F*cked my minutemen questline with mods and by clearing the castle in advance

[marat1793]

Help. The mods I'm using renovate certain parts of the Castle and add new items and ♥♥♥♥ to it, I don't know if that's what ♥♥♥♥ed it, or the fact that I went there in advance and cleared it. Maybe both. I tried using completequest, killall and manually smashing all the eggs, but nothing works. It's stuck on "clear the courtyard".

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emm. Most of those mods suggest installing after you take the castle.

I would deactivate those mods first.
I hope you have a save before you used console.

You smashed all the eggs + killed the Mirelurk queen (& killed the mirelurks in the castle itself)?

Don't simply use "complete quest". Use setstage XXXXX XX, where the first XX is the quest ID and the last XX the stage. You can find those on the wiki.



BUT: really roll back to a save close to where you were before taking the castle. Make another save, preferable inside an interior cell. Disable the mods before you try to take the castle again.

[Bored Peon]

Clearing the castle before Preston gives you the quest can be done without bugging anything.

What happened was you used mods that removed the quest items altogether. As in if the mods removed the eggs, you can not squash the eggs to make the queen come out. Since the queen can not come out the castle workbench is not considered clear.

So the first thing I would do as he suggested above was revert to an earlier save AFTER disabling those mods.

Unfortunately setstage commands will not fix the problem because it is NOT the quest from Preston that gives control of the workshop. It is the death of the queen that gives control.

[Bored Peon]

Also before you find the suggestion or someone makes it, DO NOT use a setownership command on the workbench. This only creates another problem later because The Castle will not appear on your move settler/provisioner/companion lists when moving NPCs around.

[=EGC= kansasterry]

Most likely as stated in post 2 one of the mods to clean up removed something like the eggs etc. the quest monitored for completion.

I have on numerous occasions cleared the castle sometimes before I ever meet preston the only change is new dialogue stating I already cleared the place and the quest simply changes to meet him at the castle.

In fact the only issue I ever ran into with a quest at the castle was using the castle wall repair mod before the old guns quest which it warned against.

Basically before using any mod pay attention to the mods instructions and posts about possible issues and fixes. will save a lot of time.

[marat1793]

Update: I went back to an earlier save, disabled all the mods that changed the castle, but when I tried to do Taking Independence again it's still stuck on "clear the courtyard". Is the quest permanently ♥♥♥♥♥♥?

[Ilja]

Originally posted by Real Jacobin Hours:

Update: I went back to an earlier save, disabled all the mods that changed the castle, but when I tried to do Taking Independence again it's still stuck on "clear the courtyard". Is the quest permanently ♥♥♥♥♥♥?

Disabling scripted mods from ongoing game do not remove script data from save files. It is baked there for good.

If this was such a situation, then quest might be bonkers in your save file.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Real Jacobin Hours:

Update: I went back to an earlier save, disabled all the mods that changed the castle, but when I tried to do Taking Independence again it's still stuck on "clear the courtyard". Is the quest permanently ♥♥♥♥♥♥?

At that point I would go with the set stages.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Taking_Independence

For setstages to work you are going to have to "zone in" so they can take effect. Either go someplace else via fast travel or a nearby intrior cell (not the fort basement.)

then open console:
setstage 3a457 300

This should spawn the queen? If that fails then use this to skip to radio set up:
setstage 3a457 500

Now the other thing is Old Guns might bug up afterwards because you messed with the clearing the tunnels and armory door. Just a heads up.

Oh and dont feel too bad, you defintely aint the first to mess this up, and I doubt the last :P

[marat1793]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by Real Jacobin Hours:

Update: I went back to an earlier save, disabled all the mods that changed the castle, but when I tried to do Taking Independence again it's still stuck on "clear the courtyard". Is the quest permanently ♥♥♥♥♥♥?

At that point I would go with the set stages.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Taking_Independence

For setstages to work you are going to have to "zone in" so they can take effect. Either go someplace else via fast travel or a nearby intrior cell (not the fort basement.)

then open console:
setstage 3a457 300

This should spawn the queen? If that fails then use this:
setstage 3a457 500

Now the other thing is Old Guns might bug up afterwards because you messed with the clearing the tunnels and armory door. Just a heads up.

Oh and dont feel too bad, you defintely aint the first to mess this up, and I doubt the last :P

Thanks. That mostly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it, however the mirelurk queen is stuck in the floor and I can't kill it and the objective remains.

[marat1793]

Nevermind, fixed the radio and it's completed. Thanks everyone.

[Bored Peon]

Oops, forgot to put in the second command jsut skipepd to radio phase. I edited it in for anyone searching later.