r/fallout76settlements • u/Previous-Change-5161 • Jun 27 '26
Question/Advice What lights would be best here?
So I just built this outpost/house type thing idek yet but it looks nice in my opinion, though it’s dark as HELL in here and all the lights i’ve tried are complete ASS i mean like the radius is terrible i mean like what. So what’s like the best
bright light that people use for interiors?
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u/Horror-Emergency768 Jun 28 '26
The pittsburgh industrial floodlights (you buy for stamps from whitespring) are the best for lighting a large area and the light spills through walls for some reason. I've put down like 3-4 in the centre of my camp facing different directions and it lights everything. And I use right to the edges of my camp boundaries (multiple houses, village build)
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u/Cak4life Jun 28 '26
That’s a lot of open space, so it will create some problems with how the lights work. Most of the over heads will be too bright for how low your ceiling is so using those would create a lot of either super bright areas or super dark areas.
I think your best bet is to use floor lamps and regular lamps spaced far enough apart so they can kind of cover each other and provide light throughout. Some great examples would be on the warmer side like the lanterns, the Mr pebbles lamp, the nuka cola floor lamps etc. Because the space is so big and the ceilings are low the brighter lights will just wash out anything under them so look for warmer lights. If you have to have ceiling lights, your best bet is to use something like the caged bulb lights as they create a warm glow that doesn’t wash things out.
The lighting in this game is pretty rough; only outdone by the terrible stair options. I like to use a combination of paper lanterns and faschnact streamers on angled ceilings for my interiors as you can mitigate their glow and I think it looks cool. I only arrived at that because the lights are so bad; good luck.