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[mALX]

Here is my totally unmodded (just using the in-game Editor) Sanctuary Hills Settlement. (working on making a modded one; not tested it in game yet). I haven't put a beacon up yet; so no Settlers yet. (Just Misa; Codsworth; Dogmeat; Trashcan Carla and her Brahman).




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This post has been edited by mALX: Jan 19 2019, 05:02 AM

[SubRosa]

Wow, that is really involved! I never to go nearly that much effort. Mostly I just put up walls around the settlement, and do some decorating in whatever building my current character is living in.

[mALX]

Wow, that is really involved! I never to go nearly that much effort. Mostly I just put up walls around the settlement, and do some decorating in whatever building my current character is living in.

Well actually, in game that is the only house I've decorated too = the Rosa house where the Workstation is. I liked it better than the Player house.

I haven't actually gotten any Settlers yet; have been really hesitant to get that started until I've done some things in game - because from what I heard; you have to kind of be at their beck and call every time they get attacked or unhappy; and everyone said even you staying away several days makes them unhappy! So if you have several Settlements, do you have to go spend three days at each one continuously throughout your game?

And what if you are at a crucial point in a quest and get that message that your Settlement is being attacked; I wasn't sure if I should leave them to their fate to finish the quest or race home to "protect them" (like all those laser turrets couldn't do that better than me running there from the other side of the Commonwealth, lol).

Oh, and someone said that the Settlers even get gripey if you give them each a TV because the TV's sometimes glitch and that ticks off the Settlers! So my Settlers won't be getting a TV, I'll have Misa dance to entertain them, lol.

So yeah, I've been a bit afraid of what all it would involve to start getting Settlers in there. I was kind of just enjoying playing with the builder for a while; and hoping eventually to get everything in order and working properly before starting that part of the game. I've been working on Sanctuary Hills (in game/without mods) for over a month now, so it has taken a long time to amass all this. I've been exploring the Commonwealth while avoiding any main quest stuff whenever possible; and Trashcan Carla sells bulk supplies for building; which is really handy since she tends to get stuck in Sanctuary (but her inventory continues to flip over regularly).

But on fixing the houses = some Youtube vid said that the Settlers wouldn't be happy with leaking roofs; broken windows; or foundations with no floor coverings. I tried all those "placing windows using the rug glitch" tricks, and couldn't get a thing to work well enough = so boarded up all the windows in my settlement, as much as I hated to do it.

The roofs was easy, those huge foundation blocks hid the trashy mess and actually looked decent; but the floors...not sure how to get a floor in there over those piles of leaves and junk that can't be removed. I tried wooden floor pieces = they were the perfect height to cover the debris, but extremely hard to place without the CK or hours of fiddling with the XYZ axis's.

I saw some cute checkered floor pieces in the Vault package, but haven't found them in my workshop menu at all; I have no idea how to get them.

On the water treatment plant and power station = I actually had just one purifier; one pump; and every single house had its own (very loud) 3 amp generator. The noise was terrible, I couldn't stand to even go near any of the houses to work on them; so decided the best thing to do would be to scrap all those little generators and make a few big ones instead. I put them down at the water with the purifier and pump so I wouldn't have to hear them either, lol.

The street lights act as conduits (except without the "area of effect that the other conduits have) = so wiring the town by running streetlights down the road was a given; then just running one wire from the street lamp closest to each house and putting a real conduit there made it all look better than those big pylons everywhere. (each house has a big pylon on their roof though).

Then last week some vid I saw said the settlers all drank at least 1 water per day; and that the purifiers and pumps have a day down times where they "rest." Something else I saw said Sanctuary would probably get 20 Settlers; so my one pump and purifier wasn't going to cut it. So last week I made that Power Station and Water Treatment Plant. (like an idiot; made the building first then tried to stick the machines in it, lol).

The building was kind of mish-moshed together; but I liked it too much to tear it down. In the end it worked perfectly = er...well, since no Settlers are there; I am just hoping it will work perfectly, lol. Not really sure it will; but hoping.

And this week I just changed over from machine gun turrets to laser = again, due to the loud racket of the machine gun turrets. The laser ones make noise; but not nearly as much.

By not letting the Settlers in yet; I've been able to do a lot more to fix the place up than I could have otherwise.

Oh, if you have any tips on what happens when you do start getting Settlers; (or things they gripe about, etc) = I'd love to hear them! Does the game actually ever tell you what makes them upset? I mean, how do you find out that they don't like TV's or no floors? Do they say something to the player and you just have to listen?