sorry about the poor mic quality. I recently learned I was wearing it wrong and correcting the positioning made my filters go nuts so I sort of sound a bit lispy in this one, this should be fixed in future entries.

I always love turning spectacle island into a massive city.

Finch Farm and Greygarden, once you realize that you can build on the highways. Build a fortress on the highway, with the peasants on the ground to farm your food.

My favourite is probably Hangman's Alley. Although space is limited, those limits give a very good opportunity for creativity. The aesthetic of buildings stacked upon each other with a narrow street in the middle is one i really like

I made the entire town in Starlight Drivein 6 years ago... three-floor beautiful buildings, multilevelled streets, shops, workshops, conveyed plant, hotel, saloon, police station. hospital, caravan center, the market, trophies museum... I spent months planning and upgrading it, such nostalgia... I wish I could find that save...

Surprised the castle isn't on here. Patching the wall using various tricks has always been my favorite.

Small correction: Nuka Red Rocket does have standing water. You can fit 5 water purifiers if you're careful. You have to scrap some debris to uncover it, but it's close to the bottling plant.

I don’t know if the crappy mic is intentional but it sure adds to the vid it’s charm, especially if we’re talking about the fallout universe. My absolute fav spot is the drive in , I always clear out the molerats and junk cars and build my hq there.

I always loved sanctuary hills. Huge area, a bunch of scrapable houses for flat platforms, a ton of water space for pumps, a huge field for crops, and a choke point entryway with the bridge over the moat that’s easy to defend

My favourite has to be gray garden, I use it as my main player base. I made it like a hanging personal quarters under the bridge, great view for sniping and feel very secluded, even put in a trap door so I can drop down into the wasteland in my power armour :)

I always use both Red Rockets as player lodging. I fill them with robots to tend to crops and defenses, and build little shacks for all my fleshy companions to live in while I'm not traveling with them. I like building my personal quarters on the roof.

Sanctuary Hills is just amazing. Best location imo

Kingsport lighthouse is my personal favorite. Decent sized area with buildings nearly in perfect shape, a stairwell down to a large marina, and its very, very easy to defend (one narrow winding road to get to it). Kingsport might be a little hard to unlock due to the children of Atom and the captured Glowing one, but Its worth the hassle.

I am always drawn to Croup Manor as my base location because it is by the sea. I scrap everything and build my own "Manor" and go from there. 😎

I would have included Sanctuary Hills and Spectacle Island, but glad to see Starlite Drive-in. Was actually the first big settlement I ever built when I first played Fallout 4 years ago because basically for all the reasons you listed. It's just a purely fantastic location.

I always like to build a settlement on the water around the waterfront restaurant at Egret Tours. I love the build area. Lots of potential. I always build out Dalton Farm as well. I hate how frequently rad storms hit the area (and I REALLY hate how frequently they hit Echo Lake Lumber Mill), but I still like to build out the Far Harbor settlements anyway, especially Dalton Farm and Longfellow's Cabin. Abernathy Farm is great. I usually avoid building there until I have some established communities because settlements with already existing settlers become an easy target for raiders early on. Once I have a supply line and a lot of materials available, though, I love to wall out the settlement like you did in the video and then create the Abernathy Towers residential areas. One settlement that I would place in my top 5 that doesn't get mentioned here is the Finch Farm. I love building up on the bridge towering above the settlement (I like Graygarden for the same reason, and I usually also build on top of the movie theater building at Starlight...I just like high vantage points, I guess). I also really like The Slog. Building a whole structure around the swimming pool and then seeing the lighting effect when it becomes an "indoor" location is pretty spectacular.

As someone that plays exclusively in survival mode the location of starlight is even better. You can use it as your base of operations for around half the map. The location next to Trudy's store and it being close to Carla's route means you can get by without having your own stores, as well.

Kingsport Lighthouse has to be my favorite, lots of room to build and it's VERY defendable!

No spectacle island im surprised

Sunshine Tidings would be up towards the top of the list for me. I also really like the the Boathouse as well (I use a mod to make it the Railroad's Safe House cuz it's in a nice strategic place on the river and near Bunker Hill). Hangman's Alley is a nice central location, but I rarely build it up very much. The Castle tends to end up being an absolute fortress, but I always end up siding with the Minutemen - what can I say, they appeal to the Commie in me (no matter how annoying Preston is). There's also County Crossing. I love the location and it's got a decent amount of space that's easy to build on. The robot Greenhouse place is another one that's a great location as well - plus you can build under and on the highway bridge as well. I usually treat Red Rocket as a personal residence as opposed to an actual settlement. There's also the fact that the game tends to chug pretty bad when you've got Abernathy, Sanctuary, and Red Rocket all built up. But my PC is kinda old and needing upgrading as well. But I also use a bunch of mods, including ones that increase what you can scrap. And Sim Settlements is basically mandatory for me at this point. I recently added a mod that lets me recruit Minutemen Squads to go take care of Preston's silly requests too, and it's working out pretty well overall. The General shouldn't have to do everything themselves, right?

For the longest time I've only ever really put effort on Red Rocket Truck Stop and Starlight Drive-In. - Red Rocket Truck Stop, taking advantage of the small build area means I can make it as detailed as I can - Starlight Drive-In, being the opposite of Red Rocket means I can be as elaborate as I want with creating facilities and museums and these two are like walking distance away

I love how much footage he has of the Taffington Boathouse, even though it’s not one of the featured settlements

I remember on my first save, I had built a completely fleshed out Dalton Farm settlement. I was so enamored with it, it was actually what first really got me into settlement mods lol

I probably would have suggested Longfellow's Cabin. While the terrain is a bit rougher than Dalton Farm, most of the settlement is dirt and foundations can easily be built to level everything else. The other advantage is that all attacks come from one direction, which makes defending the settlement extremely easy, if not the easiest of all settlements (I would say Dalton Farm is the second easiest with a few strategic structural placements).

For me, it was always Croup Manor, the Marina and Starlight Drive-in. Croup gives a natural advantage on the cliff, meaning if you block off the front yard with 2-3 wall layers, you can bottleneck attackers, making for a rather straightforward defense. It also means you can put crops in a gated perimeter behind the house for added resource protection. It's most important feature, though, would be the house itself. Align extra panels with the openings on the mansion and you can add several extra floors and rooms for a plethora of space. With some _extra_ planning, you can even place a huge fusion generator in the center of the house and wire powered defenses across the entire settlement. Starlight is a massive farming and manufacturing opportunity, a better "Grey Garden" than _Grey Garden._ All the more so with the Automatron DLC. Assign a full team of cheaply made Handies to go gang busters on a full line of scavenger workstations; then use the materials to build cheap Protectrons for a full farming outfit. Make sure to buy concrete from Carla and use it to build a full wall perimeter (the flat paving makes it easy). At that point, you'll need more tech to build either a detachment of Assaultrons or a squad of Sentrybots; they'll be your primary defense force. Works wonders. Because of it's location and it's space, Egret Tours Marina makes for a fantastic "military" hub. Plenty of room for food, water, lodging and defenses, most importantly the mortars. It's also like Croup, in that the Marina's waterfront allows you to focus enemies through one or two entrances. Plus, due in no small part to the surrounding hills, scaffolding can by utilised alongside scrap setups to build walkways behind large bulwarks for added defense and ease for foot traffic. The Marina becomes a fortress, another Castle on the frontier.

Starlight Drive-In is SUCH a good place to build settlements! My most impressive settlement was built there - a mass town built out of steel cargo containers, surrounded by a big wall. I haven't touched my copy of Fallout 4 in quite a while but this video is making me want to get back into it.

This is a nice surprise to see recommended, gonna have to sort out my mods and play the game again

larger settlements can have enemies spawn directly within your settlements walls. For settlements like this (such as Sanctuary) its best to strategically place turret towers instead. EG gazebos with turrets on each of the 4 corners of the roof.

I'm fond of the Visitor's Center in Far Harbor. It isn't that difficult to use glitch tricks to repair the main structure. The bus stop near the entrance easily transforms into a guard tower. Honestly, I like all the Far Harbor locations. Sunshine Tidings Co-op is another favorite. I tend to turn it into a fortress, the justification being it is the first line of defense against Nuka World raiders. Wall off the perimeter & place a few gun/missile banks and you're golden.

Where are the castle, spectacle island and the sanctuary? The castle is awesome because it's a real life location that you can build on. It's a massive prebuild castle that you can expand or do what you want with. You can remove the mirelurker shit by doing the minutemen questline (or with console commands), but I prefere to keep it. It also has hidden tunnels and a radio beacon. Spectacle island has the biggest build site. The Sanctuary has one of the biggest build sites. It is also your characters old home which is good for roleplaying. It's a beautiful location. There are a lot of beautiful prebuilt houses and a giant tree to work with, while you have still a lot of free space to work with. The Sanctuary also starts with all crafting stations, which is great for low charisma no console commands runs. The Sanctuary also has it's own Vault which is FAR GREATER than anything Vault Tech has ever build!!! It's truly legendary!!! Sadly the Vault isn't part of the buildable space, but it's still cool for roleplaying and respawning rescources. I am not sure but I think, the Sanctuary is actually based on a real life location too. I now want to replay Fallout 4

Finch Farm has a super tall build height and the nearby overpass allows for a watch tower fortress

Very professional and informative channel. glad I found it!

Ive always used the drivethrough as my main base. First order of business was build walls and turrets. course that's what I do on all my settlements anyway. but the drive through being so close to everything really sold me.

I used concrete building foundations as border walls & set them just in the ground to give maximum height & then lined the outer perimeter of the high walls with every type of defense weapon available & used wooden platforms as elevated weapon platforms & guard towers which can be linked together to make an entire perimeter that you can walk around on & see in all directions for miles.

"The parking lot even has a small sinkhole that's large enough for a few water purifiers". Meanwhile my Starlight: Has several water purifiers in that puddle that grant 40 water each, thereby making this tiny puddle a physics breaking goldmine for water which also happens to deliver most of the water found in the Northeastern Commonwealth. In one of my playthroughs, it literallly had the single highest water output of any settlement other than the castle and spectacle island. And keep in mind, those places are literally surrounded by water. (and one thing you forgot to mention in the video: Starlight has a random encounter spot within walking distance, thereby making it an excellent random enounter farm. I always place turrets right at the settlement entrance, which usually start eviscerating the enemies found in the spot once i fire even so much as one shot with a crappy pistol. Otherwise, fantastic video! )

Been using load of your settlement videos since next gen came out on my vanilla ps5 version man. And i must say gave me a pretty fundemental ammount of knowledge to tackle some of these bigger sites. My favorite, for some reason is Warwick Farm. I have made that place a little industrial fishing/chem making factory on the side.

I have built a settlement a couple times at RR but was never really happy with it for the reasons stated. Using mods I built a really nice player home there. When playing vanilla I built a massive settlement and player home at Starlight, using the back office and side room as my player home. Spectacle Island is my favorite vanilla settlement location though. Massive build area, a relatively flat area between the workshop shack hill and broken house, down by the water. It makes for a great place to get creative. I've built so many different settlements and homes there.

First thing I do on any new character is establish the Red Rocket outside Concord as my personal safehouse. It's easy to wall off, the roofs are great spots for turrets, the interior is easy to fit with all manner of storage and display racks, and there's still plenty of room to place housing for companions. Plus it acts as a really good outpost to deter attackers from Sanctuary, which is harder to fortify.

As an OG player with over 10k play hours, that opening made me feel old af haha. I don’t know why, maybe because I’ve been playing the game since it came out. 🤷🏻‍♂️ This was a really great video though! I’m definitely subscribing for more videos. Starlight Drive in is definitely my favorite out of your 5.

Subscribed! This just resparked my interest in Fallout 4

Such a great alternative list rather than the same old same old. Good for you

All comes down to personal preference and ones game style. Anything like warwick, spectacle, nordhagen, sanctuary, the slog, murkwater, starlight etc etc, where you can get water purifiers in is a great way to get the caps rolling in and it never ceases to amaze how creative so many people are with their builds at all locations.

I love this its like Fallout real estate haha great video!!

I love using abernathy with an unlimited build limit mod, you can make a big platform over the sloped acres that actually is pretty flush against the top of the hill. then i plop a village on top and make it look like the main farm is like an enterance to a farmers market, is so pretty and kind of looks like covenant

Need a build video for your Abernathy Farm! Looked awesome!

Yay!! I still enjoy Fallout 4. Recent vid too. I'm currently engaged in a Survival/ Merchant roleplay. Whomever showed me Roleplaying in a video game bless you. Such fun.

I have a mod that makes it possible to make Starlight Drive in play videos again. (Videos of the wasteland, can be found on Nexus Mods) so I decided to try and make it the theme of a post war drive in still with functioning speakers, etc and a food bar. I placed the beds in the small storage room things behind the screen itself so there were alot more beds, and some in a few trailers with another mod that allows you to place trailers.

This is rhe kind of content I was craving 2 years ago

good vid! the bg music made it better imo

It’s probably low on your list, but I enjoy Jamaica Plain. It’s a corner in a neighborhood. Not a build space. It’s awkward, but that only enhances my satisfaction at making it work. I also like that the cook station is in a nearby church, outside of, but connected to, the settlement. Just figuring that out was kind of cool. It’s a pretty decent homebase, too, location-wise (Hangman’s, County Crossing are my other two, predominantly).

Still love Kingsport lighthouse and usually claim that as my personal settlement for myself and companions. I build a tower wrapping around the lighthouse. Awesome views and a genuinely peaceful spot to relax and unwind.

i love sanctuary hills extremely, but i just like oberland station because the train building parts have always been and will always be my absolute favourites.

My favorites are Sanctuary, Castle, Starlight drive in and Sunshine Tidings. My most hated is Coastal Cottage, Everytime I see it I just think “What a joke” lol

I find the vanilla Red Rocket location my favourite, I usually put a floor structure snuggly against the garage door with stair access to the rooftop where I put all my generators. I like to build around the arch section to be the only entrance lined with concrete walls and ratted out as a raider outpost. Best of all no settlers to fend for and fitted with an absurd amount of rocket turrets to deter anything that mucks about

Awww, The Castle didn't make this list? I freaking love building at The Castle. I always line the corridors with fusion reactors to power everything, I rebuild the outer walls with concrete, and then put wood/concrete foundations down to then build additional corridors on each of the walls that serves as the power armor bays for the lower half and crops on the roofs. Then at each of the five points, I build up towers about three levels tall where I put the bunks at for all of the Minutemen and Settlers with the roofs of each one being dedicated to artillery pieces. Then, if I get REALLY bored, I'll make a ammo manufacturing plant on the south side of the complex over the little lake there complete with a control room at the top. There's just sooooo much you can do with that location!

As a BoS enjoyer, my most recent build was at the Airport. Had to use a mod to be able to build there but basically rebuilt the terminal as a functional settlement. Probably my favourite build so far otherwise Hangmans is pretty cool. It is restrictive but I think that's part of the beauty of it.

Taffington, man. Great spot for all kinds of stuff and strategically-placed minuteman artillery cannons can hit a variety of spots that make for amusing explodey times.

The problem I have with Dalton Farm is the incredibly powerful settlement attacks. The first time I put settlers there it was promptly attacked by waves of deathclaw-level critters. Anglers picking off my turrets with their spit and deathclaws and gulpers inland. There were several waves of the things and I died several times despite being something like level 80.

Taffington Boathouse. Water highways all over the map from your front door and a “fairly” centralized location.

I really love "Vault 88" because you can do whatever you decide to and that's the only settlement that you need to unlock other places through exploration through the cave systems to make your settlement bigger than before

With a specific camping mod that allows you to build your own workbench and start a settlement anywhere, i'd argue that the best location to build a settlement at is actually up on top of any of those highways. Simply use a power armor jetpack to reach one, build the campfire, turn into a workbench, and then build scaffolding ramps down to the ground below, with all the dlcs and some workshop kits, you can build a thriving highway city. Any enemies attempting to attack said highway based settlement will need to climb the ramps, which you can build all sorts of traps and turrets that only come within enemy view when their close, allowing most threats to be killed way before they reach the top. Also you could start a settlement in the glowing sea, inside the lucky shipping, at the church in salem, on top of the fish producing factory or even on the top exposed floor of any number of skyscrapers in boston. So the base 30 settlements you can ignore.

As a trade lane maniac, I LOVE the Starlight Drive-In. Because of it’s central location, I can patch many settlements in the Northern part of the Commonwealth into it as a trade hub and connect it both ways to Sanctuary and/or my base at the castle if I’m a Minuteman General

I love Dalton Farms. It's my absolute favourite site off all of them; both aesthetically and for build potential.

Greygarden is becoming my favorite. It comes with a robot workforce and highway you can build on.

The Marina is my favorite. I must be one of the only people who likes to build small personal settlements and I really like building it inside the little shack on the pier.

Brilliant KZfaqr , definitely recommend

Right now I'm kicking myself on Dalton Farm. It never dawned on me to build out over the water. That'll make things a heckuva lot more convenient for the housing while also giving my existing settlement space a nice trading post on the land.

I can highly recommend Taffington boathouse for a small, more personal outpost, for maybe 2-3 people. It doesn't need very much for a super cozy, lore-friendly safe house, you basically just barricade the outer border, make a small garden, hook up basic necessities, and have several pre-built rooms for interior decoration. I've always had much more fun here than building everything from scratch on an open field, and ending up with ridiculous looking trash cubes. Starlight is good for a big settlement, but Taffington is much better for a personal safespot to relax in after a long day.

I find missile turrets,palisades or walls,and a heavily armed garrison of settlers pretty much guarantee I never have to "Help" my settlements haha

My current hardcore playthrough is centered around Egret Marina Tours, its a nice central location only a stones throw from Diamond City. Hangman's Alley is nice and central too, I go there to stock up on water+food during long journeys.

I decided to make my home in Abernathy farm mainly because it's the first place I saw a cat, so I had to be where the cat is. The slope is not a problem, I did a vault build with bases to get an ample build base, and still have space for a vault generator and an artillery cannon operated by McCready. My only problem is the small object count of the area, forcing me to do the drop and store glitch for a long while to build just a little more, and that's why I only did 3 vault floors instead of the 5 or 6 I wanted. Oh well, lets hope at least I get to meet Delores someday

Warwick Homestead is the most overlooked settlement IMO. Surrounded by water on almost all sides and enemies only attacking from one direction, the settlement is very defensible. The building ground is completely flat, with lots of farmland, water, and prebuilt structures. The downside of this settlement is that it is on the Southeastern edge of the map, very far away from your starting point. I didn't even know the place exist on my first 2 playthrough.

Im an F4 noob, but started the series when F1 was first released. I would love that style of game with the building and tower defense of this game.

I built a full baseball field and stadium at the Starlight drive-in. Complete with bases and mannequins at each field position. I think I remember finding baseball uniforms for all of them to wear. The movie screen was the outfield wall similar to the "green monster" at the Boston stadium. It was super creepy and fun.

Hey, Grey! Just wanted to tell you youve got really good writing and voiceover work! I really hope you get a mic that shows off your chops and your channel gets to grow!

Sunshine trading coop is awesome, main warehouse is crafting center, other warehouse is stores, and the cabins are living quarters

I'm partial to commonwealth Redrock. It's a perfect place for a safe spot to dump loot and repair or modify armor and weapons. The castle is Also amazing the challenge of turning it from crumbling ruins to a fortress for the minutemen is a nice challenge

I love red rocket Putting junk fences around and make shift settler houses such a small location can feel like a crowded village

I like Mystic Pines and I can't believe it wasn't a settlement in the vanilla game. Sure seems like it was supposed to be?

I have to say that island in the south of the map, Great view point, little to no attacks, and a great home away from home, plus if you put the artillery there, you can cover the hole southern end of the map

I always liked Jamaica plain as a trading settlement, I would build tens for the parking lot and turn the two buildings into a bar and storage area, although I wish we got the whole town, or a larger area, Sanctuary is awesome and I always end up making a different version of it each time, but its just... been there done that, everyone gets that settlement I love Longfellow's Settlement (I forget the name), its spectacle island but the path that runs around it just helps me think better when building

the roof on top of the red rocket by concord is buildable, and makes a great place to store and work on power armor!

Starlight is great. I have a massive city built there on one of my builds. Used mods to built around it too, it is bigger than DC now.

My favorites are sanctuary because: being the first one you unlock makes it super easy to get access to. it is large allowing you to build something more like the old pre-war suburbs or just spacing out different parts of the settlement for both visual and practical reasons. its placement at the early part of the game makes enemy levels lower as in a normal playthrough that is where the player goes shortly after leaving the vault and would only have a basic melee weapon and a 10mm pistol at that point. The river makes defending the front of town super easy as you have a chokepoint to work with. The river makes it easy to string up some water purifiers Comes with a prebuilt stand to store and modify your power armor. The castle because: Big walls with easily patchable holes to make a solid defense Besides allowing for a chokepoint the walls also let turrets and defending settlers to attack from the walls while being out of reach of any melee attackers Nice courtyard for agriculture and shops Space in the walls to act as housing for the people A good size patch of water for fitting a large number of water purifiers, allowing you to make stupid amounts of water for supporting a massive stock of people across the commonwealth., used for healing as they are a clean healing option or sold to vendors for easy money.

The northwest part of the map really is the best place for a large community of settlements. Sanctuary, Abernathy, Starlight, and Sunshine can all be big population centers, and Red Rocket makes a good private player home.

the way you worded, this sounds like a commercial from around the time Fallout 4 takes place at

My favorite location is the castle if you rebuild the walls they can server as shops or barracks plus its a fort thats already pretty cool

Starlight is one of my favorite build locations, I always turn it into a central trading hub.

I've noticed in a couple videos you've talked about the Nuka World Red Rocket being easy to defend because it only has one spawn point. It only has one "official" spawn point, but it is also right next to a ruined building that has a super-frequent enemy respawn rate. I have never gone to that Red Rocket and not seen it under attack from there. Usually, I have a dozen or more elevated turrets pointed in that direction and I'm always having to repair them. It does make it a loot farm though.

Sanctuary is the og and has a special place in my heart, but Warwick Homestead makes me bussabuss. I made it into a Helm's Deep type place mixed with Lord Farquaad's castle. Egret Tours Marina is great too imo

0:34 Ah yes, who doesn't remember the all time Favorite "FALLIOUT 4"? 😂But still, nice Vid 👍

Sanctuary, Castle, Spec Island, Abernathy and Starlight are the best locations

I'm quite fond of Fort Hagen Just because it's a fortified point and it makes it easier to explore the surrounding area

I have to agree! The Dalton Farm was the only surprise. I am not a fan of Far Harbor and would replace that with the Mechanists' Lair.

I really like a lot of the mods that make sanctuary better/different but my favorite build location is probably the castle.

I couldn't ever put one over the other they're all great

Abernathy Farm would be great if it weren't gettin attacked every second day and their daughter wasn't consistently gettin kidnapped by raiders

I prefer "verisimilitude" and building a huge concrete prefabricated blocks feels completely unrealistic. That's why in my 2nd playthrough, the two fav locations for me are: - County Crossing, which I turned into a heavily fortified lived-in post-apocalyptic farming community with barn houses (from Far Harbor DLC) that has a nice mood to it. The terrain allowed building a set of structures that resemble a tiny town (I adapted the completely ruined house into a base plate for two wind turbines and an elevated workshop area, while the original unscrappable shack became a lived-in infirmary). It even has a nicely organized and protected spot for roaming traders. The CC's location is optimal, as it's literally on a huge junction of trade routes, and (aside from a ruined nuclear facility just a stone's throw to the south), it is optimally located from a role playing standpoint. - Nordhagen Beach, which I turned into a refurbished ruins of a seaside resort with beach piers, lodging and so on, also heavily fortified). I like the placement of it, despite being remote. It has this cool feeling, Note: I play on mods, but the only mod that affects the settlement building I installed is the one with snappable junk fences. It makes life SO MUCH EASIER, especially if you're into, you know, walling the whole areas around the post-apocalyptic settlements.

Spectical Island Is number one for me. Ive had so many amazing builds on it and it has the largest build zone and largest build limit if anyone plays without mods.

i once built a settlement from the vault by sanctuary all the way to red rocket in once continuous city with mods that allowed me to build a workshop anywhere built outskirts all the way out to the lake. i also have like 500 hours in this build and havent even come close to beating the game. i have a decent pc and get like 20 fps lol totally worth it