10 Settlement Building Tips that Make Your Life Easier

[JojeeMiller]

those are some nice settlements, hey speaking of settlements, another one needs your help here I'll mark it on your map

[Malky]

"Just look at this, press ''E' and you can select it all!"

*Looks at Playstation controller

[UlfhednarAxe]

For the first tip : before scraping weapons he sure to invest into the scrapper perk if you don't you'll only receive steel and wood from weapons

[micah]

If you are overencumbered and don't have the strong back stuff yet here is a trick. Drop your heaviest items then order your companion to pick them up. It doesn't matter if the companion is at their weight limit, they will pick it up. One time I did that and completely forgot to empty out their inventory so when I finally remembered to clean their inventory out they have about 2000 weights worth of stuff

[huntkillt]

to extend on the jet pack, don't try and build with explosion vents on your armor, I lost 1 and a half hours work landing on a cat

[KWnn]

it hurts me that you scrapped a missile launcher for 6 steel

[BKPrice]

Assuming this hasn't been patched, when you scrap weapons by throwing them on the ground and scrapping them in build mode, it decreases the bar in your size meter, effectively giving you a bit more room to build.

[Vorusen]

"I thought this was common knowledge" proceeds to blow my mind with select all

[skyrimwithguns]

I'm new to this game & I'm feeling my way with the build mode. Pretty soon I've got a three storey warehouse with all these different entrances & rooms, balconies etc. I put gantries on the roof & build a prefab scaffold tower up the side for access. I start building another scaffold tower right on top of the roof for a sniper's nest, but I can't use a prefab because it won't fit. Fair enough, I build it piece by piece. It's almost finished & then OCD kicks in. It's not straight. Just need to twist it 5 degrees or so to the left. It's ok, I know I can hold down "X" to group select the whole scaffold tower I'm working on. Doesn't work like that though does it. I group select the entire three storey building, fall through the floors & everything goes sideways.

I've heard you can kill things & even go looking for someone called Shaun in this game. Might get around to it once I've finished the warehouse build.

[devynhaggerty]

You can also assign settlers to individual beds really useful for being able to have it feel like a real town and so you don’t find people sleeping in beds that you want to use

[bt-bkic]

3:15
"This is a no mods video"
**has unlimited size building mod activated**

[wykydrone]

Another tip: Use building foundations for proper edge alignment. Especially in places like Sanctuary and places with uneven terrain like the Build Site.

[loopysausage]

5:46, common knowledge?!
I'm glad that one viewer asked because I didn't know that was possible. :o

[codaman]

Kinda makes ya wish the workshop came with a little eyebot to do the blueprinting (construction) without being tied down to gravity.

[thomaswillis]

While I understand that this is extremely impractical, I love giving my settlers pre-war clothes. I love they way they look in them and it makes the whole feel of my settlement better

[randalthor]

Your first tip, scrapping weapons has 2 benefits. The first is obvious, you pointed it out (material)

The second, is it (slightly) expands your "size" meter in that settlement.

Obviously this video is insanely old, but maybe someone will stumble across this comment and get a little benefit.

[csbauder]

Oxhorn is the reason I still play Fallout 4. His settlements look awesome and I want to be able to build settlements as good as his.

[SephConUno]

3 years of playing FALLOUT I never knew I could do the "Hold E" thing

[Satsujinki]

Still my favourite channel for Fallout 4 tips and info. Even when I haven't played fallout 4 in months.

[teesa]

I spend most of the game building settlements and I totally didn’t know you could select anything connected and move it all together! Thank you for making this video! It’s so helpful!