Safe house or Bunkers settlements in survival?

[Evan]

Have any of you built any cool safe houses or bunker type settlements as a home away from home for survival?

I am playing survival and I am building a safe house in Jamaica plain and I'd like some inspiration, could anybody share their pictures or what they like to do or build? Where do you like to build and why?

[schmvck]

I am a beginner in terms of settlement building, so I'm afraid I don't have much to share, but I like this guy's builds, very lore friendly and elaborate with a minimum use of mods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiPBh1ckl6g&list=PLlx5lUhkCRa53PvgYu1kIs0LJvaFb6DPz&index=9

Make sure to check out his other builds, especially the "microbuild" ones.

[AlexMBrennan]

Have any of you built any cool safe houses or bunker type settlements as a home away from home for survival?

No.

After 5min you will see settlers stuck in the foundations or on roofs and lose any interest in engaging with the settlement building mechanics.

[Zes]

You don't actually need 'safe' houses. Your settlements hardly get attacked when there is no one living on them. Put a bed and a water pump when you acquired a place and a few containers. that's it.

When i play survival, i usually go from north to south by clearing all locations slowly and moving my base when i get too far from the previous one. I make a base (an outpost more precisely) and clear nearby locations from there. then move on to a next one ;)

[wtiger27]

Not really. Once I get veritbird travel, I do not do much settlement building. Too frustrating for my enjoyment to have to eat and drink so damn often.

And a lot of my settlements, only have a bed there and a water pump. No settlers or only the ones they start out with.

[Chashmodai]

I've built a lot of bunkers. This one I built a while ago while using a winter overhaul:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1934886155

I also built this one last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nicuMDpHzy4

Mods are obviously required to build something like those two.

[Deklend]

https://imgur.com/a/RFdzs3k

Just built this a couple of days ago out of the Boylston Club using Conquest, Scrap Everything, and a few workshop mods for clutter. I will add though that there was a few things that wouldn't scrap(2 chairs and the bureau doors), so I had to crack open the Creation Kit and remove them myself

[Evan]

Originally posted by schmvck:

I am a beginner in terms of settlement building, so I'm afraid I don't have much to share, but I like this guy's builds, very lore friendly and elaborate with a minimum use of mods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiPBh1ckl6g&list=PLlx5lUhkCRa53PvgYu1kIs0LJvaFb6DPz&index=9

Make sure to check out his other builds, especially the "microbuild" ones.

Thank you for the video, it did inspire me a little bit. I won't be building anything quite that small though. Update me if you build anything interesting.

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

After 5min you will see settlers stuck in the foundations or on roofs and lose any interest in engaging with the settlement building mechanics.

I have built a lot of large settlements and I generally do not have this issue unless I build something really retarded, and it has been a while since that has happened.

Originally posted by Zes:

You don't actually need 'safe' houses. Your settlements hardly get attacked when there is no one living on them. Put a bed and a water pump when you acquired a place and a few containers. that's it.

When i play survival, i usually go from north to south by clearing all locations slowly and moving my base when i get too far from the previous one. I make a base (an outpost more precisely) and clear nearby locations from there. then move on to a next one ;)

Interesting idea with just slowly clearing all of the locations. After a couple of playthroughs, it can get boring sometimes lol. I just unlocked the vertibird, so it isn't as helpful as it was before. I will have to build something when I go to nuka world or far harbor as I believe the vertibird does not work there. But right now I am going to set up some small farms + water with some spare ammo and PA laying around.

My main base is at starlight, and the southern part of the map is dangerous so I figured a small safe settlement could help me incase I need anything while I am down there. Jamaica plain was really dangerous when I first got down there, lots of ghouls, occasional raiders, and I believe gunners are down the road but I don't remember.

Originally posted by ᛁᚾᛏᛁᛘᚬᚱᛁᚾᛁ:

I've built a lot of bunkers. This one I built a while ago while using a winter overhaul:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1934886155

I also built this one last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nicuMDpHzy4

Mods are obviously required to build something like those two.

Very very cool to see. I also like to build my settlements to where they don't look too out of place from the rest of the world.

Where did you build both of those at? Also, what mods are the rocks from? I remember seeing some guy make a "underground" vault by using rocks. One time I built a little bunker in that mirelurk hole at coastal cottage. Pointless with how small it is, but it was cool to build.

Originally posted by Khillian MacDille:

https://imgur.com/a/RFdzs3k

Just built this a couple of days ago out of the Boylston Club using Conquest, Scrap Everything, and a few workshop mods for clutter. I will add though that there was a few things that wouldn't scrap(2 chairs and the bureau doors), so I had to crack open the Creation Kit and remove them myself

Also very cool to see. I think I want to do something near hangmans alley but I am not sure about it yet.

[isomorphic_projection]

Originally posted by Evan:

Have any of you built any cool safe houses or bunker type settlements as a home away from home for survival?

I am playing survival and I am building a safe house in Jamaica plain and I'd like some inspiration, could anybody share their pictures or what they like to do or build? Where do you like to build and why?

Just grab a camping mod, and pick your save spots. It's how i do it.

[Chashmodai]

Originally posted by Evan:

Originally posted by ᛁᚾᛏᛁᛘᚬᚱᛁᚾᛁ:

I've built a lot of bunkers. This one I built a while ago while using a winter overhaul:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1934886155

I also built this one last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nicuMDpHzy4

Mods are obviously required to build something like those two.

Very very cool to see. I also like to build my settlements to where they don't look too out of place from the rest of the world.

Where did you build both of those at? Also, what mods are the rocks from? I remember seeing some guy make a "underground" vault by using rocks. One time I built a little bunker in that mirelurk hole at coastal cottage. Pointless with how small it is, but it was cool to build.

The rocks are from Homemaker. You can get them from other mods too, like cVc Dead Wasteland.
Homemaker[www.nexusmods.com]
cVc Dead Wasteland[www.nexusmods.com]

I built the first one at Somerville Place if I recall correctly, and the second one is at Sunshine Tidings co-op. Building your own mountain can be tedious, but it is absolutely worth it in the end even if it takes a bit of patience.

Edit: You may also need Place Everywhere since most rocks and cliffs need to be placed so that they overlap each other, creating what looks like a solid rock wall but is actually a lot of smaller rocks mashed together.

Place Everywhere[www.nexusmods.com]

[MoonC A T]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

Have any of you built any cool safe houses or bunker type settlements as a home away from home for survival?

No.

After 5min you will see settlers stuck in the foundations

Don't need settlers to have a settlement.

[Evan]

Originally posted by isomorphic_projection:

Originally posted by Evan:

Have any of you built any cool safe houses or bunker type settlements as a home away from home for survival?

I am playing survival and I am building a safe house in Jamaica plain and I'd like some inspiration, could anybody share their pictures or what they like to do or build? Where do you like to build and why?

Just grab a camping mod, and pick your save spots. It's how i do it.

I have a camping mod that allows me to drop a tent to sleep in. However I don't have access to a bed that will let me sleep more than 5 hours, clean water, abundance of food that won't give me lots of rads, a place to cook, a place to refill ammo or anything else that I might need. I also need a spot to drop off my junk as I have a hoarding issue.

Originally posted by ᛁᚾᛏᛁᛘᚬᚱᛁᚾᛁ:

The rocks are from Homemaker. You can get them from other mods too, like cVc Dead Wasteland.
Homemaker[www.nexusmods.com]
cVc Dead Wasteland[www.nexusmods.com]

I built the first one at Somerville Place if I recall correctly, and the second one is at Sunshine Tidings co-op. Building your own mountain can be tedious, but it is absolutely worth it in the end even if it takes a bit of patience.

Edit: You may also need Place Everywhere since most rocks and cliffs need to be placed so that they overlap each other, creating what looks like a solid rock wall but is actually a lot of smaller rocks mashed together.

Place Everywhere[www.nexusmods.com]

Thank you for the information. The only major building mod that I use is USO and that doesn't have quite everything needed to build huge rocks. I will definitely check out the mods you linked.

[isomorphic_projection]

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/11118

[Von Faustien]

if you want a bunker might i suggest

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10967

or

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/36816

both add doors that lead to internal cells. mostly underground but the second has a few building doors. if you have a busy settlement but want a private player home these work wonders.


this tends to be how i do a player home