There are a lot of different ways to set up supply lines inFallout 4, but some ways are better than others. Some choices for setting up supply lines between settlements are simply an aesthetic choice, but there is some practicality to players’ choices. With a little planning, you canconnect your settlements in ways that look nice and feel practical.
Settlements inFallout 4provide a wealth of different benefits to the player, but having supply lines makes those benefits even better. It allows you to usesome inventories of any connected settlement in the workshop or crafting stations, such as the Junk and Miscellaneous categories. Any excess food and drinks will be sent to connected settlements that do not have enough. Additionally, aprovisioner assigned to supply lines can act as a patrolwho can take out enemies along the route.
The provisionercannot be killed by NPC attacks, and if attacked they will get up and keep working. However,they can be killed by player mines, so be careful where you put them.
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The Best Supply Line Setup
Stars And Circles
As stated before, there areseveral different ways to connect your settlements. Notably, as long as a settlement is connected to another one that is connected to every settlement, they will be connected to every single one. Soas long as you have one connection that goes to every single settlement, that’s all you need.
YouTuber Oxhorngoes over several different methods by which to connect your settlements, but two stand out as being better. The last, what he calls the Circle, looksnice aesthetically but is not practical, and your provisioners will take a long time to travel. The second, the Community Hub, makes more butmight be the most complicated for you to try to connect yourself.
That leaves the Star pattern and the Constellation pattern. The Star in Oxhorn’s video is based out of The Mechanist’s Lair, but the basic idea is topick a home hub and connect every settlement directly to it. This allows all supplies to be shared through that hub and Oxhorn suggests itfeels the best from a strictly roleplaying perspective.
Lastly, the Constellation feels like the best way to connect a settlement, for practicality, the aesthetic, and the roleplaying. It works for practical and roleplaying purposes because it ishow people would traditionally travel between cities on trade routes, and aesthetically itmakes your map look like a star map.
To make the Constellation,simply connect settlements to their closest neighbor by the shortest route. The settlements on the outskirts will not have two connections, but the ones in between other settlements will. A few settlements that sit at crossroads will have three, but thereshould not be multiple lines going in the same direction. And to its advantage over the Star version, it does not seemingly have any glitches where settlements do not register that they are connected to each other. This makes it the best settlement supply line setup inFallout 4.
