The settlements system is probably the most substantial change to come to the Fallout series, overhauling the focus of the game and aiming it towards the rehabilitation of the radiation-torn wastelands.

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When the Sole Survivor first emerges from Vault 111, they travel back to their original neighborhood of Sanctuary Hills to find it in ruins. Sanctuary Hills is your first settlement, where you can learn how to use all the tools you’ll need for building settlements in the rest of the game.

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Be sure to check out our scrapping for beginners guide for what items to look for. Additionally, our fiber optics and steel guide will teach you the fastest and easiest way to acquire those materials. Should you run out of adhesive, this guide will help.

To enter crafting mode for settlements, find a red Workshop table. This will trigger placement mode. A green line will appear around the borders of the settlement, marking where you can build and scrap materials. Items that can be scrapped for components will be highlighted in yellow. You may also scrap the items highlighted in green, however those items (mostly furniture but other objects as well) can also be placed within your inventory for later use. When you open up the menu and choose an item to build, if you already have one stored in the Workshop, a number will appear in the thumbnail indicating how many you have in stock. This is useful in Sanctuary Hills, where there are many re-usable items still available. However, in most of your settlements you will need to start from scratch and bring in components from elsewhere.

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Gather materials from the settlement site by scrapping everything of use. This cleans up the settlement area. From there, choose what you need to build based on the needs of your settlers. Materials that have been scrapped will go into the inventory of the settlement site’s crafting table. Each inventory is specific to that location, and resources are not shared across sites.

Fortunately, if and when you acquire the Charisma 6 perk “Local Leader”, you will be able to establish supply lines between your settlements and share resources. To build supply lines, enter Workshop mode, select a Settler and instruct them to establish a supply line to another settlement. This will allow both settlements to share materials during base-building, although the Workshop inventory will only show you items available locally.

Necessities and Structures

Sufficient resources must be built to match the population of your settlement, including defense, water, and food. Here are some items you should plan for from the start, and their necessary ingredients.

Beds

Your settlers all need a place to sleep. You will need up to 20 beds. They require Steel and Cloth of varying quantities. You can also build Sleeping Bags, which only require Cloth.

Water

Your settlers need plenty of water. The item you will use the most for this will be the Water Pump. Here are your options.

Water Pump (provides water for 3)

Concrete 1
Gears 1
Steel 4

Water Purifier (must be built on water, requires 3 Power, provides water for 10)

Oil 2
Ceramic 2
Rubber 5
Copper 2
Steel 10
Cloth 2

Copper will also be required to hook the Purifier up to a Small Generator.

Industrial Water Purifier (must be built on water, requires 5 Power, provides water for 40)

Oil 4
Ceramic 2
Rubber 10
Copper 4
Steel 20
Cloth 4
Screw 6

Copper will also be required to hook the Purifier up to a power source. A Small Generator is insufficient.

Water can be pumped by your player character. It will show up as purified water in your Workshop inventory. This makes for an easy early source of healing but also caps. Use them for trade in Sanctuary Hills when a traveling vendor shows up.

Food

Your settlers need a source of food.

Pick vegetables or fruits at other nearby sites and plant them in Workshop mode. You can also plant the items you find out in the Commonwealth, but not if they are labeled “Wild”. Some of the crops you can grow include Carrots, Tato (a potato-tomato hybrid), Corn, Gourd, Melon, Mutfruit, and Razorgrain. You also build a Bathtub as a Brahmin Feed Trough to attract and keep Brahmin nearby. It requires 2 Steel and 8 Ceramic.

Power

Your settlers need Power, especially because you need it to run the Recruit Radio Beacon that attracts other settlers.

There are a lot of options but you will mostly need the Small Generator. Bear in mind that all items requiring Power must be attached to your power source with a Copper wire. If the item that you wish to power has no number near the Energy symbol in its menu, that means it requires ambient Energy instead of direct Energy. For that you will need a Pylon, which must be attached to a Generator. More details are in our guide about powering your settlement.

Small Generator (produces 3 Power)

Gears 2
Steel 4
Rubber 2
Copper 2
Ceramic 1

Medium Generator (produces 5 Power)

Screw 3
Gears 3
Steel 7
Rubber 3
Copper 3
Ceramic 3

Large Generator (produces 10 Power, requires Rank 1 of the Science! perk)

Gears 6
Screw 5
Rubber 4
Copper 10
Aluminum 12
Nuclear Material 3

Windmill (produces 3 Power)

Steel 15
Copper 4
Aluminum 10
Gears 2

More elaborate Power-related structures can be made but this is what you will need to start out.

Defense

Your settlers need defense, and for that they need posts they can guard. Use the commands available in crafting mode to assign a settler to guard at a specific post. The amount of Defense you need is equal to the sum of your Water and Food resources. Plan your Defense based on that, not the number of settlers you have.

Guard Post (produces 2 Defense)

Wood 10
Steel 4

Guard Tower (produces 2 Defense)

Wood 12
Steel 6

Machine Gun Turrets

Your settlers will be able to devote themselves to other tasks if Machine Gun Turrets guard their settlement. Set up Guard Posts first, then convert to Machine Gun Turrets as you can. You will mostly need the regular Machine Gun Turret, but here are your options. Some will require perks to unlock.

Machine Gun Turret (produces 5 Defense)

Steel 8
Circuitry 1
Gear 2
Oil 2

Heavy Machine Gun Turret (produces 8 Defense, requires Rank 1 of Gun Nut)

Steel 10
Circuitry 2
Gear 2
Oil 4

Laser Turret (requires 2 Power, produces 8 Defense, requires Rank 1 of the Science! perk)

Aluminum 5
Circuitry 3
Screw 3
Fiber Optics 4
Gears 2
Nuclear Material 2
Steel 5
Glass 3

Shotgun Turret (requires 2 Power, produces 8 Defense, requires Rank 2 of the Gun Nut perk)

Aluminum 4
Circuitry 5
Screw 4
Gears 4
Oil 5
Steel 6

Spotlight (requires 2 Power, produces 2 Defense)

Circuitry 1
Screw 1
Gear 2
Steel 6
Oil 1
Glass 2

Heavy Laser Turret (requires 2 Power, produces 12 Defense, requires Rank 3 of the Science! perk)

Crystal 4
Aluminum 7
Circuitry 4
Screw 4
Fiber Optics 4
Gears 3
Nuclear Material 4
Steel 3

Missile Turret (requires 2 Power, produces 15 Defense, require Rank 3 of Gun Nut)

Aluminum 6
Circuitry 6
Screw 5
Gears 5
Oil 6
Steel 6

Traps

You can also build traps. Your options are:

Tesla Arc (requires 1 Power, produces 2 Defense)

Steel 2
Copper 3
Circuitry 1

Radiation Emitter (requires 1 Power, produces 2 Defense)

Screw 2
Nuclear Material 3
Lead 2
Steel 2

Flamethrower Trap (requires 1 Power, produces 3 Defense)

Screw 2
Rubber 4
Aluminum 4
Oil 6

Recruitment Radio Beacon

Your settlers need other survivors to join them so their site will grow and become more prosperous.

Circuitry 2
Crystal 2
Copper 6
Steel 10
Ceramic 3
Rubber 1

Finding some of these items, like Circuitry, Gears, and Copper, will be difficult. You can purchase some shipments of necessary items from traveling vendors or sellers in the Diamond City Market, but for the most part you should track them down yourself. Try to aim for items that contain multiple components such as the items below so as to use your space most efficiently. Most can be found looting buildings. The remains of Machine Gun Turrets and Synths are good for some of these parts. If you’re having trouble keeping track of what you need, use the Search function within an item you wish to build. While you’re looting, a small magnifying glass icon will appear next to components you need to build it.

One item you’ll need a lot of is Cloth, as you’ll need a lot of it to make the beds necessary for each settlement. You can have up to 20 settlers, and they’re all going to want their own bed. Some resources for Cloth include Newspapers, Cigarette Cartons, Cigar Cartons, and Pre-War Money. Pre-War Money is probably the best, as it does not take up any weight in your inventory.

Shops

You can build shops in your town to attract more settlers. It will require at least one Perk, but sometimes more. For instance you cannot build a vendor’s stand without having Level 2 in Local Leader which is a CHR 6 level Perk. To build a Clinic, you have to have both Rank 2 in Local Leader AND Rank 1 in Medic. To build the third level of the Armor Stand, you need Rank 2 in Cap Collector in addition to Local Leader. And so on and so forth. Here are each and their requirements.

Trading

Trading Stand (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader perk, and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 300
Steel 3

Trading Shop (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader perk, and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 500
Steel 3

Trading Emporium (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader, Rank 2 of Cap Collector and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 1500
Steel 3

Armor

Armor Stand (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 500
Steel 3

Armor Shop (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 1000
Steel 3

Armor Emporium (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader and Cap Collector and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 3000
Steel 3

Weapons

Weapons Stand (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader perk and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 500
Steel 3

Weapons Shop (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader perk and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 1000
Steel 3

Weapons Emporium (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader and Cap Collector perks and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 3000
Steel 3

Food and Drink

Drink Stand (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader perk and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 250
Steel 3

Bar (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader perk and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 500
Steel 3

Restaurant (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader and Cap Collector perks and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 1500
Steel 3

Medical

First Aid Station (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader perk, Rank 1 of Medic perk and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecap 600
Steel 3

Clinic (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader perk, Rank 1 of Medic perk and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 1200
Steel 3

Surgery Center (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader perk, Rank 1 of Medic Perk and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 1800
Steel 3

Clothing

Clothing Stand (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader perk and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 200
Steel 3

Clothing Shop (requires Rank 2 of Local Leader perk and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 400
Steel 3

Clothing Emporium (requires Rank 2 of the Local Leader and Cap Collectors perks and 1 Settler to attend)

Wood 5
Bottlecaps 1000
Steel 3

There are five copies of the magazine Picket Fences, each awarding a new item for use in your settlement: picket fences, high tech lighting, statues, potted plants, and patio furniture.

Settlers can be recruited through dialogue, even named NPCs. You will meet potential settlers in camps everywhere. You must be allied with a location in order to build upon it. You can become allied with a potential settlement location by helping one of the NPCs there with a quest. Talk to one of them to start a mission.

If your settlement is struggling to grow and your Happiness has dipped below 80%, don’t forget that you can check on your settler’s needs in your Pip Boy in the data menu. Distress is denoted by a triangle with an exclamation point. Whatever resource is marked must be expanded upon in order to stimulate growth. Most settlements will be fine if the amount of food and water and beds match the population, but defenses will need to be much higher. They must at least match the sum of your food and water.

You will need to focus on turrets over outposts at a certain point in the settlement’s growth, because posts need to be attended by settlers, which takes manpower away from your crops. See the entries above to find out what perks are required and what parts you will need to scavage to start building turrets.

This document is an active work in progress. Check back for more soon. And if you haven’t checked out Gameranx’s Fallout 4 review, click here!

I will start this review with a disclaimer: from the start, I’ve played this game with mods. None of the mods I use are game breaking, or cheat-y, but it IS fairly well modded. A map upgrade, extra songs on the radio, SIM settlements, some better textures, etc. Playing the game for the first time so long after it initially came out means that I was able to find out what everyone else’s biggest complaints about the vanilla game (such as settlements being pointless) were, and find the mods that addressed those issues. If you have, do, or will play without mods or different mods, your mileage may vary.

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*Minor spoilers follow*

First, I really liked being able to see what the Fallout world was like, if in a very limited way, before the war. Sure, there have always been glimpses of what the past was like in previous games, but I enjoyed actually being there for a few minutes. Nuclear war breaks out, and you take shelter in your vault, where you and the family are cryogenically frozen. Some amount of time passes, and you are thawed out but still locked in your pod. You witness some people open your spouse’s pod, take your baby, and kill your spouse when they resist, then you are re-frozen. You eventually thaw out, and go looking for your baby/ revenge.

As soon as you leave the vault, you are free to go wherever, and do what you want. However, most people I think will likely do what I did, which is to follow the objectives… at first. So you go back to your old house, for some reason, and shockingly the kidnappers did not take your baby there. You do however run into your old housekeeping robot, who eventually directs you to a nearby town. Once you head there, you fight some raiders to help out the first faction most people run across: the Minutemen. You also get your first suit of power armor here. After this quest finishes, you find out they haven’t seen anyone with a baby (although I’m not sure why, after finding out I’ve been frozen, my character assumes that the kidnapping JUST took place and my baby is still an infant).

It’s from this point that the game really throws you into the “do whatever” frame of mind. Preston, the Minuteman suggests that you might find some information in Diamond City, while he and the other survivors are going to go establish a settlement in your old town. If you escort him, you start getting quests to upgrade the settlement, then to go help other settlements, and so forth. If you head to Diamond City, you will encounter some bad guys along the way, probably unlock some new locations, and probably get some more quests as well. Either way, the Commonwealth is now yours for the exploring.

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I will NOT be writing a full review for this game for a few reasons. First, as I mentioned in the intro, my game is modded, so my experience is going to be different than anyone who doesn’t have the same exact mods. Second, and more importantly, much like Skyrim, Fallout is full of options, and it’s up to you which ones you take, and how you approach them. There are just SO many side missions, and locations out there. And each one is only as in-depth as you want it to be. Here’s an example (spoilers, again):

I took one of many optional “go help this settlement” missions, and as usual, the people in need directed me to go take out some raiders that were harassing them, who in this case were headquartered at a local mine. First, I spent a good deal of time outside of the mine, because I decided I wanted the power armor that one of the raiders was wearing. So I systematically (and stealthily) took out all of the other raiders. Then I positioned myself along his patrol route, and hid in the shadows with my stealth boy ready. Once he got to me, I activated my stealth, then followed behind him so that I could pickpocket the power core out of his suit, forcing him to exit it. This mine, by the way, is named after the company that owns it: Dunwich Borers. Haha, I chuckle to myself, because I am a Lovecraft fan.

So I enter the mine and make my way towards the raider leader for the quest. On my way, I come across a computer terminal, and after checking it out, I find out that the mining company is shady and didn’t care about safety at all. There’s also a note asking the foreman of section one to come down to section four, marked urgent. I fight my way further into the mine, and the rumbling and shaking increase. I get to section two, and there’s another terminal. Among the other files there’s a message for the foreman of section two to ALSO come to section four, urgent. Huh. Okay, I think, so the raider leader will be at station four. Except I find the raider leader at the section three terminal. And then I find a door leading to (presumably) section four, which is chained up.

At this point, I’m really curious, so I continue on. I open the door, and there is a series of blinding flashes as circuit breakers blow… some sort of power surge, I guess? The shaking and rumbling continue to increase. I find a bunch of feral ghouls in this area, and have a few moments where there are some visual… oddities. I keep seeing things, like I’m in a different place. I get to section four and… nothing. Huh. I look around, and there’s a holotape, with some vague entry about the other foremen “suspecting something”, and “our goal is almost achieved”. I pass through one last door, and some more feral ghouls attack me, but these ones are named, with the names of the foremen. And the chamber they’re in has a hole filled with highly radioactive water. I happen to have a hazmat suit, so I put it on and go for a dive. At the bottom I find a partially excavated giant face, presumably some sort of statue, and an altar (among other items) a sacrificial dagger. The story is never fully explained, or spelled out, but there was some sort of conspiracy to awaken some sort of Lovecraft-ian dark god, complete with human sacrifice and everything. Was the dark magic real? Did that explain my visions? Or was it brought on by gas or something down in the tunnels?

This is the sort of thing I ADORE from a game. Backstory and depth that are left to YOU to discover. They didn’t hide it behind super complicated or difficult tasks, I didn’t have to do anything un-intuitive to find it. Just, if I was willing to put in the time to explore, and see where the threads of a hint of a story took me, I was rewarded. This was not the only such instance. There have been several times where, if I took my time, and investigated the world around me, I found some cool stuff, which always made the world seem a little more deep, and varied, and lived in. It wasn’t always a series of emails and holotapes like in the mine… sometimes it was just how a skeletal corpse was positioned, the items I found on or near a body, a nametag, etc. The common thread though, was that if I rushed through, I missed a lot, and if I took the time and indulged my curiosity, I was rewarded.

This sort of slow, patient gameplay is not for everyone. I do not know how interesting the game would be to people that like to run through every encounter and every location. If that’s your preferred play style, then you may not get a lot out of this game. But for me, after thirty five hours, I am not even CLOSE to being done with this game (compared to the previous games I’ve reviewed where once I hit the thirty-ish hour mark I would rush towards the end because I was ready to be done). And I only have the base game, I don’t even own any of the DLC yet. This game was definitely worth my money and my time! I am stopping the official review here, but I may add more as an addendum as I progress through the main story.

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I managed to get eighty three hours into this game before I lost all motivation to play. And it was not a subtle, gradual thing. Every day I looked forward to playing, and I got to a point where I made a manual save so that I could pursue the ending for each faction. Choosing at random, I first did the Railroad. Once I finished that, I loaded back up at my earlier save and did the Institute. And then… I just had no desire to do any more. I tried turning it back on to do another faction, and I just sat there doing nothing. I think a large part of the problem was that nothing was challenging anymore. My character build was awesome, and I got to a point where legendary sentry bots and legendary alpha deathclaws were trivial. Master locks and computer terminals were nothing to me. Sure, I could have increased the difficulty, but artificial difficulty for difficulty’s sake does not appeal to me (which is why I could not care less about trying Cuphead).

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So I’m done, and ready to move on to the next game on my list. I had a LOT of fun with Fallout 4, much as I did with New Vegas. I would have considered this one to be money well spent even if I had paid full price for it. Considering that I got it on sale for $15, it was one hell of a steal.