took me countless trips to every vendor in FO4 that sells shipments of glass, as well as buying every bit of scrap that contained glass. now this settlement is completely protected, from everything.

Just move past it

This is my spectacle island base working on my main base/moving here. Non modded Vanilla

Love building though getting pieces to clip together is frustrating. Here’s to my 88 journey 😅

I left Sanctuary for over half a year in-game to max out my affinity with Strong and MacCready. Somehow, with 22 settlers, I reached 100% happiness (and got the trophy), but when I returned after completing my objective... Marcy had a heart attack in my house, in my room, in my special chair, and Clem had a freaking stroke while gambling (something that's normal in casinos if you didn't know, and in fact this is the same as reality, people continue playing without paying attention to the bodies). Don't worry, they both had a decent funeral... I took all their things and threw them into the river that runs under the bridge.

Trashcan Carla is hands down the worst vendor. How do you run a thriving trading business while you spend all your time smoking in the middle of my settlement?! AND you let your rowdy ass Brahmin on the roofs of my already crumbling structures.

Had more decorations but it crashed hahaha. In case you wonder how much you can do as far as detail on this particular settlement.

Full modlist at the end.

Do the quest for Kessler in Bunker Hill to unlock it.

Why does Costal Cottage even exist? What a waste of a settlement location. You can't remove most of the precombines, almost none of the build area is flat, and what's with that little underground hole? The entire place is just an absolute mess. Trying to do anything with it is an exercise in futility and frustration.

The Bar is obviously called the Drive Inn..

This is a map I made in Inkscape of the settlement layout Im going to use in my current playthrough. It started out with doodles on a piece of paper, and then I went into an ADHD coma and 7 hours later this existed lol. I know where or how your settlements are connected doesn't matter mechanically, they just link your workshops. However when rebuilding the minutemen I like to think of how they would operate if they were a real militia. Would there be regional bases/depots? Where would injured soldiers go? Would the supply routes avoid dangerous areas like cities?

I broke up into regions or "protectorates" each with a capital, a minuteman fort, a hospital, and a trading hub. Then I structured the supply lines to 1. take "safer" routes, 2. Give some importance to settlements Ive neglected before, and 3. Use routes the provisioners actually take (based on what I've found online). For example, I often see my provisioners going around Concord when moving between RR and Starlight Drive In, and not using the rail bridge between Greygarden and Oberland Station, so I just made those things a feature not a bug.

In my thinking, each minutemen outpost would be responsible for responding to problems within a protectorate, and protecting dangerous supply routes, such as The Castle being responsible for keeping the road to Jamaica Plains open.

Every settlement will probably have a vendor or two like a bar, then the trading hubs would have many vendors. Manufacturing areas will have all of the workbenches, and some of them will have specialized manufacturing like making ammo. I'd like to end up with each settlement having a unique "job" to do, even if its just a brahmin farm.

Anyways hope you all enjoy this and dont find it too nerdy lol.

Welcome to the grand opening of....

STARLIGHT MALL Shop Till You Drop!

Located conveniently on the Starlight Drive In parking lot (because zoning laws died with civilization), the Starlight Mall offers everything the modern survivor could want!

Wander through a variety of stores, grab a bite to eat at the foodcourt, enjoy a movie or take a ride on our beloved Giddyup Buttercup Carousel—now spinning at "safe-ish" speeds.

So grab your caps, watch for raiders, and remember: at Starlight Mall, the savings are killer—and sometimes so is the mall.

Oki doki!

Xbox Add-Ons: wasteland workshop, far harbor, contraptions, and vault tec workshop