Transfer Settlements - Sunshine Tidings Luxury Cabins and Resort 1.0.1

A Transfer Settlements blueprint that re-imagines Sunshine Tidings. While maintaining the overall footprint, it redoes the cabins to make settler and player travel easier and increase the amount of bunks available. The site mimics resorts that were popular during the fifties and sixties.

Details on this build:

• Replaces every cabin with a similarly themed home. Each includes a washroom, kitchen, fireplace, and counter.
• Every home is individually powered but linked together. This would permit their turrets to engage enemies even if linking power lines are damaged.
• Replaces the food hall with a larger facility that houses stores and a dedicated medical clinic.
• Replaces the bathroom with a dedicated gym.
• To make things easier in the demolitions phase, workshop building is redone using standard components and flooring making the doors functional.
• Every outside building has turrets on the roof, creating an all-around perimeter to fend off attacks.

Settlement Features

• 24 bunks.
• 125+ food.
• 850+ defences.
• 360 power.
• 60 water.
• Tier 3 Medical, Restaurant, Clothing, and General Store.
• Dedicated gym area.
• Vault-Tec drink dispenser and slot machines.
• Working sinks and showers.
• Power mostly runs through conduits to minimise visible power lines.
• Cat and dog included in the build.
• No visual glitches observed from this build.

Requirements

Downloadable Content

• Contraptions Workshop
• Vault-Tec Workshop
• Wasteland Workshop
• Far Harbour

Hard Requirements

• Transfer Settlements. To import this blueprint.
• Scrap Everything or an equivalent. To clear out the area as per Setup Instructions.
• Homemaker. Primary build components for most of the settlement, decorations, furniture, and miscellaneous objects.
• Settlement Objects Expansion Pack. Fusion generators, railings, pools, foundation liners, cooking station, and water pumps.

Soft Requirements

• Craftable Working Sinks and Showers Redux. Working sinks and showers.
• Erotic Art. Frames and pictures used throughout.
• Working Fridges. Simple mod that adds working fridges, ice machines, and vending machines.
• Working Washer and Dryer (Immersive Laundry). Player functional laundry machines and dryers with sound effects.
• Singing Settler. Additional flooring in the settlement.

Nice to Have

• Armour and Weapon Keywords Community Resource. Additional types of workshops, namely power armour.
• Videos of the Wasteland. Working televisions and projectors.
• PsBoss Statues from Skyrim. Skyrim styled statues for aesthetics.
• Invisible Furniture. Adds invisible markers that are used as idles for settlers and pets.
• Gruffydd's Signs and Posters. Billboards and signs.
• Crazy Sex Animations. Invisible mats that make settlers happy through masturbation, done without using the Advanced Animation Framework, and additionally places assignable gurneys that increase happiness.
• Sex Toys of the Commonwealth. Adds the random placement of sex toys throughout.
• Bad Dragon Dildos. Adds more extreme dildos throughout.

Unrelated But Useful

• Place Everywhere. Allows you to make minor adjustments if necessary.
• Armour Rack Female Mannequin Fix. Fixes the armour rack to support alternate bodies like Fusion Girl.

Setup

Clearing the area is relatively straightforward. Remove all the cabins and their contents, along with the dining hall, workshop area, bathroom, and outhouses. For aesthetics, maintain the grain silos.

Build a Transfer Settlements console from Power > Miscellaneous on the path leading into the area by the dining hall.
 

Tasks After Import

No additional requirements other than to confirm that all power has been restored as expected.

Notes on Imports

Transfer Settlements recommends leaving the area after import and to not return for 1-2 game days. However, I found that saving on site always crashes the game.

The easiest way to get away and save is to coc Vault111Ext from the console. Wait a couple of minutes before heading into the vault. Once you arrive at the bottom it is safe to save.

I recommend that you import/export Blueprints using Stable defaults. Using other methods has caused ladders, walls, and flooring to appear without collision. In many cases the collision effects are found elsewhere leading to interesting behaviours among the NPC population, and leading to a snap back effect as you push through an area and are forced back by the invisible wall.
 

Lastly Import wired power connections should always be selected as part of the import process. It will reliably re-connect all wired connections. This saves you the trouble of linking up floors, turrets, and in some cases re-establish connections for hidden or buried runs.

Notes on Power and Performance

These blueprints utilize ambient fill lighting to provide a pervasive glow. I use Naked Bulbs to create a lived-in atmosphere for statues, fountains, and roof voids.

Warning for Dynamic Lighting Users

If you use mods that turn all lights into dynamic, shadow-casting sources, the sheer number of these bulbs will severely cripple your framerate. I strongly recommend using the Transfer Settlements Blueprint Editor to strip out all instances of 306F1 before importing.

Optimization for Complex Builds:
Because of the heavy use of conduits to reduce visible power lines, these settlements have high object counts. To steps below may improve performance.

• Enable Faux Power in the Workshop Framework's workbench settings.
• Use the Transfer Settlements Blueprint Editor to strip all conduits from the .json file.

This can reduce build complexity by up to 40% without losing the overall aesthetic of the settlement.
 

A Special Thanks To

Thank you to Caladon for creating the template that makes blueprints installable.

Thank you to PiCSeL for the magazine and painting retextures seen in the screenshots.

Updates

Version 1.0.1

• Added a laundromat with washers and dryers from Immersive Laundry.
• Replaced the warehouse doors with powered variants.
• Added a Skyrim statue of Mara as a showcase before entering the shops.