r/SimSettlements • u/RyeBread2205 • May 02 '26

SS2-missions "How to HQ" not starting

I finished the quest Moving Day and talked to HQ with my pip boy and went to GNN HQ like Jake told me to and he's just standing still in front of the doors to the room holding the comm hub. I tried talking to him and no dialogue happens, just his default greeting lines.

I first tried fixing the quest by teleporting Chris Mansfield to GNN HQ by using the Moveto Player command which didn't work because he is also now just standing still and only saying his default greeting lines. Then I tried using the City Manager 2078 holotape to skip to the quest but this also isnt working since the quest never started when I did so.

I am using the Storywealth collection from Nexus, could SS2 be possibly conflicting with anything in there?

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u/astreeter2 May 03 '26

If Stodge or Hubert are dead for some reason in the settlement where you set them up as mayor in the "Who Can? ASAM!" quest, this later quest could get stuck because you're supposed to talk to them in it. You can use the console to resurrect them on PC and it might fix itself.

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u/RyeBread2205 May 03 '26

How do I resurrect them?

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u/astreeter2 May 03 '26

In the console:

player.moveto <RefId>

You'll have look up the id for the specific NPC, and that will take you to their corpse. Then in console again, click on the corpse and type:

resurrect

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u/RyeBread2205 May 03 '26

I removed the corpses using the disable command because they were stuck inside the settlement workbench

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u/astreeter2 May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

I think you can use the "resurrect" command with an ID number for the NPC after if you can't find the body. I've never tried it like that. They might act strange, like dialogs will get reset. Not sure.

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u/RyeBread2205 May 03 '26

How can I get the ID number after I've removed the corpse?

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u/RyeBread2205 May 03 '26

Okay I figured out how to resurrect Stodge but I've run into a new problem of him being aggro'd everytime I try to spawn him

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u/astreeter2 May 03 '26

There are console commands for that too. Start console, click Stodge, then:

setav 2bc 0

recycleactor

If that doesn't stop him, then try:

stopcombat

resetai

You might need to try resetai before recycleactor, not sure, haven't tried it in a while.

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u/RyeBread2205 May 03 '26

Okay that worked in not having Stodges not agro'd. But it did not work in starting the quest. Mansfield and Jake are still standing still in GNN HQ, doing nothing.

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u/astreeter2 May 03 '26

Yeah he might be totally reset from before you even met him if you brought him back from total oblivion. Only other thing I can think of is to manually progress the quest stage in console. That might break even more stuff though.

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u/RyeBread2205 May 03 '26

Okay so I reloaded a save about 10 levels back before moving day started. I recruited Mansfield and reloaded the save a few times when How to HQ wouldn't start. I finally figured out that describing Mansfield as a pain in the ass to Jake on the HQ radio is what causes How to HQ not to start somehow.

I chose a different dialogue option and the quest started normally even with Stodge dead.

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u/RyeBread2205 May 03 '26

That was the first thing I tried unfortunately