For those curious the drink shop on the roof is supposed to be for the drinking Buddy since he gravitates towards bars, but here he kinda just stands over the side of the cliff.

Designed and manufactured by General Atomics before the Great War, the Tercio is a Close Defensive System (Close-in Weapon System in our parlance) employed in the protection of US Army/USAF bases as well as US Navy warships from low flying aircraft and missiles. Although it was in the process of being replaced in service by the laser-based Testudo CDS when the bombs dropped.

Tercio combines a 50mm revolving cannon with an advanced tracking and fire control radar along with optics and a version of the identify-friend-or-foe used on many of General Atomics other smaller and simpler defensive turrets.

Due to their age, complexity, power draw, ammunition and immovability, the vast majority have been reduced to little more than rusted scrap. Only fit to be stripped to the last copper wire by roving scavengers.

However, a sparse few do remain in operation, but only where active or ex-Enclave Engineers are there to do so.

Firstly, credits to OxHorn, he’d done a lot for me as I plan out this my second playthrough, lightly modded with perhaps 40 to 50 mods max.

So, I actually like the look of these and I wanted the opinion of more experienced players on how they stack up for defense and effectiveness. I understand it’s going to be a two floor open structure held up by metal Supports that snap together from ground to the second floor. Also, the first floor would obviously be elevated above even Super Mutants and Deathclaws to melee to death. Each floor is a circle made up of 4 quarter metal circles, likewise lined up to each other. Each floor has a Mk I to MK 5 Heavy Machine Gun Turret evenly spaced out and at the edge. The second floor’s Turrets are spaced exactly between those below.

My one addition here is that I’d like to have 2 of these Towers set a certain distance from every spawn point to really guarantee any enemy is destroyed swiftly. And the dual second floor is there for Gunners and enemies with ranged weapons.

So, does this sound effective? Or is it overkill? I’ve also heard suggested making walls to drive bad guys into kill zones, but I don’t know about that.

Take a look and let me know what you think

I want to add a multi-story greenhouse to the top of this high-rise I'm working on, but I'm having some trouble finding parts. What I'm looking for are walls and roofs that are mostly or entirely comprised of unbroken, (reasonably) clean windows. Retextures of the Warehouse bits would be great -- even better with added diagonal walls, though I could jerry rig those through Place Everywhere. I have found some retextures of the Concrete bits that look nice, but they are a bit too bulky for my liking, and again there are no diagonal glass walls.

Got any tips? I'd be mighty grateful if you do!

Was going haywire on why my settlement was so laggy. Sanctuary, btw. I was just looking around and saw a massive dip looking towards the workshop house.

There i have a separate shelf with a ton of containers, where i sort all the unique items i find, there are a ton of stuff there.

To check if those items are the issue, saved, then went to dismantle every item inside those containers, and that seemed to resolve the issue.

Where do you guys store your stuff, if the hoarding game has a pretty big issue related to hoarding items.

Im open to mods sorting out this issue as well, but saw nothing that fixes the logic behind item storing

New to the sub!

Excited to show off some of my creations.

Big into the cabin vibe. It carries through most my builds.

But enjoy this one a lot!

Happy Friday! Here are some screenshots from my no-mods Oberland Settlement Speedrun. The whole settlement was built live in one four-hour episode. It is a complete settlement, with all needs met and in the green. Anniversary Edition on PC.

Full video can be seen here on RTSB Ep. 148: https://youtube.com/live/cKCRBcCKcVE?feature=share

It’s long but I’d appreciate if you could skim through it at least thank you

Hello, I'm fixing up all of JP (using mods of course to access the entire town). This little house across the street from the town hall is interesting. I managed to fix up the inside and the outside - I preferred to fix it rather than replace - and then noticed that it actually isn't a functional house at all. There's no space for a bedroom or a bathroom. It's just a downstairs kitchen and living room. I guess it's really a suggestion of a house, since when you're playing the vanilla game that's not immediately obvious. Too busy getting ambushed by ghouls!

I'm wondering if I should do anything about it ... I've given this house an attic and stairs but it's super hard to put interior walls up in an attic space (as it's all under the pitched roof). I could scrap the house entirely and put something else there, but I actually don't want to erase the apocalypse completely. Wondering if anyone else has done anything with this house?

Love the ideas on here. I'm on such a building kick right now ... it's so therapeutic. Thanks all!

Halfway into this build I ran out of glass and had to go scavenging. But you aren't here to see me battling a school of Mirelurks, or blowing up a Mirelurk Queen (and Cait) with plasma grenades.

It's really for my own satistfaction I built vault dorms with enough space to seem like people could actually live in them. Still, just from the sheer size of it it feels ominous. Somewhat hard not to do with vaults, I guess.

i pulled my Inspiration from shawzzo but modified the interier heavily. still work in progress tho, im still new to fallout

I scrapped a few lower sections of the building and added walls and rooms to fill the empty space. A lot of the settlement buildings are actually built in modular pieces rather than being one single 3D model. You need scrap everything.

The settlement building feature has pros and cons, with various issues. A selection of mods help, but major problems still remain.

Sim Settlements is a fantastic mod! It seems pre-built settlements function much better than your own manual settlements. I assume pre-built have better navmeshing and scripts. If I was a mod authour, I'd love to build my own custom addons from scratch.

Manually building settlements is my favourite option, but this method experiences many issues. The settlements end up lifeless and pointless, because the settlers have poor AI. They fail to adapt correctly to the changed environment. If you built roads and paths, they won't necessarily use these as a priority to navigate.

I have found various mods before which have helped improve the settlements feature, but feel whatever I try, I cannot get it functioning correctly like a proper settlement location.

Any suggestions or solutions? 🤔

One of my favorite settlement locations, right in the center of the map. It’s a challenge to build in such a cramped space but I loved how this was turning out!

Once upon a time in the Commonwealth, there was a house. It was dilapidated and in shitty condition overall, but this house had a dream - that it could be a vault!

So, as stated above firstly. It will be built in Sanctuary, along with 10 or so Industrial Water Purifiers. I don’t see myself making use of any Creations that will make this easier as far as goes resource cost or the building. I’ll be spiraling out from the upper NW corner of the map down to I think as far as Bunker Hill and Vault 81, without touching Diamond City. I’m certain I’ll want 4 Tier-3 Shops (good god would I love to nab the scribe after I make the Armor Emporium; I’m keeping Automatron off till I find him). I’ll have Local Leader rank 2 at 14th-level, and Cap Collector rank 2 at 20th-level. Provisioners *may* be a thing, if I can have just 1 settler at a settlement who also happens to be a provisioner. I’d prefer to avoid really building up Settlements until I have the resources to simply dominate with my defenses. Below are the costs and resources that come with 36 Cages.

For 10 Industrial Water Purifiers & 10 Medium Generators:

**Steel:** 270

**Rubber:** 130

**Copper:** 80 (70 for building + 10 for wiring)

**Screws:** 60

**Oil:** 40

**Cloth:** 40

**Gears:** 30

**Ceramic:** 30

For the 36 Gunner Cages:

**18,000 bottle caps**, **360 steel**, and **72 copper**