FO4 "The First Step" Minutemen Bug Issues???

[ccd229]

Really confused about why I can't start the Minutemen quest "The First Step." In my journal, the objective still says to "Talk to the settlers at Tenpines Bluff." But when I go to Tenpines Bluff, none of the settlers there will advance the quest. They only offer to trade when they're talked to. I'm positive I've talked to everyone there. What's also strange is that the quest "The First Step" cannot be deactivated in my journal. It is always an active quest and always has the small dot next to the quest name in my journal. There is no map marker telling me where to go.
Nothing happens when I talk to Preston Garvey. I have already cleared Corvega Assembly Plant by myself as part of no specific quest. Corvega's map marker says that the location is cleared. Not sure, but I am almost positive that the original settlers that started at Tenpines Bluff are dead. I chose to side with the Institute as far as the main quest line goes, not sure if that makes a difference. Any help would be awesome and appreciated since there is a whole questline that is unavailable to me now.

[AikenAidan]

If you can trade personel items with them then all you need to is Use the Work Bench. That should trigger the compleation of the quest . If that doesn't work then you missed something they wanted you to do. And yes that quest was poorly texted and plotted.

[ccd229]

Sorry, what exactly do you mean by "Use the workbench?" When I go into workshop mode nothing happens and there are really no options as far as the settlers go, besides giving them jobs.

[Bored Peon]

Look up the quest on the wiki, find out the stage list for it, use a console command to advance to the next stage.

Somehow you are past the part where that stage should have completed.

[ccd229]

Unfortunatly I'm playing it on a console. Im really trying to play this quest line though, because I'm level 99 and I don't have much else to do.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Did you clear out Corvega before talking to them?

[ccd229]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

Did you clear out Corvega before talking to them?

Yea The first time I cleared it was long before I got the quest. I've went through it multiple times since I got the quest and I used the elevator and killed Jared but I when I talk to the settlers I can't complete the quest.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Originally posted by ccd229:

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

Did you clear out Corvega before talking to them?

Yea The first time I cleared it was long before I got the quest. I've went through it multiple times since I got the quest and I used the elevator and killed Jared but I when I talk to the settlers I can't complete the quest.

That might be why. I remember a similar bug in Skyrim, if you killed a quest target before the quest was assigned, it'd break the quest.

Though for Fallout 4, I've been surprised, as the game seems fine at assigning new targets or just completing the quest anyway.

[Silvieson]

if people are still having issues with this quest and keep getting stuck at the stage when reporting to the settler doesn't advance to reporting to Preston use the console and type "setstage 0011b36e 450" without the "" and it should force it to advance to the last stage so you can complete the quest.

[Paxtoranius]

Originally posted by Mr Wolf:

if people are still having issues with this quest and keep getting stuck at the stage when reporting to the settler doesn't advance to reporting to Preston use the console and type "setstage 0011b36e 450" without the "" and it should force it to advance to the last stage so you can complete the quest.

That code is not recognised in console for me anyway and tried it three times, am trying Jared's npc code placeatme but movetoplayer doesn't respond so I'm doing something wrong to end this quest!

[Chip Patton]

Originally posted by ccd229:

Sorry, what exactly do you mean by "Use the workbench?" When I go into workshop mode nothing happens and there are really no options as far as the settlers go, besides giving them jobs.

You need to activate this beside the shack:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/0d/Sanctuary_Workshop.png/revision/latest?cb=20170107134749

[gottyben]

Originally posted by Mr Wolf:

if people are still having issues with this quest and keep getting stuck at the stage when reporting to the settler doesn't advance to reporting to Preston use the console and type "setstage 0011b36e 450" without the "" and it should force it to advance to the last stage so you can complete the quest.

*Just a minor correction* Actually it´s "setstage 0011b36e 400" not "setstage 0011b36e 450" the 450 prompt makes the settlement to not join the Minutemen. After you have put in the correct prompt just talk to Preston Garvy