Problem with meeting Abbot at the wall mission.

[Mr. Woods]

I meet up with Abbot at the wall but all he says is "I got work to do, busy." Does anybody know how to continue the mission?

[MATTHEH]

This is a useless mission that doesn't pretand to the story. You can just skip dat.

[Mr. Woods]

Ok, heard it was a nice small mission.

[ethanjory]

Just a quick fetch quest. You're not missing out on anything by skipping it.

[Matt]

If you clear Hardware Town of raiders before talking to him it does not trigger the quest Painting the Town. It's bugged.

As a test, I reverted to an earlier save prior to my visit to Hardware Town to teleport to Diamond City and it triggered properly.

I cleared all the surrounding areas before going into Diamond City and when it told me to see Abbot, he would just say he was busy. It's a simple fetch quest for some paint in Hardware Town. I had the mixed paint as well before talking to Abbot, so it's not like you can jump in the middle of the quest and trigger it.

I also tried console commands to get it launch, but to no avail.

Here's the console command to attempt to force Painting the Town to start:

setstage 0001D727 10

Maybe it'll work for you.

Here's the console command to remove the "See Abbot at the Wall" from your miscellaneous quest list:

completeallobjectives 0004F623

This at least keep your miscellaneous quest list clean.

[Mr. Woods]

Thank you for your help.

[milo29]

I get the same prob, but oberland station also given me the objectif to clean the hardware town to gain the workshop settlement (started with preston). It's possible that has conflict with abbot mission.

[Zotliatlicor]

And he does not give the quest sometimes until the Mayor has done his speech in the back to all the citizens.