Kkat’s Hatrack Review · 7:34pm Mar 13th, 2017
birthday gift art of Littlepip by Piepon
Today’s blog features wonderful birthday gift art given to me by Piepon and Icekatze! 
Thank you again. 
The big news this week is, of course, the announcement of a release date for Season 7! 
And, even better, the new season is only about a month away! 
For those who have not heard the news yet, I’ll let Dr. Wolf fill you in on the details:
As those who have been following my blog for a while know, one of the regular features is my series “Where I Hang My Hat”, which shows off settlements that I have constructed in Fallout 4 and invites others to show off theirs as well. The feature often shares mod suggestions, and I’ve gotten some great suggestions in return.
This week, I had hoped to show off my newest Fallout 4 settlement creation. This time around, I’m tackling rarely-developed Coastal Cottage. The pre-existing area gives you almost nothing to work with and only one unique feature, so I’ve decided to wipe the area clean and build a completely new set of structures (three pre-fab and five built from scratch), creating a tiny, revitalized pre-war community (similar to Covenant).
Unfortunately, the project is taking a LOT longer than originally anticipated. (I spent the time I had yesterday just choosing and adding doors. 
) So it will be another week.
In the meantime, for those who are new to the blog, I thought that I would take this week to give a little recap with links to the previous “Where I Hang My Hat” blogs, or as one fan called them, my “hatrack”. You will find that below the break.
I also wanted to take this opportunity to remind readers that this blog does include a hopefully helpful (if irregularly updated) index of previous posts for people looking to find blogs about specific information, including frequently asked questions and previous running features such as Angel’s Pip-Boy Diary (my attempt at a “Let’s Play” of Fallout 4 in written form) and my My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode reviews. I want to make it as easy as I can for people to find what they are looking for. Link here:
The index is linked on my home page and in small text at the bottom of each blog. I intend to spend part of today getting the blog index caught up. (Edit: updated! 
)
Before the break, I’m going to toss you a few updates on some Fallout: Equestria YouTube series that fans might be interested in. First, we have a new series by Chris and Robert (on the YouTube Chrisco channel). Chris is a brony; Robert is not. Chris has convinced Robert to read the story, and the two of them are discussing the book chapter-by-chapter with an eye to “his reaction as someone completely outside of the MLP fandom.” I’ve given the first three episodes a listen, and it’s definitely been interesting so far. Check out their series and join in the discussion! First episode linked below:
Next, I’m happy to announce that the military cook Powdered Milk is still going strong with his reaction series to the Fallout: Equestria audiobook, having just posted his reaction to “Voices of the Past” (the first chapter of the book’s second arc) just before the weekend.
Meanwhile, while Strategic Jordan didn’t have time for a new video in his Let’s Read series last week, he finished “Racing Apotheosis” the week before, and is about to start “Hunters and Prey” (the first chapter of the book’s fourth arc) soon.
birthday art of my Fo:E RPG character Lucidity enjoying birthday cake by Icekatze
And now, an overview of my settlement projects. Clicking the image will give you the full-sized version. The settlement names link to the associated blog with additional images and information.
Please let me know in the comments if this is helpful, and if you would like me to add additional settlement blog links to this overview in the future.
Here is my original Where I Hang My Hat, which features a few images of earlier-draft versions of the settlements below as well as a few mod suggestions.
My first really focused settlement creation, finished just after the release of Wasteland Workshop, The Slog has been transformed into a wasteland resort.
Where better to experiment with a high-tech, Institute-based building set than a settlement run by robots? With modern architecture, high-grade defenses and purified water drawn from the repaired water treatment plant nearby, Graygarden has been re-invisioned as a center of trade – an eastern-Commonwealth rival to Bunker Hill.
Hangman’s Alley was envisioned as a “back alley shantytown”. To try to capture this, I made heavy use of original pieces, neon and uneven vertical levels.
I really liked the settlement and structures that already existed in this location, so my work on Warwick Homestead was intentionally minimalist, focused on refurbishing and utilizing what was already there. This WIHMH blog features “before” and “after” images.
Castle, the headquarters of the Minutemen, was my first really big settlement effort, and marks a significant increase in decorating and detail. This is also my first experiment with a lot of new mods, including one that allows me to build fountains and pools.
The regional office of the Minutemen, Starlight started as an experiment in using the original metal building pieces. It features my first swimming pool.
A safehouse under the protection of the Brotherhood of Steel, the Taffington Boathouse has been rebuilt and the surrounding lot developed to serve a small community.
Welcome to County Crossing Hotel. Like Hangman’s Alley, this settlement focuses on original building pieces for that ramshackle wasteland look, but on a much greater scale.
It is always a pleasure to read your blogs. They are very well done, and more often than not fun to read, though it is a shame about your bag being stolen. But I'm glad to hear you were(are?) able to get a new one. ^^
Keep up the great work! Also I thought I would let you know: I'm going to be putting in more planning so I can finally start my Fallout: Equestria Fic.
The castle always looks so good to me. Though Spectacle island looks to have so much potential though... Just that it has no means to make it a very accessible to the rest of the commonwealth in the game.
All very interesting things your sharing, thanks.
I'm having the same problem with two other gaming projects that haven't been finished yet.
One of them was going to be a birthday neon light sign and whatever else I could do with my supplies in Fallout, but my console decided to be fickle with me. 
I did the same thing when giving my favorite Forza car it's paint job the other night.
I bet those are some impressive doors though. As usual, I look forward to your next blog post!
I have been playing a Fallout 4 Survival play through with no mods and one Endurance - basically as close to "realism" as the game gets. It's been super fun (and occasionally frustrating) and I recommend it, but the reason I bring it up is, because of the need for food, water, and sleep (not to mention no fast travel!), I've been far more focused on building settlements, and have occasionally looked to your Where I Hang My Hat series for inspiration. So thank you for helping my settlements to be a little less bland!
Instructions unclear: built stattrak fedora
Seriously tho, have you considered playing minecraft?
Hey Kkat! I have two really, really good mods to recommend you, since I tried them they opened a whole new possibilities for my settlement building.
The first one is Thematic and Practical - Workshop Settlements - Structures and Furnitures, this incorporate three fundamental things: half-walls, including half-wall doors and half-wall windows, which were a urgent necessity to any practical builder, a really nice couple of stores that works and snap like walls, and some pentagonal and triangular floors, that let you form really interesting structures. It also has other stuff but this already were just amazing.
The other one is G2M - Workshop and oh my, this just give you with a much, much needed variety of wooden walls, including windowed ones, as well as stairs, port stuff, half wooden roofs and half wooden floors, furniture, decoration and other stuff. What it's awesome it's that all the stairs and stuff is nameshaved so NPC can use them perfectly. Including metal spiral stairs. Really recommended.
So I'll post some images of the last settlment I'm working that were shoot to specifically show some of the elements of this mods (wich wasn't hard since I started building this to test them). Obviously the settlement it's not finished so you'll se "bald" patches here and there.
Pentagonal floor and roofs, also, if you look at the "towers" around the big entrance, their "wall" looking at the outside, it's actually a guard-wall in which settlements assigned to security will stand behind.
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In this last one you can see two different kinds of new stairs, a different kind of windowed wall (in the right center of the image) and one of the "wall-stores" (in the bottom left corner, just behind the stair) between other things.
I also made the marvelous discovery that mixing scrap everything (that let's you scrap and select more stuff from the settlements) and place everywhere (that lets you rotate and scale selected things) you can actually scale the pond in the middle of Starlight Cinema and make it bigger, at the point that it's even possible to swim in it! How awesome is that! And besides, when you make it bigger, you actually can put more water machines in it and they work!
Dear KKat
I have to say this chapter caught me by surprise and i have to say thank you for this story i couldn't mention in the story for reasons you'll find out or already know this story continues to surprise me more and more and makes me want to go one no matter how emotional i get and i think if you start writing books or anything id read it in a heart beat 'cuz you are an amazing writer thank you. :) /)
a fan
Powdered_milk
Aka Derick Carter
P.S. thanks for the recomandation
I too built upward when I decided to finally use Hangmans Alley, truly the only direction TO go TBH