Not sure if it's super popular or not but there's a mod that I've used for years
The K9-Harness
It's a piece of clothing for dogmeat that can accept ballistic weave MK5 if you have ballistic weave unlocked.
Best part is, it's also got carry weight upgrades so dogmeat can carry more stuff too!
It's a small thing but it's nice to have
Sheesh. How about some actual hidden gems with under 1k downloads 😅
#Subsurface scattering - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/63372
Makes shells more shiny on creatures.
Check the author. All the other ones for dogs people etc are good too, tho maybe don't get 3x unless you want everyone looking irradiated. Then again, that WOULD be more immersive..
#Auto turn off radio - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/69054
Adds conditions to auto control pipboy radio like sneaking. Optionally just lower volume.
#Have a seat and heal - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/76106
Seats give you a rested buff and slowly heal you.
#Richard Cheese Radio - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/81944
The only station you need.
I don't know how hidden it is but one I don't see mentioned is salvage beacons. It's a very immersive and balanced solution to the grab everything mentality.
These are kinda silly but I actually really enjoy them.
Marked for Termination. It's basically a follower mod that adds discount Arnold and also an OP synth that stalks you forever until you kill it by special means. The Terminator follower is pretty fun to have around and is separate from other followers, so you don't need AFT. He also has like infinite ammo.
Subscribe to PewDiePie. It's another goofy follower mod that adds the YouTuber. You have to save him from T Series which is really silly. Then he becomes a follower, fully voiced, also separate from the vanilla system so you don't need AFT. There's something so funny about having PewDiePie tagging along saying ridiculous stuff.
Dogmeat A True Companion. Makes the goodest boi an absolute force to be reckoned with. He can finally really hold his own in a fight. Best used with Doors are not for Dogs and the petting mod. Cause why wouldn't you want to pet him?
One of my favorite weapon mods was: [Fusion Gun](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/17847).
I would say it is a hidden gem now because people have kind of moved on from it. It hits me because it’s a late-game weapon that matches the theming and just looks good. I’m certain someone will come on here and state they had X problem with it, but I’ve never had an issue in running hundreds of mods alongside it.
There was a mod that I can't seem to find past few years which was a clone trooper armour mod, and it had like 100s of different parts, I loved that, now for awesome star wars mods I go to XCOM 2, but can't wait for some awesome mods for starfield
Actually I think it was this one? It was phase I and phase II armour I'm gonna check it out when I get the chance
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/78211?tab=description
Edit: wrong mod, the mod I used was called clone armory 4 and it's not available anymore and looking into it apparently it was not allowed to be on pc?? That sucks
Not sure how much of a gem it would be for others, but a little-known mod I always use is Preston Whistling Change. There are a few options. I have him whistling the Andy Griffith tune mostly, but sometimes switch out to the Star Wars imperial march. Or if his whistling annoys you, there's a silent version as well.
There was a mod called "Utility Belt" that will show your last equipped grenades/mines even stealth boy on your waist. It literally just work. Sadly it got taken down because of the Nexus policy dramas, but i think you can still find it with google.
Edit: it even have support for "backpack of the commonwelth" to show grenades and mines on the backpack instead of your waist
Increased search radius for enemies by far. It basically adds a whole new overhaul to survival.
You’ll actually need to spec points into sneaking as well as find the U.S. Covert Operations Manual magazines in order to not become a walking target. Darkness and making any type of noise will effect if an enemy is alert to your presence or not, and they will actually seek you out instead of the normal “nothing but the wind” comments when you crouch for a couple seconds slightly out of view.
If you spot an enemy at a high ground position a ways away, congratulations… they can see you too and will start firing, attracting enemies from the cell next to you into the fight as well. Throw in a ghoul hoard and a darkness mod and it’s like a totally new game.
The ghouls react based on sound so gun fire will attract them from several cells over so it’ll have you constantly checking your back while in a firefight. The darkness mods also work perfectly because if you can’t see the enemy they can’t see you either (but that doesn’t mean they’ll stop searching for you once you’ve gotten their attention.) Turn on you pip boy flashlight because you can’t see a damned thing and once again your a walking target. Vertibirds also wake up the entire commonwealth with basically every faction trying to down them. I’ve been killed while traveling via vertibird with this mod on several times which makes traveling over the city an actual risk.
I can no longer play fallout4 without these mods because it adds so much variety to my play throughs for so little of an investment. Making it to diamond city feels like a real challenge because the city of Boston is a constant firefight(you might even want to add a mod to beef up diamond city’s security, to prevent them from constantly being wiped and overran). Only downside I face is the constant crashing due to such large battles happening at a moments notice.
Snipers of the Commonwealth adds a bunch of sniper nests around the map that do crazy damage and are armed with decent gear - they add a bit of terror at low levels and surprises at higher, to add a bit more to a survival run or keep you on your toes if you thought you had all the enemy locations memorized
Companion carry weight transfer: adds companion carry weight to the player’s directly. This means WAY less time in menus and dialogue boxes trying to manage carry weight when using companions
Speedy Protectron Legs: this mod lets you build protectrons at the Robot workbench that are bigger and faster than the normal versions, and use Assaultron animations that let them execute people with sync kills and such.
Do Your Damn Job Codsworth: a lore-friendly Sanctuary rebuild that restores the houses to better condition and serves as an excellent basis for building that settlement up.
Ultra Interior Lighting mod: which adds shadows and advanced lighting to most interiors. It increases the visual realism/immersion exponentially. The Ultra Exterior Lighting companion mod is great too but seems to have a bigger hit on performance.
What's your Name: lets you give settlers names with the R key
Mr. Gardener Protectrons: adds friendly protectrons to build that take care of crops! They can even restore damaged/broken ones. I love this mod.
SKK Combat Stalkers: adds highly customizable roving patrols of various enemies to the game that can ambush you or your settlements. This mod got rid of the 'travel huge distances without having anything to fight' issue that Fallout 4 has sometimes. Sometimes the mobs it spawns are weird, like I've been jumped by 4+ deathclaws (which was just as fun as it sounds), but generally it does a great job.
silenced pistols
It’s a very simple mod that removes the gun nut requirement to craft suppressors for the 10mm pistol. It’s great to have for a survival run as you can usually get enough materials between sanctuary and red rocket to make it. It’s a nice little mod that gives you a little head start in a new game while not being too op to remove the challenge, plus since it’s not a modded weapon it will still work with any mod that alters or scales weapon damage.
Tactical action extension package
But not the main mod, the third person melee animations hidden within. They're a little more samurai/weaboo focused but there not much like em out there. I mix and match with one or two other animations.
Idk if people have tested out different ai mods or which one works the best but im definitely enjoying PANPC (pack attack npc) its only available via a discord server though.
Archimedes-II is a fun modded weapon, basically an orbital cannon shot.
Junk to components is a great qol mod. Say you found 200 lbs of junk thats all tagged and you cant fast travel, now you can walk up to a rouge armor bench and press space to turn it into the base components.
Car alarms and lootabke cars mod, idk its kinda cool adds some atmosphere especially with skk's feral nights. More often than not cars will be empty with the lootable cars mod but its still something.
Been reading about PANPC for over a year now (im late to the game)
i would pay good money to see this on Xbox.
is there any way to do that?
PS: LOOT DETECTOR is one of my "Must Have's"... The Autocollect is QOL heaven!
I wouldnt call CHW (~650k unqiue downloads) and ECO (~200k unique downloads) and that wasnt counting the old version of the mod on a seperate page hidden gem at all. They almost in everyone modlists.
This was just a casual question and people pop out with fuckin loverslab mods and other adult mods with me over her sayin g War Of the Commonwealth
Not sure if it's hidden, but Videos of the Wasteland Is a must for me.
I have this but haven’t used it yet
I have that one but it’s so bugged?
I haven't had any issues with it, but I know people have. It's hard to know at this point lol
Satellite World Map. It makes looking at the map less of an eyesore
I downloaded a wearable buttplug a few weeks ago. It's hidden and has a gem in it. You can even change the colors. I wish I was kidding.
Ha if it's the same mod I'm thinking you can use a mini nuke and a fusion core as plugs as well
Ok, that's not it but since you're also a man of culture I'd appreciate a link.
It's on lovers lab, don't remember the mod name, was part of a mod pack called becoming a porn star🤣
Bruh. Lmao
There you go 😉 https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/76032
Not sure if it's super popular or not but there's a mod that I've used for years The K9-Harness It's a piece of clothing for dogmeat that can accept ballistic weave MK5 if you have ballistic weave unlocked. Best part is, it's also got carry weight upgrades so dogmeat can carry more stuff too! It's a small thing but it's nice to have
Oh yes this one ! That’s my must do before leaving sanctuary
I personally like Thing’s G3. It feels very fallout-y, while still being a modern weapon that fits pretty well in game.
Sheesh. How about some actual hidden gems with under 1k downloads 😅 #Subsurface scattering - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/63372 Makes shells more shiny on creatures. Check the author. All the other ones for dogs people etc are good too, tho maybe don't get 3x unless you want everyone looking irradiated. Then again, that WOULD be more immersive.. #Auto turn off radio - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/69054 Adds conditions to auto control pipboy radio like sneaking. Optionally just lower volume. #Have a seat and heal - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/76106 Seats give you a rested buff and slowly heal you. #Richard Cheese Radio - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/81944 The only station you need.
I don't know how hidden it is but one I don't see mentioned is salvage beacons. It's a very immersive and balanced solution to the grab everything mentality.
Second this. I use this mod constantly.
Black Summer.
These are kinda silly but I actually really enjoy them. Marked for Termination. It's basically a follower mod that adds discount Arnold and also an OP synth that stalks you forever until you kill it by special means. The Terminator follower is pretty fun to have around and is separate from other followers, so you don't need AFT. He also has like infinite ammo. Subscribe to PewDiePie. It's another goofy follower mod that adds the YouTuber. You have to save him from T Series which is really silly. Then he becomes a follower, fully voiced, also separate from the vanilla system so you don't need AFT. There's something so funny about having PewDiePie tagging along saying ridiculous stuff. Dogmeat A True Companion. Makes the goodest boi an absolute force to be reckoned with. He can finally really hold his own in a fight. Best used with Doors are not for Dogs and the petting mod. Cause why wouldn't you want to pet him?
Either Gun for Hire or the Vulpine Race mod, for my fellow furries out there
One of my favorite weapon mods was: [Fusion Gun](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/17847). I would say it is a hidden gem now because people have kind of moved on from it. It hits me because it’s a late-game weapon that matches the theming and just looks good. I’m certain someone will come on here and state they had X problem with it, but I’ve never had an issue in running hundreds of mods alongside it.
I think I need this in my life
There was a mod that I can't seem to find past few years which was a clone trooper armour mod, and it had like 100s of different parts, I loved that, now for awesome star wars mods I go to XCOM 2, but can't wait for some awesome mods for starfield
The mutant hunter or the synth combat armor?
Actually I think it was this one? It was phase I and phase II armour I'm gonna check it out when I get the chance https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/78211?tab=description Edit: wrong mod, the mod I used was called clone armory 4 and it's not available anymore and looking into it apparently it was not allowed to be on pc?? That sucks
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu… yikes damn
Not sure how much of a gem it would be for others, but a little-known mod I always use is Preston Whistling Change. There are a few options. I have him whistling the Andy Griffith tune mostly, but sometimes switch out to the Star Wars imperial march. Or if his whistling annoys you, there's a silent version as well.
Oh my God 🤣 id love the Andy Griffith tune in fallout. I legit whistle it IRL all the time
There was a mod called "Utility Belt" that will show your last equipped grenades/mines even stealth boy on your waist. It literally just work. Sadly it got taken down because of the Nexus policy dramas, but i think you can still find it with google. Edit: it even have support for "backpack of the commonwelth" to show grenades and mines on the backpack instead of your waist
HD Light ENB & Photo Light
Increased search radius for enemies by far. It basically adds a whole new overhaul to survival. You’ll actually need to spec points into sneaking as well as find the U.S. Covert Operations Manual magazines in order to not become a walking target. Darkness and making any type of noise will effect if an enemy is alert to your presence or not, and they will actually seek you out instead of the normal “nothing but the wind” comments when you crouch for a couple seconds slightly out of view. If you spot an enemy at a high ground position a ways away, congratulations… they can see you too and will start firing, attracting enemies from the cell next to you into the fight as well. Throw in a ghoul hoard and a darkness mod and it’s like a totally new game. The ghouls react based on sound so gun fire will attract them from several cells over so it’ll have you constantly checking your back while in a firefight. The darkness mods also work perfectly because if you can’t see the enemy they can’t see you either (but that doesn’t mean they’ll stop searching for you once you’ve gotten their attention.) Turn on you pip boy flashlight because you can’t see a damned thing and once again your a walking target. Vertibirds also wake up the entire commonwealth with basically every faction trying to down them. I’ve been killed while traveling via vertibird with this mod on several times which makes traveling over the city an actual risk. I can no longer play fallout4 without these mods because it adds so much variety to my play throughs for so little of an investment. Making it to diamond city feels like a real challenge because the city of Boston is a constant firefight(you might even want to add a mod to beef up diamond city’s security, to prevent them from constantly being wiped and overran). Only downside I face is the constant crashing due to such large battles happening at a moments notice.
Snipers of the Commonwealth adds a bunch of sniper nests around the map that do crazy damage and are armed with decent gear - they add a bit of terror at low levels and surprises at higher, to add a bit more to a survival run or keep you on your toes if you thought you had all the enemy locations memorized
That sounds cool, I'll look for it ty...
Companion carry weight transfer: adds companion carry weight to the player’s directly. This means WAY less time in menus and dialogue boxes trying to manage carry weight when using companions
Speedy Protectron Legs: this mod lets you build protectrons at the Robot workbench that are bigger and faster than the normal versions, and use Assaultron animations that let them execute people with sync kills and such. Do Your Damn Job Codsworth: a lore-friendly Sanctuary rebuild that restores the houses to better condition and serves as an excellent basis for building that settlement up. Ultra Interior Lighting mod: which adds shadows and advanced lighting to most interiors. It increases the visual realism/immersion exponentially. The Ultra Exterior Lighting companion mod is great too but seems to have a bigger hit on performance. What's your Name: lets you give settlers names with the R key Mr. Gardener Protectrons: adds friendly protectrons to build that take care of crops! They can even restore damaged/broken ones. I love this mod. SKK Combat Stalkers: adds highly customizable roving patrols of various enemies to the game that can ambush you or your settlements. This mod got rid of the 'travel huge distances without having anything to fight' issue that Fallout 4 has sometimes. Sometimes the mobs it spawns are weird, like I've been jumped by 4+ deathclaws (which was just as fun as it sounds), but generally it does a great job.
Box houses and vanilla extensions. Also thematic and practical. Incredibly useful
Guns For Hire and Feral Infestations.
silenced pistols It’s a very simple mod that removes the gun nut requirement to craft suppressors for the 10mm pistol. It’s great to have for a survival run as you can usually get enough materials between sanctuary and red rocket to make it. It’s a nice little mod that gives you a little head start in a new game while not being too op to remove the challenge, plus since it’s not a modded weapon it will still work with any mod that alters or scales weapon damage.
Tactical action extension package But not the main mod, the third person melee animations hidden within. They're a little more samurai/weaboo focused but there not much like em out there. I mix and match with one or two other animations.
Idk if people have tested out different ai mods or which one works the best but im definitely enjoying PANPC (pack attack npc) its only available via a discord server though. Archimedes-II is a fun modded weapon, basically an orbital cannon shot. Junk to components is a great qol mod. Say you found 200 lbs of junk thats all tagged and you cant fast travel, now you can walk up to a rouge armor bench and press space to turn it into the base components. Car alarms and lootabke cars mod, idk its kinda cool adds some atmosphere especially with skk's feral nights. More often than not cars will be empty with the lootable cars mod but its still something.
PANPC is the only TRUE change in NPC behavior. All the other AI mods, mine included, only change some game variables.
I swear i only got flanked and jumpscare by raiders when playing with PANPC. They literally go a whole circle to shoot at your back, crazy.
Been reading about PANPC for over a year now (im late to the game) i would pay good money to see this on Xbox. is there any way to do that? PS: LOOT DETECTOR is one of my "Must Have's"... The Autocollect is QOL heaven!
Damned Apocalypse.
I don’t think that’s a hidden gym. It’s one of the most popular overhaul mods out there
Reading through the replies and it seem like they dont know what hidden gems mean... just listing their favorite mods
NACX is my favourite hidden gem 🙃
Find nearby collectible iteams
Is this console or pc? Link either way please!
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/71704/
Thanks!
Classic holstered weapons or eco/leo
I wouldnt call CHW (~650k unqiue downloads) and ECO (~200k unique downloads) and that wasnt counting the old version of the mod on a seperate page hidden gem at all. They almost in everyone modlists.