Can my settlers (especially the supply line units) die?
I recently found one of my supply units (provisioner) at another settlement that means they apparently travel the wastes. Does this mean that they can actually die if they run into some enemies while I'm hanging around? Should I be equipping them with better gear?
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No, settlers can't be killed by raiders or by anyone apart from you. Apart from the case if you failed to defending quest. They only knee like companions. But you can kill them, and it can happen accidentally during fighting so don't ever use grenades if your settlers are near, they have very low health and also better always to use vats in settlements.
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Can supply lines die fo4?
No they can't die unless you personally kill them. They do however get downed and it breaks the supply line till they get back up.Can Fallout 4 settlers die?
The other common case of settlers dying is named but nonessential NPCs like Sheffield and Deirdre at the slog getting killed in attacks. My Game has NAC and some weather can damage settlers like the Firestorm, in diamond city people kept catching on fire then the whole city died.Do supply lines count as settlers?
Provisioners still count towards the population limit of their respective settlements, as well as food/water requirements, despite hardly ever being in the settlement. Settlements share resources with all other settlements that are part of its supply line network. Two settlements do not have to be directly connected.Can supply lines be attacked Fallout 4?
They are shared, but only available for pickup in the Settlement in which they were produced. While Settlers assigned as Provisioners travel, they will not be attacked by the Commonwealth's baddies unless you happen to be in the area, so it's likely you will never lose one to violence.Fallout 4: can settlers/provisioners die?
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Settlers are flagged as protected and can not be killed by NPC's. Period. It doesn't matter if they're in a settlement or travelling as a provisioner. They can technically "die" if you fail to protect a settlement but this isn't because an NPC killed them it's because when you lost the battle, the game despawned one or more of your settlers. The people claiming their settlers were killed by raiders or deathclaw are either flat out lying or accidentally killed their own settlers and didn't notice.
See this video for proof:
Answer 3
Ive had a provisioner from Sanctuary die while he was in Oberland Station and we were attacked. Sanctuary then went from 18 -> 17 settlers.
Answer 4
Up untill recently any provisioner (settler that takes care of the supply line) that was attacked and went down got up again a bit later (same as followers). But a while ago I threw a molotov in a group of ferals and it made some cars explode. Just when trowing the molotov I heard someone speaking. It seems a provisioner was just passing by, and yep, he died from the explosion. So they can die, maybe only from really high damage? Did not check if supply line disappeared. I had a savefile, reloaded, and killed ferals with weapon. Provisioner survived and moved on.
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