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?
Fallout – Can the settlers (especially the supply line units) die
fallout-4
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In order to set up a supply line you need to have the Local Leader perk and a spare settler. Enter Workshop mode and select the spare settler and press the highlighted button for Supply Line:
This provides you with a list of your eligible settlements to set up a supply line with:
All supply lines are visible from the map:
As far as I know. I believe that you'll just use the materials from another settlement so long as they're linked. So if you're in Sanctuary Hills and you wanna build say, a bench which requires 5 wood and 1 steel, in Tenpines Bluff it'll just take the wood and steel out of Sanctuary's workshop inventory that is, if you don't already have the materials in Tenpines' inventory.
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Best Answer
Your settlers at home can die. Note that once a 'settler' has been assigned to a supply route, they will be a 'provisioner' the next time they are loaded.
Provisioners who are away from a settlement can't die. The can get knocked down for a few seconds like other essential NPCs, but they get right back up. Currently, the closest I've observed this is at the Rotten Landfill (east and slightly north of the drive in).
It may be that:
a) Provisioners are just essential always
b) Provisioners who are outside a certain range of a settlement are essential, but can be killed when close to it.
or c) Provisioners who are outside a certain range of their home settlement and/or destination are essential, but can be killed when close to them.
Clearly, more testing is required, but given what I know about how the essential flag works, it's a pretty safe bet that provisioners are just essential all the time, and therefore can't be killed.