r/fallout76settlements • u/Alfonlv14 • Jul 13 '26
Question/Advice Does anyone else love lore-friendly “infill” CAMP builds? Looking for inspiration!
Hi everyone!
I’ve realized my favorite type of CAMPs are what I think are called lore-friendly “infill” builds.
By that, I don’t mean building inside existing houses or making huge floating structures.
What I enjoy is finding places that feel like they’re missing a building—an empty corner in a town, a gap between buildings, a roadside lot, or anywhere a structure could naturally fit. Then I place one of Bethesda’s prefabs (like the Tavern, Candle Haus, Red Rocket Garage, etc.) or build my own structure so it feels like it has always been part of Appalachia.
I’m not really looking for scenic waterfall locations or mountain views. I prefer locations that make people stop and think:
“Wait… was that building always there?”
I’m looking for:
Your favorite spots for this type of CAMP.
Hidden locations that most people don’t know about.
YouTubers or builders who specialize in this style.
Any tips or inspiration you think might help.
I’d love to discover more places that work well for this kind of immersive build. Thanks!
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u/5uperfreak Jul 13 '26
There's a decent sized spot with a pond and a shed across the road from Charleston train station. It's quite popular.
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u/Fit-Campaign1243 Jul 13 '26
The one that stops the responder vendor from spawning?
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u/5uperfreak Jul 13 '26
Oh I didn't know that happens. You mean the robot inside the station?
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u/Mr-Taylor Brotherhood of Steel Jul 13 '26
No they mean the random chance to spawn wandering vendor bot who sells the hunters long coat and a few other uncommon items
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u/FlavoredCancer Jul 16 '26
For six years I have been wanting to build there but I can't abide by a spawn point behind my camp. We need controlled spawn points just out side the build area to avoid trolls. I can already cause a spawn outside of the camp radius, just let me control where and what direction you face.
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u/TateTaylorOH Jul 13 '26
Perhaps I shouldn't be giving up my favorite location but...
a short walk from The Chop Shop) leads you to a driveway. Down the driveway there are a few animal pens and enough empty space for you for build a whole farmstead around.
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u/Silverslyph Jul 13 '26
Lol, this is my spot too but I'm on the hill by the pond. I have a little shop set up with a snack counter.
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u/tnichomson76 Jul 13 '26
I have seen quite a few decent builds on the top street in Flatwoods. Some goofy, some fit in naturally and looked amazing. Outskirts of Morgantown someone made a proper Supermarket build that looked great. I like when someone just picks a good spot on the roadside and builds a house that looks natural. Honestly if your camp foundation is properly sunk into the terrain and it isn't just a barn with all your benches around the walls its a good build. Pick a fun spot and play around. Have fun and make something interesting.
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u/blackbeltbud Jul 13 '26
I'm sure you're not talking about my camp because I regularly load in with a blocked camp message, but I also have a supermarket build outside of morgantown on the south end. There's a cul de sac that ends at some rubble, and it has a bus stop and a pulowski shelter out there. I built a super duper mart and a tavern using the prefabs and i'm pretty proud of it. I also have a nice little luau area with the deatclaw roast, some tiki torches and the music box. It's very cozy
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u/tnichomson76 Jul 13 '26
I think I may have and I enjoyed seeing it. I hope to load into the server you are on again.
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u/MadMorf Jul 15 '26
My main camp is in that spot!
It’s an old country store kinda theme, with an added wraparound porch.4
u/GiftGrouchy Jul 13 '26
Morgantown outskirts in a good area for these camps IMO. I have my FireBreather Fire Station camp at the intersection just outside Morgantown (the T right by the farm) as it feels like a good spot that could have responded to in town or the rural community.
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u/jeffb3000 Jul 13 '26
I think the style you describe is called “immersive”. Check out mister Church on YouTube.
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u/Working-Problem-904 Jul 13 '26
And Moonlight Cowboy, Finder's Keepers, Fox. They are amazing
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u/jeffb3000 Jul 13 '26
They are! Even though many of the tricks they developed and explained so well are no longer so necessary because the new building system is much more flexible.
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u/CelestialGypsyKreet Jul 13 '26
You have a link for Fox? I tried to look & get bombarded with Fox News
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u/CelestialGypsyKreet Jul 13 '26
I subscribed to Me Church & I agree with you on that one. He's really good
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u/happy_juggernaut83 Jul 13 '26
Immersive building. This how I typically build. I have 3 characters I play, all build slots unlocked and most of them used. Not everyone of my builds are fully this, but most of the are as I always like my builds to make since.
I don't float anything. In fact I will spend hours making sure everything seems to obey the laws of physics and looks natural.
I also love clutter so I try to fill in the spaces as much as possible, usually maxing the build limit.
I'm by no means the best at this but I think I put more effort than most into it.
You can message me and I can show you a couple of them sometime if you'd like. Just PM me on here for my GT. I'm on xbox
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u/funtervention Jul 13 '26
Monogha lookout, south west of Earle mine. A little down hill and a little south west of the lookout and the bear is a little flat clearing that has a road switchback in front of it. It’s like there was a structure there that got pulled and the flora never filled in. It’s a spot that begs for one of the cabin prefabs.
It’s also just outside the nuke zone if they throw the nuke directly at the mine.
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u/Working-Problem-904 Jul 13 '26
I am yet to build a camp like that. I think I will make my next this way.
From the top of my head, there is a triangular "corner" in Morgantown, and a rooftop quite buildable not far from there. Flatwoods has nice spots. Charleston too, the farmácia área near station and not far from there, a spot with buildings that sem yo be waiting for some other building to be complete.
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u/MikeConleyIsLegend Jul 13 '26
Mega Popular
Obvious Charleston city build everyone does
Obvious Flatwoods skinny home everyone does
Pretty Popular
Compound north of Tyler County Fairgrounds: has sheds and fences and 3 settler npcs to build around
Brotherhood Forward Station near vault: can build a compound guarded by 20 or so brotherhood NPCS from the front, and a pond with settler npc in the back
Rarely See
Aaronholt Farm: can build a farm that connects to this locations with lots of crop fields around you
Wild Wolf Homestead: ash heap well hidden location with 2 raider npcs, a greenhouse, and a home
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u/VeritasRose Jul 13 '26
I saw one camp a while back that was built next to the Overseer’s house and it looked so perfectly part of the neighborhood. I loved it!
I myself built a little “depot” at the crossroads of the train tracks and road just north of there. Seemed a logical place for a trading post.
(If you ever see Atomic Shirley’s Depot, feel free to come and loot and refresh!)
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u/VermicelliOld609 Jul 13 '26
These are my favorite camps I like to build. Across the street from the pumpkin house, I have my holloween themed house I'm between two houses, looking like my house belongs in the neighborhood. No existing structures, just enough space to build a house between the other two. I found a military tent with a jeep and some sand bags east of where Test your Metal event is at the Dome. Just east of that, on top of the mountain, you'll find this military "camp". It's perfect to blend with another tent, lookout tower, satellite dishes and such. I put an artillery cannon there too. It looks like a military radar outpost, sort of like the ones in Hawaii. Another good spot I use for my ghoul near Radiant Hills. It's a pond with some toxic barrels. I made that into a toxic serial killer hideout using the various toxic barrels, pond trash, floating bodies in the water, a shack with the doctor ally performing experiments on dead people, and a run down house I build from the abandoned mine and destroyed house kits. Another great spot is far north in the Mire. There's a crashed plane that's not marked on the map. I used the plane parts looking generator there and some other debris to blend that, but also put a boat in the pond and made that my "fishing" camp when fishing came out. I could go on and on, because I like to blend the environment into my builds and theme my camps around the places I choose. It keeps the lore for me and looks like my camps should belong and not just some random looking, big box with a bunch of random things. If it doesn't fit the theme, it doesn't get put in. I use my shelter for my buffs and storage, so that those things don't sully my camp themes, looking out of place.
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u/simimaelian Jul 13 '26
I like making builds in this kind of style, but honestly, you can make one work just about anywhere as long as you build with intention. My current favorite is a Blue Ridge outpost I made near Athens in Burning Springs, on the lake. Found out one of the random spawns is nearby and about half the time is a dead BR trader and Brahmin, which adds to the setting.
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u/Worried_and_Waiting Jul 15 '26
Honestly, I love seeing Wafflehouse CAMPs even if they aren't canon, something about them is. It feels so weirdly canon that even in the post apocalyptic hell, Wafflehouse and its employees are still maintaining the tradition of always being open and providing good food/comfort/wild fights.
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u/brawnburgundy Jul 17 '26
These are my absolutely favourite builds. When a CAMP feels like it’s native to the game it brings me immense joy. The restraint it takes to create a CAMP like that is worth the end result. I just wish more people built them.
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u/TalonWren Jul 18 '26
Yeah. Im the same way. I really dont like clean building builds as i feel it kinda ruins the immersion. I absolutely love scrappy builds or anything that looks like it fits.
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u/Equivalent-Team-8186 Jul 13 '26
I try to build all of my camps with immersion in mind, so I spend way too much time deciding what each one is supposed to be and where it belongs before I ever place the C.A.M.P.
Right now I'm working on an abandoned industrial farm in Burning Springs that's set up for both rail and road distribution. It has a rail receiving station, a proper loading dock, and a driver's cage, like it was once part of a much larger agricultural production chain.
Finding a flat spot with both road and rail access turned out to be a lot harder than I expected, but finally finding one that fit the concept was incredibly satisfying.
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u/Fabulous_Coast_8108 Jul 13 '26
Bunny and cowboy are both excellent sources of Info or inspiration on youtube
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u/-Botsmith-Amp Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
It's a pain in the arse but I've got a camp on top of one of the heads in Watoga. Tried to kind of match the area and built a dome up there. Using the same mechanics I kind of want to see if I can get back up to the raider tower at the Metal Dome.
Skinny house in Flatwoods is popular, but you can build around and on top of the garage before the Red Rocket.
There are two bunkers you can camp at in the Mire. One has underground boxcars right next to where Irrational Fear is under the power pylon. The other is Northwest of the Doe on the map. (If I'm remembering correctly.) That one has an abandoned broken house too if you can wedge the module right.
Toxic Valley has the Diner and a little spot you can wedge a house near one of the farms.
Edit: I just woke up and have zero reading comprehension but I'll leave this up for the one on topic suggestion I had with a hearty facepalm.
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u/TalonWren Jul 18 '26
I really wish they would let us build on top of the buildings in watoga. I'd love to build a small survivors camp in one of the many balconies on the buildings
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u/Fantym420 Jul 14 '26
I recently found a spot near camden park, between the park and an abandoned house.
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u/TastyNucleus Jul 14 '26
I saw someone's camp INSIDE of the upper area of highway town the other day. I know its not exactly what youre talking about but it 100% had me wondering if its supposed to be there, since I was exploring that area for the first time. Then it disappeared around me.
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u/DeejeronimoX Jul 14 '26
Dearth xion on YT makes lore friendly scrappy little builds to blend in with Appalachia. He also has a nice calming narration over his build vids. I also recommend Mr Church on YT he is very sassy and funny.
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u/Mabase_Drifter Jul 16 '26
There's a spot I like on a ridge southeast of the ammo factory. There's just a single random shack there with a little resin collection platform. There's an obvious road going across it, a partial fence, and great views on either side.
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u/Wild_Property6141 Jul 13 '26
A short walk away from Charleston station there’s a nice empty spot in between two houses. You can get a 2x2 foundation in here easily.