I suck at Fortnite, Minecraft, architect and in general building and decorating. Please help, any tips?

[CptZhu]

Settlements are such a big factor in the game but I am really the WORST at it. Literally 0 skill in it. I am good at acquiring resources and combat, but I am TERRIBLE at building.

Could anyone please give some pointers, tips or help to make a very simple working settlement with structures and defenses?

[Zekiran]

Practice practice practice.

Also remember: you don't HAVE to build settlements. You can go capture them or do whatever, and even if you're required to wait for someone to show up at them (in a few cases) you can just send them elsewhere and maintain just one settlement, not leaving on the beacon.

Base building in this game if you're running vanilla without mods can be kind of dreary. It's still reasonably buggy. But there are good videos for it, yeah they date back a ways, but they're still pretty valid since most of that hasn't changed in the game for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDza5oblD1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeEAPSHStYk

[Trenema]

the lord by god, settlements get annoying very fast. id say, build crops until it matches the population, build water until it matches the population, build beds until it matches the population, then build defense equal to population+food+water+workshop food and water. then ignore them, even if they get attacked lol. thats the bare minimum, and im so tired of settlements i cant do it anymore.

[TheSuit]

Download Sim Settlements 2 - you can have settlers build their own settlements.
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/47976

You can even download settlement "blueprints" on nexus.
Use other peoples settlements and you can watch it evolve over time.

[Myr]

Don't worry about making the type of settlements that people post videos of or using mods, just make what you are comfortable making. The settlers won't care how it looks.

For buildings I recommend using the prefab large wooden shack as an example of buildings to make, you can even just use the big wooden shack and shove lots of beds in it as it fits quite a lot of beds.

Personally I like to make basic wooden buildings using floor squares and roofs then using the half square open window walls on the sides as each of those walls fit a bed inside them perfectly with the similar courner pieces where needed. Then I usually have a second floor with stairs in the middle of it and fit any spare room inside with more beds. With a basic wooden structure like that you could fit all your beds in 1-2 buildings. I also like to have the roof with a bar on it and open air seating with a good view thanks to the simple wooden fences on the sides so it makes it look like a decent place to hang out. I do this same style of building in every settlement as its easy and does a good job.

When it comes to food / water / defence / power you really don't need much for basic settlements. You need 1 food and water for each settler and enough defence to cover them, like 30 food and water and 50 defence is probably more than enough, you can reach this with powerless items like basic turrets and water pumps too so you don't need more than a basic wind power turbine generator for your settlement as most lights just require the building being connected to power and don't cost power themselves.

[wesnef]

Eh, when I'm not feeling at all creative, I just build a small hut (say, 2x3 foundations), stick some beds in it, and shove a few turrets on the roof. Toss in a few plants and a water pump.

3 or 4 settlers is enough to have someone farming crops, a scavenger station, and send one to the next settlement as a supply line. With the only real purpose being to have all your supplies connected in case you need them.

(of course, getting the settlers is simpler for me, since I just use the Spawn Settler Button mod, instead of building a beacon and waiting for them to appear.)

Meanwhile, I just live alone at the Red Rocket station. Again, stick a few turrets on the roof for defense, build a bed to sleep in, and then it's just crafting stations & various boxes to sort my loot into. /shrug