You can party unlock it by just clearing it, but you won't get any artillery gun schematics. Still this is a better option in my opinion, because you won't get almost any raid attacks.
For the turrets you might want to use connectors for each turret, because if you connect the wires to each other and one turret is damaged, the following turrets will be deactivated since energy stopped running at the broken turret
@@saltybits9954 Thats what he was getting at with the connectors. Wire them all up in parallel to prevent a cascade failure when one idiot raider with a missile launcher gets a lucky shot in
Thanks for these videos man! As a late comer to Fallout 4 I have to say creators like you still doing this in 2022 gives some awesome insight on how to work these bases in the most upgraded versions. Thanks a lot
Great settlement. This is exactly the kind of style I try to go for in any settlement that has pre existing/partial structures and Ive always felt there should be a better way to repair buildings without it looking all wonky
There is a way. I do it in my settlements all the time. The Castle and that one half-crumbled building in Jamaica Plain come to mind. It's a bit tricky (and it REALLY helps to have a mod like Place Everywhere, that allows you to clip walls into objects without them turning red), but it's doable.
The barn, warehouse, and concrete structures are a LOT more willing to clip than the base game's structures. I was able to perfectly repair the Croup Manor roof.
This is exactly how I did my castle walls. The only difference is the garage door is on the inside of the castle wall, and I used a junk gate for the outside. The area in between has turrets set up for any unwanted visitors that happen to get inside the junk gate. I have the inside completely wired almost identically. Just don’t have the wall for the generator room. Lol. I use the inside for shops and sleeping quarters. I even created a nice bar/restaurant in the room you made the bathrooms. I also have 2 jail cells. I have inside bathrooms and have outhouses as well. Awesome build!!
The thing I love about build videos is usually I would do a lot different in mine, but you always see little things in videos like this that give you ideas and new things to try. Such a fun game!
This is very good The Castle settlement build. I especially like you're northern wall entrance part. The other parts of the fort are really well done like the baracks, and the generator. The only thing that I would put outside near the water purifier would be the farm since I like to be historically accurate, so the attackers won't damage the crops, and to save up some space for other future base developments. For the crops I usually go for the Tato, Corn, and Mutfruit to create Adhesive in almost every settlement. Now for the future settlement builds videos I would recommend Sunshine Tidings co-op farm, or for more chalenge Coastal cottage settlement. Ps. I hope that you will get subs in the future.
For heavily fortified settlements like this, I'd love to be able to assign a settler as a door guard. They'd basically be like any defense assigned settler but would seal powered doors. Doesn't matter too much when attacks spawn within the walls but still...it would eliminate that weird feeling when you walk away from a fortification leaving the door open or with a way to open it. Maybe that's just me
I have a powered rolling warehouse door on the inside of both entrances with the power lines running to a switch beside my spawn point. When the castle is attacked, I fast travel in and flip the switch, sealing off the castle.
There are mods that add rubber floor mats as guard posts that you can plop down. Use one of those mats and you can make a guard stand anywhere you like.
It's really simple, but practical, I like it. I've also started building those holes in and put up some turrets along with the big artillery guns. Then I never really thought about anything, I was concentrating more on Sanctuary Hills. I've demolished most of the old houses and used Snappy Housekit and Scrap Everything mods to clean up the place and built some new buildings, like a big two-floor market, a generator room, 3 residential houses which are almost fully decorated, a barn for the brahmins, and a private house. Now I'm planning a basketball court with some stairs on the side. And I also have a big Power Armor showcase house to let me put out my 10+ different type or painted power armors. I've also fully restored Croup Manor using the Snappy mod, then I went to County Crossing to build an art-deco-like house and some defense for the 2 settlers there. My next big plan is to make something monumental out of Spectacle Island, which is maybe the biggest buildable settlement. I like watching, how others make nice settlements, the ideas are almost infinite, especially if you happen to use mods too. Actually I like building some more than playing the game itself.
I use the mod "Castle Walls Restored" (place late in load order) will not only fix the walls, but add several rooms to the castle that were before useless rubble areas including a matching door facing the diner. Also while Bethesda misses stuff all the time, I do like how they connected those sinks through those pipes all the way out to the ocean where the water pump sits. Its a nice touch and one thing you don't have to bother, even if it locks it into that room.
@@Zoomer-Philosophy simple, a majority of all mods are just a form of cheating or not lore friendly at all. Granted they can enhance each individual players experience, but so many videos of settlements that people have created, with the help of mods, completely change the whole look of the game and the fact it is supposed to be post-apocalyptic. Still have to give them props for the things they accomplish but so many people change so much of what makes Fallout, Fallout, that it isn't even close to the same game anymore. Basically a different game just running on Bethesda's game engine.
@@SkrimpKing I mean lore unfriendly maybe, but i highly doubt the cheating one. the ones considered cheats are kinda the lesser ones ngl. I usually run ones that improve the feel and keep it fresh. make things feel more populated, bring in more clothes, weapons, heck, main weapons i add are from FO3 & NV as well as irl guns into the mix. Which many are alot more balanced than some of the guns in the creation club... Need we discuss how broken the triple-barrel shotgun is and how easily obtainable it is? How easy it is to upgrade to max? How stupidly easy it is to get a legendary variant? I mean unless you play straight vanilla the games are always gonna be a little busted
@Curt Harakaly Who cares how people play a single-player game. I play with lore-friendly, immersion-adding mods. But some people want a fresh game-play experience. Besides, you're telling me it makes sense that one person, who was has no carpentry/construction experience, can make a whole concrete/steel settlement in a few in-game days? Obviously it doesn't but that's in the game. Mods can be used in such a variety of ways (including to actually fix the game, a good portion of my mods). I like to watch people build without mods best but personally I think mods add depth and replay value, even to those who want to keep a lore-friendly and immersive playthrough, like me.
I have used concrete walls to do the repair. This allows me to build an entry room in the large opening, and a 4 season store in the small opening. Over the large opening is an open bay barrack for the troop. The hallway bays are close off into officer quarters. I furnished the kitchen so it was functional. A second corner I made into a shower room. The third one was made into a clinic. A the 4th one with the stairs is the general's quarters. While I do use mods I added as few extra structures as possible. One of the optional mods I sometimes use is grass floor square mod to torn the grass green. I have also used sim settlements to plant crops on the brown grass roofs. I try to make it as functional as possible and still put as few alterations inside the courtyard. Keeping it a practice, exercise and recreation area.
That's a pretty good idea I'm embarrassed to say I've never thought about lmao. I have all my starch ingredients just taking up space to the right of the workshop
My build was practically the same thing (with minor differences here and there), but I also built a platform around the water filtration system, with stairs leading down to it, walls all around it, and a little guard shack. I guess I just felt like it needed to be protected, though I can't remember ever seeing any enemies appearing back there. Oh well. It still looks cool.
I ended up getting loads of different mods and all sorts to try and perfectly fix this every time I've played through, I can't help myself!! I think it's just the curiosity of the location
Here's a trick I've used for powered doors that block entrances: put an additional switch on the outside, connect the output from both switches to an XOR gate, and connect the XOR output to the door. This makes it so both switches toggle the door and you can open and close it from either side.
You can also unlock the Castle as a regular settlement without the Minutemen, but you won't get access to the armoury unless you do the mission for the Minutemen.
If you want to gain access to the armory without the minutemen claim the castle as a settlement first and glitch a fast travel target mat inside and all you have to do is fast travel back to the castle and you'll be in the armory but you just won't have access to radio freedom as well as artillery but there are guides on yt that show you how to get into the armory without the minutemen and if you want to get out of the Amory just place the fast travel mat outside of the Armory
The hardest part is repairing the damaged walls, especially without mods. There are videos online that show how to do that, using tricks. But if you can install mods, then Place Everywhere is very useful.
Just saw this Great videos guy I've been grinding fallout 3 since new show came out havent played fallout 4 In a few years using ur videos to help get some ideas for when I go from fallout 3 to 4
Some nice touches i hadnt thought about..ie.. roller door.. placing of other lockable gate.. When i rebuild outer wall, i build into the yard deeper, fronting with Warehouse build parts.. My (god only knows) many play throughs and ive only just started using warehouse bits.. they look nicer than concrete and makes building forts with crenilated walls looks pretty cool
so I play a modded version of Fallout 4 and have a Minutemen playthrough, I usually try to repair the castle and proceed to build like a little shack settlement outside the big main destroyed wall after I fix it because in my headcannon. The minutemen give protection so its only logical for people to settle right at the walls of the castle their main stronghold. my farm is outside with the little shack settlement. inside the castle I usually have a generator shack, an Armory (mostly for my own use with weapon storage, power armor storage etc). A couple barracks, a small port area, command center with jail. I also have a couple artillery positions (the main 4 edges) followed by some guard positions and turrets. I have a small trader outpost right next to the main entrance but your build looks great!
Nice build, what you did with the walls is almost the same as I do, that's actually what made me watch this. The one thing I hate about it though (the build itself not your video) is that one corner at one of the gun emplacements at the most heavily damaged wall. The one that keeps it from being uniform due to the lack of a triangler block in the building options. I've yet to find a solution to it
I mean this in a complete funny way. Quote: "Minor correction: the Castle is unlocked via Minuteman questline, not Railroad. Not sure how that slipped through." That's a cough, ahem cough-noob-cough mistake. lol 😄The concrete foundations, you can snap the concrete walls starting above, then down the sides of the foundations, all the way into the ground. It will help make it nearly seamless in some spots, and eliminate some gaps. Takes a little practice with your technique though.
Love the idea behind having a better ratio of power armor to people than the brotherhood. I’ve also been hoarding every old hellfire enclave power armor and painted it with the minuteman logos
That’s a good idea actually!! I might do that, I have like 10 sets of enclave power armor in my workshop. Only thing I’m missing the frames. Did you run into that problem too?
@@Pigpugborj oh yeah, i have way more pieces of power armor than frames. I like wandering around the world finding all the spare frames, but if i need to i like to trade pre-war money to kleo in goodneighbor to get a frame. I also pop a grape mentats before any armor frame purchase.
Looked at your mantrap build and then rewatched this one...gives me a thought to try and combine the 2. Another person built an exterior fortified wall also, which is interesting but I'm not sure that idea would exclude the enemy spawn point. Regards
I'm suprised you didnt keep the general's quarters and turned it into another barracks. The Castle is one of my favorite build areas because of its importance in the game and i like to see what people do with it
This is actually very similar to what I did with the castle back in 2015 when the game came out, I had to use wood foundations and shacks since the workshop DLCs weren’t out yet and I also didn’t have the powered doors, but the artillery and turrets are mostly in the same spots, the crafting area is behind the big metal door that’s a part of Ronnie’s quest, buildings are set up against the main wall of the fort for your traders, turned the areas under the artillery platforms into the barracks, the only major difference is that I turned one of those into my personal room and had a larger farm and hit the population cap, my farm was also more geared towards vegetable starch production.
I don't know if it was just a glitch or if it was because I had a supply line to The Castle, but I didn't need to plant any crops because there wasn't any indication that they needed food. They didn't complain about lack of food nor did a warning sign show up on my pipboy.
if your other settlements produce enough food and water to support themselves and meet the requirements of other settlements then the supply lines meet that requirement.
The castle is a settlement along with a few others that (in my opinion) needs it's build limit increased. The location has a ton of potential. I like it, but once you get rolling on a build plan, you'll get close lined by the limit. Then it feels like a waste time. However, your repairs to the wall do look damn good👍
Scrapping or Storing items from your inventory (guns, armor, junk) reduces the Size meter allowing you to build more. You just have to drop the items on the ground then go into Workshop and Scrap or Store them. I've been dropping and scrapping my junk this way for some time because I like to see how much of each building material I have and may need, before I learned about this. My size meter is pretty much always at zero now. I hear if you overbuild using this method it can cause framerate and crashes though as the game needs to render everything in the area. I've only been playing for a few months, so you probably already knew this, but I figured I'd share. 😁 On your point though, I recently fully built a settlement at Oberland Station and was surprised how quickly I filled the meter by just building junk walls and a walkway. Seemed pretty ridiculous to have it so small.
@@geminix5845 yeah I knew about the scrap &/or store thing, and your right again about the frame rate dipping. at some settlements I don't do it anymore. It got out of hand at hangman's alley, one day I found out I couldn't go back there without a hard crash back to the system UI. 😄Normally I have to exit out to restart the game after the screen freezes.
@@elmo1639 Wow it gets that bad? I've only done the one full settlement build. Mostly I just do simple additions like the Castle walls, but I'm starting to get into it more in my later levels. Hopefully, I don't break anything
@@geminix5845 I feel you there. Simple usually gets the best results. My hangman's alley build was a junkyard. Nothing special. But the castle... That build had the purpose. I was going to roof over the whole top half to keep the heavy guns and rockets out that the brotherhood brings with their attack. I know they'll find a way in, but to just keep the heavys out. I never finished it so I don't know if works or not.
Ahh, the Castle, the only reason I continue the Minutemen quest line after ditching Preston at Sanctuary. I then only come in to sneak the six mutfruit, corn, and tatos from their garden and never stick around.
Nice build but I feel like you could make more barricades on the wall and maybe more shade. Is it possible that you could build some shacks or lookout posts outside the entrance?
I cant wait to get that place i started a new character with 8 luck points in Survival Mode and your Video is really good i am gonna try to make it almost like that :D
Very nice. I don't remember my decorations of settlements but I know I've spent hours on them. I haven't played in a year or 2 but I'm getting back into it from scratch. I got so drunk yesterday I already fucked up some important NPC storylines lol.
money and resources were never a problem for me. lol. i always water farmed. starting with sanctuary and then moving to the castle. got to a point where every couple days i would have 1400+ bottle of water to sell. then i would go to the main settlements that have shipments of resources and trade the water for the resources. then i would build the castle into some magnificent monster.
Hello, I am impressed with this build. I will certainly try it! How did you get rid of the Mirelurk nests, and the large dirt piles inside the Castle? Thanks!
I could never get that creative with the castle (except for a pier outside its' western wall). Most of the inside rooms are generally set up how I want them. The place that starts with the first aid is an aid station, the room at the end with sinks is the dining hall, the arms room stays the arms room. I change only a little; the big officer rooms into bays for the foot sodier minutemen and the central yard is for pushup mats, workout gear, and the rubble pile is a CQM range. TLDR: It starts close to how I would want it anyway.
I did do this in my first playthrough. Arduous torture but damn is it nice to look at when you're done with it. Now though I can't take the horrible building mechanics like I did back then so I just connect them to my supply line via Local Leader and I build a few necessities and leave.
I have found the block foundations are a little taller than the concrete. It you replace them you might be able to plug that little gap the the begging. I like the look of the stone block more than the concrete foundations.
The barn and warehouse foundation pieces even match the bricklike exterior of the castle walls in vertical wall pattern - I like the ones for the barn because in my game they use no steel. They do fill the holes better, but tend to lower the ceiling in the armory entrance area quite a bit.
There was a mod I saw awhile back that oxhorn talked about called scrap scrap. It makes all the stuff on the ground scrap able, and you may want to look into it for some of the stuff around this fort. It may work on every settlement too, since it's a mod, but I don't use mods because I don't know which ones will glitch and destroy whatever progress I have.
I would love to see builders try and make builds but without DLCs as well with just vanilla stuff! Just to see if it's possible and to see what's possible!
Looks great in detail. Great explanation of every area. I'll be watching the other settlement builds. I just need to find the time to create stuff like this. But I feel that I don't have the creative ability. Maybe I do, but the AI needs to be smarter IMO. Do you think you can try something with Hangman's Alley? Question, if you fail to help defend a settlement, do you lose some crafting materials? I think someone said that you do. There are times where I am doing stuff in the game or its DLC's and the message pops up that you have failed to help defend "X" Settlement. Seems like the message does not pop up all the time.
I haven't noticed any crafting materials go missing but you can have several objects like turrets, power generators, and water purifiers become "damaged" and will no longer operate until you spend resources to repair them.
You can also get t60 armors from atom cats garage. It's only place you can buy the armors, other apparently is prydwen but it won't work if you wiped brotherhood out.
I also like to fill in the walls, but god damn do I have issues with it sometimes, and I can never truly do so perfectly with tiny holes here and there or spots I cant place anything that just BOTHERS me and I try to eventually remove from my mind. Though I dont really try to make use of the internal wall 'repaired' sections. I prefer to keep the doorways small though, if caravans show up they can sit outside thank you very much, im not compromising on security for the HQ of my private army.
Bro idc if there’s spoilers I just wanna build things very satisfying also never leave your power armor at settlements with the fusion core in it or the settlers will take it
The roll-up garage door in the fortification where you repaired I would have Sally ported it put another one of those doors right behind it on the inside of the wall so they have to go through two lockable doors to get to the main courtyard
Good at three-story Barrak on the Northern wall opening, so the only entrance is on the Southside. I placed missile turrets on the East wall because of The brotherhood. My castle can hold 52 minutemen.
When you've got all the outer doors locked, does it really prevent attacking enemies from entering the settlement? In my own attempts to create an unassailable bunker, I've found that enemies run into the walls, and after pressing their faces against the wall long enough, they simply teleport through, rendering my carefully positioned walls pointless. I'm aware of what the problem is- faulty navmesh integration of placed objects, combined with the game engine's mechanic for unsticking trapped entities. But knowing doesn't make it less frustration.
Watched the tv show. Pull my ps4 fallout of the shelf since 2015. New ps5 upgrade is nice. Looking forward to fresh start. My old save has 470 hours. Mostly base building. Maximum value for this game !!
Another minor correction. You DO need 5 artilerie in total over all settlements. if you want to destroy the brotherhood playing the Minuteman. Its allowed to put all 5 in one setlement. So,,,,,,
that little piece is a creation club item. paint schemes go on sale for free all the time, I usually log in once a month just to see if there's anything I don't have yet that I don't have to pay for. or it's a dollar if you're really dead set on getting it.
Minor correction: the Castle is unlocked via Minuteman questline, not Railroad. Not sure how that slipped through.
Maybe with mods it could be unlocked vi railroad.
You can party unlock it by just clearing it, but you won't get any artillery gun schematics. Still this is a better option in my opinion, because you won't get almost any raid attacks.
I was literally about to comment on that. Good thing I checked to see if you corrected it, first.
I just assumed you were making up spoilers.
Seriously
It's good seeing people still enjoying the crafting in this game.
For the turrets you might want to use connectors for each turret, because if you connect the wires to each other and one turret is damaged, the following turrets will be deactivated since energy stopped running at the broken turret
i made that mistake before. lol
@@arielpaolocana8913 think we all did at least once ;p
Tha ks for the tips bro
Not if you wire everything in parallel instead of in series.
@@saltybits9954 Thats what he was getting at with the connectors. Wire them all up in parallel to prevent a cascade failure when one idiot raider with a missile launcher gets a lucky shot in
Quite rare to find stuff like this these days
Thanks for these videos man! As a late comer to Fallout 4 I have to say creators like you still doing this in 2022 gives some awesome insight on how to work these bases in the most upgraded versions. Thanks a lot
yes i agree, i just got into not so long ago and just now got it on my pc
Not just newcomers.
Veteran players also get some new idea to their 2568th walktrough.
Great settlement. This is exactly the kind of style I try to go for in any settlement that has pre existing/partial structures and Ive always felt there should be a better way to repair buildings without it looking all wonky
There is a way. I do it in my settlements all the time. The Castle and that one half-crumbled building in Jamaica Plain come to mind. It's a bit tricky (and it REALLY helps to have a mod like Place Everywhere, that allows you to clip walls into objects without them turning red), but it's doable.
The barn, warehouse, and concrete structures are a LOT more willing to clip than the base game's structures. I was able to perfectly repair the Croup Manor roof.
This is exactly how I did my castle walls. The only difference is the garage door is on the inside of the castle wall, and I used a junk gate for the outside. The area in between has turrets set up for any unwanted visitors that happen to get inside the junk gate. I have the inside completely wired almost identically. Just don’t have the wall for the generator room. Lol. I use the inside for shops and sleeping quarters. I even created a nice bar/restaurant in the room you made the bathrooms. I also have 2 jail cells. I have inside bathrooms and have outhouses as well. Awesome build!!
The clinic feels like it needs a window or two.
As it stands now, your doctor is going to turn into some kind of cave creature.
The thing I love about build videos is usually I would do a lot different in mine, but you always see little things in videos like this that give you ideas and new things to try. Such a fun game!
This is very good The Castle settlement build. I especially like you're northern wall entrance part. The other parts of the fort are really well done like the baracks, and the generator.
The only thing that I would put outside near the water purifier would be the farm since I like to be historically accurate, so the attackers won't damage the crops, and to save up some space for other future base developments. For the crops I usually go for the Tato, Corn, and Mutfruit to create Adhesive in almost every settlement.
Now for the future settlement builds videos I would recommend Sunshine Tidings co-op farm, or for more chalenge Coastal cottage settlement.
Ps. I hope that you will get subs in the future.
This is one of the best castle builds I’ve seen. I really love the no mods builds. So I subbed and can’t wait to check out more. Thank you.
Lovely looking build, and far better than the ramshackle stuff I usually do!
For heavily fortified settlements like this, I'd love to be able to assign a settler as a door guard. They'd basically be like any defense assigned settler but would seal powered doors. Doesn't matter too much when attacks spawn within the walls but still...it would eliminate that weird feeling when you walk away from a fortification leaving the door open or with a way to open it.
Maybe that's just me
Does a game engine allow that?
I have a powered rolling warehouse door on the inside of both entrances with the power lines running to a switch beside my spawn point. When the castle is attacked, I fast travel in and flip the switch, sealing off the castle.
Add a guard for every post and they will never move away from them. Or assign them to the Vault-Tex workshop’s guard desk.
There are mods that add rubber floor mats as guard posts that you can plop down. Use one of those mats and you can make a guard stand anywhere you like.
It's really simple, but practical, I like it. I've also started building those holes in and put up some turrets along with the big artillery guns. Then I never really thought about anything, I was concentrating more on Sanctuary Hills. I've demolished most of the old houses and used Snappy Housekit and Scrap Everything mods to clean up the place and built some new buildings, like a big two-floor market, a generator room, 3 residential houses which are almost fully decorated, a barn for the brahmins, and a private house. Now I'm planning a basketball court with some stairs on the side. And I also have a big Power Armor showcase house to let me put out my 10+ different type or painted power armors. I've also fully restored Croup Manor using the Snappy mod, then I went to County Crossing to build an art-deco-like house and some defense for the 2 settlers there. My next big plan is to make something monumental out of Spectacle Island, which is maybe the biggest buildable settlement.
I like watching, how others make nice settlements, the ideas are almost infinite, especially if you happen to use mods too. Actually I like building some more than playing the game itself.
I use the mod "Castle Walls Restored" (place late in load order) will not only fix the walls, but add several rooms to the castle that were before useless rubble areas including a matching door facing the diner. Also while Bethesda misses stuff all the time, I do like how they connected those sinks through those pipes all the way out to the ocean where the water pump sits. Its a nice touch and one thing you don't have to bother, even if it locks it into that room.
mods makes the game invalid so no
@@hallucy2215 how do mods make the game "invalid"?
@@Zoomer-Philosophy simple, a majority of all mods are just a form of cheating or not lore friendly at all. Granted they can enhance each individual players experience, but so many videos of settlements that people have created, with the help of mods, completely change the whole look of the game and the fact it is supposed to be post-apocalyptic. Still have to give them props for the things they accomplish but so many people change so much of what makes Fallout, Fallout, that it isn't even close to the same game anymore. Basically a different game just running on Bethesda's game engine.
@@SkrimpKing I mean lore unfriendly maybe, but i highly doubt the cheating one. the ones considered cheats are kinda the lesser ones ngl. I usually run ones that improve the feel and keep it fresh. make things feel more populated, bring in more clothes, weapons, heck, main weapons i add are from FO3 & NV as well as irl guns into the mix. Which many are alot more balanced than some of the guns in the creation club... Need we discuss how broken the triple-barrel shotgun is and how easily obtainable it is? How easy it is to upgrade to max? How stupidly easy it is to get a legendary variant? I mean unless you play straight vanilla the games are always gonna be a little busted
@Curt Harakaly Who cares how people play a single-player game. I play with lore-friendly, immersion-adding mods. But some people want a fresh game-play experience. Besides, you're telling me it makes sense that one person, who was has no carpentry/construction experience, can make a whole concrete/steel settlement in a few in-game days? Obviously it doesn't but that's in the game. Mods can be used in such a variety of ways (including to actually fix the game, a good portion of my mods). I like to watch people build without mods best but personally I think mods add depth and replay value, even to those who want to keep a lore-friendly and immersive playthrough, like me.
It is nice to see a simple, well-done version of The Castle. Hopefully this will inspire me to play the game again.
I have used concrete walls to do the repair. This allows me to build an entry room in the large opening, and a 4 season store in the small opening.
Over the large opening is an open bay barrack for the troop. The hallway bays are close off into officer quarters.
I furnished the kitchen so it was functional. A second corner I made into a shower room. The third one was made into a clinic. A the 4th one with the stairs is the general's quarters.
While I do use mods I added as few extra structures as possible.
One of the optional mods I sometimes use is grass floor square mod to torn the grass green. I have also used sim settlements to plant crops on the brown grass roofs.
I try to make it as functional as possible and still put as few alterations inside the courtyard. Keeping it a practice, exercise and recreation area.
Decent build. I like to make use of the ground on top of the wall for gardens but this quite nice indeed
I do the same. The sprawling low to the ground plants (gourds and melons) go up there.
That's a pretty good idea I'm embarrassed to say I've never thought about lmao. I have all my starch ingredients just taking up space to the right of the workshop
Me too! Also nicer because it keeps my plants out of the way when I get attacked or whatever
My build was practically the same thing (with minor differences here and there), but I also built a platform around the water filtration system, with stairs leading down to it, walls all around it, and a little guard shack. I guess I just felt like it needed to be protected, though I can't remember ever seeing any enemies appearing back there. Oh well. It still looks cool.
Great settlement. I’m addicted to your videos.
I didn’t realize this vid was new. Keep making these!!!
I ended up getting loads of different mods and all sorts to try and perfectly fix this every time I've played through, I can't help myself!! I think it's just the curiosity of the location
I love building up the acastle to be a beast so when I side with the Minute Men it turns into one of the best synth slaughter houses.
Here's a trick I've used for powered doors that block entrances: put an additional switch on the outside, connect the output from both switches to an XOR gate, and connect the XOR output to the door. This makes it so both switches toggle the door and you can open and close it from either side.
Yeah, I believe Skooled Zone has a good explanation of logic gates that are used for this express purpose.
@@WorldsUnhealthiestFitPerson Oh yeah, I forgot about that. He used a pressure plate to automate it too.
You can also unlock the Castle as a regular settlement without the Minutemen, but you won't get access to the armoury unless you do the mission for the Minutemen.
If you want to gain access to the armory without the minutemen claim the castle as a settlement first and glitch a fast travel target mat inside and all you have to do is fast travel back to the castle and you'll be in the armory but you just won't have access to radio freedom as well as artillery but there are guides on yt that show you how to get into the armory without the minutemen and if you want to get out of the Amory just place the fast travel mat outside of the Armory
As a noob I don't need to see what you did, I need to see how you did it.
I've been playing for years, but also prefer builds in-process, rather than tours.
Still - He's a pretty good source of ideas.
there's really no "how" to see. You open the workshop, click on what you want to build: place it like he did. lol.
@@e33d90 that didn't happen. if there are tricks, I do not know them. I simply copy what he's doing and it works...
The hardest part is repairing the damaged walls, especially without mods. There are videos online that show how to do that, using tricks. But if you can install mods, then Place Everywhere is very useful.
@@donkeysunited I didn't have much problems, but I am on play station so it might be different. It just took a while to figure out the alignment
Just saw this
Great videos guy
I've been grinding fallout 3 since new show came out havent played fallout 4 In a few years using ur videos to help get some ideas for when I go from fallout 3 to 4
loved fixing the castle walls when the game came out, made such a nice settlement
Thanks for this! Definitely using this as some inspiration for my castle build as it's my main base of operations.
Wish i had this vid when tbe game came out and all i did was build. Amazong work grey!
I love this stuff! I just love watching this kind of content lmao
Some nice touches i hadnt thought about..ie.. roller door.. placing of other lockable gate..
When i rebuild outer wall, i build into the yard deeper, fronting with Warehouse build parts..
My (god only knows) many play throughs and ive only just started using warehouse bits.. they look nicer than concrete and makes building forts with crenilated walls looks pretty cool
so I play a modded version of Fallout 4 and have a Minutemen playthrough, I usually try to repair the castle and proceed to build like a little shack settlement outside the big main destroyed wall after I fix it because in my headcannon. The minutemen give protection so its only logical for people to settle right at the walls of the castle their main stronghold. my farm is outside with the little shack settlement. inside the castle I usually have a generator shack, an Armory (mostly for my own use with weapon storage, power armor storage etc). A couple barracks, a small port area, command center with jail. I also have a couple artillery positions (the main 4 edges) followed by some guard positions and turrets. I have a small trader outpost right next to the main entrance but your build looks great!
Excellent work. It looks great!
Nice build, what you did with the walls is almost the same as I do, that's actually what made me watch this. The one thing I hate about it though (the build itself not your video) is that one corner at one of the gun emplacements at the most heavily damaged wall. The one that keeps it from being uniform due to the lack of a triangler block in the building options. I've yet to find a solution to it
i love your builds so much its really inspiring the problom though it makes me want to start a new game XD
I mean this in a complete funny way. Quote: "Minor correction: the Castle is unlocked via Minuteman questline, not Railroad. Not sure how that slipped through." That's a cough, ahem cough-noob-cough mistake. lol 😄The concrete foundations, you can snap the concrete walls starting above, then down the sides of the foundations, all the way into the ground. It will help make it nearly seamless in some spots, and eliminate some gaps. Takes a little practice with your technique though.
digging your videos, keep uploading cool settlements :)
Love the idea behind having a better ratio of power armor to people than the brotherhood. I’ve also been hoarding every old hellfire enclave power armor and painted it with the minuteman logos
That’s a good idea actually!! I might do that, I have like 10 sets of enclave power armor in my workshop. Only thing I’m missing the frames. Did you run into that problem too?
@@Pigpugborj oh yeah, i have way more pieces of power armor than frames. I like wandering around the world finding all the spare frames, but if i need to i like to trade pre-war money to kleo in goodneighbor to get a frame. I also pop a grape mentats before any armor frame purchase.
Looked at your mantrap build and then rewatched this one...gives me a thought to try and combine the 2. Another person built an exterior fortified wall also, which is interesting but I'm not sure that idea would exclude the enemy spawn point. Regards
I'm suprised you didnt keep the general's quarters and turned it into another barracks. The Castle is one of my favorite build areas because of its importance in the game and i like to see what people do with it
Holy CRAP. The Castle is a pentagon? That makes so much sense! I can't believe I didn't realize until the bird's eye view.
It's based on old Roman fortifications.
Keep up the good work man! Love the content
I think you did pretty good bub. I have repaired this Settlement a few times. Always fun. Lol
Did you know you can snap wood structure pieces to the radio shack? I add a small bunk room there for the radio operator(s)
This is actually very similar to what I did with the castle back in 2015 when the game came out, I had to use wood foundations and shacks since the workshop DLCs weren’t out yet and I also didn’t have the powered doors, but the artillery and turrets are mostly in the same spots, the crafting area is behind the big metal door that’s a part of Ronnie’s quest, buildings are set up against the main wall of the fort for your traders, turned the areas under the artillery platforms into the barracks, the only major difference is that I turned one of those into my personal room and had a larger farm and hit the population cap, my farm was also more geared towards vegetable starch production.
Cool, I enjoyed building a small settlement here.
how precious
I don't know if it was just a glitch or if it was because I had a supply line to The Castle, but I didn't need to plant any crops because there wasn't any indication that they needed food. They didn't complain about lack of food nor did a warning sign show up on my pipboy.
if your other settlements produce enough food and water to support themselves and meet the requirements of other settlements then the supply lines meet that requirement.
@@Theegreygaming Still learning things about this game after years of playing it.
The castle is a settlement along with a few others that (in my opinion) needs it's build limit increased. The location has a ton of potential. I like it, but once you get rolling on a build plan, you'll get close lined by the limit. Then it feels like a waste time.
However, your repairs to the wall do look damn good👍
Scrapping or Storing items from your inventory (guns, armor, junk) reduces the Size meter allowing you to build more. You just have to drop the items on the ground then go into Workshop and Scrap or Store them. I've been dropping and scrapping my junk this way for some time because I like to see how much of each building material I have and may need, before I learned about this. My size meter is pretty much always at zero now. I hear if you overbuild using this method it can cause framerate and crashes though as the game needs to render everything in the area. I've only been playing for a few months, so you probably already knew this, but I figured I'd share. 😁
On your point though, I recently fully built a settlement at Oberland Station and was surprised how quickly I filled the meter by just building junk walls and a walkway. Seemed pretty ridiculous to have it so small.
@@geminix5845 yeah I knew about the scrap &/or store thing, and your right again about the frame rate dipping. at some settlements I don't do it anymore. It got out of hand at hangman's alley, one day I found out I couldn't go back there without a hard crash back to the system UI. 😄Normally I have to exit out to restart the game after the screen freezes.
@@elmo1639 Wow it gets that bad? I've only done the one full settlement build. Mostly I just do simple additions like the Castle walls, but I'm starting to get into it more in my later levels. Hopefully, I don't break anything
@@geminix5845 I feel you there. Simple usually gets the best results. My hangman's alley build was a junkyard. Nothing special. But the castle... That build had the purpose. I was going to roof over the whole top half to keep the heavy guns and rockets out that the brotherhood brings with their attack. I know they'll find a way in, but to just keep the heavys out. I never finished it so I don't know if works or not.
Ahh, the Castle, the only reason I continue the Minutemen quest line after ditching Preston at Sanctuary. I then only come in to sneak the six mutfruit, corn, and tatos from their garden and never stick around.
I love building up the castle to be a beast so when I side with the Minute Men it turns into one of the best synth slaughter houses.
Nice build but I feel like you could make more barricades on the wall and maybe more shade.
Is it possible that you could build some shacks or lookout posts outside the entrance?
Former gymnast - Seeing the pommel horse surrounded by concrete walls and floors gave me a chuckle.
I cant wait to get that place i started a new character with 8 luck points in Survival Mode and your Video is really good i am gonna try to make it almost like that :D
This is a good idea! I expand castle by making a 2nd floor flush with the ramparts
I always grow the food outside the castle, like they did in medieval ages.
its a 1700s starfort lol
I usually just put disgusting amounts of those cannons and request fire mission on the nearby sea lol, it's funny and i love it
Very nice. I don't remember my decorations of settlements but I know I've spent hours on them. I haven't played in a year or 2 but I'm getting back into it from scratch. I got so drunk yesterday I already fucked up some important NPC storylines lol.
nice build!
The overhang on the one side, would allow attackers to run under, and out of guns view. Just thinking from a tactic view..
Looks good and clean
money and resources were never a problem for me. lol. i always water farmed. starting with sanctuary and then moving to the castle. got to a point where every couple days i would have 1400+ bottle of water to sell. then i would go to the main settlements that have shipments of resources and trade the water for the resources. then i would build the castle into some magnificent monster.
Great work the castle is one of the harder settlement builds in fallout 4
I have made the castle into a star shaped dome bunker would definitely recommend this settlement as a main settlement location
Hello, I am impressed with this build. I will certainly try it! How did you get rid of the Mirelurk nests, and the large dirt piles inside the Castle? Thanks!
you're allowed to scrap most of them, otherwise you just kindof hide them with other objects.
@@Theegreygaming Thanks again!
I could never get that creative with the castle (except for a pier outside its' western wall). Most of the inside rooms are generally set up how I want them. The place that starts with the first aid is an aid station, the room at the end with sinks is the dining hall, the arms room stays the arms room. I change only a little; the big officer rooms into bays for the foot sodier minutemen and the central yard is for pushup mats, workout gear, and the rubble pile is a CQM range.
TLDR: It starts close to how I would want it anyway.
I did do this in my first playthrough.
Arduous torture but damn is it nice to look at when you're done with it.
Now though I can't take the horrible building mechanics like I did back then so I just connect them to my supply line via Local Leader and I build a few necessities and leave.
Really good man!😊
I have found the block foundations are a little taller than the concrete. It you replace them you might be able to plug that little gap the the begging. I like the look of the stone block more than the concrete foundations.
The barn and warehouse foundation pieces even match the bricklike exterior of the castle walls in vertical wall pattern - I like the ones for the barn because in my game they use no steel. They do fill the holes better, but tend to lower the ceiling in the armory entrance area quite a bit.
There was a mod I saw awhile back that oxhorn talked about called scrap scrap. It makes all the stuff on the ground scrap able, and you may want to look into it for some of the stuff around this fort. It may work on every settlement too, since it's a mod, but I don't use mods because I don't know which ones will glitch and destroy whatever progress I have.
God bless the minutemen
Best I have seen.
I would love to see builders try and make builds but without DLCs as well with just vanilla stuff! Just to see if it's possible and to see what's possible!
i tried a few times... it was not good...
I loved my build of the castle.
Wow, this looks so much better than the abomination I made 2 years ago
Very fun and creative
Isn’t the rubble in the castle scrappable?
only the rubble that blocks access to the catacombs.
Great job man
Simple and well done
Looks great in detail. Great explanation of every area. I'll be watching the other settlement builds. I just need to find the time to create stuff like this. But I feel that I don't have the creative ability. Maybe I do, but the AI needs to be smarter IMO. Do you think you can try something with Hangman's Alley?
Question, if you fail to help defend a settlement, do you lose some crafting materials? I think someone said that you do. There are times where I am doing stuff in the game or its DLC's and the message pops up that you have failed to help defend "X" Settlement. Seems like the message does not pop up all the time.
I haven't noticed any crafting materials go missing but you can have several objects like turrets, power generators, and water purifiers become "damaged" and will no longer operate until you spend resources to repair them.
@@Theegreygaming ok, thank you.
You can also get t60 armors from atom cats garage. It's only place you can buy the armors, other apparently is prydwen but it won't work if you wiped brotherhood out.
I also like to fill in the walls, but god damn do I have issues with it sometimes, and I can never truly do so perfectly with tiny holes here and there or spots I cant place anything that just BOTHERS me and I try to eventually remove from my mind. Though I dont really try to make use of the internal wall 'repaired' sections. I prefer to keep the doorways small though, if caravans show up they can sit outside thank you very much, im not compromising on security for the HQ of my private army.
Bro idc if there’s spoilers I just wanna build things very satisfying also never leave your power armor at settlements with the fusion core in it or the settlers will take it
I have to fix those walls every time! Brick texture mods allow for a perfect match.
The roll-up garage door in the fortification where you repaired I would have Sally ported it put another one of those doors right behind it on the inside of the wall so they have to go through two lockable doors to get to the main courtyard
love the castle you made, but did you put it to download or semthing mayebe ?
Good at three-story Barrak on the Northern wall opening, so the only entrance is on the Southside. I placed missile turrets on the East wall because of The brotherhood. My castle can hold 52 minutemen.
It's amazing!
When you've got all the outer doors locked, does it really prevent attacking enemies from entering the settlement? In my own attempts to create an unassailable bunker, I've found that enemies run into the walls, and after pressing their faces against the wall long enough, they simply teleport through, rendering my carefully positioned walls pointless.
I'm aware of what the problem is- faulty navmesh integration of placed objects, combined with the game engine's mechanic for unsticking trapped entities. But knowing doesn't make it less frustration.
When you fast travel, only distance travelled by enemies is calculated. Walls play no part in it. So that is how they get in.
Looking for inspiration and ideas for fixing up my castle, this is pretty damn good.
Watched the tv show. Pull my ps4 fallout of the shelf since 2015. New ps5 upgrade is nice. Looking forward to fresh start. My old save has 470 hours. Mostly base building.
Maximum value for this game !!
This game is great!
Another minor correction. You DO need 5 artilerie in total over all settlements. if you want to destroy the brotherhood playing the Minuteman. Its allowed to put all 5 in one setlement. So,,,,,,
Im new to the game (surprising I know). Where do you access all these cement walls and metal floors and railings? DLC?
I believe they were added in the Wasteland Workshop DLC
If you don't have all the dlc get them, especially if you plan on modding (don't mod until you beat it at least once)
Looks good dude
I gotta see what you do with the vault 88 expansion
After all these years, I never thought of plugging the walls with concrete… wow
Nice build
How did you get the minutemen their own paint on the armor pieces?
that little piece is a creation club item. paint schemes go on sale for free all the time, I usually log in once a month just to see if there's anything I don't have yet that I don't have to pay for. or it's a dollar if you're really dead set on getting it.
I kinda did something similar except i put all the shops in the middle in a makeshift housing and made the wall into rooms