Fallout 4 Base Building

Fallout 4 Base Building

In Fallout 4, players have the ability to craft a new life amidst the devastated landscape. Through the Workshop feature, players who love to gather loot and scavenge for materials can put their efforts to good use by creating unique structures and settlements. For this guide, we will provide the basic instructions for building and maintaining your Fallout 4 settlements. 

The Workshop - Getting Started

Early in the game, players will be tasked with creating a new home base for themselves and other survivors in the form of a settlement. Settlements can be created wherever a Workshop is located. The Workshop allows you to build and move objects throughout the area within the green Workshop boundary. In order to build, you must first have the material components needed to create desired items. 

Begin by opening up the Workshop across the street from your old home. With the Workshop interface open, walk around the area where you plan to build your settlement. Objects that can either be scrapped or stored will be outlined in green, while broken objects that can only be scrapped are outlined in yellow. Scrap all the yellow items you find, and store green items that you wish to use later. 

Once you have gathered a decent amount of materials, you can now begin to build. Scroll through the various tabs in the Workshop to familiarize yourself with the available items. Each object shows a list of components required to craft the object. Missing components can be tagged for search, which places a magnifying glass icon next to items that contain the missing component. 

Objects can be built or placed anywhere within the Workshop boundary, as long as it is highlighted in green in the preview. If the highlight is red, you will need to adjust the position or find even ground to place the object on. If you wish to move an object after it has been placed, simply highlight and select the object to place it down again. If you decide you no longer wish to use an object, don’t scrap it, as this will yield a smaller amount of components than you used to build it. Instead, just store the item in the Workshop for future use. 

Maintaining a Settlement
You can't move this Workbench, but you can move the others, like your Weapons Workbench.
You can build structures if you wish, but early in the life of your settlement your first priority is to make sure your settlers’ needs are met. Your first settlement will likely be in Sanctuary. Several survivors have settled down in this location and will ask you to help out with a few tasks, which is meant to familiarize you with the basics of settlement maintenance. 

First, you must consider how many settlers have arrived to call a particular settlement home. Open up the Workshop menu and look at the top bar on the interface. This will list how many settlers are in the area, as well as several other categories that must be maintained: Food, Water, Power, Defense, Beds, and Happiness. The color of these categories determines the overall status of a given settlement. Settlement Happiness. 

Maintaining a settlement comes down to making sure your settlers maintain a high Happiness rating. To do this, you must have enough beds, food, water, defense, and power based on the number of settlers in your community. 

Beds
Beds are pretty straightforward. You simply need at least one bed for each settler, otherwise they might get a bit cranky. Open the Workshop and peruse the bed selection. Place down enough beds for the amount of settlers you have. Beds can be placed within existing structures, so there’s no need to waste resources building them new homes. When it’s time to sleep, the settlers will automatically occupy the beds themselves as long as they are in the settlement area. You can also rest in any bed to replenish your missing health. 

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