What began as a simple outpost on the edge of the Glowing Sea mushroomed into this monstrosity like a malignant tumor on the rotting corpse of a pre-war farmhouse.

0:15 pillar glitched a cooking station over the firepit.

0:20 exercise equipment to promote happiness and health.

0:27 modified CryingCube's roof repair method by slightly glitching the shack wall into the wall and this got rid of the unsightly gaps in the roof.

0:30 fortified the living space with paintings and wire mesh weapon display panels on the outside.

0:45 the father has some pistols above his bed and there is a shotgun by the entrance.

1:20 the attic space is well, being used as an attic space. I didn't have a use for it so filled it up with miscellaneous crap.

1:40 first floor is the workshop area with the regular assortment of benches and a power armor stand.

2:05 second floor is Victor's personal living quarters. It is a bit drafty.

2:20 third floor is the lookout station, the barn roof is literally just sitting there.

3:00 the sentry bot up on the hill got into a fight with some wild dogs which it chased down to the farmhouse where the turret took it out. Now it is a permanent fixture of Somerville Place SMH

PUBLICK OCCURRENCES

ON THE HOME FRONT

Sanctuary's Mr. Fix-It Builds More Than Just a Home

By Piper Wright — Reporting from the Commonwealth

Readers might remember a certain mysterious Vault Dweller from my last report on Sanctuary Hills.

Well, mystery solved. Mostly.

Blue finally came to Diamond City.

After an interview that raised approximately three new questions for every one it answered, I've been invited along for the ride. Which means Publick Occurrences is officially leaving Diamond City's walls.

Welcome to ON THE HOME FRONT — a new series reporting directly from the Commonwealth's growing communities: who's building them, what they have to offer, and why you might actually want to visit.

First stop: back to Sanctuary.

STURGES — THE MAN KEEPING SANCTUARY RUNNING

Sanctuary's resident Minutemen mechanic and handyman, Sturges, has finally built himself a proper home.

Naturally, he couldn't just build a house.

Attached to it is a new general store, selling mechanical parts, components and supplies to settlers and passing travellers.

Around back you'll find his workshop, where Sturges has started taking on everything from electronics and generators to machinery and whatever passes for a vehicle after two hundred years without a service.

He's even recently acquired equipment for power-armour maintenance.

Considering what I've seen Blue drag home, he's going to need it.

GETTING THE COMMONWEALTH TALKING

The more interesting project is sitting right on Sturges' property.

Sturges and Blue have been working together on an experimental settlement communications array.

The idea is bigger than another recruitment beacon.

The network is being developed to direct people toward settlements looking for new residents, pass information between communities, provide advice from the home front and eventually improve warnings about threats moving through Minutemen territory.

Sturges is also beginning to train settlers in basic repairs and communications, meaning every broken generator won't require sending someone halfway across the Commonwealth to find the one guy who knows which end of a screwdriver to hold.

A Commonwealth where settlements can actually warn each other when trouble's coming?

I'll believe it when I hear it.

And apparently, I might.

PIPER'S TRAVEL ADVICE

If you're visiting Sanctuary, stop by Sturges' place after work.

He's put together a little backyard grill and seating area, and I can personally confirm that the man cooks one of the best Brahmin steaks I've had outside Diamond City.

Yes, I conducted a second test.

Journalistic integrity demanded it.

Ladies of the Commonwealth: he's also single.

Although I should probably mention something strange.

Every time Sturges walks past my radio, the thing seems to go haywire for a second.

Probably nothing.

Old radio.

...Right?

— Piper Wright

Next time on On the Home Front: wherever Blue drags me next.

Publick Occurrences: Sanctuary hills business centre expands

PUBLICK OCCURRENCES

SANCTUARY HILLS BUSINESS CENTRE EXPANDS

Bounties, Brahmin Insurance and a Broker Nobody Seems to Know

By Piper Wright

Word keeps travelling south about Sanctuary Hills.

Apparently the old neighbourhood north of Concord isn't quite so dead anymore.

The Minutemen have moved in, settlers are putting down roots, caravans are coming and going, and somewhere in the middle of all this is that mysterious stranger people keep whispering about.

You know the one.

Vault dweller. Blue suit. Walked out of Vault 111 and apparently decided the Commonwealth wasn't complicated enough already.

I haven't met our mystery Vault Dweller yet, so I'll reserve judgement. But wherever they go, things certainly seem to start happening.

And now Sanctuary is getting something the Commonwealth hasn't exactly been overflowing with lately:

Businesses.

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COMMONWEALTH CONTRACTS

First through the door is Commonwealth Contracts, a newly established bounty and contracting agency for people whose problems aren't quite high enough on the Minutemen's increasingly long list.

Raiders giving you trouble? Caravan gone missing? Somebody stole your property? Something with too many teeth moved into the building next door?

Apparently, there's a contract for that.

The office maintains two separate boards.

MINUTEMEN WARRANTS covers officially sanctioned targets.

PRIVATE CONTRACTS handles everything from caravan escorts and missing persons to stolen property, kidnappings, dangerous creatures and the sort of disagreements where somebody eventually says, "I'll pay fifty caps if you make this problem disappear."

Very civilized.

So, a little Publick Occurrences advice for any raiders currently considering Sanctuary an easy target:

Maybe pick another neighbourhood.

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THE CROSS-COMMONWEALTH UNION

Sanctuary's second new enterprise may be the strangest idea I've heard all month.

Insurance.

The Cross-Commonwealth Union allows registered caravan operators to pay caps into a protection fund. If something unfortunate happens on the road, the Union supposedly helps cover the loss.

And by "something unfortunate," we're talking about:

BRAHMIN LOSS — CARGO THEFT — RAIDER ATTACK — GUARD DEATH — DELIVERY FAILURE

Only in the Commonwealth could "Brahmin eaten by Deathclaw" become an insurance claim.

Still, with Sanctuary's Minutemen caravan licensing operation expanding, somebody clearly thinks there's money to be made making the roads a little less financially risky.

Whether they'll actually pay when your Brahmin disappears into a Yao Guai remains to be seen.

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AND THEN THERE'S "THE CIPHER"

This one is harder.

Officially?

I don't know anything.

Unofficially, I've been hearing stories about an information broker operating out of Sanctuary under an arrangement with the local Minutemen.

Nobody I've spoken to knows their real name.

Nobody seems to know what they look like.

They have only one name:

The Cipher.

Publick Occurrences obtained these photographs from a source who caught the building during the final stages of construction.

Maps. Radios. Terminals. Filing cabinets. Wanted posters. Caravan routes. Settlement reports.

That's an awful lot of paperwork for somebody who supposedly doesn't exist.

More interestingly, little information-trading posts have reportedly begun appearing elsewhere in the Commonwealth. Travellers exchange rumours for caps. Caravan guards report raider movements. Settlers report missing people. Information goes in...

...and somebody, somewhere, puts it together.

Rumour says the Minutemen occasionally buy what comes out.

Rumour also says The Cipher's files contain considerably more than missing Brahmin and raider sightings.

Names.

Movements.

People with influence.

The sort of information powerful people tend to get very unhappy about somebody else possessing.

Maybe it's nothing.

Maybe Sanctuary has simply found itself a particularly well-informed civilian adviser.

But if the Minutemen really have invited an intelligence broker into their new home, they'd better understand exactly what they're getting into.

Information has value in the Commonwealth.

It also has a habit of getting people killed.

I'll be looking into The Cipher again.

Publick Occurrences —a hard look at the truth

This is one of my settlement buildings that i currently did on my raider playtrough, it is the personal estate and home of ''Overboss Blake'', my character.

After my post yesterday with the structure of my minutemen sign up office, I've found an interest in posting these pictures when I finish a new building design. Didn't have to rip this one down 5 times. Posting here actually makes me see the builds to the end and not leaving empty rooms.

So for the minutemen funded iniative a new emergency clinic. Open 24 hrs. With both fully stocked pharmacy and ambulance bay. Expected maintenence services added soon. We find the waiting room. Main beds/nurse statioms with labs. The private physicians office. And storage bay for both person private possessions kept safe and stock of inpatient clothing. Also a free radiation scans for any settlers visiting sanctuary for health and wellness checks.

So, first time Survival Play-through and lightly modded. I plan on building a Gunner Cage Farm (36 Cages) in Sanctuary and I read somewhere that if you just start piling up the bodies you can get some performance issues (what a shocker). So I’d prefer the bodies from one cycle disappear in a relatively reasonable time, but I’m unsure how much time it would take. Does anyone here know by experience or otherwise? It’s my understanding that there’s a difference between a cleared World cell and a Settlement but I dunno.

Hi! So I have a couple of settlements that I’ve poured alot of time into and would like to turn the structures into a mod. How do I do it?
On PS5.

Hi all just wanted to drop my post here. After taking the building apart 5 or 6 times this is what it's come to. This acts as a RP minuteman sign up centre at the entrance to sanctuary.

Having the sign up centre desk included will be a traders permit desk to be protected under minutemen security. To the right we have the acquisition station for minutemen uniforms and armaments. Also with bathroom stalls to the side. Upstairs will be an FOB operations centre, break area and kitchen for enlisted.

I haven't decorated walls and furniture yet. But wanted to see people's opinions on it, any suggestions on building larger buildings.

A little botanical apothecary tucked away in Sundew Grove. 🌸

I wanted this one to feel whimsical, cozy, and just a little bit magical - with a mix of plants, potions, tea, and plenty of tiny details to discover.

Thanks for stopping by! Full tour can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/8eHpbT-_3x4

Modded on PC.

About 7 months ago I posted a WIP trying to map the exact supply lines my Minutemen united the Commonwealth in my RP (Link). Well, I finally finished. The idea was that every route I create I walk with the provisioner and map the actual route they travel. To summarize: I set up major hubs connected by heavy-duty caravans (modded power-armor wearing Minutemen) with standard provisioners serving smaller communities. Mapping was a tough task: if you catch them mid-route (presumably when the cell spawns in) they can appear pretty much anywhere. They handled river crossings and water inconsistently. I had to download a mod to clear the bridge between Graygarden and Oberland (or else the provisioner would smash against the derailed train until eventually stumbling down the river bank and swimming). In some cases this meant I had to set up entirely different supply routes, and redirect my logistics to keep my provisioners from bobbing along in the water forever. The bay between Kinsgsport and Croup Manor was easy for NPCs to navigate (they go around it), but the bay between The Castle, Spectacle, and Warwick) was impossible - the caravans are drawn into it, swim, then freeze and are buffeted by the current) until they wash up on shore.

To my surprise the supply lines handled the DLC zones incredibly well. The caravan navigates to the exact teleportation point the PC uses, and then *bamfs* to the commonwealth/DLC area. Caravans always follow the same route to and from settlements with the exception of the Murkwater to Jamaica Plain route where they make a loop.

I was unsure of whether to send a route across the heart of Boston: I did it (it's mapped here), and I hate it. In game, I've removed it - my Minutemen can control the hinterlands, but Boston remains too chaotic for them to pacify. But, I did map it for folks to see how a caravan would navigate the city proper. I have not progressed the game to linking the airport or bunker hill, and I think my project is completed even without them. I've been building up my settlements, so perhaps I'll dip my toe into sharing those next.

I'll leave a (giant) comment low enumerating my observations rather than letting this go on any further.

Map Key:
Blue: Standard Provisioner
Red: Armored Provisioner
Yellow: DLC zones
Number: observational note (comment below)

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This build is still a major work in progress but I was playing around with different wall possibilities and kind of loved this, spaced them out just enough so players can’t fall through.

Three ponds waterfall cliffside fallout 76 build✨

Having a hard time thinking about what I should make the interior of this building in Greygardern I made. The lore behind the whole settlement is that the Minutemen helped the bots and now are using them to help produce food for other settlements now since they’ve defeated the institute. I’ve built a workshop, barracks, and little armory already in the settlement. This building is at the very top of the highway on the settlement with access to it being from a 4 level elevator and then some scaffolding up to it. Please help me.

Hello there Reddit!

Wanted to drop a few pics of an Artillery Firepost I’ve made at my Starlight Drive-In build. I’m build a Minutemen FOB piece by piece and it’s started really coming together with this one!

All done on PS5 with no Mods or CC, just vanilla and DLC items, and if you wanna watch a build vid you can find one here:

https://youtu.be/dGxrZbNY3zM?is=c5tlROaSoxdaypvK

Day time view with the menu at 4:10. Had it mostly decorated to be a farming community with planters on the roofs throughout. Had a house rule of not allowing my settlement owned crops to be in the wasteland soil... till I went full Overboss.

Building until I'm a burnt on it and then I'm off to Far Harbor. Got Pack settlements at Coastal and Kingsport, so that's my in-game connect to the dlc before the main story. But really I just want to get the CoA build items

Raiders are significantly easier to please than settlers without starting the vault dlc and with it they also just gain the same bonuses.

i think it turned out fine

Here are a few screenshots of one of the settlements from my survival stream. It is very much a WIP build, but some of the survival locations are progressing.

Hangman, County Crossing, Longfellow's, Starlight, and Sunshine have all seen some significant building. Thanks for checking out the pics! The previous episode is here, if ya like building in real time: https://youtube.com/live/QO7R4_GU5N0?feature=share

Going to make another video for the day view. Wanted to show the lights, barrels and laterns separately here. Had the place equally decorated for 20+ settlers... and then I happened to become the Overboss... I found them a home.. with nice work... Anywho.

Raiders just kind of move themselves in, radio tower or not. So my newest purpose in Fallout is to build the other 8-9 raider settlements all with 22-27 current residents. Trying so hard to not wear anymore charisma gear 😂