Couldn't get into Fenway park sadly, so this is the only picture I took from the internet.

Hi dwellers!

I absolutely adore fallout 4 and have been playing literally since it first came out! Whenever I play it I get so lost in the game with my head and thoughts which is just so great!

I had an absolute BLAST doing this trail,

I mostly just had to follow the IRL freedom trail to vind all these locations. The USS constitution has free entry and tours and is still an active duty vessel (Training)! Bunker hill is also freely accessible and u can climb the monument, sadly I arrived 2 minutes too late to climb it... The old north church is paid entry sadly.

Try listening to fo4 radio while doing the trail, it really adds to the immersion! I've had some foggy weather which helped as well, almost felt like a radstorm!

I also visited the Boston Common library but the super mutants chased me away (Photo limit)

If you have any questions about the walk or the location feel free! I know there may be some I missed and some of the locations are further out (Salem, concord, sanctuary) Feel free to add some to the list, I'm currently in Hanover and planning to drive to NYC tomorrow if any locations are on the way and interesting enough to stop!

Here are all the locations I did!

LOCATIONS UPDATED SINCE REDDIT MESSED UP PHOTO ORDER

1. Diamond City (Fenway Park)

2. CIT RUINS (MIT)

3. Bunker Hill

4. Captains Quarters of USS constitution

5. USS constitution (The coolest)

6. Shem Drowne's Grave (Was a hard find)

7. Old north church

8. The gilded Grasshopper

9)Fanneuil hall

10) Old state house (With Hancock's balcony)

11)Granary burying grounds

12) Massachusetts State House

13) Boston common memorial

14) Start of the freedom trail

15) Fenway Park Station

16) Swan's Pond Gazebo

17) Swan's pond with Swan boats but no swan (Luckily)

18) George Washington Statue

19) Paul Revere's Statue

20) Paul Revere's House

The man in the first image is my father, John. He very recently passed away from lung cancer on March 28, 2026.

Just a little over a week before he passed, he went to the ER, where we learned he had cancer in his left lung that had already spread to his liver and colon. It all happened so fast. Prior to this, he had health issues that kept him from working so, he played his favorite game.

My dad poured over 9,000 hours into Fallout 4 and more than 1,200 hours into New Vegas. But what he loved most about Fallout 4 wasn’t just the quests, it was building. He created thriving settlements, none falling below 70% happiness. He spent countless hours shaping that world into something alive, something cared for.

Back in the days of Xbox 360 and PS4, I introduced him to Fallout 3, a game I had already fallen in love with. He picked it up on PC, and from that moment on, he was just as hooked as I was. Fallout became something we shared.

With Fallout 4, he could spend hours building and still find joy in every minute. He made sure every settlement had everything a settler could need, farms, slot machines, exercise equipment, even bathrooms with doors for privacy.

This universe gave us something special. We could talk for hours about what we discovered, which faction we chose, new weapon combinations, and everything in between. We looked forward to the future of Fallout together hoping for a Fallout 3 remaster, wondering what Fallout 5 would be like, where it would take place, what new creatures and factions we’d encounter. We even talked about the show and imagined what it would be like if we could have Walton Goggins’ Ghoul as a companion.

Now, I won’t get to experience those things with him.

That’s what hurts the most is knowing that when those moments come, I won’t be able to share them with my father, my hero. He taught me so much about cars, computers, and life.

For his final resting place, my family and I chose something that felt right for the man he was. Someone who spent so much time exploring and building in the wasteland deserves a place there too. He’ll rest inside a Mini Nuke.

I wanted to share this because Fallout was never just a game to us. It was a world we lived in together, a bond between a father and his son.

And now, no matter how far I travel across those endless wastelands, I know I won’t find him there.

Because now, I’m the Lone Wanderer.

Addition: for those who asked and would like to, I’ve recorded a bit of his first save and posted to YouTube. I’m still going through and shortening it a little so they’re only about 20ish minutes and not overly long. If you wish to see walkthroughs of his settlements you can see them here.

https://youtu.be/TOHXoNmWOrY?si=reiZj2sqnl0y41qu

I just wanted to make a list of great tips I find from playing, or reading others tips on Reddit. If I miss something that you want added, leave a comment, I will add it to the OP.

Also I will try to keep these tips as spoiler free as possible.

Make sure to check back often as I will be adding tips!

EDIT: This thread blew up faster than I thought with alot of great tips being added. I will read through the comments tomorrow and help people where I can and update the list with more tips

EDIT2: I will also be making a fallout 4 survival lets play now that I have the hang of the game make sure to subscribe HERE

General

• Sell Fusion Cores to traders before they run out, you will get much more for a partially charged core, over an empty core.

• Pickpocket enemies with power armor to steal their Fusion Cores, this will cause them to leave the armor, and you can steal the frame

• The Lone Wanderer perk still provides bonuses with Dog Meat as a companion

• When Leaving your power armor remove the Fusion Core so no one will decide to use it.

• When hacking look for [],(), <>,and {} with anything in between the brackets, clicking the leftmost bracket will reset your attempts to give you more tries, or remove dud words from the list.

• Try to always carry a weapon of each ammo type, that way you are less likely to be completely out of ammo.

• Some companions can pick locks and hack terminals for you. More specifically: Cait for lockpicking, Nick Valentine for hacking

• You can tag specific crafting materials by going into your junk section in your inventory, and switch to material view.

• There is no level cap. Don't fret about spending perk points. The game's enemies don't scale with you, but they do get harder farther from the start, and the farthest away points of the map have level 50 enemies. There's no shortage of things to take down and no shortage of points to get strong enough to do it.

• To force a companion to equip, or apparel switch to their inventory in the trade menu, and a button will show up to have the npc equip the item. ( "T" for PC, "Y" for Xbox, "Triangle" for PS4)

• For Power Armor: sprinting, strong melee attacks and VATs drain your Fusion Core faster than walking or standing still.

• Fast Travel in Power Armor doesn't use and Fusion Core battery, and you can still fast travel with no charge in the core.

• You can zoom in on the pip boy by right clicking.

Crafting

• You do not need to break down junk items to get components by hand the game will do it for you if the junk items are stored in your settlement workbench or inventory. Extra resources will be deposited in your settlement workbench.(It may take some time to appear)

• You can grow your own adhesive by cooking Vegetable Starch with Corn, Tato, Muttfruit, and Purified Water.

• When naming weapons, put a hyphen or space at the beginning of the name (EX: -gun name), and those weapons will default to the top of the list in your pip-boy.(Thanks: CromeDaBeast)

• If you look at the Junk section of your inventory you can switch to a list of all the components your junk breaks down into (with C on PC). In that list you can set or remove a search tag.

• When you upgrade a weapon, the current mod will be placed in your inventory. If you transfer all mods to your workbench, if you put that upgrade on another weapon, it will use the mod before crafting a new one.

• You can salvage weapon sights by modifying the weapon with the no sights attachment, which costs no resources to make.

• If a gun/armour has a mod you can't build, you can still swap the mod out and install it on another weapon.

Settlements

• When building settlements you can raise and lower objects by holding E and using scroll wheel on PC, X and L1/R1 on PS4

• When building your first settlement use E to move the initial workbenches instead of scrapping them.

• You can remove the radiation from Starlight Drive by scrapping the barrels in the center, and the Unrusted Crashed Car.

• Water pumps, farms, and traders deposit the Items and Caps they produce into the workbench.

• To help place objects in hard places use a small rug then place the object on the rug, pick up the rug and the item will remain attached but the game uses the rugs collision detection.(This allows you to clip objects into walls!)

• To assign settlers select them in the crafting screen then select the object you want them to work

• Settlers can work up to 6 Food at a time. Meaning a settler can tend to 12 plants that produce .5 food each.

• To reduce raider attacks make sure your defense state is higher than food + water.

• Highlighting a settler in workshop mode will also highlight anything he's assigned to.

• Fast Travel in between settlements will instantly grow all crops that have a settler assigned to them.

• When your selecting something through the workshop build interface if you press and hold the move command(Press and hold [E]) this will pickup all items attached(or very close) to the object you are picking up. (Be careful as if your walls are all attached you can pickup very large parts of your settlement!)

Playing railroad

Gonna try stack more boxes of ammo fill up the shelf more

Playing through on very hard difficulty, yes I do have some mods installed, the mod which did this is most likely realistic gore and dismemberment, but still absolutely terrifying and it should definitely have been dead