The irony is that here, one as the Sole Survivor does what The Mechanist tried to do: flood the Commonwealth with an army of murderbots that only kill bad guys.

mechanist's lair, otherwise known as Preston Garvey's prison cell

I've come up with a new favorite form of settlement security. Simply, when I know the settlement is going to fall under attack, I summon all settlers to a central building, lock it down, and then turn off power to my Beta Wave Emitter. Of course yes, that means I've got docile Deathclaws or Radscorpions wandering around my settlements.

You ever seen a bunch of bandits try to fight off a small army of deathclaws, or radscorpions? I just call it feeding time.

I do wish there were cages for Gatorclaws though.

so my Crushinator is the one bringing happiness down?

damn.

I approve of making Jezebel into a flying trashcan. :P

Nothing wrong with an army of Minigun-toting Robobrains rolling across the Commonwealth.  Sure, it makes the Minutemen look like scrubs, and even the Brotherhood of Steel is jealous of your production output, but that's a small price to pay for the betterment of the region.

"Recruitment bacon" should really be a thing.

Maybe record during the day

Making robots in to provisioners broke my game. I've made 22 maxed sentry's as my provisioners and they keep resetting to basic protectrons without any armor. Very frustrating, game breaking stuff.

Now I'm conflicted. My perfectionist OCD side originally drove me to set up supply lines in a circuitous route. Then I saw your video on supply line formations and you mentioned having them all come from the same spot would cause more traffic and make the area seem more alive. That's something I had never thought of, and my new plan became to make Bunker Hill the hub of the Commonwealth. Now I've seen this video, never having realized the Mechanist's Lair has no real use as a full settlement, AND it comes with that office full of little robobrain clerks that really give it that logistics center feel. I am now very heavily conflicted between these two formats.

Your radiation level hurts my soul

As a handy tip for y'all, Graygarden already has a bunch of robots, so it also makes for a great provisioning hub. Maybe let Graygarden supply the west while the Mechanist's Lair supplies the East? Maybe theme each one so that every robot from Graygarden is a Mr. Handy and every robot from the ML is a robobrain? I'd love to hear crazier ideas, too.

See, now I'd go full nerd and give each one a code-name and unique color.

I don't know why but the sight of a fully loaded brahmin taking off running is hilarious.

I only use the highest quality robots for my supply lines. I mass produce sentries with dual laser gatlings that just roam the waste. I have randomly encountered them many times just devastating raiders.

this is where my recruitment beacon would be... IF I HAD ONE!!

This is the first thing I did when I finished the dlc. I made the whole fleet the same sans color and gave them beep click voices. They don't complain or fuss. All they do is toot their horn when they float past me LOL

It's the perfect use for the robots. Why risk the lives of my Minutemen, or God forbid farmers, when I can just send a fully armed and armored sentrybot? Though there is that bug that resets the bot back to it's basic form, which gets pricey after having to re-build em a few times.

Recruitment bacon. The most powerful settler attractor.

Recruitment bacon would work out great for sure!

"Move to my settlement and you get free bacon every day!" -> people gonna storm the settlement