Best Settlement Location

[Shadow The Innkeep]

So per advise from some of the community members, I am considering to get Sim Settlements mod (I am super bad and building construction in FO4), and I was wondering, what settlement location would you guys recommend to be the best to become the MAIN settlement?

I am working on getting more farms and settlements connected via supply lines so i have access to main workshop anywhere.

Thanks in advance!

[MortVent]

Starlight has lots of mostly flat area

Sunshine has some area to work with

Finch farm has a decent amount of space to build farms, but you need more defense.

Not sure about the rest

[Shadow The Innkeep]

Originally posted by MortVent:

Starlight has lots of mostly flat area

Sunshine has some area to work with

Finch farm has a decent amount of space to build farms, but you need more defense.

Not sure about the rest

I am considering Starlight. It has good space!
But if there ar eanymore suggestions, I;d be happy to hear them.
Also, will Sim Settlement allow me to scrap literally everything in Sanctuary Hills or no?

[bunny de fluff]

The largest is the Spectacle Island which for me is too large and the settlers tend to get lost walking around. Since you are going to use mods I guess any settlement is fine as long as you can scrap those useless things that you do not want.

[SuperSledgeNY]

My all time favorite is Nuka World Red Rocket if you like a mostly flat building area. However, I had the most fun building my shopping mall AND marina at Dalton Farm.

[ENGI3]

Sanctuary hills. TBH I don't even spend time on any other settlement other than my old house.

[DouglasGrave]

It depends on your priorities. Starlight Drive-In, has a fairly central location with a good amount of open space, so if you want a large settlement with good access, it's excellent.

[leem]

Starlight for your first main settlement will work great. The building of settlements can be very addictive so I recommend keeping an open mind to build on at least a few locations. Maybe pick locations to have a base when you are far from home.

[MortVent]

It also depends on your build, if you go for local leader. You can build one main base, and have the rest be feeder settlements for materials

I do recommend the settlement limit remover mods, one iirc removed the limit on production/salvage. And allows you to turn off attacks, or reduce them

[Othobrithol]

You'll need a seperate scrap mod (like scrap everything) to make solid use of Sactuary, but iy's a great spot for Sum Settlements. I made it sort of my "capitol" and stopped expanding it around 40 settlers with plenty of space left.

I also had a lot of fun with Starlight, the parking lot makes it easy to make good looking streets. Should be a pic in my scrrenshots.

The castle is also fun, you can fit 20 or so plots up on the walls.

Abernathy Farm is big, but not very level.
Spectavle island of course, but it's out nowhere.
County Crossing, The Slog and Egret (if you have a scrap mod) arer also good.

Get JTBryant's foundations as well, makes it look so much nicer.

[NecroMaster]

My best 5

Taffington incorporated:
This settlement provides pretty much all the water for my settlement chain.
And with the defenses put here all attackers get dropped.

Zimonja night club:
I've turned this settlement into a classy pub with ghoul bodyguards jazzy radio music and sexy women.
not a bad settlement for generating caps.

Fort Jamaica: I put everything in this build into repairing the broken building and I couldn't get it done without the vault tec and contraptions dlcs.
The place is now a heavily 3 story fortress that drops anything and everything before it gets close.
Also there's a large carrot farm on the roof.
On this build your pushing the limit of your build cap.

Outpost starlight: another settlement for generating caps.

Only this one has every Lvl 6 vendor to trade with. all you have to do is trade the tons of purified water you get in a day and clean them out for their caps.

The 35 settler population also generates a quick amount of caps in the work bench too.

Murkwater Mirelurk farm:
You know how pesky this settlement is with its constantly respawning queen.
So why not turn it to your advantage.

Build a containment cage around the spawn point and build 3 missile turrets and the queen will be dead right as it attempts its attack.

Allowing you to slip in and out to grab its meat which can either sell for a good amount or save your life in battle.
It's the suite life nothing but queen meat from here on out.

[Shadow The Innkeep]

What do you guys think about Vault 88 as "settlement"? I started story on my first character and never finished it, and I haven't done anything yet on the one I am playing on rn. That "basement" area where you find the Overseer (that I was itching to just insta kill) looks gloomy af.

Originally posted by leem:

Starlight for your first main settlement will work great. The building of settlements can be very addictive so I recommend keeping an open mind to build on at least a few locations. Maybe pick locations to have a base when you are far from home.

I like it because I can build a fence around it if I want to with no real problem, unlike SH.
I am considering Boston Airport to be secondary Settlement since I am with BoS and for RP sake, I am planning on "recruiting" a few people for them.

Originally posted by Triple_A:

Sanctuary hills. TBH I don't even spend time on any other settlement other than my old house.

The pre-built houses is what kinda bothers me; I can't really fit anything in them :( And with in-game settlement building tool as it is, it's tough to navigate things around.

Originally posted by Wilson the Gentleman Scientist.:

My best 5
Murkwater Mirelurk farm:
You know how pesky this settlement is with its constantly respawning queen.
So why not turn it to your advantage.

Build a containment cage around the spawn point and build 3 missile turrets and the queen will be dead right as it attempts its attack.

I would love to have a docile Deathclaw that would take one on one with MQ. That would be quite a show! Wonder who would win

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Naveena Vice:

What do you guys think about Vault 88 as "settlement"? I started story on my first character and never finished it, and I haven't done anything yet on the one I am playing on rn. That "basement" area where you find the Overseer (that I was itching to just insta kill) looks gloomy af.

It has a good amount of space, and is extremely easy to defend, since the attackers approach along extremely predictable paths (or along just one path if you restrict it appropriately).

Originally posted by leem:

The pre-built houses is what kinda bothers me; I can't really fit anything in them :( And with in-game settlement building tool as it is, it's tough to navigate things around.

I similarly found it difficult to build neatly around them, and even trying to roughly patch them up was a chore. If they weren't going to include an option for full repair, I would have preferred to raze everything to the foundations and rebuild from scratch.

[Shadow The Innkeep]

Originally posted by leem:

The pre-built houses is what kinda bothers me; I can't really fit anything in them :( And with in-game settlement building tool as it is, it's tough to navigate things around.

I similarly found it difficult to build neatly around them, and even trying to roughly patch them up was a chore. If they weren't going to include an option for full repair, I would have preferred to raze everything to the foundations and rebuild from scratch. [/quote]
That shoud've been the case since we were allowed to recycle three other buildings... That's why I was wondering if Sim Settlement would allow to destroy those pre-built houses...

[bunny de fluff]

Originally posted by Naveena Vice:

That's why I was wondering if Sim Settlement would allow to destroy those pre-built houses...

You would need something else to destroy those junk buildings imo.

[DEVOLVE MINHA CACHAÇA!]

Starlight Drive-in is the best settlement location if you want the largest space to build both horizontal and vertically.

Sanctuary Hills has decent build space and is the first settlement you stumble upon, has lots of space for crops and the river can be used to build purifiers and farm purified water.

Hangman's Alley is a very compact and tight settlement that works better as a player base then a settlement, but it is conveniently located very close to the center of the Commonwealth. Might be worth if you just want a place to sleep and store your shit.

Spectacle Island has the biggest build space of all settlements including those available through DLC, but the relief might not help if you want something as big AND as flat as Starlight Drive-in.

The Slog is also strategically located around interesting parts of the northeast part of the map, and has a building that you can quickly adapt into a bedroom for all of your settlers. There is a good space for a farm and the pool can be used to make purified water.

Jamaica Plain is small but has lots of natural protection such as walls, buildings, etc, that you might want to use depending on the chosen layout.

County Crossing is, perhaps, the best place to build a farm without having to build plots or level the terrain with floors but will require a lot of building to accommodate many settlers.

These are the ones I can remember right now.

Originally posted by Naveena Vice:

I am working on getting more farms and settlements connected via supply lines so i have access to main workshop anywhere.

Just remember not all item categories are accessible throughout a settlement network created with supply lines. Only building materials and consumables are shared, any other item under weapons, armor and junk categories will be available only at the workshop of the settlement you stored them at.