I just got a 'clear out an area and set up a settlement' quest from Mr. Abernathy!

I just went there to check on the place because the happiness kept dropping. His daughter said something about "I hope you can help us" but wouldn't give any details. So I go to talk to Mr. Abernathy and he gives me a quest to clear out a place so settlers can move in!

Dang I've been avoiding Preston for months holding on to three 'Report back to Preston' quests just so I can't get any more ... and now this!

I give up. I've never visiting a settlement again.

Sounds like you got a "Clearing the Way for Abernathy Farm" radiant quest. Basically just a radiant quest that sends you to a workshop location, you don't really have to bother with the new location if you don't want to.

It does seem like settler radiant quests will happen regardless of if you get them from Preston, sometimes they'll just straight up ask you for help.

i can't stand that guy.

'please, you gotta help! they kidnapped my wife. again. no, wait. i saw her 10 seconds ago. my daughter. they kidnapped my...nevermind, she's right there. they kidnapped...someone!'

oh, and blake, i lined that scrap heap you call a house with turrets, and gave your whole crew good armor. if those raiders/supermutants travel all the way from the other end of the map to harass you, quit being a punk, and fight them.

That's very much every settlement ever.

My game is troubled too

yeah i avoid them all, except my home base of ops. if i have to go to the castle, i make a bee line for the generator powering the radio and flip it off. flip it back on and fast travel away before they put me to work.

if i have to go to sanctuary (preston is here) i qt to red rocket, and wait til about 0200, and run over. preston got me good one time, though. he was in bed, and i thought i was safe. nope. he didn't even get up. put his dirty hands on my map without getting out of bed.

immediately going into workshop mode when you get to a settlement will keep them from accosting you, but if it's a kidnapping, you will be down a man until you help them.

Wow to make matters worse I just got to the point in the MQ where I needed to pick one of the three to make a teleporter machine. Well at exact that time I got a Kidnapping in Sanctuary quest. So I go to talk to Preston. Of course the only option I have is to talk about making the machine. No way to make him talk about the kidnapping. So I go all the way to the BoS to start that quest, then run back to Sanctuary but by then the quest failed and he instead completed the two quests I was holding and gave me two more quest. I swear I'll never play another FO4 where I ever go to Concord.