I have only just recently subscribed and just have to say how much I enjoy your videos. Your laid back and thoughtful manner lends so well to the teaching arena. I love listening to you talk and I laugh at all your corny jokes. And on this video, after I heard the story about how to save 2 birds, I decided I just had to thank you! Great story! Thank for giving all us late-to-the-game Fallout nerds a way to get the most out of the experience in a highly entertaining way. I’m a huge fan
RIGHT!, These guides are awesome and I'm itching to get them right(tried the rug with campfire didnt seem to wanna work), to make my settlements look great and well be fort knox to be raided(whether it be actual raiders or mutants or robots gotta be all inclusive you know lol)
New subscriber here in 2024! I've played Fallout 4 since launch but only recently have I tried to up my settlement building skills. Thank you so much for all of these wonderful tutorial videos!
I didn't sub for your content,as much as a few other factors. 1) Your attitude. You have a wonderful demeanor, & are always concerned that everyone, pc,Xbox, PS4, all get along in the comments & communication with each other is helpful to all,& key to a friendlier inviroment for getting information as well as meeting people. 2) Your love of animals. My philosophy, animals are people too,better infact. The 2 birds with one stone thing,sealed it for me. 3) The content is great,i did learn a few things,i wish I knew when i wasnt modding,but this,as i said,wasnt my reason for the sub. You remind me of Gopher in that you care about the community & we're not here to fight about platforms,we're here for entertainment, friendships, & knowledge. The love of games,& Beth games in particular. So *THANK YOU*
By definition they are not people since they're not human. So that's a bit of a an odd philosophy since that's also not really a philosophy, just really an opinion at best? And so long as mammals, amphibians, reptiles and insects do all of the same messed up stuff(Rape, abuse, war, familial abandonment, murder, familicide, genocide, invasion and eradication, some/any of which are on par/above that of humans when it comes to numbers/cruelty of reasoning) as humans I wouldn't be so fast to say better. Especially when we're the only ones that end up feeling bad for the victims or believe that we can do better. Not saying to just go off killing other living things for no reason, just that more thought should be put into modern "philosophies"
@@anthonylongoria2638 my big ol' dog is sorry when she accidentally gives me a good one during play, so contrary to what you said, animals Can feel bad for inflicting pain. that was my only little criticism. you're right: animals are not human. but humans are of course animals
@@anthonylongoria2638 Animals do what they do because of their instincts and because they need to survive and protect themselves. It's nature. Humans, as they are able to think and making decisions however, do decide to do bad things and it's not necessarily even for reasons to survive. So animals are better creatures than humans most of the time.
A tip for repairing the Castle walls from another video: You don't need to proximity-place any pillars or scaffolding to grab the pre-built wall. Just group-pick up the wall near the top edge, and you can work it into place by standing on the battlements. The height or location you grab an object at in build-mode changes how it is held in the air when you move it around. Some trial and error will get you a nice fit on the wall. You can then fill in small gaps at the top with the 1/4 size flat floor pieces.
Before the DLC came out, people would use the fence posts that are in the wire fence menu. If you'll notice, everything in that menu has a duplicate. One half of the set can clip through the ground, while the other half cannot. Knowing the difference and using that to your advantage when pillar glitching can be helpful. For instance, if you DON'T want an object to clip through the ground, but stay right on top of it. Other objects that sit on a normal floor, like the ashtray can be used for this method as well. An expanded variation of the pillar glitch involves measuring the homes at Sanctuary Hills (4 x 2.5 for some). Build the floor with foundations, add a normal wall (from either the metal, wood or concrete sets), and then add a ceiling that matches the floor. Now you can pillar glitch the entire assembly into on of the houses. This method allows you to 1) make the houses count as having roofs for sleeping under and covers up hole in the roof , 2) Let's you place a floor that covers up most of the debris and leaves in most of the houses, and 3) allows you to place walls in areas to cover up the gaps in the house walls. You can then go further and pillar glitch in some glass pieces to cover the windows. To finish this off you can now place a door into the existing doorway. But, be warned, only one house lets you snap doors to the frame. That house is the yellow one that has the workbench outside of it. How do you get doors into the other frames? Place a door frame on a level piece of ground. Choose your door and snap it into place. Place your pillar tool of choice, as close to the door as possible. Now, remove the door frame. Now group select. This allows you to place the door wherever you want. And, if you don't have ocd already, trying to align a door to a frame in this way, will definitely get you there! As a side note. You can also just pillar glitch a wall with a doorway already in it, into a wall. Then snap the door in place. It just doesn't work everywhere.
there is an easy solution to stop the pillar popping. 1. select the pillar tool. 2. cancel the selection. 3. group select the pillar tool. this should reset everything and get rid of the popping. :)
Hey Paul, you have a good understanding of the mechanics of this game. So, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! You have a few of us that follow you , that are familiar with the settlement building constrictions. So if you have a query on how things works, reach out. I'm still working on a game save that I can submit for your contest. But, if you have questions, we are here to help. I know you've helped me a couple of times. On a side note. I'm just curious. Has anyone had a CTD (crash to desktop) bug when attempting wiring? Mainly concerning the contraptions workshop addition of logic switches. I ran into as crash the other day, when I was trying to reconstruct the vault 42 automated rad cleaner setup. I haven't retried yet to see what happened, due to having a wiring bug while I had mods running. I hope that this isn't related. Another side note. . . . Paul, how is the best way to contact you. I would love to submit a build for your contest, but, I'm afraid that my situation may compromise my entry. Either way, I'd still like to submit something, just for show and tell.
Court, thanks for adding your value to the channel! I consider myself a master builder but there's _always_ more to learn. I'll be the first to admit that. I love learning new things from viewers as much as they might learn new things from me. That's what makes the Fallout 4 building community so cool. And I've met a lot of those cool people just in the last month alone. I haven't experienced any crash issues with the logic gates but the logic gates as well as the auto-arch are both videos coming up in my black diamond lessons. As for the NMSC challenge, I'm looking forward to seeing what you and others in the community come up with! There's no limitation on expertise. There's no rush either. At the midpoint of the deadline, I'll put up a dedicated contest rules video. In that video, I'll explain the best ways to submit links, such as through the Skooled Zone website.
Fallout 4 sat on my shelf for awhile but im back again in 2022, ive watched alot of your videos awhile back, learned alot and is a great refresher getting back into it. Thank you for all of your content, and even more so appreciate the in depth explanations and examples, subscribed 😁
Had to pause the video for a min., and just say, you are very talented at teaching. I've spent all day watching your no-mods shop class vids, (or at least the first few). I've learned so much, and your delivery is great! I pre-ordered this game, and never knew, I knew so little. I hope by the time you read this, you are making a ton of caps doing youtube vids.
Welcome to the Skooled Zone! I have way to many hours playing Fallout 4...lol Even so, I often find myself back in the Skooled Zone, either to freshen up on settlement build tips or gather creative inspiration ideas... His content is as relevant now as in the beginning... Lots of appreciation and love to the Skooled Zone channel and to its creator...💜
Been playing Fallout 4 since its release and I am very late to this channel. But I've still learned tonnes and am now rebuilding my settlements. I find a lot of gamer youtubers really irritating, but not you, sir. Love the cheery delivery and demeanor, the professionalism of your videos and the concise delivery of information.
I started watching these videos to learn about F4 building, then kept watching vids I didn't actually need just because of how it makes my day how happy this dude is and how he laughs all the time! I really like this channel
Very helpful as usual, I’m about to take the castle, mainly to get away from our Minutemen friend and his constant nagging, so tips on wall repairs are very handy. Thanks again Paul. 😀
What I did before learning any sort of glitches (not even that long ago) was, I used the concrete WALLS. My goal was to fix the walls while having little interior sections to get creative with, plus I had the smaller wall sizes to work with. Surprisingly I fully repaired them, completely seamlessly.
This video really helped out. I had been struggling trying to get some of the wall fixtures to sit low enough in my vault to look right, but nothing was working. The main one I had an issue with was the sinks. On a vault wall, the sink sits about halfway up the wall, not even close to realistic. Using this trick, I was able to place the sink exactly where I wanted it. Thank you!
I have found that when you are doing the Pillar Glitch with items that also sink, you sometimes need to move your "pillar" up or down a little to prevent the hopping issue you were having. I only notice it with other sinkable items, but it is consistently an issue for me. Great video, and I love the conduit idea too.
2024 and I'm just now finding your videos. Played FO4 since release and I gotta say my attempts at building settlements has been pitiful at best, your videos are making me realize how much I didn't know. Thanks for the series 👍🏽
Subscribed. I've just started diving deeper into no mod settlement building and have learned some useful things from your videos over the last couple of days. Thanks!
Decided to get into FO4 again now that the DLC's where discounted. I wanted to get back to improving my settlement, i came across your channel while looking for building stuffs and I am so glad I did! you are legit one of the nicest youtubers out there and you explain everything so clear! keep it up mah dude! you earned yourself a sub!
The glitch to get the spiked raider poles to work is select the item that doesn't work on its own then de-select it that makes it the last placed item then group select the item that you just worked with... For some reason it updates the item to its actual position which then allows you to place it without it glitching up..
Finally getting serious about settlement building. I play on PC modded to the gills but damn dude these are great pointers for taking it to the next level.
Excellent job of the explanation of how to utilize a technique with a thorough demonstration as opposed to simply a "this is how I did it" video. It brings back some of the possible work around tools that I have long since forgotten. Thanks.
Great video! I really like the new classroom, too! I don't always learn something new, but I'm always entertained none-the-less. I'm looking forward to the next class!
I never knew about the pillar glitch...you just made much building SOOOO much easier...things I've wanted to do but never could...now I can. Especially with, yes, a few mods i do use, like Place Anything...THANK YOU.
"Murder hole". Hahaha. I love it! I am really enjoying this series, Paul... and in combination with watching your settlement contest's entries, the creative juices are starting to flow. 👍
That bird 🐦 saying was so cute. Save two 🐦 🐦 s with one stone throw it at the tree so birds fly away and the hunter can't shoot them lol I love that....
Subscribed - need to go back and like all the videos I've watched. You're refreshing - I don't remember the last time I've heard someone ENJOYING making their videos as much as you clearly do. Great work!
DAMN... I never knew and never even thought of this... I make a row across the top and spend SO SO SO much time linning the blocks up on the bottom so I can do this. Thank you... Now it kinda sucks cause now I want to tear my castle as well as my Spectacle Island build apart and do them again
Paul, I'm a huge fan and all of your videos helped me with my gameplay. I tried to do everything that you did in your walkthrough but I'm still waiting for you to continue your trivia walkthrough
Hey thanks! Don't worry, I haven't abandoned my trivia walkthroughs. The No Mods Shop Class is only a mini-series. Next month I'll start working my walkthroughs back into the mix. More explained in an upcoming announcements video!
I just wanted to say thank you for all the lessons you've taught me. From the rug glitch to how to rotate the pieces your trying place! Thank YOU SO much!
@@SkooledZone I tried rebuilding the Castle walls myself by just doing it and it looked ok but nothing I'd submit for a prize. Then i did it like you did in the video and it looks amaze-balls! Thanks again! Do you have a skilled zone Facebook page? I'm always talking you up on the 'Fallout 4 Settlement building' page.
Wow I have just watched some of your videos and will now stray to do more on my builds With the help you have shown it will be so much more fun. I wasn't going to bother with the builds as tilt was soooo much hassle. So thanks and I will subscribe to your channel. Big thumbs up. I don't usually subscribe but you have this down and your not screaming in my hear lol. Good job.
I have played fallout 4 over and over since it was released on Xbox , PC and now I’m playing it again on ps5. I have done all the quests about like 5 times now but my best time was the very first time before any TH-cam videos or even mods were out. When everything was new and you had to really experience it yourself. It was so much fun and I spent hundreds of more hours on that first run.
Thanks you so much now i can now bulid better things without snapping and I bulid everything from no mods shop class. I never use mods because i want achievements. And another thank you som much
Love all your videos! So inspiring and really pumps me up to keep exploring and adventuring! I’ve learned so much from you, which has made my gameplay experience even better(:
One thing I'd add for anyone who watches this. You can try putting some scaffoldings on both sides of the shack foundations to make it look more like it's under construction. For me at least it helps take the eyes away from the shack foundations not having lines like the cinder blocks
For that "glitch" with the group select popping up, select one piece (changes focus to that piece) then cancel/de-select. (PS is "x" for select & "o" for cancel, XB is "A" & "B") then simply use that piece as your group select focus. I use mods (mostly aesthetic/building mods) but still love your videos & use a lot of the techniques that you showcase & explain so well
I see that others have commented with a solution, but the *reason* why things pop up when you do the group select is that you have handled some other object before grabbing the object you want as the focus for your selected group. In your case you handled the shack foundations before those raider poles. When you then start the group select, it follows the placement of the previous object, i.e. the shack foundation. That is why you have to first select your focus object normaly, release it and then group select in order for you to get the desired result. But if the focus object is the last object you placed, this isn't a problem.
It is annoying if you don't know what's going on. If, for instance you are trying to move a row of concrete foundations, you might need to select the last placed foundation and either cancel the move or replace it. After that, the group select should function as it's supposed to. Sometimes, however, you will need to select your "pillar" and either delete it or replace it. This seems to be connected to a group of items that were "snapped" too close to an object that was placed in a "red zone". For instance, if I place a foundation at Starlight drive-in, next to the screen, and then snapped another foundation next to it. The second foundation may not have been able to be placed normally, due to being too close to the screen, or too much ground interfering. That's when you want to try and select the upper-most portion of your grouping, to keep it from "jumping", or turning "red" when you try and move it. Keep in mind that uneven ground, in certain circumstances, is just another "object, and not ground. Small hills with trees are an example of this. They are not part of the ground. Rather they were place onto of the "ground". This is where having certain mods like "scrap everything" comes in handy. It let's you see what is actually considered "ground". This is also the case with certain decals, such as leaf or debris piles. I know this is a "no mods" tutorial, but having an understanding of how the game mechanics work, helps indefinitely. I gamed unmodded until just recently, and the mods I did/do use, showed me a little bit about how the game handles certain things. And there is no harm in knowing how the system works, to enable you to work around the limitations. This is how the rug/pillar glitch and settlement limit glitches were found, after all.
Hey Skooled Zone! I think I have good solution to the whole popping up, sometimes that happens to me. I usually bring whatever is sunken down into the ground all the way up, and have it sorta sitting on top of the ground or above the ground just a tiny bit. Group select your item and sink it down from there. I know there might be other solutions out there though, I hope that helps!
One of the things I like about FO4 is that they took Boston and nearly made the exact replica of it before they put all the highways underground. All the suburbs, and regions of the named city in this vanilla portion of the game are real areas of the city.
Definitely. I talk a lot about that during my trivia walkthroughs. And if you're a baseball fan, you'll like this video: th-cam.com/video/8A29WKefmVA/w-d-xo.html
14:18 Sure its realy nice to have that cap closed up entirly, and I did it years ago. But if you already build that wall and you decide to do the Minuteman missions afterall it will be a big problem. Ronnie Shaw needs that cap while she explaining the working of the artilery. Somehow she needs the whole cap. She will walk underneed the top layer though. 3 solutions; -1. Never play Minuteman. As you mentioned. -2. Build after you did that mission. -3 Just buld a bridge on top using floors or whatever you want to use.
Woah. The Castle looks so alien to me now that I've set up my main settlement there. It doesn't have patched walls or my giant apartment building or anything. It kinda looks sad, honestly :(
Thankyou for this, I managed to make a smart little powered door safe room in sanctuary thanks to this video and the one about the wire glitch to keep my valuables safe
Hi Paul, another homerun video. Should have used junk fences with the pillar to show to them flat the ground areas where ground isn't flat and touching junk fences. To prevent objects group selected from popping up, group select them clicking at at the top of the object so your looking up to start with then down when moving. Can you do a lesson on settlement building object size management. Let me explain. For the longest time I've used the settlement size glitch to build more then the settlement size allows you to, however once I start doing this I lose FPS and sometimes start crashing even if I haven't gone over the limit much. Recently I've started noticing what certain billable objects take size wise. Like concrete is the worst because it takes the absolute most space settlement size bar wise. Foundation takes the most of all objects that I can tell. So when building I avoid foundation when I don't need it, like in the middle of a building I'll use matching wood floor. Settlement size management is something I've never seen any TH-camr cover.
For the raider spike problem you got, select the one your going to group select with separately, move it cancel it out. Then and when it pops back to where it was you should be able to group select and be able to move it up and down without it popping back up into the air.
2024 still here rewatching. I was thinking how to let my provisioners pass the Castle's gate but enemies don't (just for estatic) without me opening anything for them. Nor closing. I was thinking about a powered door that disconnects if a guard activates the siren, that would cut it's power, closing it. But decided to just make a long runway for the visitors, using wired fence. A long corridor, that turns back, again long then turns back and again long. Let the super mutants use my runway, lol. Along my turrets.
A way I’ve found that sometimes helps with the height issue on the group select, is that I’ll select a spot higher up on the object. So instead of having my cursor at “eye height”, I’ll select the pillar or whatever within about 1/3 of the height (from the top). I hope that makes sense 😅 I think it was 2021 sometime when I finally got into fallout 4, and I’m super grateful for your videos! You’ve given me so much helpful knowledge!
If you put down a prefab stairwell and put a floor on it, you can put your "chassis" on it, remove the floor and put another scaffolding under it so you can pillar glitch things to the second floor.. Was trying to figure out how to get a doorway in a settlement while I was fixing its wall on the second floor.
Rugs for horizontal placement and concrete pillars for vertical placement. “Select all”works well too as long as you have no foundation pieces connected to it. Carry your entire build wherever you want
I've been fascinated by the previous three consecutive videos. The hippie vibe is strong with this one XD But! Thank you Skooled Zone for all your hard work sharing the knowledge!
Glad you enjoyed the videos Hunter, but "hippie vibe"? LOL. I'm pretty far from a traditional hippie. I have short hair, I'm very clean, and I'm not into drugs or new age stuff. What you're probably hearing through my voice is that I'm a happy, chillaxed person that has fun making these videos. Although I do say "Love, Peace, Knowledge" at the end of my Homeroom Announcements videos, because you know, the opposite of that is "Hate, War, and Ignorance" and who wants that? 😏
Right! That's the thing about a vibe, it doesn't have to be the full thing. I'm glad you clarified, but I wasn't accusing you of the traditional drugs or new age anything, definitely mostly just commenting on the extreme chillaxed-ness, friend :)
I found to keep the pop up when group selecting is to grab the pillar first and dont group select, just grab and select just the pillar then unselect it , then grab and group select. It usually always works to fix that pop up and I found it depends on where your cursor is on the pillar when you group select, for me the higher up the better. I don't know if it will work for everyone but works for me.
When you were group selecting the raider spikes, instead of aiming at the middle of the group, point and aim your cursor at the highest point at the top of the spikes then when you look down while they're selected the group will go with it your cursor downwards. it's so much easier to sink them that way.
Instead of using the shack floor blocks, couldn't you save some mats by using regular thickness concrete walls, leaving a gap between the walls that you could bridge with a floor between them? 18:20 why not sink them to the level you want first, then put a toolbox next to them and use that as your group selection hook to drag them into the doorway?
That issue you're having where the item you're group selecting jumps up: Try single selecting the itme you're going to use for the group select. Then cancel the single select. Then group select using that same item. It happens sometimes with the pillar glitch too, when you move the item you're glitching before you group select it. It's fixed by single selecting the pillar, cancelling, and then doing the group select.
You can build the walls pretty solidly without the pillar glitch by building a bridge over the top of the walls and then replacing it a piece at a time with the cement blocks. That's how I've always done it on the completely vanilla version of the game. Plus it's good for navigating and building on top of the wall. I even built some nice hoardings up there.
Doing the walls at the castle us the stairwell with the small platform to add the the cement foundations. Also you can completely foundation the holes. Just takes some adjusting. Lol 5 years later.
and im only just discovering you now haha I wanted to do a no mods playthrough normally I use the place everwhere mod and such but yer. this will save me so much raging haha thanks.
2021 and I'm just finding this channel a maybe a month ago Hopefully they still have some of these techniques and more with fallout 5 if and when it reveals
I got a nice settlement to share with the SkoolZone, No Mods of Course and this is going to blow minds as well. So if I could share I would be delighted to show my work. I call it the NoModTidings.
I have only just recently subscribed and just have to say how much I enjoy your videos. Your laid back and thoughtful manner lends so well to the teaching arena. I love listening to you talk and I laugh at all your corny jokes. And on this video, after I heard the story about how to save 2 birds, I decided I just had to thank you! Great story!
Thank for giving all us late-to-the-game Fallout nerds a way to get the most out of the experience in a highly entertaining way. I’m a huge fan
Right I wish I found him when fallout 4 came out
2024, still here
2021 and I'm still coming back to these videos.
Same lol
Me too! 👍
Same here too!
Yup, every playthrough I forget this stuff and have to come back to learn it again!
@@NannyOggins same
Still watching in 2023! Your shop class videos make for an enjoyable watch ! Hope to see more in the future. Class dismissed!!
I'm late to the game, but god-damned if this isn't the most handy friggin set of guides ever
Spencer Carr you and me both. We're "fashion late"
probally
because of fallout 76 beta being out
RIGHT!, These guides are awesome and I'm itching to get them right(tried the rug with campfire didnt seem to wanna work), to make my settlements look great and well be fort knox to be raided(whether it be actual raiders or mutants or robots gotta be all inclusive you know lol)
Ya I'm even later ha lol but I love this and I played 76 farst and it SUCKS compared to this lol but that's my opinion
Shit I’m really late lol just started playing a week ago. You’re absolutely right though, his videos are a god send!
New subscriber here in 2024!
I've played Fallout 4 since launch but only recently have I tried to up my settlement building skills. Thank you so much for all of these wonderful tutorial videos!
These videos are masterpiece. Both educational and entertaining. Also, the author is 10 charisma
I didn't sub for your content,as much as a few other factors.
1) Your attitude. You have a wonderful demeanor, & are always concerned that everyone, pc,Xbox, PS4, all get along in the comments & communication with each other is helpful to all,& key to a friendlier inviroment for getting information as well as meeting people.
2) Your love of animals. My philosophy, animals are people too,better infact. The 2 birds with one stone thing,sealed it for me.
3) The content is great,i did learn a few things,i wish I knew when i wasnt modding,but this,as i said,wasnt my reason for the sub. You remind me of Gopher in that you care about the community & we're not here to fight about platforms,we're here for entertainment, friendships, & knowledge. The love of games,& Beth games in particular.
So *THANK YOU*
Your comment made my day! 😊
Ohhh i just finished watching gopher's fallout 4 series and i am now building wooooo
By definition they are not people since they're not human. So that's a bit of a an odd philosophy since that's also not really a philosophy, just really an opinion at best? And so long as mammals, amphibians, reptiles and insects do all of the same messed up stuff(Rape, abuse, war, familial abandonment, murder, familicide, genocide, invasion and eradication, some/any of which are on par/above that of humans when it comes to numbers/cruelty of reasoning) as humans I wouldn't be so fast to say better. Especially when we're the only ones that end up feeling bad for the victims or believe that we can do better. Not saying to just go off killing other living things for no reason, just that more thought should be put into modern "philosophies"
@@anthonylongoria2638 my big ol' dog is sorry when she accidentally gives me a good one during play, so contrary to what you said, animals Can feel bad for inflicting pain. that was my only little criticism.
you're right: animals are not human. but humans are of course animals
@@anthonylongoria2638 Animals do what they do because of their instincts and because they need to survive and protect themselves. It's nature. Humans, as they are able to think and making decisions however, do decide to do bad things and it's not necessarily even for reasons to survive. So animals are better creatures than humans most of the time.
Skooled Zone,
You should place a Mutfruit on the teachers desk for every set you build for this series.
Sincerely,
Jennifer M. Montgomery
Haha, like an apple on the desk. I'll have to remember that for the video after next.
A tip for repairing the Castle walls from another video:
You don't need to proximity-place any pillars or scaffolding to grab the pre-built wall. Just group-pick up the wall near the top edge, and you can work it into place by standing on the battlements. The height or location you grab an object at in build-mode changes how it is held in the air when you move it around. Some trial and error will get you a nice fit on the wall. You can then fill in small gaps at the top with the 1/4 size flat floor pieces.
Man, I forgot how restrictive the vanilla workshop mode was! Hopefully the next Fallout will be more forgiving to consoles.
You can get dlcs
Oh how disappointed you must be
Before the DLC came out, people would use the fence posts that are in the wire fence menu. If you'll notice, everything in that menu has a duplicate. One half of the set can clip through the ground, while the other half cannot. Knowing the difference and using that to your advantage when pillar glitching can be helpful. For instance, if you DON'T want an object to clip through the ground, but stay right on top of it. Other objects that sit on a normal floor, like the ashtray can be used for this method as well.
An expanded variation of the pillar glitch involves measuring the homes at Sanctuary Hills (4 x 2.5 for some). Build the floor with foundations, add a normal wall (from either the metal, wood or concrete sets), and then add a ceiling that matches the floor. Now you can pillar glitch the entire assembly into on of the houses. This method allows you to 1) make the houses count as having roofs for sleeping under and covers up hole in the roof , 2) Let's you place a floor that covers up most of the debris and leaves in most of the houses, and 3) allows you to place walls in areas to cover up the gaps in the house walls. You can then go further and pillar glitch in some glass pieces to cover the windows. To finish this off you can now place a door into the existing doorway. But, be warned, only one house lets you snap doors to the frame. That house is the yellow one that has the workbench outside of it.
How do you get doors into the other frames?
Place a door frame on a level piece of ground. Choose your door and snap it into place. Place your pillar tool of choice, as close to the door as possible. Now, remove the door frame. Now group select. This allows you to place the door wherever you want. And, if you don't have ocd already, trying to align a door to a frame in this way, will definitely get you there!
As a side note. You can also just pillar glitch a wall with a doorway already in it, into a wall. Then snap the door in place. It just doesn't work everywhere.
I love how you expanded on the principles of the pillar glitch. ill have to use this from now on
👍
It's been a few years - good to know these videos are still around so we can refresh....Cheers from Australia!
there is an easy solution to stop the pillar popping.
1. select the pillar tool.
2. cancel the selection.
3. group select the pillar tool.
this should reset everything and get rid of the popping. :)
In addition to that, selecting the pillar tool as far above ground as you can, can help minimize the jumping effect.
Good tip, also getting close to the item and looking down when you select it can help too.
Really appreciate it guys. All those tips worked! #nomoreheadaches ;)
Hey Paul, you have a good understanding of the mechanics of this game. So, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! You have a few of us that follow you , that are familiar with the settlement building constrictions. So if you have a query on how things works, reach out. I'm still working on a game save that I can submit for your contest. But, if you have questions, we are here to help. I know you've helped me a couple of times.
On a side note. I'm just curious. Has anyone had a CTD (crash to desktop) bug when attempting wiring? Mainly concerning the contraptions workshop addition of logic switches. I ran into as crash the other day, when I was trying to reconstruct the vault 42 automated rad cleaner setup. I haven't retried yet to see what happened, due to having a wiring bug while I had mods running. I hope that this isn't related.
Another side note. . . . Paul, how is the best way to contact you. I would love to submit a build for your contest, but, I'm afraid that my situation may compromise my entry. Either way, I'd still like to submit something, just for show and tell.
Court, thanks for adding your value to the channel! I consider myself a master builder but there's _always_ more to learn. I'll be the first to admit that. I love learning new things from viewers as much as they might learn new things from me. That's what makes the Fallout 4 building community so cool. And I've met a lot of those cool people just in the last month alone.
I haven't experienced any crash issues with the logic gates but the logic gates as well as the auto-arch are both videos coming up in my black diamond lessons.
As for the NMSC challenge, I'm looking forward to seeing what you and others in the community come up with! There's no limitation on expertise. There's no rush either. At the midpoint of the deadline, I'll put up a dedicated contest rules video. In that video, I'll explain the best ways to submit links, such as through the Skooled Zone website.
Fallout 4 sat on my shelf for awhile but im back again in 2022, ive watched alot of your videos awhile back, learned alot and is a great refresher getting back into it. Thank you for all of your content, and even more so appreciate the in depth explanations and examples, subscribed 😁
Got my series x for tax holiday in august and loaded fallout 4 on it lol. I swear it looks optimized more on it than the default pc version.
Ditto...can't get enough of Paul! Hope his script project is going well!!
Never even knew about this glitch until now. Thanks Paul!
Glad to help!
Had to pause the video for a min., and just say, you are very talented at teaching. I've spent all day watching your no-mods shop class vids, (or at least the first few). I've learned so much, and your delivery is great! I pre-ordered this game, and never knew, I knew so little. I hope by the time you read this, you are making a ton of caps doing youtube vids.
Welcome to the Skooled Zone! I have way to many hours playing Fallout 4...lol
Even so, I often find myself back in the Skooled Zone, either to freshen up on settlement build tips or gather creative inspiration ideas...
His content is as relevant now as in the beginning...
Lots of appreciation and love to the Skooled Zone channel and to its creator...💜
Returning student here to refresh and get recertifications in case wasteland building becomes unionized this year!
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I'm on a role... Video after video after video. Absolutely amazing ideas, concepts, delivery and narration. Brilliant!
Been playing Fallout 4 since its release and I am very late to this channel.
But I've still learned tonnes and am now rebuilding my settlements.
I find a lot of gamer youtubers really irritating, but not you, sir.
Love the cheery delivery and demeanor, the professionalism of your videos and the concise delivery of information.
Really appreciate that man!
I started watching these videos to learn about F4 building, then kept watching vids I didn't actually need just because of how it makes my day how happy this dude is and how he laughs all the time!
I really like this channel
Very helpful as usual, I’m about to take the castle, mainly to get away from our Minutemen friend and his constant nagging, so tips on wall repairs are very handy. Thanks again Paul. 😀
What I did before learning any sort of glitches (not even that long ago) was, I used the concrete WALLS. My goal was to fix the walls while having little interior sections to get creative with, plus I had the smaller wall sizes to work with.
Surprisingly I fully repaired them, completely seamlessly.
Very well structured video, I love how you introduced it by first explaining the other "glitches" that went into it. I learned a lot, I love these.
Everytime I come here my settlers gain happiness, great guide!
Watching these again to get more ideas for my new playthrough.
Watching in 2024 because the show made me want to replay fallout 4. I never used this glitch before lol
Well you're in luck. There are a ton of cool things you can do: skooledzone.com/nomods
This video really helped out. I had been struggling trying to get some of the wall fixtures to sit low enough in my vault to look right, but nothing was working. The main one I had an issue with was the sinks. On a vault wall, the sink sits about halfway up the wall, not even close to realistic. Using this trick, I was able to place the sink exactly where I wanted it. Thank you!
Very cool Ben. And to take the sinks a step further check out this video: th-cam.com/video/qIbwd5wZViY/w-d-xo.html
I have found that when you are doing the Pillar Glitch with items that also sink, you sometimes need to move your "pillar" up or down a little to prevent the hopping issue you were having. I only notice it with other sinkable items, but it is consistently an issue for me. Great video, and I love the conduit idea too.
this aint the first video from you ive seen others and i decided to sub because after two years you still make fallout vids
Cool. Welcome to the Zone! 👍
2024and i'm coming to these videos
This made me so happy. I fixed the Castle for my first use of the pillar glitch. Awesome
2024 and I'm just now finding your videos. Played FO4 since release and I gotta say my attempts at building settlements has been pitiful at best, your videos are making me realize how much I didn't know. Thanks for the series 👍🏽
Subscribed. I've just started diving deeper into no mod settlement building and have learned some useful things from your videos over the last couple of days. Thanks!
👍 Welcome to the Zone!
Decided to get into FO4 again now that the DLC's where discounted. I wanted to get back to improving my settlement, i came across your channel while looking for building stuffs and I am so glad I did! you are legit one of the nicest youtubers out there and you explain everything so clear! keep it up mah dude! you earned yourself a sub!
Really kind of you to say, and welcome aboard!
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Select the middle spiked pole a bit higher, so you can lower it more. Fixes the raising problem. But before that, do what Tree Myers says to do.
The glitch to get the spiked raider poles to work is select the item that doesn't work on its own then de-select it that makes it the last placed item then group select the item that you just worked with... For some reason it updates the item to its actual position which then allows you to place it without it glitching up..
What an amazing channel
Great tips, as always. I'm really enjoying this series.
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Finally getting serious about settlement building. I play on PC modded to the gills but damn dude these are great pointers for taking it to the next level.
Thank David and modders can definitely still use all these tips and tricks! :)
Excellent job of the explanation of how to utilize a technique with a thorough demonstration as opposed to simply a "this is how I did it" video. It brings back some of the possible work around tools that I have long since forgotten. Thanks.
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Thank you for the great content and not swearing like a trucker on crack like some of the TH-camr’s out there, cheers bud.
Cheers back! 😊
Great video! I really like the new classroom, too! I don't always learn something new, but I'm always entertained none-the-less.
I'm looking forward to the next class!
I never knew about the pillar glitch...you just made much building SOOOO much easier...things I've wanted to do but never could...now I can. Especially with, yes, a few mods i do use, like Place Anything...THANK YOU.
Right on, Mia. Yeah, my lessons should still help even if you use mods. :)
This is a channel and a dude, dedicated and awesome who made history.
"Murder hole". Hahaha. I love it! I am really enjoying this series, Paul... and in combination with watching your settlement contest's entries, the creative juices are starting to flow. 👍
Why the quotes? That's the proper name/position for it
@@anthonylongoria2638 I was wondering the same thing.
Another great video paul. You keep showing me more and more about the building tools in fallout 4.
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That bird 🐦 saying was so cute. Save two 🐦 🐦 s with one stone throw it at the tree so birds fly away and the hunter can't shoot them lol I love that....
Hunter : turns around and shoots you
A bird can be shot while flying you know
@@jackhopler6833 Shh he made a wholesome saying that's not the point.
Subscribed - need to go back and like all the videos I've watched. You're refreshing - I don't remember the last time I've heard someone ENJOYING making their videos as much as you clearly do. Great work!
Hey really appreciate it. And welcome aboard! =)
DAMN... I never knew and never even thought of this... I make a row across the top and spend SO SO SO much time linning the blocks up on the bottom so I can do this.
Thank you... Now it kinda sucks cause now I want to tear my castle as well as my Spectacle Island build apart and do them again
"Save two birds with one stone" might be my new favourite saying. .
Paul, I'm a huge fan and all of your videos helped me with my gameplay. I tried to do everything that you did in your walkthrough but I'm still waiting for you to continue your trivia walkthrough
Hey thanks! Don't worry, I haven't abandoned my trivia walkthroughs. The No Mods Shop Class is only a mini-series. Next month I'll start working my walkthroughs back into the mix. More explained in an upcoming announcements video!
I just wanted to say thank you for all the lessons you've taught me. From the rug glitch to how to rotate the pieces your trying place! Thank YOU SO much!
You bet Brian. Thanks for watching!
@@SkooledZone I tried rebuilding the Castle walls myself by just doing it and it looked ok but nothing I'd submit for a prize. Then i did it like you did in the video and it looks amaze-balls! Thanks again! Do you have a skilled zone Facebook page? I'm always talking you up on the 'Fallout 4 Settlement building' page.
@@briandamrath4912 Thanks Brian. I don't have a FB page but I'm on Twitter and Instagram. =)
Wow I have just watched some of your videos and will now stray to do more on my builds With the help you have shown it will be so much more fun. I wasn't going to bother with the builds as tilt was soooo much hassle. So thanks and I will subscribe to your channel. Big thumbs up. I don't usually subscribe but you have this down and your not screaming in my hear lol. Good job.
Sorry for the typos did proof read it :(
Hey cool, David. Welcome aboard!
Thanks Skooled Zone, I've become a pro at building myself, but now i'm an expert with these exploits!! Great Videos!!
Right on 👍
I have played fallout 4 over and over since it was released on Xbox , PC and now I’m playing it again on ps5. I have done all the quests about like 5 times now but my best time was the very first time before any TH-cam videos or even mods were out. When everything was new and you had to really experience it yourself. It was so much fun and I spent hundreds of more hours on that first run.
Thanks you so much now i can now bulid better things without snapping and I bulid everything from no mods shop class. I never use mods because i want achievements. And another thank you som much
Love all your videos! So inspiring and really pumps me up to keep exploring and adventuring! I’ve learned so much from you, which has made my gameplay experience even better(:
One thing I'd add for anyone who watches this. You can try putting some scaffoldings on both sides of the shack foundations to make it look more like it's under construction. For me at least it helps take the eyes away from the shack foundations not having lines like the cinder blocks
thank you for explaining group select. it has confused me for awhile
For that "glitch" with the group select popping up, select one piece (changes focus to that piece) then cancel/de-select. (PS is "x" for select & "o" for cancel, XB is "A" & "B") then simply use that piece as your group select focus. I use mods (mostly aesthetic/building mods) but still love your videos & use a lot of the techniques that you showcase & explain so well
I see that others have commented with a solution, but the *reason* why things pop up when you do the group select is that you have handled some other object before grabbing the object you want as the focus for your selected group.
In your case you handled the shack foundations before those raider poles.
When you then start the group select, it follows the placement of the previous object, i.e. the shack foundation.
That is why you have to first select your focus object normaly, release it and then group select in order for you to get the desired result. But if the focus object is the last object you placed, this isn't a problem.
Great explanation!
Skooled Zone Thanks! I haven't seen any videos on the subject, but it fits with my experimentation. I'm sure others have figured it out also.
It is annoying if you don't know what's going on. If, for instance you are trying to move a row of concrete foundations, you might need to select the last placed foundation and either cancel the move or replace it. After that, the group select should function as it's supposed to. Sometimes, however, you will need to select your "pillar" and either delete it or replace it. This seems to be connected to a group of items that were "snapped" too close to an object that was placed in a "red zone". For instance, if I place a foundation at Starlight drive-in, next to the screen, and then snapped another foundation next to it. The second foundation may not have been able to be placed normally, due to being too close to the screen, or too much ground interfering. That's when you want to try and select the upper-most portion of your grouping, to keep it from "jumping", or turning "red" when you try and move it. Keep in mind that uneven ground, in certain circumstances, is just another "object, and not ground. Small hills with trees are an example of this. They are not part of the ground. Rather they were place onto of the "ground". This is where having certain mods like "scrap everything" comes in handy. It let's you see what is actually considered "ground". This is also the case with certain decals, such as leaf or debris piles. I know this is a "no mods" tutorial, but having an understanding of how the game mechanics work, helps indefinitely. I gamed unmodded until just recently, and the mods I did/do use, showed me a little bit about how the game handles certain things. And there is no harm in knowing how the system works, to enable you to work around the limitations. This is how the rug/pillar glitch and settlement limit glitches were found, after all.
I just want to take a moment to express that your Jamaica Plains set looks awesome. I'm definitely digging the schoolhouse vibe going on there.
Thx! 👍
Watching this video in Jamaica Plain!
Hey Skooled Zone! I think I have good solution to the whole popping up, sometimes that happens to me. I usually bring whatever is sunken down into the ground all the way up, and have it sorta sitting on top of the ground or above the ground just a tiny bit. Group select your item and sink it down from there. I know there might be other solutions out there though, I hope that helps!
One of the things I like about FO4 is that they took Boston and nearly made the exact replica of it before they put all the highways underground. All the suburbs, and regions of the named city in this vanilla portion of the game are real areas of the city.
Definitely. I talk a lot about that during my trivia walkthroughs. And if you're a baseball fan, you'll like this video: th-cam.com/video/8A29WKefmVA/w-d-xo.html
You did a great job explaining everything!
14:18 Sure its realy nice to have that cap closed up entirly, and I did it years ago. But if you already build that wall and you decide to do the Minuteman missions afterall it will be a big problem. Ronnie Shaw needs that cap while she explaining the working of the artilery. Somehow she needs the whole cap. She will walk underneed the top layer though. 3 solutions;
-1. Never play Minuteman. As you mentioned.
-2. Build after you did that mission.
-3 Just buld a bridge on top using floors or whatever you want to use.
so wholesome and learning at the same time
Woah. The Castle looks so alien to me now that I've set up my main settlement there. It doesn't have patched walls or my giant apartment building or anything. It kinda looks sad, honestly :(
Thankyou for this, I managed to make a smart little powered door safe room in sanctuary thanks to this video and the one about the wire glitch to keep my valuables safe
Awesome! And if you want to be able to open the door from either side, this video might be useful: th-cam.com/video/syC2ACXvwm0/w-d-xo.html
@@SkooledZone Thanks I'll be sure to check it out, I think from the description I already ended up using the xor gate setup
@@SkooledZone Pinned comment I mean, just about to start watching the video you recommended
group select as close to the ground as possible that don't just affect group selection it will do that on any item you select when on pc
How to save two birds.. XD you earned your thumbs up right there, goofball.
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Hi Paul, another homerun video. Should have used junk fences with the pillar to show to them flat the ground areas where ground isn't flat and touching junk fences. To prevent objects group selected from popping up, group select them clicking at at the top of the object so your looking up to start with then down when moving. Can you do a lesson on settlement building object size management. Let me explain. For the longest time I've used the settlement size glitch to build more then the settlement size allows you to, however once I start doing this I lose FPS and sometimes start crashing even if I haven't gone over the limit much. Recently I've started noticing what certain billable objects take size wise. Like concrete is the worst because it takes the absolute most space settlement size bar wise. Foundation takes the most of all objects that I can tell. So when building I avoid foundation when I don't need it, like in the middle of a building I'll use matching wood floor. Settlement size management is something I've never seen any TH-camr cover.
‘I know I’m a goofy dude, but I don’t mind it’ hell yeah brother 😎
For the raider spike problem you got, select the one your going to group select with separately, move it cancel it out. Then and when it pops back to where it was you should be able to group select and be able to move it up and down without it popping back up into the air.
2022 and I'm still watching ur videos, best guides out there by a long shot
2024 still here rewatching.
I was thinking how to let my provisioners pass the Castle's gate but enemies don't (just for estatic) without me opening anything for them. Nor closing.
I was thinking about a powered door that disconnects if a guard activates the siren, that would cut it's power, closing it.
But decided to just make a long runway for the visitors, using wired fence. A long corridor, that turns back, again long then turns back and again long.
Let the super mutants use my runway, lol.
Along my turrets.
A way I’ve found that sometimes helps with the height issue on the group select, is that I’ll select a spot higher up on the object.
So instead of having my cursor at “eye height”, I’ll select the pillar or whatever within about 1/3 of the height (from the top). I hope that makes sense 😅
I think it was 2021 sometime when I finally got into fallout 4, and I’m super grateful for your videos! You’ve given me so much helpful knowledge!
Thanks Amanda. We figured it out in a separate video: th-cam.com/video/D76HR039mDI/w-d-xo.html
@@SkooledZone yay! Thank you for linking the video, I’ll definitely go watch it today!!!
If you put down a prefab stairwell and put a floor on it, you can put your "chassis" on it, remove the floor and put another scaffolding under it so you can pillar glitch things to the second floor.. Was trying to figure out how to get a doorway in a settlement while I was fixing its wall on the second floor.
Paul, how do you push all of the foundations forward while standing still (20:10)?
I am using an Xbox controller on a PC.
Long answer but it's all in this video: th-cam.com/video/sDza5oblD1g/w-d-xo.html
Rugs for horizontal placement and concrete pillars for vertical placement. “Select all”works well too as long as you have no foundation pieces connected to it. Carry your entire build wherever you want
2022 and still enjoying this content no matter how many times I watch it all
I've been fascinated by the previous three consecutive videos. The hippie vibe is strong with this one XD But! Thank you Skooled Zone for all your hard work sharing the knowledge!
Glad you enjoyed the videos Hunter, but "hippie vibe"? LOL. I'm pretty far from a traditional hippie. I have short hair, I'm very clean, and I'm not into drugs or new age stuff. What you're probably hearing through my voice is that I'm a happy, chillaxed person that has fun making these videos. Although I do say "Love, Peace, Knowledge" at the end of my Homeroom Announcements videos, because you know, the opposite of that is "Hate, War, and Ignorance" and who wants that? 😏
Right! That's the thing about a vibe, it doesn't have to be the full thing. I'm glad you clarified, but I wasn't accusing you of the traditional drugs or new age anything, definitely mostly just commenting on the extreme chillaxed-ness, friend :)
Yeah man, I didn't take offense or anything. Just thought it was funny. 😎
Always good to interact with a fellow that can share a laugh, at himself or otherwise. :D You've got yourself a subscriber sir.
Right on bro. And welcome to the Zone!
I found to keep the pop up when group selecting is to grab the pillar first and dont group select, just grab and select just the pillar then unselect it , then grab and group select. It usually always works to fix that pop up and I found it depends on where your cursor is on the pillar when you group select, for me the higher up the better. I don't know if it will work for everyone but works for me.
When you were group selecting the raider spikes, instead of aiming at the middle of the group, point and aim your cursor at the highest point at the top of the spikes then when you look down while they're selected the group will go with it your cursor downwards. it's so much easier to sink them that way.
Actually, here's the true solution: th-cam.com/video/D76HR039mDI/w-d-xo.html
I used this trick to build walls at the castle. It's not perfect, but it keeps the enemy out and there's only one way in.
@29:00 just add 2 or 3 more scaffolding units instead of the conduit ( :
This is a great series. I put some in my playlist
Instead of using the shack floor blocks, couldn't you save some mats by using regular thickness concrete walls, leaving a gap between the walls that you could bridge with a floor between them? 18:20 why not sink them to the level you want first, then put a toolbox next to them and use that as your group selection hook to drag them into the doorway?
14:39 my spouse and i like to say "feed two birds with one hand"
That issue you're having where the item you're group selecting jumps up: Try single selecting the itme you're going to use for the group select. Then cancel the single select. Then group select using that same item.
It happens sometimes with the pillar glitch too, when you move the item you're glitching before you group select it. It's fixed by single selecting the pillar, cancelling, and then doing the group select.
Another great video! Thanks.
Thanks back.
Skooled Zone you should wear the minors helmet and fashionable glasses! It would be super cool if you would! Thanks!
Skooled Zone I fell like you would be that one cool teacher at a college
You can build the walls pretty solidly without the pillar glitch by building a bridge over the top of the walls and then replacing it a piece at a time with the cement blocks. That's how I've always done it on the completely vanilla version of the game. Plus it's good for navigating and building on top of the wall. I even built some nice hoardings up there.
Doing the walls at the castle us the stairwell with the small platform to add the the cement foundations. Also you can completely foundation the holes. Just takes some adjusting. Lol 5 years later.
Great work love your videos
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and im only just discovering you now haha I wanted to do a no mods playthrough normally I use the place everwhere mod and such but yer. this will save me so much raging haha thanks.
You are literally a Master Builder.
Thanks man. Really appreciate that! 👊
Great series. Very easy to follow, well described and upbeat and fun to watch. Cheers.
2021 and I'm just finding this channel a maybe a month ago
Hopefully they still have some of these techniques and more with fallout 5 if and when it reveals
I got a nice settlement to share with the SkoolZone, No Mods of Course and this is going to blow minds as well. So if I could share I would be delighted to show my work. I call it the NoModTidings.