Help with raider settlement system

[The Lemon]

My settlement is complaining of lack of food, and I'm trying my best but shank will absolutley not let me force, or talk, settlements into supplying us. The 3 options he gives me are graygarden, sanctuary, and tenepines bluff. I don't know how to expand the roster, do I need to discover them? I'd be greatful for any help that can be given.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

You may need to discover them, it also depends on where your first settlement is, as you can't lockdown a supply settlement if it's too far away. Where is your Raider Base at? Is it, by chance, Sunshine Tidings CoOp?

[The Lemon]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

You may need to discover them, it also depends on where your first settlement is, as you can't lockdown a supply settlement if it's too far away. Where is your Raider Base at? Is it, by chance, Sunshine Tidings CoOp?

My main base, the one I'm trying to use, is in country crossing.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Yeah, Try disocvering more settlements then, you should be able to attack Nordhagen Beach, and maybe even as far as the Slog.

[MortVent]

Don't forget to take the settlements you plan to raid first as a minuteman settlement, build it up for food/water production... then take it over if you want so it can provide a ton more food for the raider settlements

[The Lemon]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

Yeah, Try disocvering more settlements then, you should be able to attack Nordhagen Beach, and maybe even as far as the Slog.

Damn. Guess I'll just wander around until I run into some settlements.

[HunterOfPinkBunnyWabbits]

Just put raiders to farming. Make stores, Pick Up Stations, Amplifiers and Booze stills to counterweight happines penalties.....

Vault DLC give some optons, CC stuff and Nexus mod can give some happiness boosting stuff (Like toilets from Symbiotic settlements)

[Doombringer]

The max happiness penalty from making raiders farm is -50 to every raider (-3/food, max -50).
So 2.5 pick me up stations per raider will fix that.
The whole point of raider settlements is to spam pick-me-up stations anyways ;)

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Raiders are basically Inner City Youth, as long as you keep them high on crack, they'll do your manual labor, only occasionally murdering someone in a drug-addled rage.

[Bored Peon]

You also have to vassalize settlements with a population.

Which means you should have built up a settlement THEN go vassalize it for the raider to provide food.

[The Lemon]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

You also have to vassalize settlements with a population.

Which means you should have built up a settlement THEN go vassalize it for the raider to provide food.

Shoot. I think it's too late for that XD

[Hobo Misanthropus]

If you ever plan on finishing the Minuteman quests, you shouldn't become Minuteman General until after you do all your Raider stuff.

If you are General, and then you start raiding, Preston GITS MAD LOL, but if you enver accept the role of general, you can raid to your hearts content, and then after your done, start your "Redemption Arc" and purge the area of the Raiders you set up, lol.

[MortVent]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

If you ever plan on finishing the Minuteman quests, you shouldn't become Minuteman General until after you do all your Raider stuff.

If you are General, and then you start raiding, Preston GITS MAD LOL, but if you enver accept the role of general, you can raid to your hearts content, and then after your done, start your "Redemption Arc" and purge the area of the Raiders you set up, lol.

I usually "raid" settlements, go to nuka world.. then rescue preston if I decide to do redemption otherwise I'll rescue him and burn through the main quest (go institute, makes more sense for a raider.. use the raiders to keep the commonwealth too weak to be any real threat in the future)

[The Lemon]

I think I fricked up by murdering the settlers in random settlements lol, even the pack think my bloodlust is damaging.

[Tesityr]

If I may pop in to add, I have had FOOD "in the green" with multiple 'feeder farms' around a Raider Outpost, and they will STILL complain about 'needing more food'... I've also read about other people having this happen to them, lots of people (it doesn't happen with 'all outposts' but it does happen). So, after you get everything covered and they still complain, don't worry about it too much - as long as your Happiness isn't going down, it should be OK [and might be this odd state where they have enough but it remains a 'talking point' for some unknown reason]. GL

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

I have 8 raider settlements and 7 settlements supplying food. All raider settlements are above 92% happiness and they all still complain they dont have enough food. I just ignore it now as they wont stop with the same complaint.