Beds come in a range of styles, from the basic military cot, narrow single beds with post headboards to the standard sized bed with a mattress. They can be found in settlements, pre-War buildings, and in makeshift shelters throughout the Commonwealth. In order to accommodate settlers, each settlement needs to have a number of beds that are equal to or greater than the number of current inhabitants. Too few beds will cause happiness to drop. Beds should be placed in a sheltered location, with a floor beneath and with a roof.
They can be used to sleep in order to wait for time to pass and/or recover health. Sleeping in a bed at a player character-owned settlement will grant the Well Rested perk. If sleeping in proximity to a romanced companion, the perk Lover's Embrace will be awarded instead. The Sole Survivor can sleep up to 24 hours in a bed, up to five hours on a mattress, and up to three hours in a sleeping bag or tent.
Survival mode[]
In Survival mode, sleeping in a bed for a minimum of seven hours is required to obtain the Well Rested perk. As with the sleeping bag and mattress, two hours of sleep is required to heal crippled limbs and begin to restoring hit points (further healing occurs with additional time). Sleeping for the minimum time of one hour has no effect other than to check for possible illness.[1]
Crafting[]
Beds are located under Furniture → Beds in the workshop.
One on the upper floor of the church just south of Hyde Park.
One inside a toilet block north of Longneck Lukowski's Cannery, south of a Pulowski shelter, and a bus stop.
One in the barricaded house in the northwest of Fairline Hill Estates. It is positioned on what appears to be a mattress but it acts only as a sleeping bag.
A bed in the floor below the loft of a raider-controlled building west of the Combat Zone and southwest of the Boylston Club.
Various sleeping quarters and bunkhouses can be found both inside and outside of Fort Hagen. There is also one bed in a room on the lower level of the Fort Hagen underground car park.
Bunk beds behind a terminal-controlled gate in Coast Guard Pier.
A bed on an elevated shack outside the abandoned house on the small island southwest of Egret Tours Marina.
A bed upstairs in the Peabody house. Unlike everything else in the house, it is not marked as owned.
A bed on the ground floor of the building in Quincy ruins that contains Mama Murphy's apartment.
A bed in the Quincy ruins church, behind the power armor frame.
One unowned bed inside the Atom Cats garage, in the Red Rocket behind a yellow curtain. The other beds there are all owned.
The nearest free bed to the town of Far Harbor is inside a red boat moored just south of the town, almost directly east of Eden Meadows Cinemas. A bed can be rented at the Last Plank.
Two beds in the abandoned house across the creek northeast of Eden Meadows Cinemas.
Two beds on the upper floor of an intact abandoned house at the end of the road directly north from Echo Lake Lumber.
Four beds in Acadia: 1 in the back of the medical area,1 behind Cog's counter, two in front of Dejen's counter.
Three beds in Southwest Harbor, in tours and gifts shop, in a covered alleyway, in a cabin on the dock to its east.
One bed in the house north of Northwood Ridge Quarry, right in front of the bridge (just to its south).
One bed in the doctor's office of the village between Southwest Harbor and Harbor Grand Hotel.
One bed on the barge with red and yellow containers west of Southwest Harbor, on its west dock, jump on the broken part, from the tiny patch of land it is leaning on, swim straight west a few seconds.
↑Fallout 4 loading screen hints: "In Survival, the type of bed you're sleeping in determines the length of time you're able to stay asleep. A sleeping bag will save your game and may save your life, but it'll never give you a full night's rest and the benefits that come with it."