Settlement FAQs

how to keep your raider settlements happy in fallout 4

by Erwin Blanda Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago

To increase happiness, everyone in your settlement needs food, water, a bed, a job, and defense to ward off raiders. Plant plenty of food. Grab plants you find in the wasteland and plant them together in your settlement.

Talk settlements into supplying your outposts with food and materials. Raiders love chems and hate working. This is necessary to make Raiders happy without your intervention. Vassals supply all raider outposts with food and building materials.

Full Answer

How do you live in a settlement in Fallout 4?

Grab plants you find in the wasteland and plant them together in your settlement. Build a water purifier and hook it up to a general as soon as you can. Build enough beds for everyone in the Settlement. Make sure they’re inside buildings! Nobody wants to sleep outside. Put every Settler to work.

What is a happy settlement in Fallout 4?

Happiness (Fallout 4) Happiness is a gameplay mechanic in Fallout 4 which shows how satisfied settlers are in a settlement. Reaching 100% happiness in any settlement will reward the Benevolent Leader achievement/trophy.

How do I get more food for my Raider settlements?

Building up your Settlements before turning them into vassals, you can feed more raiders with fewer vassals. This allows you to make more raider settlements and get much more food from the daily tribute.

How do I turn a Raider settlement back into a normal one?

Removing those turrets, you can turn a raider Settlement back into a normal one! Assign one of your raiders to a Tribute Chest. Now you'll periodically have an extra place to pick up money and items during gameplay.

What to do if you don't like fully equiped with max settlers?

Best thing to do would be to make a settlement you don't like fully equiped with max settlers farming food and water and only then you make it a vassal settlement. That way you shouldn't have to order you raiders to go farming and get a decrease.

Can you stick slot machines in settlements?

If you've done the vault workshop dlc you should also be able to stick slot machines in your settlements.

Is it true that raiders give you more respect?

It's true. You know there's something seriously wrong when the selfish, evil and drugged up raiders give you more respect and more rewards than the honest people.

Is there a correlation between Raider happiness and boosted rewards?

So far, there hasn't been a correlation between Raider happiness and boosted rewards. I'd say "No".

How to put every settler to work?

Put every Settler to work. While in the Workshop menu, walk over to Settlers and select them, then select food to put them to work.

What do you need to increase happiness in a settlement?

To increase happiness, everyone in your settlement needs food, water, a bed, a job, and defense to ward off raiders.

How to improve happiness in Traders?

Traders improve happiness. Get the Local Leader perk to rank 2 to unlock stores. Build 15-20 Level 3 Shops; Traders, Clinics, Restaurants and Clothing stores improve happiness. Make sure to assign settlers to run the stores.

What is happiness in Fallout 4?

Happiness is a metric of how content settlers are with a settlement in Fallout 4. Reaching 100% happiness in any settlement will reward the Benevolent Leader achievement/trophy.

How does the settlement system work?

Each settlement object provides some certain happiness bonus. The system sums all bonuses and divides the sum by the number of settlers in one's settlement. The result is added to the base 80% happiness.

What is the capped happiness of a settlers?

Settler happiness can be capped, ensuring that happiness loss caused by failing to meet basic settler needs can't be countered with bonus happiness. If a settlement has a lower defense rating than its population, all its settlers' happiness is capped at 60.

How many happiness points can a human settler get?

Each human settler can provide up to 80 happiness points by meeting their basic needs, which are: A bed in which to sleep, which counts for 10 points. For their bed to be covered from rainfall, which counts for 10 points. One unit of food production per settler, which counts for 20 points.

How does happiness relate to the needs of the settlers?

Happiness primarily correlates with providing for the needs of the settlers. Keeping settlers happy is as simple as keeping all the other settlement resources ( food and water, beds, and defense) at sufficient levels.

How much happiness does the recruitment beacon give?

The game leaves it up to the player to decide how important happiness is, although there is an achievement for getting a settlement up to 100 Happiness. Happiness primarily correlates with providing for the needs of the settlers.

What happens if you don't provide enough food and water in a settlement?

However, failing to provide sufficient food and/or water, either at the settlement or at one connected by a supply line, will impose happiness caps (see below) on individual settlers that will drag down the settlement's average happiness, and can't be countered by bonus happiness (see below).

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