Hey wastelanders, Delta here and I have some questions for you. Since I got Fallout 4 a couple of months ago, I've only been testing builds and stormed through the main questline. I was thinking recently about starting a playthrough that focuses on building a single settlement and use it as your home. You won't be joining any factions (unless you want the Minuteman in your twon then it's cool) or go adventuring. Everything you do is focused towards creating a better life for you and your settlers.
I wanted to ask if there are any wood choping and survival mods like iNeed from Skyrim and such. This playthrough also isn't played in Survival Mode. It's just casual survival on a low difficulty. Thanks in advance.
Postman mentioned it, Survival Options can be found here. Let's you change combat difficulty, manual saves, whether or not you need to stimpack followers when they go down, if stimpacks make you thirsty etc. I believe every possible tweak you might want to make to survival mode is there. Keep your easy combat difficulty with the realistic needs, diseases etc. You will have more luck working backwards, starting with survival and adjusting the settings, rather than playing on an easy setting and looking for survival mods.
Immersive fast travel A favourite of mine, allows you to craft various automobiles at your settlements, and at the cost of fuel, use them to fast travel to other settlements you own. Great for a more casual survival if you don't like playing walking simulator.
Salvage Beacons is what Amornar mentioned, have your settlers collect the junk you scavange out in the world and free up your backpack.
Sim Settlements I also second this as a great mod for settlement focused playthrough, after building and decorating your 100th settler house this is wonderful, and you can still mix and match with vanilla stuff. For example I'm quite found of building my own shops still, but it's nice that the settlers will make their own houses.
All Settlements Extended Not a survival related one, but depending how ambitious you plan your settlements to be this will give you more space to play with
Conquest Features both camping and the ability to set up new settlements. Also when you set up camp, you can scrap surrounding items, allowing you to scrap cars that are out of your settlement boundaries like Amornar mentioned