City plans don't work.

[Melon Lord]

Basically, after assigning the city leader and that flying camera cutscene nothing happens. No new plots, settlers are just walking around. Tried this in Sanctuary (it reverted everything I previously scrapped btw) and the Castle. I have 21 ASAMs on me, should I put them somewhere? Tried refreshing the City Plan - nothing happens. What should I do?

 

[NDQ]

No Perk Level Requirements is my guess

 

[Melon Lord]

No Perk Level Requirements is my guess

I disabled it, got to the Abernathy Farm, started a city plan there, but again - nothing is built during the cutscene and afterwards.
By the way, during the cutscene a message appears 3 times that Blake Abernathy needs a desk to be a city leader. After the cutscene I build a desk again, assign Blake, but it changes nothing - settlers just wandering around.

 

[ElectricWaffle]

I disabled it, got to the Abernathy Farm, started a city plan there, but again - nothing is built during the cutscene and afterwards.
By the way, during the cutscene a message appears 3 times that Blake Abernathy needs a desk to be a city leader. After the cutscene I build a desk again, assign Blake, but it changes nothing - settlers just wandering around.

Does it ever warn you about needing like 20 ASAM? Like when you first assign?
Can you provide a save file? I would like to try it on my install I don't think you had a ton of mods installed so it would be easy for me to try.

 

[ElectricWaffle]

Or you could download a clean save from nexus and try that with your load order and see if it continues to happen. Looks like the next 3 days are going to be busy for me at work and I doubt I will get a chance to play or be on here for a bit.

 

[DatTransChick]

Made an account to chime in. I had this same problem too. Disabled some mods like Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch, PrivateProfileRedirector, and some other things, non on your modlist though. Anyway, after disabling the mods and I was able to get Abernathy Farm to build the city plan, but refresh and trying to reselect the city plans on places I had already tried to build did not work. I don't know what exactly the issue was, but my guess is even if you fix it, those plans will be broken. Maybe if there was another plan you could pick from, it may get it working again, but idk.

Edit: Yeah, just confirmed, if you can get it working again, if you change the city plan, it will begin working again. If there is a way to disable city plans, that might also help for fixing the settlements once you've solved the initial problem.

 

[Melon Lord]

Following the ElectricWaffle's advice, I downloaded a clean save from Nexus, cheesed my way through Cocord quests, tried to use a city plan in Sanctuary... And it didn't work
BUT one thing actually changed. Now, when I try to use a city plan, it asks me if I have 20 ASAMS to pay for it - which never happened in my main save. I have the sensors, and they are removed before the flying camera cutscene, but again - nothing is being built.

 

[NDQ]

Do you have auto assign turned off?

 

[Melon Lord]

Do you have auto assign turned off?

City manager terminal says it's on. Turning it off doesn't change anything.

 

[Melon Lord]

(just a reminder that this problem still exists)

 

[Melon Lord]

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[MuttMutt]

Stupid question. But.
When you selected the city plan, did you get the prompt to "Tear it all down" ?
And if so, did you accidently click cancel?
Do you have 20x ASAMs to make a city plan?

 

[therealpedro]

I swear I remember better settlers causing problems in the past. That's the one that renames all the settlers?
I stopped using FAR but I don't remember why. I "think" it was breaking precombs but really don't remember. Dd productions mods. Man I haven't seen those in awhile. Those haven't been updated since 2016. Not saying they're the problem but perk reset mods have never worked well for me.
I'm kinda out of ideas. Anyone else?

There's a mod called Don't Call Me Settler that is reputed to cause a lot of problems. I use Better Settlers no problems with Sim Settlements 1 and 2.

 

[chrismoke]

having the same issue here, desk gets destroyed during city creation and nothing ever gets built, cant figure out how to get them to rebuild, refreshing plan does nothing bc theres nothing to refresh. new game , on 1.05

 

[Melon Lord]

Stupid question. But.
When you selected the city plan, did you get the prompt to "Tear it all down" ?
And if so, did you accidently click cancel?
Do you have 20x ASAMs to make a city plan?

1. Yes, I had the prompt and I selected "Yes, tear it all down"
2. Yes, I have 20 ASAMs, but on my main save file it doesn't ask me if I have them. On a clear save file I downloaded from Nexus this message appears, but again - nothing is built.

 

[Philla0211b]

Hey guys, I have the exact same problem. After choosing the default settlement plan by Strong, confirming everything and going to the free camera mode sequence, nothing happens besides my city planner desk being removed...

Playing on Xbox One X

 

[msalaba]

FYI- Kinggath mentioned in the patch notes v1.0.5a thread that he found a threading issue in the city plan code that can cause problems. He is working on a fix.

 

[XxA1xX]

Ditch all the 3Dnpc mods and the uncapped settlement surplus mod. Just turn them off in the mod manager download buffout4 and all it’s requirements including the tbblmloc or what ever on its download page start a new save or load a clean save after the vault and try again.
my bet is that your game is struggling with some scripting issues and 3dnpc although a decent mod is super buggy without patching and precombine and previs fixes. The 3Dnpc settlers should be ok but turn them off for now to. Buffout4 does the same that Baka scrap heap does but it has engine fixes and patches similar to sse engine fixes mod for Skyrim plus it lets you log crashes to find issues in the load order. I’m betting it may be scripting issue though so if this doesn’t work idk good luck.

 

[msalaba]

uncapped settlement surplus mod

What is the issue with this mod? I have been running it for years without issue. (or at least I know about)

Also, if you search this forum for Buffout 4, there is a good thread with installation tips as Buffout 4 can be challenging to install.

 

[XxA1xX]

What is the issue with this mod? I have been running it for years without issue. (or at least I know about)

Also, if you search this forum for Buffout 4, there is a good thread with installation tips as Buffout 4 can be challenging to install.

No issue just saying to turn off the mods that run scripts so it’s basically just ss2 and it’s scripts running.

 

[Caladalac]

I had the same problem with the Starlight Drive In. I turned off city leaders, so I was able to launch with just a desk and a box of ASAMS.

I use the scrap everything mod. What I noticed is that the City Plan did not only scrap things, it actually restored items that I had scrapped which normally cannot be destroyed.

With that in mind I went to Red Rocket and tried there, as that base is virgin, I have made no adjustments whatsoever, and it scrapped all the normal stuff, as well as the desk, but no build.

So, I tried it with a Leader, Codsworth, and it once again deleted the desk, and nothing built.

Attached is a list of all the mods I am running.

I am new to this whole modding thing, so if you need anything else, just let me know.

You have done awesome work! I love the Fallout Series, I played the four previous games vanilla and loved them, but found that I just could not enjoy FO4 until I found all of these wonderful mods! I am so glad that this community exists.

Thanks for your awesome work!