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Question Help! Settlement gone and CTD

Dougal Keane

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I went to my Sanctuary build (took over 10 hours to make) and every single plot (residential, industrial, recreational, agrucultural, and martial) I made was gone. I tried placing a new residential plot in the place I had my old ones and it worked fine, but as soon as I place an interior residential plot I get a CTD, and it happens every time I try. Please help!
 
Welp, the first thing to ask is: what did you do between leaving and returning?

Did you install any new mods in that time, while you were away?
Just in case, I have to ask: did you activate a city plan from the planner's desk?

When you built the place, before you left it: did you use any scrapping mods? If so, which one(s)?
What mods that affect settlements are you running? Adding new items, or changing base items, that sorta stuff. Best bet is to post your load order, and put it between spoiler tags so we can expand/shrink the list.

You say every plot was gone - were other items gone? Were SimSettlements objects, like the Planner's desk, still in place? Were non-SS items, like any Vanilla building or object, still in place?
 
i wonder if you have removed simsettlements, and then re-added it? that could cause objects to vanish.
my advice here is to roll back to a point in your game before you removed anything and see if that helps.
 
Just every plot was gone. The city desk was still there. At one point I did use the remote self destruct button thinking I could select a settlement I wanted to destroy did it didn't seem to do anything, and I figured it would self destruct the nearest settlement which was deff not Sanctuary. Could that be the cause?
 
Just every plot was gone. The city desk was still there. At one point I did use the remote self destruct button thinking I could select a settlement I wanted to destroy did it didn't seem to do anything, and I figured it would self destruct the nearest settlement which was deff not Sanctuary. Could that be the cause?
Also I didn't change the load order or install the mod at all. Didn't get any new mods either
 
Just every plot was gone. The city desk was still there. At one point I did use the remote self destruct button thinking I could select a settlement I wanted to destroy did it didn't seem to do anything, and I figured it would self destruct the nearest settlement which was deff not Sanctuary. Could that be the cause?
Eek. Well, let me put it this way: did any OTHER settlement self-destruct after you used that function?
 
ok roll back to a point before all this began and see if rolling back stabilises your game

- it sounds, from how you've described it that the settlement itself is beyond repair.

can i ask - are you running the latest version of the mods? its always best to remain as up to date as possible on that.

another thing you can try is to run ASAM Maintenance Software by Pra.

That comes with an option to remotely detonate (destroy) a settlement even if you're not that close to it. That may help you get around the continual CTD's. However, any time I've had similar issues, the game has been toast, unless you can roll back and rollback could mean losing a lot of time/levels.
 
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