Solution to reassigning your supply routes

[ModerateOsprey]

I think I may have found a relatively easy way to change your existing supply routes without resorting to using the console or 'cheating'.

The first thing you have to do is to break the existing supply routes. To do this:

Go to any settlement where there is a supply route
Wait for a provisioner to turn up
Go into build mode
Select the provisioner
Assign to another task and wait for it to be registered

Now that settler will still be marked as a provisioner, but you can then select the provisioner and command them to move to any settlement.

I went to all my settlements, broke the routes and sent them all to the Red Rocket gas station, I then went there myself and either gave them a new home for later reassignment or assigned them a route from the gas station.

This has allowed me to set up the Red Rocket as a distribution point (no food there now, just distribution with food being supplied from the farms) and create the Starlight as a big trading post etc after I thought I'd messed everything up because I did a lot of stuff when I didn't know what I was doing at the beginning of the game.

You are also more likely to encounter provisioners at settlements if you fast travel there or sleep over.

[JTW]

Pro tip: Provisioners arrive at their own base at around 9am, just sleep until then and 9/10 times the settlements provisioner will be there, it's worked great in my 2 playthroughs.

[Унитаз Учиха]

Originally posted by JTW:

Pro tip: Provisioners arrive at their own base at around 9am, just sleep until then and 9/10 times the settlements provisioner will be there, it's worked great in my 2 playthroughs.

You saved me dude. It was so easy to resupply my lines just because now i can find them in a few minutes :)

[Bored Peon]

Actually, the way the game works is a provisoner will not leave the settlement if you are sleeping/waiting in it. You can also ring the bell then sleep/wait.

This makes sleeping in Mechanists Lair a real no no on survival if you are using it as a caravan station for all your settlement. You will have a very hard time leaving after sleeping.

If you are using the Sim Settlements mod, then simply use the town meeting gavel and EVERY NPC attached to your settlement is summoned, provisoners and NPCs you recruited that are still in route to the settlement.