County Crossing Settlement Tour (SZ NMSC)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Finalists: bit.ly/2M48ZwF
Here's my entry for the no-mods shop class settlement building contest. County Crossing is a mid-sized moderately prosperous village that serves as a waypoint between Bunker Hill and the northeast settlements (The Slog, Finch Farm, and Greentop Nursery).
It includes a heavy guard presence, a small marketplace and resting area, a self-contained farm, and all the accessories and facilities a comfortable settler or farmer would want or need.
Hope you enjoy it, and that it gives you some ideas or inspiration for your own builds. Thanks for watching.
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this is so realistic and absolutely what you'd see in post-apocalyptia. it's really demotivated me as I'll never make anything this good.
awesome job.
I know this comment is a year old but ima still reply. This is actually not that realistic if you ask me. This would have been realistic 20-40 years after the war maybe but after 200 years settlements shouldn’t be looking like junkyards. But I guess that’s Bethesda’s fault.
@@faithlesspancake4800Wouldn’t most of the world be horribly irradiated a mere 20 years after a nuclear apocalypse?
"So what we got here is a cows butt." i know i know im repeating what he said but it made me laugh dammit, also awesome settlement it really feels like a place youd come across in a post apocolyptic society.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it and hope it gave you some ideas. :)
the extinguishers, goggles, and mitts for changing the laser turret's batteries is genius. i can totally imagine the first settler to set his hands and face on fire...poor bastard. thank god the boozy doc is on standby... it's those little touches and thoughtfulness that makes your builds exceptional.
Thanks! Making up little stories helps me figure out how to decorate this stuff sometimes :P
Looking good. The stack of batteries and fire extinguishers got a chuckle out of me.
Thanks! :D
Immersive, lore friendly, and very creative. I don't know how you keep the odds & ends on the table tops, because EVERYTHING in my settlement fell right through to the first floor once I left the settlement. Overall a great job!
Thanks! The trick is I save decorating for the last thing I do, and once I start decorating I fast-travel to the settlement from the settlement to test item fall-through; whatever falls off in three fast-travels I pick up and put somewhere else. I also avoid leaving the settlement area once I've started. ;)
That's my kind of contest! Since its release I can't count my playthroughs. I don't use mods, dlcs, or creation club. I've never built any settlement the same way. FUN FUN FUN!!!
"Oh look! A tree" hahaha. Wouldnt b a sar vid without u running into somethin. But we got a bonus cow butt. Youve been a busy guy. Im betting ur glad the challenges r complete. Good work bud! Edit: u see Sar, when two clipboards love eachother very much, sometimes they want to express that love physicallly....
haha clipboard love :P Thanks Ben! And yeah, it turns out trying to post three videos a week was wiping me out a bit... with the challenge over I can go back to one a week and some streaming, and maybe have time to think of different ways to build. :)
Awesome build Sar! Good thing that the junk didn't stay put, otherwise we wouldn't think this is a no mods build. I'm rooting for you! 😙
Thank you! If I make the top five, I'll definitely be beggin for votes lol :D
I also love how you integrate frustrating game mechanics into you narration without a stutter. :)
I've had a lot of practice dealing with, shall we say, pecularities haha ;)
@@SarDeliac No doubt I can empathize lol. Thank you so much for replying. Sorry for taking so long to reply but my life has been insane lately.
Really good job with this build-o-Rama! Saving the vid to steal some ideas!!!
Looks awesome (like all of your builds). My biggest challenge is avoiding symmetry on the larger builds. This one had a good blend of practical / secure. Very well done.
Thanks! And yeah, it takes a little practice to avoid symmetry, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy to do. Reproducing in-game structures helps a lot to get the hang of it.
i really enjoying every edge of your settlemenent, 😄
If you got a large window facing the wastes at arm's reach, it makes walls obsolete. Deathclaw just gonna jump through and wail at your community. Well, IMMERSIVELY. Gameplay-wise it's as solid as a wall.
Not too many deathclaws roaming around near CC, though. Radscorpions, definitely, but since they burrow and there's tons of dirt here, walls don't matter much to 'em. ;)
This is the best one I’ve seen…great tour as well 👏👏
Outstanding work. I'm always impressed by what you do, as I'm pretty certain that my X Box would melt and set my entertainment center on fire if I ever tried this. Your builds always look and feel as if they're something one would actually see in an environment like this one. You create things that I don't think that I'd ever think of. Good luck! I hope you win!
Thanks Groucho! The trick to building like this is to do it on a fresh save--this settlement, along with some stuff I reconfigured at Sanctuary, is literally the only thing I built in this playthrough. :)
SarDeliac That makes sense. The problem I have is that I get bit by the building bug and want to remake everything. My X Box does not appreciate it. Lol.
I'm looking forward to whatever you build next!
Of all the impressive things I took from this build. I'd say the cots were the most revolutionary idea. Lol
Thanks! I stole the basic idea from Ticonderoga haha ;)
I loved the battery powered turret. Nice touch.
Thanks! I always try to think of some kinda Settler MacGyver application for the various pieces of junk. ;)
I long ago yielded to the settlement builders detritus-bugs. Do settlers not ruin your sundry item placements (22:15)? Everyone of my builds has no items what so ever on tables or shelfs. Very authentically lived-in -- excellent!
Thanks! Settlers won't ruin what they don't get close to or interact with. If you watch how they move around and sit on chairs and stools, you can figure out what they might run into as they go by. The key is to space out the shops, chairs, scav stations, and guard stations so the settlers have enough room to move from where they are to where they want to be and keep everything out of their way.
If you place settler-usable items in certain configurations, you can figure out where the settlers will never go... like the shelves in the general store, I know the settler will go from the door to the counter, or from the door to the bed. Anything I place outside that pathing triangle will stay put (as long as it doesn't fall through the furniture or whatever).
Nice. That was a relaxing tour of your settlement. Haven't played for a while but watching these builds make me want to jump back into it.
Thank you! :)
I commend anyone who builds vanilla. I've tries going back to vanilla but I just hate it lol great looking build and that 1:35 is my favorite.
Thank you! I gotta admit the only mods I _really_ missed this time around were OCD, STS, and the clear-weather mod... but then I do enjoy the challenges of building in vanilla. ;)
I really like the conduit/lantern thingy. I hope you don't mind me stealing that sometimes!
Thanks, and steal away--that's what it's here for. :) If you think of something even cooler when you use it, though, you gotta take pics and post 'em so I can steal it back. :P
I really liked the lantern fixture as well. Good luck on the contest!
Thanks! :)
Damn fine looking settlement. The tips you used were perfect for you, but I expected that. Great job my friend. Take Care.
Thanks loco! Was weird building in vanilla at first, but it's funny how fast all the mechanics and workarounds came back. ;)
This is exactly how I can envision a early wasteland settlements.
That's exactly what I'm going for; thank you! :)
This was awesome! Looks so authentic and lived-in, as if the settlement grew naturally. I hadn’t seen your channel before, but I will definitely be going back over your other vids!
Thank you! If you liked this build, the odds are real good you'll like a lot of the rest of 'em haha Glad you enjoyed the show. :)
SarDeliac Oh, I’ve been bingeing on them for 2 days straight and I do love them all!
Dang, really nice man.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the tour. :)
Great work on your settlement. The placement and glitches show I a lot of time and know how. County Crossings is my only settlement I can't get up past 65% happiness. Rebuilt it 3 times. I will use some of your defense ideas and try it again.
Thanks! Have you checked out Oxhorn's "how happiness works" spreadsheet/calculator thing? It's on his channel linked in a video somewhere... that might help with the happiness thing. At a guess, if you haven't scrapped the original beds in that little hut, do that first and build new ones--they don't work like real beds after you've unlocked it, so they won't generate the requisite happiness.
SarDeliac thanks for the advice. Oxhorn is a great guy and really went deep into the game by making that spreadsheet. Instead of making all the bars .. I will stick to capturing pets. Hee hee. (I do want to make a place with a bunch of dogs). I feel that the settlement gets attacked too much. Again.. good luck!
Forgot about using mesh fences as protection. Going to make some changes to one of my settlements
Town is awesome
Thanks! :)
Great build my friend would love to see the whole thing being built. You really give me great ideas to use in my game and for that thank you very much
Thanks! And unfortunately I had to delete all the old raw video a while ago since I ran outta storage. :/
Looks great but I just hope an attacker doesn't throw a grenade near that. I duplicated a bunch of ammunition and was storing it in bathtubs LOL a raider threw a grenade and scattered it all
On this one I basically sat down, decorated the whole thing, then recorded it as quickly as I could so stuff wouldn't fall off--and it ended up falling off anyway. lol
that's a good build dude i hope you win a place somewhere on the contest
Thanks! And me too haha ;)
That is very nice I love the build a rusty by comfortable style home
Thank you! :)
Fantastic build. I love the things you came up with. Love the bed glitch designs. Great ideas.
Okay, now. You've sided with the BOS and you have a ghoul as head of security? And another as a doctor cutting up real, pure, human beings?!
What kind of Sentinel are you?
Won't Maxon be surprised when he finds out.
:-D :-D
Glorious little settlement.
I, myself, use mods. Especially Place Anywhere for the Xbone.
But even with that, in place of the rug/pillar glitch, it still requires skill and imagination.
I *love* Skooled Zone. One of my favorite channels.
Again, great work. ^_^
Thanks! And oooh don't get me started on the BOS and non-feral ghouls. As a Sentinel, I could definitely show Maxson the error of his thinking on those particular "abominations." ;)
What we got heres a cows butt love it dude
Amazing!
You did this "on the side" build and it's one of your best lol! Of course I hope you win. How long did this one take? Always entertaining to watch your builds man
Think he said 35 hours somewhere in the second half of the video.
Thanks! All told it was about 35 hours; the buildings were all up in 15 or so, and the rest of the time was fiddling, furnishing, dragging boxes and crates from Easy City Downs and Revere Beach Station, and decorating. And decorating, and decorating, and decorating haha :P
Grass growing inside buildings!!! LAZY SETTLERS
This was amazing
Thank you! :)
If you do split out any builds from this, I'd love to see the shop and the loner guys house.
All righty, I'll definitely keep that in mind and start looking for those two. The loner guy's house went up first (and quick) so that'll be easy, and I'm pretty sure the shop went up in the first five hours so I shouldn't have a problem finding that one, either.
Is that Head Ghoul guard Jozzlyn by any chance? Lol. Awesome build like always! I love the Sleeping Bag on Table bunks. You mentioned like OCDecorator for making items static. The Xbox version of Place Anywhere also has a make static funtion. The place anywhere function is optional to use so you can use it simply as a way to lock down all those loose bits. How do I vote on this? Also I'm unaware of this Scaffolding Ladder trick. Can you either explain it or link the video? It looks handy.
Skooled Zone is going to narrow it down to the top 5 entries and then viewers will be able to vote in his poll. The scaffolding stairs technique is shown in his junk fence video.
The head ghoul isn't Jocelyn, but... it is perhaps a relative of hers haha The voting is gonna start on 1 July, and if this manages to make it into the top five I'll definitely letcha know. ;) For the scaffolding trick, it's basically regular group select with it as an anchor; what makes it so awesome are its properties. It's tall, it's thin (so it's easy to see through), it's angled (so you can place it a variety of ways to get the pieces in place a lot easier), and since the edges are already so soft--I'm sure you've noticed how far you can bury the ends of it in stuff all on its own--it transfers those properties to what you've got selected. As Sheck noted, you can push junk fence edges into each other pretty easy without rugs, for instance. Super, super handy.
SarDeliac Awesome. Thanks for the quick rundown. And thanks for another awesome settlement tour. Looks great my man. Are you going to be building at the castle with us? I would love to see what you would do with it
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. And the castle...? No...? Not sure what you're referring to, but I'm really not a fan of that place at all. :P
SarDeliac Me and Loco and maybe some others are doing another build there. Less strict than the last one though :p
Video Sar vs Stream Sar is completely different
Well, yeah; this is a prerecorded, which always changes things, and it was made with a wider, unknown audience in mind, yo. Plus it's a lot older. :P
SarDeliac lol ikr
Looks like you've got residual mod effects at 7:36 with the cans there, I hate when stuff like that happens and I can't work out why it happens on consoles :/ I might have to ask Vic about it and see if he can think of why it happens on consoles. It happened with Gary and his grass mod, that rewrote some scripting or something because even in completely fresh, new games he still gets it, but he's on PC.
Otherwise, great build hun, it looks really good and cudos on the junk decorating. It's not easy to do a lot of decoration in vanilla and there's always the worry that it won't be where you put it when you sleep or have to leave and come back to the settlement. I love your work hun, it looks great :)
Talk to you again soon, have a great day *hugs* Much loves, byee!
SushiKat Gamer thats coolant for prydwen
Thanks Sushi! And haha I see you've never blown up the Institute with the BOS. ;) The cans are a craftable repeatable quest item for Ingram after the Institute's gone: fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Reactor_coolant Before I started this character, I seriously purged the cache, reset all the settings, and made absolutely sure I didn't get any residuals. But yeah, decorating in vanilla, at least on a large scale, is a big ol' no from me lol OCD 4 Lyfe yo. ;)
I have blown up the Insitute with the BoS, but I kinda stopped playing after that point, so I'd never seen this quest. Thanks for correcting me on it :)
Good luck on the challenge hun, I know there's a couple folks that I'll be hard torn between voting between if they make the final 5. You're definitely in there, the other being Vic. Lol
Have a great day hun, talk to you again soon *hugs* Much loves, byee!
All good, Sushi; I kinda put weird things in there on purpose to see how many people didn't know about 'em. ;) And yeah, I hear ya... found out today Sheck's gonna be entering something and now I don't know if I'll even be able to vote for myself, provided this build even makes it into the top five. :P
Only if I finish in time which I'm still not 100% positive I'll make it. Or maybe I should just enter it unfinished seeing how in all the time I've owned this game I've never actually completed a settlement 100% before abandoning it for something new. I've been trying to push through and resist deleting all the stuff I feel I should redo on this one as it's right at the point where I normally look at things too closely and then get frustrated/dissapointed and move on.
10:20 I remember that day I was sleeping on my teacher desk ....
And I woke up in the middle of the lesson ...embarassing xd
This is cool. I wish I could build that big on Xbox. I go half a bar past the limit and I get constant crashes on most my settlements.
Thanks. I get that problem sometimes on mine when I build too much on too many settlements. (It's one of the reasons I tear down my builds after I've recorded 'em.) This particular build was done on a brand-new save--this is the only settlement that's built up on this playthrough. ;)
Ah, So you're saying building up too many settlements has a negative effect on overall performance? I have something built on every available settlement in the game. Could that be why most of them freeze up on entering them?
Overall cumulative settlement size is definitely a factor, but if you just have "something" built everywhere that might not be the biggest issue. Another thing that freaks the game out is too many settlers--when you have more than, say, 20 in a given settlement, it starts going a little sideways... and if you have a lot of settlers overall (your total for all settlements is more than 180 or so), you may start having problems everywhere. Things like settlers mass-forgetting their assignments, getting stuck all the time, bunching up every single time you come back to the settlement, stuff like that.
If neither of those are the case, I'd start looking at my load order, if I were running mods; sorting out the load order helps an amazing amount in most cases. If you're running mods and you've never "sorted" your load order, there's a template in this thread you can use to get started: bit.ly/2nMXnnc And if _that_ doesn't help, there are tons of knowledgeable, helpful people in there who definitely can. :)
Thanks for the tip. I don't use mods, but I have Creation Club Content in some settlements. And since I play on xbox1 I don't have access to the load order. The game automatically sorts the order. I have noticed that reducing the number of settlers does help performance a lot. Since I don't want to start a new game, I'll try to make some changes, and keep most of my settlements under the original build limit. Thanks!
My pleasure; glad it helped, (But everyone has access to the load order, even on XB1. Heck, I move stuff around all the time haha)
awesome
Thank you! :)
Wait - the batteries are FUNCTIONAL? Mind blown
happiness: 79
No mods but its over 2 bars of build limit makes sense
Cool
Absolutely awesome, one question though how did you unlock that blue computer/communications equipment at 7:18 I've seen you use it before?
Skit55 I think it's from the vault-tec DLC.
It's one of the four pieces from the molecular relay (the dish is another), and yes, the console and dish are integral to the megabuild. To unlock it, just progress in the main quest until you can build all four pieces, then build as many as you want in any settlement you want _before_ you go into the Institute. Once you've used the relay, you can no longer build, scrap, or store any of those pieces--but the existing ones will stay, and they're indestructible so you won't have to worry about repairing them if a settlement is attacked (or a remote attack fails). They also don't blow up like the ones you used to get into the Institute--tested that one extensively with hard saves the first time I tried it.
The downside is once you've built them and gone into the Institute, they're there forever. Only way to get rid of them is to rug 'em and bury 'em deep somewhere with a tall vertical piece like a conduit or the warehouse/barn supports.
Much appreciated, thank you
Hey buddy! So i just figured out that there is 2 variants of the "leather coat". One is the "travelers leather coat" and is EXTREMELY rare. Ive only ever found 1 in all my playthrus. The reason im bringing this up is that i noticed it has what looks like a beadroll attached 2 it. D u know if u can use it as a bed in survival? Just curious. It would b a really nice touch if it worked. Anyway, love me sum Sar. No homo.
Nope, the bedroll on that particular piece is just ornamental. They're not really that rare, though, Ben; you can find 'em a lot on travelers in the NW marketplace, Becky Fallon has 'em in her inventory from time to time, settlers you attract with the beacon are wearing 'em more frequently than you might suspect (I had one in two different settlements when I was luring 'em for the SZ build), and they appear anywhere you see dead settlers at the encounter spots--like the one across from Fraternal 115 and the campfire out by Concord. :)
How are some of you able to place objects on tables and containers without them falling thru?
By never leaving the settlement once I started decorating, and never exiting the game. I only had to make sure it didn't move long enough to record the tour... and the one time I _did_ have to load (when I switched to the night tour), all the stuff got knocked off the shelf in the bar area anyway. :) Without mods there's just no way to make sure stuff stays put over the long term.
Do you have a video that shows this ladder trick you are refering to?
No, but it's basically an angled version of the pillar--group select, sink, etc. It's handy when you need both height and an angle to place something; gives you a little extra reach.
How did you make the high shop walls like that? Seem like they would be a pain to make with a ladder
You're talking about the main workshop, yes? Those foundations are sinkable, and when I want to do this type of thing I put the roofs in before any interior details go in. There wasn't anything else in the way when I slid 'em up in there.
@@SarDeliac yes, sorry the area with the neon "shop" sign. You mentioned using the ladder/pillar glitch. Did you pop one of the deck/fence pieces on top of a wall and snap the rest in?
I built the walls and the roofs first, leaving the gaps, then built a full-sized floor piece in another spot away from the main building. Snapped the railings to the floor, stored the floor, then picked up the railings with a group-selected ladder and slid them into place. That way the railing series is "one piece" and it's a lot easier to line up from either inside or outside.
Edit: I'm currently building in vanilla on my Sunday streams (I start at noon Central) so if this doesn't make sense and you don't mind stoppin by then, ping me there and I can just show ya. :)
Where did you get the yellow radioactive oil cans at 7:37? I don't ever remember seeing that texture.
Enjoyed the video as always.
Big Red the Bard only by siding with the BOS. U get a side qest to craft coolant for the prydwen.
That makes sense. I've never gone through with actually siding with the BOS
After you blow up the Institute with the BOS, Ingram gives you a repeatable quest to make it for her: fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Reactor_coolant And thanks! :)
I don't understand building with junk when we have much better materials. This doesn't look like "Rebuilding the Commonwealth" but more like junkifying it. JMHO.
Since scrappy is what I'm after, sounds like mission accomplished. Thanks!
How you get the Gunner guard post?
That comes with the Vault 88 DLC. It unlocks once you complete the main questline with the Overseer.
Did you poach Jocelyn?
Naah, Jocelyn's one of a kind, but maybe she has cousins or other relatives that think a lot like her. ;)
How did you get rid of the original building that is there? I thought you could only get rid of it with a mod.... can't remember for sure now
I didn't get rid of it, I just built over it. The original broken building with the main workshop next to it is the guard's gathering room with the barracks on top; you can see the original walls in the gathering area, one of the windows and the walls in the eating area (where the lantern is) and on the left side of the breakdown room. The original hut, where the settlers slept, is the power armor garage. :)
Very good job covering that up, lol. Very nice lay-out, very cool
Thanks! It was a bitch sliding the initial flooring and walls in there; took like 20 minutes of fiddling haha :P
Why is it auto 360p?
Probably because YT is throttling traffic at busier hours now, and thanks to the pandemic they're pushing more traffic than they ever have.
SarDeliac oh ok I didn’t know that thanks for the reply!
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Put me to shame.