Do you ever feel like Fallout 4 has very limited resources for building the perfect settlement? If so, we have created a list of the best Fallout 4 Sim Settlements addons for you to build the city of your dreams. Pair up these add-ons with the Fallout 4 Sim Settlements mod o build a perfect city. Rebuild The Commowealth from scratch.
Released by Bethesda in 2015, Fallout 4 is one of the most widely played PC and console games till date. However, a major issue that users complain of in Fallout 4 is how the Settlements in the vanilla game seem disconnected from the rest of the game. They actually lack the original feel of exploration and advancement that Bethesda games are known for.
While there are no bug fixes for this, there’s actually a way to fix that. The Sim Settlements mod for Fallout 4 on PC and Xbox One is a huge project that overhauls the entire Settlements system. It allows you to create the most detailed residence spaces with little to no effort. It makes every settlement unique and detailed with rewards and perks at every stage for you.
Given how big this project is, it has tons of addons and patches created especially to add decoration, building plans, new plot types, inventory, supply lines, new items, side quests, and new features to Sim Settlements.
Let’s take a look at some of the best Fallout 4 Sim Settlements addons released till date.
Top 13 Best Fallout 4 Sim Settlements Addons of All Time
#13 Mega Pack – Year Three
The Sim Settlements Mega Pack Year 3 adds around 120 building plans all over the game for Sim Settlements. All the building plans have been collected from various Sim Settlements add-ons created by contributors after the third year of the mod’s release and combined into a mega pack. Most of these buildings include a majority of Raider-themed designs.
These 100 new building plans include:
- 2×2 Agricultural: 5
- 2×2 Advanced Industrial: 1 Tech Tree (with 7 buildings)
- 2×2 Commercial: 8
- 2×2 Industrial: 62×2
- Martial: 4
- 2×2 Residential: 23
- 2×2 Recreational: 5
- 1x1Martial: 1
- Interior Residential: 21
- Interior Recreational: 6
- Interior Martial: 4
- Interior Agricultural: 6
- Interior Industrial: 5
- Interior Commercial: 9
- City Leaders: 1
- City Plan: 1
- City Planner’s Desks: 8
- Settlement Flags: 4
All of these buildings come with settler navigation, randomized clutter, construction stages, and performance settings. This Mega Pack will work perfectly fine with any addon pack.
Download the Mega Pack – Year Three Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
#12 Wasteland Venturers 2
The Wasteland Venturers 2 mod adds over 63 new plots to Sim Settlements in Fallout 4, including the craziest additions, such as a Messy gun shop. Below is a breakdown of all the contents this mod adds:
- Homes: 18 with 2 interiors
- Farms: 2
- Shops: 7 with 1 interior
- Martial: 13 with 5 interior
- Recreational: 7 with 5 interiors
- Industrial: 2 with 1 interior
All of these buildings come with randomized clutter, construction stages, and performance settings. The mod requires all the DLCs to work, along with version 4.2.9 or higher of the Sim Settlements mod.
Download the Wasteland Venturers 2 Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
#11 PCDugAddons
The PCDugAddons is an addon for the Fallout 4 mod Sim Settlements, that adds new designs, plans, and plots to the Settlements system. The mod is continually updated with the latest assets, including new homes, shops, factories, farms, VIP stories, and more. All the new designs are kept lore-friendly.
The current content added by this mod includes a Terrace Shack, a Sailor’s Cabin, and a Cozy Crate. All of these designs are highly detailed and offer a lot of practical uses.
Download the PCDugAddons Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
#10 Brae’s Defences
Brae’s Defences is yet another addon for Sim Settlements that adds various Martial buildings to the game, including both light and heavy guard posts and two types of martial plots, which include the Minutemen Artillery.
The contents added by this mod include:
- New Martial: 5, including a Basic Outpost, Basic Tower, Artillery Post, Sandbag Fort, and Artillery Station.
- New Recreational: 1 Building for the Shooting Range where your settlers can test their weapons.
All of the current building designs use the 2×2 Recreational and Martial plots. Moreover, they come with randomized clutter, construction stages, and performance settings
Download the Brae’s Defences Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
#9 JtBryant’s Utilities
JtBryant’s Utilities is a Sim Settlements addon that adds a barracks building tree and a power plant building tree to Fallout 4. One of the trees is for defense and the other is for power. The Power Tree adds a solar farm, battery bank, windmill, Methane power plant, and oil power plant.
Whereas the Barracks Tree adds a guard tent, Minutemen Quarters, Minutemen Barracks, a Minutemen Corporal, Sergeant, and Privates, a Railroad Safehouse, a Railroad Covert Operations Center, Railroad Heavies, Railroad Operatives, a Brotherhood Recruitment Outpost, an Institute Outreach Center, and an Institute Relay Station.
So if you are looking for some really useful utilities for both attack and defence, get your hands on this mod!
Download the JtBryant’s Utilities Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
#8 Mega Pack – Year Two
The Sim Settlements Mega Pack Year 2 is an expansion pack that adds around 100 building plans all over the game for Sim Settlements. All the building plans have been collected from various Sim Settlements addons created by contributors during the second year of the mod’s release and combined into a mega pack.
These 100 new building plans include:
- 2×2 Agricultural: 5
- 2×2 Advanced Industrial: 1 Tech Tree (with 7 buildings)
- 2×2 Commercial: 8
- 2×2 Industrial: 62×2
- Martial: 4
- 2×2 Residential: 23
- 2×2 Recreational: 5
- 1x1Martial: 1
- Interior Residential: 21
- Interior Recreational: 6
- Interior Martial: 4
- Interior Agricultural: 6
- Interior Industrial: 5
- Interior Commercial: 9
- City Leaders: 1
- City Plan: 1
- City Planner’s Desks: 8
- Settlement Flags: 4
All of these buildings come with randomized clutter, construction stages, and performance settings. This Mega Pack will work perfectly fine with any addon pack.
Download the Mega Pack – Year Two Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
#7 Ruined Homes and Gardens
The Ruined Homes and Gardens mod adds more than 30 new plots to Sim Settlements, including an advanced industrial tree with Watershed, raised bed gardens, a compost, 3 specialized scrap scavenging shacks, a wild crop adhesive lab, and a wild plant greenhouse.
It is an evolving mod that keeps getting updated with super cool new stuff. There are 7 Residential plots, 9 Agricultural plots, 4 Commercial plots, 10 Advanced Industrial plots, and 1 Recreational plot added by this mod. All of these plots come with randomized clutter, construction stages, and performance settings. How cool, right?
Download the Ruined Homes and Gardens Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
#6 Altairp’s Animal Farm
Have you ever felt like you are missing out on something despite having everything in the Sim Settlements mod? Well, what you are missing out on is a proper healthy diet. If you are tired of feeding on veggies and tacos for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you need some protein in your diet. And you know what’s the best source of protein? MEAT!
Thanks to Altairp’s Animal Farm mod, you can build your own animal pen now in Sim Settlements. It is an addon for Sim Settlements that adds new agricultural plots with animals. In total, the mod adds:
- 14 New Buildings
- 10 Agricultural Plots
- 2 Agricultural Interiors
- 4 Commercial
- 1 Martial
- and Flags
All of these buildings come with randomized clutter, construction stages, and performance settings. So go ahead and get that ultimate experience of herding animals in a pen, feeding on them, and slaughtering them to feed your people. You will also get various other resources from Agricultural plots.
There’s a cat farm, a milking pen for cats, a milking pen for Brahmin, a milking pen for Molerat, a chicken trailer, a rabbit container, a vet clinic, and so much more!
Download the Altairp’s Animal Farm Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
#5 Wasteland Venturers
The Wasteland Venturers mod adds 59 highly detailed and unique buildings to Sim Settlements in Fallout 4. These include:
- Homes: 16 with 6 interiors
- Farms: 6 with 4 interiors and 2 heavy farms
- Shops: 9 with 7 interiors
- Martial: 3 with 1 interior
- Recreational: 3 with 2 interiors
- Flags: 6
- City Leader: 1 building with settler navigation
- Furniture Store Items: 29
- VIP Stories: 1
All of these buildings come with randomized clutter, construction stages, and performance settings.
Download the Wasteland Venturers Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
#4 Sim Settlements Mega Pack – Year One
This Sim Settlements Mega Pack is an expansion pack that adds around 100 building plans all over the game for Sim Settlements. These include 11 new building plans that you have never seen before. These 11 unique building plans will unlock depending on the DLC you have.
Here are all the new building plans added by this mod:
- Homes: 54
- Farms: 18
- Shops: 9
- Defenses: 5
- Interior Recreational: 6
- Interior Residential: 2
- Interior Martial: 2
- Interior Agricultural: 2
- Interior Industrial: 2
- Interior Commercial: 1
The building features include settler navigation, randomized clutter, performance settings, and construction stages. All the building plans have been collected from various Sim Settlements addons created by contributors within the first year of the mod’s release and combined into a mega pack. There are also some bonus buildings in store for you!
Download the Sim Settlements Mega Pack – Year One addon now for Fallout 4
#3 Conqueror
The Conqueror addon for Sim Settlements sets a war-like scene in your settlements. The mod adds the option to prestart Fallout 4 with already-built settlements that are run by NPCs. You can explore and conquer these settlements, convert them into military outposts for your chosen factions, and launch attacks from them.
The mod also adds new Sim Settlements content, along with a new quest line which allows you to play as a Raider. The new Raider quest line brings all-new Building Plans, Leaders, and perks for you. There are tons of possibilities with this addon.
Here are all supercool things you can do with this mod:
- Pre-Build cities
- Conquer settlements
- Play as a Raider
- Build skins
- Run an empire
- Heavy agricultural plot
- NukaWorld Red Rocket City plan
- New leader options
- New building plans
Download the Conqueror Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
#2 Rise of the Commonwealth
Rise of the Commonwealth is one of the best Fallout 4 Sim Settlements addons that puts your settlers in charge for building and upgrading your entire settlements. They will be in control of the construction and move into your settlements to take care of everything.
The mod also adds interior plots that you can use inside buildings and structures. It also adds a robust soundscape to the game that adjusts the background and ambient sound effects inside the settlements, depending on the plots that your settlers build.
So become a leader and command your settlers to build settlements for you while you are out on adventures. There are tons of all-new gameplay options.
Download the Rise of the Commonwealth Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
#1 Industrial Revolution
Rebuilding the Commonwealth requires productions, which means you will need actual Industrial Revolution to get it started. The Industrial Revolution addon for Fallout 4 SIM Settlements transforms The Commonwealth into an industrial city.
The mod adds new buildings and plot types to the game. These assets make you in charge of your settlements and enable you to start constructing all the things you need to take over the Wasteland. What’s more, the interiors of these buildings have some secrets waiting to be explored by you.
This mod aims to add hundreds of new jobs for your settlers and also lay the groundwork for your settlements. The mod also adds in-depth playthroughs for micromanagers while keeping the plot-based building simple.
This addon requires the latest version of the Sim Settlements mod for Fallout 4.
Download the Industrial Revolution Sim Settlements addon now for Fallout 4
Conclusion
So that’s all, folks! This sums up our top picks for the best Fallout 4 Sim Settlements addons. So go ahead and transform The Commonwealth into your sanctuary by building, designing, and decorating the area. With these settlement mods and add-on packs that we scoured from Nexus, the possibilities are unlimited.