Settler Built Settlements

Do you ever just wish the your settlers could manage their own shit? Why is it that you, the sole survivor, are the only one capable of of dragging a pillow and a dirty mattress over? Or planting crops? Or patching a wall? Are you tired of the building up every settlement piece by piece, and just want to not be bothered with the details anymore?

Settler Built Settlements is a simple, immersive answer to all of those questions. All you need to do is build the Settlement Building Supplies(tm) in the crafting menu, leave (far enough away for the cell to unload), and the next time you return to the settlement your settlers will have built themselves some homes, crops, maybe even some defenses. All without you having to lift a finger.

Available Plans

For initial relase, I've converted settlement builds for 19 settlements. Big thanks to Zed140 for letting me use his Living Series- definitely go check out his work (and if you just want totally pre-built settlements without even having to build the supplies to unlock them, then just use his original mods). For the converted living series, the extra NPCs, turrets, workbenches, and  are removed. The recipe for each settlement building supplies object is roughly 1/4th the required items to build everything in the plan manually, minus any objects that the plan scraps.

How To Install

Install the framework mod from the main files sectuon. Pick and download whatever settlement plans you want from the optional files (there is also a collection of all the living series in the misc section).

How To Use

Craft the settlement building supplies in the new Settlement Building Supplies category in the Workshop menu, then travel far enough away for the cell to unload. When you come back, it will be built.

I recommend building the plan before making any changes to the settlement manually or scrapping anything- this mod has no mechanism to detect that you've modified the settlement.

Under the Hood

How this all works is just a bunch of settlement items placed in the world, but disabled by a parent marker. Building the settlement supplies starts an event listener, and the next time the cell unloads, the parent marker is enabled by the script, and the settlement supplies are removed. It's literally a 2 line function. Settlers aren't even actually required. The goal is to keep this as simple and lightweight as possible, allowing you to very quickly invest a little in your settlements, without having to spend hours decorating them, and without adding script load to your game.

Q: If I build something before the plan, will it clip / if I scap something before the plan, will the plan have floating objects?

A: Yes. This mod is as simple as possible, by design. If you build something be