Can high-defence settlements in Fallout 4 be attacked?
I've read that high-defence settlements (where the defence rating is higher than the combined food & water value) will not be attacked. Elsewhere, I have read that even high defence settlements can occasionally be attacked. Which is true? What is the maths/algorithm behind the chance of a settlement being attacked?
I think it would be a shame to create a very high defence settlement, armed to the teeth, if it were never going to be attacked so that you could witness those defences in action.
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My settlements with a defense rating higher than or equal to the combined resource production have definitely been attacked before. However I'm not sure of the algorithm to calculate how much more likely it is that they will be attacked.
One thing that will almost ensure attacks on settlements, if you have the Wasteland Workshop DLC, is having occupied animal cages at a settlement.
I have an arena that contains around 15 cages filled with animals, and that settlement gets attacked most times that I visit, and is constantly being attacked when I am away from it, despite having a defense rating of over 400 and a resource production a little over 100.
Only the type of enemy trapped inside a cage will attack your settlement, so deathclaws will attack a settlement with a filled deathclaw cage and gunners will attack somewhere that has trapped a gunner.
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Can your settlement get attacked in Fallout 4?
Additionaly, every unit of production at your settlement (Food and Water) is an additional +0.5% attack chance. Even as difficulty increases with mods and difficulty settings, settlements in the light blue areas get the wakest attacks, always. Unless spawned in for fun yourself. Sanctuary will get attacked.Can your base get raided in Fallout 4?
Just build cages for whatever you want to be raided by. Until you release them then you will get raids by whatever creature/faction you have captured. I did this to make it so Starlight Drive-In suffered nothing but mirelurk attacks for a while.Can you lose a settlement in Fallout 4?
"One may lose control of a settlement that is very unhappy" - the important word you skipped by is "may". That means your test on a single settlement has no bearing on the question. Even if you left it for longer than just one month, it still would prove nothing at all.How Settlement Attacks Work - Fallout 4
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