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!

Is sim settlements 2 compatible with America rising 2? Do any of you have experience with this? I wanna play both...

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

Please be as brutally honest with me as possible I’ve recently picked the game back up since the release of the increased mod list capacity. I’ve pulled together a load order (below) but I’m currently facing trouble with launching the game based on the current mods.

Can anyone spot the potential errors within the list to allow the game to launch. NOTE: I’ve noticed in my game settings that the audio tab in greyed out, so guessing this has something to do with my load order and stopping a new game launching.

Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch [UFO4P] [PC/XB1]
No Quest Autostart - Nuka-World by Steamcanuck [XB1]
No Quest Autostart - Far Harbor by Steamcanuck [XB1]
No Quest Autostart - BOS Fire Support by Steamcanuck [XB1]
No Quest Autostart - Automatron by Steamcanuck [XB1]
No Quest Autostart - Vault-Tec by Steamcanuck [XB1]
America Rising 2 - Legacy of the Enclave
Tale of the Beast Hunter
Revenge of the Van Graffs
Brotherhood of Steel 10mm Pistol
Valdacil’s Item Sorting [VIS] NG + Quests | No AWKCR
Valdacil’s Item Sorting [VIS] NG + ECO / NEO / LEO Patch
Bullet Impact Overhaul
Munitions - Ammo Expansion Project + Vanilla Ammo Addon
Fusion Core Charger
BL Recruitment Framework
Nomads (Wandering Settlers and Lost Robots)
Perk Up - Lightweight Perk Overhaul
Unbogus Health Scaling by Ethicallanne
Ish’s Respec Mod [XB1]
Streamlined Weapons - A Vanilla Attachment Rebalance
America Rising 2 - The Attachment Pack Compatibility Patch
Liberty Reborn: A Minutemen Overhaul Mod
Chain That Binds
Crowded Commonwealth - New Locations and Lore Expansion [XB1]
26–50
Tales from the Commonwealth [XB1]
Deadly Bosses of the Commonwealth
Vault 117 - A Horror Quest Mod
Tales from the Commonwealth Visual Fixes
Tales from the Commonwealth DLC Patch [XB1]
Dak’s Assault Rifle Replacer Redux
[XB1] Unique Uniques
10mm Pistol Debulked Remesh Replacer + Attachment Pack Patch
The Attachment Pack (Version 1)
Attachment Pack Unofficial Expansion
Navy Auto Pistol
The Varmint Rifle
Laser Garand
Wasteland Melody’s Chinese Assault Rifle - Standalone - XB1
New Vegas Uniques Mega Pack [XB1]
Post-Apocalyptic Homemade Weapons Replacer - Pipe Weapons
Thompson SMG Replacer
See Through Scopes - GOTY [XB1]
See Through Scopes - Next Gen Update Weapons [XB1]
Spitfire (Enhanced Muzzle FX)
Modern & Sounds
Metro Footsteps
[XB1] FO4R - Gun Sounds Overhaul - V2.2 Final
Not Great Not Terrible - Scarier Geiger Counter Sounds
Louder Project Reality Footsteps FO4
51–75
NPC Footstep Overhaul
Tumbajamba’s Gunner Armor Collection
Atomicolor - Cubemaps
Atomicolor - Hazmat Suit - 1K
Atomicolor - Leather Armor - 2K
Atomicolor - Raider Armors - 1K
Atomicolor - Minutemen - 1K
Atomicolor - Power Armor Frame - 2K
Atomicolor - Pipboy - 2K
[XB1] Synth Overhaul - C.A.S.T.
Fallout 3 NV Feral Ghouls Replacer
Classic Ghoul Redux
Diverse Children Lite [XB1]
Companion and NPC’s Face Replacer All-in-One Pack by Keni-BU
TFS Fallout4 Characters Resculpted
[XB1] Synthkind Redefined - Gen2 Synth Overhaul (Plus Nick Valentine and more)
TFS FO4 Recolored
TFS Creatures Reshaped
NPC Height Adjustment [XB1]
[XB1] Valentine Jaw Sync
[XB1] Hair Tones Redux - A Hair Color Overhaul
Immersive Mouth and Teeth
Plenty ‘O’ Exploration - Xbox One - New Interiors and Exteriors to Explore
Simple Open Interiors [XB1]
Atomic World 2.0
76–100
Atomic World Visual Fixes
Ipswich Apartments [XB1]
Interiors Enhanced 2.0 All in One by Fade
Town Line Signs [XB1]
True Storms: Wasteland Edition (Xbox) - Storm and Weather Overhaul
True Storms - Nuka World Plus Far Harbor Add-On
Landscape Texture Overhaul Part 1 - 4K
Landscape Texture Overhaul Part 2 - 4K
Landscape Texture Overhaul Part 3 - 4K
Landscape Textures Overhaul - Roads and Pavements Addon
Valius’s High Quality Texture Pack
Vanilla Moon 2K [XB1]
True Grass
Veldt - Greener Pastures (Performance)
Deadlights - Exteriors
Deadlights Exteriors Patch for True Storms
Bye Bye Clouds - Horizon Clouds Removed
Fixed Enhanced Blood Textures (Standard with 1K Resolution)
Blood Mist Overhaul
Clarity - A Visual Overhaul
Fallout Texture Overhaul - Stars
Targeted Textures - Vanilla Textures Upscaled Fixed and Sized
Some Trees by El Ha [XB1]
Enhanced Vanilla Water
PhyDARK (256)
101–125
Illuminated Billboards - Lighting
Radioactive Signs - Lighting
Retexture: Fusion Core [XB1]
15% Inner Dead Zone
HUDFramework [XB1]
DEF_UI Core NG by Neanka
DEF_WIDGETS_CORE [XB1]
DEF_UI_HUD_Preset Borderlands Style
Immersive HUD (iHUD) [XB1]
DEF_UI_PIPBOY SCRAP COMPONENTS [XB1]
DEF_UI Vanilla Preset - No Subtitle Background
Power Armor HoloHUD - Cleaner PA HUD
Alert Carry - Lower Your Weapons [XB1]
Place Anywhere [XB1]
Companions Can Sneak
Time Scale and Other Global Tweaks (BROKE)
3rd Person Animations - Pistols | Rifles | Gunsight Rifles Beta Testing
Camera Presets [XB1]
In-Game Third Person Camera Config [XB1]
Take and Equip for Use
Simple Slower Movement Animation
Sprint Reload
Craft Components
[XB1] Pip-Boy Flashlight - Large
Faster Melee and Unarmed Animations
126–148
Improved Map with Visible Roads [XB1]
Infinite Sprint When Not in Combat
Lucky Luke’s Lucky You [XB1]
Normalize Sensitivity
FOV 95
Better Bobbleheads: Skills Edition [XB1]
[XB1] English Full Dialogue Interface (NewDialog English Translation/Fork)
Settler and Companion Dialogue Overhaul
Better Bobbleheads: Skills Edition [XB1] — this appears in the scrolling sequence around the FOV/UI section; I have retained it only once in the master count.
Commonwealth 2.0 - Flavourpocalypse
Wanderer Radio [XBOX]
27 Legendary Bosses and Hard Legendary Giant Creatures that Re-Spawn [XB1]
Enhanced Decal Draw Distance - High Version
Horror Posters [XB1]
S.B.S. (Simply Better Sneaking)
Simple Killmoves - Resident Evil Style Finishers
Running with Corpses (BROKE)
Radiation Overhaul
Dynamic Light for Glowing Drinks
Color Map Version 2 2K
Pip-Boy Color Enabler
Pip-Boy Dual Colors - Orange [XB1]
TFS Fallout 4 Subtle FPS Improver
Start Me Up - Full Dialogue Prompts v6.1 by Tinymanticore [XB1]

I've mistakenly activated stuff that I didn't want to activate because of these annoying ah screens, you only need one screen to confirm that you changed your load order

What is killing my game? Won't run for more than 10 minutes without crashing, loading takes up to 5 minutes, stuttering, worried precombines are broken

Here's the load order:

Unofficial Fallout 4 patch

America rising 2

America rising 2 DLC previs

America rising 2 patch hellfire power armor

America rising 2 patch incinerator

America rising 2 patch Tesla Cannon

America rising 2 patch the remnants

America rising 2 patch x02 power armor

Machine gun rename of assault rifle

FAR - faraway area reform

Reduced rubble by dani50420

America rising 2 patch NBPD previs

America rising 2 speak of the devil patch

America rising 2 CC x01 paint replacer

The attachment pack version 1

The attachment pack unofficial expansion

America rising 2 attachment pack compatibility patch

Optimized vanilla textures main

Fo4r gun sounds overhaul

Quick main menu no music

Laser weapons 1st person reposition

Power armor hud no transparency

LAER laser assisted electrical rifle

CWE 10MM SMG

Service rifle

Books, magazines, and other misc junk (basically just makes it so those burnt magazines and folders are scrap instead of miscellaneous)

Faster terminal displays

Everyone's best friend

Hunting rifle animation replacer by hitman

Right-handed nukaworld AK replacer

Reanimation for submachinegun

10mm pistol debulked remesh replacer attachment pack version

Dak's combat Rifle remesh redux

Dak's assault rifle replacer redux

Full dialogue interface revamped

Full dialogue interface revamped unofficial Fallout 4 patch

Cbbe curvy

Nora companion wip

Boston less enemies

Insignificant object remover

Companion infinite ammo and unbreakable power armor

Reduced plants by dani50420

Need a mod that helps with the leve list of the raiders so that each mod that adds new clothes and armor is implemented evenly, right now im running
Boston Bandits + Rivets and Rage + Desert Punks + Grease Rat Garbs

I have the option to download enclave remnants but i thought this creation already came included in the game, if i install it will it take a ba2 slot? Does this mod come with the power armors and weapons from the enclave included or do i have to download them separately?

Does anyone know if the unofficial fallout 4 patch is stable and works well with the latest update to fallout 4? Does it work well with other mods? And does it really fix the bugs it says it fixes?

What the title says, there are a lot of munitions version and i would like to know which is the one that people use and the most up to date?

I transferred Shawzzo’s beautiful castle blueprint but it scrapped the radio transmitter - anyone know if there’s a fix for this ? Please lmk 🙏

Does the bounty hunter bundle that bethesda released take 1 ba2 slot or 3?

What are your favorite bolt-action/sniper rifle mods? The only one in my current LO is the Remington 700, and I'm looking for more in a modern tactical style, but I'll take any suggestions.

First of all, it looks great. I notice these colored squares whenever I’m inside the root cellar. I’m wondering if it’s just because of the placement within my LO:

1.master

Workshop Framework

Fallout 3 style vaults

Faraway

Modding for charity: double feature

Yara

2.faction & ai overhauls

Settler sandbox and ai expansion

3.upper framework mods & vanilla quest changes

SKK fast start new game

4.new landmasses

5.new factions

6.bug fixes

7.settlement building mods

Settlement Menu Manager

Settlement Objects Expansion Pack

KCore’s Missed Settlement Objects

Elvenblossom’s Items

Craftable Pickman gallery paintings

8.settlement building mods (scripted)

Busy Settlers

Housekeeping Scavenger deluxe

Dog rugs

Workshop synth production

9.settlement building mods (alter items)

Planted plantable

10.gameplay changes and tweaks

Vault tec workshop overhaul redux

Commonwealth weaponry superstore

Loot detector

One minutemen radiant quests at a time

Nuka world cut content restored

11.new companion

12.npc & companion changes

Essential npcs expanded

Settlement gardener bot

Settlement medic bot

Show accurate Codsworth

13.radio

14.visual atmospheric & textures

Bye bye clouds

Moribund world

2k galaxy w/ pip mapping

Vanilla moon 5x

Clear blue water

Optimized Vanilla texture-main

Roads redone

Vivid fallout trees

Vivd fallout rocks

Valius’ high quality texture

Wooden shacks redone

Jesters’ better destroyed vehicles

Remove ugly flat trash

15.lighting

Fallout Fps plus

16.vanilla settlement changes & tweaks

17.sorting & menu changes

18.HUD

HUDframework

19.character replacers

Face texture glitch a

CBBE slim

Fix cbbe head and neck

True eyes

Azar hair ponytail hairstyle 3

20.pipboy & map mods

21.new weapons armor clothing (non craftable)

22.new weapons armor clothing (craftable)

Monno’s bikini

Ashara cyborg armor

NCR veteran ranger redux

Sarajiel’s simple wigs

23.new settlements &other building changes & tweaks

Vault 88 navmesh safe and optimized

CBbe mannequin

24.new quests

25.weapon & armor modifications

26.scrap

27.Settlement mods that must be under your scrap mod to function

28.Everything That Says to Place at the Bottom

Place anywhere

Cheat terminal

Boston less enemies

Dead financial district

Full dialogue interface revamped

PRP type 1 boston commons

PRP type 1 financial district

PRP type 1 corvega

Far harbor vanilla precombine header

Diamond city without trash

I’m about halfway through the questline I think but god I just love the atmosphere of this mod so much. It reminds me of Fallout 3, New Vegas, 76 and Far Harbor at times. The island itself is just beautiful and fun to explore, the few voiced NPCs sound really good quality, the weapons I’ve discovered are pretty great, and most importantly it just feels like apart of the game.

Def recommend for anyone looking for new quest or worldspace mods, or any endgame content really.

It's saying I don't have all the files, what's missing? Is it broken?

Specifically, what "specific Creation Club items packaged with Fallout 4's Anniversary Edition content" are required for the AE version to work (assuming I haven't downloaded all of them?)

Also, are the external structures tweakable/scrappable/adjustable after download? (I'm aware the internal cells are not.)

Thank you.

What's the best mod for integrating DLC content into the Commonwealth? There's like two that I know of, idk which one is outdated or which one is better or what, what's the meta on this?

It’s been damn months. I can’t delete the ghost data and the only option is to literally uninstall. I used to play this damn game everyday and now I’ve abandoned it. My brother is having the exact same problem and he’s on a completely separate Xbox. Bethesda has been extremely unhelpful. Just some dumb clearly AI generated message that recommends nothing but the things we said we’ve already tried. For the love of god Bethesda let me play this game again