Fallout 4 player Ashley McCaffrey has announced that her settlement is approaching self-sufficiency, having secured enough desk fans, clipboards and battered coffee pots to support several generations of people with nothing to eat. “The foundations are all here,” she said, leading a tour past a roofless shack in which four settlers had arranged themselves on the bare ground. “Now it’s just a matter of bringing everything together.”
McCaffrey’s supplies occupy three substantial sheds. Desk fans are sorted by condition, coffee mugs by colour, and clipboards by whether she thinks she might need them. A fourth shed contains items she has not yet decided how to sort.
The settlement’s food supply consists of one empty patch of soil she intends to develop once she has finished gathering materials. Its water pump has not been built. There are no beds, although McCaffrey has collected several alarm clocks. “She brought back another toaster yesterday,” said settler Martin, who had originally followed her home after being promised a fresh start. “I asked what we were going to put in it. She said that wasn’t really what it was for.”
A request for drinking water was deferred because McCaffrey did not want to spend resources she might need for something important. She confirmed that the settlement’s most urgent construction project was already under way. The project is a spacious display room for the junk. “At the moment you can’t really appreciate the collection,” she explained. “The fans need room to breathe. I’m thinking individual shelves, maybe a little reception area.”
Asked whether the settlers could sleep in the completed sheds, McCaffrey said she had only just got everything organised. One resident has already been warned about moving a box of fuses to make space for his legs.
She remains confident that living conditions will improve once the settlement has sufficient supplies. Before leaving on her next scavenging trip, she asked whether anyone needed anything. “A bed,” said Martin. McCaffrey returned that evening with a bedside lamp.
