How To Set Up Trade Routes Fallout 4

Fallout 4: Supply Lines

Making them to Share Resources across Settlements

Supply Lines transfer food, water, and building materisl in Fallout 4

Provisioners with Brahmin, transferring resources between my Settlements

Supply lines, unlocked with the Local Leader Perk, are very handy for transferring resources between your Settlements. Players have a lot of questions about these, so I'll demystify a fleck near how supply lines work, and show yous how to brand them.

Setting up a Supply Line

Supply Lines are fabricated while in the Settlement Edit style and selecting a 'Settler' NPC.

To set up a supply line (which requires the aforementioned Perk), you must enter the build mode (Tab on PC) while in a Settlement and select one of your residents named, "Settler". Unfortunately, NPCs like Marcy Long cannot be used to make supply lines. From there, you should see the button you lot're required to press to ship them to another Settlement. They then become a Provisioner, with a pack Brahmin to comport appurtenances between your established locales.

The connexion is instant. While they do travel back and forth, provisioners being assigned will instantly make the resources available to the other Settlement, but you cannot withdraw them at that place. They are shared, but but available for pickup in the Settlement in which they were produced. While Settlers assigned every bit Provisioners travel, they volition not be attacked past the Republic's baddies unless you happen to be in the area, and so it'southward likely y'all will never lose one to violence.

Viewing your Supply Lines and Settlement Stats

Connections between your Settlements can be seen using the Pip-boy'due south world map and selecting 'Testify Supply Lines'

To see the connections you've made, go to the Pip-Boy and view the map. Look to the bottom of the screen for the button to press to testify supply lines on the map. Additionally, you can head to the Pip-boy and become to the Information > Workshops tab. There you tin see a listing of all of your Settlements. If there is a trouble, at that place will be a warning sign next to the stat for that 'Workshop'. If it'due south defense or beds, you will need to build them there. If it'due south food or water, you tin can take care of it by sending a Supply Line if you have enough available elsewhere to satisfy them.

What Supply Lines Exercise

Supply lines send nutrient and h2o to other Settlements, while likewise allowing you lot to craft without the Settlement actually having those items or you conveying them around. If y'all have copper in one Settlement you tin use it to build in another if they're connected. This makes building up your Settlements' defense rather like shooting fish in a barrel if you lot have the materials. Agglutinative and other things used for weapon/armor mods can also exist used from afar equally well as those for cooking/chemical science, allowing you to mod items and make things without carrying all that junk and burning up time travelling across the map.

There is non enough food or water in this Settlement, merely it'due south not a problem as information technology's connected to Sanctuary, which makes an abundance. Looks like I need to make some beds, though!

While the actual nutrient and water excess in your Settlement is stored in each Settlement's workshop (and only attainable for withdrawal there in that location), excess tin can attend other Settlements you've established. Every bit you can see in the screenshot above, the town does not take food product plenty to satisfy the residents (1 per population, likewise as water), but it's non a problem. This is considering it'south connected to Sanctuary, which produces a lot of food and h2o.

Additionally, Sanctuary is connected to other places that too have backlog nutrient. This means they all share the aforementioned pool. Technically, the total food and water produced past your Settlements continued via supply lines can exist subtracted by the number of villagers. If you have backlog of either resources, your Settlement will not take a happiness hit despite it proverb in the Workshop menu that you practice not take any food/water production there. Of class, electricity and beds cannot exist transferred, and stores in other settlements will not bear on the happiness of those connected. You'd demand restaurants and doctors to get that extra happiness.

Advice for Making Supply Lines

If you employ one to three well-defended towns as a hub (with high defense force they won't be attacked), your other Settlements will not lose admission to shared resources if one town leaves the Minutemen due to low happiness or an assault. I've never had this happen simply think it'due south possible. Making webs in certain configurations could cutting off half your Settlements from one another if a linked town is lost. There's no need to worry well-nigh distance. Sanctuary tin can connect to Jamaica Plain and other afar Settlements without that being an issue, so I advise you lot use that or some other town you lot've build up as your main hub.

Then that you don't run out of Settlers to piece of work in each town, go to the new Settlement and have a Settler connect to Sanctuary from in that location. Otherwise, you lot would have 6-10 of your maximum Settlers working Supply Lines and not have a loftier population in that chief boondocks. You will want people managing shops and producing food, so there's good reason for that. If each town connects to the hub then they lose only 1 worker each.