Faster Workshop NG
🟠 Updated over a year ago⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.8% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #18 of 19 Performance mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
If you are using version 1. 10. 163 (including Fallout London, and/or while using Fallout 4 Downgrader),
In the immortal words of Todd Howard, I am happy to say "it just works" now.
... But unlike when he said it, this really does work!
The only Workshop Menu speed-up plugin endorsed by Cooper Howard and certified by Vault-Tec.
"It's like looking into an atomic blast. Oh god, my eyes. My eyes are melting." - Cooper Howard
Results Guaranteed, or you might be eligible for a partial reimbursement for the original purchase price of this plugin.
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Some users report speed-up from as long as 1 minute for the workshop menu to open without this plugin (in Next-Gen), to 2-5 seconds with this plugin. Opening the workshop menu with this plugin and without any settlement mods should be instantaneous for everyone, and only take 2-5 seconds even with a large number of mods now.
On my own game testing with many settlement mods, it went from 9 seconds to 3 seconds (rounded up) to open the settlement workshop menu. For reference, I currently have 13,784 settlement items that match for the menu, which is out of 31,635 total constructible type objects in my game.
By comparison, the game without mods (but with all dlc) has 752 settlement items out of 4,882 total constructible type objects. Without this fix, it takes forever to open the menu. And I didn't even have OCDecorator or the Snap'n Build mods installed when I started working on this plugin, because it was taking too long already. Now I can add both of those, and many more mods, and the delay doesn't really seem to noticeable increase.
And even 2-5 seconds still is longer than ideal, but that's at least 3x faster than before (and upwards of 10x improvement according to some user reported times). But I will most likely keep looking for ways to reduce it further.
When unlocking anything in-game to be buildable at a settlement, i.e. while doing the Sim Settlements 2 quest or finding a magazine etc, you must save your game in order to trigger this plugin into adding the new unlocks into the list for the workshop menu. I don't know how to detect when things are unlocked, but I can de
Faster Workshop NG is a performance mod for Fallout 4 that dramatically speeds up settlement workshop menu loading, eliminating long waits when opening the menu. With 455 endorsements and over 24,000 downloads, it's a popular choice for players tired of slow UI lag.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community favorite with 455 endorsements and over 24k downloads
- Directly fixes one of the most annoying UI lag issues in settlement building
- Lightweight performance mod that doesn't alter gameplay
⚠️ Cons
- May conflict with other UI overhaul mods that modify the workshop menu
- Performance gains depend on your system and mod load order
- Last updated in early 2025, so future game patches could break compatibility
For Fallout 4 players who spend a lot of time in settlement building and are tired of waiting for the workshop menu to load. Also great for modded playthroughs with many workshop items that slow the menu down. Skip if you rarely use settlements or prefer a vanilla experience.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Place this mod near the bottom of your load order to ensure it overrides any conflicting UI mods.
- If you use a mod manager like Vortex, deploy after installing and check for conflicts with other workshop menu mods.
- Test in a settlement with many objects to see the speed difference immediately.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Fallout 4 Mods
- Author
- eventHandler
- Version
- 2.2.0.4
- Downloads
- 24,756
- Endorsements
- 455
- Category
- Performance
- Created
- 1/26/2025
- Updated
- 2/4/2025
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