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You can only clean up so much of the mess. If you're on a pc mods will make it look a lot better

only way is with a mod.....There's a video on youtube about it...I have basically removed every pile of garbage in Red Rocket...Nice clean flooring outside...Removes weeds as well....

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/4640/?

I don't think a mod is necessary for the clean up I'm talking about. When I did my 1st play through I rescued Preston, did some missions, retook the castle with the minute men, and left for awhile. When i returned they had cleaned up quite a bit (not everything but, a good amount). But, since I skipped on Preston it seems the castle will not clean up.

Has anyone experienced this?

All of the Mirelurk refuse should eventually clean up, maybe when Old Guns starts? Give it more time I guess.

But, don't you need the the quest from Preston to retake the castle in order to get the Old Guns Quest. Isn't Ronnie a MinuteMen.....err Minutewoman.

Oh, wait, you're taking the Castle without doing the Minutemen? Huh, I didn't know that was possible. In that case it's very possible that the script to clean up the Mirelurk muck is dependent on completing Taking Independence and you might be screwed.

Now I'm really curious to hear what Preston says if you take the Castle before even becoming the General of the Minutemen.

Problem is, you're not with the minutemen. Preston gives the order to clean the place up and his men do the job. You, on your own will never be able to get rid of the nest remains and other non scrappable debris. Also, you never will get artillery support.

Noted

Thanks

As the others have said, since cleaning all of this stuff up is directly related to a quest, I doubt that it'll clean itself up without actually completing the quest. It's been a while, but I seem to recall Preston even saying something along the lines of "we'll start cleaning this mess up while you get the radio up and running." Shortly thereafter, the queen, the eggs, and all of the other random mirelurks were cleaned up.

If you join the Minutemen, it's possible that when Preston first mentions taking the Castle back, that you'll get a dialog option like "I've already done that." This has happened to me with a few other (admittedly much more minor) quests. Deb in Bunker Hill asks you to clear out the ghouls at the National Guard Training Yard. By the time I first got to Bunker Hill, I had probably already cleared these ghouls out like a dozen times. One of my dialog choices was "I've already taken care of those ghouls". I selected that, and the quest started and finished right away. Deb paid me, and had some dialog that was scripted for that very occasion. It's possible that something similar will occur with Preston. After this, the completion of the quest may cause everything there to get cleaned up.

I took the castle on my own, when I talked to Preston and finished the quest it cleaned up.

His dialoged is

SS "You mean that place south of Boston, I already cleared it"

"You did, well that's the best news I've heard in a while" < AKA like all the good news I have ever been told response.

Open the console, click on Preston, enter 'setessential 0'

This allows him to be permanently killed.

If you're on PC, of course. Personally though, I wouldn't recommend doing this. It's better to just send him to a settlement that you never go to.

Doesn't seem like a good idea. First, a mod like this is supposed to already be around. Secondly, I wouldn't use it, since it has potentially gamebreaking issues. If an essential questgiver is removed, some quests simply won't show up. If it's main quest related, the whole main quest will go down the drain.

just send Preston to a settlement you never visit ......

That's the way to go. Another one is, making him work the fields. He doesn't walk around as much when farming and can't waylay you with any radiant.

In my current playthrough I haven't gone back to the museum to talk to him after grabbing the power armor. "When freedom calls" just stays unfinished but you can avoid the Minutemen quests and his annoyance. Maybe I'll go back at some point but for now I really enjoy just exploring, doing quests, without having to deal with his missions and settlement attacks. I just built a nice Red Rocket base for me alone and it's perfect. Only downside is I don't have purifiers or an adhesive farm but I manage just fine without that.

You can still ally with other settlements, and gain all the benefits thereof, without getting the idiotic quests....... (I have a mod that gets rid of settlement attacks, and hopefully, kidnappings as well...... so, that helps, and, I haven't been to concord yet either. I am currently about level 40. )

Yes, I know, but for now I just like not having to worry about building and managing settlements. I spent a LOT of time doing that in the previous playthrough but now it's nice to just "play the game" and not worry about that. Like I said, maybe further down the line I'll establish a network, but for now my character only has 3 charisma anyway, so no Local Leader available. I can't even build crafting stations so the only two bases with all the crafting stations are Sancturary Hills and Red Rocket, as well as the Castle.

You can collect settlements, but you never get artillery or any other benefit from Minutemen support.

That's why I make it my business to get him from there as late as possible.

Imagine that dead queen mirelurk wouldn't clean up, it would just be that huge carcass lying there at every visit ...

Edit: Meaning that the developers surely meant what stuff to clean up and what not ...

For me he is always working in the field inside the castle, I can not assign him in workshop mode, I was able to assign him as an guard back in sanctuary but not in the castle.

Yes I know I could just take him as an companion then take somebody else and send him another place but simply wanted him as an guard at the castle, his an soldier not an farmer.

I honored his soldier status by giving him the general uniform. But after that it was off to tending crops. He can damn well wait upon my pleasure to bother me with radiants.

All the original five are more or less out of my way now. Mama Murphy in her chair at some remote ruin where noone ever goes. Jon Lun, Brahmin droppings collector, Marcy, farmhand and Sturges, another farmhand. Couldn't stand him anymore. I swear if I hear another word about fixing anything, I call for an artillery strike.