Fallout 4 settlements

 

	For a list of settlement improvements and items available in the game, see Fallout 4 settlement improvements and items.

Fallout 4 already has many opportunities to craft, but it goes one step further and allows the player to establish new settlements or take control and manage existing ones, effectively recolonizing and civilizing the Commonwealth, one settlement at a time.

Overview

Most available locations contain at least some form of scrap materials that do not serve a practical purpose; these can be taken, broken down and recycled at workshops to improve the site. Still, this is only the beginning: other scrapped materials from all over the Commonwealth can be used to create structures and settlement infrastructures, like farms, water pumps, power lines, and defenses. While all crafting stations can be built by the player with the second rank of Local Leader, some settlements come with crafting stations by default.

The only settlements that survive in the wasteland are ones that are secure, but it is a bonus to have a comfortable settlement as well. The state of settlements in determined by the states of several resources, including: people, food and water, beds, power, defense, and overall happiness.

All of these factors can be viewed at the workshop, and any resource that dips below the expectations of the settlement's inhabitants will be displayed in red, alerting that it should be attended to. Furthermore, there is a Workshop tab on the Pip-Boy 3000 Mk IV that lists all settlements and can also alert the player if there are sub-optimal resources for a particular settlement.

Available locations

The following list has all 31 locations available to the player for building their own settlement. Only two are available as-is, the others have to be unlocked through a variety of means. Six more settlements can be unlocked via add-ons.

Location	Unlock conditions	Overview	Default crafting stations
			Weapons workbench	Armor workbench	Cooking station	Chemistry station	Power armor station	Robot workbench
Red Rocket truck stop	Available by default	Excellent service station, but a small area	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Sanctuary Hills	Available by default	A huge area to build within, open water (for water purifiers), easy to defend	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Coastal cottage	Clear the area.	The wreck of a small beach front property	No	No	No	No	No	No
Croup Manor	Clear the area.	A large mansion built on a cliff	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Hangman's Alley	Clear the area.	A small settlement in an easily defensible alley	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Jamaica Plain	Clear the area.	A two-story building, garage and a sizable parking lot	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Kingsport Lighthouse	Clear the area.	Includes multiple large structures, open water, and uneven terrain	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Murkwater construction site	Clear the area.	A partially waterlogged settlement built on a forested swampland	No	No	No	No	No	No
Outpost Zimonja	Clear the area.	A small settlement with some basic fortifications and an established power grid	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Spectacle Island	Clear the area.	A huge settlement encompassing an entire island, with multiple structures and an established power grid	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Starlight Drive-in	Clear the area.	A very large abandoned drive-in movie theater with an irradiated pool in the center	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Sunshine Tidings Co-op	Clear the area.	A large area with several structures, lot of arable land, and a unique robot resident	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Taffington Boathouse	Clear the area.	A small locale with two established structures on the open water	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
The Castle	Clear the area.	The Commonwealth Minutemen's old headquaters; a large area with open water, a radio transmitter, and a variety of useful items	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Abernathy farm	Complete Returning the Favor	A large area with lots of arable land and a central farmhouse	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Boston Airport	Complete Shadow of Steel	An empty airport terminal that cannot support crops, water or artillery	No	No	No	No	No	No
Bunker Hill	Complete The Battle of Bunker Hill, then talk to Kessler and complete her raider quest.	A walled-up trading hub in the middle of everywhere, with several established structures and a variety of vendors.	No	No	No	No	No	No
Covenant	Complete Human Error or wipe out the settlers.	A small but well-established and easily defensible settlement that includes some vendors	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
County Crossing	Complete a radiant quest in the area.	A large and vulnerable settlement in the middle of nowhere	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Finch Farm	Complete Out of the Fire	A small farm by the river	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Graygarden	Complete Troubled Waters	An expansive agricultural center with high food production and a vendor, tended by a robot population	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Greentop Nursery	Complete a radiant quest in the area.	A moderately sized settlement with a house, a greenhouse, and well-established crops	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Nordhagen Beach	Complete a radiant quest in the area.	A simple settlement on the beach with plenty of arable land and access to open water	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Oberland Station	Complete a radiant quest in the area.	A simple settlement with a small shack and a garden	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Somerville Place	Complete a radiant quest in the area.	A large homestead on the edge of the Glowing Sea with lots of space, but uneven terrain	No	No	No	No	No	No
Tenpines Bluff	Complete The First Step.	A small settlement at the top of a hill	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
The Mechanist's Lair Automatron	Complete Restoring Order	The command center of The Mechanist	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
The Slog	Complete a radiant quest in the area.	A tarberry bog run by ghouls with a large area and other crops	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Vault 88 Vault-Tec Workshop	Complete Better Living Underground	An unfinished vault with massive amounts of space to expand	No	No	No	No	No	No
Warwick Homestead	Complete Building a Better Crop or a radiant quest in the area.	A large reclaimed sewage treatment plant that offers multiple structures and a variety of crops	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Egret Tours Marina	Deal with Phyllis Daily.	A marina on the Charles River with multiple buildings, a large body of water, and numerous booby traps.	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Home Plate	Purchase from Geneva for 2000 Caps.	A house in Diamond City with plenty of room and a pre-built power grid, but cannot support crops, water, or settlers.	No	No	No	No	Yes	No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Far Harbor workshop settlements

Location	Unlock conditions	Overview	Default crafting stations
			Weapons workbench	Armor workbench	Cooking station	Chemistry station	Power armor station
Longfellow's cabin	Complete Walk in the Park	A fairly robust island to build on, but with a very varied, uneven terrain.	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
National Park visitors center	Complete The Hold Out	A very large, well-defended area with plenty of buildings. Can be easily expanded.	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Dalton farm	Complete Blood Tide's second objective	A sizable farm on the northern edge of the Island.	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Echo Lake Lumber	Complete Turn Back the Fog	A large lumber yard in the western part of the Island, near the Nucleus.	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes

Nuka-World workshop settlements

Location	Unlock conditions	Overview	Default crafting stations
			Weapons workbench	Armor workbench	Cooking station	Chemistry station	Power armor station
Nuka-World Red Rocket	Turn on Nuka-World's power at the Nuka-World power plant	An abandoned gas station with a large area and plenty of scrap	No	Yes	No	No	Yes

Improvements and items

Main article: Fallout 4 settlement improvements and items

In order to build a settlement, there are dozens of components that can be used to provide various resources, workshops, and even merchants.

Expert merchants

Main article: Fallout 4 expert merchants

Think that all there is to stores is finding the appropriate merchant? Think again. Fallout 4 includes several characters who can be recruited to work at the settlements you control, manning the appropriate stores and unlocking special, unique items!

Behind the scenes

• Every location has a build limit imposed on it. It can be modified by console:

Enter console and select the settlement workbench, then use the following commands:

getav 348 - Gets the current number of triangles used by player.
getav 34A - Gets the current number of draw calls used by player.

setav 349 <value> - Set the maximum triangle budget for the settlement.
setav 34B <value> - Set the maximum draw budget for the settlement.

• Or by exploiting game mechanics. To do so, the player first needs to place weapons into the workbench inventory, then take them, drop them to the ground, and collect them in workshop mode. Repeating using the same weapons allows to make the game think the number of triangle and draw calls was reduced, increasing the build limit.

References

Settlement management in Fallout 4 Overview Available locations Abernathy farm · Boston Airport · Bunker Hill · Coastal cottage · County Crossing · Covenant · Croup Manor · Egret Tours Marina · Finch farm · Graygarden · Greentop Nursery · Hangman's Alley · Home Plate · Jamaica Plain · Kingsport Lighthouse · Murkwater construction site ·  · Nordhagen Beach · Oberland Station · Outpost Zimonja · Red Rocket truck stop · Sanctuary Hills · Somerville Place · Spectacle Island · Starlight Drive In · Sunshine Tidings Co-op · Taffington Boathouse · Tenpines Bluff · The Castle · The Slog · Warwick homestead Automatron The Mechanist's Lair Far Harbor Dalton Farm  · Echo Lake Lumber  · National Park visitors center  · Longfellow's cabin Nuka-World Nuka-World Red Rocket Resources People  · Food  · Water  · Power  · Defense  · Beds  · Happiness Gameplay Resourcing · Construction  · Protection · Supply lines Workbenches Workshop · Armor workbench · Chemistry station · Cooking station · Nuka-Mixer station Nuka-World · Power armor station · Robot workbench Automatron · Weapons workbench Settlements Elements Items and improvements Special improvements · Merchant stores · Power · Resources · Defense · Crafting stations · Miscellaneous · Furniture · Decorations Special characters The Scribe · Doc Anderson · Anne Hargraves · Ron Staples · Vault-Tec Rep · Rylee · Holt Combes · Smiling Larry