Trophy Guide by Warren Woodhouse
Guide for how to easily unlock the Benevolent Leader trophy, however you’ll need to have the following DLCs installed: Far Harbor DLC and Vault-Tec Workshop DLC or alternatively have either the Game of the Year Edition installed or the Anniversary Edition installed, as the Vault-Tec Workshop DLC installed and a large settlement that isn’t glitched (glitched settlement: Sanctuary Hills). Far Harbor offers very expansive and large settlements, most notably Old Longfellow’s Cabin. Old Longfellow’s Cabin offers panoramic scenic views and vistas and a valuable way to build a large settlement easily, as it barely attracts attention from enemies.
Follow my trophy guide video carefully for a more detailed explanation on how to unlock this trophy.
What you will Need
- 1x Large Settlement
- 1x Bar
- 2x Settlers
- Lots of Junk, Aid, Weapons, Ammo and Apparel stored in the Workshop
- 3x Phoropters (DLC Required: Vault-Tec Workshop)
- 1x Corn, Tato and Melon for farming
- Lots of Defense features
Guide
You can use the DLCs for this as well. I used 5 settlers in my Longfellow’s Cabin settlement, then when it reached 97 percent happiness, I then moved 3 of the settlers including the companion, Longfellow, to the Dalton Farm settlement. So I left 2 settlers in the Longfellow’s Cabin settlement, with 6 food, 293 water, 131 power, 287 defense, 27 beds and originally with 5 settlers I managed to get to 97 percent by sleeping and waiting repeatedly for 3 in-game months, then it started to drop by 97 happiness. so I moved 3 of the settlers away from the settlement and then one settler set to food and the other was set to a phoropter and I went about the usual business away from the settlement and 2 in-game days later back in The Commonwealth, I unlocked the platinum trophy.
Issues, Glitches and Bugs
- Sanctuary Hills Happiness Rating Bug: Happiness Rating drops once you reached 98% Happiness Rating
- Provisioner Happiness Rating Bug: Make sure you don’t have any Provisioners in your settlement as this causes the happiness rating to drop very quickly