The Slog Efficiency Build - Fallout 4 Settlements

[@thrillhouse4151]

I had Strong at my Hangman's Alley and he'd just stay in the middle cooking for days and yelling

[@grimreaper5711]

Fofee he must be Italian

[@bodhip]

@@grimreaper5711 lol maybe

[@CrimsonWasTaken2]

@@grimreaper5711 no he gordon ramsay WHERE THE BRAHMIN SAUCE

[@creedmalicoat680]

@@CrimsonWasTaken2 AND THE DOG HUMAN FILLET

[@beakieboss]

[Strong disliked that.]

[@imadethisusernamereallylon5316]

Sometimes when I need a break while working on my Raider Casino at the Slog I will travel to the top of it and take potshots at the Forged. Good times.

[@PartStupid]

I put a full concrete wall around the SLOG. I was tired of it getting damaged when I missed the notification that I needed to help them defend. Pretty proud of how it turned out. I used the concrete surrounding the pool as a starting point and ended at the sides of the building on either side. I even put an electric door inside of the front door. The Slog, Jamaica Plain, and Sanctuary are all fully walled in. Sanctuary is my main settlement and the one I am most proud of (too many features to list out here like the full wall with turrets, a full garage and power armor display, work out room, stores, pool table, and SO MUCH MORE! I even made a fully enclosed water filtration unit by the river that ties into the wall and is fully protected).

[@MuhammadFarukh]

I wish I gave as much of a crap about Sanctuary as I do for the slog. I always heavily fortify the slog with turrets and walls. On my first playthrough I even put a little terminal on the roof to activate or deactivate the missiles and laser tripwire lol. It’s fun to strategically place supply lines too. I put Daniel finch from Finch Farm as a provisioner to the slog and it just adds to the whole Saugus lore as well. They’re both places around Saugus and it makes sense for those who settlements to become allies more so than any other settlement I’ve seen in the game

[@PartStupid]

@@MuhammadFarukh - To be fair it could be due to building a wall around the Slog takes a fraction of the time it does to put one ALL THE WAY around Sanctuary (and Sanctuary does not make putting up a wall easy on top of that with how big and uneven it is among other issues... though I think my wall is about as good as one could do on console with no mods... I even put concrete around that bunker/cellar behind one of the houses and have a full wall all the way around with the only gap being at the entrance where Hancook and McCready stand guard with concrete fortified watch posts and dual turrets). As for provisioners I just send them all to Sanctuary so all my active settlements can have access to the vast supply of junk/supplies.

[@atlanticsquib7232]

I gave wiseman Kellogg’s outfit and his pistol. He looks like a true badass leader of the slog now. And Jones is geared up with combat armour and a very strong AK47 as he’s kinda like the right hand man, the others are also geared up well too including many extra ghouls, I don’t like turrets I prefer to just gear up the ghouls till they can shred whatever comes near em

[@thebloke1931]

Man I wish I had Place Anywhere and those kinds of mods. Console life is hard.

[@nerdtastic4075]

Right man

[@Jokerv01]

THE BLOKE they have it for xbox one I don't know about ps4

[@mannyarana9880]

Joker v0 it's on PS4 now

[@CorwinC73]

I know, a couple years late but... a cheap $650 CDN (no clue what that is in american atm, but gonna be lots less) laptop can easily run F04 with the max of 255 mods, at a very decent framerate which makes it cheaper, overall and over time, with more mods etc... for a LOT of games.

[@calebbliss1101]

I know man it really sucks

[@JETWTF]

First time I ever heard adding walls to a large open room as "really opens it up". Though I would see what you did to get some ideas and I think the interior wall in the main room is a good idea. For my usual Slog builds I use the roof to add bedrooms so you get a 2 story building.

[@MasterEeisenwolf]

I know this is a old video but the slog is not the only place to get harvestable tarberries. Sanctuary Hills has them down by the boat dock right below the hill from the storm seller entrance.

[@SarDeliac]

Those long non-buildable chairs are called chaise lounges. If you put benches and chairs near the merchant campfires, the merchants and guards will sit down. And using the concrete pieces as interior separators is genius. I'm totally stealing that idea. ;) Am curious why you don't install some junk walls between the spawn points and your settlers. The walls won't stop enemies, but it'll slow them down and you can funnel them into your turrets (and keep Deidre and Holly alive.)

[@oxhorn]

+SarDeliac Thanks mate! I used a console command to make Deirdre essential, so that now she can't die. It would have been ugly to have random walls over there, so instead I'm relying on the power of my missile turrets to blow enemies away before they have a chance to even move. So far, it has worked well :)

[@xmixdx7351]

SarDeliac yeah just make a door way and block it with turrets using place anywhere and using place anywhere again you could make a room around the spawn point with no roof so they don't escap

[@torianapalacki1006]

I'm currently watching slog builds so that I can get some ideas, I want my slog to be sorta like a good neighbor, just smaller, because everyone in the Commonwealth talks about the slog being run by gouls, so I only let gouls live there. I want there to be a hotel called 'Slog Inn' and a bar called 'Slum Bucket' (like chum bucket from spongebob) plus the shops. So far that's all I got, so I guess right now I'm looking for a unique layout of where to put everything and how I can make lighting brighten up the place. I think I want to make the place out of box cars.

[@Xandr017]

Kind of underwhelming considering the freaking huge settlement builds you usually find on youtube, but it's nice to see something simple like this for a change. Also lots of good info and tips, thx

[@michaelproctor8100]

Since Deirdre is so vulnerable as you stated, I equipped her with Spray n Pray and the Mechanist armor.

[@insertname7750]

Mods that fix glitches are you taking notes yet Bethesda

[@MongyBongy]

The slog is one of my minutemen forward operating bases, the pool makes a great mortar pit

[@silverlemniscate]

Really like what you did with the interior, stellar work. I really wanted to know what the Legendary Mythic Deathclaw dropped :¬) Thanks for the video

[@oxhorn]

Thanks for the comment!

[@hollickrichard]

Its a shame there isnt room to put baths under the wet patches that at least would make sense....x

[@oxhorn]

+richard hollick Yeah now that I have the showers mod, maybe I will re-think this settlement.

[@AndyAC87]

Looks like the dog could be a Borzoi, Muppet Dog, or some sort of Afghan.

[@1ButteryButters1]

one of my favorite things to do with this settlement is to make a floating marketplace on the pool and put a security station on the roof of the changing area then surround the settlement with a basic concrete wall, basically turning it into a fortified trading outpost

[@oxhorn]

Sounds like a cool idea!

[@1ButteryButters1]

Oh my lord I got a response :D Not used to that xD

[@Boringunguy]

I build extra housing on top of the building already built. Also put up a full concrete wall. It's my favorite settlement

[@Jimboola]

I had thought for the longest time that settlers were immortal (as you stated) but they are not. Not totally - as I discovered recently when my Hangman's Alley lost 5 of it's 9 settlers. After looking it up I discovered that settlers (non-named) can be killed in THREE ways. 1. Explosions for some reason kill them - I was attacked by missile launchers & grenades which is why I lost settlers. (My fear is that my missile turrets may have killed a few!!!) 2. YOU can kill them. Gun - head - dead! 3. If one is discovered to be a synth the other settlers will kill him/her. The corpse will have a synth component when you search them.

[@oxhorn]

No, there are only two ways a settler can die: 1) You kill him 2) He dies from rads after standing in water too long. Missile turrets do not kill settlers I have missile turrets in all my settlements, and my settlers are constantly getting knocked out of commission by them--but they are never killed. Also, I have never had a settler killed by any of the others for being a synth. I have tracked all my synths and I have them in synth costumes. They remain alive today--the settlers do not kill them.

[@Jimboola]

I just had 5 settlers die. It wasn't me, was not radiation.

[@shadysam602]

+Jimboola Maybe they just went out to scavenge for supplies and died out there..?

[@creedmalicoat680]

@@oxhorn my settlers always kill the synths cause the synths get and decide well i hate humans and kill at least two settlers how i know they are synths they get up guns out wander than shoot

[@creedmalicoat680]

@@shadysam602 theres always one a-hole that gets himself dead

[@maxv9464]

3:48 that ghoul by the nuka cola 😁😁😁😁

[@amandaannamalid7065]

The dog on the painting is a Borzoi! :)

[@peytongarvey1119]

Early in the game I killed them off and recently I used a cleanup mod and built a settlement with a wall and gate and completely furnished it and I keep all of the companions in it. Except dog meat, he stays at the taffington boat house (my player home) with the drinkin' buddy

[@peterwulffeld2143]

There's actually a backstory to the water puddles in the locker room. According to the terminal: Wiseman requested Arlen to repair the faulty showers...

[@oxhorn]

+Peter Wulffeld Ba-dum-TSS! Faulty showers or faulty towers? Or maybe farty towels.

[@cmdfarsight]

+Oxhorn (ClassyManIAm) maybe even flattery owls!

[@Muscles_McGee]

I use the disable console command on all those scabby beds in every settlement I have, and give them all the top-flight last bed in the inventory, the nice hotel bed with the grey blanket. I can't stand those scabby beds. They look like they stink.

[@Worldowner]

About that last spawn point - i enclose that corner with solid wall, so when attackers spawn they can't just start firing to people, but have to get round the wall, all time getting hit by turrets. I can say it's quite effective. But, also, i have to mark that your 133 defence is poor. It can work on low levels, and it maybe enough to prevent some attacks, but when you reach 70-80+lvl you will be attacked with 3+ high level raiders in full raider PA, or orcs (sorry, supermutants) without PA but maybe even more solid, and your defence line will be nothing but a mosquito (normal, not giant mutated supermosquito) bite. They will crack it and eat all your settlers alive.

[@oxhorn]

+Worldowner I'm level 125, and my defense is fine. The missile turrets make quick work of any and all enemies.

[@fulmetalmage]

the stain on the bed is caused by planar mapping. it basically projects a texture onto a surface. so when the bed is placed it intersects the planar map and becomes the surface that the texture is projected on. in this case, its bad planar mapping :) this is also used often in projecting blood textures on characters. if you have ever noticed a character with a blood stained shirt from a bullet shot, then during an animation his hand passes over the blood and the hand becomes bloody when it was not before, then when its moved the blood on the hand is no longer there.

[@oxhorn]

+Fulmetal Ah I see--fascinating! I wonder if there is a way to turn it off.

[@fulmetalmage]

+Oxhorn (ClassyManIAm) sadly not from a player standpoint. it's a texture mapping issue. but while I haven't modded any bethesda games so I can't speak from experience, it could be fixed with a patch or a mod bug fix. however these type of fixes are usually low priority, which is painful for people with in game ocd like myself. other than that, your vids are very informative and helpful. I have stolen some ideas for my play through. keep up the good work

[@thedarknight307]

I had a war with gunners, the Forged and my Settlers it was intense Thank god for missiles and laser turrets

[@vikingbaggins1276]

Personally I prefer to put couple of pylons and a bunch of connectors on the roof. This allows me to cover whole building as well as power for Search Lights and Turrets. Defensive towards Saugus I make like an huge entrance and bunch of turrets on top of it as close to the border as possible. That often helps caravans being attacked close by as well.

[@WXMJREBSFCX415]

The pin up girl room was dope as f**k, very nice addition to the slog

[@v00d00ch1ld]

Ox, I know this may be a little late, and haven't read through the hundreds of comments, but there is lore behind the wet patches on the beds. Anywhere in the area that has blue lines should not have a bed. The lore in in Arlen's terminal about fixing the leaking showers. Subtle, I know, but it's there and Bethesda left the markers on the floor to avoid. Your happiness will go way up once rbeds are emoved from there.

[@Biggun762]

This is also the only settlement in the whole game where you can grow and harvest tarberry's

[@smithjones3548]

Why not use the roof, plenty of room to build a common area or bedrooms up top. And as an added bonus you can seal the broken skylight by placing a floor over it.

[@Lexilove2016]

What I don't get is, why do the vending machines have coin slots? With inflation you'd have to lug around a bag of change.

[@Dirtbag-Hyena]

+Oxhorn The water thing happened to me in Vault 88,but blood & a body. Since I can clean up bodies I try to find creative ways to hide them,so I put a bed over the body. When I left & came back( not fast travel), the head was popping through the mattress & the blood is all over the mattress now. It won't go away either😟..........It was my be😢 I finally got my own bed that NPCs won't sleep in & it's because there's a body in it😭

[@Dirtbag-Hyena]

*cant*

[@schizophrenicgaming5007]

Try and use an explosive gun to blow em outta ya way

[@xmixdx7351]

drtbag39 if strength is max you just hop in power armor and drag the bodies away to burn them or shoot them into little bits brutal and sad but has to be done

[@InfernoKing745]

can you do a video with your least favorite and favorite/ hardest settlements to build?

[@vintagedino9629]

If your a true Brotherhood member you could fence it up and use it as a food production facility and use the ghouls as slaves. Ad Victoriam!

[@glyndaholman4751]

VintageDino that is a funny idea I might do that in my playthrough Ad Victoriam!

[@xmixdx7351]

that makes the BoS evil

[@eliascorrea8573]

Fuck you

[@rp7076]

VintageDino Thanks for the idea lmao

[@jrgaming8203]

Thanks for the idea

[@AlexSlesh]

You can build a walls/fence to protect your settlers from direct shots from spawning areas.

[@DyslexiaSkucs]

Genius

[@Titan-gs6cf]

That Deathclaw spawns there. I killed one first time I was there.

[@dylangraham1503]

An alpha deathclaw is just across the pond from this place and sometimes it will come over there because of the people at the ironworks shooting at it.

[@cosmicbilly]

Man i feel so bad cause i sent the vault tech rep to sanctuary working as a salesman but i just now realized i should have sent him to the slog to be with other gouls.

[@alpacalover0]

Year late, but I sent him to Vault 88 because he deserved to finally get a spot in a Vault (plus he's a Tier 4 Vendor and I wanted Vault 88 to be my main shopping settlement).

[@the25thprime]

I thought he should experience sanctuary as the name is. Him and Sheffield deserve the biggest symbol of home in the game

[@thrillhouse4151]

I wish I had that OCDecorator for Fallout 3, New Vegas, Oblivion, Skyrim, I always had problems getting the script extender to work every time. The vanilla item dropping and placing and actor collision is still wonky but a lot better than before.

[@verok8740]

Oxhorn, holy crap! I've forgotten about you since stopped making WoW videos. I hope scotch and smoke rings is still going.

[@oxhorn]

It sure is, next episode is tonight!

[@anthonyglynn344]

Build on the roof... ohh yeahhh

[@Voult_Bioy]

Ox, build a lived-in version of The Slog. I suggest making a small town, google "The Slog town" or "The Slog trading town"

[@j.j._]

My slog camp on Xbox is great I walled around the farm and swimming pool and put barracks on top the preexisting building with guard towers and turrets of course

[@davidstowe5652]

Good job and good luck

[@csweezey18]

As a New Englander, I HATE how Oxhorn says Saugus. SOWGUSS Ironworks? Really?

[@alzathoth]

your slog looks so open. because of the frequent attack, I pretty much walled in the enire area, and put a walkway across the entire top.

[@mattbachmann4311]

What was the Deathclaw loot?!?! Also, great videos!

[@crowwingbound3101]

I was able to Garden tar berries in sanctuary by the shore it's also where all the dog swim across attack you but the place you can grow them

[@Knallbart]

Wah! Deirdre died in my playthrough! I thought I had accidentally shot her or something. Will see if I can revive her. I felt so bad about it, but didn't find her until later in the game so didn't want to reload. Thank you.

[@mischievousjr.9299]

She was the first to die in my playthrough, got me f*cked up Lol she had some ammo, specifically .44 rounds. Also I believe shipments...?

[@bardawulf5827]

Time for SLOG REDUX lol

[@thrillhouse4151]

They should've made coffee and smoking stations vanilla.

[@apcsox]

Lol. Gotta love Massachusetts city names.... Saugus is pronounced "saw-gus"

[@oxhorn]

Lol thanks!

[@apcsox]

+Oxhorn (ClassyManIAm) no problem man. And in all seriousness, if you need a resident Masshole to help you with any of the phonetic pronunciations, hit me up. I'll be glad to help.

[@WolfrevoLP]

In my Game Arlen Glass died before finishing his Giddyup Buttercup. I was soo sad when i saw him dead on the ground. They got attacked by Super Mutant Warlords and i had to backup and they died. deidre too :(

[@thommyleigh]

Hey oxhorn I found a very useful mod that extends most of the settelment edges I think it’s called settelment room expanded

[@isebasforeberath4271]

"It can become a Quagmire." *Giggity*

[@ccroktutoriales3994]

I like your settlements because you have a lot of details. Can you make similar with the mod sim settlements?

[@onepoorguy]

Did you ever do a video about why you don't use fencing? If a settlement isn't too large I fence it completely, and the entrance I took my inspiration from Disneyland to create a zig-zag entry that attackers have to go through, all under the watchful gaze of a missile turret. But you never seem to use fences at all. I would think it would make the garden area more safe preventing attackers spawning over there from getting to the garden/settlers.

[@andypozuelos1204]

He says he doesn't like it because it's pointless.

[@SwearMY]

Mine have been just jumping off this roof.

[@theyoshibrothers670]

The nuka cola machine is being beatrd up at 3:54

[@KingRat543]

yea, he wanted orange and it gave him lemon lime ;)

[@GaryIceGaming]

Waterbed. It was a "huge" fashion in the mid 90's :D

[@ivankadump2539]

Sucks to be the settler sleeping on a wet mattress after 12 hours of backbreaking farming after fighting off a deathclaw. .

[@michaelproctor8100]

How do you deal with spawn points in the sky? I finished the game with the Railroad ending and on a regular basis I'm attacked by remnants of the BOS. One time I fast travelled to the Slog to do some trading and a few seconds later a Vertbird showed up and started shooting at everybody. As luck would have it, I had my Nuka-Nuke Launcher with me so I was able to shoot them down quickly.

[@andypozuelos1204]

I like to make little towers in each corner of my settlements. Each tower has 3 missile turrets that are switched off so they don't get targeted. I switch em on if a vertbird shows up. They also make a great place to snipe from

[@michaelproctor8100]

@@andypozuelos1204 Good point, I built a large dormitory structure at the Nuka World Red Rocket and placed missle turrets all over the roof. Later on a group of 8 raiders showed up, 3 of them were wearing power armor and those turrets just blew the shit out of them, even launching them into the air!

[@hunterspence3465]

In the footer!!

[@covaq199]

Nice vid bro love your settlements

[@oxhorn]

+vCovaq Thanks mate!

[@pogopogo8696]

My ghouls were killed by a sentry bot annihaltor

[@brianhenry152]

I'm doing a minutemen playthrough, and I just can't seem to get the slog to Ally with me. I've retrieved the Giddy up Buttercup for the collector, but I'm not sure what else to do to improve relationships. Any help would be awesome. I'm on PS4 btw.

[@tinytim9667]

I wish it was more realistic in a way where your settlers can die. It would actually make you want to go defend your settlement but half the time I just ignore it

[@p0elaha566]

wiseman is cooler than handoncock

[@cezerelecrucio9717]

Wiseman is so cool.

[@cupofjoe377]

The Slog in my game is a labour camp for the Brotherhood. But hey, there's a swimming pool, so it can't be all bad.

[@MurdochMMQCR]

My only issue is how you do turrets. It just really feels out of place. But thats just me.

[@CloroxBleach-go7xq]

At the background in 3:56 a person is kicking a nuke a cola machine RIP

[@crash64-]

What's shock turret from?

[@tragnet]

wathefuck 3:52 a ghoul kicks the nuka-cola machine .-.

[@eamonmckirgan3898]

Did you watch the whole video

[@raygivens9593]

Hey ox was hoping to get a look at some settlements I've built see what you think all your settlement look amazing and I have taken some pointers from you if you ever have a chance let me know please and thank you

[@thegaminggranny6752]

question: why didn't you wall up the community with concrete walls to protect your farmers if the hostile spawn point is right there?

[@Zach-ub2ee]

5:21 Giggity

[@lexusgent5535]

Why was she beating up the Nuka cola machine?

[@oxhorn]

Because it refused to give her nuka cola!

[@jazzybae3639]

i lured the deathclaw that spawns nearby and jones n deidre got torn apart. RIP.

[@Knallbart]

Wait. In memoriam? Glass dies!? 😩😩😩 he's so sweet! I don't want him to die either!

[@Duxxmachina]

He ain't dying. He's got a somewhat happy ending mostly.

[@Knallbart]

@@Duxxmachina that's so sad! Oh my goodness, I am holding onto everything. :P He's safe in the Slog :P

[@daddycarlo31]

Hi oxhorn, where did you get the town sign? Is it in nexus?

[@nitroraptor5316]

If SPECIAL was a real thing, these would be mine: S:5 P:5 E:2 C:7 I:8 A:5 L:5

[@XleahrachelleX]

My Deirdre disappeared years ago lmao

[@helcarloki1887]

Should have strong kick the milk machine. Trying to get the milk of human kindness out

[@abesallison8528]

poodle and greyhound peyhound

[@terminalrat]

I like most everything you build, but I consistently think your marketplaces could use something. They seem a little dry. Not a harsh critique, just I know you've done some creative stuff so why not tie it over to your markets, too!

[@oxhorn]

Thanks, I appreciate it. I'm moving away from having such large marketplaces because I feel like they are out of place. When I revisit this settlement, I will do something different with the market, if not remove it altogether.

[@brickwall4thewin151]

What is the console command for the bed so I can remove them

[@RaptorBoyJoe]

Oxhorn do you plan on rebuilding this soon?

[@slacstagaming7831]

you can use terminasls to locate enemy spawn points cool

[@oxhorn]

+Demetrius Hewlett Yes, but you have to have the Settlement Management Software mod installed. I have it linked in the description.

[@mauktheogre4477]

Do settler lore and the government system in the Commonwealth

[@josephstalin6549]

Why would you remove the fences?

[@michaelb2419]

Wiseman died in my play through

[@LoneRanger-qx8bi]

Hey guys... Giggity

[@tinoteubert2766]

3:56 Lol

[@calirae7033]

I looked over the mod list but I couldn't find the one responsible for the Slog signpost. It's brilliant and I'd love to add it - could anyone point me in the right direction?

[@oxhorn]

Sure thing, it is Gruffyd's sign mod, here: www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/12086/

[@BeautifulDisasters91]

I’m so stuck. How did you get the settlement?

[@cyrusfarmer1341]

You forgot Jones

[@G1ingy]

You sure settlers are immortal? I've seen corpses of my settlers and looted from them after invasions sometimes

[@thomasc9789]

I want a settler named corn

[@aaronwilson9763]

I'm not sure but, I was under the impression that if you had the "upgraded" purifiers and was producing more than you needed you would earn "bottle caps"?

[@oxhorn]

No, you have to sell the excess purified water to vendors to get caps.

[@aaronwilson9763]

I see... thank you