The Ghoulish Question - Dealing with Ghoul Settlers

Ever find yourself face to face with a new 'settler' that you most certainly don't remember asking permission to join and live in your villages?

Ever think, there were too many of them and not enough room at your least favorite settlement to house the mutants?

Ever wonder how you might deal with the Ghoulish Question, and its ultimate concluding solution?

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Quick disclaimer: I don't advocate for genocide. I simply suggest or provide a number of management solutions for ghoul settlers that show up at your settlements that mainly involve employment.

Introduction to The Ghoulish Question

So if you find yourself here and if you should be here, it depends on your thoughts of the ghoulish question.

Do you regard neutrally or positively the idea of a fanfic 'ghoul pairing', or do you regard it rightly so with an amount of disgust it warrants?

This guide is for the latter.

Ghouls are hardly people by this point.


You are definitely in the right place if you have brain-scars from seeing ghouls in ratty-skirts.

Don't worry, the nightmare is over.

As I shall give you the ultimate solutions to the ghoulish problem in your settlements!

No trains. That would be too easy.

Solution A: Happy Work Camps / Factory

This is at best a temporary half measure. As they can become overcrowded and raids hardly dent their overall numbers, despite the fact they are incapable of procreation (thankfully) which would make even 'normal' (non-ghoul) settlers a problem.


So, turn a settlement into a work camp or an 1800's style English factory. Make sure to pick the worst settlements (location/proximity, size). Dress it up with a few amenities, so that its not a complete dump.

Depending on your needs for yourself (supplies) and your other settlements, will weigh in on what work is carried out.

Agricultural plantation:
- Vegetable starch mass production

Scrap yard:
- salvage stations


To be honest, you will likely pick both.

Build some defenses, assign supply-runners to it, then ignore the settlement.

Solution B: Combat Zone

Not quite a death camp. Essentially is one, but still not quite.

Make a settlement, possibly even within the work camp, part of an arena with only ghoul or creature combatants. This is the most efficient method by far. The corpses don't stick around, unlike that one swimming pool settlement after you wipe out its previous inhabitants (had to bring in a series of carts to shove the bodies in...).


Remember to make it interesting. Only give them somewhat equal weapons, and make them all wear hoods to hide their visage.

Remember to distinguish the ones who survive multiple rounds.

Ensure they cannot escape the enclosure to get better weapons than what they are given.
Or just don't store any decent gear onsite.

Solution C: Employment with the Guards

any of the following and more:

- UNSC-DF
- NCR
- Security
- Stormtrooper Corps
- Imperial Guard
- British/German/American/Soviet infantry
- Vault tec
- Death Korps of Krieg
- Clone Troopers
- Xenomorphs
- Terminators

Depending on the defensive requirements ( from mods and whether permanent death is enabled for settlers.... which makes defense a bigger deal than vanilla).

Employment turns problems into solutions.

Solution D: Designated Raiding Camp

This one I might have caused accidentally by trying a group roadside execution when too close to the settlement. Ten Pines is a ♥♥♥♥ place anyway.

So send the ghouls there and periodically raid them. Depending on what mods you have, settlers might be mortal (instead of undying like vanilla).


This tends to work best if you have Nuka World DLC.

Step 1: send all the ghouls settlers to The Slog settlement after unlocking its workbench access.

Step 2: Get to the Nuka World Quest progression of raiding the commonwealth.

Step 3: Kill everything at the slog. Note: at this part its great if you are using 'scrap everything' for corpse removal. Otherwise, just make a few carts to shove them into.

Solution E: Mouse Trap

Make a series of overly elaborate traps before they can cross to the other side of their 'arena' to reach the other team.

This will allow for them to be mortal using the arena mechanics.

sawblade traps or flamer traps.

(I have been meaning to try this method in order to deal with The Brahmin Question...)

Not a great method unless you give each contender distinguishing clothing and make bets to yourself which will make it the farthest in your version of a mini-gauntlet).

Solution F: Isolation / Remake the Underworld from Fallout 3

What the title says.

This solution works well with any other group as well, depending on how OCD you want to get.

- anyone balding? Probably turning into a ghoul. Send them.

- Ginger or red-haired settlers - vampires should be kept separate for the safety of the ghouls.

Disclaimer: To Answer any would be accusations or other comments (time saver really)

I don't advocate for genocide.

I wouldn't say 'frequently asked questions'. For 'frequently' would not be accurate.
This is to address the 'one-ofs' and so forth. Some of the below could be interpreted as political, but whatever.

- Did you get the references 'solution', 'question'? Ok, that's what I was referencing.

- Not a 'fascist' like your modern day democrat in america (don't like fascism or communism, as those are both systems where the government and political party have control over life and death of the citizen) and often horribly abuse the power they have.

- rising persecution of whites and or white men in America (due to vague 'injustice', which will only ever be explained as 'cuz slavery'). Every people (or 'race' if you really insist on it) has practiced slavery. Get over it, like the rest of the world has. So if you are a normal person who doesn't believe in persecuting caucasians, then you will likely be persecuted too, because you aren't following the new 'political ideology'. Sounds familiar (national socialism / Nazi party / Soviet party). Of the 'yes comrade', 'no comrade' otherwise you and your family vanish (its not that far yet, hopefully it never will be).

Meanwhile animals (people in who 'believe' in BLM) continue to shoot each other, the cops, families, loot, steal and rape all under the claims of 'its protest'.

- Ghouls aren't a race, neither is Hitler, nor the vampire gingers.

- only way to have 'pure race' is to create robots. Or clones. Clone troopers would be nifty. As long as they don't try to go crazy.

- I haven't created a guide for removing brahmin yet, or Synths. Synths I don't really care unless it effects me directly. Brahmin, however, they stand or walk in the way of everything, and the 'settlers' frown upon their elimination, unless it involves traps or overly elaborate and wasteful 'fall-traps' (move the brahmin troughs to the top of a large scaffolding tower, then start moving pieces from under them).

Deathclaws would make better settlers than the damn settlers half the time.

Come to think of it, I might just hate brahmin (in settlements when they appear in the center of Hangman's Alley for example...) just as much as ghouls.

In Closing

Remember, everyone who's played Rollercoaster Tycoon is quite familiar with the relocation of the sick, the angry, and the broke.

They are very familiar with the various experimentation with 'Death Rides'.

In Fallout 4, it would be nice if there were a waiting area where you, the player had the ability to accept or deny entry. Then these solutions wouldn't have become necessary.





I wish I could make a catapult to fling brahmin out of my settlements.
Unless there was a workshop contraption that attracted all brahmin, loaded them onto conveyor belt, then processed then into steak, or brahmin meat because brahmin meat = more Deathclaws.

Deathclaws are cool.

[Alpha-methyl]

...one more suggestion, if you DO live in a place where guys in white hoods march the streets and burn crosses, you might want to consider moving - because most of the country you live in (provided you're American) isn't that way, and people of many races have spent the last several decades living and playing with each other.

There are so many other contradictory things about the group and their mission statement, but I'll just close with this one - what does "ending the nuclear family" - as their official website said their mission was - have to do with saving black lives? From my perspective, not having both parents in the home is one of the biggest problems that leads to the most violence and criminal activity.

...oh... right... Marxism. People who historically go after and brainwash kids want to end the "nuclear family"... wonder why that would be? so they can raise further generations of lunatic "activists" maybe?

[Alpha-methyl]

It's absolutely mind-boggling that these people can live in one of the least racist places on earth, and have themselves fully convinced that there are white supremacists in cone-head hoods lurking around every corner - all the while, the people telling them someone is a white supremacist are lighting fires, shooting people, robbing stores, raping people... and are professed "trained Marxists" according to the founders.

Seems like someone needs to have a little less faith in what politicians who pit people against each other for political motives are saying, because to any sane, rational person, just calling your group "BLM" doesn't excuse the wide array of criminality the group partakes in on a regular basis...

[Alpha-methyl]

You social justice types are lunatics. Wow. Do you have such a fundamental lack of understanding about what this guide is? Oh I see, you saw the author criticize the people you're commanded to vote for despite them never coming through for you even once, haha...

[Gpa]

"...just happened to be reading some ignorant post and drop my two cents in because it completely baffled me to just how bonkers this post is..."

"two cents"... Looks more like a whole dollar.

"...claim uneducated half truths and false narratives and cry about it..."

You did that quite well.

Get a sense of humor and seriously... stop believing everything hollywierd, Wikipedia, google, crt, and the public school system tells you... your "understanding" of slavery is just plain wrong.

[FlipMob]

shut up no one asked

[The_Black_Fox_Remade]

Trust me i'm neither left wing nor am I right, I fall mainly in line with centrism and just happened to be reading some ignorant post and drop my two cents in because it completely baffled me to just how bonkers this post is . This was all meant to be one post but steam doesn't support more than 1,000 characters.

[The_Black_Fox_Remade]

And before you (or anyone) go so far to defend themselves and say this was a joke please find someone or something else to lie too because adding a disclaimer and then spewing extremist right wing rhetoric and random semi-sympathetic comparison/contrast between hitler and white supremacist. And to be honest with you I wouldn't have even wrote this if it wasn't for that bonkers disclaimer you wrote to disclaim absolutely nothing of your views you laced into semi-helpful semi-useless guide.

[The_Black_Fox_Remade]

Treaty of Versailles looked for an outlet for which hitler clearly took advantage and convinced most of germany to believe and fall in line with his racist and prejudiced beliefs.) So you comparing and ghouls (a race of irradiate people) and (hitler the epitome of white supremacy) is quiet the hilarious comparison to me.

[The_Black_Fox_Remade]

On to your ghoul is not a race and neither is hitler. probably the most hilarious thing I have ever heard for the fact that it is mere non-sense. The best way to interpret it is by thinking you said, A race is not a race, which certainly isn't true for the ghouls ( I recognize this is a Fictional Race of Beings.), but this isn't what I found funny it's the irrelevant connection to hitler that you made just bonkers as you do realize that Hitler who was influenced by racist beliefs based on racist and debunked research done by americans to justify his genocidal and racist ideology (which I must say that a lot of germans (who were mostly white) agreed to not out of initial and long term fear, but out of biased beliefs that their country, which was doing poorly because of blame for ww1 being placed on their shoulders with...

[The_Black_Fox_Remade]

Also on to the BLM statement with you calling people animals and falsely claiming anyone who truly supports it would partake in any criminal elements when it's been proven that it has been second and third party elements (proud boys, white supremacist, and regular anarchist) begin so called riots and criminal mischief. (I for one can care less for BLM as a black man for the reason I know people like you will feel suppressed and lash out in in post like this under the cover of a guide and claim uneducated half truths and false narratives and cry about it until your parents find a way to get people in work places and schools to suppress any support for BLM) So feel free to just announce what you really want to rant about instead of hiding it a in disclaimer while using the "two wrongs make a right" arguments along with any half baked "who had worse" or "they were the treated the same" arguments.