That's where I built my first large scale settement, before turning all of Sanctuary into a fortress.

Man this settlement is amazing! *Turns it into a raider outpost*

Me with Hangman's Alley. It's amazing how creative you can get when you have such a small footprint to work with, and the only way is up.

I love Red Rocket Truckstop, great for a single person and his dog place

"Scrap Everything" and "Place Anywhere" are essential here. O.o

I've turned it into a corn making factory

I remember turning this place into a trading hub and called it Starlight City.

I turned spectacle island into a fucking Vatican City, it’s so huge I only get 19 FPS and it mostly crashes when I’m on it, it’s a damn fortress,

It’s either a big ass city of the new future, a badass Raider settlement, or a fortress that is invincible….this place is always getting the most creative ideas from the community XD

Spectacle Island: Hold my beer

I love how he's wearing a greaser jacket and jeans too...

Facts. Starlight Drive-In has everything you could want in a settlement location. It’s got plenty of space, access to a water supply, natural defense towers, etc. All you have to do is wall it off essentially and you’re in good shape. I usually build some sort of wall structure around the outer edge and then place buildings in a circular pattern around the pond in the middle. Then I place an industrial water purifier in the middle of the pond with a few extra manual water pumps scattered around the area to easily refill empty bottles. I use the extra space for building a garden section for food and a marketplace for my vendors. Then I usually place checkpoints at the entrances and guard towers with turrets along the perimeter for increased defense. And as always I try and make room if possible for those sweet sweet Minutemen mortar launchers. If the settlement is attacked, I’ll usually grab a rifle with a scope and climb to the top of the theatre screen itself, as it makes for an excellent sniping nest.

I did a playthrough where every citizen of the settlement had clean laundered pre-war apparel, the shopkeepers were all in tuxedoes with fancy hats, it was such an awesome town.

It’s also located in one of the safest areas, and in the Minutemen ending is surrounded by outposts.

No build limit u can actually build the scantuary using the movie screen

Theres a mod called pre walled settlements and if makes starlight drive in a damn fortress

This has to be the best settlement ever built in Fallout history. I am impressed and inspired. This is how I always wished Diamond City looked like.

Currently trying to build a death claw arena here

Turning Starlight into a fortress is magnificent, especially with Sim Settlements 2, and the ability to remove the projector/diner and projector screen.

#1 Vault 88 #2 sanctuary #3 drive in

Lol ngl I was thinking of this scene in TWD when I first came into Starlight Drive in😂😂

Exactly. I turned it into the closest you can get to a post-apocalyptic hotel resort.

Let me say, I just fkn love Negan

These negan memes are gold 😂

I love hangmans alley theres just something about building an apartment complex there thats always so rewarding. That and its pretty close to D city. Starlight is tied for second place with abernathy farm since I essentially built small western style towns there.

Words cant describe how much i relate to this

Lmao 😂 Negan getting excited 😅

Am I the only on who actually likes the red rocket truck stop?

i made starlight drive-in a massive chaotic arena since i got the goty version that has all dlc. never a dull day.

It is a nice place. Who doesn’t want their own land that has its own drive-in theater? If it were in California, I’d name mine either Johnny Rockets or Ruby’s for the 50’s throwback. 😂

Blue train cars are an excellent way to quickly get some practical and good looking walls around the place, and they're the exact same colour as the central building!

I'm doing a run right now. Set-up a beacon, got sidetracked and forgot about Starlight for a couple days. Got a mission to go defend it and found it had 27 people living there

*The Castle has entered the chat*

I'm building a full scale settlement in that one vault, it's crazy big once you clear it all

I like Nordhagen beach, because when you build high, its a great view over the city.

I turned mine into a massive trading outpost

Settlement building physics are great in this game

I usually built this place as a waypoint for my human provisioners. Automatron bots? A bug in the game (a common "feature" for games by Bethesda) tends to ALWAYS STRIP the mods on them and revert them to the base "naked Protectron" setup.

the super radioactive hole there is a nice touch

i've played this game for so long that every single settlement is just a huge fortress xD

Theres a campfire mod that lets you turn the campfire into a workbench and scrap anything you want and start a settlement anywhere, the best settlements are ones built on highways with stairs leading up to them. You can build a whole safe city up there and put up a nasty defence on the only ai pathed entrance. With all workshop addons ans dlc, you got so many options. Like how about a concrete 9×9, 7 stories tall tower in the glowing sea? Or your own floating flotilla town on the ocean? Turn spectacle island into a maze with the ambush kit and infinitely farm exp and loot?

This and Spectacle Island are the best places to build. To me, anyway.

That was my exact reaction when discovered the starlight drive-in, no even joking 😂

2 types of nostalgia from the same era rolled into one. I give it 3 Michelin stars and a chef’s kiss

How I felt when I first got there to😂

Ah the place ive turned into a slum town a vertibird repair station for the minutemen and a fortress absolutly amazing

You're not wrong High vantage point on top of the movie screen for lookouts. Put turrets on the roof of the diner for anyone who gets past the lookout. Destroy the cars and speakers and put shacks, garden plots and stores. Put a purifier in the water source after destroying the barrels Boom a perfect settlement

When he zoomed out, i busted out laughing

And then you see the damn pool of irradiated water in the middle Edit: To whoever the 600th like ends up being, I hope you have an amazing life

How do you get rid of that radiation pool?

here is a good tip for supply line what you wanto to do is set up a settlments at every corner of the map and the center and then you set up the supply line so that each corner has supplies coming in and going out from every settlement and then set it up so that those 4 settlements are sending supplies to the centrt on and it will be like a trading hub

I made a gaint ammo and munitions factory here. Bunch of garden beds of the roof producing stuff for adhesive. Downloaded a composter machine mod to turn scrap food into fertilizer. If I needed some extra cash I also had a drug lab in another building pumping out Jet. Mr Handy workers because why not. Was one of my favorite settlement builds

Nah spectacle island is better

Starlight always becomes my main trade hub.

I do love the drive in theater settlement the most

"This kinda thing that just tickles my balls!" *Proceeds to call on my my raider gang to take over the settlement.*

No matter how many times i try to make a town here, it will always turn into an arena for gunners and ghouls to fight my robots and deathclaws

Fallout, especially nuka world, always makes me think of Negan. He really is a perfect fallout raider.

"Hot diggity dog this place is magnificent" That's just me on my nuka world playthrough anytime i see a settlement

This settlement is like the perfect sandbox to test things out and for storage. I keep all my armor, power armor, and weapons(mods and base game) here on displays so I can see them rather than going through chests especially the armors for mixing and matching for settlers!

Clean Settlements + Simple Green Seasons + Pre-Walled Settlements.

I turned it into a robot fight club with an arena

Hes looking like the coolest atom cat around

That’s how I felt when I turned croup manor into a tall hotel/shopping center.

*immediately builds a massive 3 story house on top of a flimsy movie display*

Told my sister about this place because when she played Fallout she didn't do ANY of the Preston quests

The people in my starlight drive in settlement are cannibals

Red rocket: aw man :(

My first actual main base was what I thought to be sanctuary but I slowly realized that the castle is the one and only.

In my first playthrough, I literally made this into a full on city called "scrap city". Every building was at the max height limit, fully furnished with shops, decor, etc.. had a hotel, general store, everything... Such a great place to really make your own. I even made the diner/movie building a security base.

Negan in the fallout universe makes sense for some reason

Never used it as a settlement, but i did turn it into a giant maze, like the maze runner, no creatures though - maybe i should go back for a re-tool.

When I first dwelled into base building in Fallout 4, I looked for a central place... And there was Starlight Drive-In. Perfectly placed. Close to a lot other settlements, huge open space, and it has everything you can ask for.

I always turn this it into my shopping district. With the Drumlin Diner, the chem pusher outside the diner, and Carla usually in a few spots nearby, its my go-to junk selling and cap stocking destination!

I turned this into a neighborhood where all my companions live except old long fellow he’s hanging out at spectacle island with the mire-lurks and my robots.

“Wow this place is awesome” Steps on a bottlecap mine near the workshop.

That’s how I felt before turning outpost zimonja into a enclave fortress

I turned it into an epic above ground vault, using warehouse to create indoor gardens and I used the pool as a centerpiece with trees and rocks around it in the atrium

The bottlecap mine in the building:

*doesn't see the radiation barrels* *walks near* *fear and panic for the first 3 times as funny cracking noises intensifies*

That zoom out and pause is perfect 🎉

I hope we get to be a super mutant or the choice of being super mutant in fallout 5 or in a fallout spin-off

True story But my favorite is hangmans ally

Many settlers have been ripped in half by a deathclaw in my battle arena here

Making parallels towards negan and the soul survivor is actually scary 😂💀😂💀

I pretty much plan on making this place into a full blown trading hub one of these days.

This was literally me when Fallout 4 first came out, then seconds later I was attacked by a group of Mole Rats 😂👍

This is why I LOVE fallout 4. The settlement building, the mods, it just…works.

I built my first large city here and spent a mind numbing amount of time on a bar and called it “The Wall” I loved that city

I turned nordhagen beach into a bustling mini city for around 100 people. Added a massive cafeteria (big building with one of each store, a gym and all crafting workbenches inside), a mutfruit farm, a power armory (a bunch of displays with power armor in each one and a minigun armory in front of it) a bunch of outhouses as bathrooms and four 10-floor residential towers. I even added a casino because I had a little bit of space left over. Far and away one of my biggest accomplishments in the game

I'm having so much fun making my settlements unique based on their location. Even the not-so-great ones

Water farm with every type of store. Basically a mall built on top of 10 purifiers

Used a few mods that added turrets/defenses, then turned this place into a massive fortress that just shredded any enemy raid.

If you got far harbor the visitors center makes an amazing settlement

It’s always my central manufacturing hub. I also always start with a clean drive in

My biggest project was making it a weapon manufacturing plant and arms company, basically supplying the minutemen while also selling weapons, ammo, armor, etc

Id say starlight drive in and spectacle island are really good spots for building.

me looking for tips on settlement building because i decided to make my first on at sunlight drive, this post reasurred me lol

I seriously had no idea this was a settlement this changes everything for me

Alternive title: when a dweller found a bunker in fallout shelter