Which location is the best to build settlements?

Other than Sanctuary Hills and Warwick Farm, literally no where the game tells you to. None of the other areas make sense. Most settlements are located near people that can kill them, but they get attacked from across the map.

Also the settlement system is a huge chunk of wasted potential. Building settlements should have led to a story line between the Gunners and Minutemen. Also, the Gunners shouldn't have been just different raiders. As well as warlords that run the land.
 
Let me give you some advice, just don't. Back when I actually tried to play Fallout 4, the Settlement system was one of the most irritating things imaginable. First of all, there's been a glitch since launch day where, if you leave your settlement for too long, for some reason the "bed" counter will drop to 0, even if you've put like 20 viable beds down in a single settlement.

Second of all, even if you don't set up a radio broadcast, people from all over will still show up to your new towns, and you'll have to constantly provide food, shelter, water, and defense for all of them. On top of that, your settlements will randomly be attacked, most of the time when you're nowhere near them and in the middle of something else, and you'll have to fast travel there to defend the settlement or else every single person in it will die because they're incompetent AI.

It's a shitton of micromanaging, especially if you decided to get the Minutemen Ending, which requires you having unlocked like 30 settlements. It's just better off ignoring the settlement system entirely, trust me, or every few minutes you're going to be picking up junk to use to make stuff for your dozens of settlements, or you'll have to fast travel in the middle of a mission to protect them, or they'll glitch out and you'll have to teleport there to reset your counters, etc etc etc.
 
I've heard Jericho's a good place to build a settlement; Rome is supposedly a place with abundant resources and it's situated on a strategic Peninsula, so you might want to look into establishing one over there; Dubai's suppose to be pretty prosperous, but I really like dates so I might be a bit biased towards the Middle East.
Really just look for a place with nice agricultural resources, you should be able to build a settlement anywhere as long as you have access to water and food. Welcome to the Neolithic revolution!
 
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Honestly the settlement system is the only thing I enjoy in FO4, a terrible RPG, but a great Sims game...

I just like building things and pandering to my OCD of placement and position. I find it quite relaxing :D

To all those that are nay-saying their dislike of the system etc, please don't be dismissive of others enjoyment. It's a little impolite to the OP that had posted a genuine question but thus far no response has been 'helpful' to the enquiry.
 
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Dunno, i got three main connected enclaves: Red Rocket (Truck stop?), the doge location (why the molerat holes don't go away?!), my house for the most part, fairly cute with a 4 story armored barracks for settlers on top, and nice overall, gave the place a lot of love. About that, i'd wished there was only ONE settlement (free to choose which, of course) : your home, and be able to minmax, micromanage, and decorate the sh*t out of it, like a The Sink/Lucky 38 suite/Tenpenny/Megaton.
Well, back on it. In the middle of the map, just by DC there is Hangman alley, my centric spot, and further away i got The Castle.
The latter is nice, but only if you mod your settlement prop avaleibility AND the dumb "Size" meter out.
It makes for a semi-decent view of the sea, but the best thing about it is the constant BOS vertibird traffic to the Pridwen. Either way you are allied to them, you can just shoot them down and they won't even care
 
My feelings on the Settlement building aside (I won't get into them), I found either the Sanctuary, or this Island in the Corner of the Map to be ideal.
Personally, they should have been the only two spots to build settlements.
 
Izak said:
I've heard Jericho's a good place to build a settlement; Rome is supposedly a place with abundant resources and it's situated on a strategic Peninsula, so you might want to look into establishing one over there; Dubai's suppose to be pretty prosperous, but I really like dates so I might be a bit biased towards the Middle East.
Really just look for a place with nice agricultural resources, you should be able to build a settlement anywhere as long as you have access to water and food. Welcome to the Neolithic revolution!
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I'll keep that in mind. Thanks :)
 
If you just want a place where you can build a lot and have plenty of space, it's Spectacle Island. You'll need to clear it of Mirelurks first, and then that's it. It's the largest land mass for settlements, with some preexisting buildings to make things interesting as far as what to do with them. For example, I ended up turning the cargo ship covered in shipping containers into Hobo apartments. I also built a couple of apartment buildings; a rec area; a mad scientist lab filled with cats where I build robots; a little shopping center; and I turned the broken down house into a Gunner/Raider slaughter house [One of the very few times I found cages and traps worthwhile]. And I still have enough room for one or two more buildings.
 
If its your first go at the settlement/sims take slow and easy. My advice just fence in Sanctuary and start off slow and small. Build a small generator hook it up to a house with a bed a rug and a few lights and a radio. Plant a few different crops and a water pump or two then go play a bit of the game and gather some junk. Repeat. Hold off on doing MM Settlement radiant quests while you build up Sanctuary maybe you use the RRTruckstop as an FOB of sorts.
 
Also... For all the builders out there (that might not know)

Open the console & type: scrapall

Instant clearance of all scrapable items - leaving the area fresh n' ready to be built on.
I'm also a big fan of having a bat file to add build material items instantly, but I know that's not for everyone.
 
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