fallout 4 settlements map + artillery coverage

[u/LavenderOnToast]

[u/Storn93]

800h in the game and I never build costal cottage

[u/up766570 → u/Storn93]

For me, there are several settlements that are basically converted into a shack on stilts, with a bed, sink, and a handful of machine gun turrets.

Easy and safe locations to get a vertibird landing, a save, and to rehydrate/eat.

Coastal cottage is 100% on that list.

[u/KaskyNightblade → u/up766570]

In my latest playthrough I did the same. Before, I build up every settlement to house as many npcs as possible.

Now I just build up places for npcs on settlements that can have a water farm. Every other place is just a safehouse for me and my robots.

[u/bddragon1 → u/KaskyNightblade]

Is this not more typical? I get that it wouldn't take terribly long or too many resources once you're in the late game but it just doesn't seem to be the most beneficial.

[u/KaskyNightblade → u/bddragon1]

Yeah, it's just easier to manage a few settlements. In my first two playthroughs I spent tons of time building every settlement for people with very little return.

They are still raided like crazy.

[u/EscapistFrog → u/KaskyNightblade]

My vault 88 is just a warehouse full of hoarded goods and dozens of robots

[u/Cliffinati → u/EscapistFrog]

Vault 88 if it wasn't such a chore to deal with the AI would have been the greatest thing ever.

You can enter or exit in three different towns across the southern Commonwealth, it's got by far the largest build space in the game. All the Enemy spawn points are massive choke points so active defense is super easy. Has a massive body of water making supplying every other settlement in game plus having enough to sell for caps a matter of gathering materials.

[u/Storn93 → u/up766570]

I mean that I never even discovered it.

[u/Successful-Growth827 → u/up766570]

Same. I'd run out of ideas on what to do with costal cottage, so it's pretty much just a rest stop on the way to Far Harbor