Settlement Building Problems

[XyXClassifiedXyX]

I've been having a lot of trouble with settlement building mods recently. All of the item icons from mods ( Homemaker, Northland, BYOP, ETC ) have all disapeared. This problem persists across all of my settlements; I can select the item, but it is invisible with no navishing. At first I thought this was an issue with the Place Everywhere mod, but after completely uninstalling the mod, the icons remained invisible. Since then, I have uninstalled every building mod one at a time, but with effect on the problem. PLZ HELP.

[AllyEmmi]

Having the exact same problem :/ I hope someone helps with this...

[Sharlikran]

While troubleshooting something related to settlement mods I reset my INI files to the Bethesda defaults. Once I loaded a save game none of the items I had built appeared in my settlement nor could I build anything. Mods I have installed that alter vanilla meshes were also preventing me from building certain things. Lucky for me I kept backup files.

The change that had made the difference was with sResourceDataDirsFinal in my Fallout4.ini. I know there are a lot of people saying it's not needed but after testing with 1.5.205 which is the current version now, it seems like it's needed. However, I also saw video from December of 2015 by Gopher and it doesn't suggest that.

I did more testing and it looks like both of these options work. I'm going to say you probably need to do one or the other. I don't know which works better or why.

Option one:

Edit your Fallout4.ini in Documents\my games\Fallout4
[Archive]
sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\

Option two:

Create a Fallout4Custom.ini using Gophers Video in Documents\my games\Fallout4
[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\

 

After doing what i suggest you should try making a new game with only Fallout4.esm and any of the DLC you have to make sure it's working. You only have to exit the vault, run down the hill, talk to the robot, then you can use the workbench. So it takes no time at all to test things.

[XyXClassifiedXyX]

While troubleshooting something related to settlement mods I reset my INI files to the Bethesda defaults. Once I loaded a save game none of the items I had built appeared in my settlement nor could I build anything. Mods I have installed that alter vanilla meshes were also preventing me from building certain things. Lucky for me I kept backup files.

 

The change that had made the difference was with sResourceDataDirsFinal in my Fallout4.ini. I know there are a lot of people saying it's not needed but after testing with 1.5.205 which is the current version now, it seems like it's needed. However, I also saw video from December of 2015 by Gopher and it doesn't suggest that.

 

I did more testing and it looks like both of these options work. I'm going to say you probably need to do one or the other. I don't know which works better or why.

 

Option one:

 

Edit your Fallout4.ini in Documents\my games\Fallout4

[Archive]

sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\

 

Option two:

 

Create a Fallout4Custom.ini using Gophers Video in Documents\my games\Fallout4

[Archive]

bInvalidateOlderFiles=1

sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\

 

After doing what i suggest you should try making a new game with only Fallout4.esm and any of the DLC you have to make sure it's working. You only have to exit the vault, run down the hill, talk to the robot, then you can use the workbench. So it takes no time at all to test things.

Thank you for the helpful advice! I'm currently working on appliying your solutions and I will post if it worked or not..... Thx again!

[XyXClassifiedXyX]

SUCCESS!!!!!!! Thank You!