About Spectacle Island

[Ais Wallenstein]

I can't raid it or make an raider outpost in there? Why?

[Chaosium]

From the wikia:

"Shank cannot send the player character to a settlement that has a companion in it."

Is that the case for you?

[Deko]

Or maybe you haven't done the quest to unlock the workbench? There is a not in the shed which tells you what to do.

[Ais Wallenstein]

Originally posted by Chaosium:

From the wikia:

"Shank cannot send the player character to a settlement that has a companion in it."

Is that the case for you?

I put all of my companions in Vault 88.

Originally posted by Deko:

Or maybe you haven't done the quest to unlock the workbench? There is a not in the shed which tells you what to do.

Already have 20 settlers in that place.

[Ais Wallenstein]

And this happening too in Country Crossing. I have no idea why. Please help.

[Tesityr]

If I may pop in with what happened to me, I saw a message somewhere that said, that if you have a Quest or something going on in that Settlement, then Shank won't let you use it as a Target.

I went to the Settlement and it seemed totally open to use, but after walking around a bit, one of the Settlers walked up to me and 'asked for help' (to rescue their friend or someone taken hostage). After doing this 'Quest', I was able to use that Settlement as a Raiding Target with the Shankelstein.

So, walk around one of those Settlements for a while, and see if anyone comes up to you asking for Help. Also, make sure there are no leftover Quests for that Settlement (like, turning something in to Preston that you did at that Settlement), maybe even go talk to The Gravy just to see if he talks to you about the Settlement. Checking these things might help 'clear' that Settlement, so it shows up on the list. That's what was needed for me, anyway. GL

HTH

[Ais Wallenstein]

I don't have any active quest nor any settlers need my help in that place.

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by Ais Wallenstein:

I don't have any active quest nor any settlers need my help in that place.

There's a few other things it could be:

- Are you choosing "make Vassal/Supply" or "Raid/make Raider Outpost"?
If you choose the latter, it will allow you to choose more/different Settlements (more choices)

- Are your Outposts close to where you want to 'raid'?
You might have to set up a Nuka World Radio Transmitter and have the Target Settlement within a certain range (eg. you can't have one Raider Outpost and then try to Attack something way across the map). I could have sworn I did this before, but I've read that your next Raiding Target has to be like 1/3 of the map or less away from the nearest Raider Outpost already set up (so I assumed it has to do with the Raider Radio emitters - as in the Lore, these Radio Tower emitters help to intimidate the nearby Settlements).

- Some Settlements are involved in Quests later in the game (eg. Warwick Homestead), so some Settlements will not show up in the list with Shank, no matter what

If you try 'everything' and you still can't pick certain ones, you can do other things, like go to the Settlement, kill everything (Console Command) then place a Settler and then go back to Shank to see if he lets you use that Settlement after (be careful do this as a 'Last Resort'...)

Are you running any Mods?
Game Mods can interfere with how the game recognizes Settlements for the Shankelstein... there was another Thread about "Settlements that Shank won't let me Raid" and the guy had to turn off his Mods, then the Settlement showed up in the List with Shankey. Maybe try that (if you run any Mods).

HTH

[Ais Wallenstein]

Originally posted by Tesityr:

Originally posted by Ais Wallenstein:

I don't have any active quest nor any settlers need my help in that place.

There's a few other things it could be:

- Are you choosing "make Vassal/Supply" or "Raid/make Raider Outpost"?

Supply

Originally posted by Tesityr:

- Are your Outposts close to where you want to 'raid'?

Finch Farm & Warwick Homestead

Originally posted by Tesityr:

Are you running any Mods?

Yes, and i already disable them all

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by Ais Wallenstein:

Originally posted by Tesityr:

There's a few other things it could be:

- Are you choosing "make Vassal/Supply" or "Raid/make Raider Outpost"?

Supply

Originally posted by Tesityr:

- Are your Outposts close to where you want to 'raid'?

Finch Farm & Warwick Homestead

Originally posted by Tesityr:

Are you running any Mods?

Yes, and i already disable them all

Hmph... Try to see if you can make it a Raider Outpost (even just to see if it shows up on the List that Shank offers you)

Interestingly, I looked up "Spectacle Island" and other people are having trouble using that one as a Raider Outpost / Vassal...
Here is a thread where someone says it never shows up in the List for some reason (at Shank) :
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps4/164592-fallout-4/answers/509126-why-cant-i-put-a-raider-flag-down-in-an-empty-settlement
Maybe it can't be an Outpost - yet other people have said they have converted it... odd

I'm sorry I have no other ideas, mate. I can try to take over Spectacle Island myself with Raiders sometime in the future in a game... but that still will not help you directly.

Have you tried Deleting/Reinstalling Fallout 4? Just shooting out random ideas now lol

GL with it

[Ais Wallenstein]

Weird this is, i can raid Spectacle Island now after i destroyed the Railroad. Probably because of that safehouse.

But i can't still raid Country Crossing.

[Nite69]

Shanks mission works fine with mods, you have to have at least 1 settler at each settlement for it to show up as selectable in his list

he even works with Conquest Mod, which allows you place more settlements anywhere you want on base map, I tested it and one that I placed and added a settler to showed up in his list

[Ais Wallenstein]

Still it doesn't explain why i can't raid Country Crossing either i enable / disable my mods.

Forgot to mention, before this, idk why Country Crossing is bugged to me. No matter how many Minutemen side quest i've done, i never unlock the workshop on this place. Until i kill the original settlers (i found this solution on internet).