Keep a lot of Steel around for repairs, by the way.
#Fallout 4 settler assignment icons upgrade#
Repair and upgrade options should then pop up. You'll want to repair it regularly, which you can do by walking close to a Power Armour Station - the yellow upright frames which look like a partially-dismantled Aliens powerloader - getting out of the armour and then hitting Use on the Station (E by default). If you do wear Power Armour regularly, you'll notice that, unlike regular armour, it can get pretty messed up, even to the point that you can't wear it any more. You can't shove a suit of Power Armour in a cupboard, so what to do with it if you're running out of Fusion Cores or simply want to stroll around in your civvies for a while? Well, just get out of it and leave it wherever - and a new icon will appear on the map showing where you've left it. Sadly there are no ways to organise or filter it to be more easily-browsed. You can also pointlessly zoom in and out a tiny bit with the mouse wheel.
Right-click and drag to move around it, or alternatively move the cursor to the edge of the screen. That Perks unlock screen in the Pipboy? Looks as though it's just a single screen, doesn't it? No arrows, no scrollbars, no prompts- but in fact it scrolls way down, revealing a whole mess of other perks, including the arguably vital likes of Lockpicking and Science, plus returning favourite Bloody Mess. This comes under the category of stuff for near-newbies. (Although I include a couple of those too). I suspect the former, to be honest, given its many other glitches and that most of the features it fails to document are down to user interface obfuscation (and a complete absence of relevant tutorial) rather than delightful things one might stumble across through experimentation. I can't quite decide if the game just got itself into a bit of a muddle when it comes to explaining its many, many less than obvious systems or if it truly has a sink or swim philosophy, figuring that it's far more satisfying for players to work everything out for themselves.
Some apply to total greenhorns, some might surprise even people fairly deep into the game - and I'll add to them as more occur.
#Fallout 4 settler assignment icons how to#
From fuss-free shopping to streamline construction and power armour management, and of course figuring out how to run those blasted settlements, here are a few must-know pieces of hard-earned wisdom. There are things I only worked out how to do in Fallout 4 after hours and hours of play, so I thought I'd spare the rest of you from similar confusion.