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10 Settlement Building Tips that Make Your Life Easier - YouTube
Channel: Oxhorn
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Hello there ladies and gentlemen, this is Oxhorn
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and I'm here in Tenpines Bluff today,
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which is a new settlement I'm working on --
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at least we're visiting, anyway --
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to go over some of the major tips
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that I use when building settlements.
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I often get requests from people saying
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"Hey, could you give me any top 10 tips
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on what you do to build your settlements?"
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And so, sure, here you go, here's some tips.
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For these tips and tricks, you do not need mods --
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this is a mods-free video,
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so these should work for any player
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even if you're on consoles or not using mods.
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First on the list is: scrap the weapons
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that you get from your Raider attacks.
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Seems pretty obvious, but when you get attacked
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by Raiders and Super Mutants and Gunners
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they drop a lot of weapons.
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And if you don't loot the weapons off of
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their bodies, then the weapons disappear forever.
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So you have two choices, you can:
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A) either loot all of the weapons
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and give them to all of your settlers, or
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B) scrap them.
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Now what I've done in the past is,
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I've looted all the weapons
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and then placed them in my workshop.
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Check this out -- I've got all of these weapons
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that came from a variety of different attacks
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and I put them in here because
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settlers will walk by and arm themselves
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during attacks, using these weapons.
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That way I don't have to actually go through
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their inventory and give them
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a whole bunch of weapons.
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But, let's say you're short on resources.
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Just drop all your weapons, open up the workshop,
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and start scrapping away.
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You're going to get some stuff that you
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don't typically use for settlement building,
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like nuclear material and fiber optics,
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but you also get steel and wood, and
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sometimes you'll need those for the
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settlements that you are building.
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So, you get attacked a lot -- at least I get
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attacked a whole lot in my settlements --
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which means that you have a nearly
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unlimited supply of weapons.
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Make sure that you scrap them for resources.
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Next up, get rank 4 of Strong Back.
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I already have it so let's go back a rank
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so that you can read it, but it says:
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"When overencumbered, you can fast travel."
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This is really important and you need to be level 30
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before you can get it, but it helps immensely
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with dungeon runs -- when going through
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dungeons to get scrap.
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Instead of storing stuff in containers
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or making multiple trips back and forth,
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just get the fourth rank of Strong Back,
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load up until you're completely encumbered,
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and then fast travel to your settlement
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to deposit all of your materials.
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It makes your life as a settlement builder
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a whole lot easier.
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The next tip is to scrap items that you've already built
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that you know you'll never use,
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so when you build something and you decide
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you no longer need it, what you do is
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you go to the item and you typically go Tab
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to store the item in your workshop.
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And that's fine -- it saves the item in your
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workshop so that you can use it later,
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but let's say you've finished your settlement
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and you know you'll never need those items again.
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Instead of storing them in your workshop
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where they are not put to good use,
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scrap them to retain the resources.
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This is important because when you store
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a settlement object in your workshop,
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it only exists at that workshop.
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It's not like you're going to be able to
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use it again at some other settlement.
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So unless you're completely rebuilding
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that one settlement again,
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the item is no longer useful to you.
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So what I do is I just go through my
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settlement build menu and I looked for the numbers.
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This is telling me that I have one of these shack floors
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and I no longer need it, so I'm going to
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build it and scrap it.
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There's another shack floor; let's build that, scrap that.
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Any more floors? No, let's go to walls.
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Let's go through the walls.
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How many walls do I got here?
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I probably built some of these walls...
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Yeah, two of these. 1... 2...
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Oh, it looks like i accidentally built one.
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But let's regain some of those resources
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that otherwise were just sitting there not being used.
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You get the idea.
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After you finish your settlement --
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look at these, I've got eight of these --
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just go through one item at a time and
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scrap the stuff you never use to regain your resources.
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The next step may be obvious,
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but use a jetpack, ladies and gentlemen.
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Using the jetpack makes settlement building
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so much easier.
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If you don't use a jetpack then you end up
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building these big intricate contraptions
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and scaffolding, trying to
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get up into the high places.
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Or you'll use a mod to make things hover in the air,
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and all of that is fine and it works,
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and I do all of that, often, in my settlement builds,
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but I just can't imagine
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settlement building without a jetpack.
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It allows me to access all of the hard-to-reach
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places in my settlement that I otherwise
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would struggle to get done and it just
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makes my life so much easier.
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So make sure you get to the level where you can
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put a jetpack on your power armor,
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get a jetpack, and craft away.
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Alright, let's say that you're trying to build
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an elevated platform, and you want to use
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these posts that came with Far Harbor
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or Contraptions Workshop to make it look
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like it's secured to the ground.
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So you try and get under it and you line it up
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just perfectly and you place that there
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then you place that one there and then
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you go, "oh man, I didn't line it up right"
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or you place one on top and you're like,
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"oh shoot, it's going through the floor; what's going on?"
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Well, the best way to go about this in my opinion
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is to not build from the bottom up, but to
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build from the top down.
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Not only is this going to make it easier but
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you're not going to overshoot your platform
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if there is any excess.
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It's going to go underneath the ground;
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it's going to get buried in the earth.
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This way, it has a much more clean look to it;
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it looks much more convincing.
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Here's one that I thought was common knowledge,
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but I actually had a viewer say
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that they had no idea you could do this.
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You can move anything that's connected to
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something else by simply hovering over an item,
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holding E... boom! That selects absolutely everything.
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I can now move this entire marketplace around,
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if i want to.
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Now, as you can see there's part of this
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that I don't want to be selected.
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So to cancel this, let's press Tab.
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Everything goes back the way it was.
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And notice that when I did this the last time,
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I got this power pylon selected.
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But let's say I didn't want to have that selected.
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Well, it's really simple. Let's just move this
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out of the way -- move it a bit farther away,
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and then when we try to select
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absolutely everything again, we no longer have
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the pylon / conduits selected.
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We now only have the marketplace selected.
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Now, this is going to be much more useful if
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you use a tool like "Place Everywhere"
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because then you can push it outside of
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the bounds of the zone, or you can push it
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farther ahead of you, and stuff like that.
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But it's still a really useful feature,
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even if you're doing this on consoles
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or if you're not playing with mods.
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So if you want to select everything, hold E to do so.
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Now some of these chairs and beds in the game
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don't have backs, and so it's hard to know
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which side is the front and which side is the back.
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This can be important if you're trying
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to post something on the ground
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that a settler is going to use, like a chair for example.
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You want to make sure that they sit the right way.
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Well, here's a tip.
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In the past I would look for an identifying mark
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on the chair, that would show me where the back was.
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In the case of this stool, that line is the back of the chair.
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So I would make sure to point the line
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always towards myself when placing it,
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so that I knew where the back of my settler would be.
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But if I were to use something that makes
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logical sense to me, like the line on the back of this,
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to be the back of the stool, I would be fooling myself.
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Because the line at the back of this stool
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is not the back of it. Settlers don't sit on it like that.
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See, in this example, that line in the back
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is not the very back of this settler.
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So if I were to use that to line this up,
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I would be incorrect.
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So the best way to go about this is to find something
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that has a back, like this stool with a back, right?
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We know where the settler is going to sit in this stool
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every single time because it has a back.
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But the nice thing about the settlement build menu
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is that the items retain the shape.
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So here I am with the back pointing towards me,
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and I move one over, and I'm going to be confident
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that if I set that down right there,
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the settler will sit in the stool with her back towards me.
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Alright, let's wait to see if a settler sits down.
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I think she's going to take it.
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And there we go, yep, so she's sitting the correct way
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that we were able to predict
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simply by taking a look at something else
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that was in the building menu.
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And this works for beds as well.
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So let's take a look at some of these beds.
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Uhh, which way is up?
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Which way would the settler sleep?
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There's really no indication. Is one side
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slightly taller than the other side?
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It's kind of hard to tell, especially with a bed like this.
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Which side is up and which side is down?
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Well, this comes in handy when we have a bed like this,
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or actually, no -- a bed like the one that
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comes with Vault-Tec Workshop.
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This. This bed comes with Vault-Tec Workshop,
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and it's hard to see when it's highlighted,
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but you can see that one end of it is slightly uncovered.
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That's where the settler will put his or her head.
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So if we want the head to go on the right side like this,
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let's just position the bed
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and then we can go and find any bed
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that we want to place -- like, a sleeping bag,
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or a cage bed, or... even one of these dirty beds,
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and we can be confident that
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all of the heads will line up. Right? Simple.
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Alright, so you've got a crop planter down here
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that came with Wasteland Workshop,
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and you want to make a nice square dice-face
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grid of carrots, but you try to put this
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carrot down here and you can't seem to
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find that sweet spot.
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It's just so hard to get to and you just can't place it.
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It's saying that the planter is full.
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Well, this is a really simple workaround.
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Plant the carrot anywhere else.
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Once it's planted, go back and select it,
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and you can plant it in the planter.
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It's much more lenient that way and I don't know why.
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And we can just keep doing this.
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Let's plant another crop.
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Even though this is pretty much full, we can plant
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two carrots really close to each other.
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They no longer detect each other's
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being next to each other.
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I think this is due to a glitch.
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I think the carrot is still technically over here.
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You see, I hover over that... yeah.
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I hover over this invisible spot and the carrot lights up
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because I believe the game is still
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technically placing it here, but
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visually it's going to be here.
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So this is a great way to go about it, and then
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you can just move this anywhere you want. Bingo.
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Alright, has this ever happened to you?
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You're wiring up electricity, or you're changing
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something that has already been wired,
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and your wires get all messed up.
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They start pointing to the wrong things,
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or worse yet, they start doing this spike animation
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and it never stops --
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like that, that sparkle animation right there.
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It just never stops and you want
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to figure out how to fix that.
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Well, there's a really simple way to do it.
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You don't have to scrap each of these wires and
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rewire it -- that's just a waste of time.
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Instead, just select one of the wires,
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and then cancel by pressing Tab.
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And it snaps back to the original position.
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If you have a lot of wires attached to
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something like this, simply grab the
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thing that the wires have been attached to
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and then press Tab to cancel.
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And they all snap back exactly where
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they're supposed to go.
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That should save you a lot of time.
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Here's one that plagues settlements.
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So each settler can produce 6 food.
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Now, that means they can farm more than six crops.
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You see how this carrot is only producing 0.5 food?
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That means that when it comes to carrots,
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each settler can farm 12 carrots.
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When it comes to mutfruit, each settler
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can only farm six mutfruit because
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each mutfruit produces 1 food.
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The problem comes into play when your
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settlement starts to grow.
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So let's say you've got four settlers
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and one settler assigned to farming.
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So you plant four mutfruit or eight carrots
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to produce 4 food.
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Well, when you first assign one of your settlers
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to farming, that settler only farms 4 food.
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Right? Because you only have 4 food planted.
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But then your settlement starts to grow,
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and suddenly you need more food.
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So you know that your settler can farm a total of 6 food,
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so you plant 2 more food,
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but your settler does not start farming automatically.
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That's because the way the game works is
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it triggers an auto-assign process
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when you assign a settler to an object
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for the first time.
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So when you assign a settler to a crop, it will
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automatically try to detect other crops nearby to
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assign that settler to, until it reaches maximum 6 food.
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If there are only four carrots there,
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then it stops doing that.
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But when you plant more carrots, the game
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doesn't go through that auto-assigning process again.
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Instead what you got to do is,
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when you plant more crops, you have to
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find the settler that has already been assigned
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to farming, and reassign that settler to farming.
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Watch what happens when I reassign a settler to farming.
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Look at my food in the top left hand corner.
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You see it go down?
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The game is unassigning all of the food
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from that settler, and then it's going through each
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food item, one at a time -- one, two, three, four,
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and assigning it to that settler
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until all of them are assigned.
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So, to summarize this tip, if you have enough
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food planted, and you have enough
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settlers farming, but your food still is in the red --
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it still says you don't have enough food --
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just take one of your settlers, maybe hover over them
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to see which crops they're assigned to,
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find the one that is assigned to the fewest,
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and reassign that settler to some crops.
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The game will reset itself and you should be good to go.
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Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen --
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a short quick video with some very basic
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settlement building tips that I've discovered over time
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and that I wanted to share with you.
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I hope you learned something new;
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if you didn't learn something new, that's okay.
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I've got more videos to make, and who knows,
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maybe you'll learn something in those videos as well.
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And who knows, maybe you've got
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something to teach me.
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Is there something that you can teach me
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that I can then share with my viewers at a later date?
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Please leave a comment in the video section below
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and share with me your best
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settlement building tips and tricks.
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Here I am at Tenpines Bluff.
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I've got a lot of work ahead of me.
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I'm going to get to work to revisit the settlement
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and make it amazing.
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