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Things I Wish I Knew Before Building in Fallout 4 - Tenpines Bluff Ep. 1

CC Renovates Fallout (formerly CryingCube)

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Most players open the workshop and start building. Two hours later, supplies are gone and settlers are sleeping outside. The problem isn't the build - it's the plan.

In this episode, I walk you through the five steps I use before placing a single structure. This is the framework I apply to every settlement build - and today we're putting it to work at Tenpines Bluff.

If you missed any of the episodes in this series, here is the playlist:
Episode 1 - Planning a settlement Things I Wish I Knew Before Building in Fa...
Episode 2 - Renovating the house Repair the Tenpines Ruined House - No Mods...
Episode 3 - Fixing the shack and farm Tenpines Bluff - From Shack to Refuge - A ...

What is covered in this episode:
• How to read a settlement before you build
• How to mark your boundaries and identify usable space
• How to define your settlement's purpose
• How to determine exactly what your settlers need
• How to design a layout before construction begins

This is Episode 1 of a four-part Fallout 4 settlement renovation series at Tenpines Bluff - no mods, no glitches, all platforms.

In this video:
00:00 Introduction
01:23 Step 1: Identify the Settlement Features
05:33 Step 2: Mark the Boundaries
06:38 Step 3: Define the Purpose
07:27 Step 4: Define the Needs
09:42 Step 5: Design the Layout & Preview
10:50 Outro

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Music Credits
Asher Fulero - Forest Lullabye
DJ Arek - Simmer
Spazz Cardigan - Rinse and Repeat
Saldbysed- Sangria
Otis McDonald - Hello Mr. Princeton
RKVC - Victim to Victor

20 Comments

@jimmierodgers2397 2 weeks ago

Your videos are excellent, Thank you for taking the time to make them.

@philt4346 4 weeks ago

The style and tone of the author is lore-appropriate, indeed could do even more to recall the instructional animations and skits of the Nuclear Age.

@sanndro1306 1 month ago

Seus vídeos são fantásticos, bem planejado e bastante detalhado. Adoro o modo construção do fallout, apesar dos seus milhares de bugs e restrições. Mas acho que isso é justamente a mágica do jogo, vencer esses desafios de forma criativa, e criatividade você tem muita. Utilizei várias de suas dicas, parabens! Espero que seu canal evolua e consiga o sucesso merecido! Até a próxima, obrigado.

@gizzardpuke362 1 month ago (edited)

Very interesting. I like the idea of walking the entire settlement first to gain a broad perspective of what you're wanting to achieve. Now as a mod user there's no such thing as 'unscrappable' for me and I can level most settlements into nothing but a large area of flat dirt if I so chose - but I usually, though not always, prefer to try and renovate what's already there and work with existing infrastructure.
Setting up the supply line in advanced is a must and solid advice for everyone, and it's something I've learned to do habitually. I use a dedicated settlement (usually Red Rocket) as a 'settler generator' which always has a 'supply' of 10 settlers ready for me to relocate, or set up supply lines as needed.
I'd be interested to see how you handle the notoriously tricky Coastal Cottage. I know how I do it - but my version invariably scraps all the ruined stuff, levels the ground and completely rebuilds from the ground up - the only thing I keep intact is the garage, which I like to restore completely.
Edit: Ignore above just seen you already did Coastal Cottage! Doh!

@ronburrelljr7077 1 month ago

Love the music 🎶 on this video, kinda reminds me of how is it made show

@tubedude1880 1 month ago

Great video, settlement building broken down to a science is very helpful

@Freedom4Alaska 1 month ago

"Pillars and rugs, friends. Pillars and rugs."

@madcapmagician3130 2 months ago

Tenpines has always been a settlement I sort of ignore after completing Preston’s quest, this has inspired me to have another look on my next play through

@woodysmith2681 2 months ago

First comment is that I love that you also use the miners' helmets for your supply lines. So much easier to identify in the dark (and I use a True Dark mod that really makes it dark at night).
Second is a question about whether you use knowledge of raid spawn points when designing defenses?
Finally is whether you use nearby random encounter points (the railroad and the house nearby) as factors for design?

@hansmost 3 months ago

How supply lines work and how to best set them up would be nice

@scotthurr5925 3 months ago

I know this is using a glitch but I like sneaking a lit campfire inside the unlit ones.

@Bryan-L 3 months ago

Will there be further videos on building up Tenpines?

@rodneyrhodus1505 3 months ago

Id welcome any videos you want to do. I love your videos.

@chrysmurphy3974 3 months ago

Wouldn't you need at least 12 defense? IIRC your defense should always be at least equal to the total of food & water production, if its less than this happiness will decline.

@justbeans23 3 months ago

Thank you so much for doing this Cube! I know I’m very very late to the party (especially after I asked for this 😅) but this was absolutely fascinating.
I can completely relate to the whole ‘build a bunch and then delete it all’ school of thought/planning 😂
Marking areas out with those posts is a genius shout. I’m definitely going to be doing that from now on. I like the extra added step of marking out the pathing/interaction area for Lucas. I’d have never even thought to consider that.

Awesome video Cube, great tips in here and thanks very much for helping us all think a bit better about how to start building some place new 😊

@theweddingsinger1970 4 months ago

I'm never going to stop playing this game

@drsybaris 4 months ago

I've done many playthroughs of Ten Pines in my thousands of hours in the wastes of Massachusetts. I must say, looking forward to your solutions to it. Building there has always been two big height limit buildings off barn foundations around the shack and ruined house, with a catwalk connecting them. Getting the catwalk to sync up will haunt me to my grave.

@drsybaris 4 months ago

Amazing! Oh, I know "the stare" all too well. Mind you, it's usually an overhead view from 100 feet up for me (courtesy of tcl or tfc console commands), these days.

@g1zmo271 4 months ago

I have to be honest, I've never liked this settlement location, but seeing this build/layout... I'm thinking I may have treated this location to harshly 😅 What a great build, and tip on marking the boundaries 👍