So I just got Home Plate...

Huge gaps between wall and furniture, with furniture sticking out, because you can't place anything right next to the wall?

Ugly wires hanging everywhere instead of at least following a nice line on the wall... assuming I can even figure out how the dang things work?

You can't build a normal fridge like the fridges in Fallout 3? Or is this container "unlocked" at a later point? I like to store items in containers that make sense, so I want a fridge for all my beverage storage.

I can build a floor safe, but no wall safe?

I'd rather have moderately nicely designed player houses such as Fallout 3's, instead of having a blank canvas that's ridiculous to try and make anything good with.

The can't-place-close-to-walls is probably the thing that drives me nuts the most.

Make a small floor mat, put the couch on it and then move the mat...it goes by the mats size, not the item on top of it so you can get closer to walls and whatnot. After it's in a position you like, scrap the mat.

I just wish we could build Power Armor work-benches in Home Plate...the place would make a nice house if I could store some PA there.

So true, with all that empty space. Sigh...

I'll just keep thinking of things, I'm sure.

We can't place lanterns? Lanterns are awesome. I'd skip all those darned hanging wires and just place lanterns everywhere.

Plus, they are just so darned romantic. (lol)

LOL! Yup!


Just tried this out, thanks so much for the tip!

Since you can't build a fridge, I kept the ones that are already built and stored my nuka colas and food in there. I came back some time later to find out that half of the stuff I placed around the house (Non-workshop items) had fallen through the world. The Nuka Colas in the fridge were still there, as were the weapons, lighters and lit cigarettes I placed around, but everything else was gone. I wanted to decorate my settlements because empty shelves look awful and pointless, but most of the items just end up falling through it after a while.

On a more serious note, the out-of-the-box player housing may not be as good as in FO3, but I'm willing to forgive that in light of the fact that I can build entire settlements from the ground up. I wouldn't mind them expanding on and improving that system in future DLC, though.

This. This so much.

You unlock more things when you find white picket fence books or something like that. Maybe look where they all are and see what you can unlock.

Yeah, I've seen people mentioning this, so I'm not placing anything anywhere. Was there an existing fridge in Home Plate though?

Given that they're so controlling over the houses / settlements anyway, I don't see why they couldn't have made objects snap to walls and floors, and placed items (non-workshop items) snaps onto a shelf or top of an item, you rotate it, and then because it's a house / settlement / workshop area, the game knows that you wanted to place that item there for aesthetic reasons, so it locks the rotation you set and it attaches it to the object so that their physics system won't sink the object and lose it, which has been a known problem since... forever?

It's not ruining the experience for me, especially I'll play with settlements but I don't really care about them (and don't care for much of the way they've been implemented), but player houses are important and I just wish that they hadn't become basically a downgrade with some of the things they're lacking. There was so much potential! The Home Plate house is a great space. And that roof area! What a great roof area!

I kind of wish the doors - and player safes - would always be locked (the player has the key after all), to at least give me the impression that my house is safe. As long as no one touches the stuff that's in my floor safe, I guess I'll live with it. Keeping my stuff safe that I don't want to carry around with me is the most important thing about having a player house.

Ah gotcha, thanks very much for the tip! I think I have one of those magazines so far.

Here's another one - does anyone else wish you could fill the bathtub?

When I want to place small items, like things upon a shelf, I just drop the items on the floor.

Then I go into workshop mode and use that to place the items.

They snap into place easily, and I haven't had them fall through shelves/tables/floors yet.

There's a power armour workbench just outside the entrance

Yeah, that holds one set.

But, I am going to be the Donald Trump of Power Suits...so, what do I do with the other 12 sets? (lol)

^{Think I tried it once for giggles...Other then that not at all.....VATS is for girls}

Wrong thread by chance?

Doh!!!

if you unlock the advanced lighting option you can place table lamps. they still require the power generator but once you realize how those work you can pretty much hide the wiring. the main trick is to realize that there is a "power field" created when you connect a wire to a pylon. its about 10-20 meters of power and anything that you do not connect directly will get the power in that radius.

i can power the entire house with a single wire going through the top of the hallway or even just by moving it over the roof of the MCs house in santuary hills.

a large wood shack with just one wire attached near the top will power the entire thing for things like celing lightning.

anyways i would LOVE the ability to put lanterns around and definitly need fridges etc added.

in fact they should add the entire house of tomorrow suite of objects. I would love to store all my guns in a washer and drier.

Once you have one conduit attached to house wired to your power grid via one single wire, you can also wirelessly relay power from conduit to conduit. No need for extra wires, just plug in conduits close enough together and the power field will relay wirelessly.

I haven't been to Dimond city yet... but I took Sanct as my home... it's got power bench, and a 3F hight berracs, and it's hella sixy! so yeah... there is no real "pre made home" in this game I think... building a home is a thing...

Well, Sanctuary is the new Settlement system and it's not a private house, whereas Home Plate in Diamond City is a private house and pretty much comparable to the player house in Megaton for example (Diamond City is basically the new Megaton), except instead of buying items and themes that are decent and pre-placed, you use the Settlement construction features that are applicable to a private home (an interior cell). I haven't gotten further yet to find out if/where there are more private player houses.

i haven't nearly explored everything, but the settlements need a seperate cell room, like the cellar in sanctuary or the various other spots in fallout 3 like the mechanist forge, talon company outpost near megaton, a sewer hatch leading to a underground house near the lady of lords hospital, armories in megaton and rivet city, all those locations you could use as player housing, not there is a warehouse room in diamond city and it has some loot but one locker never spawns anything so that probably could be used for storage basically a celled area, like the cellar in sanctuary, too bad you couldn't install a cellar room in all the settlements, but my guess is there's probably some apartment building or some house somewhere in a celled area with safe storare, fallout had even more areas in the city which did't all have bed but had storage and could be used for housing, same with NV, there were some abandoned apartments near the strip you could use for housing also, so i'm on the look out for those type housing areas.

Most offensive thing about decorating Home Plate is that the entire 'Crafting' section of the workshop is completely disabled. WHAT.

4 loading screens though.