Transfer Settlements - Bunker Hill Institute Uplink Station 1.0.1

A Transfer Settlements blueprint that aims to explain why there's a satellite structure hovering over the Bunker Hill monument. It spruces up Bunker Hill to create a more vibrant marketplace and upgrades a few key buildings. Additionally the roof area of the main building has an additional two levels of living spaces to increase population levels.

 

Details of the Build

 

Note. This build assumes that Kessler handed you the settlement after the battle at Bunker Hill. Hence the trap door within the main structure is covered by a stage.

 

Key Statistics

 

Note. Bunker Hill is notorious for glitches that lead to a Crash to Desktop (CTD) scenario. While this build has been stable for me in the past, some mods may make this build unstable.

 

Requirements

 

Downloadable Content

 

Hard Requirements

 

Note. Transfer Settlements will not add items if the mods are missing. The following are not required but will remove associated elements.

 

Soft Requirements

 

Nice to Have

 

Unrelated But Useful

 

Setup

 

Clearing the area is relatively straightforward:

 

A few elements cannot be scrapped normally, in this case you will need to do the following:

 

Note. Disable first in case you selected the wrong object. In that case Enable will recover the object without consequence.

 

Build a Transfer Settlements console from Power > Miscellaneous  in front of the statue.

 

Note. Import should be done with Workshop Mode enabled.

 

Tasks After Import

 

Confirm that all power has been restored as expected.

 

The default characters cannot be assigned to new stores by default. Select the NPC from the console and AddKeyword WorkshopAllowCommand to assign them to their newly improved spaces.

 

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.

 

Note. This blueprint was tested with Transfer Settlements working under Stable.

 

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.

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

 

Note. I cannot guarantee the above will work.

 

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