“You're welcome to join us. Pull up a ... patch of dirt, stump, old tire, whatever suits you. Take a load off, and stay a while.”
Ron Staples is a travelling bartender that can be randomly encountered in the Commonwealth in 2287.
Background[]
Ron Staples is a roaming bartender that may or not be encountered during the Sole Survivor's travels. If one settlement, or a network of settlements linked by supply lines, has a population of over twenty, he can be recruited and function as a level 4 trader.
Interactions with the player character[]
Interactions overview[]
| Interactions | ||
|---|---|---|
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This character is involved in random encounters. | |
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This character is a merchant. | Sells: beverages |
Inventory[]
| Apparel | Weapon | Other items |
|---|---|---|
| Patched three-piece suit |
Possible encounter locations[]
Ron is part of the Bartender at camp with friends random encounter which can occur at the following locations:
- The small house just south of Drumlin Diner.
- Just outside Concord to the southwest, near the first electric transmission line tower, south of Abernathy farm (although only his bar, and not Ron himself have been spotted there so far)
- Campfire northwest of Old Gullet sinkhole, east-southeast of nearby three way road intersection, slightly south of Mass Fusion containment shed.
- Campfire northwest of Westing Estate.
- Campfire near Concord, adjacent to the road heading east from town, just west of Bedford Station.
- Campfire southeast of ArcJet Systems.
- Under a motorway exit bridge east of Walden Pond.
- Campfire southwest of Museum of Witchcraft.
- Campfire west of relay tower 1DL-109, east of Boston City Works operations building.
- Campfire southwest of Peabody house.
Notes[]
- If assigned to a restaurant in a settlement, it becomes a level 4 restaurant with special items.
- Ron has two storage containers associated with his character: the items he carries when he is encountered, and a special container meant to activate when assigned to a tier 3 vendor stand. However, Ron's file incorrectly checks to see if he's been assigned to a trading emporium, and not a restaurant. This error was also carried into Parker Quinn's character file.
Appearances[]
Ron Staples appears only in Fallout 4.
Bugs[]
After assigning him to a settlement, he may continue to sit at the campfire rather than walking towards the settlement, and he will never show up there.[verified]
- A possible solution is to head to the settlement where he is wanted after recruitment, then opening the console and selecting him using the mouse or the prid command, and then using the commands disable, enable and finally moveto player.
- Another solution is to use the disable function on Ron at the campfire location, then fast travel away and back so as to allow another random merchant to spawn/trigger at that location. Then, re-enable Ron. Since the new merchant will be occupying the campfire site, Ron won't be able to and will travel to the assigned location once recruited.
- Fixed as of patch 1.4.
- Ron is unable to be recruited. When encountered as part of his random encounter or when moveto'ed using console commands he won't present the player character with the option to recruit him. This can occur when the player character meets the minimum requirement for his recruitment in at least one settlement. Type Prid 00192357, enable, Moveto Player while inside a settlement, setpv bAllowMove 1, setpv bAllowCaravan 1, setpv bCommandable 1, fast travel far away and back, hit move and set a settlement then hit move again and send him to the desired settlement. Then he should be able to be commanded. [verified]
- After successfully recruiting him and he shows up in the settlement, assigning him to a bar does not unlock the tier 4 inventory (or even tier 3). He will still hold the same inventory he had when initially found and, even though already recruited, will still have the dialogue option to recruit him. After several days of in-game playtime he will eventually disappear and need to be recruited again, just to have the same thing happen. To fix this, simply go into command mode, and hit R to move Ron Staples. Send him somewhere else other than the current or desired settlement. Then as he starts to walk away, hit R on him again and tell him to go back to wherever it was he was wanted, then assign him to the bar. It appears the issue may be that his WorkshopID value never gets set to the proper variable, and thus he is unable to be "assigned" to the bar (note: he will still claim to have a "limited selection" despite this fix and actually having an expanded selection).[verified]
- When attempting to trade with Ron, the player characters inventory does not display on the left side of the interface.[verified]
- After recruiting Ron and assigning him to a workshop, he may show up in a subsequent random encounter. He will disappear from the previous settlement, though he still counts under that settlement's population.[verified]
- If Automatron has been installed, then Ron Staples may become permanently disabled, and will be unable to be found for recruitment. [verified]
- Using prid 00192357, disable, enable, and moveto player resolves the problem.
Gallery[]
Ron Staples and a settler sitting on a sofa
