Because they were mentioned so much I now unironically want a loading screen art tier list.

I'm gonna be honest, I never used the mail boxes.

Lucky 38's only crutch is the number of loading screens.

I feel like the Novac house is perfect; nice central location, lots of storage, one loading screen, you're near vendors, and I guess you're no longer renting it if you show Jeannie something in front of the dinosaur

I also use the abandoned BoS bunker from Dead Money, pretty sweet house

An unofficial one, which I always use: Wolfhorn Ranch, which used to be Ulysses's. You can safely store your items inside (I always use the stove), it has loot outside, some crops with tobacco and other stuff and water if you run hardcore.

The bunker from the dead money DLC Basically my bank where I store my gold

The 38 has a wall console in the suite that allows you to buy furniture and work benches etc. If my memory serves me correct.

Imagine living anywhere other than Victor's couch In seriousness though Wolfhorn is my preference. It's a map marker, has some storage, is dinosaur adjacent, and you get free Legion corpses when you come home.

I agree with all. Sink is HQ feel, lucky38 is a gamblers life, novac home rental is coziness. Best safehouses for me is the followers and BOS for what they provide and design structure since they are more themey.

Harper's shack is Numero uno for me. Work bench, reloading bench, campfire just outside and fast travel puts you right at the front door. Bonus points for respawning raider fodder and deathclaws just for fun.

I think the Lone Wolf Radio located across from the Goodsprings Source is the most convenient safehouse in the game. It has a bed and some containers for storage and when you fast travel there you can walk straight inside. I only use it in the early game because I don't really like its appearance so I go for either the Novac room or the Lucky 38 room once I've reached those points.

Surprised no one has talked about the abandoned shack right next to the memorial in good springs, its early game, has a fast travel, reloading bench & a bed with good amount of storages to organize. I use it pretty much all game, looks nice if you clean it out & set up some weapons or armor!

If you are skipping the Novac quest line for any reason you can rent the room from Jeannie Mae for 100 cap. 100 caps isn't a lot and she never asks for any extra payments. Edited for spelling.

I really love the abandoned BOS bunker after running Dead Money. Workbench, recoding bench, the cloud machine, but most importantly the Sierra Madre machine and the chips that flow in after finishing it

The Sink is the GOAT, but it almost feels too posh for FNV, so I don’t usually wind up using it. I feel like I'm cheating when I make it my home base. I usually go for Novac. It’s accessible almost immediately, has most of the amenities I want (healing, storage, vendor, workbench) and is the most centrally located housing, which is nice for no-fast-travel runs.

Goodsprings gas station after you kill ringo for the exploit or just for the lulz with the powder gangers. It has plenty of space to store items, and it is really helpful until you get to the motel at Novac. Plus, once you kill Ringo, you have a nice corpse to talk to and i feel like it really brings out the whole deranged mailman vibe. 9/10 😊

I don't always use the mail boxes but when I do I forget about them 10 seconds later. While the coolest player house IMO is the Tops High Roller Suite the one I use most is the Novac hotel room. Forget about doing Come Fly With Me just pay Jeanie May 100 bucks before you have Boone dome shot her and the room is yours forever. I've had Cazadores spawn in The Followers Safehouse and deathclaws are known to enter the BOS safehouse.

i always use a grave at the good springs cemetery lol

I think the BOS safehouse is the best. However I have on more than one occasion had a deathclaw randomly spawn in their when entering, so there is that.

Auto doc isnt automatic for old world blues. You have to find his personality chip in Y 17.

I always use the dumpsters in goodsprings 🤣🤘

I always use The Bootleggers Brewing Shack as my home. Lots of safe storage and a Campfire when you walk in.

The Sink is the comfiest home I’ve ever had in a video game. Big fan of being able to just teleport to it and instantly unload hauls with the Transportalponder.

Novac is definitely my favorite for that low profile cleaner type of playthrough. It seems to be fairly equidistant to all different sections of the map which is nice if i’m trying not to fast travel as much. It has the reloading and workbench in the garage outside which has just always been a nice little detail for me. Its the most personal player home/safe house for me.

Nothing beats Goodsprings as a "house". You have the dumpsters to store stuff. You have Doc up the hill. Chet for selling stuff. The work benches around the corner. Hard to top imo.

There's a location called Harper's Shack that I used as a personal safehouse during one playthrough. Normally you run the risk of deathclaws since it's quite close to Dead Wind Cavern and Primm Pass. But when I used it as housing, I guess I just lucked out with deathclaw spawns and they never bothered me lol If you don't mind what neighbors you have, I'd say it can definitely work as player housing. Has a campfire outside, a workbench and reloading bench indoors, a bed, and a lot of storage containers.

I use Harper's Shack. It has plenty of storage, ammo bench, work bench, bed, and a camp fire outside. An added bonus is the respawning of viper gang members and golden geckos near by for grenade rifles and meat. It is also reasonably centrally located on the map.

This is just me but I think that the sink is the best one here. It has very many amenities including but not limited to, a vendor, a place to fill water bottles and drink, a place to heal yourself, a place to grow plants, all 3 kinds of crafting benches, and some shelves to display trophies such as weapons, items, and other nice things.

Goodsprings alley between the general store and saloon. Both benches, 4 crates, No loading screens and an abandoned trailer with a mattress

Lucky 38 is my usual go to mainly because I like a place to keep all the compainions, it also has plenty of storage. The Sink is my second favorite because of it's utilities. Also the Novac House you actually don't need rep, you can get it it for like 100 caps from either Jeanie or Cliff (if Jeanie is killed by Boone in his starter quest)

I always use Novac, using The Sink is a bit annoying for me to travel because of companions but if I’m running alone the I’d see use of it

Harper's Shack has all the workbenches plus all the porch deathclaws you can handle

The best safehouse comes from the Willow companion mod. It's the Deluxe Bungalow in Novac. Naturally, it has the minimal loading screens to get in and out, easy to access, has all the amenities like sinks for water, workbench and reloading bench, and categorised lockers for all the gear you pick up in the wasteland. However, the best part of the safehouse is the warmth. (Emotional, not thermal) Whenever the Courier goes to Zion, Big MT, the Sierra Madre or the Divide, it was always reassuring that Willow was there waiting for the Courier to return. She made the difference between a safehouse and a home.

The sink just has so much utility with a single trigger press. Awesome home base

My favorite is actually goodsprings. You can empty, drag, re-organize, and re-use the Sunset Sarsaparilla crates scattered throughout the town. There is a mailbox and Trudy, Chet, Doc Mitchell can all serve as vendors, as well as the all-important crafting and reloading benches nearby

As a hoarder, I LOVE the Mohave Express boxes, especially at low levels. That affects my favourite home. If you're by a box you can ship things home easily. * Best Starting Home: Goodsprings. Seriously. I store all my things in the two dumpsters right beside the Express box. Fast travel there, no loading screens. Two work benches right around the corner. Usable bed in Easy Pete's house. Fast, convenient, and again, I LOVE that Express Box (and no loading screens). * Best Late Solo House: The Sink. Except that your companions unfollow, which is annoying. (I admit that I sometimes use a mod that allows companions to come with me, which reduces annoyance.) I was pleased that you included both of mine, although you downplayed Goodsprings as if wasn't far better than anything other than the Sink.

Y'all sleeping on the coyote mine house, that pad although has the occasional feral ghoul infestation, it has a spacious two floors, an old timey radio just at the entrance, bunk beds, lot of storage and complete with a fully decked out kitchen.

You left out a couple vendors near the Wrangler room. Julie at the Fort will sell a limited amount of meds and magazines once your rep is high enough, and Mick and Ralph's is right around the corner. And there's plenty of places to gamble nearby. Novac has easy access to No-Bark for unlimited Caravan. I usually use the Wrangler if I'm roleplaying a Follower, or the Novac room otherwise, until I get the Sink sorted out. You really should have made an S-tier just for it, it's in a class by itself.

Harper's Shack is my favorite because it has safe storage, beds, a reloading bench and workbench. Plus it has a campfire and some prickly pear cacti for harvest outside. Place is ideal for Hardcore mode, which I always play on. Doesn't have a water source, but that isn't an issue for me, as I always have purified water on me. Even if I ran out, I could just fast travel to Goodsprings source. There's also deathclaws nearby, but they ve never been a problem for me, since they don't ever detect me.

Yes. In novac, you have both working and reloading benches in a nearby abandoned gas station. Plus, there are a bunch of free crafting materials that you can or sell.

Fun fact: if you do the Brahmin killer unmarked quest or Ranger Andy’s unmarked quest you can get the Novac house for free, because Jeannie May (or Cliff Brisco if Jeannie is dead) will give you the house for free if you’re accepted by Novac

Eldorado Gas station. Gets lots of traffic from merchants, has beds to pass time and get rested, campfire for cooking and plenty of storage inside. Favorite unofficial house for sure

Novac is usually my budget "The sink HQ". You don't need to be accepted or liked by Novak. You can just straight up go there and just buy it for 100 caps and it does have a reloading and workbench across in the gas station. Plus there's the merchants in the dinosaur and caravans come through the town allowing you to trade with them occasionally which is nice and kind of cool for role-play value. There's old lady Gibson for crafting materials and the doctor if you need extra chems meds etc and she's usually in the town with her two mercenaries following her around. And on top of being nearby, two companions Boone and Veronica granted Veronica's a little further down. But she's also near useful vendors for ammo and other supplies so I never mind. Lastly, it's an NCR territory so you can use it to resupply from the radio. The only problem that I find with the Novak has is there's no immediate campfire but there is one one behind Lady Gibson's house in AKA Elijah shack so only a little bit off but I love Novac house. Its got that Wild West feel and livelihood to it. Plus it's in the middle of the map convenient for all journeys and DLCs I like to think.

I turned Vault 19 into my home since it has a working vault door that and be opened and closed. I used console commands to delete most of the powder gangers in the vault and clean it up to use it for myself. The ones I left I gave them different armor and weapons and made them look like brotherhood of steel and used more console commands to spawn in shelves and storage boxes and all kinds of other objects to really make it look cool. I deleted all the objects in one of the bedrooms and turned it into a armory and so on. Looking sick af. On the surface the square fenced in area around the tiny building with the cover that leads you down to the vault door I covered with guards and turrets and a vertibird.

Another honorable mention is Raul's Shack: bed, workbench, several containers, working radio, and if Raul is there, skill-100 repairs. There is a campfire at the nearby Fields Shack, and you can collect some free weapons and armor from the Legion assassins down the hill along the way.

Harper's shack is the best. It's got a workbench and a reloading bench, a campfire right outside, a bed, and plenty of containers to let you organize, plus it's own map marker, and it's easy to get to early on. Only issue are occasional deathclaws that stray from the nearby cave, and the blind deathclaw out back. It's easy enough to avoid aggroing them tho so it's not too bad

I always move in with Doc Mitchel, he ocasionily snacks some food items, but is nice to visit him every time i store something in my Stash

I've always just kept my stuff in goodsprings. Technically not a player home, but ammo and work benches, store my stuff in the Sunset Sas. boxes near the benches. Trade with Chet, Fast travel to GS source for campfire, and you can drink from the hose like a good 80's kid.

The Follower's safehouse also has the All-purpose Science Suit, with has 13DT and weighs only 2. One day though I had a Legion hit squad just bust inside and attacked, which honestly freaked me out a little, so that place is ruined for me.

I must say, the Lucky Shades do give some crazy bonus perception with Four-Eyes.

I use a random house in Nipton. The scenery is great!

Anyone else use the mod that gives a sweet player house just north of Goodsprings gas station? It had a short quest (collect a key and dynamite) and the place is a bunker with spots that auto sort and decorate your items. Such a handy spot!

Am I the only sicko who uses the Mesquite Mountains Campsite? I just think it‘s neat, as well as it’s mostly secluded, aside from the odd Radscorpion attack, it’s got a campfire, close by to harvestable plants, pretty equidistant from all the useful places in the Southwestern part of the map (Mojave Outpost, Goodsprings, Canyon Wreckage (if I feel up for a change of scenery or a chat with Ulysses)) and it has a designated footlocker, which helps top the place off as a real good home for those looking for something with a very survivalist feel

Got set up at Wolfhorn Ranch. Really good spot imo for hardcore.

I always use the sink, but until it's unlocked I use the house across from the prospector saloon. The workbench and reloader in the alley are really useful.

My player house before the sink, was the sunset sarsparilla crates between chets and the bar. You have a couple crafting spots right there. Not a house, but a place to stash

No mention of the abandoned Shack? There is a helpful mod call mojave experess expanded or something, that adds mailboxes to more locations that might make a place a more convenient home

The Monte Carlo Suites are severely underrated

ive started using the abandoned bos bunker after dead money as a secondary more faster alternative to the primary sink, which takes a bit to get to and you have to dismiss your companions, also the bos bunker has the sierra vending machine where i can get all the stimpacks, weapon repair kits etc i want

I always use the empty shack next to the boomers, right next to the guy who tries to sell you the boomer map. It's got its own fast travel and has room to decorate.

Hello! Big shoutout to the house tier list! :D And yes I did talked in earlier livestream how the fridges in Follower's Safehouse kept respawning with new food/drinks not just every few days, it's every time they are opened (the follower's doctor Laura keeps stocking the fridge after all). Ofc they are not considered safe containers, anything you put there will be lost forever- nice way to throw away trash items as alternative. It's probably the best safehouse for hardcore mode since the item spawns are unlimited. ^

I don't do casino rooms or faction safehouses. The casinos take forever to get to and the safehouses have NPCs that steal your stuff.

Thanks man, going through 2 playthroughs right now and its good to see my choices before cutting off factions

Lonesome Road has a good player home too: the Crow's Nest: good place to sleep, store items, and it has a campfire.

My pet peeve with most of the player houses(except maybe Sink and Novac one) is that they feel like the one thing Obsidian refused to make convenient and simplified for players. What I mean is that it feels like sometimes the game is way simpler than it could be, like how DM was made simpler in some aspects(especially if you aren't using hardcore mode) or how some stuff(DLC mostly) gives you so much useful loot or how easy it is to extract lead from either bullets or book shute. But they couldn't even give us more than 2 convenient player housing 😅. Like I even forgoe that Novac is semi decent place because of how forgettable the layout of location is so I just used goodsprings map marker. It spawns you near Chet's shop and near it you have two crafting tables for bullets and other stuff and you have two containers that never reset their loot so you can use it to contain stuff, literally all I needed was campfire nearby and I'd be perfect home cuz sleep takes so long to get eaten in NV 😂

The only disadvantage to the sink is that you have to dismiss your companions every time you want to use the teleporter.

Small caveat- the High-Roller Suite and the Presidental Suite are two different player houses you can get at the Tops. The one you covered is the Presidential Suite. The High-Roller Suite is a gambling reward and is located on the 13th floor.

Hey, I suggested this one!... Personally, I always go for the Novac house. Aside from being the fastest to load I also love how cozy it feels. Plus it doesn't have that creepy Lucky 38 music.

i wish the storage worked in the atomic wrangler room 😢 i have such a sweet spot for the wrangler

The only ones I ever used as Safe Houses were the Novac motel (best because it’s directly in center of the Mojave) & the Lucky 38 because canonically your items would probably be super safe up on the top of this impenetrable tower. I honestly loved decorating the places with items spread across & items specifically stored in certain cabinets :3

Harpers shack is the goated 🐐 one. Its got every crafting station

Only downside with the random sites people improvise as unintentional safehouses is their beds do not provide the well rested perk. Sleeping in them doesn't heal you/fix limb damage or earn you the 10% xp bonus

Small correction, the last one you showed is The Tops' Presidential Suite. The High Roller Suite is gained from winning all you can from The Tops' casino games. It is pretty much the same as the Bon Vivant Suite in the Ultra Luxe.

The Sink is by far the best one.

Call me crazy but I typically use victors shack in goodsprings until I get the Novac room lol it’s always my hometown in my backstory. It has plenty of early storage. The cool bunker by the Yangtze memorial can be fun also.

i recently discovered the room on the left on the top floor of the El Rey Motel just west of camp mcCarran being a really nice player home for me. i discover it really early on as i usually make my way straight to the strip at the beginning through camp mccarran, it looks clean from the inside (just gotta deal with a junkie) it has a nice shelf to display unique items i like to collect, has a drawer and foodlocker for storage and ofc a bed. i dont use workbenches all that much so not having any of those doesnt bother me too much, definitely recommend it

I always use Victor’s Shack in Goodsprings. It’s got clean water, storage, a bed, a nifty little radio right next to the bed tuned to Mojave Music Radio, some weapon repair kits, and it’s in Goodsprings! The most peaceful place in the whole game

For the longest time I used the abandoned shack by the Yangtze memorial it has a hot plate and bemches

I use the floating platform in Lake Mead :^)

One thing Fallout 3 did that I loved was allow you to give your rooms a theme. Vault themed, pre war themed, raider themed etc. stuff like that made me wanting to go back to my player home and role play.

"A toaster is just a death ray with a smaller power supply! As soon as I figure out how to tap into the main reactors, I will burn the world!" - best player home for your character

Ron: "There's no reloading or creating bench: Me:"beeps at you"

One of the mods has the house near Goodsprings sold for 5000 caps and its an SSS tier for me, it is just near doc. Mitchel, looks like an ordinary house, but it has a secret basement with all the crafting tables, kitchen, fridges, a big ass gun safe for all of your weapons and ammo to come back to when you need to stack up for a big fight, shelves to store all of your dead money gold bars and books and etc. It just feels very nice and simple and easy to come back to

My very first play through I didn’t really know how the game worked, but I set up shop in one of the metal campers/trailers in good springs, and dragged the Sunset Sarsaparilla crates inside of it to use as storage and absolutely loved it for a while, dropped a bunch of weapons around, had em leaning on crates and whatever I could drag into it, and then found out things reset and things started disappearing… but for a while it was great because the only loading screen was the fast travel there 😂

and there was 3. I totally agree with your top two. the lucky 38 just has far too many loading screens.

I always use the camper behind the goodsprings general store. And i store all my stuff in the dumpsters next to the store lol

the Vertibird Player Home mod is amazing. it has a workbench, a reloading bench, a fourth wall break Wild Wasteland dialogue, a repair NPC, storage out the wazoo, a cool map thing like in the Hidden Valley bunker, a hot plate, a fridge that generates 5 Purified Water every so often, a bed, fast travel to even slightly major locations, it’s summonable *anywhere*, there’s a manual piloting option with 6 (I believe) weapons, and you can call it in to drop missiles or mini nukes (which you can already do manually). it’s obviously not balanced if you use the latter two, but 1. you need to do a tedious fetch quest 2. you have to give it ammo yourself (btw you can use some cheese with the ammo box to convert ammo variants to their normal version) 3. it can be shot down

Motel was the most convenient so I always used that the most tbh

I say Caesars is Top Tier because you also get respawning stealth boys from the legionnaire even if you are an enemy after getting the bunk house you simply put a legion armor on and still get stealth boys easily. I’ve done this personally and a great strat in the game I believe

The Sink is the ultimate tier of house, biggest reason on top of what you've mentioned for why: if you pass some speech/barter checks at the beginning of the DLC you can get the commissary on the central intelligence unit to have ABSURD AMOUNTS OF CAPS, like, between the cap amount and the ability to get there while overencumbered, you NEED to do Old World Blues before Dead Money so you got some way of converting the 1,200lbs of gold bars in your backpack into legal tender - few other vendors have that kinda cash and none let you get there without the Long Haul perk.

The sink hands down the best player home/hub. You can't beat a store in the living room most of the electronics have memorable lines and personalities. Also looks the most like a future tech living space should be. Bonus points for being able to look at my missing parts on display. IMO the location starts out cold just a player home, the more you invest in upgrading the appliances it feels like a family home or I'm just in need of actual human interaction nah i stand on my nuclear powered toaster wanting to burn down the world 😂😂😆

Honestly Victors shack is a really good player home. I’ve been using it every game

Sadly I don’t think I’ve ever used any house other than the sink or lucky 38 if I’m skipping that DLC, the lack of customizations make every “house” just feel like any other building.

Might only be me but i always used the snipers nest outside of cottonwood cove, the crows nest in the divide, harpers shack next to dead wind cavern, or the abandoned shack near goodsprings. Just interesting places to settle down that have most of what you need and i appreciate that most of them are far enough away from civilization that it feels calm and cozy.

The home i use is the trash bin next to good spring general store. That is where i store everything.

followers safe house with the glitched fridges is really really good if you have high survival. You can use them to farm pinyon nuts, barrel cactus and brahmin steaks to make a huge amount of desert salads, which are a really good healing item and reduce both H20 and FOD counters.

Novac is a great 'on the go' house for midgame to me where I keep some basic necessities in the room when I pass through, but late game I'm usually able to haul a ton of equipment and having ED-E or a follower to craft things, so it feels weirdly empowering taking that trek to the Penthouse. I always had a 'trophy wardrobe' with the clothes of the bigger kills and accessories influential people have given me next to my regular wardrobe and organized my ammo and scrap trunks for my current Energy+Explosives build. It almost feels unfair how cozy and massive the Lucky 38 is compared to other living options aside from the SINK. If the teleporter didn't crash my game 50% of the time I'd honestly just make that my permahome even with the massive inconvenience of not being able to bring followers with me. It's so good.

There's a hollow rock right when you fast travel to hidden valley.

Still working through my first play through. Recognized the Novac room early on as a great spot. Nice to see my decision reaffirmed.