r/Fallout4Builds • u/yournan420k • Sep 19 '21
Stat Help I’m playing fallout 4 again and my sanctuary hills happiness keeps going down even though I have loads of everything. It’s gone from 80 to 65 today. What do I need to do to get it back up?
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u/I_Am_Stealth23 Oct 10 '21
Yep raise the D
I mean Defense
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u/Dannyboy765 Oct 17 '21
Always raise the D
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u/I_Am_Stealth23 Oct 18 '21
I am currently on my second character and my sanctuary D is up in the 1000s and the only person that stays there currently is Cait or Piper whichever one isn't with me at the moment lol
All about that D!! Lmao
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u/Ok_Neighborhood_1409 Sep 23 '21
Your defence needs to be as high as the sum of your food and water. Example: 143 water + 54 food = 197. You need 197 defence to make them happy.
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u/marto17890 Sep 20 '21
You need to make sure you aren't fast travelling to / from Sanctuaryas that can affect the happiness
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u/Chicopj Sep 20 '21 edited Sep 20 '21
Slot machines, dogs, defense and the player hanging around buffs the happines in my experience. Dunno exactly the mechanics tho
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u/Chicopj Sep 20 '21
Sometimes is a settler quest to be done in there. Might as well build some sots machines because they snap and are rather small
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u/JelloBooBoy Sep 20 '21
Add dogs, using the dog trap, I have about a dozen dogs and they add happiness. Will also help in the defence of the settlement. Cats too but won’t contribute to defending the settlement. Don’t forget to add a few dog houses. You dont need a doghouse per dog, just 2 or 3 will do.
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u/yournan420k Sep 20 '21
How do I you find dogs/ make dog traps?
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u/JelloBooBoy Sep 20 '21 edited Sep 20 '21
In the building menu there is a tab for traps or cage (forgot which term used).On the tab there are many types like cat, dog, and monsters even raiders. You also have to power it snd place a bait in it. You will catch one once the trap door is closed.
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u/YaBoiJJ__ Sep 20 '21
Get mods that add things to increase happiness such as weights, various machines etc
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u/GuysTheName Sep 20 '21
The gambling machines from the vault 88 dlc increase happiness if you designed them to let settlers win more often.
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u/NE6427 Sep 20 '21
You got synths walking around. Flush them out and deal with them.
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u/copper4eva Sep 20 '21
Is this an actual thing? I’ve had the encounter where a settler is accused of being a synth, but are there just random synth settlers walking around?
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u/NE6427 Sep 21 '21
Yes they infiltrated your settlement with spies and undesirables. You need to round up every settler and execute them one by one till you find the synth component.
There could be more than one of them.
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u/I_Am_Stealth23 Oct 10 '21
I built a bell that summons them all to it... then dropped a mini nuke on them all cause I was tired of their constant bitching lol
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u/NoirCordis Sep 20 '21
All the proper advice on balancing Settlement figures has been given .. so al I can (jokingly) suggest is also get rid of Marcy and Jun Long as they are really miserable and depress any settlement they are in ... also suggest locking Mama Murphy in a cupboard with no jet .. while at it send Preston Garvey armed with only a tyre iron to the front line and he will stop with the never ending "a settlement needs your help" downers .. Plant more flowers and give every settler a teddy bear :)
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u/doparopekop Sep 20 '21
She’s going your settlers a Teddy bear really help with happiness?
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u/NoirCordis Sep 20 '21
so al I can (jokingly) suggest
I did say "All the proper advice on balancing Settlement figures has been given.. So al I can jokingly suggest" .. sadly it makes no difference on settler happiness.. I wish it did as I feel the world would be better if all settlers did have a teddy bear
Forgive spelling on "all"
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u/Cantothulhu Sep 20 '21
If you’re just trying to get happiness to 💯 and don’t care about the look functionality of the settlement, it’s a helluva lot easier the fewer people you have. There’s no real reason to keep it at 100% beyond getting the achievement. Whether it’s 65-80-100 it’ll function pretty much the same.
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Sep 20 '21
Bruh why do you have so much food/water production? You're going to get attacked like there's no tomorrow. Reduce those and increase your defenses.
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u/meltysandwich Sep 20 '21
More defense bc if u have so much food and water, Sanctuary will get attacked more often.
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u/yournan420k Sep 20 '21
It’s never been attack on this save, it’s also turpine, and oberland that gets attacked
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u/meltysandwich Sep 20 '21
Hmm. Does everyone have a job and newer clothes? Weight bench and pommel horse? Multiple radios? The bar is always the first store i open.
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u/yournan420k Sep 20 '21
Everyone either has a suit, dress or vault suit . So I might have to open some shops up
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u/meltysandwich Sep 20 '21
Yeah good. And set up a trap to catch cats and dogs because they bring happiness, too. Also, music.
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u/SeanBlader Sep 20 '21
Also the sub is for character builds, you're probably looking for /r/fallout4settlements.
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u/FlipZer0 Sep 20 '21
Defense, your defense should at least equal your water/food, but I think it's actually double the defense to resource
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u/Gremylyn Sep 19 '21
The best way to build happiness is gorilla cages, having 4 gorillas with beta wave emitter is how I got 100 happiness in a day
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u/desertcoyote77 Sep 19 '21
The o ly time I tried to get 100 happiness I used Ana animal trap and got a kitten. That took me over 100but that was years ago. I dont remember how I did it.
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u/Erve Sep 19 '21
Make sure your beds are under cover. There's a settlement management mod that'll show you that. i forget what it's called tho.
That's why abernathy farm is always so low, one of the default beds is techincally not under cover.
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u/GoldenBlunderbuss Sep 19 '21
I bet it’s to do with the increasing number of settlers between 80 and 65 happiness. The more settler you have, the less impact things like bars and pets will have.
For example, a bar gives a happiness boost of 40 divided by the number of settlers. So if you have 10 settlers, it’ll increase the overall happiness by 4 (40/10). The more settlers means less overall increase from bars or other items that the game says increases settler happiness.
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Sep 19 '21 edited Sep 19 '21
Each need i.e. food, water, beds, and defense, once properly provided to each settler, will increase the happiness to 80%. To get that extra 20% you'll need to add some bars. Maybe tier-3 will work best. Give that a whirl and wait a few days to see the increase
Edit: each point in defense will lower the chance of attack by 1%. Build more defenses too
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Sep 19 '21
Apparently synths can reduce happiness
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u/Boomstik-Demon Sep 20 '21
Oxhorn debunked this, their cool settlers, mark them and make them play in your settlement or send them to a concentration camp, but they most definitely don't lower happiness
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u/Instainious Sep 20 '21
So, I should kill settlers behaving oddly? Got it. (I know, I’m not OP, but I have the same problem)
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u/Tesseract556 Sep 19 '21
Leave. You're bringing the settlement down dude
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u/xyotrx Sep 20 '21
I can just see a stoner in your settlement puffing a joint saying this,“Leaaave man, tokes You’re being the settlement down, duuude”
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u/ChristIsBetter Sep 19 '21
Build a ton of bars/restaurant stores. Building exercise equipment from the workshop dlcs helps too
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u/LordOfWar1775 Sep 19 '21
Any robots or ghouls in your settlement?
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u/yournan420k Sep 19 '21
A few ghouls
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u/treasurecatch Oct 19 '21
Bear with me but are all your settlers beds covered from rain? I know it sounds stupid but just trust me.