Fallout 4 added the capability to build and manage settlements. They offered up a great selection of settlement sites and buildable items such as walls, furniture, lighting, etc. Unfortunately for me, they did not polish the experience.

there should have been some way of removing debris and brambles/bushes. So there is no way to clean up all the detritus from your settlement. i realize that there may be wastelanders that like the look of trash and brush all around their settlement, but a bunch of trash in my dwelling was not desirable.

another area that did not get attention, is being able to place items in the buildings located on your settlement. Not all buildings have this issue, but enough do that it is disappointing. Take Egret Tours as an example. you cannot move any of the furniture inside the building, first or second floor. likewise you cannot build any items and place them. there appears to be no 'floor' in the structure.

so, what this mod does is try to polish some of those items for a select five settlements. i chose settlements that appeared to hold the most favorable locations, buildings, and building space for a player to really be able to create a nice looking settlement. i did not chose the citadel or sanctuary hills, even though they are great settlements, but they are 'occupied' by the minutemen. i also did not choose settlements with embedded NPC's, such as, Tenpines Bluff, or Oberland Station.

the settlements that this mod improves are: Egret Tours Marina, Kingsport Lighthouse, Starlight Drive-In, Sunshine Tidings Coop, and Warwick Homestead.

these are the improvements i made to each settlement.

disabled all the debris and bushes. also disabled a handful of items that get in the way of building, as an example, the movie reals in the Starlight Drive-In projector area.

added floors to the buildings and boats if they needed them. it was difficult to figure a good way to add floors to the Lighthouse, as the floors are circular and i could not find a suitable floor in the available floor models, so since the floor model i used was square, round floors may have small areas where you cannot build.

increased the buildable area for Egret Tours Marina, Kingsport Lighthouse, Sunshine Tidings and Warwick Homestead by increasing the size of the border/boundary. could not find a good way to increase the workshop viewable, green, border as it contours to the ground. when i increased the area it moved the green border away from it's position and for some areas results in the border offset higher from the ground. so you may have to get close to the border edge and when the workshop informs you that you have exited the settlement you will know the exact edge of the buildable area.

added a shipment of concrete to each settlement, as well as additional metal, wood, and assorted junk items for recycle, and to speed construction.

moved the fast travel location closer into the buildable area and away from enemy spawn points.

added some miscellaneous items for decoration.

specific changes i made to each settlement can be found in the readme, as well as additional images in the zip file.

Hope you enjoy the mod.

A Big Dog Production