nothing more can be built

[scarecrow800]

I understand that if you have built too much on a settlement, the game will prevent you from building any more to preserve performance levels. So far, through this and my previous play throughs, I never encountered this. However, recently at Jamaica Plains, although I have very little built there it won't let me build anything else. At all of my other settlements, I have huge two and three story buildings with numerous defences, crops and 3 to 6 medium or large stores wti 15 to 20 personnel at each location. But, for some reason at Jamaica Plains and only there, it refuses to let me build any more. The people there are always whining about ... we need water, we need crops, we need more beds ... but anytime I try to build anything it just tells me ... nothing more can be built. Anybody got any ideas why?

[Mringasa]

You have reached the settlement build limit. There is only a certain number of objects you can build at each settlement. To remedy this, take junk weapons you collect, drop them from your inventory onto the ground, and scrap them in Workshop mode. Do NOT scrap them at the workbench. Depending on how many materials you get back, the size bar will drop. This bar is located at the top right corner of the screen. Think it goes yellow for a warning, then red when it is maxed out.

There are mods that increase the size limit you can dl though if you don't want the hassle of the above workaround.

[scarecrow800]

Yes, I've read all of that, I just don't understand why, this time, I've reached the limit on just this one settlement, with no shops or pretty much anything else built there. On my previous playthroughs, i had much larger and lots more stuff built there and no problem. Anyway, if nothing else I may scrap everything and start over on this one settlement. By the way, the only really odd thing I did was buid a scaffold from my main residence that I built to the top of the scrap building in the middle you start with and put rocket launchers on the top of the scrap building. I kind of wonder if I tripped some kind of weird heighth limiter or triggered something else weird.

[Mringasa]

Height limit possibly. Each settlement has this as well. There's mods to adjust it, otherwise you are only going to be able to build to a certain level above ground.

[Ecchi Games]

There is another way to increase build limits without using mods or scrapping, you can do it via console:

Go up to the workshop in the settlement, open the console (default is tilde ~ key)
Select the workshop bench (click on it)

Type in (without quotes)

"getav 349"
"getav 34B"

These are the current max numbers of default polygons/items that contribute to the build limit. Next type in (without quotes):

"setav 349 ###"
"setav 34B ###"

Replace the ### with a larger number than what you got with the getav command to increase the size limit of the settlement. Try not to set it too high, increasing it by half it's amount is usually good, then you can always up it again later if you need to.

I've read there's possibility of happiness bugs if you set it too high but haven't seen it myself. Obviously settlements with increased size may have performance issues if your rig isn't quite up to standards.

[Imanoldcoot]

My bug there is different...now the buildiable area is smaller than it used to be...and I can no longer scrap some items.. like the junk cars. Just here though, no where else.

[Barnhoff Meyer]

I scrapped so many weapons at Sanctuary that my build limit bar is at zero.

[Dr. Livesey]

I've just skimmed this discussion, so apologies if this has been covered, but each settlement starts with it's own base settlement build limit. Like you can walk straight into some, scrap all the wrecked cars and tree's, etc, and you will see the settlment build limit is past halfway used.

I think the reason for this may be the developers figuring how much load on the system the settlment already has. Some parts of the map have different performance than others, so the high load areas have low settlment building limits (created by half filling your limit bar before you built a single thing).

[dozclarke]

It's not just the weapons you tear apart. Drop any junk items on the ground and use the workshop to break them up. I like building the settlements as much as the battling. I'm not into the cheats or mods. Never sell any junk. You want good settlements you need to collect it all. I even buy nearly all the junk from traders and sell the weapons to fund the junk. Happy settlers are very demanding. I have big greenhouses for the crops, Build warehouses for the shops. Put up barns to make bars. Every shack has electric, lights, furniture etc. The bars have lights and as much decorative crap on the walls as I can make. I have street lighting, over supply of water. Happy settlers need giving jobs. You also need good security. I build three or four robots and arm them to the teeth and put them on the guard posts. On the bigger settlements with room the entrances are in effect corridors with ten or twelve laser turrets down one side. Nothing gets in alive. The happy settlements are all around the 350 mark on security. That takes a lot of power. Most settlements need two fusion reactors and the bigger sites need three. I also use concrete walls three or four high round all the settlements as it is readily available. Then use scaffolding to mount turrets on. Even spectacle island is walled all round. This all takes a huge amount of junk to be broken down. Collect it all. You will need it.

[scarecrow800]

Thanks, I understand now. I did have a boatload of stuff that I had been saving in the workshop without scrapping them. I usually scrapped the armor and guns before putting them in the workshop. Everything else ( hairbrushes, newspaper, typewriters, whatever )I put in just like I picked it up. I just assumed that any junk items I put in would be broken down when needed. When I removed all of the junk items and scrapped them my build limit went down under 40 ish percent. Since then when I visit a settlement, I scrap all junk and , although these settlements are only around 60 to 70 percent full to start, it usually reduces the amount of the build limit by 10 or 20 percent. Now, at Jamaica Plains I have a huge crop and all of the shops, more water, more defense and everyone seems happy.

[patsnakem]

When I get to that point I have to delete some things to build new ones. But that one does not have a lot of space.

[Relic62]

Jamaica Plains and Eget Tours are the 2 worst for build limits, just do as suggested above either by console or the other method. It will not impact on the game mechanics, providing you have a decent PC.

[Dillpickle1]

Their are mods to remove random junk that you normally can't remove and removing some things with said mod will help