PC players, I suggest using Nexus Mod Manager whenever possible. Of course, modding can have some seriously adverse effects on your game, so if you want to use any of these, be sure to back-up your main save files before installing anything. Every “problem” with the system, they have fixed every gaping and glaring omission has been addressed. And while I like to build my settlements “vanilla-style”, crafting ambitious, large-scope projects with only the resourcfes and tools available within the game, the modding community is a veritable Pandora’s Box of improvements, each more tempting than the last.
I’m a deep and sometimes beautifully conflicted person, shut up.