10 Best Settlement Mods You Need to Install Yesterday! Fallout 4

So, unfortunately, Sony has restrictions on mods that use external assets and scripting. But, don't let it get you down, we still have over 5,000 mods to choose from on Playstation. Some ps alternatives to these mods are: Simple Settlers - adds the variety of different settlers. Workshop Decoration Pack - gives a lot of pre-decorated shelves and tables, along with other goodies, but also has decorated vendor stalls. Makeshift Furniture Pack - very similar to the previous mod, but with a more scrappy vibe. QwaPa - a place anywhere mod. This mod basically gives you a "magic" place anywhere stick. Place the stick next to the object you wanna place anywhere and a pop up window opens asking if you want to attach the stick. It also comes with a "make static" tool for decorating with items you've found. Scrap That Settlement - a great scrapping mod. Not too powerful, not too weak. You can scrap most things, and you get resources for them (i.e. scrapping a leaf pile gets you fertilizer, and scrapping debris gets you concrete). There's also an add on for scrapping skeletons and even live things, so be careful you don't scrap Mama Murphy😂. USO - Unlocked Settlement Objects. Gives you a metric butt ton of items to build and decorate with. I personally don't recommend ocDecorator, unless you only have 1 or 2 settlement building mods. It is a very large mod, in the sense that it adds every junk item that you could pick up from the entire map. So, it will take away some items from other mods to make room, there's only so much room for things in the build menu, so when it gets overloaded, it will dump other items. If you get the QwaPa mod, that I mentioned earlier, it has the "make static" tool, so you drop the item, make it static, then place it in workshop mode. Although, if you've downloaded the mods from this list, you'll very rarely need it.

Another MUST HAVE mod for Settlements is, “Quieter Settlements”. It turns the ambient sound of generators and turrets down significantly. The stock game levels just gave me such a headache.

One of my biggest gripes with fallout games is that houses always remain rundown. Its 200 years after the bombs. In established settlements, buildings would be repaired, painted, have at least rudimentary plumbing, etc. There wouldn't be trash or broken furniture on the floors, etc.

Definitely would recommend Sim Settler 2 over SS1.

That Minigun interior decoration session cracked me up. Perfect!

That's what the Bell is for??? Omg you just saved me so much time running around the settlement trying to find people. 😂🎉

Place everywhere also allows you to turn snap on and off, you can also turn surface placement on and off.

I've been using scrap everything. Couldn't live without it. A nice side benefit is that as you scrap the junk in the settlement, your build allowance also frees up.

I'm delighted you chose to mention Sim Settlements, I love that mod, I don't have time to build individual homes for my settlers so I just assign them to a housing plot, and they build their own homes, with their own decorations, beds, chairs, tables etc. Sim Settlements 2 is a much more complex mod that introduces everything through quests, but I just want all of the options right from the off, so Sim Settlements 1 is my go to mod for that.

Nice selection of mods that I will certain give a try. I love the idea of being able to scrap the trash and debris that is found with in the settlements. Ok, some of these places have been abandoned and need settlers to come back to but then, some currently have people living in and you wonder if they even know what a broom does? The current settlers could take even just a fraction of time from gardening to sweep the trash away, that has been accumulating under the beds for the last 200+ years.

Sim Settlements 2 is the Minuteman storyline we SHOULD have gotten from Bethesda. It's really THAT good. Or no, actually it's better than anything Bethesda has put out in the last five years, period. The voice acting, the story line, the gaming concepts, the integration into the original storyline, the extensive mods to the base mod... The list of positives just goes on and on. No mod has any business being THIS good. No, I am not affiliated with any of the modders; I am just an avid fan of their work. They even interact with their fanbase, listen to their concerns, and actually fix and improve upon it when given reasonable suggestions. The team around Kinggath is just damn bloody awesome.

Man, the level of professionalism you show in your comment section is impressive! I was just reading through some of the comments, and you responded to the rudest ones with the nicest tone ever! I subbed just for that, and it was a great video. I play on Playstation, so most of these mods I can't use, but I was checking out the video because I can typically find a Playstation alternative to a lot of mods.

A note for anyone using the Better Settlers mod - never use it with any mod that adds children to your settlements, it WILL crash your game because it equips them with adult clothing! It's ok with settlements that start with children like Ten Pines. Thanks for this rundown of useful mods.

May I suggest, "Get Out Of My Face" for Part 2? Which allows for moving those pesky NPCs when you're trying to climb stairs and they're blocking the way, or trying to access that computer terminal but they just won't move, etc.

Thanks to @PetyrC90 for bringing it to my attention that there might be issues with Sim Settlements and the Next-Gen update. Please comment below or reply here if you tried to install it and let us know what issues you are having. Make sure not to save over any of your games until you have thoroughly tested your mods! There is a newer slightly more complicated version of the mod called Sim Settlements 2 you can get here: www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/47976 The primary difference between Sim Settlements 1 and 2, other than being updated more recently, is integration of a quest story line. I wanted the simple workshop/settlement mod so I stuck with Sim Settlements 1. Let us know in the comments what you think about it and if you had any trouble getting either installed. Thanks again for watching!

Thanks. What mod do you have on (or mods) that add the green grass and living trees?

Unless something has changed over the years since I last played it was strongly recommended against using Spring Cleaning because it could cause CTD issues the longer you used it. Scrapping stuff without care may cause the game to crash upon approaching areas like Sanctuary due to the game trying to load objects that no longer existed due to scrapping them. Something to do with how Bethesda handled combining meshes together in Fallout 4.

The scrap everything mod i love, but sometimes you can scrap final layers, leaving you with an untextured white glitched hole. Any scrap mod you use save often.

The original Sim Settlements mod is essentially abandoned by the creator, who has been focussed on Sim Settlements 2 for the past few years (it was released in October of 2020). I can understand recommending the original, as it is quite good, but the second is not only miles better, but also is redesigned from the ground up in order to optimize the stacks of scripts that need to run to keep everything going. The mod is another example of folks in the modding community doing things with the Creation engine that the designers had never even imagined.

Fantastic video mate! congratulations on the amount of views too! Hope to see more! Cheers 💪👍