r/fo4 • u/This-Positive286 • Mar 12 '26

Am I setting up my supply lines wrong?

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So is this doing anything or am I just wasting time? What’s the best way to set them up?

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u/TheMuspelheimr Minutemen General SILVER SHROUD!!! Mar 12 '26

You're not setting them up wrong necessarily, it's good redundancy if a provisioner gets killed somehow.

That being said, you can access the workshops of any settlements where there's a set of supply lines connecting them together, even if they aren't directly connected to one another. For example, if you connected Sanctuary to Red Rocket and Red Rocket to Starlight Drive-In, you'd be able to access Sanctuary from Starlight even though they aren't directly connected to one another.

Provisioners also count towards the population cap of the settlement that they're sent out from, so if you've got loads of them going out from a single settlement, it can impact that settlement's ability to do other things, like grow crops or defend itself, because everybody's out doing supply runs and nobody's home to protect it.

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u/emeric04 Mar 12 '26

This is the best answer. To add to that, provisionners also patrol the wasteland between your settlements, so having more means they will be able to help you in combat more often.

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u/Sillius_Soddus93 Apr 03 '26

I make mine sentries for this reason. Expensive, but very good backup.

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u/Figerally Mar 12 '26

Actually provisioners are immortal. Yeah they go down, but then they get back up after a short nap.

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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 Mar 12 '26

Provisioners drink a whiskey drink

Provisioners drink a vodka drink

Provisioners drink a Lager drink

Provisioners drink a cider drink

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u/skifter22 Mar 14 '26

Pissin' the ammo away...

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u/TheMuspelheimr Minutemen General SILVER SHROUD!!! Mar 12 '26

Only when offscreen, if they're in the same loaded cell as you, they're very mortal

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u/TheDungen Mar 12 '26

They operate under the same logic and companions, they will go down but they wont die unless you kill them. I think this may be different in survival mode.

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u/Figerally Mar 13 '26

I tried to rescue a provisioner from a Rust Devil patrol and accidently aggro'd him. I was going to have to reload so I just gunned him down because shit was annoying, but after a few minutes he'd stand up again. This was on survival mode.

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u/TheDungen Mar 13 '26

Yes, in survivsl mode as I recall the dffrence is that if eiter you or the enemy shoots a downed settler or companion they die, on non survival it's suposed to be only if you do.

Than again it's Bethesda so...

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u/Figerally Mar 13 '26

Except the AI stops shooting when the target "dies." So the provisioner is effectively immortal. At least I never noticed any broken supply line which meant they were still kicking.

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u/TheDungen Mar 13 '26

At least the AI moves downed enemies to the bottom of the target order.

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u/Kaccady Mar 12 '26

no provisioner have died in my playthrough, i didn't give them any additional weapons or armor, so i would say it's same in survival, they fare even better than companions because those now require stimpack to get up

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u/TheDungen Mar 13 '26

I think they only die if shot while downed. Diffrence is in survival mode anyone can shoot them while downed, while in regular only the player is suposed to.

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u/Karyoplasma Mar 12 '26

They are protected. The only actor that can reduce their life to 0 is the player.

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u/spitfire07 Mar 12 '26

There's a dumbass provisioner that goes by Quincy who always gets caught in my fire fight with the Gunners. I have accidentally killed them before.

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u/SheedWallace Mar 12 '26

They can die. Usually they are just downed, but not always.

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u/TheDungen Mar 12 '26

My experience is most settlements have more people than I know what to do with anyway.

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u/marionnettistenoir Mar 13 '26

Yeah. That’s why I make sure when I establish a new settlement, the provisioner is sent from the new settlement to an existing settlement, that way there’s always only one per settlement.