settler happiness = 100. how did you do it?

[Shadowrun]

so it's coming down to this. this will be my last achievement to get. i've already tried taking really good care of a few settlements but none of them have popped yet. i think 85 is the happiest i've seen.

so how did you do it? i've read the wiki suggestions and done all the basic stuff but i want to know, the steam community is my life line here, how did YOU get to 100 happiness in a settlement?

keep in mind i am playing in vanilla mode because i'm going for the achievements. this means i only have vanilla settlement objects at my disposal. no mods.

[Lucifer ★✬]

you do know there mods that allow achievements when using mods

besides that, i just did the norm. food, water and defence

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

Do you have any places left that you can make a new settlement? Easiest way I know of. Recruit Sheffield and send him to a settlement with all amenities and a bit of food and water stored with no settlers ( so Sheffield is the only person there ). Build the top tier Bar. Place Sheffield as the bartender. Bingo, 100% happiness in a couple of game days.

[Jack T]

And at least 20 settlers if I remember right

[Zes]

all your settlers should be female and your name must be nacho vidal

[steventirey]

Originally posted by Jack T:

And at least 20 settlers if I remember right

Despite what the achievement says, a large settlement (either in size, or population) is not needed. You can do it with a single settler in any settlement. Its actually easier with fewer people, as the happiness bonus from objects gets divided among all the population, resulting in a smaller increase with more people.

A covered bed, food, water, minimal defenses (1 point is enough for 1 settler) gives you the base of 80%. A tier 2 or 3 bar or clinic should cover the rest. Lower level stores can be used, but you need an additional source of happiness like a captured cat or junkyard dog.

[xybolt]

You can have 100 if you invest in happiness: provide basic things such as sheltered bed, food, water and sufficient defence. Then in addition to that, provide furniture that increase happiness such as investing in stores (bars and clinics!), have a trading route, have domestic animals (junkyard dog), ... These are all indicated with a smiley in the workshop UI.

also ... do not have robots. There is a quirk that robots leads to 50% deficiency.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by Jack T:

And at least 20 settlers if I remember right

No. It's more like 2-4, in that range.

[The Inept European]

The no brainer ultra cheezy way to do it is to spam the pommel horse things (from DLC) that give you bonus Agility. The happiness they add is stupidly not capped to the population, so you can have like ten per resident, or twenty, or whatever. And they are cheap to spam. Ideally in a new settlement, but you can even do it in an existing settlement and just deport people until happiness starts rising.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

Originally posted by aaron.mann:

so it's coming down to this. this will be my last achievement to get. i've already tried taking really good care of a few settlements but none of them have popped yet. i think 85 is the happiest i've seen.

so how did you do it? i've read the wiki suggestions and done all the basic stuff but i want to know, the steam community is my life line here, how did YOU get to 100 happiness in a settlement?

keep in mind i am playing in vanilla mode because i'm going for the achievements. this means i only have vanilla settlement objects at my disposal. no mods.

1. easiest console command ~ click on the workbench and set happiness to 100 easily

2. mods that inc. happiness. You can even disable the disabling of achievements with mods or rather re-enable achievements when using mods.


3. vanilla use cats. Lotsa cats. Just make sure all base needs water food beds and defense are met and you'll skyrocket with literal tons of cats. Make sure everyone has a job too.

[LArc7thHeaven]

Originally posted by Zes:

all your settlers should be female and your name must be nacho vidal

♥♥♥♥♥ you got me there kek

[Synavix]

I just did that achievement today. It's easiest if you have a settlement that's not populated yet.

Get a settlement that starts with just 2 random settlers. Oberland, Tenpines, County Crossing, etc all work easiest. But any can work if you just send extra settlers away.

Place down 2 or 3 beds (covered with a roof).
Place down a basic turret for defense.
Have a few plants; most settler settlements start with half a dozen things, that's enough for 2-3 food.
Place down a basic water pump if there isn't one already.
Place down a high level bar.

Assign 1 settler to food, 1 settler to the bar. The roofed beds, defense, water, and food will get you to the max settler happiness of 80%. And the bar (split between only 2 people) will get you to the other 100%. If you want to help it along, put down one or two weight lifting benches or pommel horses, or get a pet.

To make the settlement a "large" settlement just start putting down stuff. You need to get the settlement size bar in the top right to yellow (it has nothing to do with population). I just spammed around 50 wooden crates and steel toolboxes stacked in a corner. I think walls and foundations take up a lot of space too.

Also, there's an in-game daily cap on how much happiness a settlement can gain per day, so every once in a while you'll have to sleep (or wait) to go to the next day. I just let the settlement work passively while I explored and did quests and it eventually popped up while I wasn't even there.

Because of the way happiness buildings work (the bonus is divided by population) it takes a lot more work to get a "full" settlement to 100%, which is a bit weird. Most of my real settlements are just stuck around 85% because each new bar or w/e only adds another 1 or 2%. That's why a 2 man settlement works best, since it's enough to provide jobs and needs for everyone while splitting the bonus across as few people as possible.

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by LArc7thHeaven:

Originally posted by Zes:

all your settlers should be female and your name must be nacho vidal

♥♥♥♥♥ you got me there kek

Wouldn't even need a gun to fight off raiders. He carries his weapon at all times.

I did with it about 12 settlers using a high level bar and shops.

[Shadowrun]

Originally posted by Lucifer ★✬:

you do know there mods that allow achievements when using mods

i know but i didn't want to do it that way.

[Shadowrun]

Originally posted by ƎϽ∀ƎԀ:

Do you have any places left that you can make a new settlement? Easiest way I know of. Recruit Sheffield and send him to a settlement with all amenities and a bit of food and water stored with no settlers ( so Sheffield is the only person there ). Build the top tier Bar. Place Sheffield as the bartender. Bingo, 100% happiness in a couple of game days.

i actually do have a couple settlements that i didn't touch. i'll give this a try? i'm trying to remember who sheffield is lol. it's ok i will look him up on the wiki.

EDIT:
well ♥♥♥♥, i can't do this one. had a bit of a dust up in diamond city awhile back. killed everyone there who was taking shots at me. sheffield was one of the casualties.

[Shadowrun]

Originally posted by The Inept European:

The no brainer ultra cheezy way to do it is to spam the pommel horse things (from DLC) that give you bonus Agility. The happiness they add is stupidly not capped to the population, so you can have like ten per resident, or twenty, or whatever. And they are cheap to spam. Ideally in a new settlement, but you can even do it in an existing settlement and just deport people until happiness starts rising.

i did try this, in vault 88. 10 of these built and it isn't working :(