I have an issue with one of the first quests in the game. The quest is "The First Step". I received the quest from Preston Garvey when the group arrived to Sanctuary, but the quest is pointing me to go to Greentop Nursery (it says in online guides that this quest is supposed to send me to Tenpines Bluff). When I went to Greentop Nursery, a settler there pointed me to go to Dunwich Borers, and all the enemies there are starred enemies, so obviously I wasn't supposed to be there yet. I tried going to Tenpines Bluff and talking to the settlers, but they just sent me to Super Duper Mart for their own quest. When I talked to them again after the quest finished, they let me ally with their settlement but they did not and do not say anything else after that. All attempts at talking to Preston Garvey again do not go anywhere.

I do not have any other issues with other quests in the game, just this entire questline is bugged, starting with "The First Step", so now I can't continue with the Minutemen questline, which consists of many quests.

I went back to an old save and got the quest again to show what shows up when it auto accepts. It says "Started _ The First Step_ Talk to the settlers at Greentop Nursery". The fact the quest keeps repeating like this means there's something wrong with my game files and it has this quest set up like this.

I have pictures as well, but these forums are saying I can't post links. (to imgur though, not sure why)

Well whatever, a picture is better. To look and see what I'm talking about, just delete the space between o and m

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I've figured it out. If you don't go straight to Concord, which is what I did, the questline won't start with Tenpines Bluff. It's probably based on exploration or something. Anyway, I restarted the game several times with no changes to my game files and went straight to Concord and got the quest for Tenpines Bluff when I met Preston at Sanctuary after the quest in Concord. In my original game I explored a bit, didn't get much exp or anything, but explored a bit and when I went to Concord, I guess it leveled the starting quest for The First Step for some reason.

On a side note, I managed to beat the raiders in Dunwich Borers. It took a while at level 16, and for some reason I didn't change the difficulty to make it easier. Oh well. After that I talked to Greentop nursery, then I went back to Preston and he gave me a flaregun, two more quests, and promoted me to General. The questline seems to be fine, it just skipped all the beginning ones.

It's still a bug though, because it 'leveled' the starting quest, it put the level at much higher than my level. I have no idea why it did that, I guess the game does that to make sure people get quests for areas that are around their level? I don't know, because I was still level 4 like everyone else when I got "The First Step" quest.