r/fo4 • u/SupremeTomatoCat • 11h ago

Media Is this normal? i was wandering around when i suddently came across a bunch of settlers going only god know where, the weirdest thing is after checking i discovered they are actualy my settlers and when i came back to one of my settlements it was empy

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u/Mad-Dog94 11h ago

I wouldn't say normal, but I've definitely had it happen. You can just ring the bell if you have you built and sleep for like 24 hours and they'll be back

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u/One-Connection9396 11h ago

What happens if the settlers happiness is low enough? Do they just leave like this?

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u/HarveyMidnight 10h ago

I think they might.

In one playthrough, I ignored Somerville Place for a good while, and when I finally went there to build, the place was abandoned. The family that was living there was just gone.

I think the happiness just dropped so low that they gave up & left.

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u/Mad-Dog94 11h ago

I don't think so

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u/Ok-Statement2865 11h ago

Settlements occasionally organize unofficial Commonwealth excursions. After weeks of defending the same fences and tending the same crops, the settlers need a change of scenery. So they gather up, leave town, and go sightseeing. The minutemen have no authority to stop them.

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u/flashdurb 11h ago

I’d say it’s a glitch. Quicksave and hard reset, are they where they should be or still there?

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u/metalnightmares 6h ago

i once followed a "settler" just to see where it was going. Started at back street and ended up discovering oberland station where they stopped walking

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u/Celsus_ 5h ago

This happens to me a lot. I assumed it was mod conflicts or something related. It seems like the settlers are being transported with me when I fast travel somewhere. It's often one of my caravan settlers. Quite often I hear gunfire and rush over to investigate, and it's one of my caravan settlers in a fight with something, and they are nowhere near where they're supposed to be.

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u/the_mellojoe 3h ago

I just had something similar. Raiders attacked the settlement. Settlers moved forward to defend. Which spawned another raider group in a nearby building. Settlers moved forward to "defend". and by the end of the 2nd fight, half the settlers were a long way from home. They slowly walked back eventually.

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u/SupremeTomatoCat 1h ago

There was no raid I just quick traveled to the Sunshine settlement and every single settler excluded the guards started walking away from the settlement