Preston Garvey and his 4 friends returning to Museum of Freedom bug

[Fellow Hoodlum]

I couldn't find a fix for this damn bug anywhere, so I thought I'd share what I found out.

During the first quest in Museum of Freedom I missed the bobblehead on the desk in the room where the npcs were. I later returned to the Museum to get that bobblehead. This caused Preston and his friends to leave Sanctuary Hills and sit in Museum of Freedom talking about how they have to go to Sanctuary, even though they still counted as living in Sanctuary.

I kept loading old saves until I figured out that this bug only occurs if I return to pick up the bobblehead. The only way for me to fix this was to ignore MoF and use player.additem command to get the bobblehead as otherwise I'd have to start the game from the beginning.

It's not really a fix but if someone got stuck on fixing this bug like me it might be helpful.

I'm not sure whether picking up the bobblehead or simply returning to the Museum causes the bug, but I've been staying clear of it ever since.

[Mook]

What? thats a weird bug, i actually went back their to see if fusion cores respawned, they didnt, and also i didnt have that happen to me

[Fellow Hoodlum]

Yeah, it's a weird bug. I lost 4 hours of gameplay to fix the damn thing and about 2 hours of testing to see what caused it. That's been a while ago though so it might've been fixed, or I was the only one blind enough to miss the bobblehead during first mission.

I actually saw some people looking for a fix too but no one knew what caused it.

[Razor_Sharp001]

I am still having the issue. I went back to the museum of freedom and saw Preston and them their. I made the mistake of thinking it would correct itself after I left and didn't reload. Now ive progressed so far into the game that a reload of a save game is not an option for me. It sucks becasue the group is no longer in Santuary and it seems like a ghost town now. Im also having a problem trying to locate Preston after I completed the Taking Independence mission.

[Yippie21]

Well.... at least with your bug you don't have to listen to Marci and her husband

[BenBun7]

I am so pissed off, this happened while preston was at castle and the rest were at sanctuary, because of this I can't add any more people to sanctuary and or castle, (I finished the game btw) I have over 3 days of gameplay and worst of all its on xbox one so I can't use console....... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU*K

[Daedalus]

Well, apparently this is still a thing. I was playing along just fine and then noticed that Garvey, Mama, Jun, and Marcy were gone from Sanctuary. In addition, Dogmeat was gone as well. I found Dogmeat back at Red Rocket, but can not recruit him. I then checked the Museum to see if the missing people were there, lo and behold, the whole thing respawned. Raiders outside, Garvey and the missing people inside.
Full disclosure, I play with over 120 mods running, so it may be something there. But, it has never happened before, so... odd.
I DID notice that when I commanded Garvey to follow, then dismissed him back to Sanctuary, the HUD pop-up was: "[...] returns to Sanctuary Hills." So, no name internally. I can only assume that is the issue. <shrug> Live and learn.

EDIT: I discovered why I lost all of my followers. I "cleaned" the DLC files with xEdit. That was a non-good idea. Pretty much broke the game.

[Daedalus]

Originally posted by Yippie21:

Well.... at least with your bug you don't have to listen to Marci and her husband

[ulroth]

Wow...I had to skip the museum to avoid those annoying fuc*ers. You found a better way.

[Lil C]-[ew C]-[ew is ☂д☂]

The only character in that band that I hate most is Mama Murphy...I have equipped her with barbed cane and yet she can't be ordered to a new job in the settlement...she is so useless...I was planning to set her to take charge of the restaurant.....but no....she only will hammer the bloody thing in the main house...so worthless human being in this game.

[MonkeyLord]

fyi still not fixed, happens when you get the bobble and they just hang out there forever

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by MonkeyLord:

fyi still not fixed, happens when you get the bobble and they just hang out there forever

What an odd necro.

I have never seen this bug and I routinely blow past Preston to get the bobble head and the power armour, ignoring Preston. Often return to get the bobble head later. As long as you talk to Preston upstairs the quest continues and Gristle group arrives. Or if he's downstairs that means you killed Gristle and the deathclaw, again you just talk to Harvey and after some bickering they head to Sanctuary..

If you are dusting off a bug report from 2015 you really need to confirm exactly what you are seeing and what *exact* steps can *repeatedly* create the issue.

Far better just to make a new thread.

[JoeyTheUnique]

I also got this bug, really annoying but I guess I'll just go bos instead of minutemen now. Or I can somehow still continue the story since doing minutemen quests still work

[Fastest0ManAlive]

This same thing happened to me. Guess I'm going full BOS. Ad Victoriam brothers.