Three months in-game and still no idea where Shaun is? If this describes your Fallout 4 experience, odds are good you’ve been lost in settlement hell, building and building and building. If our settlement guide that explained the vanilla settlement building tools wasn’t enough, here’s a list of the Fallout 4 settlement mods you’ll need to get you started.

9 Must-Have Mods For Fallout 4 Settlements

Fallout 4 - Enabling Modding for PC : This simple guide doesn’t show you how to install mods, but rather sets up your PC version of Fallout 4 so that it is ready for mods to be installed. There’s a video walk-through for maximum ease of use, so make sure you do this first before you start downloading mods.

Settlement Supplies Expanded (SSex) : This mod adds a wealth of new custom items and furniture to what’s available for your settlements. This mod boasts: “71 Useable Furniture Items, 80 Doors (that do not need to be attached to a wall), 14 Miscellaneous Interactive Objects, 228 Static Objects (Cars/Trees/Rocks, etc.), 9 Food Planters (From Vault 81 / Graygarden), 1 Alternate Power Armor Rack.”

Higher Settlement Budget : Do you have higher aspirations than the build limit in your settlements will allow? Then this mod is for you. Build endlessly. The sky is not the limit ‘cause there is no limit. “The point of this mod is to allow you to build more for your settlements, since Bethesda placed a limit. It's super simple!”

Settlements Expanded : This mod extends the build limit in addition to offering commands that give you 1000 of each building material and granting you the ability to grant or remove settlement-related perks. “The goal of Settlements Expanded is to unlock and add functionality to, many of the objects within the Fallout 4 world that are clearly missing from the construction menu when designing your settlements,” states the mod description.

Homemaker - Expanded Settlements : “Homemaker is a mod that expands upon the vanilla crafting system for settlements, and adds over 100 craftable objects to the game.” This mod adds new beds, fence sets, Institute objects, containers, and farmable crops.

Increased Settler Population : While the mod maker puts in a word of warning that this can be a little janky, especially when assigning mods, this helps you draw enough settlers to man your enormous new settlements. (This also blows the lid off the settlement workshop object limit.)

Longer Power Lines : This mod fixes one of the tiniest, most niggling irritants in the game, the short length of power lines.

Place in Red : This cheat table (not a mod) allows you to build outside of the settlement limits, like if you wanted to build a bridge from Sanctuary to Red Rocket. You’ll need Cheat Engine to make it work.

Darker Nights : Want the warm, cozy glow of your settlement’s lights to really pop against the darkness of the post-apocalypse? This mod offers seven levels of darkness, as well as offering different tints for night vision.

Did we miss any mods that make building the best and biggest settlements a total breeze? Feel free to comment with sweet Fallout 4 settlement mod tips in the comments section below.