How can I prevent squatters (i.e. Settlers) from squatting at my house? I like living alone at the Red Rocket station, but these last few times I came home to a couple of Minutemen squatting at my place. I'm thinking about shooting them in the face and hauling the bodies into the cave.

Settlers don't seem to die in my game. They just lie down similarly to how a companion does when they take too much damage.

You can always forcefully move them to other settlements.

You sure? I remember murdering my settlers to test it and seeing a head explode.

You can make the entrance to your house inaccessible without jumping. Setting the stairs so it leads to a dead end instead of going to the next floor is an easy method. Jumping platforms is another possibility.

I'd go with shooting them in the face and putting them in the cave.

You can also make your house a tree top house and simply remove the stairs leading up to your home. Then simply place a home mat anywhere you'd like inside your home. You'll always fast travel to the home mat so no one else will have a way to access your house.

The platform idea works really well. Build a structure in the air and have a set of stairs going up next to the structure with a floor square gap to the entrance. Easy enough to jump across and prevents Settlers getting in. With the Red Rocket you could build a house on the roof and do the stair thing.

Assign them a bed that isn't your own

All good suggestions, but I just want my place to myself, not a rally of homeless people gathered in front of it. I freed up like 8 other settlements, go live there!

Well its a rogueish thing to do but you can kill any settlers in your homebase. Also dont use recruiting beacons if you have any for your home settlement.

Turn off beacon. Tell the settlers to move to another Settlement. Problem permanently solved.

Settlers are protected but not essential. Meaning, they can only die by your hands.

I usually banish bad settlers to the island where they will be tormented by Mirelurks.

I actually live in Sanctuary and at best, settlers might hang out in my home's kitchen, sitting at the table. But usually, they stay out of my home. Then again, I don't really have "settlers" in Sanctuary (except for four. One being a Provisioner, a Medic, a Bartender, and one using the arty). I kinda just have a lot of companions and named NPCs at Sanctuary instead and they mostly hang out in the other buildings I've lit up, and the ones I've built as well.

I'm in sanctuary as well. I'm personally just used to seeing them use my crafting stations in my house. Though one time a settler just randomly ended up on the roof of the house where the settlement crafting station is. No idea how the moron got up there, cause I had to craft a stair case just to walk up there and tell him to get the hell off the roof. Lol

I've never had settlers turn up uninvited to one of my houses.

As long as I don't set up a beacon, it doesn't seem to matter if I plant crops or place beds, no settlers randomly turn up.

Of course, I never use Sanctuary - I think that settlement will attraction settlers by default with no beacon.

Make sure you have no beacon and no food/water and then no one will come live there. Send the current ones as supply lines or to a different settlement.

you should be able to designate which house is yours and only allow your companions to use the house and anything in. I'm sick of settlers using my crap, to the point where i moved my companions back to sanctuary and slaughtered every single settler on my island fortress. i hate settlers now.

No, you need the beacon to attract settlers.

Actually, if you take over a settlement with 0 people in it... You will get at least 1 or 2 random settlers coming in, even without the beacon.

Beds are actually assigned to settlers. So, by finding the bed with the red Vault-Boy (no assignment) and swapping it into my house, I can get my own bed. They even have their own bed, so if you know who owns which, you can group them together (like moving a certain follower's bed into a lab designed for them).

If your bed is unique and you don't want to swap, store it for a while. The settler will assign to a different available bed. You can then place yours again.

You can assign the settler to a different bed instead...

Yes, assuming they are a generic settler. Doesn't work for companion settlers, though, which is how I learned my initial methods. They're all fine with taking orders in the battlefield but soon as you hit home base your requests mean diddly-squat. ;n;

I cant get settlers to move into Sanctuary no matter what I try. The only people living there are the 5 Concord people and all my followers. Which is kind-of cool, I know where everyone is.

Unlike Starlight and the Swamp which are full to bursting with people lol

They should add a "lock door/container" feature to the workshop, seriously.

And a script that makes settlers close the damn gate behind them! I may as well have just left a hole in the wall.

There are a couple locations where you can build on a highway overpass. Once you're done building up there place a fast travel spot and remove the stairs. Peace and quiet, no one sleeping in your bed, no thieves, and a great view.

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