Settlement building before or after main quest?

[Plague, M.D.]

Just wondering how different people play and if one is recommended over another. Do you build settlements before, during, or after the main quests?

[Flippy]

First thing i do because of playing ironman on survival and restarting if the character dies even once. Got to have fully upgraded power armor and everything in top form when heading out.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1352181614

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1352181586

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1352181540

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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1352181377

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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1352181248

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1352181103

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1352180996

I am perfecting the modding before finishing the main quest also. Sound is just as good as the screens, the sound is in fact amazing.

[craigsters]

I do the creation club quests and bugged quests/side quests first and as many side quests as possible and then the 6 BoS cambridge quests and the 27 railroad quests to get the killer weave and other armor mod of there's and then I go to the Museum of Freedom and get the Preston gang and do there quests up to old guns and get back into main quests after that!..

[Scharny]

If you play survival. Do a melon farm or a water farm.
And never build anything else.

Unless you like building stuff. But then you should not do it on survival (as you can not use console - which is needed if you want to let your mind go wild. - And truth be told then you should not even build in the game but use the Creation Engine (kinda like a map editor) - you should also download building mods so you have more stuff to build with.

[red255]

I throw up some relatively easy settlements as I go.

there are a ton of settlement locations north of boston.

just a recruitment beacon, a supply of food, a supply of water and beds. tie it into the supply chain, throw up some turrets. eventually I'll come back and throw any idle population unto scavenger benches or other things.

generally one settlement of corn one of tato, two of mutfruit. dunno maybe 42 food, 36 water 80 defense. really quick setup.

I take the basic floor and roof premade wooden structure. set down a room, shove the beds inside. this structure can float above the ground just fine. stick some stair on it, go on top shove the turrets on top.

so like 20 beds 10 turrets, 1 recruitment beacon, 12 water pumps, and 42 mutfruit plants or 84 corn or tato plants.

periodically i use the farm surplus to make vegetable starch for adhesive. and I collect bone to make cutting fluid for oil for the turrets.

i then take the adhesive and make mods for my power armor, the t-45 and T-51 can be made rather cheaply and sell for alot. justs make them, and take them off and sell them for caps.

took me a few levels to get it set up. but once it started rolling money was no longer an issue.

[GoreTiger]

Originally posted by Scharny:

If you play survival. Do a melon farm or a water farm.
And never build anything else.

Unless you like building stuff. But then you should not do it on survival (as you can not use console - which is needed if you want to let your mind go wild. - And truth be told then you should not even build in the game but use the Creation Engine (kinda like a map editor) - you should also download building mods so you have more stuff to build with.

-Download cheat menu
-Go to crafting supplies.
- ADD ALL CRAFTING SUPPLIES.
-Hit "X" amount of times.
-Profit.

[EolSunder]

The first time playing the game i didn't do much settlement building until much later in the game, i was a combat build and didn't know anything about settlement building so figured i wouldn't have to worry much about attackers, etc if i didn't build anything. Then about level 50ish i started running out of combat perks and started boosting charisma to get settlement stuff.

Now i do settlement building right from the start due to the many benefits it holds, plus as a vet player combat is lackluster and boring even on survival mode, it is very easy to kill stuff if you know what your doing, especially as a sniper character. Its fun, its useful, you gain experience levels faster, thus getting more perks faster, and its fun?