Nordhagen Beach - a cozy and realistic fallout 4 settlement build! (no mods)

[@dcole2763]

“This settlement comes with some settlers already” *draws out pistol*

[@IfThenCreate]

This made me laugh out loud

[@dcole2763]

@@IfThenCreateI’m glad, this is my favourite series on KZbin currently!

[@mrJMD]

IfThenCreate - "The first thing every farm needs compost" *CLICK CLACK*

[@Gus_95]

That's me when it comes to Covenant and that other settlement with the Children of Atom LMAO

[@Kona4404]

Into the ocean you go

[@mikefm4]

I love that you understand the game we developed and how it’s meant to be as much imagination as it is logic. You’re really building a seed for future generations to build off of.

[@jamesnopens510]

I love the fact that this is almost a brand new channel picking up some traction in the fallout community, love it! Can't wait to see where we go from here 🤗

[@riceball7086]

Honestly I love your channel, especially how you have some storyline makeup and it's adorable. I love doing settlement builds and if you could, I would seriously live seeing you do a vault-tec dlc type settlement because their builds are so cute and clean and I bet you could almost do an apartment building with how they stack

[@TryingStan]

Ooh yeah! Maybe at Vault 88 so that it can seem lore-friendly!

[@angelmu_]

Babe wake up, IfThenCreate uploaded another setlement

[@laineeashford77]

me asf

[@Matty2Tone]

Let me mark it on your map.

[@robertmullins3353]

I'm living to hear "That's lovely." ❤😊

[@IfThenCreate]

I had no idea how much I said that until this comment!! Gonna gather them all into a compilation

[@IfThenCreate]

@zeldaforlife I did! Uploaded as a short 😁

[@GitzenShiggles]

Very clever build. Nordhagen Beach has always been a secondary outpost for me but making it into water production centre for Commonwealth supply is just so keen. Well done.

[@Old-ded-memes]

I love how protective you are over the kid😂

[@ponderosabones7803]

For the radiation storms, you can build a fireworks mortar... in your fireworks options at the chemistry station, there's a Clear Weather shell.

[@hyejinmoon4882]

Your videos have literally become my study session and eating videos

[@IfThenCreate]

I’m so glad 🥰

[@AnxiousGary]

I was surprised you didn't steal one of the baskets from the garden for the kid's toys! I would be wary building so close to the shore because of the nonexistant tides lol. Love this serious, really brought new life back into Fallout 4 for me.

[@TrayPainter]

58:11 if your having trouble snaping things into place you can use a rug on level ground put the item that isn't snapping on the rug, press and hold the button to pick up the rug and you should be able to put the item any where you want. You can even put the rug back into storage after to make everthing look nice.

[@MatteeTheRogue]

I’m so so so so happy I found your channel. I love this game and it’s super refreshing to see people still doing settlement builds all these years later with no mods. And with such a lovely and cheerful personality to boot :)

[@IfThenCreate]

Thank you!!

[@dreaminginjapan]

Seeing her struggle with the metal structures makes me feel better because honestly same!

[@bryceosborne4357]

I think the kid having a job is probably for the best. No other kids to play with and without anything to do i know i wouldve been super bored. Plus its good to learn since they do live in the wasteland.

[@doctorblasey780]

I'm getting back into fallout 4 again after a bit of time and my favorite part was always the settlement building :-) I love your videos they inspire me to actually take great care into my settlements instead of rushing to do them.

[@robertiams4198]

cook stations, armor and weapon benches as well as chem stations also bring happiness to settlements. The garden plots really aren't need. Any food can be planted in that area, it's just a matter of spacing.

[@anthonycliftonjones2564]

You aren't using a quite simple and yet well known construction tip, the Pillar Glitch. This allows a player to manipulate the construction by glitching a concrete pillar to change the height of a building and sink into the ground, and place walls, fences, flooring and roofs in places the game wouldn't normally allow you to place.

[@mrJMD]

I hear you and I know the glitch too but there's a feeling that we so fundamentally shouldn't NEED to do it, that I almost never glitch anything. It sounds insane, but by glitching a ton of stuff it feels like I'm condoning Bethesda's lazy game design, lol.

[@diablodelatorre]

I think with her saying no mods she's also not doing glitches too which I understand though I would only glitch just to get things in a spot where they should be lol

[@frododododo]

I mean they wouldn't know you're doing it ​@@mrJMD

[@firefly19690]

I love your builds! I recently started building again, and i enjoy seeing how you build, and I enjoy your commentary. Dont worry about the kid. I have family and friends who were farm kids and every one of them helped on the farm. But trust me, they also had some of the best playtimes. 😊

[@ponderosabones7803]

I love the cozy shack aesthetic all of your settlements have, would love to see what you'd do with places with Sanctuary and Bunker Hill

[@PrinceGilby]

Big smile on my face when you brought up The Boxcar Children. Read many of those books many years ago and hadn't thought about them in a long time.

[@roadworkaheaduhyeahisureho5674]

51:43 oohhh that hanging buoy is SO CUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEE

[@tmsteele2000]

I'm so glad I found you! I am living for settlement builds in Fallout 4 and your videos are so helpful. Yay!

[@kevtheobald]

Enjoying the videos, always like to see how others layout their settlements and get new ideas for mine. With Nordhagen I generally make a boardwalk over the water with housing built off of it, for ocean front views, using the smaller prefabbed wooden shack housing, two beds per and a little seating area in the window. Then, if it makes it to 20 population I will make an apartment complex behind the original shack that comes with the settlement. I am looking forward to whenever you get to Hangman's Alley, that is the one settlement, that to fully use the space it includes needs a mod, because otherwise they can't walk beyond the gate on the water side entrance normally from what I understand. And it also has been said that the settlers won't go upstairs if you build up to keep the alley open for shops on the pavement. I don't generally worry about using the mods to fix that, but it is also the settlement that I never seem to be able to make happy even though they do usually hit capacity. Good luck with the size limit on The Castle, that one takes a lot of planning to build if you want to do more than just use the existing structure as is.

[@iamsparechange]

i love watching these, they are so comforting and you put me back into my fallout 4 hyper-fixation phase again lol. and i love to take some of your ideas and add them to my settlements bc they’re just so neat, keep up the good work!

[@bilbofett4467]

I love the fact that you don't use mods and make everything so beautiful with the vanilla game, it's so nice because not everyone can afford to build a PC to get mods so it's inspiring to see what you can create without them

[@lauramarjoram2692]

Love it when you went to get ducktape out in the clinic, which reminded me to put super glue in mine! It was used in wars to close wounds!

[@themudpit621]

I've nearly finished all the settlements in my survival run, and Preston is still stuck in the museum of history where I've left him the entire game. All the settlements are belong to ME!!

[@josneaka4866]

Yes! Can't stand Sturges saying "This place is really coming together, huh? I can't take all the credit." Like, bro, you can't take ANY of the credit. Get outta here! 🤣

[@ReapThySorrow]

I love how you take such good care, of your settlements

[@GSBro6]

Your video popped up on my home page and I'm glad it id! I feel like I just found a diamond in the rough!

[@michellelee6457]

The Rad storm approaching was totally me the first time. :,) the slight panic like "what am I hearing rn?"

[@hyejinmoon4882]

Also, the reason the pumps are hard to place is because when you use it, it makes your character go behind them and pump the pipe.

[@IfThenCreate]

Ohhhh that makes a lot of sense!

[@hyejinmoon4882]

@@IfThenCreate Also! I'm glad you saw the stairs snap together, you can snap two of the big stairs (without the platform) to make one long stair case!! That's about all the fancy knowledge of building I have though.

[@Antlord2033]

You reawakened old memories in my mind by mentioning the box car children! I used to read a lot of those 😊

[@mrJMD]

Great to see another video, and Preston just started bugging me about Nordhagen but this is my first time playing FO4 so it's nice to see what's going on. As for the garden, I think the main problem you had is that Gourds take up a ton of space so you can't plant anything else anywhere near them. Also at 24:44 you're having trouble with stairs not reaching the ground, those stair units will snap to each other creating super long stairs, so a 2nd one like the one you originally had on there would snap on the bottom of the 1st.

[@Deirdre-v7r]

I love Nordhagen. I made a victorian glass greenhouse-style spa complete with an emersion pool. Decorated with victorian style chairs and couches with sinks. And cans of healthful purified water. To make corn plots hold more put the plot in a wide open space and place corn then you can throw in 5 carrots, or one gourd. I msde a fishing pier with a bait shop/ fish znd chips place . It has a fish smoker made from a wooden privy, the short fish rack full of fish, the open fire and a screen door. Pillsr glitched. My NPCs love eating at the FISH SHACK.

[@Hexashy]

found this channel yesterday and honestly, i absolutely love listening to your videos while i'm drawing. its very soothing and relaxing

[@dagan2000]

she gives off very strong Bob Ross vibes

[@gelenamurena]

I'm so glad youtube recommended me your video! so relaxing and cute, love the stories you create and how cozy your settlements feel ❤

[@SesshisGirl]

I look forward to your vids. I watch them while at work so you're basically keeping me company. It be interesting to see you tackle a settlement like coastal cottage or a more dangerous place like murkwater. Keep these vids going!!

[@MadGod22]

These are the exact types of videos I love to watch, amazing channel. Almost makes me wanna play fallout again

[@bubby_seal]

If you ever want to get into moded settlement building, I would suggest Custom Vanilla Assets. It offers so many more assets and items to build and create with. All the assets are from the game, so you could build that boat asset. A great video about settlement building using the cva mod is a video by cordless vii called (red rocket settlement build moded).

[@christinag1521]

Love that I stumbled upon your channel!! Your insight on the settlements and your builds are thoughtful and comforting to watch.

[@Sonic_Obscurities]

always stoked for settlement builds

[@Gus_95]

14:03 (I guess. Too lazy to double check tho) I admire your patience lol I use this mod called Food Generator just to make my life easier in a couple settlements. Honestly I guess the only plantations I have are in Graygarden and Tenpines Bluff, all other settlements are just provided by these two and a couple of those generators in both Red Rocket (where I made like a huge factory with no human settlers and only the robots I created with Automatron) and the drive-in I forgot the name, that's also my trading hub lol

[@mermaidbrothels]

I love how relaxing your videos are!

[@peperomiapizza]

I adore this channel it's so good I am shocked at how new it is! Your videos are so comforting I have over a thousand hours on fallout 4 and haven't played in over a year and your videos make me want to play again ❤

[@IfThenCreate]

Thank you so much, I’m so glad you’re enjoying them!

[@lovefromalicia]

you really inspire me to have a fresh build with no mods so that I can go back to simple settlement building like this before I swamped my game with hundreds of settlement mods ahaha. Love your videos !!

[@courtneypatterson2543]

This is my first time seeing your channel and I have to say I love it so much! You definitely give my “Wickedy” vibes but for Fallout 4, which is definitely a compliment because she was my first subscription on YT ever! I would really love to see your spin on Sanctuary next! Please keep making videos! 😊

[@Osmotic]

Love the idea of a pediatrician in the post apocalypse!

[@dahliako]

Yessss box car children!!! I was so happy to see this show up in my feed over the weekend because I’ve found watching these in the background while I wfh raises my own happiness levels so thank you and keep doing these! Your interior design ideas inspire me ❤

[@dahliako]

I also need you to know I had no idea the flooring posts could go into the ground until I saw you flawlessly sink them in 😅 so thank you! I was like “who tf lives up this high…”

[@IfThenCreate]

I’m SO glad someone understands the box car children reference!!

[@dahliako]

@@IfThenCreateheck yes!! It’s been literal decades since I read them but I remember the thought of living in a box car with my siblings (I’m an only child lol) and surviving like that was really appealing to me. and that they refrigerated their milk in some outdoor waterfall?!? Loved it.

[@sofiablomquist8394]

Sometimes I leave the rowboat intact. Sometimes I scrap it. Also I think you can place the waterpump on a farmplot if it makes sense in your build. I have used that in a greenhouse. The stairs will chip into some of the concrete foundations. I think the wood one and the farm/warehouse one.

[@AKnoKICKback]

Just found your videos. You’re the GOAT vanilla builder. I only play vanilla Fallout too (non-God mode), and you gave me a bunch of ideas for my settlements. Thanks.

[@rayrotroff4028]

@IfThenCreate I don't know if you spotted the earlier comment on gourds, but they have the largest footprint of any crop, even razorgrain. If you want to replace them at Nordhagen, though, you either have to delete them, or move them, but at THIS settlement, and Somerset Place, if you move crops, you might have "phantom plants" where the game thinks the moved crop is still there. Taking the settlers off of farming duty will help with this, but there is still a chance for this to happen.

[@ultimatedemon2]

Found your channel recently and I love your vibe. It's very wholesome and calm and inspired me to start rebuilding settlements in fo4. I would love to see you transform sanctuary or the red rocket station at some point. Much love and support.

[@IfThenCreate]

Thank you so much! Sanctuary is up next ;)

[@katelinstaples1536]

1:23:44 That all looks so cozy.

[@DjOdyssey1971]

Not sure why you seem to always have trouble with getting 6 crops on a farm plot. I've always been able to. Just have to slow down a little and stagger them just slightly with 4 in the corners and then the other 2 staggered just slightly in the space remaining. And it looks good growing that way.

[@Morrowclaw]

The gift that keeps on giving!

[@isoscelestriangle258]

Love your stuff!! Listening while I work (and cant play the settlement building sim myself lol❤)

[@cherinoble]

Settlement building on top WOOOOOOOOOO

[@Smartguy027]

Awwww yisssss time for some coastal relaxation

[@terryvanleeuwen3004]

when adding the stairs to the baracks, you could have snapped 2 of the biggers stairs together

[@abbeyhunter]

You could create a little basket or storage area with one small floor board and four tiny fences. I’ve never used it for toys but have filled them with goods for market stalls and gardens.

[@IfThenCreate]

That’s so clever, I love that!!

[@micknunya2134]

My kids leave their toys scattered on the rug after playing. If it were me I'd just forget the bucket and put the toys on the floor. Anyway really enjoyed the video. Cheers.

[@h2eh1s-]

Looking forward to a Boston Airport build. 🎉

[@pysokon7714]

How do you pick the bottles up right to set them on the shelf? I always struggle with shift and the mouse buttons for ages. :D

[@thewarcrow7947]

Pick them up and move them in build mode

[@Dannotello1982]

Some more settlement building wooohoooo love these after stumbling across it recently. ❤

[@III---III]

This is oddly calming

[@martyfredericks6440]

Really enjoying the content helps me 💤 . I enjoy the fallout series and elder scroll series as well. Always found it peaceful to build on this game if not a bit annoying 😂. A good building game imo is sims 4. It has an easy learning curve and with all the dlc and stuff there’s alot of options.

[@jcrstevens1]

First time coming across your channel, already in joy it and I’m only got to the scrapping part, will look for more videos, but do you use modes, I still play this game and still don’t use mods except the ones in the store. Keep up the good work

[@jaydenpetee7862]

love this series so much

[@Gonza1000]

Poor kid... He get a fish basket, when you have three nice empty baskets in the food garden 🤣

[@IfThenCreate]

If he’s smart he’ll go switch it out for an empty one

[@dukerider0319]

Just found your channel, nicely done, but why you never put sinks or bathrooms or sinks??

[@scottseibert4675]

You can actually fit more food on the plots. Place food on ground next to the plot then pick the food up and there should be room to put more on the food plot. You can fit 9 carrots on one plot for example if you do that trick.

[@thewanderer12]

Hi there! Just discovered your channel. I like your style and your way of building. I'm here to stay as a fellow builder)

[@lauramiranda9844]

You can make a warehouse look sturdier by making a solid half wall and then a glass half wall on top of it.

[@carlosmaggiotti1692]

You are a genious and a SO nice person.... Thanks for your videos.

[@thuggwaffle8825]

Just found your channel and I love your imagination and creativity. Do you have a TikTok? I only ask because with how great your content is I’m surprised you don’t have tons of subscribers and TikTok is an easy way to gain recognition.

[@IfThenCreate]

Thank you!! I do! I’ve been on Instagram and Tiktok for a few years (IfThenCreate on everything!), but I’m new to KZbin!

[@steveedwards4495]

Hiya, loving your builds but I have questions lol. Are your builds DLC or modded? I'm playing vanilla F4 and I don't have much to build with? For example, I'm short on lighting? The biggest I have is the floor standing work lights? Lot of other bits missing too. Is there a perk I should be leveling up? Playing on XBOX and I'm level 34. Thank you from the UK 😁

[@IfThenCreate]

I have no mods or creation club stuff, but all the DLCs! Some lighting is also unlocked by a Picket Fences magazine in vanilla, I think it’s the one in Hardware Town?

[@steveedwards4495]

@@IfThenCreate brilliant thanks ill look for the mag 👍

[@mlindner4498]

You are so kindhearted to worry about the kids farming. Can I share my experience? I am a 6th gen Texas ranchers kid. When we were little I would beg my grandfather (opa) to let me help him feed all the animals. It was one of my favorite things to do. I named them and everything. In fact, I would get mad when he wouldn’t wake me up to help him feed them in the morning. Then we would come back to the garden and pick out the best veggies of the day we would eat for lunch or dinner. We would do some weeding or garden care and then I’d eat breakfast with my family and we would get turned loose to run around and play till lunch. At lunch or dinner sometimes I’d help my grandma cook the veggies we picked out and she’d teach me how to cook or tell me stories as I watched her. As we got older I got more responsibilities and my brother and I did more of the feeding of the animals and cleaning the stalls as my grandparents aged and had a harder time. I absolutely loved ranch life and my city friends would come over and loved to do stuff around the farm too. So just think of those kids like they were like me and my brother. Our cows knew me so well they let me play with their babies and same with the ewes and goats even if they were just born. It was a really cool experience and now that my grandparents have all passed away, I would give anything to go back and spend a day on the ranch with them just like that. ❤

[@IfThenCreate]

I love this!! Thank you for sharing it ❤️

[@mlindner4498]

@@IfThenCreate oh good! I’m glad you loved it too. I think that’s part of the reason I love playing this game is because of the farming aspect and I love building settlements too. You have given me some really awesome ideas for my game. Thanks for sharing your builds with us! I recently came across you and I love your channel!

[@Davekoresh000]

I love your channel,I feel like I'm working side by side with a apocalypse interior decorator

[@awoken3215]

Hi I love your videos, but I was just wondering why you use the hospital beds as normal beds for settlers? Keep up the great vids 👏

[@sabmiles07]

She may do it for the same reason I do. They’re small and don’t look gross like the other little cot beds do and with no mods it’s just the best choice for smaller beds.

[@awoken3215]

@@sabmiles07 oh okay I just use the other little bed because in my opinion their better but each to their own yk

[@mcalindenger]

You need to go look up camp builds in F76. They streamlined the camp build system. Can have wallpaper etc so many things you can add. it’s amazing what we can build in the game.

[@houserabbiit]

Love these videos!

[@AFewWordsHere]

I’m irrationally upset about the fish bucket 😂 What about a chest or foot locker with toys on top of it, or one of the baskets they have next to their crops?

[@victorylane2377]

There are a lot of building hacks and glitches that make building easier. I'm not sure if you don't know or choose not to use them. Thought I would mention it. Regardless, I'm enjoying the content.

[@Sweetnessninja]

Can you do hangman’s alley I never know what to do with it

[@Anwelei]

Your videos make me want to play fallout 4 just for the building settlements hah

[@KorAllRBare]

*T I P* Industrial buildings usually are concrete and or Steel floors.. Say what now? never mind, I see you used the warehouse flooring.. NICE... BTW Rubber floor mats are always aligned so that the workers feet are insulated from the concrete or steel flooring, it is also a very practical non slip surface 😉 put simply imagine where they would stand and have the Mat placed as such.. APU 👁👍

[@tsemiu]

I love watching these

[@NOLAgenX]

I love watching you build and the results. It does puzzle me why you start the beacon immediately. If you wait to attract people you can build your grand vision and design much more easily. You don’t have an increasing number of people getting in the way and you aren’t forced to react to unhappiness by quickly implementing builds for the sake of happiness. There are many ways to have a happy settlement if settlers aren’t part of the settlement till you are about 90% or more complete (except for settlements that already have 2 or 3).

[@IfThenCreate]

Totally fair! My goal is to have a complete settlement to show off at the end, and I like dressing up the settlers as part of that

[@TabbyLavalamp]

If it helps, kids on farms generally do help work on the farm. Just think of it as this child doing his chores.

[@AshleyOlivia90]

How have I played this so much and built so many settlements and didn’t know you can catch cats 😭

[@dingo1x]

Use the bigger generator and use the wiring glitch, no wires used ..

[@user-ne6kf4vj7c]

Keep em coming

[@richardzeiders5496]

200+ years after the bombs fell, this settlement is one of my largest & most modern. Crude structures are a non-starter. As I have stated in your previous build videos, humanity has a desire to achieve, advance, & build. There are great mod packages that reflect man's innate desire to build more advanced villages, towns, & cities. Remember, there are vault dwellers leaving vaults with well established technology's throughout the nation. Have a clearer vision of what the vault dwellers bring to rebuilding society.

[@themudpit621]

I think it depends a lot on your head canon. When it comes to 'advancement', 200 years in a healthy abundant planet full of people is not the same as 200 years in a dead world, with barely enough food and toxic water to survive on, and a couple of thousand very sick suffering people scattered to the winds. People play it out in whatever way makes sense to them and their imeginations. All valid, all different.

[@diablodelatorre]

People could build they're settlements however they want plus I enjoy this types of builds cause the ones that look to modern or built up way too much just doesn't look "realistic" to me

[@firefly19690]

​@diablodelatorre That's how I feel. I think more elaborate builds are impressive, but they just don't line up with my vision of how settlements would look. I prefer more realistic builds that seem to fit into the game better. But everyone has their preferences.

[@Touchofaweepingangel]

Come on, Farming/chores are good for kids 😂 my darn kids better help on our farm in an apocalypse!

[@NeganSmash420]

I use these as asmr😊

[@loptseldr]

I can't sleep with a fan omn, the horrer stories i've heard of fans catching fire in the night is enough make me never want to have one on no matter how hot it is.

[@renaigh]

Crops need personal space to grow.

[@Wondering_Ghoul]

Wait....what? Dog and cat cages are a thing?? Dogs and cats bring up happiness?? Do you know how long I've been building settlements and didn't know that?! Like...years and years. Lol

[@IfThenCreate]

Yes!! Just be careful with the dog one because sometimes it attracts a hostile mongrel

[@covergirl678]

Building in 76 is sooooo much better