I got a neighbor, around 70 years old, playing Fallout. I showed him your's and SarDeliac's channel to better understand building and to take care of his "virtual pets", his term for settlers.

Hi! I'm happy that people still care about fallout 4, thanks for being an Awesome youtuber

i started my second playthrough of fallout 4 not that long ago and i’ve found your videos super helpful and i honestly didn’t know you still made fallout 4 videos but it’s super cool to see you doing what you love

That makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE! Thank you😅

Thank you for sharing FO4 content. Still can’t tolerate the blurry graphics in 76, but I love Fallout. Eagerly awaiting new ways to enjoy one of the best games ever made.

Always makes my day when I see a new Skooled Zone video. Thanks for all your hard work.

You’re an amazing dude! All of my settlement build were made possible by your amazing advise!

Wow amazing how you still upload. I feel like there should be a way to make your channel grow more. You deserve it so much

Thank you for this video! It's astonishing that they went to the trouble to put such advanced (complicated / confusing) things in the building part of the game. And equally astonishing that they barely explained how to use them. ;)

Always, wanted to do a fireworks display at the castle after the institute was defeated, but never could figure out how to stagger the mortars. Thanks!

Power counters can be used as binary memory, example: set a counter to 1 and hook to the output of one NAND gate with two inputs, one for power and the rest is "signal" (combine any number of inputs to a single line) so when anything triggers a signal you get the power switching on or off and it stays there until it gets another signal. This way you can use loads of delayed off swithes across a settlement to open and close a gate with a single click no matter which button you hit.

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Hey I just want to say that you are the best because I still play fallout all the time almost every day and I listen to you and what you do is take or practicality of real life and make it practical for use in fallout

Glad to see your still working in Fallout 4. I still playing it nearly everyday. With mods there is just so much you can do and with your School even to keep the creative juices going!!! Thanks for all the instructions and ideas!!!

I finally found a channel that still plays Fallout 4 I'm definitely going to subscribe

...or you could have a mortar fire periodically at the ironworks or some similar place near one of your settlements. You know, just to keep them on their toes. Great video!

I love Fallout 4 building for this. You never know if you need a logic gate or power gadget, but when you do, it's there. Thanks for the video, man

Just started playing 4 about a month ago. Gave games up for about 5 years. I'm back. Glad people are still making videos, makes me feel like I didn't miss the boat as much.

My nephew has just started with Fallout 4. These videos have been SO helpful (tips and tricks GALORE!) to me for the last few years, I am very excited to share these with him!!

I'm not even sure I knew that existed.

Oh snap new video for labor day weekend nice lets go

Thanks.

Rock on 🤘

Thank you so much for this. I have wanted to find a use for these counters but never have. I keep Looking at them in my menu and then exiting for lack of inspiration! Now I will be more inclined to use them particularly in the swampy areas! Cheers Professor Paul!

So happy to get this! Thank you so much!

That is absolutely genius you are an amazing builder in fallout and an amazing KZfaqr I love your content and I can't wait for the next video much love have a good day

OMG I have not seen notifications from you in a long time and eventually figured you may have dropped out. This video finally showed up in my suggestions and I found that somehow I had been un-subscribed. I am glad you're not gone and you have actually reminded me that I enjoyed this game. Time to go dust off the X-Box and let it run 5 hours of updates and start catching up on all your classes and homework I missed!!

Thanks bro!

Definitely found one my new favourite channels

Oh man this awesome. Can't wait to try this out. Never used it before as I didn't understand how it actually word with other stuff.. Thanks for show us yet another cool tip for fallout.

Great idea. I love building factories and this will help so much

Heck yeah! Love the series!

Awesome tip as always, man!

Never was good at building. But you did teaches this old dog some new tricks. Thanks for the help.

Just started watching your videos last week. I'm so impressed with all the building and tips you provide. Think you for the awesome content, you have a new subscriber for life...

That's really helpful, thanks! The electronics components of the game are something I haven't really made much use of yet. I wondered how to avoid shooting off all the shells at once!

Another great video as always :)

Not sure if you already know this but you can also build underground in any of your settlements! If you place a cooking station on a floor tile and add a ladder going up to the floor you can pillar glitch that underground so that the top "handle" of the cooking station just barely shows through the surface. When you interact with the cooking station the game puts you under ground. Once you exit the station you are still underground and you can build downwards from here. There's a height limit on how far you can go down (just like going up) and so far i've been able to build two levels down in most settlements. You can use the ladder going up to exit back to the top world without the need to fast travel. I've been adding an underground vault to my Starlight Drive In settlement :)

Looks really useful for storing information

The delayed off switch is superfluous in this setup. The power is only on in one second intervals anyway.

Really cool!

Wow you're still making Fallout 4 videos, respect man that's dedication. You should make a new series reviewing lore friendly mods. :)

Great video thanks!!! 😎👍❤️

Excellent!

Great idea for Junk mortal. Neat!

We love Fallout 4 content!

That's a nice use for the counter and relay switches, i have to test that out soon. Usually i only use the counters in manufacturing by hooking them up to a laser switch, set up a row of counters of 5 or 6 (they lock together) and attach the laser switch to the last one in line so it counts accurately. Whenever an item is created and goes down the conveyor belt, it passes the laser and that activates the counter. (only works for single items) It's a useless thing to do but it gives a bit of a "lively" feel to my manufacturing plants i build at certain locations.

Nice video. I'd try to use wifi glitching or conduits to try to fit everything in an outhouse with the mortar on the roof. I'm not sure it's big enough, but it would be really cool if you could fit a small generator in one outhouse, all of the switches in a second one right next to it, and maybe even a terminal just in the doorway. It would kind of be lore friendly as old his and hers outhouses (you could put the door on the one with the generator to signify that they are old outhouses and not just sheds) are being used to deal with $h!tty weather. The outhouses are also smaller and the to be located mostly out of sight, so using them would be a lore friendly way of dealing with the weather without it having to be a feature of the camp. If you stumbled across a settlement with that setup, and happened to find the outhouses, it wouldn't look out of place at all. Just would have to hope that people could differentially between the outhouses and the port-a-potty.

That would be soooo cool to make a disco set of lights using the cycling lights! Gonna try making a disco room with flashing lights of different colours!

Thank you for posting this. I immediately put this to use at Longfellow's cabin. I used a 5 sec off/ 1 sec on for the interval and 2 counters, for a 10 minute launch interval. It seems the weather shell effect last about 6 minutes +/-.

Thank you for uploading fallout 4 content even now

Keep up the good work.

Hi Mr. Zone!

I'd love to see a video for using this to setup a timer for streetlights in a settlement. Does it break the timer if you fast travel? Setting it up to turn on at 7pm and off at 7am is a dream to me. I'm running street lights on a separate circuit from houses, and this caught my eye fast

You can change your pip-boy colour to white so it adds a white light to the torch, always helps me out when working in the dark

Big ups

This is very interesting i actually hate everything power in FO4 xD It's so counterintuitive and more often than not the description of the items doesn't seem to fit... Even more so in German... Where translate a cycling light into a bicycle light is your smallest issue.

If you put them in series, you could have a pretty cool in game watch

Nice. I usually just put a target switch or two where I can see it from most of my settlement and shoot it. I mean, it is fallout.

7:42 So the power counters are acting more like x10 multipliers of the time you want? So instead of 10s you could have a 100 then a thousand and so on by linking them? Wow. I feel dumb now after realizing I missed out a lot on Vanilla contraptions, and considering I'm starting my second ever (survival) run, this is going to make some ideas into a reality! ✌😏 Edit: 8:42 I was so eager figuring that out I didn't let you explain, mea culpa 😅

I'm a bit confused as to why you would want another interval switch. If you daisy-chain the counters, the counter before another counter *is* this counter's interval switch. Let's say you have your base cycle of 10 seconds for a count of 1 at the start of the chain. If you daisy-chain another counter to the first one, this one will need 10 impulses from the counter in front to advance by 1. If set to 10, we're now at 100 seconds on the output of the chain. You can now add another counter and use a terminal to set it to, say, 5. Then we arrive at 500 seconds before that one sends a signal. Unless I am wrong, a weather shell lasts 9h. That's 32,400 seconds. Time compression in Fallout 4 should be 16 by default, so that shortens it to 2,025 real world seconds. This would require 3 counters. 10 done by the interval switch, 100 by counter 1 (set to 10), 1000 by counter 2 (set to 10) and 2000 done by counter 3 (set to 2). This should fire one weather shell 25 seconds before the previous one has expired. Now, if you *really* want to be fancy, use one more counter and connect it to the impulse switch as well but set it to 2. Now use an AND gate with this pylon and the final one and the AND gate should go to the delayed off and produce a signal at 2020 seconds, so only 5 seconds wasted.

You're counting 10 + 1 second, so 11 seconds each cycle ;)

If you program any of the items but then remove it from power, does it reset to its default? I built this and moved it and the timing seemed to be off and had to redo it 😥

Hey man I don't know if you know this but you can have your settlers shoot off one of the emergency flares from the fireworks mortar if you hook it up to the emergency siren that they flip when the settlement gets attacked

….I cannot get the interval switches to kick off the next one. It just turns on immediately, no delay?

Kiitos!

What happens when you walk a far enough distance away that Somerville isn’t visible, then return? Will the weather shells stop firing when you walk far enough, and then start when you walk close enough? What’s the distance?

So logic gates are the next step to using 1 powersource, but multiple functions of your counters. It gets crazy quickly though!

It’s almost Halloween 🎃 it occurs to me that set up could make some spooky 👻 lighting effects.

Could you set this up to turn all the power off at night?

I'm trying to use power counters with a terminal in FO76 with zero luck. 8ve tried it with pressure pads, manual switches...no matter the configuration the counter sends power on "1". Also the terminal doesn't remember my setting. I think it resets as soon as I leave the terminal.

Off topic, but do you know of a way to overcome the Kessler glitch, who never gave me access to the Bunker Hill settlement? All she does now is tends her garden and says the same things about the town. I read that this glitch only happens on the Xbox version of the game. Somehow the dialog got messed up after the Battle of Bunker Hill quest and she never granted me the settlement. I was angry with the entire game after this glitch happened.

Love your videos. Do you play your game on PC? Just wondering if it suffers crashes or not. I mod my fallout and suffer crashes 😔

I wonder if this could be used for you auto door build?

I theory you can use this to turn on and off street lights

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A caution about the wireless glitch trick: it can trigger power grid errors, which are notorious for causing crash to desktop. I've been using the power grid tools mod on Nexus mods to remove the bad nodes then wire everything up. It has solved the CTD problem. But if it works for you, that's okay.

You can use this to clear the fog in Far Harbor. Of course it's very temporary, so you'd have to have it pop quite often, but it's totally possible. If there were more settlements in FH, you could have the effect in more places.

One tiny math error. The interval switch isn't triggering the power counter every 10 seconds, it's every 11 seconds, b/c It's turning ON for 1 second, then off for 10, for a total of 11 seconds per cycle. If you count the blinks, it does do 10 red blinks then 1 green blink. To confirm, I Checked it via the timing on the first couple ticks before you sped up the video (Couldn't do it after b/c It seems after the speedup, the video remained partially sped up, as the ticks are much closer together, and the settlers voice sounds sped up too). So right after you hooked up the power counter, the first 'click' from 0 to 1 happens at 7:25. It then clicks over from 1 to 2 at 7:36, and 2 to 3 at 7:47 You have to remember to count both the on AND off times together for the total cycle time, so if you wanted a 10 second cycle it would be 1 on 9 off. A 5 second cycle would be 1 on 4 off, etc.

Just a heads up... When you leave a settlement the counters do not continue to work ... I tried using this to create a clock at a settlement and it worked fine till I left and went somewhere else. When I came back the counters were not showing the correct numbers. And no I was not using fast travel.

Can an On/Off switch be added so you could turn on the weather controller when you need it, and shut it off when you don't,? Or simply when you arrive, and before you leave?

First off, thanks for the tutorial. 1. Have you timed the storms and know how often the come? 2. Do you have to refill the launcher?

Great but , how do you add control console which is placed behind the construction light ? Plz tell

This is grand, but at Somerville wouldn't it be better to hook up the setup to an on/off switch in the spaceship marked "Teraform"? 😁👽

Could you use the wifi glitch on this and delete all the connectors? I'm thinking of a strobe light room for a gauntlet type build

I know this is over 2 year old video but could this be used together with logic gate to make your lights only turn on when night comes?

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I haven't played Fallout 4 in ages, so speaking of practical uses for some of the build items, is there one for the bowling ball and ball tracks.

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How do you make curtains

Couldn't you use the wire through wall glitch to connect to a Mortar on the roof then it could look like a stove pipe.

It just gave me an Idea with The Junk Mortar... I shoot the dead settlers out of Them. It's pretty fun to see a dead guy fly across your settlement in no clothing at someone else. Ill Put up a Video on it too. My Builds are Comedic with a story.

The lady in green is a tad overdressed for Somerville Place.

Just put the mortar on the shed's roof and glitch-wire it. Everything else can be inside the shed.

Alternatively, couldn't you use shorter times but add multiple counters? With one interval switch and 2 counters you would multiply the time by 100, yeah? E.g. 1 second off is 200 seconds, 2 seconds off is 300 seconds, etc. That would be theoretically easier, albeit more limited, than consulting a multiplication table for having multiple interval switches and a one counter, where you'd have a schedule like: 160 seconds, 250 seconds, 360 seconds, etc.

Instead of using multiple interval switches to add more time; use more of the power counter ones. Have 2 of those in a row and it’ll make it take way longer. The first one would have to rotate ten times before the second one rotated once. Could mix and match those two devices to get the time you need. Better than having 100 interval switches in a row lol

I wonder if anyone has made a mod that allows to make blueprints of builds (individual sections, not an entire location, I know that exists) so like you can build your weather station, save the blueprint and then easily place another at a different location. Like how it works in fallout 76

Why do you need timed off set to 1s? Interval switch would put the whole line off after the same 1s. Also I'm not sure if it would be 10s intervals, more like 10s off + 1s on for a total 11s.

This is a new experiment. I'm sure he's going to warn us it doesnt work when you leave the settlement and it may crash the game.

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