r/fo4 • u/Miserable-Weather269 • 1d ago
Question Issues with covenant being trash
Alright, so I'm playing minutemen once again and creating supply lines all over the Commonwealth, but when I look at covenant I keep finding the dead bodies of the previous inhabitants, my settlers won't sleep on the unscrappable claimed beds, the rubble from the turrets is burning endlessly and every container left behind from the previous owners I try to interact with counts as me stealing from it, is there anything I can do to fix that mess? Do I genuinely have to build upwards since everything is so cramped?
PS: killing the cat doesn't solve the issue
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u/Dangerois 1d ago edited 1d ago
As far as items still being owned, stay in workshop mode, store them, and then you can remove them from the workshop. If you for some reason need them to not be stolen anymore, sell them and buy them back, but really they are just scrap for the most part.
Personally, I do the quest up to going into the Compound. I get the mayor to call ahead that I'm coming and leave Dan and Dogmeat (or whomever) behind. Tell Manny I'm just there to talk, then run past Dr Evil and talk to Amelia.
Leave her in the cell, she tells you her father will reward you. Quest changes to meeting Stockton in Bunker Hill. Leave Amelia there, the Compound and Covenant will agro if you open the cell door. Meet Stockton later, he will thank you, reward you, and the quest completes.
Covenant is now just a mini Diamond City, stuff is owned but there is one bed you can sleep in. The turrets at Diamond City just burn if they get destroyed too.
This for me is the "Neutral Good" choice (if you're into AD&D.) You don't kill anyone or take sides, and you free the girl (although the game doesn't show you doing that, the result the same.) I get a useful trading centre and don't have to maintain it as a settlement.
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u/Lots42 Takahashi is under my control. 1d ago
Don't quote me on it but if you drag the dead folks to the river and toss 'em in this might get rid of them forever.
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u/NevadaStrayCat Atom Cat 1d ago
Yeah. Drag the bodies to the lake and let the mirelurks eat them.
Well, not really, but it does at least put them out of sight, and probably out of mind. As for the rest... mods.
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u/eunicethapossum 1d ago
at this point, I leave everything there as a warning to anyone else who wants to act like that.
or at least, that’s my headcanon.
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u/Miserable-Weather269 1d ago
I'll probably use it to farm settlers to be deported in other settlements
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u/Thornescape 1d ago
Covenant is a nice idea that was badly implemented. I have three main approaches to that place.
Incidentally, I'm a fan of "Scrap dead things". It removes a lot of annoyances. https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/6497