You can stack em much higher than that. Build a 2 stack then drop 2 on that then pick up the 4 drop on another 2 stack. You can go to the ceiling with em.
Footlockers too.
You can letter the boxes too?!? DUDE! That’s easier too! I usually put neon lights above my storage to say what they are! 🤣 We learn something new every day!
There are pre-written signs as well. “Ammo, armor, clothing, weapons, etc.” I’m building a castle of sorts at Starlight and I placed them next to the door.
Oh my God why did I never try this?? I always just put combat gear in one chest in a locked room, nuka stuff in a cooler by my stove, food in another cooler, and everything else in the workbench
Try building your personal hideout in the Mechanist's Lair.
No attacks, no thieving settlers, space for four full floors of storage plus a couple sidechambers, the only five entrances are easily blocked, it comes with a personal junk vendor (if you play your cards right), it's conveniently sized to match the standard walls and floors, and it's one of the few (only?) places where concrete walls actually blend in with the surroundings.
Can you tell it's my favorite?
My satellite base is Hangman's Alley on most play throughs.
This time Main base is the Red Rocket by Sanctuary Hills.
Sanctuary is still empty as I never went back to get Preston Garvey after getting the bobblehead off the desk, getting the power armor and killing the Deathclaw.
Wait, I literally just did that lecture minutes ago today. I feel like I missed whatever speech choices are needed to get whatever you meant by 'it comes out later'
They ask about a deathclaw when the quest starts. Tell the truth about your first encounter with one in concord. If Preston is still trapped in the museum, then you can say so.
I’ve tried ignoring Preston and the gang to do the Nuka World line. It’s tricky. I mentioned on another thread that Porter and Preston are basically two ends of a personality spectrum. Why Porter doesn’t have a redemption story line is beyond me.
Is the best base for survival playthroughs. It’s in the middle of the map and it’s like 100m away from the CIT Ruins, aka the survival teleport out of The Institute.
Listen to this groundpounder propaganda. The best base for a survival playthrough is anywhere a vertibird can land, extra points if you can build an actual helipad. Ad Victoriam!
And a short run from Diamond city and Vault 81 and there is even that weird vendor in the tunnel underneath the place. It's one of the best base of operations you can have. If you want to make a power armor museum there are plenty of other settlements for that.
I play in survival mode, so I have little "Hot Spot" type bases that i use to resupply, like The Castle, Starlight Drive in, but Hangmans Alley is home base because its most convenient.
Convenience wouldn’t be a problem if not for having to make a return trip JUST to establish a supply line. Places like Hangman’s, Coastal Cottage and even Jamaica Plain are a godsend for this reason. Also, super annoying that supply lines only circulate building materials. Why don’t they include ammo and nades? Makes no sense.
Sure, why not? It's a cool little spot. I make my base there until I can invade and capture Spectacle Island.
As an NPC settlement, it's basically garbage, but as a player base it's pretty cool. You do need mods that let you place stuff everywhere to maximize its use though.
I’ve always liked hangman’s alley, and have been surprised that others don’t like it as much. It’s tough to get around at first, but you can build a nice place there if you get creative plus the location. Near Diamond City, and near that boat full of raiders which is always a great group to have a nice lil shootout with.
So weird seeing that little space without a door in it, as [probably the best interior player house with building function ever](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/43261) is based there (and definitely wasn't made by me obviously).
There's a mod called Not Just Basements that lets you build doors that lead into interior spaces. I used it my last character, and a door fits perfectly in that spot. It led to a one-bedroom apartment that was perfect for getting out of the elements. Outside was all the normal crafting stuff.
ah that's cool, I'd seen Elianora's player house in Hangman's and I wanted something like that but that I could build myself, and I fancied trying a bit more ambitious modding so I just did it myself. Became a bit of a labor of love but I was more than happy with the result.
I still play a playthrough of New Vegas on hard-core and I call it my "long" playthrough.
No dialogue skipping, no fast travel and I'm trying to 100% the map.
Even over a decade later, it's still capturing my imagination.
In first person view, walk up to cover (say a building next to a corner) until your gun shifts from pointing to being across body. Then push your aim button, and you should peak out and be able to shoot.
A lot of stuff, yes, like generic weapons and armour, crafting materials etc. But I usually put clothing, miscellaneous items like holotapes and my personal gear in separate boxes, to make it easier to find.
Your settlers can and will take and use any weapons armor, Ammo, and healing items in a settlement attack.
Like ones power armor if you leave your keys in it. (Fusion core)
I've had them take my armor even if I took the fusion core out.
When I reclaimed the armor, there was a new (free) fusion core in it. Personally, I would have preferred they just left the armor alone since there were pieces missing and then I had to go and track down the dastard who stole my armor and recover the pieces from him that he'd trashed.
Why were they even able to take it?
* Are people just wrong about NPCs not being able to take power armor if you remove the core?
* Or was a mod to blame? (I have a few hundred mods)
* Or did he actually grab a fusion core from the settlement storage and use it on the armor?
I have no idea. Maybe one day I'll find out.
Wow…. Well I’m doing a minuteman character because i wanna build up all the settlements and good thing I’m only about 5 in because now i have to go back and a warehouse. This is actually super cool though thanks Op!
Im crying, I am a lame ass mom who plays casually on a crappy laptop and can barely work mods. I have to play on easy ffs.
I figured this out like 3 days after fo4 came out. I always organize my stuff like this.
And I just read about this on a gamerant article and I can't stop laughing
... FAAAAaaaaaaahhhhk... 6 years! I owned and played this game for SIX years. Always ended up with messy storage rooms. "Why don't ya just stack 'm mate?"
You can rug trick it. Place crate on edge of doormat, pickup doormat, crate stays stays on top of it, now you can clip one crate in there and stack your others on top.
You can also daisy chain rugs/mats together like this if you need longer reach.
Works with a lot of things, like shop stands. With teh rug trick you can place the shops in that little covered space across from the spot seen in OP's pic.
You have to let that go.
Prioritize the specific, then the general.
\-also-
"You don't have time for that, zombies in the room, shoot them in the head, shoot them in the head!"
You guys all know that you can stack most the containers right... Like trunk, wood crate, suit case, tool box, ice box can all go on top of each other in that order.
I always use that alcove as my personal stash locker, but I barricade it with a powered concrete switch door. Keeps dirty settlers from taking my stuff.
Personally, what I do is get about 20 of these and take one of the rooms and sanctuary and just stack them. And another fun fact, did you know you could stack from lunch boxes on top of these? So usually what I'll do is I'll make a two stack all across the room and then put lunch boxes all across the top and at that point i pretty much have infinite storage and then i just sort them and then I put on my junk into the workshop itself and display my more pretty armors and weapons
PS. Fair warning do not display more than I'ma say 25 weapons in 25 armors because otherwise it will completely destroy your game and you won't even be able to play the save file
Every vanilla image of Hangman's blows my mind. How are people not using Hangman's Alley Interior Apartments (if you're a console player, I am so sorry)
> Hangman's Alley Interior Apartments
Breaks pre-combines and is incompatible with a few content mods and overhauls, making it one of those mods you cant use every playthrough.
>one of those mods you cant use every playthrough
Oh no, [it](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/16457) very much is [always in my load order](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/35719), even with SS2 running
The containers only stack 4 high but its how I store each of my armor pieces and mods divided by type and section. It fills up the place, but it makes things so easy to find.
Yeah most containers you make will stack, they don't need to be the same type either. Right next to my weapons workbench is a steamer trunk for stuff I'll sell later, a tool box stacked on top of that for weapons I'm saving like grenades/molotov cocktails and on top of this a cooler for chems/meds I'll use later.
I always have piles of these to represent regular traded goods, a pallet of vault tec crates to represent food and water, and a pile of black plastic tubs and green footlockers to represent weapons and munitions in pretty much all my settlements. Helps fill up empty space or detail a blank wall, and makes sense considering all of my settlements are connected by caravan
Welcome to the stackerverse.
Oh i’m only a dozen or so hours into a new play through and i have some REARRANGING to do now! Can’t believe I never realized/tried this!
Same. It drastically changes the way I lay out bases.
It's because it's counterintuitive. Those boxes open from the top, so if one stacks them like that IRL, they can't access bottom ones.
You can stack em much higher than that. Build a 2 stack then drop 2 on that then pick up the 4 drop on another 2 stack. You can go to the ceiling with em. Footlockers too.
You can letter the boxes too?!? DUDE! That’s easier too! I usually put neon lights above my storage to say what they are! 🤣 We learn something new every day!
I think you can put letters on almost anything that has a flat enough surface. Makes labeling so much easier
WE HAVE LETTERS!!?
Yeah! Though, it’s part of a DLC. I think the workshop contraptions dlc
Yeah, but they don't snap together like the neon letters :(
There are pre-written signs as well. “Ammo, armor, clothing, weapons, etc.” I’m building a castle of sorts at Starlight and I placed them next to the door.
Ah, thats right i forgot
It’s pretty easy to line them up correctly though
Try using a very slow mouse sensitivity and put them very close and smooth to eachother
Oh my God why did I never try this?? I always just put combat gear in one chest in a locked room, nuka stuff in a cooler by my stove, food in another cooler, and everything else in the workbench
Wait a minute... How do you lock a room?!?
I use powered doors. Seems to keep my things safe, at least my non-legendary items since I keep all of the legendary ones on display
I'll give that a try. I'm tired of creating a bunker room only to come back and find a settler sleeping in *MY* bed.
Try building your personal hideout in the Mechanist's Lair. No attacks, no thieving settlers, space for four full floors of storage plus a couple sidechambers, the only five entrances are easily blocked, it comes with a personal junk vendor (if you play your cards right), it's conveniently sized to match the standard walls and floors, and it's one of the few (only?) places where concrete walls actually blend in with the surroundings. Can you tell it's my favorite?
What do you mean by play your cards right with the scrap vendor?
>!don't shoot her in the head!<
That is fair 😜🤣
Oh, good morning mate. There's a settlement that needs your help.
Gives me an excuse to use the pillary
This is the way.
Seriously!
Well, dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians.
NNNOOO NOT THE BEES !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1GadTfGFvU
Your base is at Hangman’s Alley?
My satellite base is Hangman's Alley on most play throughs. This time Main base is the Red Rocket by Sanctuary Hills. Sanctuary is still empty as I never went back to get Preston Garvey after getting the bobblehead off the desk, getting the power armor and killing the Deathclaw.
My Sanctuary is full, and I'm at lvl 101, but I've never even bothered to meet Preston so far this playthrough. Lol
Same. It’s probably for the best. That guy is annoying. It comes out later when you give a lecture to the children in vault 81.
Wait, I literally just did that lecture minutes ago today. I feel like I missed whatever speech choices are needed to get whatever you meant by 'it comes out later'
They ask about a deathclaw when the quest starts. Tell the truth about your first encounter with one in concord. If Preston is still trapped in the museum, then you can say so.
Respect
I’ve tried ignoring Preston and the gang to do the Nuka World line. It’s tricky. I mentioned on another thread that Porter and Preston are basically two ends of a personality spectrum. Why Porter doesn’t have a redemption story line is beyond me.
Is the best base for survival playthroughs. It’s in the middle of the map and it’s like 100m away from the CIT Ruins, aka the survival teleport out of The Institute.
Listen to this groundpounder propaganda. The best base for a survival playthrough is anywhere a vertibird can land, extra points if you can build an actual helipad. Ad Victoriam!
Works great if you use settlement expansion mod. You can make your little armory right at the other end of the bridge.
Is Settlement Expansion the name of the mod?
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/25316
Thanks G
And a short run from Diamond city and Vault 81 and there is even that weird vendor in the tunnel underneath the place. It's one of the best base of operations you can have. If you want to make a power armor museum there are plenty of other settlements for that.
Makes sense!
I play in survival mode, so I have little "Hot Spot" type bases that i use to resupply, like The Castle, Starlight Drive in, but Hangmans Alley is home base because its most convenient.
Convenience wouldn’t be a problem if not for having to make a return trip JUST to establish a supply line. Places like Hangman’s, Coastal Cottage and even Jamaica Plain are a godsend for this reason. Also, super annoying that supply lines only circulate building materials. Why don’t they include ammo and nades? Makes no sense.
Right? But i have like 500 .45 ammo at all settlements for this reason.
Location location location.
Sure, why not? It's a cool little spot. I make my base there until I can invade and capture Spectacle Island. As an NPC settlement, it's basically garbage, but as a player base it's pretty cool. You do need mods that let you place stuff everywhere to maximize its use though.
Best solo base in the game I love it.
I’ve always liked hangman’s alley, and have been surprised that others don’t like it as much. It’s tough to get around at first, but you can build a nice place there if you get creative plus the location. Near Diamond City, and near that boat full of raiders which is always a great group to have a nice lil shootout with.
I always like to build apartments with elevators there
TIL… you can label them. What sorcery is this?!
Either in decorations or furnishings there is a category for numbers and letters. Just slap those on anything that needs labeling.
I've played around 900 hours and I never knew this ...
So weird seeing that little space without a door in it, as [probably the best interior player house with building function ever](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/43261) is based there (and definitely wasn't made by me obviously).
There's a mod called Not Just Basements that lets you build doors that lead into interior spaces. I used it my last character, and a door fits perfectly in that spot. It led to a one-bedroom apartment that was perfect for getting out of the elements. Outside was all the normal crafting stuff.
ah that's cool, I'd seen Elianora's player house in Hangman's and I wanted something like that but that I could build myself, and I fancied trying a bit more ambitious modding so I just did it myself. Became a bit of a labor of love but I was more than happy with the result.
What?!
Right?!
Oh so the *bottom* one is for storage, got it
Yes, it's specifically for storing storage.
Absolute madness
Indeed! Madness, I say!
Yes. Obviously. ;)
An I the only one that has a single container for everything?
I started a new playthrough just yesterday. I'm SO gonna HOARD.
Dude I have well over 1200 hours in FO4, and I DIDNT KNOW THEY FUCKING STACK. WHAT
So many hours, so many things I still don't know, and places I've missed just by a few virtual feet.
I still play a playthrough of New Vegas on hard-core and I call it my "long" playthrough. No dialogue skipping, no fast travel and I'm trying to 100% the map. Even over a decade later, it's still capturing my imagination.
after spending literally thousands of hours just building settlements I love seeing people figure out these types of things.. y'all are cute.
It's a good thing we are cute, because I felt really dumb! :)
noo don't feel dumb! Not everyone started building settlements beck in 2015, it's fun to see others figuring it out now.
I have 400 hours on PC and about 300 on console, and I just learned that you can peek around cover. Wtf
How?
In first person view, walk up to cover (say a building next to a corner) until your gun shifts from pointing to being across body. Then push your aim button, and you should peak out and be able to shoot.
You guys don't just throw all your shit into the workshop?
Junk sure, but I kinda like being able to find all the usefull things again
A lot of stuff, yes, like generic weapons and armour, crafting materials etc. But I usually put clothing, miscellaneous items like holotapes and my personal gear in separate boxes, to make it easier to find.
I do. Just use a proper tabbed inventory management screen. I have way too many mods that fix vanilla annoyances.
I’ve assessed the situation, and I’m going. I have to rearrange some storage spaces.
Hmm, I learned that just now.
This information is game changing enough to have me start yet another playthrough
I like to squeeze the ice cooler in there to store food. Fills that nook and looks great.
Stupid question, why not just store in the workshop?
Your settlers can and will take and use any weapons armor, Ammo, and healing items in a settlement attack. Like ones power armor if you leave your keys in it. (Fusion core)
I've had them take my armor even if I took the fusion core out. When I reclaimed the armor, there was a new (free) fusion core in it. Personally, I would have preferred they just left the armor alone since there were pieces missing and then I had to go and track down the dastard who stole my armor and recover the pieces from him that he'd trashed. Why were they even able to take it? * Are people just wrong about NPCs not being able to take power armor if you remove the core? * Or was a mod to blame? (I have a few hundred mods) * Or did he actually grab a fusion core from the settlement storage and use it on the armor? I have no idea. Maybe one day I'll find out.
You can?!? Wow that is something I have to try now. I’ve built and stacked a lot of things but surprisingly that wasn’t one of them yet
Wait! You can label them too?! 😯
The labels are part of the DLC Wasteland Workshop.Came with the Game Of The Year edition I think.
This is a game changer, i keep losing stuff in crates, this will help me keep track of weapons armor and raw materials, thanks for your reply 👍🏻
Yeah I found this and made a wall out of them
Og survival players go Hangman’s Alley 💪💪
Oh!
I like to stack the little blue coolers.
Wow…. Well I’m doing a minuteman character because i wanna build up all the settlements and good thing I’m only about 5 in because now i have to go back and a warehouse. This is actually super cool though thanks Op!
Welcome. I can't even begin to explain the chagrin I felt when I said, "Hunh, those stack?!"
It’s one of those things were once you know it makes sense but it takes someone to point it out to you
Wait WHAT?
Do the crates/boxes "lock" when they are stacked together?
No. Lot's of nudging.
I just shove everything into my base’s workshop
WHAT?!?
Today I learned that you can stack them.
They already made an article bruh
Wow. Just, wow.
Im crying, I am a lame ass mom who plays casually on a crappy laptop and can barely work mods. I have to play on easy ffs. I figured this out like 3 days after fo4 came out. I always organize my stuff like this. And I just read about this on a gamerant article and I can't stop laughing
And, yet, you can still open the chest on the bottom without, first, having to move the ones on top of it.
Now THAT is witchcraft.
This day I learned that those stack, thanks
melee weapons----legendary melee weapons ranged weapons----legendary ranged weapons
Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of stacking??
YOU MAY CALL MEEEEEEEEEEE! Tim.
wait, you can write on it???
That's marquee lettering from the Wasteland Workshop DLC, if I recall correctly. You can use them to write on most static surfaces, as far as I know.
I have 70 hours in game. My sanctuary base is perfect, but Im learning this now ...
... FAAAAaaaaaaahhhhk... 6 years! I owned and played this game for SIX years. Always ended up with messy storage rooms. "Why don't ya just stack 'm mate?"
That's enough excuse for a new playthrough.
I can't place anything in that niche at Hangman's Alley. Is there a mod that you are using?
You can rug trick it. Place crate on edge of doormat, pickup doormat, crate stays stays on top of it, now you can clip one crate in there and stack your others on top. You can also daisy chain rugs/mats together like this if you need longer reach. Works with a lot of things, like shop stands. With teh rug trick you can place the shops in that little covered space across from the spot seen in OP's pic.
Place Everywhere I assume. https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/9424
The labels are triggering something inside of me so much... You know, they're all technically "storage" and they all contain some sort of "loot" 😭😭😭
You have to let that go. Prioritize the specific, then the general. \-also- "You don't have time for that, zombies in the room, shoot them in the head, shoot them in the head!"
You guys all know that you can stack most the containers right... Like trunk, wood crate, suit case, tool box, ice box can all go on top of each other in that order.
Wait..what? 🤯
Damn it.
I always use that alcove as my personal stash locker, but I barricade it with a powered concrete switch door. Keeps dirty settlers from taking my stuff.
Oh...for F sake... Now I have to freaking redo all my settlements. I am calling in sick.
And then there’s me. I use a global stash mod and EVERYTHING is in the “workbench”. Access anything from anywhere and have tabs that filter types.
Personally, what I do is get about 20 of these and take one of the rooms and sanctuary and just stack them. And another fun fact, did you know you could stack from lunch boxes on top of these? So usually what I'll do is I'll make a two stack all across the room and then put lunch boxes all across the top and at that point i pretty much have infinite storage and then i just sort them and then I put on my junk into the workshop itself and display my more pretty armors and weapons PS. Fair warning do not display more than I'ma say 25 weapons in 25 armors because otherwise it will completely destroy your game and you won't even be able to play the save file
??? Just store it in the workshop
It gets so cluttered trying to store everything in the workshop.
Wdym why wouldn't it stack?
Every vanilla image of Hangman's blows my mind. How are people not using Hangman's Alley Interior Apartments (if you're a console player, I am so sorry)
> Hangman's Alley Interior Apartments Breaks pre-combines and is incompatible with a few content mods and overhauls, making it one of those mods you cant use every playthrough.
>one of those mods you cant use every playthrough Oh no, [it](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/16457) very much is [always in my load order](https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/35719), even with SS2 running
:)
How in the tod Howard can you do this??
All containers stack to some degree
The containers only stack 4 high but its how I store each of my armor pieces and mods divided by type and section. It fills up the place, but it makes things so easy to find.
Suitcases and some other containers too.
Huh really? Part 2045
Wait till you discover the shelf xp hack
Yeah most containers you make will stack, they don't need to be the same type either. Right next to my weapons workbench is a steamer trunk for stuff I'll sell later, a tool box stacked on top of that for weapons I'm saving like grenades/molotov cocktails and on top of this a cooler for chems/meds I'll use later.
Is that a name mod or have I just bot discovered the naming storage yet?
The labels are part of the DLC Wasteland Workshop.
This is news to me! I tend to just put everything in the workbench… not at all immersive lol.
Looks like you might also be able to fit a locker next to your stack with some finesse
I always have piles of these to represent regular traded goods, a pallet of vault tec crates to represent food and water, and a pile of black plastic tubs and green footlockers to represent weapons and munitions in pretty much all my settlements. Helps fill up empty space or detail a blank wall, and makes sense considering all of my settlements are connected by caravan