So, unfortunately, Sony has restrictions on mods that use external assets and scripting. But, don't let it get you down, we still have over 5,000 mods to choose from on Playstation. Some ps alternatives to these mods are:
Simple Settlers - adds the variety of different settlers.
Workshop Decoration Pack - gives a lot of pre-decorated shelves and tables, along with other goodies, but also has decorated vendor stalls.
Makeshift Furniture Pack - very similar to the previous mod, but with a more scrappy vibe.
QwaPa - a place anywhere mod. This mod basically gives you a "magic" place anywhere stick. Place the stick next to the object you wanna place anywhere and a pop up window opens asking if you want to attach the stick. It also comes with a "make static" tool for decorating with items you've found.
Scrap That Settlement - a great scrapping mod. Not too powerful, not too weak. You can scrap most things, and you get resources for them (i.e. scrapping a leaf pile gets you fertilizer, and scrapping debris gets you concrete). There's also an add on for scrapping skeletons and even live things, so be careful you don't scrap Mama Murphy😂.
USO - Unlocked Settlement Objects. Gives you a metric butt ton of items to build and decorate with.
I personally don't recommend ocDecorator, unless you only have 1 or 2 settlement building mods. It is a very large mod, in the sense that it adds every junk item that you could pick up from the entire map. So, it will take away some items from other mods to make room, there's only so much room for things in the build menu, so when it gets overloaded, it will dump other items. If you get the QwaPa mod, that I mentioned earlier, it has the "make static" tool, so you drop the item, make it static, then place it in workshop mode. Although, if you've downloaded the mods from this list, you'll very rarely need it.

One of my biggest gripes with fallout games is that houses always remain rundown.  Its 200 years after the bombs. In established settlements, buildings would be repaired, painted, have at least rudimentary plumbing, etc.  There wouldn't be trash or broken furniture on the floors, etc.

For me I think the most important Settlement mod is the Transfer Settlement. It allows save and restore settlement we have built. Once I built my perfect settlements, I don't want to rebuild every one again from scratch every time I restart a new game. This mod is a life saver.

Another MUST HAVE mod for Settlements is, “Quieter Settlements”.  It turns the ambient sound of generators and turrets down significantly.  The stock game levels just gave me such a headache.

That's what the Bell is for???
Omg you just saved me so much time running around the settlement trying to find people. 😂🎉

That Minigun interior decoration session cracked me up. Perfect!

I wish that the shop emporiums actually CLOSED at night when they’re not being operated. The doors on the front and the back clearly are meant to close. And the mod adding in decorations and items into the doors would make a lot of send for them to close and lock up before “clocking out” at the end of the day.

You did a fabulous job on this video. Very well explained, to the point, and demonstrated. And the mods, are excellent picks.

I'm delighted you chose to mention Sim Settlements, I love that mod, I don't have time to build individual homes for my settlers so I just assign them to a housing plot, and they build their own homes, with their own decorations, beds, chairs, tables etc.
Sim Settlements 2 is a much more complex mod that introduces everything through quests, but I just want all of the options right from the off, so Sim Settlements 1 is my go to mod for that.

Most settlements already have their attack spawn points outside the boundaries anyway. If you are referring to enemies already being inside the settlement when you fast travel to it, that is meant to happen.

The game takes into account how long it would take you to get from wherever you are when the alert pops up to the defending settlement itself. Then it essentially fast forwards events at the settlement so the attackers have already breached the defenses when you spawn in or when you would "arrive"

I've been using scrap everything. Couldn't live without it. A nice side benefit is that as you scrap the junk in the settlement, your build allowance also frees up.

15:50 not wanting to navigate menus or have the creations club submenu overridden by OCDecorator (without having to also install USO), i sought an alternative and found it in Make Static - Decorator Tool by tim-timman... although it's discontinued it still functions as-intended... place an object by the vanilla method (yeah a bit of a chore, but rotations help)... use the replaced button to mark it for static placement, pop open your pip-boy, use the option in MISC, you'll see it pop out and back into place if successful (may take more than one try) and voila, now it's a static object... what's great about this is that it works for absolutely any object in the game that can be dropped & picked up... and doesn't require another placement 'fix' mod to allow items on shelves, etc. that OCDecorator by itself can't resolve

Man, the level of professionalism you show in your comment section is impressive! I was just reading through some of the comments, and you responded to the rudest ones with the nicest tone ever! I subbed just for that, and it was a great video. I play on Playstation, so most of these mods I can't use, but I was checking out the video because I can typically find a Playstation alternative to a lot of mods.

Thanks to @PetyrC90 for bringing it to my attention that there might be issues with Sim Settlements and the Next-Gen update. Please comment below or reply here if you tried to install it and let us know what issues you are having. Make sure not to save over any of your games until you have thoroughly tested your mods! There is a newer slightly more complicated version of the mod called Sim Settlements 2 you can get here: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/47976

The primary difference between Sim Settlements 1 and 2, other than being updated more recently, is integration of a quest story line. I wanted the simple workshop/settlement mod so I stuck with Sim Settlements 1. Let us know in the comments what you think about it and if you had any trouble getting either installed. Thanks again for watching!

20:27 i'm using a similar mod, Settlement Attack Spawns Outside The Settlement PS4... then i clean up after the attack with the Living & Dead add-on for Scrap That Settlement, and Running With Corpses (for carrying 'too heavy' fallen combatants)

A note for anyone using the Better Settlers mod - never use it with any mod that adds children to your settlements, it WILL crash your game because it equips them with adult clothing! It's ok with settlements that start with children like Ten Pines. Thanks for this rundown of useful mods.

The scrap everything mod i love, but sometimes you can scrap final layers, leaving you with an untextured white glitched hole.
Any scrap mod you use save often.

Place everywhere also allows you to turn snap on and off, you can also turn surface placement on and off.

May I suggest, "Get Out Of My Face" for Part 2?  Which allows for moving those pesky NPCs when you're trying to climb stairs and they're blocking the way, or trying to access that computer terminal but they just won't move, etc.

Great list. I added a few and already had a couple. Also found a couple while looking for these on Nexus lol. Thanks for putting this together!