Really? I decided to leave my power suit at Sanctuary just because I knew from playing 5 years ago that you can get low on fusion cores. I haven't had too many situations where it helps to have it on. Only if I'm fighting Super Mutants. That would be pretty cool to see them using it. Does it use up the fusion core in it though?
Something to note about this game is that a settlement does not necessarily need to produce its own food/water if another settlement has a surplus. Just connect them by a supply line and your happiness at a given settlement will increase regardless of lack of independent food/water production.
@@chloeflores8043 Unlock the local leader perk in the charisma category and then go to one of the settlements you’d like to connect. Edit your workshop and walk up to a settler and it will give you an option to assign them to a supply run.
It took me awhile to understand about building settlements, I got so many settlement that its kind of hard to keep track of which one to protect when they are being attack especially when you're free roaming. It's better to build defense for one settlement and making sure everyone is doing their part before opening up another settlement. I found out the hard way. I've used up so many resource. One of my settlement is only for power armor, which I have about 7, not sure how many are out there. I've Minecraft the shit out of Fallout 4.
A few notes to add to this excellent guide: You can store placable items, instead of scrapping. To do so, look at the object and press TAB (The button used to bring up the pipboy) and you can store the item. When you try to place that item, it will take it from storage instead of building new ones. This is useful when running electricity. Unassigned settlers will automatically work the farms. You can change any of your settlers gear by giving it to them via trade and highlighting the item and pressing T. (not sure what it is on consoles) Items with a yellow highlight are generally junk that cannot be relocated or stored. Mostly used for scrapping. Every static item, including trees, tires, fences, and other junk all count to your build limit - this includes all the white picket fences in Sanctuary. Stores improve your settlers happiness, and give you means to buy and sell gear, but must have a settler assigned to them to function. If you store your power armor in settlements, make sure you take out the fusion cores when not in use. Settlers (and even raiders) will jump in the suits when in combat.
I'm not sure what could be happening, unless this is some sort of bug. Do you see a number under the bottom icon when you select the generator? Do any of the generators show a number? If there is no number, that means no items are stored. Maybe the item was accidentally salvaged instead?
After looking at a dozen videos, I finally found the one I wanted. You see, I had no idea how to recruit settlers. All the building and salvaging is moot without settlers. Thanks for this very basic intro. I can now proceed with a plan that will actually accomplish something.
@@somebloke3869 That's correct, I didn't do Concord. It felt too much like I was being led around by the ring in my nose, so I chose a different direction.
@@kimghanson yeah, that's true. The first part is a bit like a tutorial. I also like to open up a lot of settlements myself so I don't have to put a recruitment beacon in them. So I hold off rescuing the minutemen.
good video dude. 1 thing I do is soon as I get a new settlement, I take like half an hour and just scrap everything in the area. even the trees. it gives you alot more to work with when you start building
+Christian Bruvah I have checked every mail box I seen in the game so far... Every one has been empty. However if you scrap a container the items in it will end up in your workshop item list. Not sure how it is with locked containers like a safe. Noticed that after have scraped a few bathroom mirrors.
+HooseOfTheMoose It's worth noting that all the junk, including the trees, contribute to your size limit when building. I junked all those white fences in Sanctuary and freed up a lot of space.
+HooseOfTheMoose you can also pick up items outside the limits carrying it in front of you into the settlement area and then use the workshop function to scrap.
I learned more about settlements from your video than anything Bethesda tried to instruct in-game. I had no idea scraping something I didn't use also didn't return the materials that was used to create it. I also had no idea how to put power in a house or how the water purifier worked. this was frustrating for me though. the roof doesn't connect to anything wall I put up, I couldn't put a roof on anything so I scrapped it all and used prefab. then I put a windmill up, didn't like it, scrapped it. made lights, didn't like it, scrapped it. made a generator, too small, scrapped it. I wasted so much. But, I can say I don't really feel like doing settlements. Can you imagine being a manager IRL and then play a game and have to manage that? It's stress I don't want. I'll do settlements if a quest requires it, but I have no interest in "doing it well" thank you for this great video though
@@chrismyers4750 What they eat and what they produce as surplus is a mystery. For me it almost seems random. In one playthrough Red Rocket has tatos, carrots and corn. But always has a corn surplus. I don't know why it chose that, but I'm happy. Not always an option early, but the best way seems to be going with monoculture farming. Plant only one type of crop in each settlement.
@@chrismyers4750 hard to say really. What the settlers eat seems to be random. I usually plant the three Staples...tatos, corn, and mutfruit. Each settlement seems to have it's own tastes as the excess crops are usually different at each workbench storage area.
I've explored the Settlement part of Fallout 4 ALOT. I learned that you connect farms to other settlements and if the farms produce more than the people require it can feed the other l settlements as well. This really helped with Starlight Drive-in because of the lack of dirt there. Plus it made it to where I could focus heavily on my defenses and scavenging in my main settlements. I made the castle and starlight drive-in my main hubs for the supply chain. I would move settlers from the main settlements to the farms and bases to set up supply chains that connect to each settlement. I noticed that the longer the supply line you can go for a time without the united supplies, and the supply line can be at risk. My favorite settlement that was actually a pain to get to was the Island, the entire island is your play ground to build crap. It's pretty great.
stack the houses and clear out as much as possible. clear view makes or easy to defend stacked homes, each floor serving a purpose. use the ground for food, turrets and water.
ignore all the keyboard warriors man. loving your content. informative, well edited and interesting. Thank you for posting and I agree with you, you are the number 1 hub for Fallout 4
Keep on doing what you are doing mate. It's a great game with loads more to discover and you are doing a great job in showing off the games good points. I'm sure a lot of gamers like me enjoy seeing just how much content the game has to offer us. Ignore the haters, one enthusiastic subscriber and one like is worth ten negative comments
+JV2017gameplay BTW, to get Radio Freedom, you must get the castle (I think the minutemen way too, but idk). Yes, there is a radio you just have to unlock it. (Also you can kill the settlers there and get a settlement)
Maaan those wall converters were the ones that blew my mind. 🤯 Like I was putting in sooo many generators when i could have just put those us and connected them. 😫
New to the fallout series, only problem I had was understanding the different things about settlements. This really helped and saved me a lot of time :D
a nice thing i found for building on uneven ground, in the floor section for wood structures is a foundation. you can place it in the ground and have a nice flat floor whereever you want. eats up ALOT of concrete tho
Protip. It is a cheat, but you can build stairs to the sky, attach a shack floor up there, put turrets on said floor, and then come down and remove the stairs if you want. you now have floating gun platforms in the sky that can shoot all around. You can do the same to build buildings in the sky.
I really appreciate your tutorial videos. I've pretty much just started playing the game but have already messed up a lot in terms of settlement building and management. Your videos have been very helpful in this respect. I'm going to start a new play through but I might have waited much longer before I realized what I was doing wrong had it not been for your videos. Thanks a lot for sharing, I hope you'll keep up your awesome work.
Maybe also one thing worth mentioning is that the extra crops/water that are over the number of settlers in that town goes into the workbench If you have the leadership perk with touts set up - the extra food can feed other settlements. If you have a town with access to water, set up large water pumps, to generate lots of rad free water = nice item to sell, also carrying some extra healing in the field, to save stimpacks.
I was always confused with power generators, and conduits, and wires, but that one tip he said which was to attach a conduit outside the house and add a light helped so much 😂 thanks JV.
About the radio frequency giving settlements : You need to take back the Castle of the Minutemen through the quest that Preston will give you. You just have to keep clearing his quests until he proposes it to you. Then after the Castle is took, just activate the radio transmitter in it.
(You should do an introductory video that's more basic. I'm specifically wanting an intro tutorial, because I just started playing the game & got the Minutemen at Sanctuary. How do I get concrete, & all of the supplies needed for that first settlement? As well, I like that platform on top of that first building: You should show people how you did that, because that's cool. Show us the ropes, man. Thanks!)
(As well, where do I find Corn & Tatos? Where do I find Brahmin? ((Tell people about the necessity to invest in Intelligence so that they can get Screws. etc.)) )
I've had Fallout 4 for nearly 10 years, before I even had a PS4 to play it on. And I've still not started it. This guide is a great start to encouraging me to play for the settlement aspect only. Although I imagine I'll still need to play the first person survival game to get what I need...
Thanks dude. I feel like an idiot after watching your videos because for me who is just a casual gamer I found this game to much but with your help in slowly coming along.
Once you get the hang of it, it gets SUPER addicting. Especially if you do the resource duplication glitch like me and get all the resources you could ever need 😆
I built a junk fence all around Sanctuary Hill's boarders. However it's not so good as I thought. Attackers are able to open the gate so make sure to build "traps" in front and/or behinde them. However you can better dictate where they will attack and plan your defends accordingly. Also but I'm not 100% sure... If you build the magazine rack and bubblehead stand and put the bubbleheads and magazines in them it will rise happiness for your settlement. Got 70% happy in Sanctuary now. Also and this is for sure. Building fences around food resources makes them happy.
+dribrom PS: Also heard from a friend just now that if you have some extra power armors in your settlements your settlers can use them during an attack. Something to keep in mind when planing your defense.
No they can attack from any directions. I only seen them trying to attack where I have my gates. I have two one at the bridge and on the path up to vault 111. But they have tried to attack from that direction as well. Maybe if you only have a gate at the bridge you only get attacks there.
+dribrom have you noticed any attackers spawning inside your walls? I've heard this can happen. +CptGameMaster I've been attacked twice, once from the east, and once from all directions but the bridge. Never been attacked via the bridge.
Thanks for the tips, building settlements are really frustrating. In your advanced settlement video, would love to see further explanation about lighting. I've got a building where the lights light up half the building, but lamps don't work at all. Conduits and switches and generators and their requirements are really confusing and I can't find a straight forward explanation anywhere. I think it would be pretty cool to put up a video of you building a complete structure in real time. Thanks for vids, they're really helping!
This guide really helped me with my settlement now I can beat all of those raiders and last all those radiation storms! Thanks JV2017gameplay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i like this video it is very nice you covered all basic stuff, maybe later when you explore the wasteland will you make video about settlements too but what is best location for settlements and why. just to mention again you make great videos. :)
+Brock Hood It varies depending on the location. I recall being able to build pretty high in Sanctuary, but having a fairly low ceiling in Hangman's Alley.
In Sanctuary, you can only build 5 storeys from the ground. i am not sure about other settlements. The height limit is (probably) where u cant place anymore stairs even though it can connect to the next stairs or floor etc.
+Brock Hood Yes, but it varies greatly from settlement to settlement. It seems related to the highest building in the settlement. You can build to the moon in Kingsport Lighthouse (lighthouse), Graygarden (up to freeway) or Sunshine Tidings (Silo height) for example.
Hey, I was hoping that you could give more info on traps? Been playing for quite a while now, but still can't understand those buggers well enough - where should I place them, how they function, etc. Also you didn't mention anything about the size of the settlement - it's not like it's very difficult to understand (you build more - size bar goes yellow, if it goes red I presume you can't build anymore supposedly), but I am not entirely sure if I am might be missing something there. Thanks!
Hey man I'm new to your channel and loved the video. I was confused as to how to get power to your house and that conduit bit helped a lot! In your advanced guide, can you go more in depth with the energy system?
Since you asked if you got something wrong, if I'm not mistaken, a settler can look after 6 units worth of food. for example: the tato plant provides 0.5 food, so a settler can look after 12 tato plants.
Should I stop making settlements if I don't want to keep defending them? Can I do that? There isn't near enough concrete (for water) or oil (for turrets).
Has anyone ever tried crop boxes? Or does the game not allow you to build a box and put dirt in it and grow crops in that? I mean the game mechanics says that the crops have to grow in dirt.
power to wireless electronics (lights, tvs, etc.) work on distance from a pylon.the best trick i learned was to wrap the pylons and wire to circumvent the house. if you have multiple floors it might behoove you to wrap each floor.
I'm on my first playthrough. I'm doing well enough with the settlements, but I'm sure I will do a better job in the next playthrough. I messed a lot when trying to power up Sancuary to begin with. All that copper...
You know your workshops don't connect between bases. So what I do is leave all the junk in my main base and when I need to fix another settlement I take it all with me. So my materials aren't spread out and I don't need to salvage anything.
normally when setting up a garden on a settlement...i have a goal in mind...one of the rarest items in game is adhesive...which is needed to craft just about everything weapon or armor related...so i set up my garden with mutfruit, tatos, and corn...the other ingredient is purified water which can be had by putting in pumps, (as you mentioned here and in other videos as well), the ratio i concentrate on three mutfruit plants...which takes up three food slots...six tatos, and six corn for one settler to start with...with two hand crank type pumps that will give you the ability to craft vegetable starch, which equates to five adhesive per unit...still haven't figured out what melons are for...i'll remove up to three carrots and three corn to replace them with three gourds and three carrots...if you plant all of the items at once and assign a settler to one of the items...typically they will take all of them...but sometimes it's good to check...i like keeping it some sort of order so it's easier to track which settler is doing what...trying to set up something like that with the robots in gray garden is a nightmare...so typically i leave them alone to do their thing.
awesome vid on settlements u cleared up alot of questions 30 locations! thats double from speculation. definitely excited about #Fallout4 great live stream as well
Is there a way to send all settlers (including the non-generic ones like Preston) to the same settlement? I don't want to invest time and effort building defences and resources everywhere. Would rather just send everyone to the castle.
Mutfruit produce 1 food taking almost no space but a settler can only hand 6 mutfruit crops You can make floating building taking down the stair that lead to those building this is useful for setting turrets since they will have a 360º view of the settlement You can make settlements with lots of water production and make the settlements trade those resources between them saving some trouble making a sattlements produce all the food or water you need and protect only this settlement You can extend the range of the artyllery by placing artillery in new settlements after the old guns quest
+GentlemanGeniusRailman in defense is great building at max height in the center of your base will counter most attacks without spending a single bullet but yes its not immersive or pretty
GentlemanGeniusRailman I tend to think of this kind of things like 3 settlers are enough to feed and protect 6 settlers with that you can have 6 settler working on scavaging or selling per settlement i have in my gameplay like 20 settlements each with 12 settlers cuz i didnt expend nothing on charisma making 120 people scavaging resources is pretty useful early on after i got x-01 full upgraded suit 120 can defend 720 units of water for healing purpose now if you destroy every thing not useful and spread tons of missile turret you can produce tons and tons of water... but thats my gameplay i find fun in searching glitches and producing far more resources than the commonwealth will ever need
+Marcelo Bento If you like a floating turret platform/building, try removing the platform itself. You are left with floating turrets. Really clear line of sight everywhere.
Mighty helpful. Originally I just wanted to live at red rocket bc everything seemed to complex but now I feel like I can make a goddamn adhesive farm! Thanks for the great Content!
First off JV2017, great videos. They're very helpful and very well done. A note on supply lines for people. I had a problem completing a quest at the Starlight Drive-in because I couldn't find the settler I had to talk to. It turns out he was the one I had assigned to a supply line. All I had to do was wait for him to come back from a supply line and I was able to complete the quest, but it was a little frustrating until I figured out what the problem was. PS Feed the haters, it gives you more views. LOL if they hate'in, they view'in.
@@Ryan-rh8rn I stopped playing FO4 all together. I just don’t like it. I spent 23 hours trying to get into it and I just can’t. Settlement building is absolutely dogsh*t and the game just gets boring fast for me. I can’t get a refund so I just bought The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt instead and deleted FO4. I hear the Witcher 3 is a great game but haven’t tried it yet. Have you played it?
@@hzmicide1738 ok, ok, to each his own. No, I eyeballed it but haven't tried it. I was worried it'd be a disappointment compared to the show. RN I play Fallout 4 (level 99 rn), Gears of War 4, (took a break from CoD MW2), and I downloaded FEAR 2 (old game, but really fun with jump scares) and I'm currently playing through Diablo 3 on the Switch.
@@Ryan-rh8rn Oh that’s cool. The game is actually much better than the show according to most fans. I haven’t experienced either. I also have FEAR 2 but remember playing FEAR 1. FEAR 1 was the best out of all of them. I just can’t get it on Xbox or PS4. It’s only available on Steam and I don’t have a PC unfortunately but used to and that’s how I played 1. That game was badass.
advanced settlement defense video plz. Wall + turret placement. I've just got a load of turrets along my perimeter and loads scattered along the roofs of houses. Works great and fending stuff off once they get in, but the ones around the perimeter take damage easily. I really want to see how others are doing it.
You unlock radio freedom by a minute man mission where you take a fortress. Though during that mission you fight a mirelurk queen so make sure to bring some firepower
I beat her with just a pipe rifle and clever use of those bricked up windows with holes in them. If you find a certain one, she can't even spray you with acid. Only thing you have to look out for are her hatchlings.
yeah I started with sanctuary, haven't grown it much but I have a metal wall around 99% of the settlement and the only gap in the wall is at the road to red rocket and well guarded, with the addition of wasteland workshop there are two side doors that requires power to open, Just saw your caps from purified water so I may add another side door.
+JV2017gameplay one tip. If you have 10 water and 10 food, it is good idea to have 21 defense. If your combined resources is less than your defense, your chance to get attacked is even much less than equal to amount of settlers.
back when the franchise was still innovative and the content creators made quality. 6 years later this game is still great but wtf is bethesda doing? good upload even helpful years later. thanks
I have a rather large settlement in sanctuary has like 13 or 14 Ppl and a happiness of 85ish. one thing I would like to add and it may have been mentioned. you don't have to assign a settler to all food if u assign them to one food they will take it upon themselves to take on what they can.
If you give a settler just one 5mm round they will have unlimited ammo for any gun since ammo is hard to come by, but this does not work for the companions, only settlers
Okay, I'm still new and want to be clear on this: 1) does this still work now? 2) What is different between settlers and companions? I'm guessing the former is anyone at the settlement and the latter is those who you have accompany you wherever you go
I'm gonna start messing with settlements, this most recent game I've made sure that they have enough of the basics and then I basically take all the junk I can and keep it in one spot. mostly bacause I don't care about being Charismatic, I give myself enough charisma to get lone wanderer and not worry about it.
Just got into this game a few days ago and am not sure what you are talking about. What are settlements? What purposes do they serve? Are they just a place to dump gear additional gear and equipment? Was hoping for a slightly more basic video and am not sure about half the things you mentioned.
Would you recommend to instantly get into settlements once you unlock Sanctuary. Do you have already enough resources to supply the demand after scrapping everything?
The only settlements I actually use are Sanctuary and the Castle, but I'm thinking of settling on Spectacle Island. The rest I just use for supply lines. Also, question: Lets say I have 6 charisma and 16 settlers in my settlement, the max for that rank. If I use a helmet or something to raise my charisma by 1 and I send a settler to the settlement, will that 17th settler stay if I take that helmet off?
I run 8 charisma with 6 extra from clothing, 24 settlers minimum in every settlement (my castle & sanctuary are closer to 40). No one leaves when i lose the buff.
JV, I have a Fallout 4 question. I saw some of your structures that you built in Sanctuary. How did you get your walls to line up with the floor? I am having trouble in this area. I built an extra space above one of my houses and the floor and the walls have about a two inch gap between them. You can see right through the rooms.
I have a video of one of my settlements getting attacked by a few mirelurk queens I was like wow. Good thing i had the defense at over 150 missile and heavy laser turrets, all powered by fusion reactor.
+JV2017gameplay I watched your video and as a suggestion to your next video you should include buying shipments from vendors and the comic book that actually gives you new things to build. also when you have a water purifier it deposits purified water into your workshop so if your running low on stimpaks or just want to make caps those are there.
My main settlement is the castle and I have fortified it so there are still attacks (so I can loot the attackers corpses) but the moment the attack starts, the attackers die. This is because the side where they attack is completely walled off with tons of turrets all around. The attackers would have to go all the way around to the opposite side to even see the only entrance, but they always die in moments. I know this happens because when an attack starts, the settlers have their guns in their hands the whole time, but for me they draw their guns and 2 seconds later they put it away and say how they fought of the attackers.
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(Tip). do not leave your power armor with a power core in it the setters will hop in it and fight if your settlement goes under attack
That sounds super cool though
@@thenacho6354 I just remember coming back and thinking where TF is my power armor? and then I saw a settler walking about it
@@oliver4693 😂😂😂 Ikr it hurts just like seeing someone drive you car without your permission.
Really? I decided to leave my power suit at Sanctuary just because I knew from playing 5 years ago that you can get low on fusion cores. I haven't had too many situations where it helps to have it on. Only if I'm fighting Super Mutants. That would be pretty cool to see them using it. Does it use up the fusion core in it though?
I literally had to kill an entire settlement to get my suit back
I went for the Trump option. Built a wall/fence around my settlements. Never had a raid or mutant attack.
That's why castle is the best
I haven't been attacked once after 6 full days of play time
Making your settlement great again huh
Did you make the raiders pay for it?
Get it?
I done the same and made the ghouls pay for it
Something to note about this game is that a settlement does not necessarily need to produce its own food/water if another settlement has a surplus. Just connect them by a supply line and your happiness at a given settlement will increase regardless of lack of independent food/water production.
How do you connect the supply line?
@@chloeflores8043 Unlock the local leader perk in the charisma category and then go to one of the settlements you’d like to connect. Edit your workshop and walk up to a settler and it will give you an option to assign them to a supply run.
It took me awhile to understand about building settlements, I got so many settlement that its kind of hard to keep track of which one to protect when they are being attack especially when you're free roaming. It's better to build defense for one settlement and making sure everyone is doing their part before opening up another settlement. I found out the hard way. I've used up so many resource. One of my settlement is only for power armor, which I have about 7, not sure how many are out there. I've Minecraft the shit out of Fallout 4.
A few notes to add to this excellent guide:
You can store placable items, instead of scrapping. To do so, look at the object and press TAB (The button used to bring up the pipboy) and you can store the item. When you try to place that item, it will take it from storage instead of building new ones. This is useful when running electricity.
Unassigned settlers will automatically work the farms.
You can change any of your settlers gear by giving it to them via trade and highlighting the item and pressing T. (not sure what it is on consoles)
Items with a yellow highlight are generally junk that cannot be relocated or stored. Mostly used for scrapping.
Every static item, including trees, tires, fences, and other junk all count to your build limit - this includes all the white picket fences in Sanctuary.
Stores improve your settlers happiness, and give you means to buy and sell gear, but must have a settler assigned to them to function.
If you store your power armor in settlements, make sure you take out the fusion cores when not in use. Settlers (and even raiders) will jump in the suits when in combat.
Quick question, I'm unsure if it's covered in the video, but how do you retrieve said stored item?
+Mhn Five I ask because after storing a generator and trying to place another one down, it still tells me I lack the materials to build one.
Mhn Five Are you trying to place a stored generator in another settlement? Usually, you place down stored items before you have to make them.
Nope. Same settlement. Just trying to move it to a better location.
I'm not sure what could be happening, unless this is some sort of bug. Do you see a number under the bottom icon when you select the generator? Do any of the generators show a number? If there is no number, that means no items are stored. Maybe the item was accidentally salvaged instead?
After looking at a dozen videos, I finally found the one I wanted. You see, I had no idea how to recruit settlers. All the building and salvaging is moot without settlers. Thanks for this very basic intro. I can now proceed with a plan that will actually accomplish something.
Really? You must not have done Concord. Preston will get you to build a recruitment beacon in Sanctuary Hills.
@@somebloke3869 That's correct, I didn't do Concord. It felt too much like I was being led around by the ring in my nose, so I chose a different direction.
@@kimghanson yeah, that's true. The first part is a bit like a tutorial. I also like to open up a lot of settlements myself so I don't have to put a recruitment beacon in them. So I hold off rescuing the minutemen.
I wish you could make your settlement bigger by taking land. but the bigger your settlements territory the more likely you are to get raided
good video dude. 1 thing I do is soon as I get a new settlement, I take like half an hour and just scrap everything in the area. even the trees. it gives you alot more to work with when you start building
+JV2017gameplay you can scrap the mailboxes too you know, or do you get new loot in them from time to time as in FO3?
+Christian Bruvah I have checked every mail box I seen in the game so far... Every one has been empty. However if you scrap a container the items in it will end up in your workshop item list. Not sure how it is with locked containers like a safe. Noticed that after have scraped a few bathroom mirrors.
+dribrom Safes work too ;)
+HooseOfTheMoose It's worth noting that all the junk, including the trees, contribute to your size limit when building. I junked all those white fences in Sanctuary and freed up a lot of space.
+HooseOfTheMoose you can also pick up items outside the limits carrying it in front of you into the settlement area and then use the workshop function to scrap.
I learned more about settlements from your video than anything Bethesda tried to instruct in-game. I had no idea scraping something I didn't use also didn't return the materials that was used to create it. I also had no idea how to put power in a house or how the water purifier worked.
this was frustrating for me though. the roof doesn't connect to anything wall I put up, I couldn't put a roof on anything so I scrapped it all and used prefab. then I put a windmill up, didn't like it, scrapped it. made lights, didn't like it, scrapped it. made a generator, too small, scrapped it. I wasted so much.
But, I can say I don't really feel like doing settlements. Can you imagine being a manager IRL and then play a game and have to manage that? It's stress I don't want.
I'll do settlements if a quest requires it, but I have no interest in "doing it well"
thank you for this great video though
Mutfruit is a good crop, since it produces 1 food when other crops only produce .5
If you plant enough of them to feed everyone, if I plant more crops will they feed off of them or say the corn I'm trying to farm?
@@chrismyers4750 What they eat and what they produce as surplus is a mystery. For me it almost seems random. In one playthrough Red Rocket has tatos, carrots and corn. But always has a corn surplus. I don't know why it chose that, but I'm happy.
Not always an option early, but the best way seems to be going with monoculture farming. Plant only one type of crop in each settlement.
@@christopherconard2831 OK I was trying to plant enough mutfruit to feed then and have the extra used for making items
@@chrismyers4750 hard to say really. What the settlers eat seems to be random. I usually plant the three Staples...tatos, corn, and mutfruit. Each settlement seems to have it's own tastes as the excess crops are usually different at each workbench storage area.
3 each tatos, corn and mutfruit for each farmer. Harvest the food yourself to make vegetable starch at a cooking station.
I've explored the Settlement part of Fallout 4 ALOT. I learned that you connect farms to other settlements and if the farms produce more than the people require it can feed the other l settlements as well. This really helped with Starlight Drive-in because of the lack of dirt there. Plus it made it to where I could focus heavily on my defenses and scavenging in my main settlements. I made the castle and starlight drive-in my main hubs for the supply chain. I would move settlers from the main settlements to the farms and bases to set up supply chains that connect to each settlement. I noticed that the longer the supply line you can go for a time without the united supplies, and the supply line can be at risk. My favorite settlement that was actually a pain to get to was the Island, the entire island is your play ground to build crap. It's pretty great.
stack the houses and clear out as much as possible. clear view makes or easy to defend stacked homes, each floor serving a purpose. use the ground for food, turrets and water.
ignore all the keyboard warriors man. loving your content. informative, well edited and interesting. Thank you for posting and I agree with you, you are the number 1 hub for Fallout 4
Keep on doing what you are doing mate. It's a great game with loads more to discover and you are doing a great job in showing off the games good points. I'm sure a lot of gamers like me enjoy seeing just how much content the game has to offer us. Ignore the haters, one enthusiastic subscriber and one like is worth ten negative comments
+JV2017gameplay BTW, to get Radio Freedom, you must get the castle (I think the minutemen way too, but idk). Yes, there is a radio you just have to unlock it. (Also you can kill the settlers there and get a settlement)
Clocked in 150 hours before I found out you can attach light bulbs to wires. >_
Mind blown...
Maaan those wall converters were the ones that blew my mind. 🤯 Like I was putting in sooo many generators when i could have just put those us and connected them. 😫
How!??
New to the fallout series, only problem I had was understanding the different things about settlements. This really helped and saved me a lot of time :D
Just realized I watched 6 of your videos in a row and found all of them helpful and informative. Gained another sub =) Keep it up bro!
a nice thing i found for building on uneven ground, in the floor section for wood structures is a foundation. you can place it in the ground and have a nice flat floor whereever you want. eats up ALOT of concrete tho
can't believe its been 8 years already...
I vividly remember watching all of your videos back when Fallout 4 launched.
I've put over 24 hours in the game. Prolly close to 40 and this video helped tremendously.
Protip. It is a cheat, but you can build stairs to the sky, attach a shack floor up there, put turrets on said floor, and then come down and remove the stairs if you want. you now have floating gun platforms in the sky that can shoot all around. You can do the same to build buildings in the sky.
I really appreciate your tutorial videos. I've pretty much just started playing the game but have already messed up a lot in terms of settlement building and management. Your videos have been very helpful in this respect. I'm going to start a new play through but I might have waited much longer before I realized what I was doing wrong had it not been for your videos.
Thanks a lot for sharing, I hope you'll keep up your awesome work.
Maybe also one thing worth mentioning is that the extra crops/water that are over the number of settlers in that town goes into the workbench
If you have the leadership perk with touts set up - the extra food can feed other settlements.
If you have a town with access to water, set up large water pumps, to generate lots of rad free water = nice item to sell, also carrying some extra healing in the field, to save stimpacks.
Note : with pumps or purifiers you will receive purified water in your workshops. (Look for it)
Very basic and good instruction video on how to raise settlements. I did not know that you could assign a settler to more than just one at a time.
I was always confused with power generators, and conduits, and wires, but that one tip he said which was to attach a conduit outside the house and add a light helped so much 😂 thanks JV.
About the radio frequency giving settlements :
You need to take back the Castle of the Minutemen through the quest that Preston will give you. You just have to keep clearing his quests until he proposes it to you. Then after the Castle is took, just activate the radio transmitter in it.
Can you clear it early to shut him up? Preston seems to be really annoying, so I might not want to deal with him much.
Nice guide bro, I learned more from this single video then all the others together that ive watched :)
(You should do an introductory video that's more basic. I'm specifically wanting an intro tutorial, because I just started playing the game & got the Minutemen at Sanctuary. How do I get concrete, & all of the supplies needed for that first settlement? As well, I like that platform on top of that first building: You should show people how you did that, because that's cool. Show us the ropes, man. Thanks!)
(As well, where do I find Corn & Tatos? Where do I find Brahmin? ((Tell people about the necessity to invest in Intelligence so that they can get Screws. etc.)) )
6 months later, you got it figured out? Still playing?
I've had Fallout 4 for nearly 10 years, before I even had a PS4 to play it on. And I've still not started it. This guide is a great start to encouraging me to play for the settlement aspect only. Although I imagine I'll still need to play the first person survival game to get what I need...
anybody else think they should have ladders
Bethesda know what we want, they just don't add it
@@nmelody4414 yeah like spears in the elder scrolls.
They didn’t add them because ladders for npcs are hard to do
Funnily enough, today I saw a notification on my phone about some game journalist website making a joke about someone 'finally' making a mod for it.
Your videos have been helpful in fine tuning my settlement management.
Thank you for posting them!
Thanks dude. I feel like an idiot after watching your videos because for me who is just a casual gamer I found this game to much but with your help in slowly coming along.
Really helpful, clear and concise. Great production work too, thanks a lot!
I have never been good at settlement building so i normally don't join the minutemen but i am going to give it a try.
Once you get the hang of it, it gets SUPER addicting. Especially if you do the resource duplication glitch like me and get all the resources you could ever need 😆
Finally diving into settlements. Thanks for the tips.
Back to being an adult but thanks for the vid very informative. Can't wait for the advanced settlement guide.
You say tato, I say tato
+Armourtime Let's call the whole shit off.
Tato
Potato + Tomato = Tato :D
+G-day mate But what about the ta?!?
+Kevin Alford you cant read
Oh thank you for your video. You made this several years ago, but I am just now discovering Fall out game. Thanks.
I built a junk fence all around Sanctuary Hill's boarders. However it's not so good as I thought. Attackers are able to open the gate so make sure to build "traps" in front and/or behinde them. However you can better dictate where they will attack and plan your defends accordingly. Also but I'm not 100% sure... If you build the magazine rack and bubblehead stand and put the bubbleheads and magazines in them it will rise happiness for your settlement. Got 70% happy in Sanctuary now. Also and this is for sure. Building fences around food resources makes them happy.
+dribrom PS: Also heard from a friend just now that if you have some extra power armors in your settlements your settlers can use them during an attack. Something to keep in mind when planing your defense.
+dribrom Do the attackers always come from the bridge? Also, can't you just replace the gate with a solid fence when you are anticipating an attack?
No they can attack from any directions. I only seen them trying to attack where I have my gates. I have two one at the bridge and on the path up to vault 111. But they have tried to attack from that direction as well. Maybe if you only have a gate at the bridge you only get attacks there.
+dribrom have you noticed any attackers spawning inside your walls? I've heard this can happen.
+CptGameMaster I've been attacked twice, once from the east, and once from all directions but the bridge. Never been attacked via the bridge.
At castle I covered one opening and the other I just put a fence and a turret
Thanks for the tips, building settlements are really frustrating. In your advanced settlement video, would love to see further explanation about lighting. I've got a building where the lights light up half the building, but lamps don't work at all. Conduits and switches and generators and their requirements are really confusing and I can't find a straight forward explanation anywhere. I think it would be pretty cool to put up a video of you building a complete structure in real time. Thanks for vids, they're really helping!
This guide really helped me with my settlement now I can beat all of those raiders and last all those radiation storms! Thanks JV2017gameplay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the house-conduit info. Had no idea
i like this video it is very nice you covered all basic stuff, maybe later when you explore the wasteland will you make video about settlements too but what is best location for settlements and why. just to mention again you make great videos. :)
So is there a height limit on how high i can build? can i make scrappy sky scrapers?
+Brock Hood Yeah there is a height limit, if you haven't figured it out already.
+Brock Hood It varies depending on the location. I recall being able to build pretty high in Sanctuary, but having a fairly low ceiling in Hangman's Alley.
In Sanctuary, you can only build 5 storeys from the ground. i am not sure about other settlements. The height limit is (probably) where u cant place anymore stairs even though it can connect to the next stairs or floor etc.
+Brock Hood Yes, but it varies greatly from settlement to settlement. It seems related to the highest building in the settlement. You can build to the moon in Kingsport Lighthouse (lighthouse), Graygarden (up to freeway) or Sunshine Tidings (Silo height) for example.
Very nice job. When I started playing I restarted every couple days as it took time to understand; especially power setup.
Hey, I was hoping that you could give more info on traps? Been playing for quite a while now, but still can't understand those buggers well enough - where should I place them, how they function, etc.
Also you didn't mention anything about the size of the settlement - it's not like it's very difficult to understand (you build more - size bar goes yellow, if it goes red I presume you can't build anymore supposedly), but I am not entirely sure if I am might be missing something there. Thanks!
Hey man I'm new to your channel and loved the video. I was confused as to how to get power to your house and that conduit bit helped a lot! In your advanced guide, can you go more in depth with the energy system?
Since you asked if you got something wrong, if I'm not mistaken, a settler can look after 6 units worth of food. for example: the tato plant provides 0.5 food, so a settler can look after 12 tato plants.
You can assign beds to settlers like you do jobs so you can "organize" your settlement in an RP style better
Thank you for this guide. I was super lost when I found the home
Good beginner's guide. Thank you for posting.
Should I stop making settlements if I don't want to keep defending them? Can I do that? There isn't near enough concrete (for water) or oil (for turrets).
You can do that. If you choose. However if you do the duplication glitch for resources, you need never again worry about lacking resources.
thank you so much I was stuck on a quest cause I didn't know there was a button to attach wires for power
Has anyone ever tried crop boxes? Or does the game not allow you to build a box and put dirt in it and grow crops in that? I mean the game mechanics says that the crops have to grow in dirt.
I haven't seen that option. Not sure if that's a thing you can do.
Radio freedom provides updates on your settlements, you need to get the Minutemen into the castle for it to work
power to wireless electronics (lights, tvs, etc.) work on distance from a pylon.the best trick i learned was to wrap the pylons and wire to circumvent the house. if you have multiple floors it might behoove you to wrap each floor.
I'm on my first playthrough. I'm doing well enough with the settlements, but I'm sure I will do a better job in the next playthrough. I messed a lot when trying to power up Sancuary to begin with. All that copper...
I love youtube. Here i am 4 years later. Bro u saved me alot of time.
You know your workshops don't connect between bases. So what I do is leave all the junk in my main base and when I need to fix another settlement I take it all with me. So my materials aren't spread out and I don't need to salvage anything.
Happy to see you've got some haters!! That means you're doing what they wish they could! Keep it up, subbed.
You're very good at this JV, and I can tell that you put a lot of work in before you make the video. Pro-level stuff. Thank you.
growing food can improve adhesive, if you go to a cooking station you can make food starch. making adhesive.
normally when setting up a garden on a settlement...i have a goal in mind...one of the rarest items in game is adhesive...which is needed to craft just about everything weapon or armor related...so i set up my garden with mutfruit, tatos, and corn...the other ingredient is purified water which can be had by putting in pumps, (as you mentioned here and in other videos as well), the ratio i concentrate on three mutfruit plants...which takes up three food slots...six tatos, and six corn for one settler to start with...with two hand crank type pumps that will give you the ability to craft vegetable starch, which equates to five adhesive per unit...still haven't figured out what melons are for...i'll remove up to three carrots and three corn to replace them with three gourds and three carrots...if you plant all of the items at once and assign a settler to one of the items...typically they will take all of them...but sometimes it's good to check...i like keeping it some sort of order so it's easier to track which settler is doing what...trying to set up something like that with the robots in gray garden is a nightmare...so typically i leave them alone to do their thing.
Indeed I struggled a lot until I found out about vegetable starch. Adhesive is so needed and relatively rare
awesome vid on settlements u cleared up alot of questions 30 locations! thats double from speculation. definitely excited about #Fallout4 great live stream as well
Started a new game with the latest update an trying out the settlement build looked fun last time ready to dive in this round
Is there a way to send all settlers (including the non-generic ones like Preston) to the same settlement? I don't want to invest time and effort building defences and resources everywhere. Would rather just send everyone to the castle.
Mutfruit produce 1 food taking almost no space but a settler can only hand 6 mutfruit crops
You can make floating building taking down the stair that lead to those building this is useful for setting turrets since they will have a 360º view of the settlement
You can make settlements with lots of water production and make the settlements trade those resources between them saving some trouble making a sattlements produce all the food or water you need and protect only this settlement
You can extend the range of the artyllery by placing artillery in new settlements after the old guns quest
+Marcelo Bento It's not really very immersive having a floating platform in the middle of your settlement.
+GentlemanGeniusRailman in defense is great building at max height in the center of your base will counter most attacks without spending a single bullet but yes its not immersive or pretty
GentlemanGeniusRailman
I tend to think of this kind of things like 3 settlers are enough to feed and protect 6 settlers with that you can have 6 settler working on scavaging or selling per settlement i have in my gameplay like 20 settlements each with 12 settlers cuz i didnt expend nothing on charisma making 120 people scavaging resources is pretty useful early on after i got x-01 full upgraded suit 120 can defend 720 units of water for healing purpose now if you destroy every thing not useful and spread tons of missile turret you can produce tons and tons of water... but thats my gameplay i find fun in searching glitches and producing far more resources than the commonwealth will ever need
+Marcelo Bento
If you like a floating turret platform/building, try removing the platform itself. You are left with floating turrets. Really clear line of sight everywhere.
i noticed that like 3days after posting this
Mighty helpful. Originally I just wanted to live at red rocket bc everything seemed to complex but now I feel like I can make a goddamn adhesive farm! Thanks for the great Content!
Use Mutfruit over any other crop. They produce 1 food, while everything else produces 0.5 food.
First off JV2017, great videos. They're very helpful and very well done. A note on supply lines for people. I had a problem completing a quest at the Starlight Drive-in because I couldn't find the settler I had to talk to. It turns out he was the one I had assigned to a supply line. All I had to do was wait for him to come back from a supply line and I was able to complete the quest, but it was a little frustrating until I figured out what the problem was. PS Feed the haters, it gives you more views. LOL if they hate'in, they view'in.
I've managed to run my entire settlement of Sanctuary using one fusion generator. Just takes a long wiring system of large pylons and conduits.
Man, I went through all your fallout 4 content expecting a follow up (advanced) building video.
To get radio freedom station the one that gives you updates on your settlements you need to complete the castle quest
I’ve decided to just have a single settlement and move all the people from other settlements to it.
How's that working out as far as Settlement Happiness and management?
@@Ryan-rh8rn I stopped playing FO4 all together. I just don’t like it. I spent 23 hours trying to get into it and I just can’t. Settlement building is absolutely dogsh*t and the game just gets boring fast for me. I can’t get a refund so I just bought The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt instead and deleted FO4. I hear the Witcher 3 is a great game but haven’t tried it yet. Have you played it?
@@hzmicide1738 ok, ok, to each his own. No, I eyeballed it but haven't tried it. I was worried it'd be a disappointment compared to the show.
RN I play Fallout 4 (level 99 rn), Gears of War 4, (took a break from CoD MW2), and I downloaded FEAR 2 (old game, but really fun with jump scares) and I'm currently playing through Diablo 3 on the Switch.
@@Ryan-rh8rn Oh that’s cool. The game is actually much better than the show according to most fans. I haven’t experienced either. I also have FEAR 2 but remember playing FEAR 1. FEAR 1 was the best out of all of them. I just can’t get it on Xbox or PS4. It’s only available on Steam and I don’t have a PC unfortunately but used to and that’s how I played 1. That game was badass.
Great video. Nice work
advanced settlement defense video plz. Wall + turret placement. I've just got a load of turrets along my perimeter and loads scattered along the roofs of houses. Works great and fending stuff off once they get in, but the ones around the perimeter take damage easily. I really want to see how others are doing it.
You unlock radio freedom by a minute man mission where you take a fortress. Though during that mission you fight a mirelurk queen so make sure to bring some firepower
I beat her with just a pipe rifle and clever use of those bricked up windows with holes in them. If you find a certain one, she can't even spray you with acid. Only thing you have to look out for are her hatchlings.
Yoooooo that house build is sick!
yeah I started with sanctuary, haven't grown it much but I have a metal wall around 99% of the settlement and the only gap in the wall is at the road to red rocket and well guarded, with the addition of wasteland workshop there are two side doors that requires power to open, Just saw your caps from purified water so I may add another side door.
had to strip every ounce of metal from sanctuary to put the wall around it.
did you make the mexicans pay for it?
I like the way it says this resource is assigned it makes it looks like the people are just tools
Did you ever come up with a more In-depth video on settlement building. I'd like to get better at building at settlements.
Awesome video man, this was immensely helpful =)
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+JV2017gameplay one tip. If you have 10 water and 10 food, it is good idea to have 21 defense. If your combined resources is less than your defense, your chance to get attacked is even much less than equal to amount of settlers.
back when the franchise was still innovative and the content creators made quality. 6 years later this game is still great but wtf is bethesda doing? good upload even helpful years later. thanks
Such a useful video, thanks man 😊
I have a rather large settlement in sanctuary has like 13 or 14 Ppl and a happiness of 85ish. one thing I would like to add and it may have been mentioned. you don't have to assign a settler to all food if u assign them to one food they will take it upon themselves to take on what they can.
This video really helped me, thanks!
If you give a settler just one 5mm round they will have unlimited ammo for any gun since ammo is hard to come by, but this does not work for the companions, only settlers
Okay, I'm still new and want to be clear on this: 1) does this still work now? 2) What is different between settlers and companions? I'm guessing the former is anyone at the settlement and the latter is those who you have accompany you wherever you go
I'm gonna start messing with settlements, this most recent game I've made sure that they have enough of the basics and then I basically take all the junk I can and keep it in one spot. mostly bacause I don't care about being Charismatic, I give myself enough charisma to get lone wanderer and not worry about it.
Just got into this game a few days ago and am not sure what you are talking about. What are settlements? What purposes do they serve? Are they just a place to dump gear additional gear and equipment? Was hoping for a slightly more basic video and am not sure about half the things you mentioned.
Would you recommend to instantly get into settlements once you unlock Sanctuary. Do you have already enough resources to supply the demand after scrapping everything?
The only settlements I actually use are Sanctuary and the Castle, but I'm thinking of settling on Spectacle Island. The rest I just use for supply lines.
Also, question: Lets say I have 6 charisma and 16 settlers in my settlement, the max for that rank. If I use a helmet or something to raise my charisma by 1 and I send a settler to the settlement, will that 17th settler stay if I take that helmet off?
From what I know the settler won't stay.
+ItsTyTheNinjaGuy beer
I run 8 charisma with 6 extra from clothing, 24 settlers minimum in every settlement (my castle & sanctuary are closer to 40). No one leaves when i lose the buff.
JV, I have a Fallout 4 question. I saw some of your structures that you built in Sanctuary. How did you get your walls to line up with the floor? I am having trouble in this area. I built an extra space above one of my houses and the floor and the walls have about a two inch gap between them. You can see right through the rooms.
I have a video of one of my settlements getting attacked by a few mirelurk queens I was like wow. Good thing i had the defense at over 150 missile and heavy laser turrets, all powered by fusion reactor.
+JV2017gameplay I watched your video and as a suggestion to your next video you should include buying shipments from vendors and the comic book that actually gives you new things to build. also when you have a water purifier it deposits purified water into your workshop so if your running low on stimpaks or just want to make caps those are there.
Thanks dude I'll deco be using it more now
My main settlement is the castle and I have fortified it so there are still attacks (so I can loot the attackers corpses) but the moment the attack starts, the attackers die. This is because the side where they attack is completely walled off with tons of turrets all around. The attackers would have to go all the way around to the opposite side to even see the only entrance, but they always die in moments. I know this happens because when an attack starts, the settlers have their guns in their hands the whole time, but for me they draw their guns and 2 seconds later they put it away and say how they fought of the attackers.
Is the Sanctuary is your settlement?
loving the guides. I've only just started playing. Can anyone tell me where stuff likes chairs go when I put them in storage when base building?
I heard that defense must be your food + water + power or you run the risk of more attacks