happens after that. It keeps repeating

[@icecold1805]

Well, many of the ideas here are great, but seem kinda big. Going for something smaller: how about making tax rates have an effect on happiness? cause I fail to see the point of having this "double tax" or "half tax" in game if they cause no effects. Also, dunno if this helps you but... have you heard of Bank of the Commonwealth? finding a way for both mods to work togheter would be really cool. I mean, I got both installed and all that, but... making them actually work togheter.

[@kinggath]

The tax rates are basically just a small reward for using plots and the settings are there for players to balance the mod themselves, in the future I'll probably tie them into gameplay more.

[@IVISMiLESIVI]

Will sim settlements work if u are doing the nuka cola dlc and raid your previous settlements?

[@icecold1805]

Anyways, great mod.

[@hashbrown2972]

Im sure this has been updated but i have a different setup for the holotape, it doesnt have those options and all i need to do is adjust the ui scale on xbox so i can see the workshop framework icons

[@norsia1946]

Kinggath, you beautiful beautiful man. Is it possible to have the settlers already in a settlement just ignore these plots and system and have them live in their already situated homes? or will they try and abandon their hold beds and stuff for the plots? I don't really want the Abernathy's to abandon their plantation home.

[@kinggath]

You'll have to turn off Auto-Assignment in the holotape to prevent that. I'll add a holotape option to control Unique NPC assignment in a future update so you can fine-tune a little more. Places like Abernathy hadn't even occurred to me!

[@norsia1946]

Best settlement Mod EVER.

[@MrNationalWonder]

Hey, would we ever see you create a patch to include the "Transfer Settlements Mod?"

[@kinggath]

cdante and I will be working together on this in the future for sure!

[@dancersdigst1754]

I wish the plots with no power would be a different color or something to make it stand out.

[@LDZMarder]

Is there a way to make bigger plots? like lets say a settler takes over two or three plots and builds one bigger house, use of of other materials like concrete and the other wood? Like hes rich? lets say Tir one citiy is singel plots, tir 2 city means all plots are dubbeld and or a settler takes over the adjection plot. Tir 3 city's have much bigger houses with rooms and floors. The same would be for industries and traders. Ideas for buildings that can be unlocked as reward would be a Inn for traders and visitors, a guard post with armory.

[@kinggath]

Unfortunately, no. The Sim City style merging would be incredibly complex to pull off. Instead, I'm going to be providing third-party AddOn creators with larger plots they can make buildings for and then players will have the option to just build a more expensive plot that creates a larger building.

[@vuvffufg]

Nice mod! This video needs an update however!

[@XxStormRainxX]

Let them build power and turrets

[@eddyobey1308]

hey bro i like the mod alot and im tryna like move them all around but when i try taking it down it stays there like i cant put anything there any advice on how to remove the plot from there?

[@kinggath]

Is the plot moving but the building staying put?

[@segsuc6399]

Can you explain how to find the entrance of a plot house for ex.? I'm having trouble finding out where the entrance of a plot will be built and when waiting 36 hours for it to be done, it's quite annoying. Thanks

[@kinggath]

A path to enter the building will always be on the arrow side.

[@segsuc6399]

kinggath Oh, that is an arrow? How stupid of me 😅. Thanks for the quick reply!

[@segsuc6399]

And I have another question. The plots I build don't require any resources at all. I have initial plot costs turned on but no wood or steel is being used. Is this normal?

[@kinggath]

That's a display error by the vanilla HUD. It's a bug I can't fix unfortunately. If you look next to the name of the plot just before you build it, there's a number in parentheses - that tells you how many more you can build. So it is using resources, it's just not showing you how many.

[@segsuc6399]

Thanks!

[@ericengle1393]

would it be possible on xbone to add a widget moving system like the survival holotape mod

[@kinggath]

Eric Engle I'm going to add some options for controlling the HUD meters soon.

[@ericengle1393]

kinggath cool thanks

[@raybristow4949]

will this be on the xbox anytime

[@kinggath]

Soon!

[@legendarybacon3616]

It's on the Xbox now, it's great. Alittle buggy but I'm sure it will be fixed with the next update!

[@shanecommans4296]

Is there a updated version so I can understand the new auto assign from bed??

[@kinggath]

shane commans Sorry, this video is on my list to redo. Auto Assign Away from Bed means that Sim Settlements will unassigned people from vanilla beds to give them residential plots.

[@shanecommans4296]

kinggath awesome thank you absolutely awesome mod by the way sunk another 100hrs just on this mod hahaha

[@hillyapple75_72]

What is the city manager desk? It says that on the settlement flag

[@kinggath]

It's a crafting bench, terminal, and control object you can build to give you access to a lot of extra things for Sim Settlements. It can be found under Crafting, if you're using Settlement Menu Manager, it will be after the plots in the Sim Settlements build menu.

[@hillyapple75_72]

kinggath thanks!

[@nathanielruppe5832]

I have a question. I do not have the holotape, how would I be able to get it?

[@kinggath]

Check out the Quick Start video.

[@thehartrix7461]

My holotape can't stop installing things and searching pip boy...I've clicked OK a million times but it brings me back to the same page...Help?

[@kinggath]

This used to be caused by HUDFramework. Try disabling that temporarily. You may also have to disable Sim Settlements as well, make a save without those mods, then load back in with just Sim Settlements (and not HUDFramework), and grab the tape again. After you get past the install, you can save again and re-enable HUDFramework.

[@eddyobey1308]

no im on xbox one do you have like any advice on what i should do?

[@kinggath]

Send me a message directly through youtube. We might have to go back and forth a bit.

[@badegg4909]

you said something about not having dynamic dynamic holotapes, and entering data down to the decimal point. I know very little, but there is this mod which lets you imput things and save them, I have no idea if this will help you or if I'm sending you on a goose chase. www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/13462/?

[@adamkoecke4582]

i noticed that provisier is not covered by your mod is that fixable?

[@kinggath]

Adam Koecke Possibly- in testing the supply routes would break so I disabled them from being able to own homes. Though you don't actually have to give them a home, just a bed somewhere is fine.

[@brianstivers2440]

How about unlocking a special job, Tax Collector. So all taxes are pooled at a single settlement? Cost extra resources for protection because of the chance of raiders hitting it and taking your caps....

[@kinggath]

Brian Stivers Not sure if you watched the rewards video, but i mentioned unlockables. I plan on adding all sorts of unlockable quality-of-life improvements. So that things like tax collection will eventually become easier as your empire grows!

[@aaronkorthout]

I'm having a problem. I can't see or find the plots. Is there a certain area you put them?

[@kinggath]

They are under Special on your build menu, but first you have to load up the holotape. Check my channel for the holotape location if you haven't picked it up yet.

[@localterrorist3155]

When I click ok it just tells me to click ok again it doesn't continue (I'm on Xbox)

[@JamesCline394]

So you don't need the perk for vendors?

[@kinggath]

Correct.

[@anakinskywalkercrappyprodu2205]

Where is the holotape

[@evander40child82]

i am new fallout gamer this is awesome mod for me save time for gameplay meant play game it self seems lot of work you this mod software etc: if i understand right huge thanks this mod load few days ago this mod😶😊🤗👍🤘

[@Ryanjamesred]

I installed the mod on Xbox one and it isn't working. I uninstalled and then reinstalled it but it still isn't working. Any advice?

[@kinggath]

Does the holotape spawn in the museum or does it just loop the "install screen" on your pipboy?

[@Ryanjamesred]

Holotape wasn't spawning in the museum so i started a new save after reinstalling the mod and it was there.

[@eddyobey1308]

yea

[@kinggath]

That means your save file's scripts have gone screwy. Are you on PC? It might be fixable.

[@SilentWilliam1121]

how do you get the holotapein xbox one

[@kinggath]

Check out the video called Xbox Quick Start on the channel.

[@X_viper2-3]

looks like a fun mod but where is the holotape

[@kinggath]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYKlZ3mHmt99nac

[@X_viper2-3]

kinggath thank you

[@corum12j]

How do you start up this mod on Xbox?

[@kinggath]

Check out the Xbox Quick Start video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKbcaWp-fbN2fdE

[@acidicgaming3501]

How do you safely remove the mod?

[@kinggath]

Use the Self Destruct Sequence option in the holotape (might be under Tools), and let that run - it will notify you when it is finished.

[@FirstSlayer09]

how do i collect taxes? every 2 days i get a notifcation that it's tax day and i've been paid $1.00. is that 100 caps?

[@kinggath]

They will be deposited in your workbenches. If you're only getting $1.00 (which is 1 cap), something is definitely wrong. It could be that your settler needs aren't met so they aren't paying - or you could have a save file problem that's not keeping track of the plot counts correctly. Try going to your biggest settlement, make sure all the meters are full, then fast travel (or run to another settlement that's far away if you're playing Survival), and sleep a couple days away to see if your tax count gets higher. It should be 2-5 caps per plot you have - depending on how high level they are.

[@FirstSlayer09]

kinggath yeah something is up. I have 8 people in sanctuary all with homes and jobs and I'm only getting $1. the 3 meters are full as well.

[@havok4707]

You keep up the good work you bad boy 🍌🍑👋🏿💥

[@davidstowe5652]

Good job need for Xbox one please!👍😎

[@eddyobey1308]

i dont know how to do that smh

[@caseylove6216]

No one is building?

[@kinggath]

Casey Love By default if your settlers are assigned to anything, Sim Settlements won't reassign them. Either change the holotape assignment options or manually assign your settlers to the plots.

[@glorifiedscotland9282]

Where's the holotape

[@kinggath]

There are three available atm, Concord Museum, West Everett Estates, and the Mayoral Shelter. There are some videos in the channel showing you specifically where in each of those locations if you can't find them inside those locations.

[@electronicfox8153]

Wow didn’t know you were a Marcy hater. Might have to delete your mods because of that