

Radios and TVs are good happy makers for Settlers. Add a bathroom, kitchen, and living room. Just like your character, they need a place to keep their things. Make sure to add storage such as dressers. Still, each Settler’s home should consist of a decent bed and a Comfy Pillow. Normally, I just build apartments for several good reasons but your game, your choice. So, in order to attract potential residents, make their homes nice and functional. Sure, you could throw the first bed against a wall and call it done but think about this, are you a beloved ruler of the people or a Slum Lord? All jokes aside, Settlers won’t stick around if they show up and their options for shelter in your settlement are a cross between a dumpster and a dead Bloatfly.

With that hope in mind, we will move on to what we meant by the term, Suitable Housing. Since it is our hope that you started this series of guides with the Fallout 4: Settlement Building Guide, which means you should have a fully functional start to your kingdom. So, if you maximize your Charisma, you could get 20 settlers for settlements, provided you have the beds to do so in each settlement. In addition to this, each level of Charisma that you have allows for an additional settler. Hang on to thirty-one for a second while we explain what determines the population really quick.Įach settlement is allowed a base number of 10 settlers. There are 31 Settlements in, “Base Game," (Base Game: A game without any downloadable content: DLC). His advice on paying attention to the details of every aspect of life pays beautifully in this game. Slow down when playing Fallout 4 and enjoy the finer points of the game, like Settler A. McAllister once said during a conversation we had. “You can’t see a blade of grass driving by in the car like you would if you were standing there.” – L. There is just way too much to enjoy in Fallout 4. DO NOT RUSH THROUGH THE GAME! Take your snail moving time. Even with the beacon being shut off, settlers still showed up.

I was working on my defenses in Sanctuary and thought, "I'll go ahead and build a Settler Beacon but shut it off until I'm done." Boy, was I wrong. I discovered a serious issue with Fallout 4.

Leader Perk 2 requires Charisma to be at Level 6. Most players familiar with this have found 26 Settlers to work well enough. What this means if you want 32 Settlers, cut way back on Object Usage or your game will crash. Settlers count towards graphic usage and are measured against Settlement Size.
