Boston Airport Settlement

[ErzPaladin]

The Boston Airport Settlement is a pretty good example, why I hate Fallout 4, cause everyone permanently claims how cool this "free-building" and Survival-Crafting within this RPG works.

So...

...after a few years of not playing Fallout 4 I thought, "maybe it could be fun, to play Fallout 4 a bit and build or pimp some of the settlements I didn't care about, yet".

That said, the Boston Airport looked interesting, cause you've a plane aeria on which you can build whatever you want. On most settlements that isn't the case!

So, I eliminated every seat within this aeria and built a giant 2-level complex, made out of concrete - which took ca. half of the total building-capacity of the entire airport-settlement. On top of the roof I placed some heavy laser turrents and on both sides on some leftover-ruins, which aren't deleteable, I placed Rocket-Turrents in ca. 2-3 m height. Those Rocket-Turrents flank the building out of some distance - with the idea to lower the risk of shreddering your own seddlers in the future. Maybe with some additional Concrete Walls then.

I placed a Fusion Reactor on the 2nd level of my building and in one corner of the wall I placed 3 Water Generators for 3x 10 = 30 Water. I placed some beds and seats in my building, got some food from another settlement and sent 2 Seddlers into this settlement.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469294316

Then...

... I found out, that I can't create food within this settlement, cause I can't plant anything on Boston Airport Settlement. Even with Food like Muta Berries Planting is disabled.
Even placing the Water Generators was already a problem, cause there's only a limited space on which you can place them. But planting isn't even supported on this settlement.

So...

... you've tons of free space, but you can't plant anything there!

Like Covenant the Boston Airport is a pretty good example why Fallout 4 is a huge crap, which is barely tolerateable. All that fake freedom isn't really worth all the BS you've to deal with!

Edit:

And funnily, I can't even add a bar, a general store or a medic to this settlement! So... you can't even make money with this crappy place! And therefore I invested 300-400 units of concrete and other stuff.

[Charon]

Jup. It's only there to let you build the thing to get to youknowwhere.

While i agree that Fallout 4 is a low effort minimum viable product, at least we can fix much of that laziness with mods. Can't say that about Starfield.

[steventirey]

There are a few locations that are not considered full settlements. The airport is one of those. You can build at the airport for 1 reason - that is where you build the signal interceptor if you are doing the Brotherhood of Steel questline.

[Someguyinhere]

Is anyone going to tell this man about planters?

[steventirey]

Originally posted by Someguyinhere:

Is anyone going to tell this man about planters?

Nope, because planters can not be built at the airport. (In addition, those garden plots are not part of the base game. They are a DLC item from Wasteland Workshop.) Neither can recruitment beacons, guard posts, artillery pieces, stores, or scavenging stations. Boston Airport is not a full settlement, and does not have the full range of options to build there.

The Boston Airport settlement location is literally only there as an extension of the Brotherhood base, as a place to build the signal interceptor.

The Mechanists Lair location has similar limitations.

[dead]

well if u need more building storage size in the bar just dump a bunch of guns on the ground and workshop mode pick em up the bar will go down. "easier if u have like 20 guns or so. thats how i used to do it in fallout 4"

you cant plant anything i dont know if this is in the non modded version but there is Garden Plots. u can look at.

also sims settlements 2. have a settlement building for that area. if ur not trying to use Vortex. mods. and ur just playing on Fallout 4 on Steam. and dont care for the achievements.



i can also recommend this could be a Easy first time modded guide for those who also want to try modding. before vortex.

(this is for computer for fallout 4. None downgarded if ur looking for only settlement stuff)
this is how i did my settlement building with out vortex if anyone is curious.
login to bethesda.net with ur account. for the mod creation. ill list some mods here. that i used to do and use for fallout 4 settlement building.
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/754816 Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch [UFO4P]
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/789944 Weightless Junk
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/4183663 Sim Settlements 2 [PC]
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/4247081 Sim Settlements 2: Chapter 2 [PC]
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/4338646 Sim Settlements 2: Chapter 3 [PC]
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/4081592 Workshop Plus [PC]
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/4081586 Workshop Framework [PC]
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/4293641SS2 DLC Settler Patch [PC]
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/4021308 HUDFramework [PC]
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/774312 Sanctuary Bridge Fix
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/1697837 Settlment Limits Slashed
https://mods.bethesda.net/en/fallout4/mod-detail/4013867 Scrap Grass, Bushes and Leaves
and some other mods. but thats what i used to use before i decided to hell with it and got into vortex. and use gog fallout 4 to mod.

[Someguyinhere]

Originally posted by steventirey:

Originally posted by Someguyinhere:

Is anyone going to tell this man about planters?

Nope, because planters can not be built at the airport. (In addition, those garden plots are not part of the base game. They are a DLC item from Wasteland Workshop.) Neither can recruitment beacons, guard posts, artillery pieces, stores, or scavenging stations. Boston Airport is not a full settlement, and does not have the full range of options to build there.

The Boston Airport settlement location is literally only there as an extension of the Brotherhood base, as a place to build the signal interceptor.

The Mechanists Lair location has similar limitations.

Hm. Guess my mods resolve that and I've never noticed. Thanks for reminding me about base game limitations. After 3K hours I'm bound to forget about some vanilla issues, even though I try not to mod vanilla out of my game entirely.

[ErzPaladin]

Originally posted by Charon:

Jup. It's only there to let you build the thing to get to youknowwhere.

While i agree that Fallout 4 is a low effort minimum viable product, at least we can fix much of that laziness with mods. Can't say that about Starfield.

I have zero tolerance for mods. And I have zero tolerance for people who're modding and claim, a crappy video game can be defined as good or even amazing, when you install mods from dubious external downloading sites, while this is entirely a developer's problem.
Especially when most of these sites serve the purpose of distributing male-, ad- and spyware.

[Someguyinhere]

Originally posted by ErzPaladin:

Originally posted by Charon:

Jup. It's only there to let you build the thing to get to youknowwhere.

While i agree that Fallout 4 is a low effort minimum viable product, at least we can fix much of that laziness with mods. Can't say that about Starfield.

I have zero tolerance for mods. And I have zero tolerance for people who're modding and claim, a crappy video game can be defined as good or even amazing, when you install mods from dubious external downloading sites, while this is entirely a developer's problem.
Especially when most of these sites serve the purpose of distributing male-, ad- and spyware.

So basically you're an idiot. Gotcha. Anyone with that attitude on mods and modding in general not only knows nothing about which they speak, but is almost always certifiably dull and dim.

[Dominic]

If you are comfortable with console commands you can open the console and select the workshop with the mouse cursor and then enter these lines:
addkeyword 5a0c8
addkeyword 246f85

this should unlock all the normal settlement build-ables but maybe not the artillery. You CAN build the planters and vendors with this.

Sorry you are frustrated, hope this helps because I really lime the Boston Airport! It's my main base and where my "Wife" (Cait) and "son' (Shawn-synth) live with Dogmeat and their two cats and best power-armour, etc.

[Xenon The Noble]

Originally posted by Someguyinhere:

Is anyone going to tell this man about planters?

No.

[Zekiran]

If you haven't yet figured out that mods are not, in fact, the devil.... That's something you'll want to address since this has been a known thing with this settlement as well as the Mechanist Lair since the game and dlc came out.

Mod, or use planters.

There is a very nice mod that changes just a couple keywords in the settlements that allow you to have FULL build ability with Airport, Mechanist Lair, and even Home Plate.

[Someguyinhere]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

If you haven't yet figured out that mods are not, in fact, the devil.... That's something you'll want to address since this has been a known thing with this settlement as well as the Mechanist Lair since the game and dlc came out.

Mod, or use planters.

There is a very nice mod that changes just a couple keywords in the settlements that allow you to have FULL build ability with Airport, Mechanist Lair, and even Home Plate.

Which one is that, if you don't mind?

[Zekiran]

I normally use this one:

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/60661

It SHOULD work, though it's possible that Home Plate may be a bit broken since it was a player home turned into a full settlement - I run on 163 not the next gen update, and have never had an issue sending anyone there but a comment more recently (and likely on the ngu) may mean there's an issue with that one.

[Ffabbia]

Originally posted by ErzPaladin:

Originally posted by Charon:

Jup. It's only there to let you build the thing to get to youknowwhere.

While i agree that Fallout 4 is a low effort minimum viable product, at least we can fix much of that laziness with mods. Can't say that about Starfield.

I have zero tolerance for mods. And I have zero tolerance for people who're modding and claim, a crappy video game can be defined as good or even amazing, when you install mods from dubious external downloading sites, while this is entirely a developer's problem.
Especially when most of these sites serve the purpose of distributing male-, ad- and spyware.

It's after reading comments like the one quoted above that all empathy and desire to help evaporates and you just end up thinking "let them stew in their own juice."

[Zekiran]

"Especially when most of those blah bla lies slander" ...

yeah I missed that part lol. Nexus mods is safe. I can't vouch for anywhere else but for sure they are directly at the top of the list of sites I'd allow ads on when browsing since they actually perform a massively impressive service to the gaming mod industry. None of it spy ware, none of it adware. No malware.

Climb down off that very very high horse OP. Grow up and stop insulting people for enjoying their game their way. Since that is the only way you'll be able to do the one thing you actually state you want to do in this game.