Do you live in am established settlement, or with companions, or all by yourself? What location did you choose - why did it speak to you? Did you ever move from Sanctuary/Red Rocket? Maybe you've forgone settlements altogether and live in Home Plate, or are squatting elsewhere.

If you are the squatting type, the storm bunker in Sanctuary is great. It can't be modified, but it has 4 safe-use containers (crate, safe, toolbox, med), a radio, lighting, and a bed - and being its own cell, it's safe from rad storms AND Sanctuary settlers won't wander in! You can even go crafting outside to make a fast-travel mat directly to the door. (If you're on PC, you can disable the natty house up top and make a great crafting shed there - just get the duffel on the roof, first!)

Personally, like so many players, I'm a Red Rocket fan. The building is sturdy, secure (lack of windows aside), and it doesn't have a leaky roof like anything I built myself inevitably would. The space is not so small you cannot build, yet is still small enough that everything important can be held together and easily protected - no vast empty spaces. I do wish I could get rid of that obnoxious counter, though. It's also a skip and a jog away from Sanctuary.

This despite the fact I haven't done much with Sanctuary beyond the Minuteman quest - been focusing on Starlight instead.

How about you guys?

Castle, in the far back corner in the room with rubble...why...I don't know I sorta just picked it.

Yet with all the drugs he's on he rarely sleeps except with his concubines such as Piper and Cate.

Usually he spends his time making power armor sets...and his a fetish for all things X-01.

First playthrough I settled in at the Castle. Built it up well past it's original limit. Second playthrough I'm using Home Plate as my place to store everything and sleep. Made the Red Rocket into a spot for companions and power armor storage.

Had no idea of the storm bunker you mentioned, pretty cool. I started at Taffington Boathouse, moved to Egret Tours Marina, mainly because both of these have flat surfaces to build good looking foundations and water to expand out on. Eventually i yearned for something simpler and moved to my favourite spot which is Aberthany farm. I really love the aesthetic and simplicity, so i build my own personal spot on the roof that i'm quite proud of now;

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I enjoyed the challenge of building something within the limited space. It has produced different shapes that i would not have planned for. It's got loads of storage and is perfect for me. I'm thinking of moving my favorite companions over. Now i cant think of a better place to build next. The island was my only thought.. but i don't like overly complicated things.

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The Castle. Stark claimed it for the Brotherhood and he mans it to keep the Minutemen in line. Their radio beacon is an invaluable resource.

The Castle General's quaters. Put in a trunk, some paintings, a bed, a desk, and now it's rather cozy.

When I first came out of the vault I immediately scrapped Sanctuary and built a home. I was the a little disappointed that Preston and his gang moved in there.. but since I really didn't want to build another settlement I decided to just have a go at making that one work. So far it's doing well. 88% happiness and I haven't even given them electricity. .. They always become a bit unhappy when a new person moves in.. the happiness level usually drops to around 80 for some reason.. then eventually goes back up. I find this humorous.

What is SS stand for?

I have Red Rocket built up nicely. Had about 8 settlers there for a time. I eventually grew tired of them, and since my other settlements were as full as I wanted, i sent them away.

Via a few mini nukes.

SS is Sole Survivor.

I'll admit my first thought was schutzstaffel. but then i realized sole survivor.

Yeah. I cringe every time someone uses it for the survivor.

Hangman's Alley :]

My SS (sorry Treng) lives in the Red Rocket Station with a Large Metal Shack on the roof containing a Jukebox, Television, Chair, four beds for him and the wives, a Bobblehead Stand, and a hallway leading out to a toilet and bathtub for the top floor. The bottom floor I've filled with paintings, and other material to make the place more homey. I added a second bathroom on the first floor as well as another bed for guests like Nick Valentine or Synth Shaun from the Institute. Recently, I added a baby's crib and I've decided that's where any children the wives and I have will keep their younglings.

I keep the Vault-Tech guy living in a shack by the Red Rocket Station as the caretaker. He also farms crops for me. He's sort of my slave.

I've also made Home Plate a worthwhile place to live and have decided that I gave that to Nat to live in when not living there. It's wrong the poor girl is abandoned by her sister so I figured I might as well give her a safe place to live.

I've decided Nat will get hired as my babysitter when I'm adventuring.

One thing I always make sure to add to my places is plenty of toilets.

Because, why wouldn't I?

Top floor of the lighthouse. I let my companions live in the house proper.

Near the beach. Nothing like a little scotch or wine paired with the sights and sounds of the ocean.

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With mademoiselle

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^ was that before or after the vertibird you called took your heads off and blew your traders to the high winds through propwash?

Silly Rabbit, the Vertibird is my chariot! What with that tyrant Maxson mysteriously unable to wake from his slumber... the brotherhood now does my bidding

"To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...” -Shakespeare

Hangman Alley is where me and my companions (and one ghoul trader) stay, chose the location because it's in the middle of the world map, and I used to run back and forth instead of using fast travel, used to.

I built small village on spectacle island, moved all my companions there, put a laundered dress on everyone, and made a sort of cult. They all have max affinity with me, basically worship me. I have a bell in the middle of the village, when I use it everyone forms a circle around me and I pick the person that will sleep with me for the rested perk. It's pretty funny. I found this to be the only good use for all those broken and useless companions after I do their quests and they start saying the same lines over and over again.

I am also waiting for a decent, not save breaking mod to remove limits and clipping on settlements so I can make a flying construction high above center of commonwealth. Those generators powered by wind will be nice element, when I'll be able to rotate it freely.

Red Rocket.

Not too big, not too small, solid building with a roof.

Red Rocket roof. No one else there except me and Dogmeat.

I'm a misantrophe...

Spectacle Island. So much building space, and it comes with a free and powerful generator that's already got power pylons going through half the island. I've turned the little shack on the other end of the island into my main hangout - it's got all of the crafting stations in close proximity, and it's just cozy. But I've also built a huge pirate fortress and shantytown on the island for my settlers to enjoy, with a boardwalk marketplace and a big old pirate tavern. It's where all of my companions and level 4 traders live.

My main settlement is at the Drive in. One large residence on the southern edge with my own private penthouse up top - there's no bed there so the settlers never go up there! That's where my bobblehead stand, my magazine racks, and my model display shelves are. Then there's a construction garage to the north with all the workbenches, and the diner part of it has become a market place.

Despite that, I send my companions to Red Rocket - it's easier to keep track of them there!

Currently I only have 21 settlers at sanctuary, build a nice little town there ontop of the old houses, with a market hall, my office, a skybar and bedrooms and a large metal early game Minutemen HQ. Down on the road I just have the stairs leading up the houses and the after-hours-noodlebar where ALL of them meet every night around 8pm to sit and have noodles

Fixed up the castle walls but waiting for ideas to pop up reg. interior...

For myself and my closest companions I fixed up Croup Manor last night and will move my inner circle in there soon....still debating on the namelist tho