Buildable Workshop APCs to Boost Settlement Defense
⚪ Last updated 2022⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
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📋 About This Mod
Build static APCs in your settlements that will give a defense boost. Flagged as an esl that won't count against your load order.
A simple, no-frills mod to let you build Armored Personnel Carriers in your settlements that will boost your defense rating. There are already settlement crafting mods that let you build decorative APCs, but they give no defense rating. There is also at least one mod that lets you build APCs and tanks that boost your defense and have animation and sound, but one feature of that mod is that the turrets may attack you if they take too much friendly fire. This mod is an attempt to bridge that gap.
APCs are buildable under the Defense/Guard Posts category of the regular crafting menu and there are two options - closed and ramp down (I'm using the vanilla models). They're classified as furniture, the same as a regular guard post, which means they shouldn't be destructible when your settlement is attacked. Each gives a defense boost of 14 (between a heavy laser turret and a missile launcher turret) and does not need to have a settler assigned - just build and forget.
To balance the high defense rating and unmanned nature, I made the crafting requirements a little on the high side, but didn't require any perks.
If this setup proves to be unbalanced one way or the other we can always adjust it later.
Because I used the vanilla meshes for these, if you have any HD or other texture replacers they should still work with this mod.
KNOWN ISSUE
I couldn't find an APC icon in the game files, because it's not normally a buildable object. I tried to substitute something else and ended up with a full size APC model in the workshop icon bar, so until I figure out something else, the two APCs will show up as a blank spot in the workshop/defense/guard posts icon bar. The model may also not show up in the world at all if you don't have all of the crafting materials, but that's a game engine issue and not something wrong with my mod. If you want to make sure the two objects are in your workshop, hit the "~" key to enter console (or whatever key your language keyboard uses) and type "TGM" without the quotation marks. That will put you in god mode and give you unlimited building materials. Just be sure to go back into console and type TGM again when done to exit god mode.
IN THE SCREENSHOTS
None of these are required, just posting them here because someone will ask:
Homemaker - here on Nexus, for the Covenant walls and chain link gate
Sanctuary Lite - by JennCave, on Bethesda, for the fully scrapped Sanctuary
APC Revamp - here on Nexus, for the APC textures
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Fallout 4 Mods
- Author
- travelmedic
- Version
- 1.0
- Downloads
- 1,470
- Endorsements
- 74
- Category
- Crafting - Home/Settlement
- Created
- 5/19/2022
- Updated
- 5/19/2022
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