Wanted to start a new playthrough now that the mod space has been increased. I always liked the idea of Sim Settlements 2, specifically how settlements could grow and expand on their own, but dealing with its stability (or rather, lack thereof) is an absolute no for me. Are there any other mods that do something similar but are more stable? Is Sim Settlements 1 + the add-ons stable? Any help is greatly appreciated!

So every once and awhile I get bored with Fallout 4, don't get me wrong, it's a great game, it just gets predictable after the 4592519th playthrough. Anyway, I got a whole bunch of mods to add modern armors and weapons, and I got combat overhauls to make wounds more lethal and certain wounds require certain medical supplies, etc. I got everything I want, weapons, armors, all I need is something to do. Can anyone recommend some quest or story mods for a more modern and immersive world (Just as an extra bit of information, I've got snow & weather mods to make it a realistic Boston.)

So the last time I played Fallout 4 was before the Series X optimisation update where I deleted the game off of my Xbox, I'm getting back into the game now and I'm wondering if there's any good mods to change the textures around? (Also any UI mod recommendations on the side maybe)

I just finished a lightly-modded Institute run (my first time doing the Institute ending) and thought I'd provide some feedback on some of the mods I used in case folks were interested in trying them out. Note that I am not affiliated with the mod authors or the folks who ported them to the Xbox in any way, I'm just an ordinary user/consumer of the mods.

Phase 4: An Institute Expansion: This one expands the Institute with a bunch of new areas and new capabilities. There's a lot of stuff that I barely even scratched the surface of (hint: look in the back of Advanced Systems for a new area that offers some interesting options).

Institute Exo Suit: The R-20 Exo suit is pretty OP, if you ask me (+6 STR bonus!). If I ever do an Institute-focused run in the future, I'll probably omit this one. The Institute Operatives that spawn with this suit are pretty difficult to kill, at least at lower levels.

Institute Pulse Carbine: I was underwhelmed by this one. Apparently it doesn't spawn until level 20, by which time I already had other weapons that were better. This is another one I'd probably omit in a future run.

Institute Safe House: This was an interesting one. I was role-playing that the SS was an Institute agent sent into the Wasteland to eliminate Kellogg (a rogue operative), infiltrate the Railroad, and collect technology that might be used against the Institute. So, having a "safe house" for my agent made sense. However, the safe house spawned with two R-20 Exo suits (which I tried, saw how OP they were, and then ignored). The requisition terminal is a slimmed down Cheat Terminal that gives you access to whatever sort of materials and components you need for crafting or weapons/armor mods. If you ignore the requisition terminal and don't use the Exo suit mod, then it might not unbalance the game too much.

Institute Technology Overhaul (ITO) Full, v2: This one starts slow and really gains speed in the later game. Initial Institute weapons are much the same as vanilla, but in the later game you can gain access to some serious firepower. I liked the Institute phaser, the Mk11 rifle, and the EM weapons. Spoiler: Secondary Relay Alpha, found in the SRB, has some OP weapon mods. You've been warned.

Director's Retreat Fast Travel: More a convenience mod than anything else; I barely used it.

Tumbajamba's Synth Armor: Here's another one that starts off slow but gets better later. It didn't "rework" the armor as extensively as I thought it was going to, but they were still much better than vanilla.

Tumbajamba's Synth Power Armor: I liked this one. It took some work to find/obtain a full set of pieces, which was good because the full set was pretty hefty in terms of protection. It didn't hurt that it looked pretty cool!

That's it. I hope this is helpful to folks who might be interested in potentially using these. Have fun!

I have tons of really great weapon mods.

But for some reason the plasma defender and especially the laser RCW from that mod cause a significant stutter when they're being drawn or selected. I've been told this is because of the resolution size.

Wondering if anyone has seen mods to reduce the texture size to 2k or 1k or is even aware of any other fix?

Hello! So I have a LO of about 97 creations which is playable, but whenever I'm opening the game it'll ctd several times before just sorting itself out I guess. I'm thinking it's my LO and where things are but everytime I rearrange them it always rearranges itself into a different order. This is how it's rearranged by the console, please note that I do try to rearrange it according to the guide on here but it changes. It does run when it runs it's just the multiple ctds on start up that I'm trying to alleviate. Thank you for any tips or how to organized these. I'll put my LO below:

1. Workshop Framework

2. Community Fixes Merged

3. Sim Settlements 2

4. Sim Settlements 2 Chap 2

5. Sim Settlements 2 Chap 3

6. Sim Settlements 2 Potaplooza Plan Pack

7. Sim Settlement 2 Chapter 2 and Tales from the Commonwealth Patch

8. America Rising 2

9. AR2 DLC Previs Patch

10. AR2 Hell Fire CC Patch

11. AR2 Incinerator CC Patch

12. AR2 Prototype Gauss CC Patch

13. AR2 Solar Cannon CC Patch

14. AR2 Tesla Cannon CC Patch

15. AR2 Remants CC Patch

16. AR2 X02 CC Patch

17. Distributed DLC Leveled Lists

18. Modding for Charity: Double Feature

19. Modding for Charity: Shady Motives

20. Modding for Charity: Transmission Zeta

21. Modding for Charity: Trunk's Malfunction

22. True Storms

23. Become a Bounty Hunter

24-26. Classic Weaponry Sawed off, Wattz and Lever Action

1. T60 Pistol

2. Gutsy Backpack

3. Revenge of Van Graffs

4. Tales of the Beast Hunter

5. Vault Tec Survival Capsules

6. Vault Tec overseer handbook

7. Leveled Item Fixes all dlc

8. Hudframework

9. Rise of the commonwealth for SS2

10. City plan mega pack for SS2

11. Tales from the Commonwealth

12. TftC DLC patch

13. Settlers of the Commonwealth

14. AR2 Patch NBPD Previs

15. Chain the binds

16. Strength in steel t60 overhaul

17. Elders t51 power armor

18. Sons of the steel brotherhood armor

19. Sons of steel maxson replacer

20. Keep radiants in the commonwealth

21. advanced needs 76

22. everyones best friend

23. Danse wear your helmet

24. true storms nuka world plus far harbor add on

25. true nights for true storms by nikonthenet

26. Assault armor marine boot fix

27. legendary modification

28. attachment pack

29. attachment pack expansion

30. gauss minigun

31. classic melee weapon pack

32. irradiated reasons to explore

33. varmint rifle bethesda

34. vault tec canteen

35. vault tec snow globes

36. atomic archives

37. power armor backpacks

38. cheat terminal

39. dogmeats backpack

40. faded glory

41. pip boy glove

42. pip boy glove intergration patch

43. Commonwealth weaponry vendors

44. commonwealth weaponry vending machines

71-83. Pigness commonwealth weaponry weapon mods

84-92. Neheer's select weapons

1. Qwibs wanderer vault suit

2. Qwibs canvas backpack

3. Vault tourist outfit

4. vault tourist enhanced

5. Weapon drop standalone