Tenhats' Ultimate Settlement Tutorial

I've made many settlements and learned quite a few things along the way, so now I'm sharing that knowledge here.

I've broken it into three downloadable pdfs.

Tutorials

• []Basic walks you through making a simple functional settlement.

  []Intermediate brings your settlement up to vanilla's standards, if not slightly beyond. Custom borders, quest unlocking, settlement npcs, etc.

  []Advanced teaches you how to implement features like immersive repair, fog condensers, automatic corpse removal, and so on.

  Each tutorial comes with many pictures throughout as well as a working table of contents that you can click on to jump around.

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  Supplementary Files

  • []OCsSettlementTemplate_Basic.esp contains some of the already setup basics you will need for every settlement, speeding up creation significantly. I almost always use this when building settlements

    []OCsSettlementTemplate_FarHarbor.esp the same but setup for Far Harbor which works a bit differently from the Commonwealth or Nuka-World.

    []OCsSettlementTemplate_Utilities.esp contains many useful functions and features that are already partially setup and can be imported into your mod.

    []OCsTutorial_FogRepairExample.esp a stripped down file showing exactly how to setup repairable fog condensers.

    []OCsPeabodyHouse_Basic.esp _Intermediate and _Advanced to be used as examples to compare against their respective tutorials.

  • Scripts: OCsTStructureRepairV2, OCsTFogCondenserRepair, OCsTSettlementActivator, OCsTTriggerBoxCleanup, OCsTOnLoadDisable, OCsTProtectedReference, OCsTSettlementLinker, OCsTTriggerDetector, and OCsTPlayerHomeLink with explanations on how to use them.

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  Installation

  Download and unzip the file. Read the pdfs and follow the instructions within.

  I'm only allowing manual downloads because this is file of resources for modding, not something to be directly installed with a mod manager.

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  I will likely continue to add to and adjust this as I think of more things that can be included, but there is already an enormous amount of information here. If any sections are particularly unclear let me know and I can go back and improve them. Likewise if you think of anything that could be good to include that is not already present feel free to suggest it.

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