I think you can, I was trying to move a piece of what I had built and it kept dragging a few attached pieces with it. Not sure how or if that's right but considering the tutorial is awful, I'm sure there is plenty you can do that the game doesn't teach you.

You can find more in the morning.

Chernobyl is allways the first thing I think about when people explain how the nature looks in fallout with a "well a nuke fell and the entire area is radiated". 20 years after the reactor in Chernobyl exploded you wouldn't have been able to tell that anything ever happened there if it wasn't for all the abandoned buildings.

Hiroshima is another example. In 1955 only 10 years after the bomb fell trees, grass and so on had no problems growing there and everything were back to looking normal as far as the nature goes in spite of the radiation.

Im fine with fallout not beeing realistic in that sense, I just find it funny when people claim there's any chance this is what the world would like 200 years later.

You can by holding down the select button but it grabs all the pieces in the whole settlement.

It did NOT explode. It leaked an ungodly amount of radiation, making the surrounding area untenable. That's hardly anything compared to a 10+ megaton nuclear detonation. By comparison, Hiroshima's 13-18 kiloton explosion was a drop in the bucket to the average nuke in the '60s. (Bomb size by 2077 would probably be closer to 100 megatons.)

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THANK YOU! Didnt know that and it was driving me insane.

That's what she said.

I just used console commands to give myself 1k wood and 1k steel - primarily because I didn't WANT to break down all of the trees and metal detritus at every settlement. I think the trees, rusted out cars, etc. add to the visual character of the settlements, and I didn't want to have to clear them all away just to have the basic building materials to create anything.

Probably the only console "cheat" I'll use, because your only other option is to painstakingly collect stuff with large quantities of wood... except you're also constantly picking up stuff for copper, ceramics, etc. etc. etc. If you're trying to build a house, the last thing you want is to spend 10 hours farming ball-peen hammers first.

It's especially silly when you can clearly see that Sanctuary, for example, is surrounded by tons of trees and steel objects - except you can't collect them, because they are outside your arbitrary green boundary. That gave me all the "narrative" justification I needed to use the console. I still plan to collect all the other building materials the regular way, as it's far more realistic to have to scraqe together something like copper or fiber optic cabling.

A wooded area settlement might be a good idea in an upcoming DLC. Could also tie in with Harold in some way leading to more heart breaking choices if you want to cut down the area for wood.

If you assign a couple settlers per settlement to scavenge don't they gather wood? Only asking because I ran out of wood early on but it accumulated pretty fast at one point, I don't think I gathered that much myself and I haven't bought a shipment yet.

Probably isn't here, we have established lore for this universe that states otherwise.

I've done a ton of settlement building... even bypassed the object limit for two of them to keep building, and still haven't come close to running out of wood. Of course, I do scrap a lot of stuff at every new settlement I get. Copper was been my main limiting factor for a while, but I've learned to just tag what I need and buy it all out at my tier 3 general merchant and Carla every time I return to Sanctuary (my main town). I no longer have material shortages at all. I'm pretty sure even with my intense building, I won't run out of wood anytime soon... I expect I'll grow bored of the game before then. I'm already 70-80 hours with three huge settlements construction. I guess it helps that I favor steel over wood (less holes).

I suppose if you obsessively fully develop every settlement, you'll run out of wood eventually. At that point, it might serve you to dedicate one settlement as the 'general goods dealer town' and have 10+ tier 3 general merchants (everyone that isn't farming). Visit them once a day and buy out all the wood stuff and whatever else you need. Similarly, make a scavenger table town and see what they come up with.

I kinda like the idea of making a town full of scavengers situated inside the city... too bad food resource can't be linked between towns. It would be neat to let some of the farm settlements pick up the slack for more specialized settlements. Hopefully mods give us miners, smelters, scientists, chemists, and all kinds of other cool roles as well.

Yes you can!! I found this out the other day...i simply held A (on the xbox one) and every single connected piece was movable. I was able to relocate my house to a more favourable spot. The only problem is that i had to go around and pick up and pit down all my lights coz they stopped working...a bit weird but meh...a small price to pay.

1) Water purifiers don't only provide water for your settlers, but also the purified water item, which is a valuable commodity. Build lot's of these.

2) The floor foundation with cement will clip through most things. Things attached to the floor foundation will clip through anything if you move them all at the same time by holding 'e' (PC)

3) You should start actively searching for and buying aluminium early. You will need tons of this later on in the game. Same goes for copper if you're into settlements.

You do know that you can make most of the things that you make out of wood out of Metal, instead?

Make half of your buildings Metal instead.

Problem solved.