Sanctuary (Area)

Explore Sanctuary in fallout 4, find Grognak the Barbarian, get a SPECIAL boost, and claim it as a settlement.

Follow the road from the bridge into Sanctuary. The first blue house on the right contains a bathroom with a vanity Mirror where you can find chems or Bobby Pins. In the nearby bedroom, look under a dresser for an Advanced Safe. The second yellow house on the left has a Novice Safe with a Makeshift Bomb on top; disarming the bomb requires no special skill. You can try the lockpicking minigame on the safe, and nearby is a Novice Ledger Terminal you can hack. Both minigames grant XP. This house also has a Chemistry Station in the backyard.

The next blue house on the left is inhabited by two Radroaches. After defeating them, you can find a Nuka-Cherry in a broken refrigerator, a First Aid box in the bathroom, and a Novice Suitcase in the master bedroom. Skip the next blue house on the left as it has little of interest.

The blue house on the left, which is your old house, is where you will find Codsworth. Listen to his dialogue and pass a speech check by saying “You Okay?” to trigger a Mr. Handy breakdown. After he recovers, he will give you the “Hi Honey!” holotape and offer to search for Bloatflies with you. You can follow him to conserve ammo.

Inside your old house, search the kitchen counter for an issue of Grognak the Barbarian. In Shaun’s room (the north-western room), search under a dresser near the bed to find the book YOU’RE SPECIAL!, which grants a +1 boost to any SPECIAL stat.

Outside the yellow house across the street from your old home, you will find a Workshop. Interacting with it allows you to claim Sanctuary Hills as a settlement. Once claimed, you can enter build mode to break down junk into resources for building and crafting. Contents of broken-down containers, including locked ones, are transferred to your Workshop, which also functions as a safe stash.

Nearby crafting stations include a Weapons Workbench, an Armor Workbench, and a Power Armor Station. You can move the Chemistry Station behind the yellow house near the bridge. Crops are growing in a fenced area behind the house, but they will not regrow until you have settlers assigned to tend them.

Continue down the street and enter the next yellow house on the left. It may contain Bloatflies, assuming Codsworth did not already deal with them.