Can I take The Castle without doing the quest?
I have recently started Fallout 4, but I am kind of stuck.
The main thing that I was curious about was settlements, however I didn't want a bad one so I went for the castle directly (at lvl 12, great struggle btw).
After killing the Mirelurk Queen, I found out that it was actually a quest I should do for Preston. I can already build in The Castle now, but I didn't do the quest.
The only problem now is that I have 0 settlers and in every video and guide I look they start with 1 or more?
I can't launch the radio tower (which you normally do in the quest?), because you need a settler for that.
I am wondering if I have to do all those quests now in order for me to finally build some nice stuff, I can't because it appears I need settlers to clean this up before I can make something decent.
Also, I can't find Preston in the museum. Where is he?
I did the first 2 quests, but now I have to help 3 settlements before he approaches me? Are these settlements of my own? Do I need to make 3 settlements first?
Best Answer
I ended up doing the same thing, if you get the castle before Preston offers you the quest, it won't have any impact on the minutemen questline until you get to the point where he offers the 'retake the castle' (I believe you need to complete three or four settlement recruitment quests for him)at this point you get the speech option to say somthing to the effect of "i've already cleared that place out" and you automatically skip to the second stage of that quest, where you need to build enough generators to power the radio antenna at the castle. After that the minutemen quests proceed as usual. It actually saves time doing it the way you have.
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Answer 2
I'd say grab the material you need for a normal radio tower and generator and build it in the castle and wait until you get a settler for the "big" tower.
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