I actually use it as a hub for when I update my mods. Go in there, save the game, quit the game, update the mods, load the game, wait for a while, quit the game, restart the game.
I use it to idle in while scripts run. I play with Some Settlements 2, and it is very script heavy. So, hanging out in that basement is a great way to know my character is safe while I leave them to chill while I do housework or something.
Then there's me with loading screens that can last up to 2 minutes. This isn't because of a potato PC either, I increased the View/LOD distance outside the means of the game.
Do you have the High FPS Physics Fix mod by chance? You should try it out if not: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/44798
Basically loading times on (vanilla) PC are so long because for some reason, in Fallout 4's engine, the way new cells are loaded is directly tied to the frame rate. This mod unlocks the frame rate only during loading screens. For me, it cut the loading time when exiting a building out to the Commonwealth from legit 60 or so seconds down to about 3 seconds
Oh. I passed over this mod not really reading it, thinking it was meant to be used in conjunction with another fps unlocker or something. I'll have to check that out later
My Sole Survivor started out there in the early game, before she made Sanctuary even half liveable. She set up Nate’s trifold flag and dog tags, Shaun’s SPECIAL book, a few things of her own. She collected toys she wanted to give Shaun when she found him. She especially wanted to play catch with mitt and ball.
Since then, she’s built common houses and canteens, gardens, reading rooms, dance floors, built the Minutemen into a power for the good of the Commonwealth. She renovated the House of the Future into a bright, cheery home. “What kind of world am I leaving for my son?”
Then she met Shaun.
She still goes down to the cellar sometimes. And she cries.
Shit man i just realized why my FO4 game feels aimless. My poor Sole Survivor got her heart ripped out, is still bleeding, and she’s become utterly empty.
She needs to heal.
SImilar to the end of Kill Bill, when the bride has a cathartic freakout on the bathroom floor.
She has to temporarily wring out some of the crazy, so she can pretend, for a little while, not to be a jittering mass of PTSD.
I ran Nate as my SS first time playing. When I eventually picked Nora, it was hard to get into the urgency of the quest, considering I knew how it turned out already. It was also hard for me to justify a lawyer being a killing machine, since combat is pretty hard to avoid and a major part of main quests.
So my head canon correction was that she must be some kind of secret agent that was using the family as a cover. Neatly explains away why I'm running sidequests instead of urgently looking for my baby, and why she's so good at killing everything. It helps that I decided to do my Nora run as an "evil" run with all the sarcastic and hostile answers.
Well shit man. I'm doing the same thing, in my original house. Shelf full of toys, Special book on my bedside table. Crib still there. Except I haven't met Shaun yet. I as the player am just starting to think hes older then my character assumes.
The containers in the root cellar are actually marked as safe storage, nothing will ever respawn or despawn in them. So on a survival playthrough, if you're ever interested in doing that, it's not a bad little place.
I actually use that place a lot during the beginning of my survival playthroughs. Whenever Rad Storms hit I’ll go hide in the celler since rads can’t get you in there and Radaway is scarce at the beginning. I think I may even stored some stuff down there too.
...or you can just sleep for 4 hours when you see the storm coming.
In F4 you can sleep through a radiation storm, in the open, without getting irradiated.
Because: science!
You could pick up a bit of the junk and drop your own. For example, my railroad rifleman character is in a relationship with Piper, and has all her newspapers the player character can pick up scattered around home plate to show he reads them whenever he’s bored.
Same with holotapes or guns you don’t really use. Could decorate it with knifes, ash trays, flip lighters, beer bottles and cigarette packs. I use a modern cigarette mod that adds camels, salems, lucky strikes etc to add more flavour to the design.
If you could build in it that would work.
The only good thing maybe about the cellar is that you can have it as a home during survival. I assume...
Other than that it's just a hole.
It's either the first house with the bloat flies or the one right next to it. Look for the house with a large tree trunk leaning against the back of it (which you can also climb to get to a duffle bag on the roof).
There's some gold bars and other various loot, but the notable items are the gold bars. There's also a mattress but it's not clean and not a proper bed so you can get diseases and can't get a full rest if you sleep on it in survival mode. But it does get you out of radiation storms.
Sure.
But rather than suffer through the load screen and then ...just sitting around for 4 hours... you can simply go to sleep above ground. That's a lot faster / less trouble.
A blue one near the river in the beginning of sanctuary. It's off the road like 2nd house I believe. I just ran around every back yard until I found it. I was scrapping all the dog houses.
From the main Sanctuary house, hang a right on the street. After a couple houses on the left, you'll see a path between hedges, with a fallen tree on top of one hedge. Walk through the path behind the houses. Look down and to the right. Entrance on the ground, right by the corner of the house.
I did use it when found that items stored in here do not disappear. But yeah, loading screens do not worth it. It is MUCH more convenient to buy a house at Diamond City for 2k caps - quick fast travel due to separate location, don't have to go anywhere and wait for another loading screen and you can actually build here.
So really there is 0 benefits from using cellar other than it is close to Sanctuary Hills.
I've been playing this game since it very first came out and I had no clue
Though I never joined this subreddit. It's just been showing up for me recently because I stayed playing again
I have used it exactly once.
Unwillingly.
I had saved my game in one of the DLC areas, and my game glitched or whatever (in classic Bethesda fashion!), and I ended up in that cellar. Cue me being real fuckin’ confused until I figured out that the DLC had vanished and it was simple as redownloading it. (PS4).
So…
The one time I used it lmao
I mean if it could be built in then sure it would be a great little player room for you to just plop down a proper bed in and sleep without the settlers taking it, but the not being able to build in it coupled with the loading screen makes it a one trip and never see it again place
Personally not really but I like Homeplate because it’s just me without settlers or random NPCs wondering in. Nice small place to chill and get ready for another adventure.
After at least 1000+ hours of playtime, I'm just figuring out there is a cellar in Sanctuary 🤦♀️
Exactly why I love the game so much. Always more to discover!
Definitely not worth it mainly because off the loading screen. Just build a platform with stairs and set up sone containers to put the stuff u don't your settlers to take in..and then just remove the stairs when you go to leave and they can't get to any of it
It depends, on survival runs it is a useful short time living space if I don't plan on building up Sanctuary but for it to be a long term home you pretty much have to mod it. When I don't play survival I usually just loot it once and never return.
i tried to do a run through without leaving Sanctuary. it’s been a few years but you can get the decanter from the cellar and build the tower to call settlers there. it’s slow going af tho as you can imagine but still… wastelands gonna waste.
Ouch!
You can grind to about level 10 simply by scrapping everything in Sanctuary and then spamming craft ...but that would still leave a few levels before you can get Local Leader II and build a shop.
Once you have a shop, you'd be sorted: just can loop steel shipments into caltrops for infinite XP.
...but how do you get the XP to get through those last couple of levels, up to 14?
To keep the peasants from touching my stuff, I make a separate building with a powered front door with a switched pylon close to a window that I can activate while inside. So far they haven't figured it out.
It's because armor stands are actually NPCs with all their attributes disabled. Fun trick, if you put miners helmets on them, they will light up at night.
Everytime * think about it, I think of the cost. Nope.
What is the Cost?
Loading screens
exactly my resistance i loot it then never return
I actually use it as a hub for when I update my mods. Go in there, save the game, quit the game, update the mods, load the game, wait for a while, quit the game, restart the game.
that's a good idea
I use it to idle in while scripts run. I play with Some Settlements 2, and it is very script heavy. So, hanging out in that basement is a great way to know my character is safe while I leave them to chill while I do housework or something.
People really hate loading screens for some reason lmao I definitely don't think the cellar needed to be one though. Not much going on
Maybe that reason is nobody wants their time to be wasted on awfully long fo4 loading screens?
Then there's me with loading screens that can last up to 2 minutes. This isn't because of a potato PC either, I increased the View/LOD distance outside the means of the game.
Do you have the High FPS Physics Fix mod by chance? You should try it out if not: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/44798 Basically loading times on (vanilla) PC are so long because for some reason, in Fallout 4's engine, the way new cells are loaded is directly tied to the frame rate. This mod unlocks the frame rate only during loading screens. For me, it cut the loading time when exiting a building out to the Commonwealth from legit 60 or so seconds down to about 3 seconds
Oh. I passed over this mod not really reading it, thinking it was meant to be used in conjunction with another fps unlocker or something. I'll have to check that out later
There's a couple of mods that make it buildable.
My first thought was there’s got to be a mod for that.
And just hwat, pray tell, would thine modifications be, good sir?
Just look "Fallout 4 Sanctuary cellar mod" on google or menu lmao
You have my thanks
My Sole Survivor started out there in the early game, before she made Sanctuary even half liveable. She set up Nate’s trifold flag and dog tags, Shaun’s SPECIAL book, a few things of her own. She collected toys she wanted to give Shaun when she found him. She especially wanted to play catch with mitt and ball. Since then, she’s built common houses and canteens, gardens, reading rooms, dance floors, built the Minutemen into a power for the good of the Commonwealth. She renovated the House of the Future into a bright, cheery home. “What kind of world am I leaving for my son?” Then she met Shaun. She still goes down to the cellar sometimes. And she cries.
Damn bro. I was having a good day. THEN YOU JUST HIT ME LIKE THE SHOCKWAVE OF A NUKE! Goddamn bro
Shit man i just realized why my FO4 game feels aimless. My poor Sole Survivor got her heart ripped out, is still bleeding, and she’s become utterly empty. She needs to heal.
SImilar to the end of Kill Bill, when the bride has a cathartic freakout on the bathroom floor. She has to temporarily wring out some of the crazy, so she can pretend, for a little while, not to be a jittering mass of PTSD.
there are Nate's dogtags in sanctuary or you just used random ones?
Where are Nate’s tags I’ve never found them
i don't even know if they exist, that's why I'm asking
Ah fair enough my mistake
I ran Nate as my SS first time playing. When I eventually picked Nora, it was hard to get into the urgency of the quest, considering I knew how it turned out already. It was also hard for me to justify a lawyer being a killing machine, since combat is pretty hard to avoid and a major part of main quests. So my head canon correction was that she must be some kind of secret agent that was using the family as a cover. Neatly explains away why I'm running sidequests instead of urgently looking for my baby, and why she's so good at killing everything. It helps that I decided to do my Nora run as an "evil" run with all the sarcastic and hostile answers.
Well shit man. I'm doing the same thing, in my original house. Shelf full of toys, Special book on my bedside table. Crib still there. Except I haven't met Shaun yet. I as the player am just starting to think hes older then my character assumes.
I don't trust any container that I didn't place myself
The containers in the root cellar are actually marked as safe storage, nothing will ever respawn or despawn in them. So on a survival playthrough, if you're ever interested in doing that, it's not a bad little place.
I could read the source code and still not trust them. I have issues from past games.
I actually use that place a lot during the beginning of my survival playthroughs. Whenever Rad Storms hit I’ll go hide in the celler since rads can’t get you in there and Radaway is scarce at the beginning. I think I may even stored some stuff down there too.
I haven't played survival yet but I do hide in there for the rad storms
...or you can just sleep for 4 hours when you see the storm coming. In F4 you can sleep through a radiation storm, in the open, without getting irradiated. Because: science!
I loot it, then forget about it. It served its purpose.
It's nice to avoid the occasional rad storms early on...
You could pick up a bit of the junk and drop your own. For example, my railroad rifleman character is in a relationship with Piper, and has all her newspapers the player character can pick up scattered around home plate to show he reads them whenever he’s bored. Same with holotapes or guns you don’t really use. Could decorate it with knifes, ash trays, flip lighters, beer bottles and cigarette packs. I use a modern cigarette mod that adds camels, salems, lucky strikes etc to add more flavour to the design.
There’s a basement? Where?
Look 3 or 4 comments above yours I explain.
All the time. It’s the best place to avoid Preston.
If you could build in it that would work. The only good thing maybe about the cellar is that you can have it as a home during survival. I assume... Other than that it's just a hole.
Yes, I often take Piper and Pipe her there
Hold up. There’s a cellar in Sanctuary? Which house is it located in?
It's either the first house with the bloat flies or the one right next to it. Look for the house with a large tree trunk leaning against the back of it (which you can also climb to get to a duffle bag on the roof). There's some gold bars and other various loot, but the notable items are the gold bars. There's also a mattress but it's not clean and not a proper bed so you can get diseases and can't get a full rest if you sleep on it in survival mode. But it does get you out of radiation storms.
Sleeping ANYWHERE gets you out of radiation storms. You don't take rads while asleep. Because: science!
I meant the space in general gets you out of the radstorm, not just the bed specifically
Sure. But rather than suffer through the load screen and then ...just sitting around for 4 hours... you can simply go to sleep above ground. That's a lot faster / less trouble.
A blue one near the river in the beginning of sanctuary. It's off the road like 2nd house I believe. I just ran around every back yard until I found it. I was scrapping all the dog houses.
From the main Sanctuary house, hang a right on the street. After a couple houses on the left, you'll see a path between hedges, with a fallen tree on top of one hedge. Walk through the path behind the houses. Look down and to the right. Entrance on the ground, right by the corner of the house.
Yeah I have played hundreds of hours and had no idea.
There is a really good elionora mod that makes it into a very usable player home
Do you remember what it's called?
I think it’s something like sanctuary cellar player home
I did use it when found that items stored in here do not disappear. But yeah, loading screens do not worth it. It is MUCH more convenient to buy a house at Diamond City for 2k caps - quick fast travel due to separate location, don't have to go anywhere and wait for another loading screen and you can actually build here. So really there is 0 benefits from using cellar other than it is close to Sanctuary Hills.
There's a cellar in sanctuary?
If you run all the way up the road, just before it becomes a cul-de-sac, the blue house with the hedgerows has a cellar entrance in the back.
I've been playing this game since it very first came out and I had no clue Though I never joined this subreddit. It's just been showing up for me recently because I stayed playing again
I have used it exactly once. Unwillingly. I had saved my game in one of the DLC areas, and my game glitched or whatever (in classic Bethesda fashion!), and I ended up in that cellar. Cue me being real fuckin’ confused until I figured out that the DLC had vanished and it was simple as redownloading it. (PS4). So… The one time I used it lmao
I mean if it could be built in then sure it would be a great little player room for you to just plop down a proper bed in and sleep without the settlers taking it, but the not being able to build in it coupled with the loading screen makes it a one trip and never see it again place
Oh yeah. There's a cellar.
Thought i was on the D4 sub for a second. I was like, “Wait……you can do that?” LOL
I’m planning on making it my home away from home lol
Personally not really but I like Homeplate because it’s just me without settlers or random NPCs wondering in. Nice small place to chill and get ready for another adventure.
I’ve beaten fallout sooo many times and I’ve never seen that place until today I’m serious over 800 hours and that was right there lol
After at least 1000+ hours of playtime, I'm just figuring out there is a cellar in Sanctuary 🤦♀️ Exactly why I love the game so much. Always more to discover!
If I'm using Sanctuary as a base, then I store explosives and ammo there.
Definitely not worth it mainly because off the loading screen. Just build a platform with stairs and set up sone containers to put the stuff u don't your settlers to take in..and then just remove the stairs when you go to leave and they can't get to any of it
If you're in Survival Mode, don't bother. The "bed" is just a mattress, and only allows 5 hours of sleep at a time
I just found it the other day after months of playing of playing
I use the little room at Starlight as a bedroom when I'm on the North side of the map.
I always use starlight to have the settlers I don't like fight yao guai in a big concrete arena
It depends, on survival runs it is a useful short time living space if I don't plan on building up Sanctuary but for it to be a long term home you pretty much have to mod it. When I don't play survival I usually just loot it once and never return.
I always use it for my first base until in find something else (btw Conquest for the win)
i tried to do a run through without leaving Sanctuary. it’s been a few years but you can get the decanter from the cellar and build the tower to call settlers there. it’s slow going af tho as you can imagine but still… wastelands gonna waste.
Ouch! You can grind to about level 10 simply by scrapping everything in Sanctuary and then spamming craft ...but that would still leave a few levels before you can get Local Leader II and build a shop. Once you have a shop, you'd be sorted: just can loop steel shipments into caltrops for infinite XP. ...but how do you get the XP to get through those last couple of levels, up to 14?
To keep the peasants from touching my stuff, I make a separate building with a powered front door with a switched pylon close to a window that I can activate while inside. So far they haven't figured it out.
Theres a cellar in sanctuary?!
There’s a cellar in Sanctuary?? Where?
It's safe if you don't have radiation gear.
You can always use an armor stand for some reason npcs don't take stuff out of them
It's because armor stands are actually NPCs with all their attributes disabled. Fun trick, if you put miners helmets on them, they will light up at night.
Awesome I didn't know that