Can't start a supply line

[Clutchman]

I've got required perks to start a supply line, but whenever I press the right bumper or the key, nothing happens. I'm in need of some help

[Sep]

Did you press V to get into workshop mode and select those main settler like those in Abenathy farm? Some settler that already reside in settlement cannot be assign into supply line.

[B Maverick]

You need to assign a settler to be a provisioner. They will walk your supply line with Brahmin. So pick somebody not assigned to something. Then assign them to the route you want. From A to B. They just walk 1 line. You will need many provisioners.

[Clutchman]

How do you assign them to be a provisioner? The settler is a random one added to Grey Gardens

[B Maverick]

Originally posted by Clutchman:

How do you assign them to be a provisioner? The settler is a random one added to Grey Gardens

Assign to be a provisioner is in your workbench mode. Not regular mode. So go into your workbench mode when you approach a settler. You need an unassigned one.

Some of the YouTube videos on supply lines and provisioners are useful IMO when you first start with this. It's super confusing and not explained. "Oxhorn" (famous on YouTube) explains this as do some other gamers. I watched a few videos before I understood this. It's not explained in the game well. You are expected to just figure it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vmw3yfx1mE

Watch this full video and some related ones. I think it will make more sense then. Let me know if you still have some questions. I can explain it to you more. It's just the game. They did a horrible job of explaining this.

[Clutchman]

So you mean hover the cursor over an unassigned settler and hitting the input key for supply line? I tried that and nothing happens, no menu, no prompt

[B Maverick]

Originally posted by Clutchman:

So you mean hover the cursor over an unassigned settler and hitting the input key for supply line? I tried that and nothing happens, no menu, no prompt

1) You go around your settlement in workbench mode. Not regular mode.

2) There should be an option called "supply lines." I think that's how it's called. It's "Q" for me. But depends on your key mapping in the game. Click it. I believe it might say "privisioner" too. Which ever one of those pops up. I can't remember how it's called.

3) It will assign them from where you are standing. The settlement you are in. To the one right next door. That's a good way to do it. But you choose where to send them. Keep working your way around the map. Rinse and repeat. All the way around the map. 1 at a time.

Honestly the best way is watch about 2 - 3 videos on this. They explain it much better than you can in conversation. Watch the one I gave you. Plus search on YouTube. "Assign supply lines Fallout 4." Watch like 3 of them. Inevitable they all hit on a few different key points. I think you will understand it better if you watch it and see it visually.

Understand you have to be in workbench mode. You also need an unassigned settler. Like when you are building things is workbench mode. Same with assigning provisioners to supply lines. Workbench mode. Not regular mode. You won't have these options in regular mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrL5dV4IUkE&t=14s

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by B Maverick:

Originally posted by Clutchman:

So you mean hover the cursor over an unassigned settler and hitting the input key for supply line? I tried that and nothing happens, no menu, no prompt

1) You go around your settlement in workbench mode. Not regular mode.

2) There should be an option called "supply lines." I think that's how it's called. It's "Q" for me. But depends on your key mapping in the game. Click it. I believe it might say "privisioner" too. Which ever one of those pops up. I can't remember how it's called.

3) It will assign them from where you are standing. The settlement you are in. To the one right next door. Keep working your way around the map. Rinse and repeat. All the way around the map. 1 at a time.

Honestly the best way is watch about 2 - 3 videos on this. They explain it much better than you can in conversation. Watch the one I gave you. Plus search on YouTube. "Assign supply lines Fallout 4." Watch like 3 of them. Inevitable they all hit on a few different key points. I think you will understand it better if you watch it and see it visually.

Understand you have to be in workbench mode. You also need an unassigned settler. Like when you are building things is workbench mode. Same with assigning provisioners to supply lines. Workbench mode. Not regular mode. You won't have these options in regular mode.

This is all good advice and true. With one exception. The settler does not need to be a unassigned one.

[B Maverick]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Originally posted by B Maverick:

1) You go around your settlement in workbench mode. Not regular mode.

2) There should be an option called "supply lines." I think that's how it's called. It's "Q" for me. But depends on your key mapping in the game. Click it. I believe it might say "privisioner" too. Which ever one of those pops up. I can't remember how it's called.

3) It will assign them from where you are standing. The settlement you are in. To the one right next door. Keep working your way around the map. Rinse and repeat. All the way around the map. 1 at a time.

Honestly the best way is watch about 2 - 3 videos on this. They explain it much better than you can in conversation. Watch the one I gave you. Plus search on YouTube. "Assign supply lines Fallout 4." Watch like 3 of them. Inevitable they all hit on a few different key points. I think you will understand it better if you watch it and see it visually.

Understand you have to be in workbench mode. You also need an unassigned settler. Like when you are building things is workbench mode. Same with assigning provisioners to supply lines. Workbench mode. Not regular mode. You won't have these options in regular mode.

This is all good advice and true. With one exception. The settler does not need to be a unassigned one.

It doesn't I suppose. But it just makes more sense that way.

[B Maverick]

I should add you have to be staring at the settler. Pointing at the settler. You can move settlers to other settlements. You can assign them to be a provisioner and run a supply line. But you have to be pointing at a settler you want to choose. Like close up to them. Right on them almost. In workbench mode. Hope that helps.

In workbench mode you should see options like that when pointing at a settler. But you won't see it in regular mode.

[B Maverick]

I would add again there is simply ZERO substitute for the videos on this. Watch the 2 I gave you plus a few more perhaps. If you see 3 - 4 videos explaining this issue it will solve it. To see it visually explained in real time on the video just makes so much more sense. The first time for me was incredibly confusing. Once you get 1 supply line figured out the rest is just rinse and repeat. Watch a few of the videos. They explain different things. To see them visually do it will explain how much better than any conversation can.

[Clutchman]

I know how to set up supply lines. I've done it before on the xbone version. What i'm saying is that pressing the input button/key does nothing. I should add that I have Sim Settlements installed. It will say "RB supply lines". I press RB, nothing happens. No popup, no menu to show which settlement to do the supply line. Nothing

[Zekiran]

11 posts in and now you mention you're using a mod that completely overhauls how settlements work.

Ask on the Sim Settlements mod forum. All of the above advice applies PURELY to vanilla game play, so since adding something that completely changes how that works... one might expect it to be flawed or different. You likely need to configure the mod properly or figure out why it's telling you something that you cannot do.

[B Maverick]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

11 posts in and now you mention you're using a mod that completely overhauls how settlements work.

Ask on the Sim Settlements mod forum. All of the above advice applies PURELY to vanilla game play, so since adding something that completely changes how that works... one might expect it to be flawed or different. You likely need to configure the mod properly or figure out why it's telling you something that you cannot do.

Probably all of this. You changed it and modded it. Which is fine. That's your option. But I'm sure that changes everything. Ask on a Sim Settlements specific forum would be a good idea. How is it different from vanilla for supply lines?

Great that you have played before and know how. It's confusing at first. So you are past that part.

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Originally posted by Clutchman:

I know how to set up supply lines. I've done it before on the xbone version. What i'm saying is that pressing the input button/key does nothing. I should add that I have Sim Settlements installed. It will say "RB supply lines". I press RB, nothing happens. No popup, no menu to show which settlement to do the supply line. Nothing

If you are using Sim Settlements 2 there is supposed to be a replacer plot to the regular supply lines, not sure about the first version though. I had an issue whereby if i assign some vanilla supply lines with sim settlements 2 it would remove the supply line either immediately or awhile later.