IIRC Every settler you assign could handle 6 foods (some food count as 0.5).
Which food they handle seems random.
So if you have 12 unit of foods, just assign 2 settlers to random plant and they manage themselves.
1) No, assign them to an area, and they'll tend to up to 12 plants. As everything but mutfruit produces 0.5 food, this means each farmer will produce between 6 and 12 food, once assigned.
2) Pretty much everything but mutfruit is 0.5 food. Mutfruit actually counts as 1.0.
3) Settlers assigned to guard duty can cover up to 3 spots. They tend to wander between multiple spots once assigned to guard duty.
4) Haven't even been able to repair, let alone refuel generators. I've got 6 currently running over 3 bases. I'd hazard to guess that despite the smoke a "generator" is supposed to be an atomic pile. The switches are aesthetic for lights, but necessary for the recruitment beacon (total settlers = 10+Charisma, if you've got a lot of charisma but not a lot of resources flipping that thing off is a good idea).
5) Can you "tab" it, and put it back in inventory? I'm sorry, but I've got heavy turrets so I can't answer the question.
I have eight settlers and thirty food score in workshop mode. I planted a lot of food as I am under the impression you grow it, harvest it to inventory, then replant it with workshop. I have a ton of melon plants, lots of razor, corn, some mutfruit, tato and gourds.
When you hover over a plant, it will have a red person icon if it's not assigned. I then assign someone, it gives the message resource is now assigned then it turns the red icon to a green.
What you're stating is that if I have twelve patches of razor and I send someone to harvest one, they then manage another five (is this proximity based or on type of plant - meaning do they go harvest razor on other side of town?) on their own, totalling six plants.
I would need a second person to gather the remaining six patches.
Of my eight settlers, one is Preston whom is always on patrol. I have a caravan guy whom is supposed to be going to Red Rocket, though he wanders around Sanctuary instead. Mama just sits in her custom chair. That leaves me five actually doing any work x 6 food patches each = thirty food, which makes sense.
Still, their lack of promptness when assigning a command, isn't very helpful. I wouldn't mind them taking their time if I could trust they would do what I say. Yet not only do they take forever but they head off in a different direction that I send them. It probably doesn't help that I've built the Jerusalem wall around my place - I suspect if they ever get outside somehow, they end up stuck.
Is assigning to a station or a stand different than say food patches? Can I not simply click, run over to other side of settlement, click assign and be done with it?
In short, I need more settlers and in the meantime, we be eating it up like a Golden Corral Buffet.
What can I do to increase settlers at this stage? I have a radio tower, I have a 60 positive rating and I have a food/drink bar.
My guess is more shops/trader stands - which cost money, and that's not something I am coming across a lot of consistently.
In response,
1) Anyone know what to do with all these armor bits? In the older games you'd burn through them keeping repaired, but now I've got about 50 raider armor sets that "sell" for nothing. Between that, and the 8-10 different categories of Raider Chest Pieces there's a huge amount of armor that is just taking up space in a container.
2) Anyone seen any real results from their scavenging stations? After setting up 3 they just don't seem to be adding many resources, even after accounting for the whole once a day thing.
1. Armor bits? You mean all the armor you can pick up? I scavenge it for materials/keep it in workshop.
2. I have one scavenging station - cannot say I've seen the benefit, though I read it's not a game breaker either way.[/QUOTE]
Can you unlock more things to build via the workshop later on? I ask because the default components such as prefabs, walls, roofs, floors, etc. are a bit lacking. A) There's a lot of similarities, too many that look the same or offer no benefit over the other. B) There's a lot of overlap, floors can be roofs, roofs can be floors. C) Other settlements in the game have concrete.. I noticed you can salvage and collect concrete...
