About this mod
A spooky player home, a motel, and lots of room and jobs for 17 settlers (not counting the kids). 17-22 mods required.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
DO NOT download this plan without reading the required 17-22 mods list (under the graphic) below↓ and the sticky post!
This plan has a player home and is survival playthrough-friendly
The following plot types are included as a level 3 plan:
3 Agri, 1 Comm, 2 Indust, 3 Martial (+2 Vanilla), 4 Muni, 2 Rec, 7 Res
Barts Motel, a twisted tale to tell,
A city plan with secrets, lurking deep,
Where nightmares rise, and restless spirits creep.
In shadows cast, 'neath a spectral moon's glow,
Each room a chamber of the macabre, you know,
Ghouls for guests, and ghosts for staff,
This haunted haven, a true epitaph.
As ghastly echoes through the night do sound,
In Barts Motel, fear's heart will be found,
For Halloween's spirit, here year-round dwells,
In the SS2 City, where darkness swells.
So venture forth, if you dare to explore,
Barts Motel's chilling corridors evermore,
Fallout's twisted twist, where horrors thrive,
In Barts Motel City, where you'll fearfully arrive.
Each Seasons plan uses the same modlist of 17-22 mods.
Seasons - of City Plan Building
You’ll notice my screenshots will be in seasons, using Seasons by frogprincess. If you’d like to “play along” as I build, you can jump into Frog’s Discord server HERE and download Seasons. Remember to be kind!
Contest Builds
I will be playing as I build, so I will not be building at most of the contest build locations from season 3, unless season 4 contest builds replace those to better suit Ch 3. Due to season 4 contest running at the same time I’m building here, there may end up being two plans for some locations. We shall see.
New series, new list. We are on a mod site! Each of the below mods is tried and true – and makes building city plans much more fun. If you opt out of the optional mods, the city plan will issue a warning. Simply ignore and build anyway.
This entire series will be created using only the following mods:
Modded Location
I will only have a few modded locations for this series - and to meet the request (by regularrigby64) for a Bates Motel-style location, Somerville Place needed to be one of them. You will need:
Somerville Place Deep Clean which also REQUIRES download of: Vilance's Library Support Plugin, adds over 24 new workshop items, prevents duplication of workshop objects across the various DCnR mods
Outpost locations only (Plans with Outpost in the name) - NOT this one.
Optional
- Advanced Settlement Turret Set Optional, but a few, wireless turrets go a long way
- Business Settlements 1.9 (Standalone) Signage and stuff
- Laptop Terminal Not used in this plan
Other Nexus Requirements
- Alex’s Settlement Power Pylon Settlement-wide radiant power
- Better Armory Mod (BAM) - Weapon Racks and More Need a spot to put the goods!
- cVc Dead Wasteland Many, many good things!
- FRAMED - Painting and Frame Mix-N-Match I use the unlocker files and also add a mix of replacers (see recommended mods section below)
- Renovated Decorations I use the dirty version to create a more balanced look
- Snappable Clutter and Display Not used in this plan
- Snap'n Build 2.0 Don’t forget the Windowed walls texture fix
- Snap'n Build Fixed Navmesh - Choose “Overwrite” at install
- The Fens Sheriff's Department - Workshop Pack So many necessary items!
- Wasteland Gardening Bonus Happiness File as well (won’t use slot)
- V's Stylish Decor My Beds - Yay! A big thank you to Vronykah for the perms to make this mod
- Woody's Wasteland Stuff Used new cabinet texture replacer too. SMM Required.
Manual Install
These are carefully chosen and trustworthy mods.
- V’s Stylish Decor Hard Requirement. Author Download link at bottom of page.
- CWSS Necessary. Working bathrooms and kitchen sinks at several locations. Choose the file from Steve40s Nexus Page
- Creative Clutter *Worried about breaking your current load order with BethNet mods? Try creating a new ‘profile’ in your mod manager, booting the game and downloading to that profile. You can then copy or zip those files and move/install for future. See some general tips HERE
- DoItYourshelf All the things (and setup for organized storage too)
- OPTIONAL: Creation Club Nuka-Cola Collector Workshop (Many items, couches and some flooring)
- OPTIONAL: Creation Club Coffee and Donuts Workshop Pack Not used in this plan
- OPTIONAL: Home Decor Workshop Pack (Just plants)
*Note: At least one of the vanilla-style shower skins in CWSS will cause CTD. I simply don’t use them, as the rest of the mod works perfectly fine.
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*What You Should Be Using
Settlement Menu Manager You should absolutely be using this
This will not take up a slot - so go for it!
SMM Patches by Vanguard (Declutter your workshop menus) Grab the file for Renovated Decorations.
Business Settlements Categorized - highly recommended
Not Required, but to get my look - will use no slots:
Clean and Optimized Wood Texture Replacer for Shacks and Greenhouses Wood Replacer - Shacks and Greenhouses 2K (there is a 1k version)
Clean Barns - Replacer, Vanilla Windows Only
Clean Warehouses - Windows and Holes Patched
EoW - Pre-War Books Retexture - Changes all book covers in game. Great way to improve the vanilla clutter assets.
For those who are comfy at Discord and/or plan to use Seasons:
Elm Shrub Hider by FrogPrincess - Available only on Discord under my-misc-mods. This one is just handy. Removes these shrubs (that are often in the way or stick up through floors) from the world.
To see what else I use in my load order, peek at my recommended list below. There’s some goodies in there.
You’ll want to have Designer’s Choice and Starting Plot Levels ON for these plans to build as designed. This list of Add-Ons are what I will use for the foreseeable future. Occasionally, a new one will be added.
Those with bullets are used in this specific plan.
- Jampads 2 - a Sim Settlements 2 Add-on
- Sim Settlements 2 Addon Pack Caravan Snatex
- Sim Settlements 2 - Junk Town 2 Addon Pack
- Sim Settlements 2 - Nuka World Expansion
- Sim Settlements 2 Scrappers
- Sim Settlements 2 - So I Made Plans Addon Pack
- SS2 Addon - Shazbot's Cots
- SS2 - Settlers at Play
- SS2 Superstructures - A Sim Settlements 2 Addon Pack
- Wasteland Defense - SS2 Addon
- Wasteland Venturers Sim Settlements 2 Addon Pack (Hard Requirement for terraformers)
Industrial City Sim Settlements Add-On
SimHomestead 2 - A SimSettlements 2 addon
Sim Settlements 2 - Apocalyptic Additions Addon Pack
Sim Settlements 2 - Far Harbor Expansion
Sim Settlements 2 - From Sanctuary to Concord - Building Plans Module
Sim Settlements 2 - Pra's Random Addon 2
Sim Settlements 2 - Ruined Homes and Gardens 2.
Sim Settlements 2 - Tiny Living
SS2 Industrial Revolution of the Wasteland (Add-on Pack)
SS2 Support Structures of the Wasteland (Add-on Pack)
Vault-TecTools Sim Settlements 2 Addon Pack
I want to thank Kinggath and the Sim Settlements 2 team for filling my secret gaming life with thousands of hours of fun and adventure! And a special thank you to that bunch of scrappy builders and kind moderators over at We Are Builders.
- Do you have settlers standing around in clumps doing nothing? Scripts + ‘too many settlers’ (turrets and spotlights count as ‘settlers’) is the likely reason. Consider using THIS awesome extra mod ‘More NPCs’ by Gorgulia. You do not need Realistic Convos.
- Power. It likes to break.
- Start by grabbing any plot displaying the unpowered icon and then let it go - to snap back into place. This resets the plot and usually forces it to find the radiant power. In testing, this almost always works.
- Are the plots unlocked?
- If the plan got stuck, you won’t be able to build the correct plot, even if there are two and one didn’t build. I’m afraid the only way to get a plot you don’t yet have unlocked is to cheat and unlock them all. You can use the holotape or drop a desk and find it there under tools/cheats/etc.
A couple of these I keep in my load order so I can play with my ‘There’s No Place Like Home’ plans.
But most of these are wonderful for adding some fun player features or entertainment value.
Other, valuable mods I have installed:
Chuck Yufarley Collection So many good things about this mod!
Seasons (See top of page)
Settlement Activity Markers These provide more things for settlers to do (in addition to some important assets) While the markers don’t export in City Plans, they can be used in game to liven up your settlements!
Settlement Tidy Bot to rid yourself of those pesky bodies and skeletons!
Snappy Housekit Used in my ‘There’s No Place Like Home’ plans.
Stained Glass Workshop Mod So very pretty and cool.
Bethesda.Net Mods in My LO:
- Noir Penthouse Workshop Used in one of my ‘There’s No Place Like Home’ plans.
CC Content: I own almost all of the CC Content, but these four are what I currently have in my LO:
- Noir Penthouse. Used in a couple of my ‘There’s No Place Like Home’ plans.
- Arcade Workshop Pack - Fun to add once in a while
Painting Replacers
Just want to switch out some of those ugly vanilla paintings? I download all of these and make one folder with the replacements that I prefer. It’s a nice mix that provides variety.
Bob Ross Happy Little Paintings
New Paintings for Player Home
More Paintings for the discerning homemaker
Pickman Paintings Replacer Another Option
I use a few of the SFW Atom Bomb Pinups as well - most are NSFW, but I manually chose a few replacers that are more cheeky and less nakey.
UNDRCVR FSD Right Field Player Home WSFW Layout
V's Stylish Decor My Beds
Renovated Furniture MYBEDs
UNDRCVR Seasons: Sanctuary in the Fall
UNDRCVR Seasons: Red Rocket in the Fall Layout
UNDRCVR Seasons Starlight Capital City in the Fall
UNDRCVR Seasons: Taffington Outpost in the Fall
UNDRCVR Seasons: Somerville Barts Motel
UNDRCVR Salute & Settle Library Outpost
UNDRCVR There's No Place Like Home The Slog
UNDRCVR There's No Place Like Home Fiddler's Green
UNDRCVR There's No Place Like Home Lake Cochituate
UNDRCVR There's No Place Like Home Rock Island Lighthouse
UNDRCVR Simply Settled Lakeside Cabin Homestead
UNDRCVR Simply Settled North Point Park
UNDRCVR Simply Settled Ruined Church
UNDRCVR Simply Settled Fairline Outpost
UNDRCVR Guns 'N Roses Taffington
UNDRCVR Guns 'N Roses Nahant RR
UNDRCVR Guns 'N Roses Abernathy
UNDRCVR Guns 'N Roses Jamaica Plain
UNDRCVR Guns 'N Roses Starlight
UNDRCVR Guns 'N Roses RR Player Home
UNDRCVR MODestly Settled 2023
UNDRCVR MODestly Settled 2022
UNDRCVR Midnight Refuge Jamaica Plain
UNDRCVR Midnight Refuge at Taffington
UNDRCVR Midnight Refuge at Hangman's Alley
UNDRCVR Simply Settled City Plans 2022
UNDRCVR Simply Settled Mechanist's Lair
UNDRCVR Simply Settled Nuka Rocket Hotel
UNDRCVR Simply Settled Graygarden
UNDRCVR Simply Settled Castle
UNDRCVR Simply Settled Greentop