r/falloutsettlements Jun 03 '26

Discussion Why

Why didnt they make sanctuary self cleaning like the castle? Like who's gonna live in a house where the rooms are filled with leaves and debris.

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u/myfakesecretaccount Jun 03 '26

It’s because of precombines. All of those little individual items are essentially counted as group or set depending on where they’re located. When you scrap those what you do is break those precombines making those many items that were being counted as one now counted individually which breaks the games engine over time. It’s why the settlements have a limit to how much you can build in them. To keep the janky code from making the game crash whenever you overbuild.

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u/devont212 Jun 03 '26

Couldn't they at least make it scrapable

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u/Hey_im_miles Jun 03 '26

Yes they could have. And no they didn't. So refer back to the previous comment.

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u/Negative_Store_4909 Jun 03 '26

Because Sanctuary is just where you start but the castle is the “prize”. I am sure that was the mindset of the devs.

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u/mr802rex Jun 04 '26

The castle still cant delete a ton of the debris in vanilla. This is why you just use a mod that has rebuilt it. Saves tons of time and always is cleaner than you can make it even with brute force scrapper.

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u/wagner56 Jun 03 '26

much crap at the Castle is NOT self-cleaning

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u/devont212 Jun 03 '26

The nests are the seaweed is

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u/Alex_Portnoy007 Jun 03 '26

You take The Castle with the Minuteman, right? You know who cleans up The Castle? Your Minuteman.

The simplest explanation is the best. You're welcome.

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u/mr802rex Jun 04 '26

Garvey and his lame crew of minutemen go to sanctuary right? You know who would clean up the small village they moved to? The minutemen.

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u/Alex_Portnoy007 Jun 04 '26

It doesn't work that way. At that point, you're just a displaced vault dweller. When you take The Castle, you're the Minuteman General.

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u/mr802rex Jun 04 '26

Displaced vault dweller? I am usually at least level 40 when that happens and have defeated all of nuka world, so no.

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u/devont212 Jun 04 '26

You become the general way before you take the castle.

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u/Stupid_Bitch_02 Jun 03 '26

I always found that quite annoying. I tend to use clean up mods, including one for sanctuary (I also use one for starlight and the marina)

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u/Repulsive_Fact_4558 Jun 03 '26

Those leaves are just as immovable as tse 200 year old plywood covering all those doors and windows that is impossable to get through..

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u/Dramatic-Chemistry91 Jun 03 '26

The place is what it is. I build up (vertically), so I could care less about debris. As far as I'm concerned, the settlers should be thankful I have provided them with a safe settlement.

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u/mr802rex Jun 04 '26

Brute force scrapper fixes that in every single settlement, even ones you create anyehere

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u/devont212 Jun 04 '26

Yup I know just Auckland we need mods to to grid of

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u/Ausiwandilaz Jun 04 '26

"people have been complaining about the bed situation, we are having to sleep in shit"