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Damn. And now I'll feel like a schmuck if I try to do it.

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Don't care, doing it....... Props to the OP for the idea

It's really easy. Grab 10 or so weapons and store them in the workbench. Then grab them from the workbench and go to your pip boy and drop them on the ground (square on ps4). Then enter workshop mode and store them in the workbench from the ground (circle on ps4). Each one you store will lower the size bar a little bit. Grab weapons from workbench, drop on ground, rinse and repeat.

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Which is why I built a second industrial water purifier in the ocean plus a ton of single water pumps on the backside of the castle facing out towards the sea. I'm at 140 water plus 24 food which is higher than my 140 defense so I'm hoping my turrets get tested soon.

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Castle is definitely best for water production. Found out that it's a 999 cap on water. Not sure if that's just a display cap, or if you can't produce more than that.

One thing I did for the gate is just took a metal wall and put it in the doorway. Doesn't seem to affect the willingness to attack from that direction. With walls corralling any attempt to go around, it's a very effective kill zone. I put a junk gate on the opposite side of the compound for settlers and provisioners, and the computer never seems to come from that direction. Only downside to the stupid missiles is that it makes it really difficult to gather loot afterwards. Spot the chunk of blood in the dark is no bueno.

Is there a point to building these elaborate settlements other than just showing them off?

Do they actually help you in the game, like generate money or more resources for you?

The same thing works if you drop all your junk on the ground then scrap it manually in workshop mode.

Whenever I finish return to base from the wasteland that's how I scap my junk and it moves the size limit down.

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Is there a point to building these elaborate settlements other than just showing them off?

Do they actually help you in the game, like generate money or more resources for you?

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Mostly just showing off. Having the vendor stands is nice to be able to sell junk, especially if you get the perk that allows you to invest. Lots of water production pretty much gives you unlimited funds.

There is an achievement to get 100% happiness at a settlement, and that does require you to have a pretty nice setup.

Hoping someone adds sheets and pillows in a mod. I don't know why, but it bugs me that I can have this nice compound, but my settlers are sleeping on plain mattresses. That, and settler management. I'd like to be able to select a settler and it tell me where they're assigned, rather than trying to pan around to see if anything pops up highlighted.

You can find pillows throughout the wasteland. Just don't scrap them and place them on the beds.

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Which is why I built a second industrial water purifier in the ocean plus a ton of single water pumps on the backside of the castle facing out towards the sea. I'm at 140 water plus 24 food which is higher than my 140 defense so I'm hoping my turrets get tested soon.

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Castle is definitely best for water production. Found out that it's a 999 cap on water. Not sure if that's just a display cap, or if you can't produce more than that.

One thing I did for the gate is just took a metal wall and put it in the doorway. Doesn't seem to affect the willingness to attack from that direction. With walls corralling any attempt to go around, it's a very effective kill zone. I put a junk gate on the opposite side of the compound for settlers and provisioners, and the computer never seems to come from that direction. Only downside to the stupid missiles is that it makes it really difficult to gather loot afterwards. Spot the chunk of blood in the dark is no bueno.

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Norhagen beach or the island is the best. You can spam an entire coastline. Caps for days

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I tried this before with a straw pillow I found. Didn't work but I may have just done it wrong .

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Norhagen beach or the island is the best. You can spam an entire coastline. Caps for days

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What's the spawn point for enemies on that one? Thought about it, but was worried about whether they'd spawn on one of the beaches vs only coming from the road.

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Blah blah blah blah, bathtub full of money, blah blah.

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WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS?!?

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Just need to do TWO bathtubs full of money!

A desk with cocaine, and a large weapon next to it.

Mine is coming along.... Slowly!

Having some trouble getting into this game. I believe it is because I have been reading this thread, and the focus is on building settlements. Seems like work to me, and the task and interface is complex. Is it necessary, or can I just skip all that crap.

Ok, I'm a little paranoid to explore a lot of areas while I'm below level 30 because I don't want to miss out on the X-01 power armor. Are there areas/story lines I should stick to so that I don't miss out on it until I'm high enough?

If you were in TS with us, I would give you a better answer on it.

Anyone started messing with some of the more advanced items like the timers and displays?

No but i have a tripwire hooked to a terminal and four flamers at the Castle entrance

So I've been bouncing around my settlements trying to make everyone happy and building beds for everyone. I came across a weird bug where the stats for my settlement were wrong or zeroed out under the workshop tab on my Pip-Boy.

I looked it up and apparently fast traveling in and out of settlements bugs out the stats. So any time you visit a settlement you have to go well outside of the green settlement border and then fast travel. Very annoying. Also some are saying that the bed stat only counts when the bed is placed inside of a structure or on a floor that you built. Just slinging beds left and right outside may count towards the total but not work towards settlement happiness.

Getting rid of the exclamation points on my settlements has been a chore. What has worked for me is having food and water be about the same amount with it being better to have slightly more water. And your defense stat needs to be about double your water and food combined. I'm hoping some of this nonsense gets better with a future update.

I also started running supply lines yesterday, hopefully that helps too.

shamelessly stolen from reddit

Is that a MOD?

MGSV mod?

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So I've been bouncing around my settlements trying to make everyone happy and building beds for everyone. I came across a weird bug where the stats for my settlement were wrong or zeroed out under the workshop tab on my Pip-Boy.

I looked it up and apparently fast traveling in and out of settlements bugs out the stats. So any time you visit a settlement you have to go well outside of the green settlement border and then fast travel. Very annoying. Also some are saying that the bed stat only counts when the bed is placed inside of a structure or on a floor that you built. Just slinging beds left and right outside may count towards the total but not work towards settlement happiness.

Getting rid of the exclamation points on my settlements has been a chore. What has worked for me is having food and water be about the same amount with it being better to have slightly more water. And your defense stat needs to be about double your water and food combined. I'm hoping some of this nonsense gets better with a future update.

I also started running supply lines yesterday, hopefully that helps too.

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Yes, I believe that you do have to place beds inside a structure/under a roof to increase the happiness ... the buggy part is that some report that they have low happiness in side of the pre existing buildings in Sanctuary while others (like me) don't seem to have any ill effects.

When talking about food/water/defense are you talking happiness or being attacked? The formula is if Defense = Food + Water you should not be attacked all that much (so not double) ... I think my defense is like 5 above my food and water total at sanctuary and I have never experienced an attack. If you are talking about happiness then I am not sure, I don't know how defense plays into happiness.

I had something similar to that happen. One of the settlers did a power slide to take out a raider and then wrestled and snapped their neck on the ground. Completely caught me off guard.

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Is that trashcan Carla? Sounded like it

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Kind of a spoiler but not really a spoiler.....



















Institute informant. Found her name on one of the terminals in the institute as a person who will pass information on. Im kicking her out of sanctuary if I can

You sure?



I could have sworn I killed her when I had to raid another faction.

She stopped showing up after that raid, so I'm positive it was her. Maybe a double agent?