My favorite Fallout New Vegas mods are the restoration mods, where a building or town is restored to post war glory or at least fixed up a lot.

I recently saw a video where it says you can build your own settlement somewhere in the game as an optional objective.

When I researched it further, one of the possible locations to construct your town was Sanctuary Hills, your former home town.

Given that the demo video basically showed the construction utilizing scrap material and generally ramshackle construction (think Megaton), I wondered if a proper restoration would be possible, one in which you restore Sanctuary Hills to it's prewar state?

Replace the white picket fences with barbwire, turrets, and the corpses of bandits who tried to get in... yup, just like it was back in the day, just less subtle about it.

I doubt a restoration of anything to pre-war order and shiny newness will be in the vanilla version of the game.

On the other hand, there should be sufficient pre-war models available for the modding community to mod the whole neighborhood back to pre-war condition.

As to the rest of the map, whatever gets added by the mod community will dictate what goes above and beyond vanilla, and, as always, there will be fortress builders, and tons of customized versions of settlements with sundry extra features.

It wouldn't surprise me if someone copied the airship model and turned that into a personal player home too that sails around the map, and even comes with a personal vertibird with a custom paint job or something to take you to your airship whenever you want.

I wouldn't mind building a new home in Sanctuary Hills. It'd really emphasis on the whole 'new world born out of the ashes of the old' thing which I think is the major theme of Fallout.

Think about it. A new settlement arises out of the ashes of what was once Sanctuary Hills. Awesome!

Tear down all the old buildings, build new ones from the resources, build defenses and a wall... Rename it "Sanctuary".

Probably not to the lengths it was originally. You're working with stuff you have on hand, and a lot of those buildings would require a lot more elbow grease and materials than one might find out and about.

But I do intend that as my first go at a settlement, Sanctuary Hills. After all, home is where the heart is.

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Personally, I just want the option to be able to move back into my old home. I hope the storages are safe and I'm able to sleep in the bed because dammit, it's still my home even 200 years later!!

I can't wait until there's more information revealed about the building. It reminds me a lot of the Stronghold building from Morrowind, and with all the new technology we have in 2015 its going to be a lot cooler than it was in 2002.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Sanctuary_Hills
Hmm..according to this, we actually CAN build a settlement in Sanctuary Hills.

That's it, got a plan. If storage is safe in my old house:

+ Use my house as home base where I live in and store my supplies.

+ Build settlement and defenses around said settlement. Sanctuary Hills will LIVE AGAIN!!!

Awesome, I'll do the same as well...

Yeah, but it looks like a shanty town where hobos ferment pee to get drunk off of, except for the turrets and fancy lights and stuff, but, otherwise, it looks like a place where hobos drink pee.

Yeah, that's pretty much my plan...Heck I think that's a lot of our plans. Like moving in to Rethan Manor in Morrowind in Balmora as a starting player house, this will probably be the ideal go-to starter base of operations. Because it's there, really. Like, right there.

Plus there's a bit of pride in getting the old home up and running. Sure it's not as nice and clean as it used to be, but YOU made those payments on the place, you paid your bills. Be a shame to let the property just fall apart even more.

@ix09: EVERYWHERE in a fallout game looks like a place where hobos drink pee. Even the "nice" places.

I wondered if we would be able to make better houses if we were more skilled in whatever stat governs the house building part (if any). I'm sure we will just get the base makeshift junk houses though.

Not everywhere. the Pristine Diner at the start of FO3, did not at all look like a place hobos might drink pee. Although there were apparently a few drunks who frequented it

I wouldn't want to rebuild the pre-war town, but I do hope we have access to nicer and fancier building supplies and furniture than the typical wasteland shack + pee-couch and pee-bed. Something like in the Strip casinos or Tenpenny Tower.

I lived in the Lucky 38 Casino (after the former owner was evicted with extreme prejudice) and Mobius' former flat in Big Mt (former owner still alive).

I also occupied the Ranger Hut in Zion, although it required a bit of spring cleaning (picking up the junk loot and either throwing it out or putting it in a storage container), it was suitable to live in.

So not everywhere is a trashyard.

I've only seen a little of Sanctuary Hills so far, but it looks like the buildings are mostly intact.

Slap a fresh coat of paint on, wash the windows, a bit of woodwork, voila! restored!

It would be darn silly to level the building to the ground and build a junkhouse out of scrap material on the same site when the basic structure is still intact.

  

it seems concrete will be an advanced construction method.. but it will be much harder to obtain than just scrap metal lying around.

when they were tearing down the house they gathered the worn down metal parts ect but they also obtained concrete.. so people believe that concrete could be used if you had enough of it.

Neither of those places are in Bethesda video games, so they probably don't count. Bethesda showed in Fallout 3 that they love their shack-of-trash and hate anything to do with maintaining a clean environment (seriously, people just slept on dirty mattresses in filthy homes because they couldn't bother sweeping it once since the bombs went off 200 years ago). Everything they showed about FO4 so far maintains that look.

I hope that you can build things that actually look like new construction rather than some ugly POS, but I don't count upon it.

There are many intact houses in NV because it wasn't hit as hard as the Capital... I don't think there were any post war buildings in NV...

Unfortunately you're not wrong here. If I move Sole Survivor back to his/her home, chances are I won't be able to clean up the place, aside from the putting the random odd junk back on the shelves and tables. Overturned chair? Stays overturned forever. Random trash in the middle of the den? Will stay there forever.

I also do hope that we'll be able to make something that looks at least clean and new. Not asking it to look like a glorious, shiny mansion, just something that looks like Sole Survivor gives a crap about keeping it clean.

I asked that question on here as well (I asked about rebuilding "CLEAN" - as building shacks etc. that look just as bad as everything surrounding them, containing dingy beds and lumpy/dirty mattresses etc. is not to my liking (why make the effort if it doesn't look better than it did before you even got started?)) and I would still like an answer to it

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I think the first thing I'll do in Fallout 4 is tear down everything in Sanctuary Hills...

Wipe the slate clean... Begin again.

Finding Sanctuary Hills... That's not the hard part.

It's letting go.

Ideally you're going to want to take it one building at a time to get a feel for it if it's going to be the first thing you plan to do.

I plan to make the gas station at sanction hill my home base, judging by what we saw at E3 it looks to have a garage similar to the teaser/wallpaper, so it be a perfect place to call home.