prewar: it took lots of people to build a building after the bombs dropped: took one man, workbench, and some scrap to build a turret, a elevator, and a town in one day.

You can send Preston to other settlements. After taking the Castle, I usually station him there, because it makes sense to have him in the Minutemen HQ.

I’ve got an entire settlement in tuxedos and red dresses, and armed with 44 snubbys. Very classy and deadly.

Ive been addicted to this game only for like three years bc of the building lol anyone else?

I sued Preston Garvey for harassment... He offered me a settlement

10:39 bruh that flex went from 0 to 100 in 2 seconds

"If you're trying to avoid Preston Garvey and other Sanctuary NPC's" *wheeze*

Welcome to fallout 4 where you will spend 95% of the time building a settlement

One weird problem with Spectacle Island is the supply lines. Because of how the provisioners work, and the fact that its an island, your provisioners will actually walk along the sea bed to reach the mainland. Oddly, they won't drown from doing this, but they can (and often will) die from the radiation they'll take while under the water, meaning you have to assign a ghoul or robot to do run the supply lines

I never understood people's fascination with build height, maybe it's my disdain for stairs in real life coming through but a nice big flat area is always my preferred

It's funny that avoiding Preston Garvey is an advantage😂😆

1. Abernathy Farm 2. Spectacle Island 3. The Castle 4. Sanctuary Hills 5. Finch Farm 6. Graygarden 7. Starlight Drive-In 8. Egret Tours Marina 9. Red Rocket Truck Stop 10. Hangman’s Alley Hope this helps for the people in the comments

I literally got hangmen ally by mistake I was running through and shot everything I saw

Favorite thing about Hangman’s alley? Attackers need to funnel into small areas that can be loaded with turrets/proximity traps to turn them into kill zones.

All I have to say is Sanctuary Castle ...

This game crippled me with my OCD obsessions

Easily the best place to setup shop is the Starlight Drive-In. You have a small puddle you can use for water and a big open flat spot to build, plus you have a merchant a short walk away and you can get there within 10 minutes or so after leaving the Vault.

Starlight drive in is the best it has a giant supply of steel while I really need to make my sanctuary city

I wished university point could have been a settlement to unlock.

I only use red rocket as a player home 😂

Love hangman’s alley. I always make a mall out of it. With the top floor being a cafe. I caved and got the slocums joe pack from creation club.

I like the castle but hate fixing the walls because its hard

Something you didn't mention about Graygarden is that you can build on a segment of both levels of the overpass. It's a very defensible position for human settlers and even has dirt for crops and water pumps. Plus, it's a settlement that can be built on a freakin' overpass, man!

This and the “Worst Settlements” made me super nostalgic for Fallout 4. I’m definitely going to start playing this again! Thank you!

Hangman's Alley has always been my favourite although I'm not much interested in building, I just enjoy the feel of it, sort of sinister.

10:44 Dear God....

I really like Nordhagen Beach. You can add tons of Water Purifiers; there’s plenty of Farmland and enemies attack from a limited area.

How could you not mention Sunshine Tidings?!

You know that you can build on the overpass in Graygarden? ;)

“You don’t have to deal with Preston Garvey” Me: GImMe tHat setTtLEmeNt

The mod Clean and Simple really helps make these settlements even more useful, since they clear out a lot of the crap and make the building areas bigger, plus it lets you scrap ALL of Sanctuary's houses.

I must be the only person who really likes that little house in diamond city, i stole the keys in my first playthrough and was relieved to find my own personal space where i didnt have to cater to my communities every need, actually made me want to fix it up nice unlike most of the other settlements i discovered accidentally while i was just exploring 😂

My favourite is Hangman's Alley for sure. Capping out the Settlers and sending them all (except necessary ones) to various other settlements creates way more activity in the Boston area, almost like an upgraded Bunker Hill half-way settlement for traders and travellers alike. Only problem is that building can be finnicky given the really low vertical building limit and small building area.

Taffington Boathouse is my personal favorite settlement, because you can set up a bunch of water purifiers up in rows, and create a water purification plant, and a player home for myself. I think it's great because if you access the settlement workshop, you can take the purified water from the purification plant and either sell it for tons of caps, or use it as a reliable source of healing.

Mods are the answer to all those problems

Great list, I totally agree with you on your points. And, I had no idea Abernathy had such a huge ceiling. Very cool.

Sanctuary Hills is still my number 1 spot. It is the best looking settlement location in the game. It has the best scenery of anywhere else in the game. It has the best looking river, surrounded by great looking and close proximity mountains that have fog build up on them. The small creek in the back is also an excellent feature. It overlooks a small town and has a second settlement location in very close proximity (Red Rocket). The streets and sidewalks really help to create a well organized environment that looks lived in. The flat foundations are perfect for designing any type of structure that you want. The access bridge to enter the town is extremely cool as well. I have the entire place walled off (it looks really realistic) without ruining the natural look or surrounding environment. After you literally spend well over a hundred hours just designing it, you feel like its an actual living, breathing place, especially with all of the unique inhabitants that you can put in it. There isn't any other settlement location in the game that has all of that going for it. My second choice is either Spectacle island (I have my airship settlement there, no I don't use mods, I literally built it myself from scratch) or The Castle (it has a lot going for it as well). Abernathy Farm can build up really high, but its a really dingy looking place and only has large power poles to look at. It's terrible in the sense that you are really exposed for attacks, with no natural barriers and a considerable amount of brush surrounding it.

Pro-tip on Grey Garden, you can build up on the Highway overpass. It's a PITA to get up there (I use a 4 story Elevator sitting on Foundations) and it glitches a bunch when building up there but it's a cool little extra place that I doubt any NPC's are capable of attacking.

During my playthrough i discovered Sunshine Tidings co-op and i decided to make it a settlement. It's wide,full of beds and i think it was ideal for place for living. Only downside is that it only yas a Chemistry Station and a Cooking Station. The rest had to build myself but undil then it was a real drag traveling back and forward to mod my gear

"Has problems with simple mods that allow you to scrap more things" "Is absolutely ok with putting a giant water purifier in small puddle that has been exposed to mass radiation 5 seconds ago" my brain is confused..

7:26 You can fit two of those big industrial purifiers right at the edge of the water behind the overpass support column behind the main house. It's a pain but it will fit.

Very helpful , many thanks . I had no idea both of the farms had such build heights .

Most of we Survivalists use Hangman's Alley from as early on in the game as possible. It's close to Diamond City, as close to downtown as possible, and it is VERY close to CIT/Institute so you can use the Relay to fast travel and not waste as much time using Vertibirds to travel elsewhere. You can easily build vertically in the Alley using the roof of the premade building in the corner you can place a floor tile and build a second floor then either use an elevator or staircase to go up a floor. You can go a few feet from the top of the buildings surrounding the Alley so there is ALOT more space than most realize. It is the single most important settlement in Survival. If you use this Settlement DO NOT unchain the door atop The stairs or Unlock the red door. This will keep enemies from being able to enter forcing them to come in through the main entrance. My Alley: First floor- Premade unscrappable shacks, crafting benches, small farm. Second Floor- Beds, Living quarters, recreation area. Third Floor- Happiness room (Weight room, TV room, Scavanging station), marketplace. Fourth Floor- Happiness. Lots and lots of happiness. Weight benches, Slot machine, Trilby horse, barber, surgery center from Vault Tec and lots of Lv4 bars from base game.

Another advantage of Hangman's Alley is that it is close to the CIT. In Survival mode (where fast travel is disabled), you can teleport into the Institute, then teleport out to the CIT. Then Hangman's Alley will be a short walk away.

They need your help, and you've marked it on our maps. Thank you

For me, the biggest issue with Sanctuary Hills is that for some reason you can only scrap SOME of the ruined houses. The rest are virtually unalterable junk you pretty much have to use as unlikely foundations for more useful structures.

Liked & Subd for sure!! Your video was very informative. You didn’t ramble on, like most the other tutorials I been looking for regarding settlements. I’m completely new to Fallout, first fallout I have ever played. This is batshit insanity good!!

you don't need to send a human to reside in greygarden to set up a supply line. Just assign a supply line from any other settlement TO greygarden and it'll be supplied without having to move a human into it.

I love that moment when you are scrapping things inside Abernathy Farm and see how far the zone extends

Dude thank you so much there were three settlements. I didn’t know, I could make into settlements.

I'll go to every settlement just to scrap everything and get materials.

I must say i love Hangman's Alley. Love the small yet cozy feel to it. If i fancy a short quick playthrough i always pick Hangman's Alley

this is what preston would send you

Playing on Survival Mode has given me a new appreciation for Oberland Station, and it was a shame not to see it get mentioned. It's easy to reach early in the game from Sanctuary without having to go through a lot of hostile areas, and it also has a mostly-unobstructed route east to reach Diamond City, making it a fantastic "waypoint" for traveling between Sanctuary and Diamond City without having to go through Lexington or College Square. On top of that, one of its two potential "unlock quests" is probably the best settlement unlock quest in the game for ease and reward, since it only requires you to clear Sunshine Tidings Co-Op of a handful of feral ghouls, and as a reward you get access to Oberland Farms *and* Sunshine Tidings *and* you get two automatic settlers at Sunshine Tidings. While its build area is obnoxiously sloped and tiny in the vanilla game, and you probably aren't building a lot of high-population, aesthetically-pleasing cities here, for sheer Survival utility I've come to love and respect Oberland Station.

You can build an awkward walkway from spectical Island to the mainland using the build anywhere mod. I believe it gives you up to 5 workbenches to use. Definitely takes a while to build

this is one of the most useful fallout 4 vids ive seen

I sent Preston Garvey, Marcy Long, and all the settlers whom I don’t like, to my Far Harbor settlements. It’s like a penal colony for annoying NPCs.

Yeah Abernathy Farm is a great place to build a mini city. I plan to make Hangman's ally a totally new building. I have a load of mods that can help me do this.

I built a nice settlement in Finch Farm on the highway. I liked the build and thought it was so unique being up on the highway. My biggest problem was that my settlers would fall through the bridge for no reason all the time. lol I even went as far as covering the holes but they still fell. It was a few years ago so maybe it's fixed. Who knows. Love the video!

I love hangman's alley but I am supprised you have it in the list at all!

I made the starlight drive in a giant barn. As the main trading station for the game. Its directly in the middle between The Castle and Sanctuary Hills. The other bonus with it is that its right near diamond city. I thought of it as the best one for that purpose.

Thx I never knew you could build 20 stories at albernathy farm this info will be useful in my next play through

Agreed, i have selected the same settlements with Spectacle Island as my main one. Sanctuary Hills is amongst my least favorite i guess, simply because there is a lot of stuff in the way. I never thought i would get into building when i started playing this game and it ended up being my favorite thing to do, while adding a little bit of a tower defense game. The only other place i loved to built at not being mentioned was the lighthouse, simply because of the romantic view it naturally has. Keep it up and have fun!

Just what i needed thank you for sharing this info to the internet

Abernathy farm is defensively rather tactical: you can place lots of turrets to circle the roof, giving it an extreme self-defence firepower.

I never thought Preston Garvey was an annoying character.

Thats Amazing! You helped me a lot now my Settlements can have loot! (Supply line)

I'm playing F4 since release and never even visited some of these places. Thanks mate!

I always found building in this game to be a little weird. I love it, I spend probably 10x longer building settlements than actually playing the game, but it's weird all the same. Being able to magically build a self-supporting staircase going up up up (some areas have massive build-ceilings) and then build whatever you want at the top? That's crazy. Even crazier if you put a fast travel target on your sky fortress and then scrap all the stairs. You now have a floating area that you can only reach by fast travel....it's nutso.

Starlight is my favourite settlement this far. I built onto one of the wings on the diner and im building my way up that tower. I love settlements where you can build onto pre-existing buildings and you don't really have to scrap everything and start fresh

Thanks for the tips on Finch and Abernathy Farms. I had no idea you could get that high.

i've read through alot of comments of what people build and damn you guys are creative

"Finch Farm: easy, all you have to do is defeat a zillion Forged. Starlite Drive-in: arrrgh, the door is boobytrapped."

Hangman’s Alley is probably very convenient for Survival. I barely bother with it in normal difficulties though.

I love using Red Rocket as a main base, make a compound around the outside and have the garage door as your only entrance and you have a totally impenetrable base

Hangman’s Alley was probably the most fun for me to set up because the location was constantly raided. It was a challenge to find the best methods of protection.

On Pc, you can open the Console, select the bodies at Hangmans Alley and type "Disable" to get rid of them. Works on the yellow truck and first fence also.

Fallout 4 is really DOPE!!

Nice list the one I like best Is Hangmans alley Building it took a bit but I loved building on it especially when it became an outpost in the nuka world dlc

This video was very very helpful I got fallout 4, 7 weeks ago and I’m only level 16 so I’m very new to the game thanks for the help

4 years ago, you got a build video of your number 1 that you say is your least favorite 🤯

My favorite settlement is probably the most underrated settlement in the game. I forget what it’s called but it’s a lighthouse to the north east of I’m not mistaken. While there are 3 unscrappable buildings there, they’re quite useful for settlers. There’s also just enough space for a farm area and it being right by the water you can make purifiers. There is a little bit of room for housing and it’s and elevated location so you can put down some good defenses to your advantage. There is a spot within the settlement that’s a large drop off to a beach but if you can properly make use of it it’s useful. My favorite thing about this settlement is that you can build in the lighthouse. I have a sleeping quarters at the top of the lighthouse for myself and it’s generally just a cool player house. It’s hard to get electricity through it and to make use of the space but if you do I’m sure you’ll see it’s worth it. I also built a wall around the place which is also quite useful because super mutants and gunners often spawn there. Despite it being next to a raider settlement they don’t usually attack but I find fat mans and nuke grenades usually span there. There’s also nuke mines all around the place for the taking

Greygarden territory also covers the overpass, greatly expanding living space if you feel like it. Also makes a great perch for Artillery.

I love outpost zimonja I love the strategic position also a Fatman spawns there, you can make it a VERY nice minuteman fort

I just stuck with Sanctuary in my 3rd playthrough, because of the huge space, also I work with Abernathy because of the height

i personally have 3 locations i absolutely love and my opinion of it is more driven to what u can scrap there and the pre made structures and things in the area that can prove useful. 1st of all i would say the red rocket for the reason that like stated in the video, dealing with the npc's there constantly hitting the walls and the annoyance of the characters as well tends, its one of the only places that has some form of fully automated systems without any mods to help out. what i mean by this is the button to the garage door which is useful and a neat touch as well as the doors you can also get at the red rocket which are unique. the downfall isnt that bad in terms of water as u can just make water pumps but i can see how it gets really tedious. also to me its basically the perfect square and has pre made exits and entrances which is gr8 for roleplay saves and also advanced builders. 2nd i would put the starlight drive in. i personally think starlight drive in is probally one of the best locations to build at. its moreless flat land, its water source is useful, pre made buildings could prove useful to more advanced builders yet again using the surroundings, not that difficult to obtain and alot more. it has alot of scrap which is useful for basic buildings and building those wooden shacks, theres always a random encounter nearby in fact around 3 from what i remember which can keep you around for something to do and my personal favourite are when the game gives you a pre made entrance or a gate you can take advantage of in the build. 3rd and last i would say the raider workshop past the train track and near the top of the map east of sanctuary. although at very low levels its an extremely tough fight, its possible to easily pick off each raider while also using the broken motorway to your advantage like i used to. once you killed the raiders which is best done silently, it is possible to get free power armour to obtain there as well as a fatman. (going directly east from sanctuary also has a fatman not far away anyway so if you get it you get 2 of them with at least 2 shots) the raider workshop is quite small but offers alot of high tier gear and even a magazine on the workshop its self. it comes with a free sitting area and a small elevated sleeping quarters while also being boxed in like a cage feeling like a small community. outside it has a defense post which can be used for npc's to guard and easy access to shooting downhill at other raiders there. lastly if you manage to set it up right, it is quite a useful place where spotlights actually become rather useful, turrets have good vantage and defending points and you also have just enough room to build something small or use it as a sustained farm.

I had no idea Finch or Abernathy allowed building that high. Nice!

I think that Vault88 is the best settlement when it comes to protection. Having one tiny hole be the entrance is incredible. You can put security stations and a bunch of turrets just on the inside and you can easily stop 10 legendary desthclaws

The thing with preston is that you dont have to have the minutemen there. if you just skip concord you dont have to deal with them

Download the “Scrap that Settlement” mod

Hangman's Alley is my favourite place to build, and if you build a lockable structure in the corner spawn point you never have to worry about rushing to defend it, even on Survival, as most of the enemies remain locked up until you get back.

A neat trick to do at greygarden is to build stairways up to the overpass and just load up beds for human settlers there. Also some laser and missile turrets guard the road pretty well

Outpost Zumanja is really good too. It's small and really good for a three man operations.

There are mods to increase the building area size and that allows you to recycle everything in a build area including the prewar buildings.

Just recently began playing this game - starting without watching any videos. Starlight Drive-in was the 3rd settlement I acquired (after Sanctuary and Red Rocket). The only issue I had/have with Starlight was for some reason the population maxed out way too early in the game (maybe by level 10 or earlier), thus couldn't afford to build shops, and couldn't build robots - so I used Starlight as my "Logistics Center", and except for a few farmers, made the entire population "provisioners" - running supply lines to every settlement.

Kingsport lighthouse maybe isolated, but it's located on an escalated plot of land that is shielded by unclimable stone. The very convienient house and back house is also very spaceous. Although, a children of atom endgame location that is hostile is lookated at basically point-blank range, while there is a few scrap able recourses, but still a really good settlement spot. Dammit you could even build at the top of the lighthouse which makes good storage space and give you (if you had a sniper playthrough) a really good bird's eye view of the area.

The only problem i have with Starlight is the hill that looks down on the settlement. It's outside the building border. Several times in my playthrough, the super mutants just stand on the hill and fire missiles down.

If we’re talking about DLCs, vault 88 takes all the cake

I inevitably set up Sanctuary Hills as my main base for several reasons. One is the initial settlers I can get from those "annoying" NPCs (which I do not find annoying). I like the abundant raw materials and vast available building space which is also more than enough to plant vast numbers of crops. But primarily what I love is the fact I can easy put down a couple dozen large water purifiers which in short order makes me insanely rich, able to barter for all the raw materials or other goods I could ever want.

Hangmans alley alows for some cool construction if your good at cheeting into place the starter pieces. You can make it look like everything you built belongs there and is built onto the alley. Hiding the rough edges and making what you build completely unique to anything you might build in any other building location. Pluss if done right there can be room for a compleat settlement. A good place to store NPCs. As they have no place to hide there when you want them.