What Building Material do yo prefer and why?

[MoonC A T]

Personally, I've been a fan of concrete for years, but I've never liked the ambiguous snap and lack of logic. Sure you can snap them inside or out as you like but getting them to act "logically" is a chore. When your walls are "suggesting" a 31.2324 degree angle, that's an issue.

I've found warehouse pieces to snap much better and interact with each other much better than concrete, albeit without a lot of the aesthetics of concrete, which is much nicer imo.

What do you guys prefer?

[MortVent]

Warehouse or barn, depending on the look I want.

Sanctuary I do barn on the 3x5 foundation spot (crafting stations, storage, etc), with greenhouse parts from the warehouse set on the 3x4 foundations (7 planters, 12 tato, 8 corn, 8 multifruit, 1 salvage bench = 5 workers)

Most times I'll use the barn set since it looks decently like salvaged wood to be used, warehouse is okay at times and spots where such mats would be common.

I will use the wood default, but it costs a bit much vs the dlc ones.

[Lil C]-[ew C]-[ew is ☂д☂]

I enjoy a lot all structure types but concrete not so much. Maybe I'll try editting the textures to something else but warehouse, shack and scaffolding were my favorite. Vault-tec structure I'm enjoying the best but I'm still thinking where should I start making a exterior vault settlement.

[wtiger27]

I normally use the Barn section to do my building. Except the cement floors for leveling. The one in the Wood Structure section, cost less concrete to build. And the Wood walls from the barn, snap to it fine.

But if I want to build a nice fancy building, which looks clean, I use the Vault 88 rooms, sitting on the wood floor for leveling. Who says they are only good for Vault 88?

[Zes]

I use wood on human living settlements

I use metal prefabs on awkward location outposts

Never gone for full concrete.. whats that.. building cobblestone castle in minecraft? lol

[Jo]

Like others have mentioned, it depends what "look" I'm going for. I have the "Settlement Supplies Expanded" mod which gives a lot more building material options, and a few other building mods.

With Sanctuary I tend to completely replace the old homes with metal walls similar to the pre-war homes (in blue, yellow or white). SSEX also has matching doorway and window options. I do have a couple of buildings made of wood at Sanctuary too though. With Starlight Drive-Inn I usually go for metal.

With farming type settlements like Tenpines, Oberland, Sunshine, Abernathy, Somerville (and Taffington) I go for wood. Croup Manor is usually a combination of wood and brick. Jamaica Plain has red brick perimeter walls to match the location's other buildings. Hangman is wood.

Outpost Zimonja is probably the only one I do in bunker-style concrete.

[Iron Knights]

Cement and steel, although for foundation & leveling ground I like the Barn stone floor more. But as JoJo said depends on location and preference.

[DouglasGrave]

I heavily favour the barn and warehouse structures, and barn foundations in particular get extensive use for building massive foundation walls that double as guard routes. The glass rooves from the warehouse section I use for building protective greenhouses over my crop sections. I'll often patch difficult areas that wouldn't suit a barn foundation with regular concrete.

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[DouglasGrave]

İlk olarak wtiger27 tarafından gönderildi:

I normally use the Barn section to do my building. Except the cement floors for leveling. The one in the Wood Structure section, cost less concrete to build. And the Wood walls from the barn, snap to it fine.

I've only really used the "wood" foundations for filling the walls at the Castle, because they match the colour better. I prefer the barn foundations for their extra height and only requiring concrete, instead of a mixture of materials.

They're also extremely simple as objects, and don't consume much of a settlement's build limit.

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But if I want to build a nice fancy building, which looks clean, I use the Vault 88 rooms, sitting on the wood floor for leveling. Who says they are only good for Vault 88?

They do look nice, and I've used them occasionally outside. For widespread use on uneven ground, I think I'd have to see if I can get their white support beams to snap into alignment with a concrete foundation, and then ditch the foundation.

My main objection to them is that they're relatively complex and take a bigger chunk of the settlement build limit.

[Grinch]

Concrete, if I ever have enough. I don't.

[DouglasGrave]

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Concrete, if I ever have enough. I don't.

It was certainly far harder to build concrete structures before we could buy shipments of concrete.

[Ez Duzit]

Concrete, always concrete. Almost all my settlements are 3-5 stories and some are much higher, so concrete just seemed like the best choice. My Abernathy Farm is a massive tower.

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[Iron Knights]

Youch ! Wow, that's a nice tower, bet you put some mods into the neon though.
I wonder how high Abernathy Farm allows without console or mods.
I got stopped at Sanctuary at 4 Floors. Moved power generators to the ground, still showing red from the time I ran wires over the height limit.

[Ez Duzit]

İlk olarak Iron Knights tarafından gönderildi:

Youch ! Wow, that's a nice tower, bet you put some mods into the neon though.
I wonder how high Abernathy Farm allows without console or mods.
I got stopped at Sanctuary at 4 Floors. Moved power generators to the ground, still showing red from the time I ran wires over the height limit.

Nope, no mods for the sign. Just the games standard light boxes & switches, plus hours spent figuring out how to do it. Starting small and then sort of growing into it. Once you wrap your head around how it all works, most of the time is spent setting it up and getting it all wired correctly. And there's A LOT of wiring. I chose Abernathy farm because that's one of the few places in the game you can build really high without mods. I can't remember if that tower was 19 or 20 stories, but the giant power pylons at Abernathy farm are completely enclosed in the tower

[The Inept European]

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Concrete, if I ever have enough. I don't.

Shipments are cheap. One of the few really good-value shipment types.

[Iron Knights]

AND/OR Gates ? That's mighty brainy of you. I haven't dealt with those yet. There's a mod that allows scrapping the tower, I forget which, but I settled for Clean Settlements on my 2nd finished run.