After talking Fallout 4 with a couple of folks I've discovered that we all have our own little "habits" that define our Wasteland Experience.

I don't mean practical tricks of the trade.

I mean the odd ball "just because" struff.

Me?

I turn on every single radio I find, all the time.

I also shoot the heads off of every non-owned Mannequin I come across.

What are some of the others you folks out there in Forum Land have?

I've taken to looking in every toilet and urinal for drugs. Thanks Fallout 4!

I am obsessed with my own post-adventure and pre-filght checks.

examine all loot. put in respective containers. file away junk. repair PA.

next day, choose my weapons, armor and aids. take care of any farming. talk to Dogmeat (that may be alittle too much, but he seems to like it !)

so like 2 hours in game time to go through these tasks.

I shoot the heads off every Monkey I find!

Also, I rather drop a looted gun, before I drop any junk when I'm over-encumbered! LOL

@ Tawnee: Oh yea, totally. I have to open every bathroom stall, but not looking for drugs, just making sure that nothing sneaks up on me!

I'm not sure if it's weird or not, but I have to sleep every game day when it gets dark.. even if it's only for an hour or so till the sun comes up. I'm not sure why, but it compels me. If I'm out on a scav run and it gets about 7:30, I start searching for a campsite for the night.

I also like to sit on my balcony, listen to the radio, and watch my settlers toil away at the earth. "Ahhh, it's good to own land."

shooting all the monkeys

turning every radio off

closing every door after I leave the building

eating at least a steak each day for no reason

I stay the hell away from baby carriages. Those who played FO3 should understand.

I loot light objects first, usually aluminum cans. My favorites are, in no particular order: abraxo cleaner, duct tape, telephones, typewriters, gas canisters. I will always make room for these.

I also used to clear rooms with nades all the time, until I found out I was ruining the dev placed teddy bears

I separate my MISC junk on different containers. Notes all go into a desk drawer. Holotapes go into a floor safe I put in my room. Drugs go into a chembox. Clothing into a cabinet or dresser.

I don't build walls for my settlements, I encourage my settlers to defend themselves and self sustain. No excessive turrets either.

I love sending my companions into a room full of hostiles, to serve as a distraction while I sneak around the edge of the room picking them off. Sometimes I send them over to test out traps too. "Hey Piper, see that glowing red laser line near the ground? Go walk over it and see what happens. It looks cool!"

I stay back and off to the side of any stall door I open. If nothing happens, then I look inside.

I hit cars with a sledgehammer and watch them blow up.

I collect the BOS tags off of the ones I kill and keep them in a box by my bed.

I loot EVERYTHING no matter how many trips it takes. Well I did stop looting armor and clothes. Got to many naked corpses lieing around the wasteland as is. And I make sure to shoot the heads off of every evil Satan controlled monkey I see.

I sort my endless about of items.

Guns:

-Regular

-Unique

-Named (by me)

Armor:

-Regular

-Unique

Food:

-Box for "non-perishable" food

-Box for "fruit and veggies"

-Box for meats, fungus, etc.

Aid:

-Cooler for meds

Ice Box:

-for my nuka cola

My alcohol goes in a cabinet on the wall behind my bar, and miscellaneous documents go into a desk, magazines and bobbleheads on their respective racks.

My other wasteland quirks:

-I have to have atleast 3-5 power armors at each of my settlements.

-I always stop at my "home" settlement to offload everytime before I get out of game. (mansion about red rocket, no other people)

-I usually segregate my settlements, my "servants" get quarters usually close to the ground near their crops, my guards get quarters near guard towers, and me, I usually put my quarters above everybody else.

-I usually keep cooler junk items, unless I have more than one. I have a jangles the monkey hanging out of a sofa, my giddyup butter cup in the middle of my house, models on a desk, and I am currently on a quest to complete a pool table with all the balls. And I literally have an alarm clock next to my bed in my main house.

I take a radaway every night before I go to bed if I have any kind of radiation. Even if it is only one rad.

I would so love to pop open a bathroom stall sometime and see a feral ghoul standing on the bowl, ready to pounce... yeah, I know, cheap thrills... but all I've seen in 200+ hours is one super mutie coming out of a bathroom.

I'm not sure, but if that happened to me. I'll be constipated for life.

I never trade my junk to companions to carry...weapons, armour, etc is fair, but that assorted odds and ends is just to valuable to trust to those numpties.

Fed up with my settlers not doing what I've told them. Each settlement now has a small walled building where I can 're-educate' them.

with my best Samuel L Jackson impression....

"listen up mother******, if I tell you to harvest that mother******* corn, you better move your god ****** ass and get it done. If I ask a mother****** to stand behind an emporium, that ***hole better be stood behind all bright eyed and bushy tailed. Make me say this again one more god ****** time, I dare you!"

The second offence usually results in a messy murder with decapitation and dismemberment with the body parts scattered around as a warning.

Same about the monkeys, except I bash them so I don't waste a bullet.

I pick up every dropped enemy's gun, then drop it again (if I don't want it, or my carry capacity is full). You get a full clip worth of ammo when you pick up a weapon. I never take the gun from the enemy's inventory if I can pick it up off the floor instead.

If there is a door or safe that can be both lock-picked and hacked, I hack the computer, but don't disengage the lock. Then I pick the lock. Double XP!

LOL you all crack me up, but I admire and love all your quirks!!

I also organize my loot into different containers. Books, letters, notes and holotapes have to go into a desk! I usually specifically just build a desk for those items! Did the same in Skyrim, notes always went into a drawer or a nightstand, never into a chest LOL Books on the shelves.

I'm also working on finding the last few missing billiard balls, so I have a complete set. I was so happy when I found a rack for my billiard table! Ah, it's the small things that make me happy! LOL

I've actually have come across a ghoul in a stall and one stall was even rigged with explosives! I was like, well that's new! LOL

Yup, that tactic saved my butt, when something exploded in a stall.

@ Minke: LOL re-educate your settlers!!! hahahahaha

Hoarding glue, hunting deathclaws with a combat knife, you know the normal stuff

Lol, oh I enjoyed that. How do you kill a settler without them turning against you? Sneak attack?

I shoot those creepy mokeys. After opening a Nuka machine to grab the cola I close it again. I'm not even sure why, but I still do it. Also have a storage system where "everything has it's place." Too convoluted to describe but it works for me. I scrap all junk manually.

Ha.. I turn on all radios I find also. No idea why.

I activate all protectrons. .. usually they aren't at all necessary but I like letting them feel useful.

I keep collecting turpentine. Left over habit from the past two games.

OCD organizing habits. Even though I could just dump everything in the workbench the only thing I store in there is junk and mods. Everything else gets it's own type of storage container.

Removing all mods from everything I find and then scrapping or selling the basic guns/armor.

Collecting and then ignoring legendary items. I have no idea why I'm picking them up / buying them at all. There's tons of them, none of them seem all that great to me.

"Using Toilets" Toilets I find that are in really good shape I pretend to use.. like my character is just so happy see a usable toilet that she just has to use it. Every now and then I've come across a shower that at least looks like it should work and pretend to bathe as well.

Sneaking at all times. I've gotten so used to being in a crouched position that I often forget to stand up when I really don't need to be crouched. (my characters back must be so out of whack by now.)

Mass Murdering.. Seriously, my character has a problem.. When you come across raiders out in the middle of nowhere.. it's not like they are actually being bad people. They simply seem to be people defending what little they have. It's kind of sad really that I'm just wandering around killing for no real reason other than I want to look inside where they happen to be and maybe steal some of their stuff. In most scenarios, I'm the fricken raider.

Close refrigerator doors, fiddle with every HAM radio I come across (did this in FO3, too, lol).
I too, turn on every radio I find.

Dunno if this is quirky or not, but if there is a way "up", I take it. Climb as high as I can go and enjoy the views.

I turn off every radio that I find (if it's on), but I turn on every shortwave radio that I find (I know it doesn't do anything, but I do it anyhow).