Fallout 4 allows you to take on an American life after nuclear fallout, but instead of rescuing people, forming settlements, putting the Minutemen back together and finding your son, why not customize the experience to suit your needs? There are thousands of mods available for Bethesda's title and many of them share similar qualities to Skyrim counterparts.
We rounded up some of the best to get you started.
Similar to how Alternative Life works in Skyrim, with this mod installed you regain control of your destiny .. or rather how it begins. You will be able to select from 36 different occupations, each dictating starting gear, faction relations, and more.
Armor and Weapon Keywords Community Resource (AWKCR)
Aside from the horrifically long name, this incredible mod allows for other mods to work some magic with a standardized framework for armor and weapons. Not only that but crafting menus, color and decals and slot usage are all affected, to help prevent conflicts. If you wish to add some more stuff for your character to use, you need this mod.
Armorsmith Extended
After installing AWKCR, you'll want to pick up Armorsmith Extended. This is a huge mod that does a bunch of things. It can allow for shirts and other wearables to be worn under armor — because who wears plated armor on the skin? — and even make it possible to wear bandannas and other accessories while rocking a helmet.
Other cool features include the ability to rename clothing and craft more item types.
Venturing out into the wasteland with only the companions Bethesda deems acceptable isn't much fun. There are a number of beasts that would make interesting followers, which is exactly what Beast Master unlocks. You will now be able to take a freaking Brahmin with you. Who doesn't want a friendly two-headed cow to take down some mutants?
Craftable Ammo
You can now craft ammo. Here's to never again running out of rounds mid-fight.
Darker Nights
Just like Skyrim, the nights in Fallout 4 are way too bright for my liking. And just like Skyrim, you can install a wonderful mod called Darker Nights, which — unsurprisingly — makes the nights darker. You have a choice of just how dark you wish the nights to become too for some flexibility.
DEF_UI
This mod not only allows for the customization of the HUD (health, XP, V.A.T and other elements) but also the inventory and storage screens. It achieves something similar to that of Sky UI in Skyrim, making it much easier to manage everything, especially with a keyboard and mouse.
Full Dialogue Interface
This mod allows you to see exactly what your character is going to say in response to NPCs. When in a conversation in Fallout 4, it can prove frustrating to realize that your character's voice lines differ from selections on the dialog wheel. This is what Full Dialogue Interface addresses.
You will now be able to immerse yourself, knowing exactly what you're getting into.
Homemaker
Homemaker (also known as Expanded Settlements) is a mod for settlement Gods. Ideal for the creative mind, this mod allows for the creation of larger buildings with ease, not to mention new build sets for unique styling of settlements and a massive amount of objects that can be placed at secured locations. If you're a fan of the settlement system, you need this mod.
Improved Map with Visible Roads
The in-game map is handy to get around, but it doesn't show roads, which are far more important in the early game and on harder difficulty settings. Improved Map with Visible Roads does exactly what the name implies. It improves the map and adds roads across the board so you know where the nearest winding route of concrete is located.
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More Where That Came From
The radio makes for more pleasant long journeys and adventures. With More Where That Came From installed, you'll want to rely on fast travel less in order to enjoy the 111 lore-friendly tracks added to the list of songs available for playback. This mod, in particular, adds all the tracks to the Diamon Radio station.
True Storms
True Storms is an exceptional mod, by the same modder who made the similarly named mod for Skyrim. This mod adds new weather patterns, sounds, visual effects, and other configurable details that give the wasteland some variability when venturing out the front gate.
Unlimited Settlement Objects
This one removes the maximum number of objects that can be placed in any one settlement. Enough said.
Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch
Bethesda games need some fixing, even after official patches have been released by the company. The same authors of the unofficial Oblivion and Skyrim patches return with the Fallout 4 patch. Hundreds of gameplay, quest, NPC, object, text, and placement bugs and issues are addressed in the mod.
It's safe to use and shouldn't break the game unless you have a ton of mods, where incompatibility may exist.
Worthy mention
The Fallout 4 Script Extender (F4SE) deserves a callout in our list, even though it's not technically available through Nexus. This handy tool allows for the installation and running of more powerful mods that can take advantage of even deeper hooks into Fallout 4.
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It may be full of flesh-eating ghouls and radioactive monsters, but you wouldn’t describe Fallout 4 as a horror game. The “Pilgrim – Dread the Commonwealth” mod seeks to change that, turning the Commonwealth into a wasteland full of spooks and scares.
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The crux of this mod is to make Fallout 4 look like a horror movie, complete with film grain, adjustable letterboxing and a special camera emulation which makes the world look like it is being captured by a handheld digital camera. There is also a special weather plugin that is designed to work specifically with the Pilgrim ENB. No more sunshine when playing this mod; its weather is designed to put players on edge.
Fallout 4 Soundtrack Mode
The designers of Pilgrim were influenced mainly by the 2008 horror film The Witch in the creation of this mod, which is set in a creepy version of 17th century New England. They were so inspired that they are planning to replace the canine companion Dogmeat with the evil goat/embodiment of Satan Black Philip. At present, they haven’t managed to import the goat model into the mod, so they have retextured Dogmeat to have jet black fur and glowing eyes. They’ve also adjusted his audio to be “a little less cheerful”.
Along with a unique soundtrack, there is even a dynamic music system that will change based on the current weather, just to heighten the horror. All of Fallout 4’s original music is replaced by Pilgrim’s custom soundtrack, but you can toggle certain aspects on and off to find that perfect mix of scary but enjoyable.
You may experience a slight drop in performance when using Pilgrim, with most rigs dropping five to six fps when running all of its features. There are two special presets of the ENB to help it run on weaker systems, so check those out if your PC isn’t quite up to spec.
If you want to run the mod, head on over to Pilgrim’s page on Nexus Mods. You will have to uninstall any pre-existing weather mods if you want to run Pilgrim successfully. Far Harbour and Nuka-World do not have Pilgrim custom weather yet, but those are planned for a future update.
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The mod community for the Fallout and Elder Scrolls have been very active for years. In the wake of Fallout 76’s announcement, a number of mods have been released for Fallout 4; taking advantage of the spike in interest in Fallout 4. “Claustrophobia” is one such Fallout 4 mod, but unlike most, it takes a very different approach to new content. Namely, it’s a horror mod inspired by games like Silent Hill.
The “Claustrophobia” Fallout 4 Mod
Claustrophobia released on NexusMods just a few days ago. The mod’s creator, SuperNath97, describes it as; “a fan homage to the cancelled Silent Hills game, it was inspired by its predecessor Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 1”. The mod is set within a condemned apartment complex, located near the site of West Roxbury. The creator describes the content mod thusly; “Claustrophobia is exactly what its title implies. You are drawn to a condemned apartment complex to unveil its long forgotten story and explore its tight halls filled with unnerving creaks and squeaks. Mannequins somewhat taunt you every corner, walls turn inward, and the layout seems impossible.”
The mod is available on both PC and on Xbox One. It is not available on PlayStation 4 due to the scripts and custom textures which it makes use of. Among the changes which Claustrophobia introduces to Fallout 4 are lighting and difficulty. The experience is, unsurprisingly, intended to be very dark. Similarly, the enemies are intended to be nigh invincible. Indeed, players are not meant to fight them. The creator also makes a point to recommend that players play the mod in first-person, and without rushing headlong into new rooms, to avoid seeing things which they might not be meant to see.
Fallout 4 Soundtrack Mod
Overall, Claustrophobia should be roughly 30 minutes of content; making it fairly appropriate for a single session. All told, the creator states that there are 7 bears and 25 notes, with a secret room on the second floor. That room requires players to find a hidden key in order to access.