Work, you lazy asses: Logging Settlers / Better Scavengers, giving an reliable income of simple loot

[FloatingPork]

[Not enough wood]
[Not enough steel]

Im sure Im not the only one constantly getting these messages, especially often when building up a new settlement.

The problem:
Thing is, not having enough wood left, especially when youre in the middle of a damn forest, old houses or even a whole town of scrap gets really annoing. (AND UNIMMERSIVE)
Also, wood scrap usually drops really few of the needed items, while having a relatively high weight. With about 200 more of these note boards, i can finally start building that house for the new farmers! yay
Same with steel or other building material. Seriously, is everyone of the people living there f***ing blind or something?

Like that wouldnt be annoing enough, the settlers of these new settlements just wont stop complaining like get your lazy butt out there and build a bed yourself if you have to get one that badly, you *censored*
while standing around doing nothing, or scavenging up to 2 items per day (with a chance of getting literally nothing). waaay to go a**hole, great job aquiring that one toothbrush and single pencil!
So scavengers arent really helpful, either.


The possible solution:
-Why not make "logger" an advisable job, like build them a logging station where they can saw around on a log or something, idc you can build a whole mountain cabin if you want
-make scavengers have a stable income of basic matereal or aka a "Stop sucking so hard you blind-ass waste of food!"- patch
-make traders actually offer useful amounts of basic scrap or "Oh nice, just 1300 caps for 250 wood, i might just build half a veranda with that!"
-get some other idea, idc you got full creative freedom from my side if you want to program this Seriously, i suck at programming and would every mod like that would be greatly appreciated.

-Maybe make trees choppable, too if youre at it (I found this => mod while looking for one like this, maybe someone likes the additional challenge idk)

Im sure a lot of people building settlements got similar experiences and would also appreciate a mod like this.

Thanks for reading through this, and for any additional idea or try.
Im studying atm and probably wont have too much time to look into this. Also, I have no freaking clue how these forums work

Thanks in advance to all participants, modders or whatever
FloatingPork

[Athanasa]

Maybe have settlements assigned"keywords" or something that flag up where they are located. The flags attached to the settlement then determines and modifies what scavengers loot.

 

So, Sanctuary has the tag "Woodland". As a result, scavengers gather far more wood.

 

Hangman's Alley gets the "City" tag, producing metal, concrete, and other goodies.

[genolune]

Here's a mod you may be interested in: Northland Diggers - Resource jobs for settlers

 

You assign settlers to various stations to get resources.

[FloatingPork]

Thanks for the replies so far,
Ill look into that mod

Here's a mod you may be interested in: Northland Diggers - Resource jobs for settlers

 

But it looks to be a little too green and have some other things i wish were different...