The Cabot House has a fully equipped pool table, food that is well preserved, plates, clean glasses, etc and once you leave (fast travel anywhere) and come back, it is once again fully stocked. I go there to get stuff for the aesthetic set up of builds.

It's nice to see I'm not the only one who still plays this old game

Something to consider when building an exterior vault if you don't like the look of the exterior surfaces - the floor foundation pieces for the warehouse and barn sets are the same size as the vault building block pieces, so you can completely enclose an exterior vault within 10-foot thick concrete walls with a continuous cinder-block pattern so it looks like a giant bunker.

I like to add one or two beds in the clinic area to act like patient beds

I am RATHER GLAD I found your channel. There isn't enough Fallout 4 building channels anymore. Fill that niche with pride, man.

There are 3 spawn points of enemys to this vault, one at the end of one of these tunnels is the ladder connected to a manhole with an exit to an intersection near a super mutant base, one at the door of the shop located at the end of one of these tunnels and the last one at the entrance of the vault 88. I was checking it on other video, because in an old gameplay i had trouble positioning my defenses in the wrong way! 😉

I spent quite a few hours testing the vault 88 caverns, and a lot of them, despite the changes in elevation and many turns, can be connected via vault objects. I got to the point where I could reach all three corners of the caverns via a single offshoot tunnel on the north side of the quarry. But given how heavily doing this eats into your build limit, and how little extra space is in many of these caverns for rooms, I question what the point of it is. While it feels super satisfying to have this mega-snake hallway running all the way around the caverns, it's not practical in the slightest, and only made me feel a bit more baffled as to what to do with the place.

The strobing is called Z-fighting btw. The game can't decide which object has priority so textures fight in the Z-dimension (XYZ).

That’s beautiful, great job. I’m starting my build now and I’m overwhelmed and intimidated but this gave me hope!

I honestly enjoy your builds and this one is great.

In my first play-through I went with the vaulted ceiling in the atrium. And then running out of room to fit stuff in... Now that I know that that is a mistake I can move forward and construct much more efficient (hopefully) vaults in future playthroughs. Great video and thanks for explaining everything, especially the bit at the end about the vaulted ceiling normally in an atrium. Looking forward to the next one.

Few rooms in your vault felt little empty so adding more vault tec posters would make this place more alive. For the main building it's really well done, but maybe you should add more power armor stations as a decoration. Ps. I never bother to clean up this entire location so the raid attacks will just spawn at the entrance. Even if one npc gets stuck in the wall I can just fast travel to teleport him to the main hall were the turrets will kill him on sight.

This is really awesome. Extremely well done.

I’m just thankful for your teaching me patience when building! You the man

Well done! Even with that dlc's limitations you managed to do a nice looking vault

Well done. Seriously, who downvoted this? When concerned with the size of the VT reactor, it is often possible to pillar glitch them into the ground. I use that trick quite a bit at above-ground settlements, particularly if they have sloped areas which can hide nearly the entire thing. I'll then obscure traces of it by placing mutfruit around the area, or leaving just the glowing rods exposed & then fencing around that. Why mutfruit? For some reason, it just sits right in my head that mutfruit grow better when irradiated. No logical reason.

the fact enemies can spawn in a vault or through a closed door, is STUPID.

Really just waiting for the algorithm to catch hold of this channel and for it to blow up like Ranger Dave or NoRespawns

So jealous how good you are at making these buildings. I barely touched for this vault 88. It is too difficult to build.

You can run wires from the vault wall conduits, too. They don't just power lights. Nice vault!

Title is right. Definitely a noob build. Don’t mean its bad. Just simple and effective. I love it.

FYI... Enemies only spawn from the "tunnels" entrances if you clear and open the secondary and tertiary entrances... If you excavate the Vault, but leave the sealed "back doors" into the vault, the only position enemies will spawn from is the front door...and at that point, you can just create the mother of all murder-point-holes to deter future attacks. And lets be fair, you can just leave the Vault sealed at that point...even a Megaton Nuke isn't getting through a Vault Door! But...if you're sadistic and want scrap, you'll leave the Vault Door open, and setup scavanging stations near-by... ...Farming raiders is fun! :D Also, I agree, Vault 88 is entirely a disappointing layout and workspace to "create your own Vault" in... the tunnels are awkward, the effectiveness of a Settlement there on the map is minimal at best, and slogging through the Quest just to unlock all the DLC items is super-shite! Honestly, I dont know why they just didnt enable the Overseer's Desk to act as an ingame Terrain Editor so that we could build our own "Vault 88" entirely... ...as a note, I have actually made a Vault that runs the gambit of the entire space...its awkward, frequently with long corridors, and almost devoid of habitation in some spots...but it is doable to connect up all the parts of the Vault Cavern. Its just shite to do so... I dunno... I guess im the kinda person who wanted to make a classic Vault-Tec Vault from the original games, and so, because I cant, this DLC just adds another reason to why I hate playing this Fallout...but yet love playing around with Settlement builds! ...I hate myself. LOL

Great explainer and walkthrough thanks!

Very nice build. I may incorporate some of these ideas.

Fantastic Build. Only real improvement I would make would be to have some hospital beds in the clinic, and a few hospital props like the Oxygen tanks if they are available in vanilla. I hope you make your settlements available for download, would love the Coastal Cottage one.

Damn, I just threw some metal shack prefabs down there with beds and tables and called it good

Great video! So freaking cool.

Your roleplaying really gives me life. I also like to imagine that certain objects are used by the settlers in a particular way when the game doesn't really give me the possibility to actually do that. In addition to that, my raider character gives me a solid reason to be careless with my own living space as I just attribute it to him not giving a damn about where he sleeps and eats 😅

This may just be me.. however I would like to see you defend one of your settlements and watch the turrets work. I get it probably wouldn't be a long video however it would be an interesting outlook on what happens when an attack does happen. On another note I found you 2 days ago and am now watching all your content and you do a phenomenal job with your videos as well as the commentary on them. Very very good please keep up the good work.

For an above-ground vault, it might be possible to double layer the exterior walls to give you inner wall textures to use outside. A little less unsightly than the crossed beam effect, although not exactly resource friendly 😅

Between this and concrete workshop tabs I think it's only a bit less annoying than the other one. Honestly kinda wish there were pre sets you could load in if you didn't actually want to fight with build set.

Nice video, opinion on spectacle island?

Awesome video, I'm working on Vault 88, with a Shack Town in it as well.

Sick build!!!

Good work. Vault 88 is a really tough place to build as a lot of people really struggle. FYI, if you close the vault door, you can’t be attacked from that route but your supply lines etc still work. I’ve done a couple of ‘realistic’ vault builds with the aim of being fairly seamless which I won’t link here but worth taking a look at if you want some other ideas. I really enjoy vault building but it definitely has the steepest learning curve I think

Could you do a noob build for spectacle island? I'd love to see what you would do with that settlement.

"nice to see theres another vault but theres a settlement nearby I'll mark it on your map"

what are you using to place the entrance turrets on? i cant seem to figure out how to get them placed like this or an alternative to get as many turrets as you do without just placing them all over the floor

Nice build! I also put an arcade in my vault. I never hear praise about this DLC, but I love it. I get to make my own vault! With gambling! And hook- er well with gambling at least!

Pretty good, but I think the vault aesthetic should be more claustrophobic. Fully utilize all available space. Place things really close together. Minimalist extravagance. A lot of really nice stuff but not much space. That clinic/barber could have been a 2x2 or even a 1x2. Even your atrium is much too big, my build is a 5x7 and doubles as a food court.

You've done a brilliant job here, I'm getting so frustrated with the build mechanisms in this game that I'm almost calling it quits

I can't even get the walls to go together with those corner columns, or even the center columns. Basically any column at all. I also found out that I can use Vault stuff on the outside settlements. So Sanctuary Hills is going to get the Vault-tech reactor and Vault-tech Super Reactor, eventually.

I don't think I can build a vault settlement ..i get lost too easy..looks great!!!

Hey Grey Gaming, I am new to your videos and wanted to say that I really like all the settlements you have built I have a PS4 so I don’t think I will build as big as you have done. I just wanted to say that your idea of a sprinkler system in the hydroponics area with the conduit wires was brilliant! I was thinking of doing something similar in my greenhouses for my settlements. could you maybe make a video showing how you did that?

Does he have a video where he’s building this? I’d like to make this on my ps4

How do you build all of this and not hit your max build limit? I started building one level large room and almost maxed out

How do you make rooms with the concrete pieces without making it super segmented on the outside

The lighting issue could easily be fixed by just using the lights that are included in the DLC

My favorite thing to do load up fallout 4 hoping it doesn’t crash immediately Create my 1,000th new game Cheat my ass off to get all the good shit Build a vault Hate my design Destroy the vault Rebuild something decent Stop playing the game Months later repeat the process

Looks pretty good. One question though - why the water pumps when there's one already built in one of the caverns? It's a big awkward getting a vault generator in there but it works.

Why is Mutfruit the only crop that provides 1 food per plant?

How did you get the ceiling tile to stock above the Overseerer's window in the atrium? I cannot figure this out! 😭

Very nice, I dislike the vault pcs as well & leave it as an open atrium cave w/ some rooms for beds & a cafeteria. Placing my personal beds and workbenches closer to the various exits.

Can I ask have you done a video of how to used the blue and red hall and door components properly and how do you make the doors work?

You can find all of the nessesary pool balls at the Cabot House. (Assuming you're friendly with them, taking them won't count as stealing.)

I’d make the atrium a workshop with all the work benches and power armor stations

What do you use for your ceiling in this build and how do you get it to snap into place above overseers window I have recreated your atrium on my vault 88 as it looks amazing but unfortunately only thing I can't figure out is the ceiling any help would be greatly appreciated

You can put buses in the tunnels, etc and people can still get in them. It had surface access via tunnels at one point.

Nicely done! But no vaulted ceilings in a ....vault? Wait until Vault-Tec hears about this. :p Admittedly I cried a bit thinking of all the unused caverns. lol Given time, you can make a large loop and fill every nook and cranny .... but doesn't really make it any more functional. So easy to forget Fallout 4 is a whole game and not a population simulation XD

About nutrition. I love to think that Mutfruit is a specific food which contains every nutrition itself. Based on the fact, that every other food need 2 to feed 1 person, while Mutfruit is 1 to 1. Also funfact, but you use the weaker Vaultec Reactor, the globe formed produce much more energy. Actually 2 of them knock out the settlement energy counter with 999. And you don't need any of those at 21:17 as you can connect your overseer shower or basicly anything to those 21:28

At the Cabot’s house, there is a full pool set

Nice I started building it up now, going to try and replicate some of your build

How did you do the corners for your reactor room?

I built such a monstrosity in the cavern of vault 88, that the game engine just constantly bogs itself down sometimes to zero FPS. It's awesome and looks great, but the game just can't handle the size of the settlement that I have created along with all of the decorations, furniture, and settlers and what not that I have thrown in there.

I am freshly to V88 and still scrapping it... all the pieces is a bit overwhelming

Look of a vid of the Spot location you can get them to stop spawning If you block off the entrances and if you close the vault doors there will be no spawn locations for them its just some places that lead out side

I'm trying to build this. Can you do a step by step?

Bro forgot about the Surgery Chair for the Clinic. A Baber Chair seems more in line with the General Stores Area.

... idk how you even placed the platforms at main door for turrets... What am I missing ??? what do I need to know???

I suck at building the vault. So I just have 1 room and the cave lol. “You sleep on dirt dwellers”

know i’m late asf but needed ideas, i’m going to use this video to make a hidden base for the enclave like how they had in fallout 76. hopefully it turns out bad ass

you could have added , if budget allowed it, separation wall and catwalks inside the reactor room, wall for containment and protection, catwalk area for further engineering and security stuff, id put couple turrets there too since lets face it.... reactors scary. and you wana keep dontknowitalls out of there, also what is the most of rocket turrets you have ever placed in one base? having 4 rocket turret towers in any base with 4 turrets per tower looks freaking hilarious

I'm having issues making my fault. When I'm using the Atrium build set I create a room (room 1), then if I want to add another room off of that (room 2) the otherside of the wall has the not so pretty side of the existing wall around room 1. This is because the wall pieces aren't the same face on either side. But I see in your video nothing is amiss with your vault in this respect and you have the "nice" side of the wall in rooms that border each other, how did you achieve this good sir?

They couldn’t have made it more tedious to build with this add on

Suggestion for your hospital. Add some hospital beds. Also is there a store mod that you can get that has clean dining tables? I know there are mods that can fix these, I understand and respect that you don't to use mods. Also thank you for sharing this. One more quick question what did you do to the overseer.

given how the vault pieces will "carry" power i really think it was a missed opportunity to have them also have indented lights so that at very least small rooms look good

My only problem is that the Room parts won't snap to the Atrium parts when it comes to the doors

I just found vault 88, it's HUGE. I've been clearing it out for 2 hours lol. I don't know how to make the areas all work, it's simply too big lol.

Can you make a Vault Tech style "Vault" above ground? A Vault Tech Base?

Just use the super vault TEC reactor Edit: super reactor produces 500 power and is way smaller

Mechanist Lair ??

can you please do a tutorial? i don’t know how to make a wide space like yours has. My vault is pretty much ghetto and claustrophobic lol

can anyone help with that i cant build any power pylons or conduits in vault 88 i have everything i need to build them but the build button is gone and i have tried fast traviling away and even closing and opening the game they still wont let me build them

Why not use the vault tec super reactor?

too bad we didint have access to those pods where sentry bots like to chill in, have couple of those in vault= good

Bless ya man, I just stay away from it… I tried building once and drove myself mad… I shot the overseer and left

Nice very nice

Why do you need another reactor? Doesn't vault 88 already come with a reactor?

Im gonna need a mouse and keyboard if im gonna go building this

How in gods name do you get some of the walls to snap?! I can't get interior walls to snap, like your doors to your market. So frustrating!

I lost it when I saw the barber inside of the clinic instead of the surgery chair🤦🏻‍♂️ cant make a hair room? Idk about you, but I wouldn’t want somebody’s hair all over my doctors office….

Dam u love your space thats huge

Dang i was hoping this was a build tutorial lol

Do you Do Military Style Settlements?

Love it, such a shame bethesda thought it was okay to just leave the vanilla lighting settings alone. I guess I can understand why, due to performance, but its so hard to make a good looking vault, that is also light up nicely. I think I would have rather have entire cell lighting like Vault 81 has.

Love the part where you show us how to make it

At the first entrance careful with what you scrapped, if you scrapped container with vault suit inside, you game may bugged and cannot be completed normaly, or you need to kill the overseer to completed the entire quest.

Not a noob player or settlement builder. Far from it. I've watching these to see how you problem solve with the limitations you put on yourself. As far as enemy spawn points go, there are three: the main entrance, the one tunnel leading to the right of the main chamber entrance, and the tunnel with the stairs leading down to it. I've never known enemy to spawn in the train tunnels.

Not using mods in Fallout 4 is madness.

Nice