Wow, I've been playing, and building in, fallout 4 for 8 years and I have never built with concrete. After seeing some of your builds I'm definitely going to incorporate some concrete into my builds going forward, especially those thin concrete walls, there are so many places that they will be a better choice than the nasty thin wood, warehouse and barn walls. Great video sir, much appreciated. :)
You have a fan in me - I have been hesitant to try any more building mods due to the way they adversely affect my game, and folks like you and Schooled Zone showing us how to do stuff with the vanilla build set is just what the doctor ordered.
In your stairwell example near the start of the video, the wooden railings will also snap to those concrete floors. That's often what I use on stair cases like that one. The thing about the Vault Tec railings is, they were designed to attach to atrium floor which normally only have a wall on one side (and that side has a wall so it doesn't need a railing). But here's a thought; if you take the wall out, then attach the railing to the floor, can you then put the wall back in? I can't test that because I use the Place mod, so for me those railings will snap even with the wall in place. Then I learned something new from this video: I never realised that the concrete railings would snap to a wall top! That opens up some interesting possibilities!
i've been playing this game for years, and I never knew that the concrete railings snap to the walls... I always just assumed they never snapped to anything...
I know this is random, but you're the only person I could think of that might have an answer. I just encountered a game mechanic I didn't know about after 1000+ hours of playing. I came back to my workshop and junk was missing. Most of it was there, but all of my aluminum, adhesive, and screws were gone. I'm at the Concord Red Rocket and I've read in forums that those junk items can be stolen from workshops during a raid. I don't know how this happened because I never got a notification that the settlement was being attacked. Furthermore, I've built a metal half-structure around the garage section and sealed the smaller door with a concrete wall. All of the stations that let you access the workshop (weapon and armor stations, chem bench, robot workbench, cooking station) are completely sealed away. The only way for me to get in is to go into workshop mode and squeeze through the concrete wall. I also read in the forums that reloading a save and killing the attackers before they reach your workshop prevents the items from going missing. So, if my workshop (and every station you can access it from) is completely sealed off from NPCs; How were they able to steal the junk from my workshop?
sealing off areas really only works on NPC's while you're there, it basically just breaks their pathing. while you're not there, the mechanic is just an automatic subtraction effect, there isn't a raider NPC that has to reach your workshop and physically interact with it, unfortunately. another thing that comes to mind, is that adhesive and alluminum can get burned through very quickly by repairing power armor so if you have a large number of suits you've been fixing up, it's possible that you just used it without thinking of it (that's happened to me a few times where I've fixed up a bunch of suits only to discover I burned through my entire stockpile of adhesive and aluminum.
@@Theegreygaming I had just deposited a large haul of scrap and haven't upgraded anything for a good bit now. However, I didn't even think about the raiding aspect the way you described. It makes sense now that you mention it. I was thinking I had wasted all that time sealing it off, but that's cool at least that it functions while I'm close. Thank you so much for the answer. It puts my mind at ease to know that, once I finish Nuka-World, I'll be able to check in more often and, hopefully, be close-by for the next raid. Well, guess I've got some scrapping to do lol. I really should use hard saves more often.
Vault Tec parts lending grief again. Perhaps it makes sense given the nature of the Vault Tec company in Fallout.
Nice overview. Now I know why the concrete railing is different and of course the vault style
Wow, I've been playing, and building in, fallout 4 for 8 years and I have never built with concrete. After seeing some of your builds I'm definitely going to incorporate some concrete into my builds going forward, especially those thin concrete walls, there are so many places that they will be a better choice than the nasty thin wood, warehouse and barn walls. Great video sir, much appreciated. :)
Loved this video, lot of useful information that prevent me to waste a lot of time!
You have a fan in me - I have been hesitant to try any more building mods due to the way they adversely affect my game, and folks like you and Schooled Zone showing us how to do stuff with the vanilla build set is just what the doctor ordered.
Just came across your channel..
Watched quite a few of your vids.. And these are gonna be my go to bible when the next gen upgrade drops..
In your stairwell example near the start of the video, the wooden railings will also snap to those concrete floors. That's often what I use on stair cases like that one. The thing about the Vault Tec railings is, they were designed to attach to atrium floor which normally only have a wall on one side (and that side has a wall so it doesn't need a railing). But here's a thought; if you take the wall out, then attach the railing to the floor, can you then put the wall back in? I can't test that because I use the Place mod, so for me those railings will snap even with the wall in place. Then I learned something new from this video: I never realised that the concrete railings would snap to a wall top! That opens up some interesting possibilities!
i've been playing this game for years, and I never knew that the concrete railings snap to the walls... I always just assumed they never snapped to anything...
Didn’t know about these but they gon help me at Croup Manor my settlers always be over the cliff edge pass the border mulling around lmao
handrails because unlike the empire the commonwealth has a safety department
I know this is random, but you're the only person I could think of that might have an answer. I just encountered a game mechanic I didn't know about after 1000+ hours of playing. I came back to my workshop and junk was missing. Most of it was there, but all of my aluminum, adhesive, and screws were gone. I'm at the Concord Red Rocket and I've read in forums that those junk items can be stolen from workshops during a raid.
I don't know how this happened because I never got a notification that the settlement was being attacked. Furthermore, I've built a metal half-structure around the garage section and sealed the smaller door with a concrete wall. All of the stations that let you access the workshop (weapon and armor stations, chem bench, robot workbench, cooking station) are completely sealed away.
The only way for me to get in is to go into workshop mode and squeeze through the concrete wall. I also read in the forums that reloading a save and killing the attackers before they reach your workshop prevents the items from going missing.
So, if my workshop (and every station you can access it from) is completely sealed off from NPCs; How were they able to steal the junk from my workshop?
sealing off areas really only works on NPC's while you're there, it basically just breaks their pathing. while you're not there, the mechanic is just an automatic subtraction effect, there isn't a raider NPC that has to reach your workshop and physically interact with it, unfortunately. another thing that comes to mind, is that adhesive and alluminum can get burned through very quickly by repairing power armor so if you have a large number of suits you've been fixing up, it's possible that you just used it without thinking of it (that's happened to me a few times where I've fixed up a bunch of suits only to discover I burned through my entire stockpile of adhesive and aluminum.
@@Theegreygaming I had just deposited a large haul of scrap and haven't upgraded anything for a good bit now. However, I didn't even think about the raiding aspect the way you described. It makes sense now that you mention it. I was thinking I had wasted all that time sealing it off, but that's cool at least that it functions while I'm close. Thank you so much for the answer. It puts my mind at ease to know that, once I finish Nuka-World, I'll be able to check in more often and, hopefully, be close-by for the next raid.
Well, guess I've got some scrapping to do lol. I really should use hard saves more often.