Another wet day. When will that raking get done? I guess I'll send out my robot to do it.

Once I find a shop to trade I'll probably lean toward sneaking and perception...and luck.

I wish there were a manual for the same reason. Here is what I came up with after much trial and error:

For example to make beds:

1) Go to any house and clear a room to make space. Hit R to scrap the old furniture.
2) Hold V until the crafting bench comes up. You don't have to be at the bench itself.
3) Scroll with the arrow keys to the furniture icon. Hit E. Choose any one of the bed styles and hit E again. A red bed should appear if you have the correct junk in inventory. Swivel this red bed around the space you've cleared. When it turns green you can drop it in place.
4) Make another one if there is room or exit the crafting screen. The beds will look normal coloured but I have not mastered putting them in place neatly.

No dice.

Hitting R does not clear the room of furniture.

Hitting V only bring up third-person view.

Not sure what to do now, but this is clearly gimped.

Hold V, not hit V. Then the crafting screen comes up. In the screen that comes up all scrapable stuff highlights in yellow. Scrap to clear the room.

EDIT: Now I'm starting to feel as though this game is holding me hostage. I have a community with a falling happiness level because I cannot craft anything. I feel that I can't go on with the game doing what I WANT to do because of this. I really want to have fun, not spend all day trying to work this out. Why is it so difficult?

I have somehow, by mashing R and V and Enter and a bunch of other keys, (and I really don't know how) managed to call up something that allows me to hit "R" and destroy things. Great. I went around Sanctuary wrecking buildings and trash. Great. I have stuff for crafting. Great.

Now I have some empty rooms. Okay. Fine. But...

In that same mode, I have somehow (again, mashing R and V and bashing them multiple times) called up the crafting menu in that now-empty room.

I see options for building houses, furniture, decorations, etc. I can scroll along this menu of selections. But I cannot do anything with them. Hitting R does nothing. Hitting V does nothing. Hitting Enter does nothing.

In this mode select furniture. Look at the sides of this little icon. There are arrows and if you use the arrow key it will give you a variety of furniture to make. Select beds then arrow to choose a style of bed you want. Then when you hit E the red bed should appear. This bed sort of floats in the air. It will turn green when it is droppable.

Nothing does anything.

Any help appreciated, because this sure ain't what I bought this game for.

Okay, my cat is telling me to stop typing. She just sits on the keyboard. She allows me an hour or two of uninterrupted play, and then she figures it's her turn for attention. You cannot, you absolutely cannot, fight Raiders with a cat sitting on your keyboard.

So...any bets on whether that stuttering, goofy radio DJ is a ghoul? Or a Super Mutant?