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Yeah, I've been spending way too much time doing this recently; Sorry HAWKEN :x :sweat:

Here's a quick tour of the first settlement I've "finished" (Aside from adding various, uh, "accoutrements"). Note that rather than attempt to build the most elaborate structures I can, I try to build stuff that looks cool, but also looks like it could've been in the game to begin with.

 

 

 

 

I'll be making videos for the other settlements as I finish them...

 


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NIce work!

I concentrated on using the roof on my Red Rocket Stop Settlement.

Went a couple stories from the roof up and made a catwalk out to the billboard for one of the battlement posts.

Saved a small bit of walled land behind the place for crops.

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screenshot taken from the water tower that also has a decent view of Sanctuary Hills and Abernathy Farm settlement.


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Dang, that catwalk is coooooooooooool; good idea!

I really wish I could grow some crops on the roof.


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Anyone know how to get more brahmin to your settlement? I need to farm their poop for more jet
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Anyone know how to get more brahmin to your settlement? I need to farm their poop for more jet

I think just more show up the more settlers you have. I also bought one from some wasteland lady for 100 caps once, I imagine you can run into her more than once.

 

BTW, I'll prolly post a video tour of my Sanctuary Hills soon.


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There's a bathtub that attracts the Brahmin in the workshop.
Got started on Nordhagen from scratch the second time after resetting the max build cap.
Progress so far


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Hahaha, holy crap, that's impressive. I will say, though, the thought of all that steel and copper in one settlement makes me weep, I never seem to have enough of the stuff (especially copper) (Console commands aside). At this point I just build, build, build until I run out of materials, which is typically my cue to do some more quests.

When you say you reset the max build cap, do you mean for the entire game, in general? Or do you mean you just scraped everything at the beach and started fresh? If the former, how did you go about doing that? I know there's at least one mod floating around that gets rid of the building cap, but I was wary of downloading it since it required some 3rd party fuzzy bunny (Which I've never had to do for any mod for any game before; I typically mod the fuzzy bunny out of Bethesda games as soon as there are enough of them).


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Here's my Sanctuary. It's a tad long (about 11 mins), but that sbecause the settlement is pretty big... And I engage in a couple of funny character interactions.


I'll prolly show The Castle, next, since it's practically complete when you find it.


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Right now I've really only built at sanctuary, and that's mainly just been industrial. I plan to use sanctuary for farming vegetable starch, water, and drugs, and then I'll build a proper settlement at one of the other sites. Haven't decided where yet, need to shop around a bit more.

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I have a tiny garden for vegetable starch at my gas station. Sunny Tidings Co-Op, Graygarden, and Greentop Nursery pretty much provide enough food for the rest of my settlements already (With supply lines).

 

On a related note, I've always heard how people often have a hard time finding enough adhesive, but it's never been a problem for me, with just picking up every duct tape and wonderglue I find. For me, copper is what I'm constantly running short on, and that's with scavenging/buying everything I can find that produces copper. I dunno, Maybe I just build too many lights or something, lol. Lead was a little hard to find, too, in large quantities, but I only really needed that for my power armor upgrades.


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After all that work I scrapped everything from the generator floor up and replaced it with an apartment area.

The generator bank was moved to the quonset metal building on the waterside.

All the tables/chairs were scrapped out of the diner area for more beds, because they were unhappy with the 25 they had.

I've managed to become idolized by Cait and have achieved romance.

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Dogmeat chills out when we stop by to decorate and try on different outfits and drop off junk and regear.

I've killed my father/son and hundreds of institute synths/scientists on my only trip to CIT where I am no longer welcome.

I am ok with it.

 

They aren't my real family anyways (line is blurring).

 

Nordhagen Beach is directly across the water from (Logan) the BoS base and almost in the shadow of the Prydwen Airship.

I don't like or trust them, but I'm not waging full on war with them because I have aquired a Power Armor addiction

(have 6 suits so far 5 of which are lit up on the generator row building roof).

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Unfortunately Lady Lovelace and the other armatron racing bot aggroed provisioners travelling to and from the settlement when passing close to eastside downs.

I had to put one down and the others were lost to fights when aggroed by stupid supply pack brahmin.

Only 3 racing robots continue to race around the track now.

 

The endgame for this playthrough will be to bomb Bos base with artillery from the Castle.

Because I already killed Dr. Li when murdering everything that moved in CIT, before I realized that BoS wanted me to get her to join back w/ them, I screwed up getting Liberty Prime this time.

So **** it.

At least I don't have companions from 3 warring factions following me around ruining my opportunities for sweet sweet power armor like my first playthrough.

Be warned having both Deacon from the railroad and X6-88 from the institute follow you at the same time you do missions with Paladin Danse from BoS will sabotage like EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS.

 

But the fights they choose not to help each other in, that you can watch leisurely, are worth their weight in the hilarity of breaking the gamequests. 

 

Erc0eJa.jpgDeacon and X6-88 barely get along, and Paladin Danse hates them both equally. The Trifecta of dysfunctional followers.

 

 

Items which can be scrapped for copper
 
Light Bulb
Cooking Pot
Fuse
Bone Cutter
Telephone
Vacuum Tube
Shadeless Table Lamp
High-Powered Magnet
Broken Lamp
Broken Light Bulbs
 
Buy such items from the vendors like the one at drumlin diner. After purchase, sit and wait for 24 hours....twice (48 total).
Rinse and repeat...endless copper.

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Cait is the amazingest. :thumbsup:

I'm not usually a big fan of the BoS, but I did technically join them on this playthrough, mostly so that I could see their airship and take their cool fuzzy bunny. If (When) push comes to shove, my loyalties lie with the Minutemen and Railroad. This character is a mechanic/scrapper/lone wanderer kind of guy who also specializes in explosives and non-auto rifles, and usually only travels with Dogmeat. My main weapons are an awesome combat shotgun, that unique gauss rifle, Kellog's pistol, and a bigass wrench. i.e., my character is the TF2 engineer.

My next character will prolly be a smart, lucky, and charismatic energy weapons lady, modeled after the space lady on the Nuka Cola billboards/posters (Being from 2077, I'm thinking she WILL be the lady from the Nuka Cola ads).


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this is basically me since fo4 launch...I ain't even ashamed to admit it

 


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Vid is banned now, but I knew the reference, lol.


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I have a tiny garden for vegetable starch at my gas station. Sunny Tidings Co-Op, Graygarden, and Greentop Nursery pretty much provide enough food for the rest of my settlements already (With supply lines).

 

On a related note, I've always heard how people often have a hard time finding enough adhesive, but it's never been a problem for me, with just picking up every duct tape and wonderglue I find. For me, copper is what I'm constantly running short on, and that's with scavenging/buying everything I can find that produces copper. I dunno, Maybe I just build too many lights or something, lol. Lead was a little hard to find, too, in large quantities, but I only really needed that for my power armor upgrades.

I haven't had any trouble finding it either, but I figured I'd set up my farm early so I'd have it later, even if I just use or a steady caps supply.


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What kinda builds are you guys going? I did the high luck thing since I'm new to fallout and wanted to play around with vats. So far it's paid off, I love mysterious stranger

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My main character is a pretty balanced, jack-of-all-trades master-of-none type; I focused on the scavenging-related, adventuring, and crafting perks early on. As I continued, I tried to pick perks based on what 'skills' I was using the most, so that the character leveled up in an organic 'roleplay-y' kind of way. He was squishy at first, and was pretty reliant on chems and that first power armor you get, but has gotten a lot tougher over his time in the wasteland, and is now an explosives expert, can pick any lock, and is a good shot with non-auto weapons. (I play on survival difficulty BTW; I wish there was a genuine 'hardcore' mode, though, like in New Vegas; dunno why they took that out).

High-luck, high-crit, charismatic & smart energy weapons users are another staple of mine in FO games, are super viable, and are usually what I use for my second playthrough.

My third playthrough is usually trying to get into the mind of a lunatic drugged-up raider, who emphasizes melee and heavy weapons.

Oh... And regardless of which build I use or game it is, I almost alwasy take Bloody Mess. And I will often take Mysterious Stranger. It was fun in New Vegas having a lucky character with Mysterious Stranger AND Miss Fortune (Even if it often made the game crash; Damnit Bethesda).


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need more power armor

 

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Here's my Hangman's Alley settlement. I've started using mods and console commands to achieve my ends.

Plus a funny lil' bit at the beginning.


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I had no idea there was a greenhouse above hangman's!


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I had no idea there was a greenhouse above hangman's!

 LOL, there isn't.
Until I put one there.


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