Settlements tear down, but don't build

[bobthesane]

I am going to preface this with the assertion that I am assuming I am an idiot. While I have watched the videos (in some cases several times), I think I must still be doing something wrong.

That said, here's what is going on. No settlements that I assign a leader to, seem to do anything besides tear down what was there, with the exception of Sanctuary. That place is awesome and growing by the day. I friggin love it.

However, I have tried both Abernathy, and red rocket. And while I can assign a leader, and get the "Tear it all down!" option which works. once I'm done with the cinematic interlude there is... nothing. Just the basic houses. Not even a city manager desk any more. The people build nothing. No plots, no farms, no defenses, no anything. Without a manager's desk I can't donate scrap or goodies to get their happiness up, but I am afraid to build a new one because I don't want to cause further issues.

And yes, I did leave the settlements and go exploring, for more than a week.

What did I do wrong? Someone please hit me with a clue X 4

 

[Mark]

don't worry, it takes a time for them to do the things they need to do. as to the desk, look at the city manager holotape on your pipboy. there are tracking options. one of which is for the city managers desk. a new entry will appear in your quest tab which shows the locations of every desk. the nearest one to you in the map will be the one for that settlement.
the alerts in the workbench tab on your pipboy are very alarming for a while.
no beds no water no food. you think of the starving children and the weeping mothers toiling in the soil. then you visit the settlement on your tour a couple of week laters and they have ten foot walls and auto 10mm and laser turrets. hehe! I love this mod.

 

[bobthesane]

Yeah, I know how to do that, I used it to find the building the settlers moved the desk to in Sanctuary. Red Rocket is tiny in comparison. there's literally no where to hide it... unless they stuck it in the mole hole lol. It quite literally doesn't exist at Red Rocket. They tear everything down and then... zilch. I know it can take a while, but a literal week in game, going away to Far Harbor on a side quest, then coming back? That should be plenty of time. I'm probably just going to build it manually I guess. But I really wanted to be lazy lol

 

[bobthesane]

Hmm, tried to make it work at Sunshine as well. Still no dice. The one common denominator here is I've been assigning Garvey as leader.