A Complete-ish Guide To Settlement Building in Fallout 4

almost everything you need to know. If you're looking to improve your settlement building skills, check out part 2 of this guide where I give almost an hour of useful tips, tricks, and hacks for making your settlements amazing.

[praecorloth]

My guy. I have just over 1200 hours in Fallout 4. What you've shown here is nothing short of fscking amazing! I also love the fact that you talk about head canon. That's more than half the fun I get out of this game, is my own in-game story.

[Rattaz]

tysm for making fallout 4 settlement tutorials again, especially in this time that i decided to pick up the game again

[arcdecibel]

Wow, you go to all the trouble of making individual rooms. Nice! I almost never do that. Everyone lives in the barracks, and if they want their own house they can damn well build it themselves. I've got shit to do.

[robertthebard]

Yay, I've graduated to "noob"! One of my suggestions for your store front actually made it into a video; using scaffolding as a temp floor for your ramps.

[kadeshdubose]

Love this! I always build a second floor apartment on my stores, and assign whoever is the storekeeper to stay there. Fits lore wise.

[richardsylvester]

Floor. 4 walls and a roof and a bed. Tatos in the dirt. Water pump. Done.

[singjai]

First time player - I was pleased that I could build pillories and assign raiders to use them. You've been a bad, bad raider and you're going to be punished for your evil misdeeds!

[B-zkbt]

I install several mods, throw some ideas at the wall and create the horrors my brain whispers to me.
Something I take into account when building is nearby locations.
For example, Starlight is close to a train line and a downed airliner. So, I use boxcars and airplane seats and parts for some buildings. It’s the little things like that, which make builds feel that much more real in the world.

[nonayurbusiness]

There was a spreadsheet made by a couple of the older mod makers, and Fallout 4 build guide makers. It showed that around 250ish defense on a settlement meant you would really have to go overboard on water and food, before you would be attacked, the very basic defense number was shown to be 2x the food and water added together, any less and you might as well not go exploring very far.

[TheHolyCheesus]

Todd howard litterly was like "Screw you if you dont like our towns then build your own"

[alexseisimonetti]

I literally started a fallout 4 playthrough yesterday for the first time in 5 years, I appreciate the help!

[richardcarson]

Nice shoutout for Skooled Zone. He has great videos on all sort of settlement workarounds and tips without needing mods.

[willowtree]

I just realised I’ve been making the wrong wooden floors! No wonder I’ve no steel left, I should have used the warehouse floor not the wooden floor with the paint marks. Oh well only 6 or 7 settlements built! Very much enjoying my second playthrough some years later. Really glad to have found your channel 👍

[Touchofaweepingangel]

I could watch you build for hours… thank you for this!

[bacd-nnlg]

Here are few of my tips:
- sleeping bags are excellent since they take very little space in settlements,
- plant tato, corn, and mutfruit for adhesive production,
- using the basic electric generators can be really useful early game for your settlement,
- build your structures out of wood, and concrete to save up on resources,
- don't cheap out on turrets,
- build the highest tier class of your shops.

[rossdrummond]

Can confirm people are only just discovering fallout 4, got later last year. Love the settlement building, all and any advise is welcome

[Abcz]

This looks so much nicer than the shoddy, makeshift "houses" I've made for my settlers in Sanctuary 😆 Maybe after this, I'll be able to build a cozy settlement for them 😌

[zachtaylor]

Hey Grey! Stumbled across your channel a week ago and I’ve been binging your content, wanted to say thank you for the hours of entertainment you’ve provided, you’re a cool dude.

[rossnorris]

One thing you forgot to mention that is useful. In the contraptions or far harbor dlc they gave us a bell on a pole. You build it in a settlement and activate it and it draws everyone assigned to the settlement to itfor kond of a settlement meeting. I use it to figure out who has work and assign those that don't.

[KevinAlibert]

That is a very good tutorial full of actually useful tips. From a building veteran (started building day 1 never really stopped since) very well done :)