7. Build Floors First To Make Houses Come Together In Settlements
The Settlement stuff is going to define Fallout 4 - mostly seeing as how you can choose to be truly embody the 'Let's rebuild America!" mentality the game occasionally nudges you towards. To do so effectively, you need to get stuck into this base-building stuff, but not just by constructing turrets and defenses, but also through living quarters for your various settlers to call home. Now, you don't need to worry too much about actual placement of beds and the like (the game just literally thinks "Three people? Three beds? Great!" without worrying if they're actually accessible), but to get off the ground fastest, scroll past the walls and pre-made structures, and put some flooring down instead. The way this mode has been coded, each interlocking piece will magnetise slightly to the edge of another element in your design, so once you've got a floor down, this will help with walls and other items that'll 'stick' to it immediately. Use this method - which might be common sense to many, I was attempting to construct walls-first - to get an immediate idea of how your finished area is going to look and be laid out, before you then work on bolting everything else on.
