The Perfect Fallout 4 Playthrough Part 3 - The Elusive Level 4 Merchants SETTLEMENT GUIDE
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2021
- In this video, I teach you how to acquire the level 4 merchants. This hinges on following Part 1, and Part 2, so be sure to watch those videos.
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Just to point it out, this is the holy grail of unique trader recruiting out there. I have seen loads of videos on how to obtain them, but this is the only method that has truly worked with 100% result. It took a long time to set up, but once it was done, recruiting the traders was no issue at all.
Cheers on being perhaps the only creator with a video dealing with this topic with a successful formula to make it work.
Wow! What a compliment! It was a ton of work but yes, I feel comfortable saying this is the best method for attaining all of the merchants with reliability. Thank you so much for the wonderful feedback!
Good work deserves recognition. Videos on the topic have so far been on how buggy it is and the go-to solution has been console commands to fix the issue. What you did was not just show that it`s not a bug, but show how it actually works through the already existing game mechanics. And in doing so show why it can mistakenly be seen as a bug, not just just a bad game mechanic, and explain precisely how it really works in detail.
After seeing the video I decided to test it myself to verify if it worked, and got them all with no issue at all on the first try. So your guide is not only on point, but could possibly be unique on the topic, as I haven`t seen any video like it so far, and I used to watch a lot of videos on the topic from all kinds of channels, big and small, before reaching the conclusion that it was a bug. Not only can it be done without cheating, but it`s really easy, just time consuming. Hence the praise is well placed.
@@TheEfficientGamer I would also add that I have tested the spawn trigger where you find Trashcan Carla, and you can pick up both Smiling Larry and The Scribe at said point with ease. Came from the base of the bridge with the gunner camp west of Walden Pond, and the trigger is just a small leap before the stone where Trashcan Carla is found when following the road. There was a couple of small treeclusters before the stone and if you make the save beside the second one, then go across the road to where Carla sat, you can circle back to the north side of the rock and the instance is triggered. The elevation of the rock allows you to vats the target with a rifle to see the encounter. Makes the trip to Cambrige unnecessary as it can all be done around Concord.
When you get Carla, always check that spawn to ve sure they havent triggered Larry or the Scribe just to be sure.
Worked like a charm on PS4... Yes, takes a while... Specially on survival not using the fast travel... But the clenching making sure that you don't trigger any events while trying to return to sanctuary was worth it. Thanks dude.
I always have all traders using this methode on PS4. Now Iam playing PC still workimg the same way. Yes the methode is tediously long. But most definitly worth all the effort
I spent all day today trying to get Ron Staples then I read on the Fallout wiki that some of the campsite encounters only show up at night. My save at the stop sign was 8 am, so I waited until 8 pm and made a new save. I started seeing new encounters like Dreth, and then finally Ron Staples himself.
about the same story here, I like Ron's Personality but he's quite Elusive which is why I haven't recruited him yet. I should try it at night.
Thank u
Makes sense. Bartender at night. I've never seen him in the daytime
thank you so much, without this your comment it would have taken me hours.
god bless this comment, i wasted 3 entire irl hours before reading this and realizing.
Was able to get all four traveling merchants for the first time!
Couple things to mention for anyone else attempting this:
-Tenpines Bluff area is a no go zone until you are ready to recruit. The rail tracks right next to the cliff spawn a fluid encounter.
-Walden pond is also a no go zone until ready - there is a campsite encounter just south of there. You CAN go into sunshine tidings to get the magazine/set up a settlement if you want. It's far enough away that the encounter does not spawn.
Thank you Efficient Gamer for the excellent info - enjoyed learning these behind the scenes mechanics. Despite the buggy nature of the game, the mechanics of these encounters seemed fairly reliable.
Took me 14 hours to get the settlers, but only in an hour i got all 4 random encounter ones. Thank you!
Any tips on getting the traders to show up more? Ive got a lvl 3 bar tender, someone pulling crops for the gang, and a provisioner line. I send anyone new over to redrocket to keep the limit under 5 for that bonus and happiness easily high but... damn every day i feel like i should pull better odds at a new settler with no dice
you on PS?
Like the editing on this video I can tell you put a lot of effort into it.
Thanks! I appreciate that. I do work hard on editing. I don’t have a background or formal training, so it takes longer and it’s not perfect, but I do my best.
Not sure how I missed Fallout 4 for so long but finally got it a few months back and have literally done nothing but play it since. Watching your series makes me wanna start another new character even though I've already restarted like 6 times so far lol. Keep up great content
I’ve not seen any other video explain this. After nearly 8 years of playing this game I’m still learning stuff! Kudos to you sir
XBOX ISSUE FIXED -- I followed this guide to a T. I went to use the Campfire East of Concord and ended up getting Ron Staples relatively easily. I then tried to get doc Anderson for an entire hour and she did not spawn. to fix this. After talking to Ron Staples, I went to sanctuary, assigned him to the level 3 bar. And then fast travel back to red rocket. I then repeated these steps to go through the campfire East of Concord. But instead of using that site as the farming site. I continued over towards the cabin by dremlin diner. I made a quick save around the. Broken down Billboard and continued over to the small shack. I got doc Anderson on the second try..
Amazing well thought out video, thank you!!
But how do you fix Ron's inventory ? He keeps saying his selection is limited.
@xXxMonkeyBoomxXx He still says this for me, im not sure on that one. I left it alone cause I have the rest of them and I have an insane amount of caps from the water farm so...
Holy shit finally, trying to get Ron for the longest time, nowhere else mentioned you need to already have a level 3 store built! Thank you thank you thank you! So glad people are still loving this game and posting useful things about it!
Thanks for this. I ran across him early in the game, but I was unable to recruit him. Now I know why.
Can it also be a lvl 4 store built?
@@efrenvaladez6207 level 4 stores can't be built. It's just a level 3 store with a legendary merchant
This is like a year and a half late, but right down near the Sunshine Tiding Co-op is another campsite that makes for an easy safe NPC spawn location as well.
I don’t think I’ve ever managed to get all the unique traders in a single game, but I am very glad there isn’t a trophy/achievement for doing something so tedious.
I was unable to get Doc Anderson to cooperate this playthrough, until referring to your video. Super helpful. Thanks.
Followed your guide and got all of my lvl4 Merchants, you are a genius and this is the only reliable method to consistently do this
This was a great video btw. I already knew most of this, but I did not know that once you encounter these guys, they're gone forever. I always suspected this, but it is good to see it confirmed.
Loving this series mate!
Keep it up with the Fallout 4 content please 🥺
Short. Sweet. To the point! ❤️ this series.
I’m trying to up my thumbnail game! Let me know what you think!
I like it 😄
Cant wait for the next episode.👍
Part four's really kicking your backside, huh?
Good luck with it. Thanks for this one, I've learned a lot about the game from your videos.
I blame WoW TBC
Omfg. Thank you so much for this info. Fantastic! Im enjoying your content, especially the farming vids. Subscribed! Thx again.
This took so much effort but it’s so satisfying seeing all of them lined up, can’t imagine how long it took you to do this with no tutorial, legend
Don't know if you planned on doing a part 4 but one tip that can be useful is completing Nuka world and building tribute chests, booze stills and Chem stations at some settlements then kill all the raiders before completing "The First Step" for Preston. This allows you to keep all those items in your settlement so long as you don't scrap them.
One warning though, a settler or raider interacting with the tribute chest will cause a crash, so try to make them inaccessible to NPCs.
Love this series. This video really helped with getting them on survival :D
These videos have been extremely reliable for me in getting these traders even in a fully survival no mods run, so far I've gotten Ron Staples and Doc Anderson and later today I'm gonna gear up and try for The Scribe and Smiling Larry.
Good luck!
@@TheEfficientGamer The Scribe and Smiling Larry are now honorary citizens of Sanctuary.
Thank you for the video, was planning to do a settlement builder and this is some must have info!
Keep up the great content man! :)
thanks. Been trying to get these guys for the longest time.
This is such a great series for those of us who wants to do it on survival. Not much modification needed! Would love to see the perfection run’s nuka world run.
Amazing info in this one. Thank you!
I've never commented on a video or channel before, but wanted to say thank you for this series. Absolute gem to find, as you've done some amazing research and testing. I've added a little below for Survival players too.
I play unmodded survival generally (love some of the brilliant mods the community has made though), and while the timers you've mentioned for some things are a little off this method does work brilliantly. The only changes I've needed were to prevent Danse glitching by completing Fire Support in order to ensure he went inside the Cambridge Police Station before moving onto the Scribe and Smiling Larry. Due to not having the hard saves I slept for saves at Red Rocket for the initial 2 vendors, and in a sleeping bag located under the bridge between Cambridge Police Station and Beantown Brewery. Also thanks to the time needed to recruit enough settlers for Smiling Larry (22 needed it you then get both Doc and Ron, as well as complete Prestons quest and assign Codsworth, 23 to be safe) you have increased time to build and level so I'm currently lvl 35. My next steps will be to collect Ada for automatron DLC, then Sunshine Tidings for the double meat book (really handy in survival), before collecting Piper for the exploration xp boost and weapon hunt at Vault 88 (double shot Combat Rifle - Overseer's Guardian - is ideal for Wasteland decimation while wandering) before recruiting the final vendors. For character build I chose to max Endurance and Intelligence from the start, as Endurance conversion to HP is not retroactive and every point matters in the starting of Survival mode.
Pretty amazing work you put into applying the method to survival
www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/3rqx5a/someone_with_the_game_please_answer_endurance/
I aways thought endurance did retroactively apply to hp bonus though. According to the above thread, i may have been mistaken.
@Jon Bunkle Do you have any tips for Survival mode? I’ve been getting pretty far but I’m curious on your thoughts and if you’re able to farm legendaries.
@@Ser_Thaddeus With Survival I am not sure my playstyle is ideal. My character only carries the most basic equipment due to carry weight, and I wear my Lab Coat / Road Goggles / Destroyer's Helmet (switch into Charisma suit/glasses for conversations) everywhere while killing everything from stealth with the Overseer's Guardian. If I'm doing a heavily combat oriented mission I'll put on full combat armour (combination of Black Ops / Destroyers and Synth gear) but even many of those are easily achieved wearing my normal gear. Otherwise I carry a few basic meds and use only cooked food for dealing with standard debuffs. If you don't mind getting occasional Todd Howard game buffs (if it's not removed as a bug it IS a feature) you don't need to avoid the buff food. If you do, carry noodle cups and mutt chops or iguana on a stick everywhere. Mostly, if you feel like you've got a heap accomplished and don't want to die... go back to a settlement and craft until you need a proper sleep and rake in the crafting xp.
Legendary farming is a lot more challenging sadly. While we can spawn them and find them in all the same locations, and in fact seem to have a higher % chance of legendary spawns, I haven't found a way to loot lock the spawns or even guarantee it will be the same groups spawning every time. So instead of going on specific legendary hunts I've been placing half a dozen cages in isolated areas of my settlements and clearing those out whenever I am near. If it's useful I will use it or give it to a settler and if not it's more caps and xp to continue along. If I do discover a method to consistently get results I will add it here or make some guides for Survival myself.
As a general suggestion I recommend changing the Pip-Boy colour to a lighter blue from standard green because it lights up everything noticeably better so you don't miss random loot along the way. I hope any of that is helpful.
@@lazywonko Much appreciated, my playstyle seems fairly similar to yours. Though there’s some things I’m still tweaking.
My settlement is pretty well built in Starlight, I can easily resupply and I got a few of those important vendors.
For companions I’m on the fence because they seem to get in the way but I’m digging the Automatrons and Sentinel Power armor (from the CC).
For weapons I want to try melee but that seems dangerous and foolish, so I’ve been sniping mostly.
Hopefully I can get better armor, then maybe I can try melee. I’ve seen videos for loot locking Survival but I’ve yet to try it. Seems possible though.
Dude these videos are amazing please keep it up and go for the ending were all factions live except the institute
What a fantastic tutorial this series has been. Just want to add my 2 cents from a survival perspective, because the first time I followed this I came to realize that I've screwed up somewhere on the road to Carla (even if I approached her peripherally) and my Doc spawn was broken. Lost about 11h of time so I restarted. Now on the first day I run directly to Red Rocket, build a bed and save. Then I run to Carla approaching her carefully and after that back to Sanctuary. Then I save again on a bed and change difficulty to very easy. I use the console to teleport myself to Doc or Ron (in the secret room) and after I check all four of the traders are in there, I delete the save and reload my last survival save on Sanctuary to level up to lvl20.
Only relevant for PC and survival difficulty obviously.
Perfect. Just perfect. Thank you very much.
This is the best guide to get these traders!! Thank you!!
Thanks! I hope it works!
If you avoid the campsites and the billboard in Cambridge, focus on barter, charisma, cap collector, etc.. then follow the method in this video. I accomplished attracting all merchants using this same method. I pretty much explored, built xp and leveled up crafting caltrops, aids and settlements, at level 35 went into Nuka world at level 50, Far Harbor and went after X01 armor and level 100 until i obtainec all merchants. Just stay way from these areas. Build the game and then go after them. This method works. Good video.
Terrific video, well explained and to the point. One little correction though - you can recruit Anne without doing the Trinity Tower quest.
One thing about Trader Rylee that you didn't mention. When you go inside the cannery do not speak to her. Let her finish her conversation with the owner and let her leave the building. Then you can follow her outside to recruit her. There is some kind of bug that occurs if you speak to her while indoors. Once recruited, do not go back inside and start/finish the Mystery Meat quest. If you do she just disappears from your settlement forever. I don't know if that was intentional on Bethesda's part or just another bug. You can go inside to get the bobblehead and magazine but that's all.
easily the most comprehensive tutorial for level 4 merchants out there, as other comments said, nowhere is it explained that you need the level 3 stores already built for the recruitment to be active I thought my game was glitched (tbf my game is glitched anyway).
Great guide thanks dude
I’ve been enjoying your videos, especially the long ones.
I was curious if you could do tips/guide or something about Survival mode? There’s even a way to loot lock encounters I noticed by that raider settlement near Vault 81.
Appreciate it, and keep up the content :)
The Automatron DLC makes it harder to recruit these 4 merchants because everytime when I quicksave to trigger The Scribe or Smiling Larry, I always get the Mechanist Hostile Robots, they also break the campsite random encounters which reduces the chances to get Doc Anderson and Ron Staples.
I had to download the mod called “Intergrated Commonwealth” which reduces the chances of the Automatron Robots to appear.
Thankyou for this Ive been watchin you grind live lately your like the most thorough concise youtuber on this subject I just started a new save wish me luck
I came across a useful discovery for those attempting this process and wish for a boost: Abernathy Farm is within range of a campsite encounter (south), so once you are ready to recruit Doc Anderson and Ron Staples, you may visit the settlement to start their quest. While there is a fluid encounter nearby Satellite Station Olivia, testing with the spawning of said encounter revealed that so long as you do not enter the map quadrant containing Thicket Excavations as well as the quadrant east of, IT WILL NOT SPAWN (However I still recommend staying north and looting the robotics disposal ground), allowing you to complete the quest and gain Abernathy Farm as a settlement. If you aren't planning on completing the Nuka World DLC prior to saving Preston on the gang, you will have 20 settlers needed for Doc and Ron, 2 from Doc and Ron themselves, 3 from Abernathy, and 5 from Preston, for an immediate 30 settlers needed to recruit Smiling Larry. Happy Hunting!
Second Discovery: You can settle in Sunshine Tidings Co-op without triggering any campsite or fluid encounters, by simply traveling near the western border of the map from Sanctuary to Sunshine, and entering through the west side. There is a nearby campsite encounter east and north of the settlement (the northern one being in range of Abernathy), but as long as you do not cross the north dam/bridge or exit east it should be fine (there is a chokepoint encounter on the bridge if you wish to activate it). Another tidbit I discovered along the western border was a scrap trader near the small body of water on the map.
WARNING: Do not use the east campsite encounter to farm for Doc or Ron, there is a second campsite encounter within range west of it (under the bridge), and a third campsite encounter east of the bridge (in a house). If you are careful you could activate all three campsites for quick encounter rolls.
Third Discovery: You can settle Outpost Zimonja, travel along the north border until you reach the settlement, you can clear down to the trailer without triggering the nearby fluid encounter. DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY FATMAN INDUCED MUTILATION. I recommend grabbing the fatman + nuke at the robotics disposal ground to deal with Boomer. Zimonja + Sunshine will bring your total settlement count to 4, double the video's count, this will greatly speed up the time needed to recruit the 20/30 settlers for the campsite/fluid encounters.
I’m on next gen, I have all the special level 4 merchants except the scribe 😢I cannot find him but I’ll carry on until I do find him. I spend about 7hours collecting and finding ways to get the merchants. Smiling Larry I didn’t have level 30 populations. So I pacify’s him walked him to a settlement then once in activated my workshop and pressed the move button and moved him to another settlement. Worked like a treat. Same with rylee pacify her then speak with her it’ll fix her dialogue. Then she should move to a settlement. Ron staples I managed to just get him to work for me and the doc anderson as well. The guy that sells the cash card, I pacify’d him and walked him to the castle and did the same thing moved him to another settlement and made him a bar man. I got the clothes woman easy as well without needing to do the quest just ask her to work for you. Same goes for vault tec matey. Just need the scribe to randomly spawn (fingers crossed)
You don't need 30 people to recruit Larry, just 10 at any one settlement, just like Trader Rylee.
This is absolutely perfect.. Thanks, I love it.. '3'
Yo just locked this in on survival in about 20 hours thanks bro!
I was able to recruit Anne Hargraves without rescuing Rex Goodman, and she works fine.
I was able to recruit Vault-Tec Rep without having a Lvl 3 General Store initially present, he works fine.
I tried to recruit Tina DeLuca, I made a hard save before sending her anywhere, she would never reach anywhere, she would just un-exist no matter where I sent her.
I tried to recruit Trader Rylee and sending her never worked, so I would try to walk with her to the Slog, or Coastal Cottage, or Finch Farm, and I would see her just instantly un-exist.
I have never even seen Doc Anderson, or Ron Staples, and now that you explained how campsite spawns work, I probably despawned them permamently without ever realizing it. Man, that is bad design but, thank you for teaching us about it.
The Scribe... that guy... he would never appear if I sent him to a settlement. I had to walk (slowly) with him from that road by CIT to Hangman's (the closest) walk. I actually got him to staff my armor stall. I went to a chem bench to make jet to trade, on my way walking back all of 50 ft, I saw him just turn in place and vanish completely out of existence leaving a small puff of smoke by his feet. My Hangman's tour video has that same stall marked "In Memoriam The Scribe".
I never ran across Smiling Larry, even though he is not a campsite spawn, so I might not have ruined him ...yet..
Wish the videos were longer there so good
Thank you you are the best
Finally, I managed to get Doc. Anderson and Ron to appear in the same game.
solution: delete all existing Fallout 4 games from the console, why?, NO IDEA.
I created a new game on another PS account and I got the 2 of them on the third try, that led me to think that they were the saved ones, it wasn't easy, I already have 2000 hours in Fallout 4 and I only have a few games in the cloud , THANK YOU AND THANK YOU for this guide
Congratulations!
I got Fallout 4 for Christmas (PS4). I have no clue what I'm doing. I'm not following the story, because I know how it ends (watched spoilers trying to learn to play). So, I'm doing my own thing, literal anarchy over here. No railroad. No brotherhood of steel. I do help the Minutemen as I got soft spot for the Minutemen. I'm loving the settlement building. I have several settlements. Some populated at 25. I'm just starting to build trading booths, but have no idea how to set supply lines. I think I'm at a level 30 and I don't even know what that means. I know I have both local leadership stars. But I'm really enjoying your videos as your extremely knowledgeable, and I need all the help I can get. I've gone rogue in this game just focusing on settlement building as that brings me the most joy.
When you get an extra unassigned settler you can give them the provisioner role between 2 settlements
Still appreciate all the work you put into these…. I was wondering, based on the route you took to acquire trash can Carla, if I could use Abernathy farm as my second location for trading population…. I like red rocket to remain my place of solitude.
Holy crap doc a first try! Nice
This was the video the internet could never answer the problem to
I note some other problems :
Tina de Luca and vault tec inventory are shared
Bugs with other merchants like anne and any other lvl 3 sharing inventories
i cant get ron to spawn, ive been doing the reload for around 2 hours and its the same 4 encounters everytime weather its day or night
If you break the spawns (and it isnt always broke just because they spawned previously, its if they get killed while spawned) you also can just add them back to the waiting room with a few simple commands... I'd say using a shelf XP glitch is more a cheat, than simple re-enabling a rare encounter npc into the waiting pool who got killed before you even met them.
which commands should i enter to get doc anderson back into the waiting room?
Does going to Abernathy farm break there spawns cause that’s the only other place I went and I can’t get either for them to spawn every other encounter but they will not spawn 🤦🏼♂️
I went to these locations on accident i found doc Anderson and the scribe is there anything i can do? And im on console so i don’t have console commands
I've watched this at least 50 times I think
Went back for Next Gen Update playthrough here. Happen to cross your vid when I'm collecting them. Just wanna confirm that I did met Ron Staples and Doc Anderson when I'm on early level was not able to recruit them. But, when I decided to farm the encounters, they spawned again and was able to recruit them on the second encounter.
Only Smiling Larry left for my Sanctuary City. Seems, he can't spawn even I have 31 settlers. Might be because I transferred 5 of the companions were there? Last time I checked the vocational overview on the Vault Tec settler terminal, I just counted 27 settlers in total. Not the req. 30
yo, is there a way to get save bcz i suck at building and i can't spend that much time now i have completed the game but i want to start a new playthrough
Hey, I'm leaving this comment just in case some people might have had the same problem. I think the first campsite broke because nobody was showing up at all. So what I did was use the same method, but tweeked it. I made a hard save at the first campsite, made my way towards drumlin diner, but just before moving past that big billboard, I made a quick save and moved towards the second campsite spawn. After a few reloads from the quick save, I finally got Doc Anderson to spawn for me. I'm not sure if this is consistent, but if is, this is another method that could be used. Not sure why the first site broke, but maybe it's due to DLC in some way. This was done on the PS4 btw so hopefully it works for anyone who couldn't get the first method down. I'll probably edit this comment if I get Ron Staples using the same method.
Edit: Okay! Literally 10 minutes after I left comment, I did the same method I just listed, and got Ron Staples. I wanna say that this is a consistent method of getting those two characters to spawn, along with what was said in the video. To also clarify, I didn't ever go beyond Red Rocket Truck Stop besides to talk and sell to Trashcan Carla. I hope this helps anyone else struggling!
I'm on ps4 as well and having the same issue. though when I get to the campsite there is nobody at either. Didn't leave sanctuary/red rocket so im pretty bummed.
I managed to get smiling Larry without console commands or mods, I have him at greentop nursery, which I was building up for raider subjugation so I had over 30 settlers. As such, there is no supply line to any other settlements. Could I still move him to another settlement?
My random encounters stopped spawning. Idk how to fix it I have everyone except smiling Larry ive been scared to play since then
Really like the playthrough. Are you still uploading?
I could not make the shelves stack on Xbox series X. I have no idea if I’m just doing something wrong or if it’s not possible on a console so I just built a bunch of posts down the whole damn road. It was too boring to do for long so I just used it to get to level 7 and then stopped. I’ve quite enjoyed your videos so thanks.
i followed the guide from the start, when i started doing the method, i almost immediately found Ron Staples, but almost 3 hours later, after trying the concord campfire and the cabin next to drumlin diner, i cant find Doc for the life of me, ive been getting every other random encounter, but not hers, i have no clue what i messed up, anyone got a fix for this?
Anyone know a way to fix selection limited on these guys?
Does this work on consoles. Where are the dangerous Static sites for spawning? Concord campsite, House by Drumlin Dinner... any other? Near RR, Sanc or Carla Route.
is there a way to get these merchants after doing nuka world 1st?
I don't really understand most of this but it was very interesting
I think going to the house to reset the spawn is a bad idea because from all my testing, if you get to that house you're close enough to spawn in the camsite under the nearby gunner overpass
First of all, amazing job! I never knew how those people appeared. Secondly, I almost always play on Survival, us there a workaround in your method to avoid fast travel (as I can't do that in Survival Mode?)
Virtibird grenades. I have a huge stack of those in my survival save , and I couldn't live without them.
2023 PS Player here, tried it 4 times 2 with dlc installed 2 without and both times with doc came with bugs and 2 times without dlc I find them within an hour of looking. Just make sure the number of settlers are in your settlement you’re sending them to instead of links because that seems to only work. Hope this helps! 🎉 P.S with DLC I spent around 8/10 hours finding only Ron Staples and no doc and the other save could not find Larry.
So I followed this video exactly, I ended up getting everyone except when I got to the fluid encounters, I got smiling Larry first, and then the scribe. The problem was that when I went to gray garden, back to the encounter, and back to sanctuary, my population went down by one and the scribe was nowhere to be found. Can anyone help?
I have tied this twice now almost 30 hours of set up and each time I try i get the same guy constantly, I'm not sure if this works on ps4
I have been able to recruit Ron staples so far but haven’t been able to find doc Anderson yet. Back at sanctuary, Ron has been placed in a level 3 bar and says his inventory is limited. Any help?
Thanks for this video. once upon a time, I felt like I was cheating by using console commands to find these guys on my Survival runs (by switching difficulty and then switching back again). Seeing how infinitesimally unlikely it is to get them organically however, I feel vindicated
Can you move your 4 level traders to another settlement ?
On a side note, Automatron seems to override certain spots on the map when it comes to random encounters, reducing your chances of getting the Scribe for some reason. In my main, longest going character, I made sure to recruit him and Smiling Larry before enabling that DLC to prevent any issues getting them. Wish I knew about the campsite encounters back then, maybe there's still a chance I can nab Ron and the Doc...
Well I know that there are a couple of Automaton-based random encounters that can appear in places where the Scribe can also appear, so it makes sense that it would be affected.
I hate Rust Devils for this reason. They overwrite so many other random event spawns, making it that about 8 in every 10 random spawns are stupid Rust Devils, Junkbots and, Swarmbots.
I have been able to recruit Anne without completing the trinity tower quest. I just had to have it active. I havent assigned her to a shop though. so maybe I will be unable to do so? edit. great vid by the way!
Just a heads up, i do not believe brahmin count towards settlers even though it shows in the counter.. i had 21 total and both ron and doc Anderson wouldnt let me recruit them when i had 2 brahmin adding to my numbers
I was looking online ..you mentioned 12 merchants ..it’s been a few years can’t remember all the merchants…found all the ones you mentioned..including the ones from vault 81 …that’s 9 who are the others ….are they from dlc or vanilla????
I never like videos but this one deserved it
Thanks!
I've got Ron very easy but for some reason, I can't talk with him... Any ideas on how to fix this??
Um, so I have a question. I keep getting the Automatron random encounter at the campsite. Will this affect anything?
Yes. If you got the automation it is likely you have broken the at least one of the merchant encounters
Anyone can help?, after i invite larry sanctuary is buggy all npc leave all job everything is destroy
So if one of these NPCs showed up in a random encounter without me knowing they were there or if I couldn't recruit them, they are gone forever? How do I know that I'm not wasting my time?
Because I found both Ron and Anderson before I could recruit them, I found Ron later again while farming them and I recruited him, he showed up but disappeared quickly after. I ended up finding him in another random encounter where I killed him for abandoning me. Same exact thing with Rylee, however I recruited her at her fixed initial spawn at Longneck. However, I haven't met Anderson ever again and I have been farming this quite a bit. Also, for some reason I can only find campsite encounters at the Mass Fusion shed. The campfire outside Concord has a never despawning corpse of the sick guy, the house near Drumlin diner where I found Ron early in the game for the first time before I could recruit him has also dried up. I found Anderson on the dam near the relay tower near Oberland, also there I found Mikey and Moss and the 2 people threatening the Synth. That one seemed to has the most activity but has also dried up. I tried new spots, like close to westing estates and peabody house but nothing ever spawned there so as of right now only the campfire near mass fusion shed spawns anything anymore, but its hostile enemies everytime now and most of the time robots. This is where I found Ron the 2nd time when I recruited him and where I found him and rylee again after leaving my settlement. im still trying to find Anderson but since I found robots at the shed like 20 times in a row i decided to move on to trying to find larry and the scribe and after quite a while i found larry actually, recruited him and bought the reckoning. But i havent found the scribe yet. now my question is, how do i know im not wasting my time trying to find anderson and the scribe? maybe i ran into the scribe without realising it and he disappeared. maybe anderson disappeared after meeting her the first time, while ron didnt bug out. i could really use some help, please.
Any tips on getting more settlers, I've been following your guide but I can't seem to get anymore settlers. I've been in sanctuary for 5 hours and only gained 2 settlers 1 in sanctuary and 1 on red rocket.
Increase settlement happiness.
Good guide 👍 looks doable. Sucks for me because I encounter smiley Larry and the scribe on a low lvl the I wasn’t able to recruit them lol will playing on survivor mode make it harder to get the random encounters?
The run will be farther, but it’s reasonable. Run from Red Rocket for the campsite encounter, and run from Greygarden for the fluid encounter
I used your method on both PC and Xbox both with new characters with mixed results. Why Bethesda? They gives us the possibility of these level 4 merchants, and even when we get them they are buggy. On my PC character, I got Doc Anderson and she ran away once but I was able to get her back, and Ron Staples never changed h his dialogue or inventory. On Xbox, I was able to get Doc Anderson and Smiling Larry but no matter how many times I tried I could not get Ron Staples or the Scribe to spawn at the suggested locations. At least I was able to get some of with the help of your tutorial.
Great video
Fallout NV is the best Fallout game ever
Don't suppose you have any advice on what to do on console when you find them but they won't give you the dialogue option to recruit them, do you? Followed this to the T and found Doc Anderson and Ron Staples super easily ... except I can't actually recruit them. I have the level 3 shops built, I have 20 settlers between Sanctuary and Red Rocket, but it still won't work. /sigh
Did you find a fix for it?
Any idea why my encounter is always the same at the concord fire? I never went near it before and I have tried exiting the game several times.
It can become permanently stuck on an encounter. You can try leaving and resting for a week, but it might be bugged out.
Quick follow up on this: Has your trader Rylee gone missing? I was able to recruit her and she showed up at my settlement, but she went missing shortly afterwords.
I did some searching online, and it looks like there's a bug where she goes missing after you complete the 'mystery meat' quest at Lukowski's. I did that quest right after making sure she showed up at my settlement so it makes sense. Just wondering if you've done that quest and if she went missing for you as well.
Actually, yeah, she disappeared. I didn’t know what caused it, and I waited a few weeks, but she didn’t come back. I tried using the console to see if she wandered somewhere, but her location was still in Sanctuary. I did unfortunately end up using a console command to re enable her. Since then she’s been fine.
Update on that actually. If you recruit her and if you do the mystery meat quest she will disappear. If you did recruit her and didn’t do the mystery meat quest and she still disappeared then I don’t know what happened to her. Just don’t do mystery meat quest you can still go to his office and get bobble head and magazine.
Once you have Ron Staples and Doc Anderson at your settlement working for you. You will then encounter them randomly in the wasteland which is weird cause they're at your settlement working at a vendor stand. It's like they're a copy or maybe a synth. I haven't killed one to see if they're a synth but next time i see one of them appear i will save then kill them to see if i find a synth component or if they're just the same identical character that is part of the normal random encounter system but because they're at your settlement they're not removed from the game files is what I'm guessing or maybe the institute really did make copies of them.
I remember one time I recruited Doc Anderson and sent her to Spectacle Island. A few days later I'm walking by that house which is a random spawn point next to Drumlin Diner and she was there treating people. So I immediately fast travel back to Spectacle Island and sure enough her booth was empty, however I came back the next day and she was there.
ok this is my 3 playthrough tryng to do this, and I dont know why but Im never gettin to even spawn Doc Anderson, I get Ron at 2 try maybe and everyithing is ok, note that I dont have Automatron Installed and didnt even went to conctor to talk to Carla, WHATS HAPPENING?
I am playing on PS4 and I followed your advice and was able to get doc anderson but after multiple reloads cant get ron staples. after researching him on FANDOM theres a notation that he is permanently disabled with the automatron DLC. Should I keep trying or am I just wasting time?
You can try, but if you've already interacted with the static settlements, there's a chance his spawn is gone forever. If you watch the previous parts of the series, you'll see I was very careful not to leave Sanctuary/Red Rocket except for one time.
Do you have a blueprint for that mall at the end of the video? I’m trying to make something like that but I’m struggling. Great videos!
I don’t have a blueprint, i may make a guide on setting it up in the future.
I encountered the Scribe but did not meet the requirements. Will I still be able to get him again? Or am I too late?
I got a question. Does unofficial patch fix thing with merchants?
Im a bit late but yeah it does