how long does it take to reset areas?

[Demon]

how long does it take for the raider areas to reset?, i noticed getting their guns and scraping them in a base gets you a lot of steel

[Fake]

Farm water. Water will refresh in a day. Use water to buy from merchants, they also refresh in a day.

[matt]

How long it takes for an area to reset depends on a couple factors. Outside of survival mode, it takes an area 7 days to reset if it hasn't been cleared and 20 days if it has been cleared. In survival mode, it takes 35 days for uncleared areas and 80 days for cleared areas. You can tell if an area has been cleared if it's tagged with [CLEARED] on your pipboy map. Reentering an area resets the timer.

If you just want steel, pick up the tin cans on the ground.

[Demon]

80 days....forget it, those spots arnt worth it. thanks

[kharille]

In survival I used to have an unfinished clearance mission for that seafront area east of County Crossing. Didn't max out strong back so I kept running back and forth, and somehow the quest regenerated the raiders there.

Jamaican plain, south of that theres hyde park. Have to clear it out every time I pass by. Seems Hyde Park respawns every time I load my game. Same with Quincy.

[The Inept European]

On the BoS mission against the supermutant Fort Whatever, if walk in but don't enter the fort, you can farm the Behemoth and his pals forever and they respawn as soon as you walk out of the cell. You can walk to Nordhagen Beach, dump loot, go back, kill everything again, repeat until you die of boredom.

[Marcus Antonio Solaris]

Steel? If you just clean up Sanctuary you should have all the steel you need for a normal playthrough.

[TheSuit]

It matters on your playthrough.

In normal its like 20 days
In survival mode its like 70 days

[Demon]

Originally posted by Marcus Antonio Solaris:

Steel? If you just clean up Sanctuary you should have all the steel you need for a normal playthrough.

I've beaten the game like 4 times now saving just the amount of settlements needed to complete the story. this time i have been working more settlements. building walls,water,power, and turrets cost a lot of steel. sanctuary seems safe but the rocket fuel or whatever the next one is called got hit by scorpions and lost a few settlers because i didnt have enough walls or turrets. so i have been building up the settlements so they wont get attacked as much. so again that takes a lot of steel

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Demon:

Originally posted by Marcus Antonio Solaris:

Steel? If you just clean up Sanctuary you should have all the steel you need for a normal playthrough.

I've beaten the game like 4 times now saving just the amount of settlements needed to complete the story. this time i have been working more settlements. building walls,water,power, and turrets cost a lot of steel. sanctuary seems safe but the rocket fuel or whatever the next one is called got hit by scorpions and lost a few settlers because i didnt have enough walls or turrets. so i have been building up the settlements so they wont get attacked as much. so again that takes a lot of steel

Having walls makes no difference in a attack on a settlement unless you are present when they attack. Otherwise, it is a roll of the dice versus the defense rating.

Putting up several spot lights will help you more than walls will when a settlement is attacked , being able to successfully defend itself " without the player being present ", because they add a defense rating.

[kharille]

I don't bother with walls, except walls of heavy laser blasts. Try to walk through that, supermutant warlords....

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by kharille:

I don't bother with walls, except walls of heavy laser blasts. Try to walk through that, supermutant warlords....

Hehe. Yep, the best defense is a good offense in that case. I do the same at Red Rocket. I can just stand back and not do anything but watch the slaughter.

I do however, place some walls ( just the ones facing the main attack spawn spot ) to protect the Bahamian which is feeding.

[kharille]

That fencing in sanctuary is good. Doesn't obstruct my settlers overcharged improved auto blaster and yet serves to funnel them through death channels.

I'm saving up gatling lasers and depleted energy whasisnames. Guess I'll equip some settlers with them. Pity you don't get any nuclear material from powder piles....

[Demon]

wall seem to be working for me. I have had only 1 super mutant spawn inside a settlement all the ohters were outside the walls. and 2 radscorpions but those 2 went in through the ground

oh and heres some good advice. dont put a fat man and some mini nukes at a settlement, the settlers will grab it fast. had half of sanctuary settlers blown up because of that mistake, had to go back 1 hour of gameplay to fix that lol

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Demon:

wall seem to be working for me. I have had only 1 super mutant spawn inside a settlement all the ohters were outside the walls. and 2 radscorpions but those 2 went in through the ground

oh and heres some good advice. dont put a fat man and some mini nukes at a settlement, the settlers will grab it fast. had half of sanctuary settlers blown up because of that mistake, had to go back 1 hour of gameplay to fix that lol

Lol. Yeah I would never equip a settler with a Missile or mini nuke launcher. Or even grenades. But they will only use the missile or mini-nuke launcher if they have the ammo for it.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by kharille:

That fencing in sanctuary is good. Doesn't obstruct my settlers overcharged improved auto blaster and yet serves to funnel them through death channels.

Yeah picket fences are OP. Forget chain link, barbed wire, walls of guard towers, nothing beats a picket fence.