What are the benifits of having a large settlement?

[BrianH]

Besides having a place to store all your junk and make upgrades and stuff. Also i've played for almost 40 hours and i've never had a settlement be attacked. planning out your defense seems pointless, all that matters is how high your defense number is.

[True_Six_God]

Take over Castle it gets attacked, I think it depends on location. further south attacks actually occur.

[BrianH]

I've beat the game. Castle and Sanctuary were the only 2 settlements I spent time on. It had around 25 defense, and it was never attacked. I'm looking forward to a mod that increases the attack rate of settlements.

[That1Dude]

You can have settlers scavenge for items, food tended (to make adhesive in the stove), they will run shops that you can purchase from and/or they make caps for you based on the settlement size and will store them in the workshop. So basically they do a lot of misc gathering you'd have to spend time soloing.

[That1Dude]

Originally posted by bmh96:

I've beat the game. Castle and Sanctuary were the only 2 settlements I spent time on. It had around 25 defense, and it was never attacked. I'm looking forward to a mod that increases the attack rate of settlements.

Really??? I haven't beaten the game, I have 37 defense in sanctuary and it has been attacked 3 times so far.

[True_Six_God]

I fast travled to Castle and it was attacked by a gang of super mutants not sure if it triggered from that or what.

[exlax]

I've also had settlements attacked. One of my most northern settlements (forgot the name, sorry) was attacked by a massive swarm of ghouls, and another settlement was hit with raiders. I've defended both, so I'm not sure what exactly will happen if I don't arrive (people die, maybe? lose supplies/buildings?)

[BrianH]

Originally posted by That 1 Dude:

Originally posted by bmh96:

I've beat the game. Castle and Sanctuary were the only 2 settlements I spent time on. It had around 25 defense, and it was never attacked. I'm looking forward to a mod that increases the attack rate of settlements.

Really??? I haven't beaten the game, I have 37 defense in sanctuary and it has been attacked 3 times so far.

How much food did you have? I heard if you have more food then defense they'll attack

[BrianH]

Originally posted by ex_lax:

I've also had settlements attacked. One of my most northern settlements (forgot the name, sorry) was attacked by a massive swarm of ghouls, and another settlement was hit with raiders. I've defended both, so I'm not sure what exactly will happen if I don't arrive (people die, maybe? lose supplies/buildings?)

How did you know they were being attacked?

[That1Dude]

Originally posted by ex_lax:

I've also had settlements attacked. One of my most northern settlements (forgot the name, sorry) was attacked by a massive swarm of ghouls, and another settlement was hit with raiders. I've defended both, so I'm not sure what exactly will happen if I don't arrive (people die, maybe? lose supplies/buildings?)

Yes, I believe they can kill settlers. Not too sure since I've successfully defended the raids as well. I believe I read a thread were they said if they get attacked too much, the happiness drains, and the settlers will leave the settlement altogether.

[Zourin]

If you do not have Local Leader, you do not need large settlements. If you have Charisma 6, you can take Local Leader and benefit from establishing your own community, but it is not required and you are not 'missing out'. You can get by just fine with Lockpicking, Hacking, Luck scavenging skills, etc.


That said:
Establishing a settlement network has the following benefits:
1: A good settlement network provides fresh water, produce, and scavenged junk available for use anywhere in the network. You can load up on tons of junk and take a short walk to the nearest settlement instead of dropping swag so you can fast travel.

2: A good settlement network allows you to support larger town settlements.

3: Larger town settlements benefit the most from shops, each of which will provide a small sum of caps daily based on the settlements' population

[That1Dude]

Originally posted by bmh96:

Originally posted by That 1 Dude:

Really??? I haven't beaten the game, I have 37 defense in sanctuary and it has been attacked 3 times so far.

How much food did you have? I heard if you have more food then defense they'll attack

I make sure my defense is close to the food + water. Right now I believe (I'm on my phone app and not in-game) my food+water is 40 and my Def is 37.

[Zourin]

Originally posted by That 1 Dude:

Originally posted by bmh96:

How much food did you have? I heard if you have more food then defense they'll attack

I make sure my defense is close to the food + water. Right now I believe (I'm on my phone app and not in-game) my food+water is 40 and my Def is 37.

You want 40+ defense, or you are at risk.

[Gotcha28]

So you can call on settelments they can walk in front of you and block doors and get in your way and walk in front of you while shooting and die :(

[BrianH]

Originally posted by That 1 Dude:

Originally posted by bmh96:

How much food did you have? I heard if you have more food then defense they'll attack

I make sure my defense is close to the food + water. Right now I believe (I'm on my phone app and not in-game) my food+water is 40 and my Def is 37.

Then that's why you're getting attacked

Originally posted by Zourin:

If you do not have Local Leader, you do not need large settlements. If you have Charisma 6, you can take Local Leader and benefit from establishing your own community, but it is not required and you are not 'missing out'. You can get by just fine with Lockpicking, Hacking, Luck scavenging skills, etc.


That said:
Establishing a settlement network has the following benefits:
1: A good settlement network provides fresh water, produce, and scavenged junk available for use anywhere in the network.

2: A good settlement network allows you to support larger town settlements.

3: Larger town settlements benefit the most from shops, each of which will provide a small sum of caps daily based on the settlements' population

How do you get them to scavenge for junk?

[Zourin]

Originally posted by bmh96:

How do you get them to scavenge for junk?

Settlers will auto-assign themselves to farms by default. If all the crops are being worked, they will default to sometimes producing free scrap at their settlement.

If you manually assign people to Scavenging stations, they supposedly produce more scrap. Despite extensive testing and significant slave driving, this will never compare to the amount of scrap you can bring in by raiding a building, so do not expect this to be an earth-shattering benefit.

It's wierd, but you can ID people assigned to Scavenging stations because they run around with their pistol out all the time.