I use Start Me Up, which is fun if you want to roleplay. It lets you choose where to start, and it works in the main quest with tweaked dialogue.

Most of the rest of mine have to do with settlements and crafting. Armorsmith Extended and Universal Clothing Overhaul are my favorites. Place Anywhere does exactly what it sounds like, and best of all it lets you move things up and down and toggle the snapping features on and off.

Sun Settlements 2 is super popular and for good reason if you’re into the settlement building stuff. It really makes the settlements feel more like vibrant communities.

The story throughout it is fun and I think it has pretty good voice acting. The gameplay tweaks are interesting and there’s some fun characters throughout. Definitely give it a shot if you’re the kind of player who likes the settlements, but wish they could go a little further.

The 2k color map on nexus mods is essential for me, and it has all locations posted so you don’t waste a lot of time searching. I also highly recommend looking at console commands to customize character looks, increase your carry weight, etc. The game has so much to do but those little features make it fun for me.

I honestly kinda got bored of playing FO4 even with mods because of how I play with needing to do stuff like quests and I guess I’m not a fan of the story as I skip through it a lot lol

However, I did like the look of some greenery mods and so I ended up find a bunch of interiors and exteriors mods and a forest mod, I remember one is the beantown interiors mod and another is 2 mods with a patch Atomic Forest, a mix of Atomic World and A Forest and then I started playing the game without a map and doing stuff from memory without fast travel to try and stumble upon stuff more.

I think I also added a mod that added more random encounters and stuff as well as a bunch of combat related mods which was another reason I probably skipped through the story a lot, I think i had a slow motion mod I also had a mod which was something like “press X to be mean” I cant remember the wording but pressing X just scrolls through all the lines the SS says when you skip lines like “uh, what a dork…” and “I DONT CARE” and several sighs lol

Sorry I couldn’t be more specific about the names of these mods but they are still ideas to look into also of course this should all be found on Nexus Mods and also cheat terminal is another required mod just for ease about some things (you can get that one on Nexus or in game I’m pretty sure it’s the same on both, someone correct me if I’m wrong…)

If you intend to play on survival id reccomend the following (as best i can remember)

Journeys - lets you fast travel along caravan lines and gives more reason to build up settlements in the commonwealth

A sleeping bag mod -i dont remember the name of it something like camping kit. But basically it let you carry around a sleeping bag so you could stop and make a save in a semi reasonable way. The game is too unstable to play survival without this in my opinion.

K9 harness - buff dogmeats carrying capacity

Sim settlements is pretty dope if you dont want to deal with building every settlement yourself

Oh and i almost forgot - More where that came from - adds 100+ sound/style appropriate songs to diamond city radio

If you get your hands on a VR headset, I highly recommend Fallout 4 VR with something like Fallout 4 VR Essentials Overhaul. It makes the game into not only the ultimate way to experience Fallout 4, but also makes it into the best VR game - in my biased opinion.

Apologies about resurrecting the post from its grave.

If you have a Nexus Mods subscription (only because it automates everything, otherwise you’d be having a good amount of headaches) I strongly recommend A StoryWealth.

Absolutely elevates F4. Survival playthrough is the best way to go for it.