Unique Settlers Disappear After Regular Settler Caravan Assignment

[TwilightOne]

Hi, I have a weird bug tonight.

Just installed Chapter 2. I'm on Abernathy Farm. The Abernathy Family are not relocatable and always live there.

I want to use the regular caravan with a regular settler to sync the virtual Building Materials for construction of a Municipal Plot Caravan Service. I assign the regular settler in workshop mode and he goes. I see the supply line but it doesn't sync the materials. Weird...

The Town Merting Gavel won't recall that settler. With any option. But he will try to physically run back if I call a meeting He doesn't teleport like the rest.

I then cannot reassign the caravan settler to a farm plot for example. He will have the "Farmer" name but won't actually go to the farm even though its icon is in use for him. He continues going back and forth like a supply caravaner. When I highlight him he has the Brahmin icon still.

I try to move him to Red Rocket and it seems to reset him to a normal behavior. I re-move him back to Abernathy.

Then I realize the settler count in Abernathy is one less than what I started this ordeal with. The missing settler is one of the unique Abernathy Family members. They normally can't be relocated but now have disappeared from their home.

I retested this issue with the same save multiple times, sometimes Lucy Abernathy was nowhere to be seen. Last time it was Blake.

I used the technical ID to teleport to them, in 5 minutes they were at the other end of the map in the west walking casually to god knows where.

When I moveto player them they appear in the settlement but can't be directed to plots and since they can't be moved I can't order them to move to Abernathy Farm.

This is a very sad situation. I couldn't care less about generic settlers, but I care for the Abernathys after what happened to Mary.

Any idea what may have caused that bug? Maybe in the Workshop Scripts or SS2 background management? Thank you for your help.

 

[TwilightOne]

Installed the Hotfix. I still have the problem.

Another situation. TLDR: Settler suddenly not counted in settlement population yet still "works" there, is yeeted halfway across the map.

Population 4 at Oberland. A regular generated settler assigned to martial plot.
Sneake quest appeared and I beat him, had the choice to send him at a settlement, chose Oberland as I was missing workers there. First Issue: Settler Count unchanged after sending Sneake. Should show 5, but the HUD still says 4.

Meeting Gavel made 4 settlers appear. Except the one previously assigned to martial plot (the fifth one).

Clicked on Track Occupants in the Martial Plot ASAM Sensor. See the map screenshot in attachment:

The settler is still registered to the plot in Oberland, yet it doesn't show up and was yeeted next to the bridge near Taffington in a matter of seconds.

Will try getting it in a settlement to open Workshop Mode and resend that one to Oberland to try to mitigate the issue...

This is a potentially serious issue, if that settler was not assigned to anything and was a unique character, it would be impossible to know where they are in the world.

Please help! Thank you for the hard work! ^^

 

[TwilightOne]

Could it be that Idek's mod is very buggy with SS2? This is sad because we cannot choose the trade routes with the base mod caravan services...

The settler in the last post was assigned to a logistics station previously. So it was "caravaning" or "provisioner" with a brahmin and all. Yet they are named "Guard" and should really be manning the plot. Still they are unlisted from counting in the population. So very weird.