The DLC mod has 2 known issues. Some Far Harbor Settlers have the wrong voice. A fix is Here: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/50024
Sometimes Bradburn Ampitheatre in Nuka World will cause a crash. Please read known issues in bug section on this. Try disabling Clean Faces Pack, or just disable the mod for the time you are there.
IF YOU ARE REPORTING A BUG:
1. Before you report it, please move Better Settlers to the bottom of your load order, and see if the bug persists. If it does not, it is another file. If it does, go to step 2.
2. PRIVATE MESSAGE ME YOUR LOAD ORDER. IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM AND POST A QUESTION WITHOUT PMing YOUR LOAD ORDER, I WILL IMMEDIATELY DELETE YOUR COMMENT. HELP ME HELP YOU!
3. PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT VERSION, AND WHETHER YOU HAVE UPGRADED FROM A PRIOR VERSION.
Thanks for all endorsements and comments. Ive been really busy at work, but have some updates planned once I have a bit more time. Keep the comments coming!
Load Order (IMPORTANT):
YOU MUST LOAD UNOFFICIAL FALLOUT PATCH BEFORE BETTER SETTLERS OR YOU MIGHT GET CRASHES!!!
Eli's Armor Compendium and/or Azar's Ponytail Hairstyles (optional) Any other Settler Mods BetterSettlers.esp Any Better Settler Patches that you might use from other authors Any Better Settler Optional Packs like Lollygagging, Clean face, or Light or Heavy Armor Types (optional) Better Settlers Mostly Female or Mostly Male (optional) CCAP MUST go here or it wont work (optional)> Any Better Settler Mortal or Mortal Soldier Pack must go LAST or they wont work (optional)
Uninstalling: If the game crashes when you try to uninstall, do the below:
Here is what you do. Uncheck all Better Settler mods BUT no lollygagging. Open game, save, close game Uncheck no lollygagging. Reload and save again.
Then you can uninstall. Not sure why it does this, but that fixes it.
Just for the record... If you don't like a settler gender/race/face just: 1) open the console 2) select (click) him/her 3) type: recycleactor 4) close console
Repeat as many times as you want until the resulting npc satisfy your needs.
You may need to reassign the npc to a settlement afterwards... maybe...
If you want to do a test to see variety and randomness, you can do this with console:
~ tai (turns off ai) tcai (turns off combat ai) tgm (toggles god mod) spawn 00020593 40 (40 is the number of settlers it will spawn). let them spawn and move away a little bit and do it again.
I normally spawn about 120 settlers at a time and go through and look at them to check for bugs. But you can use it to see the variety and make sure the ponytails are showing up, etc. You can safely kill them and check their inventory.
You can tai and tcai and shoot them and they will draw their weapons and attack, then you can tai and tcai again and they will freeze with weapons drawn so you can look at weapons. You will be unkillable because you will be in god mode.
Dont forget to tai tcai and tgm again or no one will move and you will be unkillable.
Oh, yes I have something to report and I am not going to follow your instructions in the sticky.
You have utterly left out how folks should do this in your documentation, so this is for your review.
Nor am I, in this case, going to read through all your extensive, specific, and complete documentation.
I will just tell you, point blank.
Kudos #100, I endorsed long - long ago. What a great mod.
Few other mods have I enjoyed as much this one. In fact, after using it for so long I can't imagine playing without it.
So, all I wanted to report was extream gratitude and appreciation. Your mod makes my game, I truly enjoy the settler gameplay and this just makes it that way. ha! yet better.
Thank you. This is, has been and will continue to be an essential mod to me.
Funny, the only time this mod has ever not functioned perfectly was when I "the user" failed to follow your excellent instructions.
Dear author! An update to the mod "Ponytail Hairstyles by Azar v3.0" has been released. Will this update be compatible with your mod? Thanks for the wonderful mod!
This would obviously create more functionality especially for people that want to keep vanilla style "hairstyles" and definately NOT use any of those fancy hairstyles and body edits that just look foriegn in a fallout game. Thank you.
While making some edits in FO4Edit I noticed that your clean face pack reverts some settings to their basic value, like settler health clean facepack puts it back to 100, while better settlers itself has the health to 160 or even 180 in some cases. No clue if this is intended, but I just thought to let you know. Its a minor thing.
In case anyone is getting purple missing textures, you need to install the older version of Eli's armors. You can actually install both, let the 2024 overwrite the 2023 version,
Love that they spawn at higher levels and I equip them with good guns and weapons. And I go to great lenghts to let my vulnerable ( less armed less armored farmgirls) NPCs be in the middle of the settelment for protection by assigning them work there.
BUT since you say not to use your mortal settlers mod. How can I get these ot be mortal? Description mentioned a mortal patch , but the onyl one I see in the files is depreciated and for Far Harbor only?
I would really like to make them mortal so all the armor and defenses have some meaning to them.
Or as a workaround can I disable this mod and download and enable the mortal mod?
Thank you for your reply. I am SO grateful for your mod I use it 100% of the time, in every playthrough, every settlement now. (Endorsement give long time ago) I am not sure I fully understand your reply, but thats ok and I will look for the mortal patch in the zip folder and install it seperatly and at or near the end of load order. :)
One Question though, can't find it anywhere in description and comments. When I google "recruit settlers faster", your mod comes up first. I looked everywhere in the build menu to find a different recruitment beacon. But nada.
Does this work with the USO settler beacon that immediately spawns 3 settlers in at a time? Or do I have to wait the annoying 3 days to a week in game time to gain one settler at a time? It's probably obviously somewhere under my nose and I'm not seeing it LOL. Ok, other than using console commands to spawn in 40 at a time. Or is that the method? Spawn in 40, kill who I don't want, assign who I do want? Forgive me, I am old LOL.
P.S. Will there ever be a Looks Menu compatibility added? This mod makes a lot of settler changes but all of the hair colors are still very dull. I'm getting one vibrant (red) color to every 20 settlers.
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Some Far Harbor Settlers have the wrong voice. A fix is Here: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/50024
Sometimes Bradburn Ampitheatre in Nuka World will cause a crash. Please read known issues in bug section on this. Try disabling Clean Faces Pack, or just disable the mod for the time you are there.
IF YOU ARE REPORTING A BUG:
1. Before you report it, please move Better Settlers to the bottom of your load order, and see if the bug persists. If it does not, it is another file. If it does, go to step 2.
2. PRIVATE MESSAGE ME YOUR LOAD ORDER. IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM AND POST A QUESTION WITHOUT PMing YOUR LOAD ORDER, I WILL IMMEDIATELY DELETE YOUR COMMENT. HELP ME HELP YOU!
3. PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT VERSION, AND WHETHER YOU HAVE UPGRADED FROM A PRIOR VERSION.
Load Order (IMPORTANT):
YOU MUST LOAD UNOFFICIAL FALLOUT PATCH BEFORE BETTER SETTLERS OR YOU MIGHT GET CRASHES!!!
Eli's Armor Compendium and/or Azar's Ponytail Hairstyles (optional)
Any other Settler Mods
BetterSettlers.esp
Any Better Settler Patches that you might use from other authors
Any Better Settler Optional Packs like Lollygagging, Clean face, or Light or Heavy Armor Types (optional)
Better Settlers Mostly Female or Mostly Male (optional)
CCAP MUST go here or it wont work (optional)>
Any Better Settler Mortal or Mortal Soldier Pack must go LAST or they wont work (optional)
Uninstalling:
If the game crashes when you try to uninstall, do the below:
Here is what you do. Uncheck all Better Settler mods BUT no lollygagging.
Open game, save, close game
Uncheck no lollygagging.
Reload and save again.
Then you can uninstall. Not sure why it does this, but that fixes it.
1) open the console
2) select (click) him/her
3) type: recycleactor
4) close console
Repeat as many times as you want until the resulting npc satisfy your needs.
You may need to reassign the npc to a settlement afterwards... maybe...
- courtsey of dabigpit
~
tai (turns off ai)
tcai (turns off combat ai)
tgm (toggles god mod)
spawn 00020593 40 (40 is the number of settlers it will spawn).
let them spawn and move away a little bit and do it again.
I normally spawn about 120 settlers at a time and go through and look at them to check for bugs. But you can use it to see the variety and make sure the ponytails are showing up, etc. You can safely kill them and check their inventory.
You can tai and tcai and shoot them and they will draw their weapons and attack, then you can tai and tcai again and they will freeze with weapons drawn so you can look at weapons. You will be unkillable because you will be in god mode.
Dont forget to tai tcai and tgm again or no one will move and you will be unkillable.
You have utterly left out how folks should do this in your documentation, so this is for your review.
Nor am I, in this case, going to read through all your extensive, specific, and complete documentation.
I will just tell you, point blank.
Kudos #100, I endorsed long - long ago. What a great mod.
Few other mods have I enjoyed as much this one.
So, all I wanted to report was extream gratitude and appreciation. Your mod makes my game, I truly enjoy the settler gameplay and this just makes it that way. ha! yet better.
Thank you. This is, has been and will continue to be an essential mod to me.
Funny, the only time this mod has ever not functioned perfectly was when I "the user" failed to follow your excellent instructions.
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/50024
An update to the mod "Ponytail Hairstyles by Azar v3.0" has been released.
Will this update be compatible with your mod?
Thanks for the wonderful mod!
Same with Eli's armour too (that got updated)
I spawned 100 NPCs, but for some reason I didn’t notice any new hairstyles.
The same goes for Eli's armor.
This is very sad
Eli's Armour Compendium
Ponytail Hairstyles by Azar v2.5a
This would obviously create more functionality especially for people that want to keep vanilla style "hairstyles" and definately NOT use any of those fancy hairstyles and body edits that just look foriegn in a fallout game. Thank you.
Love that they spawn at higher levels and I equip them with good guns and weapons.
And I go to great lenghts to let my vulnerable ( less armed less armored farmgirls) NPCs be in the middle of the settelment for protection by assigning them work there.
BUT since you say not to use your mortal settlers mod.
How can I get these ot be mortal?
Description mentioned a mortal patch , but the onyl one I see in the files is depreciated and for Far Harbor only?
I would really like to make them mortal so all the armor and defenses have some meaning to them.
Or as a workaround can I disable this mod and download and enable the mortal mod?
Or you can open the zip take out the mortal patch and put it in the order stated in the sticky.
I am not sure I fully understand your reply, but thats ok and I will look for the mortal patch in the zip folder and install it seperatly and at or near the end of load order. :)
One Question though, can't find it anywhere in description and comments. When I google "recruit settlers faster", your mod comes up first. I looked everywhere in the build menu to find a different recruitment beacon. But nada.
Does this work with the USO settler beacon that immediately spawns 3 settlers in at a time? Or do I have to wait the annoying 3 days to a week in game time to gain one settler at a time? It's probably obviously somewhere under my nose and I'm not seeing it LOL. Ok, other than using console commands to spawn in 40 at a time. Or is that the method? Spawn in 40, kill who I don't want, assign who I do want? Forgive me, I am old LOL.
P.S. Will there ever be a Looks Menu compatibility added? This mod makes a lot of settler changes but all of the hair colors are still very dull. I'm getting one vibrant (red) color to every 20 settlers.
But you can use the console command to spawn 1 or 3 settlers. Don't have to spawn 40...
Looks menu's works on some. Not on others. Don't know why, can't fix it.