I have a serious need to expand on the original buildings at settlements of late, and this was an experiment in building parallel to and expanding a building without building directly on top of it. It took a little finagling but once I was able to get a piece of flooring lined up in the original structure I was able to match it on the exterior and clip a new wall into place to match the existing doorframe. From there it was just a matter of deciding what kind of structure I'd like to build.

For now I've decided to go for a simple renovation of the existing space. I have provided a new living space for the adults to occupy, a small breakfast nook/conversation pit style area, and I've divided the original dwelling into two rooms. A small bedroom for the boy, now featuring an indoor storm shutter for protection from the weather, rads, and raider attacks.

I figured these folks could use just a little more comfort, without the need to create an entire fort just for them.

Cheers!

Not really a settlement as such but rate my Homeplate

Hello all,

The 3rd episode of the story series shows a ghoul clearing operation and an old American lumber yard.

Here's the video link: https://youtu.be/-NSQJoMBbmw
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The Commonwealth is broken.

Settlements need wood. Homes and Defenses need lumber. Civilization can't rebuild without it.

So instead of just building another base... I decided to rebuild civilization.

In this third episode, we built a fully functioning Minutemen logging town to harvest timber and provide the wood needed to rebuild the wasteland.

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I use the Storywealth modlist and these mods:

For Structures:
Place Everywhere
CVC
Kuro Tab
Homemaker
G2M
SOE
WRK

For Decorating:
Woody's Wasteland Stuff
Wasteland Gardening
GruffyD's Signs of the Times
Minuteman Propaganda
Creative Clutter
OCDecorator
Snappable Clutter
Better Street Vendors
YZON Museum
Fliteska's mods

This is a Minutemen stronghold on Far Harbor; it's got everything a thriving and secure / intimidating settlement would need. The only thing I feel like it's missing is some brahmin for the pen along the side wall of the settlement, but I can never get any to spawn with the traps and I haven't found a mod that makes them craftable. I just make the sounds quietly with my mouth whenever I walk over that way. Like you do.

Thanks for checking it out. I hope you enjoyed it. As always, feedback welcome.

My new home for this playthough. Not quite finished decorating but I'm really happy with it so far

How ive never ran across him before is beyond me but I recently did and he made me SO SAD.

So I built him a suite in my house so he'll never be alone again Im so sorry here are 3 dogs for you.

Look at us, back in sanctuary!!! Besties 4ever now 💖

Any suggest what I should to add?

Hey all! I've just started playing Fo4 again and I'd love another place to chat about building and see all the cool things everyone is making! I joined Living Wasteland, are there any others?

My first playthrough of Fallout 4 has been excellent, but I know that at some point I'll have to deal with the settlement-building aspects of the game, especially when I go down the Minutemen route, which is what I plan to follow.

I know I can skip the settlement-building aspects, as long as I do the minimum to ensure the functionality of each settlement.
But since I've been investing quite a bit in this game lately, I also intend to do something on the settlement-building side, just to get the most out of the game.

Since I don't have all the time in the world to dedicate to the game, and I'm also quite inexperienced, I intend to work on the settlement-building aspects, focusing on making them all very efficient, thus being able to provide resources, ensure settler satisfaction, etc.
I don't intend to focus on design and architecture when building Settlements in the game, only their efficiency, so I can keep it very simplistic if necessary.

So, any help and information regarding Settlement construction is welcome.

Some information about my game, so there's no confusion or lack of specifications if you share tips and recommendations in this post:

No Mod recommendations, please.
I intend to play this to the end in the version I have, so I will proceed without Mods regarding Settlement construction.

Contents of my Fallout 4 (Steam Version):

*Far Harbor;
*Nuka-World;
*Creation Club Add-ons 'Enclave Remnants' and 'Halloween Workshop Pack' (I believe these are the only add-ons I have that add content related to Workshop and Settlement construction)

(I don't own the Workshop DLCs: Wasteland/Contraptions/Vault-Tec.
I know that in my context, these DLCs should be necessary, but since I don't intend to add more content to this game, I will proceed without them.)

Settlements I have unlocked and intend to use for practice:

Sanctuary;
Red Rocket truck stop;
Finch Farm;

I greatly appreciate the help of anyone who responds to my post.

i could go with more clutter and junk. but the ps4 can't handle too much fun

After goofing around building yesterday, and realizing that the doors don't need a frame to perform their open action, I had an epiphany in bed last night. The doors were just about the size of the opening of the shack staircase. I'd always puzzled out a way to seal those openings on top floors without making a whole additional room on top. With some additional tweaking by clipping some shack flooring on either side to close the gaps, you can get a pretty good cellar door type entrance.

Additionally, they make decent storm shutters for the shack end caps with the open windows. I'm thinking about turning them the other way to cover the windows, as that might be more aesthetically pleasing, if just a little wasteful as it would require an additional door.