Trade routes

[Mikeeagle]

How do you establish trade routes between settlements? Thanks for any help.

[Beautiful Ham Sandwich]

You need the perk Local Leader, and then in workshop mode there should be a button input when the person you want to be the man in charge of the route highlighted

[Park_Ranger]

Yes local leader 2, then when in workshop mode, select a settler and press "E" while he or she is highlighted, press "Q" and select the settlement to make the trade route to, press "E" again to confirm. (Some settlers cannot run trade routes, just select somebody different, robots can also run trade routes).

They will find their own pack animal, and as far as I know can't die anywhere, even when attacked on route.

I have 47 trade routes across the map, quite often I see 2 or 3 of my provisioners out in the wilds.

[Stardustfire]

in some rare cases this provisioners can disapear.
they normaly cant die thats correct (as long u dont kill them uself by mistake) , BUT as long the fight or out of action (sitting at the earth when taken to much dmg) the trade route is disabled till they are out of fight/ up from earth again. that means u can have this moments where u just want to build something in a settlemetn and the resources are missing because the trade route is temporary out of action.
To minimize that its a good plan to equip this supply settlers with a good weapon and armor (for that i ever hoard combat armor, army outfits and laser rifles, for the more dangerous routes inside the urban territory i give them plasma weapons and plasma grenades) .
In survival mode that gives the benefit for u that u have some more save reliably routes u can use too.

[Mikeeagle]

Big Thanks for the quick response concerning the trade routes!