Beyond the Commonwealth - A Music Expansion Project

Music lies at the heart of any great gaming experience.  It can help add to the sense of wonder, terror, excitement, or joy a person feels when exploring a new environment and can play a significant part in leaving a lasting impact.  I've played a lot of great quest and new location mods in Fallout 4 over the years, but the one thing that always consistently stood out to me as missing for many was great music.  I've also come across a lot of great music produced by the community in the form of music mods that replace pieces of the vanilla soundtrack and which I feel deserve more praise and exposure.  From this, a bold and ambitious idea came to blossom between myself and the co-creator of this mod, Mortercotic.

Together, we worked to secure permissions from several authors of the best Fallout 4 music mods on the Nexus to use their music to accentuate the environments of some of our favorite quest and new location mods.  After securing all the permissions we could, we began poring through all the amazing music we had on-hand and thematically matching it to each quest/new location we wanted to address with this release.  A lot of careful consideration and testing went into ensuring the music selected for each quest/new location mod fit the environments perfectly so as to enhance the experience of being there and not detract from it.  Mortercotic did the work of creating "patch plugins" against each quest/new location mod of interest to assign the new music selections to the locations of each mod in a way that would require installing the original quest/new location mod but not the original music mod (and so this is why perms were needed from each music mod author but not each quest mod author as we have simply created purely optional non-replacer patch plugins that merely add music to locations in the quest/new location mod).  Nevertheless, we worked to secure permissions to create these patch plugins for the quest/new location mods as well just to be safe.

And so with all that long-winded backstory out of the way, we now present to you Beyond the Commonwealth - our coordinated initiative to help draw attention to some great music mods and quest/new location mods and revitalize the context behind both the music and the environments tied together into one.  Below is a list of what we've accomplished so far and that is now available for you to download from this mod page and use in your playthrough as you please.

Simply install the original quest/new location mod (listed on the left) in your mod manager of choice (MO2 or Vortex) and then install the music patch for it from the Files tab of this mod page and load it AFTER the quest/new location mod it adds music to.  You do NOT need to install the music mods linked below for the music to work.  Songs and music mods are only listed below for credits/thanks.  Just install the quest mod li