Summary
Known as the “Great Green Jewel” of the Commonwealth,Diamond Cityis the large center hub ofFallout 4’smap. Founded around 2130 in the ruins of Boston’s Fenway Park, theCommonwealth’s largest settlementwas constructed as a peaceful city for those seeking shelter from the dangers of the wasteland.
While it’s an interesting location, the truth is that this central attraction of the Commonwealth always needed a bit more love. Thankfully, the modding community has put in the work over the years, developing tons of mods to overhaul the location, from expansions to the city’s layout and structures, to full-on new quest lines to play through. When used together, this batch of mods takes the old, dilapidated baseball stadium, and turns it into the true, post-great-war city it’s supposed to be, in all its radioactive glory.
•Read each mod’s description before downloading to learn more information.
•Be sure to install the patch at the end to make them all compatible.
6Diamond City Expansion + eXoPatch
Diamond City, But Expanded! (And Fixed)
Diamond City Expansion is a staple when it comes to location overhaul mods for the city, not just for how popular it is, but also for how much content it offers. Tons of new structures have been added to the usually empty upper and lower stands that surround the city’s main area, with some work done to some interior areas as well. This makes the city feel more alive and populated, gives it much more detail, and makes it seem like the sprawling wasteland metropolis it was meant to be.
While the mod’s original author is no longer working on the project, a user by the name of Exoclyps has created their eXoPatch Mod. This project takes the original Diamond City Expansion mod and fixes some small bugs it had left over, while also making some changes to improve performance and compatibility with other mods. It’s pretty much a requirement for any player looking to use the older Diamond City Expansion mod.
5The Fens Sheriff’s Department - Bleachers 2
A Massive Quest Mod Filled With Content
The Fens Sheriff’s Department - Bleachers 2 was one of 2023’s biggest mods forFallout 4. It won February’s Mod of the Month on Nexusmods that same year, much like the first Bleachers mod did in 2021. It adds a bunch of new content, from quests and locations, to NPCs, equipment, and items, all custom-made to fit in with the game’s aesthetic.
The mod’s content is mostly situated within Diamond City, adding in a new layer of depth by expanding the bleachers area with new buildings and details. Its questline is also a blast to playthrough. Not to mention it includes a handful of brand-new, fully-voiced NPCs to break up the common, reused voicessimilar to other Bethesda Games. All the content it brings adds much-needed diversity and style to the city overall.
4Diamond City Outskirts
A Much-Needed Exterior Revamp For The City
While Diamond City is mostly contained within the stadium itself, the surrounding area still provides its own uses, especially for its defenses. That’s where Diamond City Outskirts comes into play, bringing a much-needed upgrade to the settlement’s outer areas.
The mod’s author, SGTMikey, went about bringing more offerings to the city’s outer area, adding a totally new area with passageways running through the stadium’s walls. The various hallways range from small markets with unique, custom vendors, to abandoned and eerie corridors. It fleshes out the usually mundane exterior of the Green Jewel in its own creative way, while still fitting perfectly with theFallouttheme. It could easily seem like a part of the base game itself.
3Diamond City Guards Redux
Diversifies Diamond City’s Security
The settlement’s guard force, Diamond City Security, did have a unique design inFallout 4, with their style being heavily inspired byclassic baseball attire. The problem was the lack of variation. Every guard looked like a copy of the next, making them all feel sort of like robots. (Who knows, maybe they actually are synths.)
But Mortercotic has gone about fixing this with their project, Diamond City Guards Redux. This mod gives the city’s security force a much-needed revamp. It gives them a larger pool of possible weapon and armor combinations they can spawn with, as well as buffing their stats overall to make them much more of a force to be reckoned with. It does a surprising amount for the city by making just a few changes to one of its most common NPCs, and gives the population of the Great Green Jewel even more diversity.
2Diamond City Vendor Clutter
Because Vendors Should Display Their Wares
The merchants of Diamond City arean interesting bunch, like Soloman with his selection of definitely-legal chems, or Moe and his lineup of “swatters.” There’s Takahashi, the city’s robotic chef with a specialty in noodles. These characters are great on their own, each unique in their own way, but the same can’t be said for their mundane storefronts.
Despite their inventories being full of anything a wastelander could ever need, their market stalls are merely dotted with a handful of items. Luckily, modder creodron has seen to fix this by loading the various market stalls with a selection of equipment and items representative of each shop’s inventory. While it’s only a small change in concept, it adds that extra layer of detail to make the city feel more lived-in. More importantly, it adds more immersion, a highly coveted factor in the modding community.
1Optimization and Compatibility for Diamond City
Makes It All Work In Harmony!
It’s easy to see how these few mods can transformFallout 4’sDiamond City into something completely new for the game. Alas, there’s always one big question when it comes to modding: are they all compatible?
While these mods each do different things in and around the city, with the way modding works inFallout 4, there is bound to be overlap somewhere in the various records they edit. Thankfully, mith077 has created a mod that’s essentially a mega patch that lets all of these mods (and even more) work together without problems. Better yet, the installation itself is modular, so players can pick and choose which mods they are using so the correct compatibility patches are added. In culmination, these few mods take the old Diamond City and turn it into a settlement truly worthy of its title as the Great Green Jewel of the Commonwealth.
