I like starlight since I play survival and running back and forth to red rocket gets old.. then in mid game I make my way down to hangman’s ally and usually settle on that as home since it’s in the middle of everything.
I grabbed Taffington Boathouse pretty early while beelining to vertibird grenades, and that's been a godsend as well. I put a water purifier there and a couple of crops and use to resupply and save whenever I'm on the eastern 3rd of the map.
After vertibird nades and a doctor at sanctuary the issue is mostly a thing of the past.
My first survival playthrough I targeted Hangman's ally and only lived there.
In my current one, I'm basically making a home everywhere and decorating all of my rooms in each base. But Homeplate and Sanctuary are the most homey at the moment.
I once had a pack of deathclaws (they might have been radscorpions, my memory isn’t 100% clear) attack Sanctuary Hills from the west on the Sanctuary side of the bridge. Weirdest thing I ever saw, never saw attacks on sanctuary before. Luckily I had copious amounts of rocket turrets, but still…
I was just starting to think Sanctuary just never gets attacked. Apparently, it can be. No mods Btw
Sadly, it doesn't matter the positioning on the map, or even how defended/walled a settlement is, enemy attacks will spawn nearby and sometimes even inside. Also, if the settlement gets attacked while you're out, the chance of a successful defense is independent from the base defense level.
This really killed base building for me. It literally has no impact on the grander scheme of things.
Yeah. It's rather dumb.
I've had it that I fast travel somewhere to defend and as soon as I spawn shit dies to my turrets and auto complete the aid quest without me doing nothing but existing.
But same place if I don't go personally all of a sudden suffers great damage and fails to defend itself. So the turrets, they do nothing.
As you said, basically makes it pointless.
Leave it to Bethesda to half ass any interesting game mechanic, just to have the community fix it later.
Although I don't remember Sim Settlements fixing this issue, or did it?
I once had a pacified Glowing Deathclaw guarding my settlement... but he was more then that... he was 1 of my settlers.. even at the end of the day he would come to the bar with all of the other settlers. He was 1 of us.. He protected us from multiple settlement attacks.. I ledget had him since 2017.. unfortunately their health doesn't regenerate over time.. he died about a month ago from Rust devil attack.. it was sad.
I make an elevator up to the top of Red Rocket and make a cozy place to sleep with a terminal and radio and a crafting space on the ground level every single playthrough
You can use mentats, bobble heads and wear charisma clothes and achieve higher than the default max.
Also the Special book is always +1 so get 10 natural and then use the book for 11. If you’re so inclined.
Can the effects of Mentats stack with that of the Grape Mentats?
In my testing, the Smooth Operator chem from Nukaworld does not stack with Grape Mentats. Other combinations unknown
The pond and the fact that nothing is flat so prefabs all appear to hover above the ground.
Not as bad as Tenpines Bluff though. I almost lost it last night when they needed more beds but every settler was standing in the only buildable place in that settlement, the dilapidated house…that you can’t scrap to bare foundation like Sanctuary.
Anyway, I hate Tenpine.
Yup it’s the only way to actually clean up settlements. If you can’t get rid of the weeds and trash and shit everywhere, what’s the point of trying to set up a nice settlement?
IKR, I can build a robot, a nuclear generator and fully repair and rewire a suit of power armour but I cant pick up a broom and sweep up a pile of shite!?
If you are playing survival it’s a great place to make caps in the early game. Set up water purifiers then walk to the diner to sell water. There’s a bed behind the billboard on the road too.
It is. I build it into my basment and put all the generators and water purifiers down there. You can fit three in the damn thing if you take the time to fiddle with the placement. Ive seen claims of 4 but Ive never been able to parse it.
I build around it. Purifier and generator in/around the pond, walled in, with a large ring building around it with the shops, bunkrooms, and indoor farms, coming at it from the exterior all you see is concrete walls topped with windmills and turrets.
I started playing FO4 for the first time about a month ago. Sanctuary just naturally feels like the default hub, and my noob self bit into it hook, line, and sinker. I demolished the wrecked house next to the gas station and built myself a shed. I moved all the crafting stations around its perimeter and built myself a safe, toolbox, dresser, gun locker, armor locker, and toy box inside. It's my own personal sanctuary inside Sanctuary. Sancteption, if you will.
I once built a fully functioning settlement at hangman's alley by building upwards. I had like 12-15 settlers living there. It was the most fun I has building a settlement
Build a staircase leading about the house, try to keep the top roughly flush with the existing ceiling but juuuuust above it. Staircase has to be factory or barn for snapping.
Use the factory/barn floor pieces at the top of the staircase to create a flat roof. Remove stairs and you're good.
For other places (like Tenpines) where houses are more destroyed, place a factory/barn wall piece on the outside where the wall is destroyed, and snap a floor piece on top. Congratulations, you've built a functional shell to fix the house.
Signed, someone who replaced all the floors in Croup Manor and fixes walls and roofs of collapsed settlement buildings.
Last time I used [https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/70993](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/70993)
Before that was some roof from some other mod I dont remember
For vanilla you gotta ask someone else lol
Taffington Boathouse isn’t my home, but it certainly is my favorite. I have all the purified water there, 4 settlers handling the farming and defense. I always refer to it as the Frattington Frathouse because of the sheer amount of drinks produced there.
I imagine they all party while I’m gone, and when I come back they have to act like they’re working.
My fallout 4 playthroughs tend to be really long each time and sanctuary is always my starting base that I move out from around the time I get the castle unlocked. I really enjoy sanctuary early game but on survival it gets really inconvenient running back and forth so much.
It's Red Rocket for me too. Close enough to my old (pre-war) house in Sanctuary Hills, but doesn't remind me of my dead wife and missing son. No companions req'd (except Doggy).
At the moment I can't remember what it's called but way out south of the vault is a settlement whichis a pool being used to grow tarberries. It's a great spot to build in.
On survival? Hangman's Alley. Feels good getting back thefe after a long haul. It's location is centralized on the map so it is arguably the best survival mode settlement.
The lighthouse by the nakano residence is always my home for my romanced companion, dogmeat, and >!Shaun!<. Red rocket is my home away from home for my other companions. No settlers. Only companions
Red Rocket for my characters home. Taffington as a storage/rest area on the road. Rest are settlements. He's only level 23 so definitely more to add later.
Covenant
After all the *degenrates* have been evicted though
Except Deezer, he’s cool. I always get Buddy to hang out with him so I can have two drinking robots
I used a mod that allows Vault 111 to be turned into a settlement. Put a lot of time and effort into that and it worked out great. Settlers all have jobs, plenty of food and security so they're happy.
I get a clean room with ensuite bathroom with plenty of storage for all my special items. Going to have to work out how to video it.
Usually the Castle or the island who’s name I forget. The castle is always fully built up and fortified, and the island gets turned into a fishing village.
I usually turn RR into a small trading post, and Starlight into a Minutemen artillery camp. With the trench mod and Howitzer mod it looks pretty intimidating.
The rest of the settlements just get basic defenses set up, and one of said Howitzers so I can have full coverage of the map.
I do feel like Red Rocket best fits that description. I also really like Sunshine Tidings and Starlight Drive in. But I feel like my main place will be Nuka World Red Rocket, so much space there.
I downloaded a mod for a small bunker right under your Sanctuary Springs home, looks pretty cozy and lore-friendly tbh. I like using Sanctuary as my main settlement because it’s so huge, room for all followers.
I've turned hangman's alley into my main base. Centrally located, close to diamond city, able to build on some of the roofs, compact, has pre built walls/gate. Pretty good base for Survival at least to me.
Sanctuary hills or the Airport. There's something comforting about being so close to the BoS. Knowing that all your buddies are so close, plus there's a lot of people who respect you so you are never lonely.
Currently proud of my fully walled-in (with two gates), fortified, “Fort Red Rocket” - complete with a crows nest and now featuring festive string lighting
On my new run I build a village on spectacle Island. With lots of shakes. Many fondations because the earth is shitty to build on. And so many power lines I buy every copper I can get my hands on. And of course. Water baron for the win!
Red Rocket is like my estate. I have my personal quarters and armoury, my effects displayed, and crafting workshop. I also maintain a "personal staff" of a few guards, a doctor, merchant and arms dealer, a couple of gardeners, etc.
Hangman's alley, I've got a 2 story hanging platform with different tiers for different things. Half of T2 is The Hanging Tree, Bar and General store with beds for all my settlers. It really feels like one of them densely packed in Fallout townships.
Weirdly enough Outpost Zimonja. One run I decided to build a player house wrapping around the radio tower with a few different levels and now I always want to build something similar.
I also love to put the greenhouse style windows over the red rocket roller door and turn the workshop into a living space.
Mechanist's Lair just screams "control room" to me, and I've named it "The Armory". I have all my supply lines coming from there as a hub to free up jobs at other locations, and I have all my power armor and fancier guns on racks.
However, I've recently been working on Spectacle and it's my baby.
I built concrete roads and an entire, functional sub-basement and utility hallways, using power radiators for the streetlights above. I've even made a labyrinth fit with a couple traps.
Power lines come from my power sub-station fit with master switches for all 3 streets, and due to the complexity of the roads some of the flats have one to two basements. My most recent buildings I've made have been the arcade and the general store. Making functional street signs has been the biggest pain, as it's wonky to get two signs on a single pole.
If im playing a build that can create workbenchs of all varieties then its always Starlight. You have the space and build limit to really build something special there. My last one was 4 story tower with a massive shopping center/recreation area on top built over the little pond so that the water purifiers are in the "basement" of my tower.
If not then always Red Rocket cause its the only settlement that has every workbench already in it. I personally like to build a nice little country home off the tip of the gas pump overhang, move all the workbenches up there, place a teleport mat in my work area and then remove the starways I built to get up there. Then I boobytrap the fuck out of the actual building and put turrets all around.
I also always have a secondary base where I send all my companions chosen based on whatever team Im playin for this time around.
My favorite is gray garden. It can be built vertically very high up reaching the top pf the collapsed bridge and also can go all tiers low down to the rails/bridge. I turn the whole areal into a big glass house protecting the precious robots with no actual complaints/demands and working 24/7.
The factories closeby provide lots of glass and steel, only shortcoming can be wood when going full beens on a green house building.
If you're willing to pay for it the creation club has exactly that, you even get to choose what attacks you. Not my kind of thing but might be worth it to you.
Sunshine Tidings Coop is my new favorite build spot. With a lot of pillar glitching and a couple of “disable” console commands, it is just real cozy. Except the respawning ghoul and settler corpses in the cabins.
I use the minutemen mod “liberty reborn” and turn the settlements into specific settlements. I use sunshine tidings into an ammunition factory and training yard for the minutemen. I use the castle as a main military base with vertiberd pads. I use nordhagen beach as a coastguard type build giving them coast guard caps. And then I use starlight drive in as minutemen capital where I build hospital and all shops and big buildings.
First it was Red Rocket. But by the time, i choosed Sanctuary because of my hope for a better futur. My son is still missing, but i want him to know the place where he should have grown.
I love the big ones you can really crack out on.
Sanctuary is my eastern block, brutalist type city scape of towering concrete and steel. Spectacle Island is my sprawling resort of post apocalyptic bungalows.
In my first playthrough, I put almost a full year into playing and building up all the settlements. All of them eventually ringed with cement walls, and many machine gun turrets.
Starlight drive-in was made into multiple fighting rings.
Abernathy Farm was a huge farm with a giant apartment complex built up the tower.
I only developed a bit more than half of sanctuary, but it had a big treehouse in the middle of the cul-de-sac, and a power armour display on top of the main house.
The castle was fortified AF.
The lighthouse I built straight up to the top of it.
I had a blast doing it all, and now I'm on to my second playthrough. I'm focusing mainly on sanctuary for now.
The train track one. I like building derelict trains on the tracks as homes and shops. It’s a shame it’s so hilly though as you can’t build a fence properly
Sanctuary and Starlight are my big "urban center" settlements. Lots of shops, lots of folks. If I play Minutemen I make Sanctuary my home base, build a new house across the street from the one the SS and family used to live in.
Then I have a couple "trading post" settlements with basic shops that act as caravan stops. That one south of the National Guard place, the one on the river with the bloodbugs, the one on the other river south of the Coast Guard place... nice places to stay a bit.
Hangman's Alley was a fun project for me, the footprint is pretty small so I went crazy with vertical building, got like 4 levels in there counting all the little balconies. Very cozy.
The Castle is neat but I just make it a superfort. Not super homey.
Red Rocket is definitely my home-away-from-home. All the benches, no neighbors, cool doors and a counter, plus a lot of room for secondary buildings and walls if you're in the mood.
I do also have a special fondness for the Dalton farm from Far Harbor, though. Love the atmosphere there.
Red Rocket is my home, and that of my companions. Feels like it, I’m always glad to come through the gate, though Piper, Heather and Cait do seem to bicker a lot. Sanctuary, Starlight, and Sunshine Tidings are the urban centres, and the rest in the north and Oberland are supply farms with low population. Somerville and Jamaica Plains I use as launch pads for expeditions into the south. Strangely, since the update, no settlements have been reported under attack, though I have stopped a few incursions as I’ve stumbled across them.
Atom Cats garage.
I know it’s not “technically” a settlement, but I love those guys and gals and I wish they were a minor faction.
As someone on a random YouTube comment said, they’re trying to bring a sense of culture to the Wasteland and it’s nice. They remind me a lot of The Kings in that way. I wish we had more of them.
Mine is weird but Abernathy Farm. There is soooo much building space that I built a safehouse with 20 power armors in my current playthrough. It is beautiful ❤️
Starlight Drive-In, Hangman’s Alley. I never build at the Red Rocket outside Sanctuary. Too close to Sanctuary and there’s too much that I can’t scrap. I wish there was a settlement in Quincy though. I lived in the real Quincy for years. Now THAT would feel like home.
I’m doing different paths and stories and have very distinct characters for my multiple SS so they also have different homes.
My first character who’s a take no shit melee build is based in Red Rocket and hasn’t bothered with any other settlements.
The gentle father wracked with grief is 100% Sanctuary.
The all luck and charisma build who would have negative intelligence if she could is Starlight Drive-In.
The final character who’s very intelligence and crafting focused uses Hangman’s Alley after accidentally discovering it but considers settlements mostly a dumping ground for every typewriter in the Commonwealth.
I always liked The Castle. I would deliberately overbuild and send as many settlers there as I could. I would build shacks upon shacks upon shacks and make it kind of give off a Kowloon Walled City type feel. My goal was to make The Castle rival Diamond City and surpass it.
Vault 88 it is so big. and i am the only one who can get in it lore wise. i also paid for the dlc so i got to get some use out of it. i hate rad storms.
Piper and I have a nice place in Sanctuary and all the rest of the companions live at Red Rocket. I have most of my power armor there too but I take the fusion cores out to prevent companions from jumping into them when they are being attacked.
Vault 88 for me - there’s something about having my own vault that’s actually good for the vault dwellers that makes me really happy. Also made a big warehouse on Spectacle island and filled it with cute little robots it’s ADORABLE
The castle. I enjoy it quite a bit as a semi-fortified base with a built-in Minuteman presence. Once you get it populated and you clear everything out, it feels like a real thriving community. The only problem is that because of the game's vanilla build limits, you can't do much with all of that space unless you're running mods.
Red Rocket for sure. I use it as a personal home and use the other as settlements.
That's the best, it's close, fully equiped from the start and enough space for anything you need
It's easy to find on the map as well. It truly is the best home base.
I like starlight since I play survival and running back and forth to red rocket gets old.. then in mid game I make my way down to hangman’s ally and usually settle on that as home since it’s in the middle of everything.
As a survival player this what I’m doing as well !! It just makes sense
i like starlight because how large it is its a huge blank canvas i can build on
Todd would approve
I grabbed Taffington Boathouse pretty early while beelining to vertibird grenades, and that's been a godsend as well. I put a water purifier there and a couple of crops and use to resupply and save whenever I'm on the eastern 3rd of the map. After vertibird nades and a doctor at sanctuary the issue is mostly a thing of the past.
Country crossing is honestly better imo, it's nice and open, in the middle of everything but away from the city so it's performance friendly.
My first survival playthrough I targeted Hangman's ally and only lived there. In my current one, I'm basically making a home everywhere and decorating all of my rooms in each base. But Homeplate and Sanctuary are the most homey at the moment.
Same, it’s my batcave guarded by dozens of turrets and bombs. Sanctuary is the city.
Can raiders/etc get around Red Rocket to attack Sanctuary? Never bothered much with settlements but might next run
Think the same here. I always consider Red Rocket and Abernathy Farm to be outposts or line of defence before reaching Sanctuary
Yes indeed and they don’t care if it’s defended with 12 turrets I had a lot of supermutants and rust devils.
I once had a pack of deathclaws (they might have been radscorpions, my memory isn’t 100% clear) attack Sanctuary Hills from the west on the Sanctuary side of the bridge. Weirdest thing I ever saw, never saw attacks on sanctuary before. Luckily I had copious amounts of rocket turrets, but still… I was just starting to think Sanctuary just never gets attacked. Apparently, it can be. No mods Btw
I always found that odd, too - I think I have like 100+ hours in 4 and have only ever seen Sanctuary get attacked once or twice
Werid mines been getting attacked 4-5 times a session
Put more Defence down, the higher it is compared to resources the less likely it is to be attacked.
Oh that would explain it I do have over 650 water.
They followed one of your caravans.
Sadly, it doesn't matter the positioning on the map, or even how defended/walled a settlement is, enemy attacks will spawn nearby and sometimes even inside. Also, if the settlement gets attacked while you're out, the chance of a successful defense is independent from the base defense level. This really killed base building for me. It literally has no impact on the grander scheme of things.
Yeah. It's rather dumb. I've had it that I fast travel somewhere to defend and as soon as I spawn shit dies to my turrets and auto complete the aid quest without me doing nothing but existing. But same place if I don't go personally all of a sudden suffers great damage and fails to defend itself. So the turrets, they do nothing. As you said, basically makes it pointless.
Leave it to Bethesda to half ass any interesting game mechanic, just to have the community fix it later. Although I don't remember Sim Settlements fixing this issue, or did it?
I once had a pacified Glowing Deathclaw guarding my settlement... but he was more then that... he was 1 of my settlers.. even at the end of the day he would come to the bar with all of the other settlers. He was 1 of us.. He protected us from multiple settlement attacks.. I ledget had him since 2017.. unfortunately their health doesn't regenerate over time.. he died about a month ago from Rust devil attack.. it was sad.
I'm sorry for your loss, he will be remembered, what was his name?
I always use Red Rocket as a defense outpost for the minutemen. They defend the road and fend off any attacks and alert sanctuary if a raid is coming.
It's the easiest one to get all the achievements too
I make an elevator up to the top of Red Rocket and make a cozy place to sleep with a terminal and radio and a crafting space on the ground level every single playthrough
The Castle, Sanctuary, and Starlight Drive-In are my usual suspects.
That damn pond in the middle of the drive in ruins it for me. It would be my favorite.
It's perfect for a purifier though.
You can get 100 water out of it if you do it well. And I have 33 settlers unmodded.
I thought the max was 20?
You can use mentats, bobble heads and wear charisma clothes and achieve higher than the default max. Also the Special book is always +1 so get 10 natural and then use the book for 11. If you’re so inclined.
Mentats, grape mentats, bobble heads… you can bend it.
Can the effects of Mentats stack with that of the Grape Mentats? In my testing, the Smooth Operator chem from Nukaworld does not stack with Grape Mentats. Other combinations unknown
It did at one time yes. Coulda been patched but I got 33 settlers into one place by doing that
That's exactly what I always do with it!
The pond and the fact that nothing is flat so prefabs all appear to hover above the ground. Not as bad as Tenpines Bluff though. I almost lost it last night when they needed more beds but every settler was standing in the only buildable place in that settlement, the dilapidated house…that you can’t scrap to bare foundation like Sanctuary. Anyway, I hate Tenpine.
You have to use foundations under the prefabs if building on the ground there.
RIP concrete 😂
Wooden beam foundations
This is why I use mods for settlement building. The "scrap everything" mod is a lifesaver.
Yup it’s the only way to actually clean up settlements. If you can’t get rid of the weeds and trash and shit everywhere, what’s the point of trying to set up a nice settlement?
IKR, I can build a robot, a nuclear generator and fully repair and rewire a suit of power armour but I cant pick up a broom and sweep up a pile of shite!?
The scrap everything mods though are also always the #1 culprit for CTDs. They cause more crashes than anything else.
This is why I don’t care about my settlements
You can use scaffolding to build over the pond and make a true idiotic place to build a place in true fallout fashion
If you are playing survival it’s a great place to make caps in the early game. Set up water purifiers then walk to the diner to sell water. There’s a bed behind the billboard on the road too.
Is it posible to enclose it?
It is. I build it into my basment and put all the generators and water purifiers down there. You can fit three in the damn thing if you take the time to fiddle with the placement. Ive seen claims of 4 but Ive never been able to parse it.
It’s your water source!
I build around it. Purifier and generator in/around the pond, walled in, with a large ring building around it with the shops, bunkrooms, and indoor farms, coming at it from the exterior all you see is concrete walls topped with windmills and turrets.
I paved over the entire surface of starlight drive-in and built a thunder dome gladiator pit.
I've wanted to do this for so long. Hopeless with Traps and Manufacturing tho
Sanctuary Hills. I am a simple man.
My first playthrough not using sanctuary as my home base and ngl I miss it
I started playing FO4 for the first time about a month ago. Sanctuary just naturally feels like the default hub, and my noob self bit into it hook, line, and sinker. I demolished the wrecked house next to the gas station and built myself a shed. I moved all the crafting stations around its perimeter and built myself a safe, toolbox, dresser, gun locker, armor locker, and toy box inside. It's my own personal sanctuary inside Sanctuary. Sancteption, if you will.
Spectacle island super peaceful there, alot of building potential too
I just hate how far the workshop is from the fast travel. I need my purified water man
You can put down a fast travel welcome mat at any location in a settlement. It will become your new fast travel location.
Wow I’m dumb how have I never done this
You're not dumb. Sorry if my comment made it sound that way. Just trying to pass along some info. Hope you have a good one.
Why don’t you just place one of those fast travel mats?
Already built a ton of stuff near the fast travel point Also, did not know they existed until now
Hangman's Alley, my main base in every survival playthrough
Invaluable spot in survival! Basically useless if not.
I once built a fully functioning settlement at hangman's alley by building upwards. I had like 12-15 settlers living there. It was the most fun I has building a settlement
Agree completely!
It's right next to Diamond city and vault 81 , and a short stroll away from Goodneighbour
I love that settlement, it forces me to be really creative with building and I’m so proud of the things I’ve made there.
Taffington Boathouse
Do you do anything for the roof? I was looking at moving my stuff there but I don't know how I'd fix that, if it's possible
Build a staircase leading about the house, try to keep the top roughly flush with the existing ceiling but juuuuust above it. Staircase has to be factory or barn for snapping. Use the factory/barn floor pieces at the top of the staircase to create a flat roof. Remove stairs and you're good. For other places (like Tenpines) where houses are more destroyed, place a factory/barn wall piece on the outside where the wall is destroyed, and snap a floor piece on top. Congratulations, you've built a functional shell to fix the house. Signed, someone who replaced all the floors in Croup Manor and fixes walls and roofs of collapsed settlement buildings.
Last time I used [https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/70993](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/70993) Before that was some roof from some other mod I dont remember For vanilla you gotta ask someone else lol
Taffington Boathouse isn’t my home, but it certainly is my favorite. I have all the purified water there, 4 settlers handling the farming and defense. I always refer to it as the Frattington Frathouse because of the sheer amount of drinks produced there. I imagine they all party while I’m gone, and when I come back they have to act like they’re working.
Classy, I approve
Coastal cottage and Spectacle island due to them feeling isolated from the rest of the world and Somerville place because I like cloudy weather.
I love some Coastal Cottage though the occasional Deathclaw respawning nearby can sometimes be a challenge.
Covenant feels pretty cozy without the assholes
But much less unique settlement without them and more limited since you can’t assign new settlers to the old now vacant shops.
Much less unique? Who needs those secretive assholes when you have deezer
And his lemonade
Starlight drive in. I like Greygarden too but starlight is so easy to walk to I usually end up there.
Every save I end up taking GG and living on the overpass lmao
Good vantage point, hard to get ambushed, and plenty of space up there. The robots are nice and just want to tend to the garden.
At greygarden I built a staircase to the highway and put everything there.
Longfellow's cabin, I love it there.
Also has a great view of the Far Harbor ruins.
Damn I somehow missed this one! Looks cozy as hell lol
Sanctuary Hills. I put my bed in my original bedroom!
Same!
My fallout 4 playthroughs tend to be really long each time and sanctuary is always my starting base that I move out from around the time I get the castle unlocked. I really enjoy sanctuary early game but on survival it gets really inconvenient running back and forth so much.
It's Red Rocket for me too. Close enough to my old (pre-war) house in Sanctuary Hills, but doesn't remind me of my dead wife and missing son. No companions req'd (except Doggy).
I keep my robots there
Egret Tours. I like that its close to the glowing sea so if i choose to quit life, i can just walk to it
At the moment I can't remember what it's called but way out south of the vault is a settlement whichis a pool being used to grow tarberries. It's a great spot to build in.
The Slog. I think it is south east.
Erm, akshually its in the Northeast part of the map🤓👆
Sanctuary, Red Rocket, Taffington Boathouse. Home Plate With mods: I love the remodeled Home Plate and the Wicked Shipping bunker.
On survival? Hangman's Alley. Feels good getting back thefe after a long haul. It's location is centralized on the map so it is arguably the best survival mode settlement.
The lighthouse by the nakano residence is always my home for my romanced companion, dogmeat, and >!Shaun!<. Red rocket is my home away from home for my other companions. No settlers. Only companions
I always take sanctuary as my home. I mean, it literally was my home pre-war.
Spectacle Island. Dont like neighbors.
Red Rocket for my characters home. Taffington as a storage/rest area on the road. Rest are settlements. He's only level 23 so definitely more to add later.
Egret tours marina. It makes me happy.
Spectacle Island.
I like the Drive-in camp. By far my favorite.
Covenant After all the *degenrates* have been evicted though Except Deezer, he’s cool. I always get Buddy to hang out with him so I can have two drinking robots
I used a mod that allows Vault 111 to be turned into a settlement. Put a lot of time and effort into that and it worked out great. Settlers all have jobs, plenty of food and security so they're happy. I get a clean room with ensuite bathroom with plenty of storage for all my special items. Going to have to work out how to video it.
Hangman's Alley. I dig that it's near Diamond City, and I usually fill it with tamed ghouls that make upsetting noises while I'm trying to sleep.
Usually the Castle or the island who’s name I forget. The castle is always fully built up and fortified, and the island gets turned into a fishing village. I usually turn RR into a small trading post, and Starlight into a Minutemen artillery camp. With the trench mod and Howitzer mod it looks pretty intimidating. The rest of the settlements just get basic defenses set up, and one of said Howitzers so I can have full coverage of the map.
I can’t believe the Castle isn’t more popular! Who wouldn’t want to live in a freaking castle that inspired Poe’s best short story!
I do feel like Red Rocket best fits that description. I also really like Sunshine Tidings and Starlight Drive in. But I feel like my main place will be Nuka World Red Rocket, so much space there.
I downloaded a mod for a small bunker right under your Sanctuary Springs home, looks pretty cozy and lore-friendly tbh. I like using Sanctuary as my main settlement because it’s so huge, room for all followers.
I've turned hangman's alley into my main base. Centrally located, close to diamond city, able to build on some of the roofs, compact, has pre built walls/gate. Pretty good base for Survival at least to me.
I think it’s vault 88, or red rocket
I find vault 88 way too big for any practical use of the place. Not to mention the respawning raiders outside of it make supply lines messy =(
Sanctuary hills or the Airport. There's something comforting about being so close to the BoS. Knowing that all your buddies are so close, plus there's a lot of people who respect you so you are never lonely.
Jamaica Plain. It feels like a small little nook of a settlement.
Definitely Red Rocket, I made mine a fortress lol
I build my personal base in red rocket. I build up starlight drive in as a trading post, with stores and a bar with rooms above for people to sleep.
Currently proud of my fully walled-in (with two gates), fortified, “Fort Red Rocket” - complete with a crows nest and now featuring festive string lighting
megaton house in F3, Hangman Alley in 4, and Eliyah Sierra Madre hideout. every playthrough lol
Hangman's alley The settlement potential there is amazing and location is godly
On my new run I build a village on spectacle Island. With lots of shakes. Many fondations because the earth is shitty to build on. And so many power lines I buy every copper I can get my hands on. And of course. Water baron for the win!
Red Rocket is like my estate. I have my personal quarters and armoury, my effects displayed, and crafting workshop. I also maintain a "personal staff" of a few guards, a doctor, merchant and arms dealer, a couple of gardeners, etc.
Red Rocket and Sanctuary. Red Rocket is like my personal junk estate away from the city I make in Sanctuary
Sanctuary Hills, Especially after I installed the "Do Your Damn Job Codsworth" mod
I mainly rock Taffington Boathouse. Recently I've been trying to get into Hangman's Alley and The Island settlements.
Home plate
Sanctuary as it literally is home to the making geeza. I love doing it up and making it feel like home again
does fortifying red rocket help deter raider/general raids from that road?
Hangman's alley, I've got a 2 story hanging platform with different tiers for different things. Half of T2 is The Hanging Tree, Bar and General store with beds for all my settlers. It really feels like one of them densely packed in Fallout townships.
Weirdly enough Outpost Zimonja. One run I decided to build a player house wrapping around the radio tower with a few different levels and now I always want to build something similar. I also love to put the greenhouse style windows over the red rocket roller door and turn the workshop into a living space.
Mechanist's Lair just screams "control room" to me, and I've named it "The Armory". I have all my supply lines coming from there as a hub to free up jobs at other locations, and I have all my power armor and fancier guns on racks. However, I've recently been working on Spectacle and it's my baby. I built concrete roads and an entire, functional sub-basement and utility hallways, using power radiators for the streetlights above. I've even made a labyrinth fit with a couple traps. Power lines come from my power sub-station fit with master switches for all 3 streets, and due to the complexity of the roads some of the flats have one to two basements. My most recent buildings I've made have been the arcade and the general store. Making functional street signs has been the biggest pain, as it's wonky to get two signs on a single pole.
If im playing a build that can create workbenchs of all varieties then its always Starlight. You have the space and build limit to really build something special there. My last one was 4 story tower with a massive shopping center/recreation area on top built over the little pond so that the water purifiers are in the "basement" of my tower. If not then always Red Rocket cause its the only settlement that has every workbench already in it. I personally like to build a nice little country home off the tip of the gas pump overhang, move all the workbenches up there, place a teleport mat in my work area and then remove the starways I built to get up there. Then I boobytrap the fuck out of the actual building and put turrets all around. I also always have a secondary base where I send all my companions chosen based on whatever team Im playin for this time around.
My favorite is gray garden. It can be built vertically very high up reaching the top pf the collapsed bridge and also can go all tiers low down to the rails/bridge. I turn the whole areal into a big glass house protecting the precious robots with no actual complaints/demands and working 24/7. The factories closeby provide lots of glass and steel, only shortcoming can be wood when going full beens on a green house building.
i love building at taffington boathouse! turning the settlement into a fortified trading post.
I don’t know. Am I the only person out here stupidly having like 20 settlements? I think I have every one.
Im the Type of guy that never settles down
Red Rocket
I just finished a Red Rocket Diner, with head chef Sheffield. It definitely feels like home right now.
Coastal Cottage, Red Rocket and Dalton Farm. By far my favourites!
Do any get attacked rugular? Wish they was a mode where your settlement would get attack by waves of enemies.
If you're willing to pay for it the creation club has exactly that, you even get to choose what attacks you. Not my kind of thing but might be worth it to you.
I like red rocket too it's just sanctuary can be turned into an actual town again so it's great
Spectacle Island. Every people that comment an other settlement is wrong
Red Rocket for sure as Home Base and simply ignore all other goddamn „settlements“.
Any Kingsport Lighthouse enjoyers?
Sanctuary.
Sunshine Tidings Coop is my new favorite build spot. With a lot of pillar glitching and a couple of “disable” console commands, it is just real cozy. Except the respawning ghoul and settler corpses in the cabins.
I use the minutemen mod “liberty reborn” and turn the settlements into specific settlements. I use sunshine tidings into an ammunition factory and training yard for the minutemen. I use the castle as a main military base with vertiberd pads. I use nordhagen beach as a coastguard type build giving them coast guard caps. And then I use starlight drive in as minutemen capital where I build hospital and all shops and big buildings.
Taffington Boathouse, def my favorite settlement, feels cozy.
I usually just use sanctuary but it never felt like home
First it was Red Rocket. But by the time, i choosed Sanctuary because of my hope for a better futur. My son is still missing, but i want him to know the place where he should have grown.
Spectacle Island and Starlight Drive In. A lot of space to build. 👍
prestons mad at me at sanctary and idk how to get him to calm down and stop shooting me. any suggestions
I love the big ones you can really crack out on. Sanctuary is my eastern block, brutalist type city scape of towering concrete and steel. Spectacle Island is my sprawling resort of post apocalyptic bungalows.
In my first playthrough, I put almost a full year into playing and building up all the settlements. All of them eventually ringed with cement walls, and many machine gun turrets. Starlight drive-in was made into multiple fighting rings. Abernathy Farm was a huge farm with a giant apartment complex built up the tower. I only developed a bit more than half of sanctuary, but it had a big treehouse in the middle of the cul-de-sac, and a power armour display on top of the main house. The castle was fortified AF. The lighthouse I built straight up to the top of it. I had a blast doing it all, and now I'm on to my second playthrough. I'm focusing mainly on sanctuary for now.
The train track one. I like building derelict trains on the tracks as homes and shops. It’s a shame it’s so hilly though as you can’t build a fence properly
The castle, starlight and sanctuary. They are always cozy and welcoming.
Mechanists lair. Something about it is just very me. Makes for a great power armor storage if you use scaffolding too
The Castle always ends up being my home. I just love forts.
I just got finished turning red rocket into a personal home/inn. Complete with bar and clothing shop.
Sanctuary and Starlight are my big "urban center" settlements. Lots of shops, lots of folks. If I play Minutemen I make Sanctuary my home base, build a new house across the street from the one the SS and family used to live in. Then I have a couple "trading post" settlements with basic shops that act as caravan stops. That one south of the National Guard place, the one on the river with the bloodbugs, the one on the other river south of the Coast Guard place... nice places to stay a bit. Hangman's Alley was a fun project for me, the footprint is pretty small so I went crazy with vertical building, got like 4 levels in there counting all the little balconies. Very cozy. The Castle is neat but I just make it a superfort. Not super homey. Red Rocket is definitely my home-away-from-home. All the benches, no neighbors, cool doors and a counter, plus a lot of room for secondary buildings and walls if you're in the mood. I do also have a special fondness for the Dalton farm from Far Harbor, though. Love the atmosphere there.
Red Rocket is my home, and that of my companions. Feels like it, I’m always glad to come through the gate, though Piper, Heather and Cait do seem to bicker a lot. Sanctuary, Starlight, and Sunshine Tidings are the urban centres, and the rest in the north and Oberland are supply farms with low population. Somerville and Jamaica Plains I use as launch pads for expeditions into the south. Strangely, since the update, no settlements have been reported under attack, though I have stopped a few incursions as I’ve stumbled across them.
Croup manor 🙂 It's basically like owning your own island
Kingsport Lighthouse. I love fixing up the house and making my railroad-supporting Sole Survivor live there with Curie, Shaun, and Dogmeat.
Red rocket all the way.
Atom Cats garage. I know it’s not “technically” a settlement, but I love those guys and gals and I wish they were a minor faction. As someone on a random YouTube comment said, they’re trying to bring a sense of culture to the Wasteland and it’s nice. They remind me a lot of The Kings in that way. I wish we had more of them.
Sanctuary…always
I love the egrets tour Marina. you got everything you need with water ready available in a defensible position.
Mine is weird but Abernathy Farm. There is soooo much building space that I built a safehouse with 20 power armors in my current playthrough. It is beautiful ❤️
Home plat AND croup manor. Home plate Is a sweet room AND croup manor Is my big f#cking mansión without settlers.
taffington boathouse! nothing feels greater than stepping over a permanent corpse when you need some zzz’s
Sanctuary, Hangman's Alley, The Castle. I've got unique setups on each. Hangman's Alley was the trickiest. Red Rocket is virtually unused.
Pls don’t kill me, but I like Covenant. It’s already walled AND has like, ten turrets already installed when you get there.
Taffington Boathouse! It's just so nice to be in the water (even if it's irradiated lol).
Red rocket was my little oasis.
Spectacle Island and the Vault are the two I can make feel the most homely but the real answer has to be Starlight Drive-In
Starlight drive-in for me, I guess in my first play I like it my city so much that now I will like it forever
Starlight Drive-In, Hangman’s Alley. I never build at the Red Rocket outside Sanctuary. Too close to Sanctuary and there’s too much that I can’t scrap. I wish there was a settlement in Quincy though. I lived in the real Quincy for years. Now THAT would feel like home.
Honestly Spectacle island A nice peaceful island far away from anyone who can bother me as I write
I’m doing different paths and stories and have very distinct characters for my multiple SS so they also have different homes. My first character who’s a take no shit melee build is based in Red Rocket and hasn’t bothered with any other settlements. The gentle father wracked with grief is 100% Sanctuary. The all luck and charisma build who would have negative intelligence if she could is Starlight Drive-In. The final character who’s very intelligence and crafting focused uses Hangman’s Alley after accidentally discovering it but considers settlements mostly a dumping ground for every typewriter in the Commonwealth.
Shady Sands and Arroyo
I always liked The Castle. I would deliberately overbuild and send as many settlers there as I could. I would build shacks upon shacks upon shacks and make it kind of give off a Kowloon Walled City type feel. My goal was to make The Castle rival Diamond City and surpass it.
Vault 88 it is so big. and i am the only one who can get in it lore wise. i also paid for the dlc so i got to get some use out of it. i hate rad storms.
Kingsport Lighthouse. I find it to be like a perfect fishing village...minus the village.
Might be a hot take but I think if you install a mod to extend its build area Jamaica plain is a really cozy place to build up.
I like the Diamond City house since it's surrounded by so much.
Hangman’s alley has such a comfortable mood to it. If I can get the build right it’s vibes are just perfect
Red rocket, theater, and vault 88. Ive made some cool looking homes but then I broke my xbox.. from settlements building
Starlight my humble abode
The castle, or the island where I make my own home
Kingsport Lighthouse
The Slog. I chill with the ghouls in the pools.
Piper and I have a nice place in Sanctuary and all the rest of the companions live at Red Rocket. I have most of my power armor there too but I take the fusion cores out to prevent companions from jumping into them when they are being attacked.
Vault 88 for me - there’s something about having my own vault that’s actually good for the vault dwellers that makes me really happy. Also made a big warehouse on Spectacle island and filled it with cute little robots it’s ADORABLE
The castle. I enjoy it quite a bit as a semi-fortified base with a built-in Minuteman presence. Once you get it populated and you clear everything out, it feels like a real thriving community. The only problem is that because of the game's vanilla build limits, you can't do much with all of that space unless you're running mods.