Basic elements of Vault 88 (updated)

A combination of several popular Vault 88 Kit mods, improvements and bug fixes as well as a handful of new additions. Essential elements for a proper shelter building experience.

Original address:

Prefix:

Far Harbor

Shelter Tech Workshop DLC

SMM menu (required, has been sent before):

Shelter Technology Workshop Overhaul Redux (VTWOR) (recommended to be used together, and should be updated simultaneously):

Update to Al's Tile Retexture file on August 16th: Al's Tile Retexture replaces non-tiled checkerboards and large tiles with smaller uniform tiles. If the cafeteria tiles don't line up and the residential tiles are interrupted, you try this!

Updated on July 17th:

Version 1.2.2.1

Reuploading due to server error.

Safe to install mid-game.

Fixed patch for missing collision on Atrium prefabs.

Navigation mesh fixes and mesh fixes.

Added alignment points for wall caps and wall backs so doors are no longer needed to frame the room.

Updated on July 15th:

Version 1.2.1

Additional snaps were added to the remaining corner pieces.

Updated on July 13, 2025:

Version 1.2

Fixed navmesh in 11 corners.

Fixed dark side on atrium face (base game bug).

Added snap points to the backs of walls so doors are no longer needed to make rooms.

Added alignment points to wall caps so they can snap to walls and floors.

Fixed dark side on atrium face (base game bug).

Snap points have been added to the backs of walls so doors are no longer needed to build rooms, making building easier and more fun.

The main body and two replacements (a darker sci-fi theme and another Fallout 3 style theme) have been uploaded together. You can choose to install it according to your needs.

Chinese address:

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Summarize

Vault 88 Essentials is a mod that combines features, principles, or fixes from several popular mods for Vault 88 (or any modified Vault Settlements), designed to give players the power and freedom to build the shelter of their dreams without the need for incredibly cluttered mod lists, workshop menus, or settlements themselves. From expansions to the original vanilla set adding more function-based rooms, to some new sets to enable more specific layout and general fixes to mesh normals, snap points and paths.

Why

Ever tried to build the perfect Vault 88 and stumbled upon any of the following?

The kit is so limited that you can hardly make any room different from another.

The dormitory bathrooms are the same size as the dormitories.

Having to cycle through dozens of menus and mods to find the piece you're looking for.

Great but old mod that messes up your studio menu and disappears categories.

Path issues, bad snapshots, too much or too little difference.

Well, either you're turning a blind eye to a situation you don't want to admit, or you don't realize the extent of the disaster that the presence of old mods and Bethesda bugs in our workshop represents! well. . . You are in trouble, my friend. Right here, I say trouble is right here in River Cit... I'm sorry.

What I (original author sethnorris23, the same below) mean is that I have encountered them too. There are lots of good mods out there that do one thing or another, some add rooms, some fix lighting, some add capture points. However, most of them won't stay consistent if you put them together, and sometimes you have to choose between fixing or adding. I said no! I've gone through all the mods in our load order and tried to standardize and implement their best features while leaving room for other mods that might be a better fit for everyone's personal choices. This gives you the bare essentials, just the basic pieces and corners to be able to build more unique rooms and suit your vault building needs, as well as a handful of variations and options for different colors and room themes. All are integrated and standardized, with appropriate lighting and sign capture points.

Features

A small overview of the features included i …