If Preston is the problem, store the bed until he chooses another one that's actually available, then your bed will be safe from him. Everyone else should be easy to assign to other beds.

Another option is to build a guardpost and assign a settler to that guardpost. Also assign that settler to your bed. Since the settler never leaves the guard post and sleeps, then your bed will always be free for you to use.

Do I have to pick?


(Where is the full list of emoticons on this forum? There's no place to add them to posts that I can see).

I can not stand that woman. She has done the same to me. Several times. I want to add a mod which makes her killable, however the author of that will not confirm what the mod was made with. So I most of the time just disable her.

On a side note, I can not believe Bethesda made so many NPC's immortal. *Sigh* We can mod that out it just makes me sad.

I like to encase her in concrete.

I like you Perhaps spawn deathclaws on top of her and listen to the lamentations O joy. Will be doing this. Within the next couple of hours. Shame she will wind up killing them all.

This was quite frustrating for me as well, and I solved it (to an extent) by moving all beds into a single building exclusively for the settlers. I have yet to assign beds, however. I did this so that I could find a bed to sleep in (made more beds than the number of settlers) to pass time or quickly get Lover's Embrace perk before journeying again.

None of these tricks work. Whenever you turn on the game or zone, settlers can spawn anywhere, even on the top of Red Rocket. Also, doing things like removing stairs doesn't work either, for the same reason. I would just store the stairs to my treehouse in the workshop while I was out, so the entrance was about 40 feet up. Still get people in there when I come back.

My solution was to build a *lot* of beds, and a bar. The settlers and companions tend to congregate at the bar after work, and then hit beds close to it after getting hammered on Dirty Wastelanders. As long as the entrance to your house is beyond a lot of bed choices, they won't wander to yours. At least, they haven't yet.

Also, if you just moved the various workbenches rather than build new ones, they will come into your house to "use" them, and go to sleep in the nearest bed at bedtime. Since I figured all this out I almost never get people in my bedroom, unless I want them there. (I think the "lover's embrace perk should increase geometrically based on a larger n, but until we get double beds...)

Until we get console mods, or a dlc that addresses it, try these.

Build stairs?

I have my personal house there while the peasants live dowstairs. I also managed to build the

up there also on my second playthrough. It was really nice next to the Red Rocket at night.

BeerBeard57 has a good point. it is on respawn and whenever I sleep that it seems the dice are rolled and they will and can appear anywhere. Question is, where have you NOT seen a settler spawn? then figure out why that kept them off or find a way to mimmick that in console by putting that magic boundary around your stuff!

You could use the bed in the Root Cellar in Sanctuary.

None of the settlers go down there.

Good point! And hidden, so you can bring your romantic companion there without judgment...lol.

I once laid down suitcase floorings. Just a ton of Suitcases in my home so no one would spawn there. I also stored my bed and made sure there were beds for everyone then placed mine down again. Thankfully I have a mod which allows me to craft player only beds.

What I did is assign someone to my bed... But someone who never sleeps. (I believe Nick Valentine can be assigned to a bed but he never sleeps).

Right. Sleeping arrangements is the biggest problem with the game

I agree. Her [censored] head husband too.

Well, it is one of them for me at least. Just like Dogmeat always being under foot. I can't begin to tell you how many times I have tripped over him. When I want him to move I just shot him. Then I can step over him.

I have the same problem with Marcie, that and her constant complaining and [censored]ing, pardon my language, just always turn me into the famouse CRAZED BUTT STABBER when I catch her in my bed.

I don't believe you get the well rested bonus in the cellar. The lover thing should work though...

I believe the sleeping issue is very minor, but will be "fixed" by the community in a mod. I do agree on the companion aggravations . . . OMG I want to shoot them all when they get in the way A real game issue, no doubt

Would be nice to mark the bed you want, using workshop mode, without needing to assign the other beds to others.

Heh, I think it would be down right rude, though, if you had to use Dog Meat (giving him some kind of function) to mark it for you....