Being Killed Over and Over Again By A Dead Cow

[danconnors]

Survival mode, Taffington Boathouse. Somehow one of the dead cows there got pushed up close to the workbench. My character's been killed three times, so far, apparently by walking into the carcass at the wrong angle.

I put her in power armor to try to move the thing off the porch. It wouldn't move. I tried to blast it away with gunfire. Nothing made a dent--or moved it by an inch.. I can't use console commands since it's survival mode.

This thing makes every approach to the workbench risky. Any suggestions on how to move/remove it?

[Tavman (4)]

Have you tried the settlement gate trick to fling the brahmin away?

[Archerodees]

Originally posted by Tavman (4):

Have you tried the settlement gate trick to fling the brahmin away?

Yeah, I guess you could build a door right next to it, then open the door. It might push it like that, but you'd have to orientate the position to push it in the desired direction.

[danconnors]

Well, I can be happy about the night's outcome. The blasted and exploded brahman corpse hasn't killed me since I moved it. I got 15 steel from the pickup I finally pushed inside of "workshop chop range". And I built a private room that can only be reached by an elevator. So far none of the settlers have teleported inside it.

[Geordy]

I congratulate you for successful brahmin extermination, hehe. A word of warning: if you plan on creating a 'safehouse' inside your settlement where no settler gets a chance to use their sticky fingers on your stuff no barrier, lock or elevator is keeping them out.

In my experience the two places that are safe are the cellar in Sanctuary and of course Homeplate in Diamond City both for the same reason - they are different zones.

[danconnors]

I have found Kellog's house (in Diamond City) to be safe, once you kill Kellog. It doesn't have a workshop, but it's got a full size bed and several containers you can store stuff in safely. One of the first things I do when I hit Diamond City is steal the key to his house.

Why pay 2,000 caps when you can stay for free? Yeah, a settler wandered in a few nights later. In retaliation I stripped her naked and made her a provisioner.

[sdack]

Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOBBEBBHmk0

[Snowskeeper]

Install the Scrap Everything mod, and the mod that causes mods to not disable achievements.

[Albino Noodle]

You can reenable the console in survival mode for stuff like this and just disable it

[krashd]

I've never lost anything from a container in a settlement but then I only use those which I have built myself. I like to move objects around so if a container was part of the settlement and incapable of being moved I just delete it with the workshop and then build a container myself, I do that with most things - I'm not fond of objects having a yellow outline when green is friendlier.

Could that be why my settlers are not as cleptomanic as other people's? I've got like 10-14 folk in most settlements and containers seem to be left alone. Maybe some kind of ownership over self-built containers?

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by sdack:

Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOBBEBBHmk0

This is the same principle I mentioned with weapons. Certain objects have enough mass to bump cars when they're placed into the world, and for some reason, this is the case for a lot of weapons.