+skyesfury i think we need showers in fallout 4 because the mutants always complaining "i can smell you" so i play with a woman and it's kind of embarrassing to hear that, so why putting points in sneak while mutants can smell you.
+NakedAvanger that and the dead bodies after the fact, I have to go save these sorry ass settlers the least they could do is dispose of the corpses. Lol when I firsr started playing I was lugging all this gear back to my settlements so they could defend themselves....until I realized I had to defend them and they cant die anyways =/
yes i tested myself by putting .50 call in their head omg they have steel heads, so when they get attacked you don't need to rush yourself only worry about is that raiders or mutants can take over the settlement, so kill them all restore everything and new settlers will move in
+NakedAvanger Place in Red on nexus mods allows you to grab things you normally can't in addition to placing while red. :) not even a technical mod look into it
+XcookieX slayerX What Nick said. Also use Mutfruit for your food. Its the only plant that gives you 1 whole food for each plant. Also has the best sell value. That way you can cut down on your size faster.
This is actually the first interesting video of Fallout 4 I see. It contains no click bait title like "OMFG LOOK AT THIS SUPER SECRETE FEATURE ! " which consist in "Hold tab and your pip boy will make light ! ". No. Your video shows something interesting and smart. I did something else for the castle but your solution is really neat. Congratulations Sir. You have my respect.
to line the under layer of concrete perfectly go to center of castle drop down a concrete foundation attach a wooden shack staircase, pick both of them up the stairs can snap to the upper foundation, then just remove the stairs and BOOM!!! perfect, seemless walls
I followed your instructions and had a really good construct for The Castle's rebuild of the walls. Thank You so much for your video: clear and understandable, great results! From an old lady in North Carolina!
Hell no for dlc. As an update, yes, but as full blown dlc, absolutely not. I'd rather bethesda save dlc for new stories rather than minor changes that could be modded,
Excellent tutorial. I was able to combine this tactic with the place-mat method of moving items, and managed to completely restore the walls without a single gap. I used the smaller wood squares to patch up the ends, and the platforms blend seamlessly into the grassy parts. Now my castle looks like a LEGIT castle, thanks again for posting this!
Just so you know, when you need the double layer of foundations, you can use the wood shack stairwell, just snap it to the side of your first foundation, then the next layer can snap to the stairwell, then just delete the stairs.
I think that we should be able of repairing the buildings, for example, sanctuary, we should be able to repair the original roofs or the walls of the houses
+AARON TENA I don't know but this building thing looks like something they put at the last minute, there's no tutorial about anything, the way you view is bad, the way the blocks are put together. Seems very half assed.
***** The only "tutorial" i've seen is that at the loading screens they say something about the supply lines. At least that's the only thing i'm remembering.
8 years later and still relevant. This helped, a lot. Coming back to Fallout 4 after a massive break, wanted The Castle to look better than it was in the last playthrough.
quick tip; if you use the stairs located in the floor sub-menu, you can make multiple seamless floor layers in less time! great video! Keep up the work bro!
+Arne Waterloos hold those buttons and move the joystick to adjust a piece along an axis. it's often cleaner and more precise than trying to adjust placement by just looking/strafing.
Screwed up or want a design change with existing building parts? Place them off to the side or in shop storage. Avoid scrapping a wall or other building part. You loose half of your wood, steel and concrete when you scrap. It gets more expensive if you scrap a turret, purifier or power plant.
Phillip Mulligan no it's not don't tucking correct someone who is right. when you put it in the work ship it would put the block in the shop I when he goes to place more other is a little number below it and that's how many of that item he has. If you don't alive me RUclips the difference between scrapping and "put in storage" or whatever it is
Tip for improving the walls with shack foundation if it has not already been mentioned: Under the floor tab there is the stairs leading to a higher level. Use that on the side of the foundation you want to build under and the shack foundation will snap onto the bottom layer of the stairs underneath the foundation above it. Useful if you want to build pillars using concrete and have it line up perfectly.
I find it kind of sad that Bethesda did not give you an option for Castle restoration beyond this... I mean a way of making it look brand new. What are your peasants doing while you are gone all day??
When building the support columns (completely aesthetic as we all know) for my expansion off the rock ledge at Graygarden, I found using the double-floor staircase is very useful for neatly placing vertical concrete foundations as they lock into position off of the base of the staircase that's placed alongside, meshing seamlessly with the concrete foundation directly above. Saves a lot of time as opposed to visually lining them up.
Thank you for doing that, i understood what to use but didnt know how to get it to work. Are you building upon the other settlements or are you just focusing on Sactuary and the Castle?
Pretty cool. Mine was similar, but used the corner areas for more bunks for settlers. Made it with a concrete block on bottom, and wood walls and roof to line the sides and connect with the top ramparts. And of course stairs and a door into the space within. Worked pretty well.
Heym nice video and a good idea, just an heads up: you can stack two concrete blocks perfectly using the interior wooden stair found in the wood floor section, just snap the top part of the stair to the side of a concrete blockand you will be able to snap another concrete block to the lower section of the stair, right under the first block (is easier to do begining down up but it's possible to be done the other way round).
I discovered the concrete floor a couple days ago. It's amazing and essential to square what you are building. Best block in the game. Didn't think I would get into crafting but it's fun.
Elf Monster you must not have a brain. You(the viewer) can see his screen a lot better in the DAY, period. "no existent problems", its the matter of making the video look better and easier for the viewer to see what the video is trying to show us. RUclipsrs work for us, we don't work for them.
+William lc You don't seem to understand what this beautiful thing called "contrast" does. Night = bad contrast, day = good contrast. Careful who you call stupid, the Dunning-Kruger effect might bite your ass :P.
not sure if someone else has noticed/told you, but personally when doing a double layer of foundations, i usually use a floor/stairs piece to line up the top and bottom. bit of a fiddle to snap it, sometimes, but once you have one in the next layer snapped, you can snap to that one, as you know. this creates a more perfectly aligned multi layer foundation wall without the guess work of lining up the individual layers.
Great ideas; I have always wanted to shore up the walls of the Castle. I just wanted to comment that you can get shack foundation blocks to snap above/below each other by attaching a shack stairwell to the SIDE of one of the foundation blocks, then snapping the block above/below to the stairwell.
I was surprised someone else got the same idea but watched it for help with the corner.. Good job and thank you! One small gripe though, please record when the sun is up next time! :)
That spot at about 5:30, you can build that entire section of wall outside in open area, and then move the entire thing into place and it will clip through the area that you were having problems snapping it into place, and it will be seamless. If you look up some of the videos showing how to make tree houses, they do the same thing to get around the tree branch clipping that would otherwise keep them from snapping floor pieces in place.
Not sure if people have mentioned this but you can layer those concrete blocks, by just placing the stairs floor next to the concrete floor and then you link another concrete floor with the bottom part of the stairs floor. Also by using tcl in the console you can place a lot of blocks that at first do not work.
Under the same "floors" tab, there is a stairway piece for moving from one floor to another. Snapping those together on the foundation parts will help in wall alignment.
instead of trying to perfectly line up a concrete block for the bottom layer, you can actually replace one of the top ones with a shack stairwell, and then attach the concrete block to the bottom end of that for a perfect fit. You can even do it one below that layer as well if you place it right. When you snap the concrete block to the stairwell, you can put it in a lot more places than if you were to just place it down too, since snapping and placing have different boundaries.
Felt like sharing this, dont know if anyone else has, but I found a really nice trick for getting perfectly aligned concrete Bases (provided you do not dislike seeing the wood, which I dont). You can make a temporary structure using Wood > stairs> then select the set of stairs with 2 small pieces of wood on the top and bottom. Set up the first on, then attached the base of the second to the top of the firs, moving them around as you would to make a square staircase. The top of each concrete base can be snapped to the inside of that structure and they will be aligned perfectly.
pseudocoder78 The one I mentioned takes less resources and can make a much more simple squared spiral. Once you understand how to make use of the technique, its very easy and resource light.
Don't know if anyone already posted this, but to line up the bottom layer of shack foundations, or a higher one if you are building up, use the staircase that is located under the floors section as a template. If you attach it to the side of a shack foundation floor, the floor of the stairway will be the right level for the lower course of flooring, likewise for a higher course.
Great tutorial. It worked for me without that gap at the end which you must cover, it's fully covered so I guess if you take your time with it you will manage to get perfect results.
If you're on the PC version, you can use the "tcl" command to toggle the collision with objects that you place while in the build mode. It's difficult to explain, but basically, you can make walls and things intersect because they are not "settled" into the world. Some experimentation will help you understand, but it really is an awesome way to make aesthetically pleasing structures.
Thanks a million. I was just patching the walls with Junk Fences like "Dear God, this looks so fugly". Now my Castle is starting to look something else, I just wish you could clear the rubble on the floor.
so, as a heads up, you can snap cement blocks perfectly vertical by building a "double floor staircase" on the side of a cement block then snapping a second cement block to the staircase then remove the staircase. it will look sexy and it works stacking up or down. If you hold "e" down while picking the thing you want to move it will select ALL things touching it as well. so you can move a fully made 10 section wall and line it up as you see fit.
it's possible to put the blocks together then select the whole lot and move them into place, but it may be a little tricky. Not sure if you can put a placement box in first to get the lining up started then take your group of blocks and snap it to the placement one.
Thanks! This also help me find a way to fill in the gaps of the lower part of the wall. (4:50) Just do what he tells you, line it up (not actually snapping) but instead of making an L shape corner just proceed to the left as far as it allows so it makes the block at least under. This way it makes more space and allows you to cover the holes and build more foundations to the right. I haven't found a way to the corner gap (3:55) though because the bastion doesn't straightly connect to the other side but I guess it still looks good.
You can fill those gaps if you want to. You just need to snap a structure together somewhere else, then pick up the whole strcuture (not just a single piece) when you do this the clipping only affects the piece you selected, nothing else, so as long as there is space for one block you can get all the others to fit as well. This also works with the smaller gap that you blocked at the start of the vid. Try selecting that whole piece that you made and you'll find you can shift the whole thing about without worrying about any clipping issues.
This video was so awesome! I was able to recreate most of it and I'm so happy to have a good base. Like you I haven't been really playing the main game but I've been working more on my basis. Its funny to me that a triple A title House building not actually the main game.
the thing i find that helps me the most is the "tcl" console command it basically toggles collision and lets you walk on air, or fly kinda like creative mode, so you can place blocks more efficiently
I did almost the same thing! Also, if you get the settlement supplies expanded mod, you can make new custom doors like the castle door and place them anywhere, and of course they actually open/close too.
Those gaps, I was able to trick one to fill and it helped me understand why you can't do it without a glitch. If they were filled with snapped blocks it will box off the under ground tunnels in the castle. It's why the real problem corner is the armory. Most of that takes place under the rubble.
4:27 a method to get perfect alignment below the shack foundation block is to put a "shack stairwell" on the side of one. Then you can use it to place more foundation blocks underneath, it will be perfectly flush.
A tip for you if you want to align those elevated floors from top to bottom: snap one of those stairs with both floor and roof to the side of you elevated floor. This will allow you to snap new elevated floors perfectly under your old ones.
I've actually made ALL of the surrounding walls solid to the ground (with extensive use of the console commands getpos and setpos though) while aiming for them to be just as seamless as in your video. It fits almost perfectly, too, with the exception of that big crumbled and collapsed corner where you either *have* to leave some open space *or* overlap your floors a little bit. Actually, if you're going for the latter you cannot put it on the very same height because it will make the textures flip out and look very weird and glitchy, but yeah... I worked around this by slightly elevating one side a bit, attaching some stairs and building a watch tower there (a custom one, not the security thingy). All in all... castle is now my new favorite place =) even though I probably spent a *whole* lot more time on settlements like Sanctuary already. Base building has me addicted, it's ridiculously fun.
For the gaps, try using the concrete walls of varying sizes. That's how I did it. The ones that are tall skinny posts work really well for smaller gaps. You can even make the underside hollow so you can put really nice looking tunnels through the wall, and even a small room going off to the side for the larger broken section.
cheers for the vid. i did however figure it out my self just by going over all the different buildings u can make in the crafting station. (it was making me nuts so yea had to fix it immidiatly)
Thanks for the tips, you may have heard by now but if not, there is a way to clip objects into another. I'm not sure if this can apply to foundations on top of others but it's worth a try.
Got some cool tips there. I'm already near level 40 and I've used up almost all my supplies and junk in Sanctuary and other smaller settlements. After seeing this vid, I kinda wish now I used Castle as my main base! I'll just have to restock on junk and supplies I guess!
If you use the Shack Stairs near the concrete with the Concrete blocks you can line up the blocks vertically for double stacking or even triple stacking.
Damn still a few hours before i can try this! I heard about fixing it up with cement and that it was located in the wood section, of all places, but i didnt realize it was the foundation they were talking about. I know there are books that add the ability to make certain things and i just assumed i couldn't work with cement yet. great guide and thank you!
If you don't want a gap between the two layers snap the ladder with the platforms(icon for ladders) to the side and you can use the bottom platform to place the bottom layer gap free. Heck you can even leave it in place after for easier access to the walls.
I knew i couldn't have been the only one to figure the wood foundation blocks were the best for patching up the castle as well as building walls with turrets on them around sanctuary and leaving a 2 block gap is perfect for a wood junk fence to go in between. Just hope you don't get attacked by scorpions that burrow past your walls like me.
For the double layered there is a easiest way. You take the wooden shack floor that contain stairs. It have the particularity to be double layered. So you when you align the top of it to your concrete floor you can snap another one on the bottom of it that will seamlessly fit. This allows you to build multiple story concrete walls and to snap in tiny gap with patience and alignment try and retry.
you can also use different sized concrete walls of you have the wasteland workshop dlc, and it also allows you to put door ways through the castle walls
Pro tip: build as many industrial purifiers, medium generators (less copper and more power than large generators) and shops at the castle as possible. Every time you go to the castle, collect your purified water and caps from any work bench. Trade all of you water for caps, ammo, etc. I'm banking about 3000 caps every time I visit the castle this way. Also the water can be used for a free stimpack alternative or adhesive at cooking workshops if you make large farms with corn, tatos and mutfruit.
Another thing you can do if you want to use regular thin walls you can use the foundation as a base, build on it the wall you want and then hold E on a foundation block at the base to group select the entire wall you just build. you can now move it partly inside the terrain and bypass the snapping and clipping limitations of the builder.
you can save a TON of concrete by using just 1 concrete foundation, and the rest being wood. you can also completely eliminate the gaps as well. the trick is to build the entire wall section out in the open, then move it as a whole. having even a single concrete foundation attached will then allow you to clip objects even with wood walls. on the PC, press E to select the foundation, then X to group select everything that it is connected to and move the entire structure into place.
Not sure if you've discovered this yet, but you can set up the shack foundation in courses (tiered levels) by snapping a wall against one foundation, then a floor to that wall, removing the wall, and snapping a foundation to the (second floor) floor and removing the floor... it's trivially easy to line up levels of shack foundations as walls using that method. Good luck!
This is awesome, thanks for the tutorial!
I really hate that we can't get rid of the rubble though...
Even in other bases or farms
Can't wait for mods
+NakedAvanger You not alone, after 200+ years no one lifted a finger and cleaned up a bit? lol
+skyesfury i think we need showers in fallout 4 because the mutants always complaining "i can smell you" so i play with a woman and it's kind of embarrassing to hear that, so why putting points in sneak while mutants can smell you.
+NakedAvanger that and the dead bodies after the fact, I have to go save these sorry ass settlers the least they could do is dispose of the corpses. Lol when I firsr started playing I was lugging all this gear back to my settlements so they could defend themselves....until I realized I had to defend them and they cant die anyways =/
yes i tested myself by putting .50 call in their head omg they have steel heads, so when they get attacked you don't need to rush yourself only worry about is that raiders or mutants can take over the settlement, so kill them all restore everything and new settlers will move in
+NakedAvanger Place in Red on nexus mods allows you to grab things you normally can't in addition to placing while red. :) not even a technical mod look into it
This video hit 1,000,000 views! Thank you guys sooo much!
+CB9611 Hey,How Did you get so much size left for the castle????? when i got mine its was almost full......
Thank YOU for the video I was considered that I couldn't fix the castle walls until I saw this video.... so.... thanks.
+XcookieX slayerX What Nick said. Also use Mutfruit for your food. Its the only plant that gives you 1 whole food for each plant. Also has the best sell value.
That way you can cut down on your size faster.
RedX165 yeah I know, thanks.
Nick Clark do you know what's a high damage moderate fire rate weapon?
Drop a like if you enjoyed this video or found it helpful!
+CB9611 How did you get rid of the mirelurk egg mounds?
+BigBoss 1225 they disappear after you leave the castle
MenOfWarCSS Oh, Sweet. Thanks.
+MenOfWarCSS They do!? I went around and set them with 'markfordelete' after I first took the castle because I didn't realize they'd be deleted ;-;
+CB9611 Next you should get the mod that makes the grass green! It would look even better!
This is actually the first interesting video of Fallout 4 I see.
It contains no click bait title like "OMFG LOOK AT THIS SUPER SECRETE FEATURE ! " which consist in "Hold tab and your pip boy will make light ! ".
No. Your video shows something interesting and smart. I did something else for the castle but your solution is really neat.
Congratulations Sir.
You have my respect.
badger badger mushroom
to line the under layer of concrete perfectly go to center of castle drop down a concrete foundation attach a wooden shack staircase, pick both of them up the stairs can snap to the upper foundation, then just remove the stairs and BOOM!!! perfect, seemless walls
I like how you remade it instead of just explaining it, good tutorial
Omg so cool I was waiting for this
+98kickinit Happy to help.
+CB9611 that is really cool! Just look like that wall just(not so)poorly fix
+CB9611 Cait disliked that.
Lucky Cait she does brag about her ass alot
Dude turn off your capslock. No need to shout.
I followed your instructions and had a really good construct for The Castle's rebuild of the walls. Thank You so much for your video: clear and understandable, great results! From an old lady in North Carolina!
Wish they made a way to toggle the snap-to feature on/off (preferably without having to go through a menu). Maybe an idea for DLC?
Hell no for dlc. As an update, yes, but as full blown dlc, absolutely not. I'd rather bethesda save dlc for new stories rather than minor changes that could be modded,
***** Meant as part of one* should have clarified sorry.
EDIT: Has bethesda ever patched things outside of putting the patch along with DLC?
+h2theibrid Yeah they are probably going to release a patch or have already to fix some minor issues
+Blodus Bethesda? Release a patch? Where did you hear of this tall tale?
+Steve Steve on PC you can just enable tcl and then you have no clip and your free to build and place anything anywhere, with no clip on
Excellent tutorial. I was able to combine this tactic with the place-mat method of moving items, and managed to completely restore the walls without a single gap. I used the smaller wood squares to patch up the ends, and the platforms blend seamlessly into the grassy parts. Now my castle looks like a LEGIT castle, thanks again for posting this!
Just so you know, when you need the double layer of foundations, you can use the wood shack stairwell, just snap it to the side of your first foundation, then the next layer can snap to the stairwell, then just delete the stairs.
Honestly, the hardest thing about Fallout 4 is getting your settlement just right. This video has helped me get one step closer. Thanks!
Sadly, we can't take of the rubble
+AARON TENA You can dress it up by putting concrete blocks on them, and using the small ladders to get on them.
Just an idea.
I think that we should be able of repairing the buildings, for example, sanctuary, we should be able to repair the original roofs or the walls of the houses
+AARON TENA I don't know but this building thing looks like something they put at the last minute, there's no tutorial about anything, the way you view is bad, the way the blocks are put together. Seems very half assed.
*****
The only "tutorial" i've seen is that at the loading screens they say something about the supply lines. At least that's the only thing i'm remembering.
+AARON TENA i know what you mean, those roofs in sanctuary make my skin itch. How can people sleep under that rusty swiss cheese?
8 years later and still relevant. This helped, a lot. Coming back to Fallout 4 after a massive break, wanted The Castle to look better than it was in the last playthrough.
Great video! I didn't even realize I could use concrete blocks like that. Thanks for the tip.
I have been watching a ton of fallout coverage for tips and such and I found this video to be extremely informative. Thanks.
Why did you choose to do this at night?
Lulz bozo never got an answer
quick tip; if you use the stairs located in the floor sub-menu, you can make multiple seamless floor layers in less time! great video! Keep up the work bro!
if you hold down the place button and move you joy stick up and down you can go lower to the ground
Place button?
+Hayleigh Wilcox PC?
+Arne Waterloos LB + A is vertical and RB + A is horizontal
+Michael Stults ?
+Arne Waterloos hold those buttons and move the joystick to adjust a piece along an axis. it's often cleaner and more precise than trying to adjust placement by just looking/strafing.
You sir are a genius. It has alway been iritateing how just normal walls looks like crap, the foundation pieces look so good!
Screwed up or want a design change with existing building parts? Place them off to the side or in shop storage. Avoid scrapping a wall or other building part. You loose half of your wood, steel and concrete when you scrap. It gets more expensive if you scrap a turret, purifier or power plant.
he doesnt scrap anything he puts it in the workshop
Same thing.
Phillip Mulligan no it's not don't tucking correct someone who is right. when you put it in the work ship it would put the block in the shop I when he goes to place more other is a little number below it and that's how many of that item he has. If you don't alive me RUclips the difference between scrapping and "put in storage" or whatever it is
+bOwToMeE0 - Lol RUclips the difference? RUclips makes a pretty lousy search engine... just saying.
+Simon Mattila if you're searching for fucking idiots, then yeah it functions amazingly well..
I'm loving all the creative solutions to covering the holes and debris. Excellent video, thanks for having them out so soon after the game released :)
How do you clear all the shrubs?
+cowzplaycod If you open the console you can manually hide them when selecting them.
Big Sister Yw :)
+cowzplaycod whats the command to hide them
+cowzplaycod there's a mod for it but the consoles got to wait for the mod come to them.
+Bainanaz mods are coming to consoles
Tip for improving the walls with shack foundation if it has not already been mentioned: Under the floor tab there is the stairs leading to a higher level. Use that on the side of the foundation you want to build under and the shack foundation will snap onto the bottom layer of the stairs underneath the foundation above it. Useful if you want to build pillars using concrete and have it line up perfectly.
I find it kind of sad that Bethesda did not give you an option for Castle restoration beyond this... I mean a way of making it look brand new. What are your peasants doing while you are gone all day??
Lars Magnus Samuelsson Svenssonsenn Magnussvensamuelsson Thor Oh Burn! I think?
Your 'peasants' are busy doing the work you assigned them too
When building the support columns (completely aesthetic as we all know) for my expansion off the rock ledge at Graygarden, I found using the double-floor staircase is very useful for neatly placing vertical concrete foundations as they lock into position off of the base of the staircase that's placed alongside, meshing seamlessly with the concrete foundation directly above. Saves a lot of time as opposed to visually lining them up.
Thank you for doing that, i understood what to use but didnt know how to get it to work.
Are you building upon the other settlements or are you just focusing on Sactuary and the Castle?
Pretty cool. Mine was similar, but used the corner areas for more bunks for settlers. Made it with a concrete block on bottom, and wood walls and roof to line the sides and connect with the top ramparts. And of course stairs and a door into the space within. Worked pretty well.
Great vids, i will check back
Heym nice video and a good idea, just an heads up: you can stack two concrete blocks perfectly using the interior wooden stair found in the wood floor section, just snap the top part of the stair to the side of a concrete blockand you will be able to snap another concrete block to the lower section of the stair, right under the first block (is easier to do begining down up but it's possible to be done the other way round).
I spy with my little eye a Liberty Prime in the background
Glad I'm not the only one that thought it looked like a robot
+j lopez It is a robot...
+Daren M nope. what you can see there is the control tower at the airport. liberty prime is way shorter than that.
+mdppr Yeah its the control tower,you really do need to look closely
mdppr Well fuck I am mistaken :\
I discovered the concrete floor a couple days ago. It's amazing and essential to square what you are building. Best block in the game. Didn't think I would get into crafting but it's fun.
Next time make the video during the day time
Yeah day time should have been a no brainer
Night is barely darker than day than day in this game and you can still see everything perfectly. Don't complain about non-existant problems.
Elf Monster
you must not have a brain.
You(the viewer) can see his screen a lot better in the DAY, period.
"no existent problems", its the matter of making the video look better and easier for the viewer to see what the video is trying to show us. RUclipsrs work for us, we don't work for them.
+William lc I guess we'll have to do this tutorial in braille
+William lc
You don't seem to understand what this beautiful thing called "contrast" does.
Night = bad contrast, day = good contrast.
Careful who you call stupid, the Dunning-Kruger effect might bite your ass :P.
not sure if someone else has noticed/told you, but personally when doing a double layer of foundations, i usually use a floor/stairs piece to line up the top and bottom. bit of a fiddle to snap it, sometimes, but once you have one in the next layer snapped, you can snap to that one, as you know. this creates a more perfectly aligned multi layer foundation wall without the guess work of lining up the individual layers.
Wait Wait Wait... You can rotate?!... The fuck... My whole world just changed... How...
+Creativent Lay off the rum, Jack! You're becoming more dumb.
if your on xbox its LT RT
+Creativent On PC it's by default LMB and RMB and scrolling the mouse wheel moves it closer or further away from you :)
look up building tips you can also move it around in 3d space and raise/lower
Great ideas; I have always wanted to shore up the walls of the Castle. I just wanted to comment that you can get shack foundation blocks to snap above/below each other by attaching a shack stairwell to the SIDE of one of the foundation blocks, then snapping the block above/below to the stairwell.
And stuff like that.
I was surprised someone else got the same idea but watched it for help with the corner..
Good job and thank you! One small gripe though, please record when the sun is up next time! :)
nice. 69 power at the castle
I always keep my happiness at 69
+goatking boss 69 is the answer ;)
Awesome, dude! I've been having so much trouble with the walls looking like crap, and this helped a lot. Keep it up!
I swear you've got to be simple in the head not to know how to do this sort of shit.
That spot at about 5:30, you can build that entire section of wall outside in open area, and then move the entire thing into place and it will clip through the area that you were having problems snapping it into place, and it will be seamless. If you look up some of the videos showing how to make tree houses, they do the same thing to get around the tree branch clipping that would otherwise keep them from snapping floor pieces in place.
Not sure if people have mentioned this but you can layer those concrete blocks, by just placing the stairs floor next to the concrete floor and then you link another concrete floor with the bottom part of the stairs floor. Also by using tcl in the console you can place a lot of blocks that at first do not work.
Under the same "floors" tab, there is a stairway piece for moving from one floor to another. Snapping those together on the foundation parts will help in wall alignment.
instead of trying to perfectly line up a concrete block for the bottom layer, you can actually replace one of the top ones with a shack stairwell, and then attach the concrete block to the bottom end of that for a perfect fit. You can even do it one below that layer as well if you place it right. When you snap the concrete block to the stairwell, you can put it in a lot more places than if you were to just place it down too, since snapping and placing have different boundaries.
Felt like sharing this, dont know if anyone else has, but I found a really nice trick for getting perfectly aligned concrete Bases (provided you do not dislike seeing the wood, which I dont).
You can make a temporary structure using Wood > stairs> then select the set of stairs with 2 small pieces of wood on the top and bottom. Set up the first on, then attached the base of the second to the top of the firs, moving them around as you would to make a square staircase. The top of each concrete base can be snapped to the inside of that structure and they will be aligned perfectly.
+TheWeakMinded Added note: you will snap bottom right bottom to top front of the stairs.
+TheWeakMinded The best piece for this purpose is called "Shack Stairwell" in Structure -> Wood -> Floor. Works like a charm.
pseudocoder78 The one I mentioned takes less resources and can make a much more simple squared spiral. Once you understand how to make use of the technique, its very easy and resource light.
Thanks dude, one of the most helpful tutorials I've seen on this!
WHY HAVE I NOT THOUGHT OF THIS?!!!! WHEN I GET HOME IM CHECKING IF THIS IS POSSIBLE WITH THE PS4 VERSION. GENIUS!
I can't believe I didn't think of using foundations to fix the wall, thank you good sir
Don't know if anyone already posted this, but to line up the bottom layer of shack foundations, or a higher one if you are building up, use the staircase that is located under the floors section as a template. If you attach it to the side of a shack foundation floor, the floor of the stairway will be the right level for the lower course of flooring, likewise for a higher course.
Most useful fallout video I've seen in ages!
Great tutorial. It worked for me without that gap at the end which you must cover, it's fully covered so I guess if you take your time with it you will manage to get perfect results.
If you're on the PC version, you can use the "tcl" command to toggle the collision with objects that you place while in the build mode. It's difficult to explain, but basically, you can make walls and things intersect because they are not "settled" into the world. Some experimentation will help you understand, but it really is an awesome way to make aesthetically pleasing structures.
The way you build the walls and floors made me feel great :D... damn ODC
Awesome video, was working on the castle for like, an hour, and didn't even think to do this.
Also another cool bit you can use concrete foundations for elevated gun platforms that enemies can't reach.
Thanks a million. I was just patching the walls with Junk Fences like "Dear God, this looks so fugly". Now my Castle is starting to look something else, I just wish you could clear the rubble on the floor.
Great idea, thanks for sharing! The wrecked walls always bugged me but now I can fix them too :)
so, as a heads up, you can snap cement blocks perfectly vertical by building a "double floor staircase" on the side of a cement block then snapping a second cement block to the staircase then remove the staircase. it will look sexy and it works stacking up or down.
If you hold "e" down while picking the thing you want to move it will select ALL things touching it as well. so you can move a fully made 10 section wall and line it up as you see fit.
it's possible to put the blocks together then select the whole lot and move them into place, but it may be a little tricky. Not sure if you can put a placement box in first to get the lining up started then take your group of blocks and snap it to the placement one.
Thanks! This also help me find a way to fill in the gaps of the lower part of the wall. (4:50) Just do what he tells you, line it up (not actually snapping) but instead of making an L shape corner just proceed to the left as far as it allows so it makes the block at least under. This way it makes more space and allows you to cover the holes and build more foundations to the right.
I haven't found a way to the corner gap (3:55) though because the bastion doesn't straightly connect to the other side but I guess it still looks good.
You can fill those gaps if you want to. You just need to snap a structure together somewhere else, then pick up the whole strcuture (not just a single piece) when you do this the clipping only affects the piece you selected, nothing else, so as long as there is space for one block you can get all the others to fit as well. This also works with the smaller gap that you blocked at the start of the vid. Try selecting that whole piece that you made and you'll find you can shift the whole thing about without worrying about any clipping issues.
This video was so awesome! I was able to recreate most of it and I'm so happy to have a good base. Like you I haven't been really playing the main game but I've been working more on my basis. Its funny to me that a triple A title House building not actually the main game.
Bro you have no idea how helpful your video was for me thank you!
the thing i find that helps me the most is the "tcl" console command
it basically toggles collision and lets you walk on air, or fly
kinda like creative mode, so you can place blocks more efficiently
great vid, you can use the 2 layer stairs in floors category to guarantee layers of concrete wall will line up
I did almost the same thing! Also, if you get the settlement supplies expanded mod, you can make new custom doors like the castle door and place them anywhere, and of course they actually open/close too.
Those gaps, I was able to trick one to fill and it helped me understand why you can't do it without a glitch. If they were filled with snapped blocks it will box off the under ground tunnels in the castle. It's why the real problem corner is the armory. Most of that takes place under the rubble.
cheers. nice video. just found the castle. love the fact that lights are built in for the actual interior
4:27 a method to get perfect alignment below the shack foundation block is to put a "shack stairwell" on the side of one. Then you can use it to place more foundation blocks underneath, it will be perfectly flush.
A tip for you if you want to align those elevated floors from top to bottom: snap one of those stairs with both floor and roof to the side of you elevated floor. This will allow you to snap new elevated floors perfectly under your old ones.
Thanks man!
I had this godawful junk fence thing going on. I got the Castle looking sweet now! Appreciate all the hard work!
I've actually made ALL of the surrounding walls solid to the ground (with extensive use of the console commands getpos and setpos though) while aiming for them to be just as seamless as in your video. It fits almost perfectly, too, with the exception of that big crumbled and collapsed corner where you either *have* to leave some open space *or* overlap your floors a little bit. Actually, if you're going for the latter you cannot put it on the very same height because it will make the textures flip out and look very weird and glitchy, but yeah... I worked around this by slightly elevating one side a bit, attaching some stairs and building a watch tower there (a custom one, not the security thingy).
All in all... castle is now my new favorite place =) even though I probably spent a *whole* lot more time on settlements like Sanctuary already. Base building has me addicted, it's ridiculously fun.
For the gaps, try using the concrete walls of varying sizes. That's how I did it. The ones that are tall skinny posts work really well for smaller gaps. You can even make the underside hollow so you can put really nice looking tunnels through the wall, and even a small room going off to the side for the larger broken section.
You should use the stairs in the floor section to perfectly align the top and bottom shack foundations
Nice job, man. It looks great, it looks like a besieging army managed to knock through the first layer of the wall but couldn't finish. Thanks!
Thank you. currently playing fallout 4 just lvl 14 ^^ love that place ! this will be my headquarters !
CB9611 Please make your awesome videos IN THE DAYLIGHT. Great tips though. Thanks!! I'll keep watching.
I had done something similar but was having trouble overlapping the two platforms. Thanks for the video very helpful.
cheers for the vid. i did however figure it out my self just by going over all the different buildings u can make in the crafting station. (it was making me nuts so yea had to fix it immidiatly)
Thanks for the tips, you may have heard by now but if not, there is a way to clip objects into another. I'm not sure if this can apply to foundations on top of others but it's worth a try.
Got some cool tips there. I'm already near level 40 and I've used up almost all my supplies and junk in Sanctuary and other smaller settlements. After seeing this vid, I kinda wish now I used Castle as my main base! I'll just have to restock on junk and supplies I guess!
Awesome video! I had done the exact same thing almost and I loved the results so I was glad to see someone making a guide!
If you use the Shack Stairs near the concrete with the Concrete blocks you can line up the blocks vertically for double stacking or even triple stacking.
Damn still a few hours before i can try this! I heard about fixing it up with cement and that it was located in the wood section, of all places, but i didnt realize it was the foundation they were talking about. I know there are books that add the ability to make certain things and i just assumed i couldn't work with cement yet. great guide and thank you!
+CB9611 I didn't even think that it was possible. Thank you for showing me this little trick :D
Keep up the good work and good luck!
If you don't want a gap between the two layers snap the ladder with the platforms(icon for ladders) to the side and you can use the bottom platform to place the bottom layer gap free. Heck you can even leave it in place after for easier access to the walls.
I knew i couldn't have been the only one to figure the wood foundation blocks were the best for patching up the castle as well as building walls with turrets on them around sanctuary and leaving a 2 block gap is perfect for a wood junk fence to go in between. Just hope you don't get attacked by scorpions that burrow past your walls like me.
For the double layered there is a easiest way. You take the wooden shack floor that contain stairs. It have the particularity to be double layered. So you when you align the top of it to your concrete floor you can snap another one on the bottom of it that will seamlessly fit. This allows you to build multiple story concrete walls and to snap in tiny gap with patience and alignment try and retry.
you can also use different sized concrete walls of you have the wasteland workshop dlc, and it also allows you to put door ways through the castle walls
Pro tip: build as many industrial purifiers, medium generators (less copper and more power than large generators) and shops at the castle as possible. Every time you go to the castle, collect your purified water and caps from any work bench. Trade all of you water for caps, ammo, etc. I'm banking about 3000 caps every time I visit the castle this way. Also the water can be used for a free stimpack alternative or adhesive at cooking workshops if you make large farms with corn, tatos and mutfruit.
Another thing you can do if you want to use regular thin walls you can use the foundation as a base, build on it the wall you want and then hold E on a foundation block at the base to group select the entire wall you just build. you can now move it partly inside the terrain and bypass the snapping and clipping limitations of the builder.
Thanks man. This really helped me out - I find the snapping of building stuff really frustrating! x
you can save a TON of concrete by using just 1 concrete foundation, and the rest being wood. you can also completely eliminate the gaps as well. the trick is to build the entire wall section out in the open, then move it as a whole. having even a single concrete foundation attached will then allow you to clip objects even with wood walls. on the PC, press E to select the foundation, then X to group select everything that it is connected to and move the entire structure into place.
Loved this video, I had already built a lot of settlement and have to go back to fix them now that I saw this but still great to know!
Your videos are very well edited. Very nice!
Thanks so much! I just got Fallout 4 and the walls being open like that drove me nuts xD
I actually live near the real life castle in South Boston. It's called Castle Island and the game didn't nearly do it justice. It's still cool to see!
thank you SO much man, i used wooden walls to cover the ruins and this helped ALOT!
Not sure if you've discovered this yet, but you can set up the shack foundation in courses (tiered levels) by snapping a wall against one foundation, then a floor to that wall, removing the wall, and snapping a foundation to the (second floor) floor and removing the floor... it's trivially easy to line up levels of shack foundations as walls using that method. Good luck!
+CEC416 Looks like people are using shack stairs from the floor items menu to do this... I am, as usual, late to the party.