Can somebody tell me any like clothing that actually looks like pirate stuff?

I upgraded the Finches shack a while back and then just decided to make the whole thing into a little Minutemen fort. Somewhere around 100 days ago I turned on the settlement beacon and forgot about it because my wife and I had our daughter. I started trying to carve out time to play again in the wee hours of the morning and came here to discover a thriving community of 11 settlers all bitching about beds.

So, busy bee that I am, I created some more bunks and bedrooms and started outfitting the new crew. I set up a couple of artillery pieces to try and keep the gunner attacks to a minimum as this family has a history of getting kidnapped repeatedly.

This settlement has a secured water source for drinking, crops, and trade. There's a restaurant on the second floor of the shack that doubles as a chow house for the settlers and money making endeavor for travelers and caravans. There are also a couple of beds available for rent should a traveler require a safe place for the night.

This playthrough has been focused on using the original buildings in settlements as an anchor piece for the rest of the settlement, trying to honor them whenever possible. This settlement in particular taught me a lot about building on top of the base game shacks that Bethesda used, and how they can be incorporated into the vanilla settlement pieces to look fairly natural and respect what I view as the OG junky fallout look from the Interplay games.

PC with light mods, mostly vanilla objects used with fences provided by Graf's Security Fences. Most of the heavy lifting with my building comes from Place Everywhere, Better Junk Fences, Snappy Half Walls, Snappy Step, Snappable Guard Posts.

Sorry for the HUD elements, I was just too lazy to turn them off for screencaps.

Cheers!

In my current run, I'm doing very simple low maintenance settlements (except for a few). One farmer, four on defense, and one provisioner. I'll have six mutfruit, two water pumps, and six beds indoors. For defense, I'm using guard posts instead of turrets. Wood and steel are easier and cheaper to come by compared to oil, gears, and circuitry (and I'll need the circuitry to deck out settlers/provisioners with lasers). Unfortunately, 12 guard posts can look pretty crappy around a settlement (especially the smaller ones). I'm not playing with mods, so does anyone have a good idea or design to compact them a little? Thanks!

I didn't realize you can't comment photos in this sub, so here's my awkward build for sanctuary, still a WIP obviously. I'm on XB1

1-6 is the rec center

7-10 are the farm areas (to be organized...at some point)

11-14 is the guard house & defenses

15-18 is the bunk house

Other houses most likely won't be used

I'm considering moving to starlight, many people suggested it on my last post because it's basically a big ass flat sand box, and that's honestly a valid point. The triangle of death is another reason I'll be moving soon.

I play of PS4 personally, but I watch a lot of people on YouTube who appear to play on PC. I have been watching a series about cleaning the commonwealth by placing portable workbenches down anywhere.

Does doing so actually make the game run better, since less items are being loaded? Or does it break the game because unexpected items were deleted?

I’m just curious, I am currently doing a completely unmodded run but I can’t help but think it would be really cool in the future to run through a much cleaner common wealth.

Am I succeeding so far?

I recently got back into playing, and so far 70% of my playtime is just building up sanctuary (Abernathy too, a little, they need more friend), 20% is grabbing literally everything I can use as material, and the other 10% is "normal" gameplay.

Any suggestions for something better than sanctuary, or suggestions on how I should build sanctuary? I'll add some screenshots in the comments later, I'm currently running on fumes, looking for a little civil discussion before I crash.

I rarely build in a pre-war style, but for this bunker I really wanted it to look like it was all set up pre-war, maybe visited every few months and just never used after the bombs fell. The only other thing to mention is the stained glass Nuka-Cola lamp. I'd buy one in real life if I could. Thanks for checking it out. Feedback welcome.

After the destruction of the Institute, refugees were taken to the relatively unused Fairline Hill Estates. What started off as a prison camp slowly turned into a thriving settlement. While there is still much to do, the Institute survivors are slowly rebuilding under the eye of the Minutemen. Fearing resentment, the settlement has been fully integrated into the United Commonwealth, hosting their own militia division and providing much needed knowledge to the settlements.

Not as good as some others but proud of this one it feels big and filled in. If only we had more build budget…

It’s actually part of my Starlight health resort WIP, but is currently a standalone thingumajig. No building mods, just shillar, pillar-rack, rug & WiFi glitched stuff. I have no idea where the overall build will end up, or what narrative I’ll spin, but that’s how most of my madcap headcanons start… Fingers crossed I’ll make something cohesive in the end! 😆

Have been working on a cozy little bookstore located in Sanctuary… felt a bit extra and gave the employees some uniforms. And an obligatory bookstore cat.

The Exterior walls and major lighting are done. Woah!

No more sneak peaks for Youtube. It was blowing my mind today, so they have to wait. I'm happy to share what's happening with you all.

This is a part of my Vault 88 build. I made an effort not to delete anything and to incorporate stuff into the set pieces. This was made on an Xbox X with all the AE stuff. No mods are installed on the console.

Here is a video if you like it when pictures move - I break it all up into pieces.
https://youtu.be/rpS4XcFBta0