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All Expert Merchant Guide for Your Settlement
By Ryan
i create this guide since when i play and search guide for this merchant most of them give false information or not detail how to get merchants. thats why i make this guide to help other player to get all 10 unique merchant at fallout 4.
   
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Introduction
This guide work at latest fallout 4 update and survival mode.
Some of them tricky and need some requirements. But, don't worry i will explain how to get them all in this guide.


1. You need to have "Local Leader" Perk Level 2.
2. You must create emporium stores (stores level 4).
3. You need have "Intimidation" Perk Level 3, which i explain why you need this later.

if you just about start the game i recommend to max charisma to 10 at start to help you do this.

some of this also will help to get better chance to get all ot them (this optional, you still can get them all without this).

1. disable dlc (base game only), it will make random encounter more easy.
2. not using mods, to avoid bugs.
3. not finish the game (still have main mission).

also a bit disclaimer. if you maybe already play the game and meet random encounter of this merchant when you not ready, sometimes it have chance to make them never spawn again because bugs, so be careful.
Fixed Merchant Location
First, lets go to easy one. This all merchant have fixed location. so you almost no have chance to missed them.

Character Name
Role
Location
How to Get
Vault-Tec Rep
General Merchant (Trading emporium)
Roxford Hotel, Goodneighbor
Talk to him and ask him to join you to sanctuary when meet him at second floor of the hotel, for easy guide, when you go to roxford hotel for the first time, just rent room there and you will meet him when you want to go to your room.
Anna Hargraves
Clothes Merchant (Clothing emporium)
WRVR broadcast station
Finish "Curtain Call" quest, you can get this quest directly from trinity radio signal, or just go to trinity tower location, or just go to WRVR radio station. Saving Rex Goodman from this quest will unlock option to recruit anna at WRVR radio Station.
Ronnie Shaw
Weapons Merchant (Weapons emporium)
The Castle
Finish "Old Guns" quest for minuteman. She have bug, and it make you can;t assign her to weapons emporium. But she still become merchant without problem. Also she only settle at the castle (can't be moved).
Tina de Luca
General Merchant (Trading emporium)
Vault 81
Finish "Dependency" quest, with result to make Bobby De Luca angry. You can access this quest by finishing Hole in the Wall quest, and meet her reactor room in vault 81. She have bug if you save Bobby De Luca. And to fix this, you need make Bobby angry and strike you. after you kill Bobby, she decide to go out from vault and you can offer her to join your settlement.
Trader Rylee
General Merchant (Trading emporium)
Longneck Lukowski's Cannery
She really buggy, in my playthrough she always got teleported to small hidden room. and i found way to keep her at settlement. which i will explain more...

Bugs Explain :
1. Tina de Luca Bug, you can use this option to make bobby angry to you. i want to make the video to explain this, but my video record software broken. and i found videos at youtube, who have same option like i mean. So here the link to video. credits to video author "The Efficient Gamer".
2. Trader Rylee Bug, here my way to recruit her without broke the game.
- First, you go to Longneck Lukowski's Cannery, make sure quicksave before enter the building. Inside you will see Rylee debate with Luwoski.
don't disturb them (to avoid broke the game by talking to her inside building). Before Rylee out make sure to see her out from door, this will make her spawn outside building (if you not doing this she will teleport to hidden room i explain before).
After seeing her out, hurry talk to lukowski and accept quest "Mystery Meat" BUT don't do the quest. After accepting the quest just go to outside and talk to Rylee, ask her about vault 81 and it will open option to ask her work at your settlement. In here she have bug again, which she confused after you ask her to work for you, and will open same option again. In here you just need ask her once and close the conversation. if you ask her twice it will make her never go to your settement in my playthrough (since the game already count her as settler when she confused). And this is other bug, you can't do mystery meat quest to keep her, doing this quest (go to lukowski basement) somehow will remove her and move her to hidden room and remove her as settlers. Since mystery meat quest also not give you anything important too, i just recommend you to not play the quest to keep Rylee. She kinda tricky, and some player said its safe to answer her to work twice when recruit her, and let her go when she out from Longneck Lukowski's Cannery and finish the quest first and later she will become random encounter. But i tried every method to get her and it always have same result she will teleport to hidden room. So my current trick its most safe way to get her, with cons, you cant finish mystery meat quest and also she keep showing option "work for me?". but with this trick she will go to your settlement, you can assign her at stores and work normal as trader as long you not choose work for me option after assign her.
Random Encounter Merchant
This merchant only can be get by trigger random encounter happen at commonwealth. i part it to 1 and 2 to make easier to explain.

but disclaimer about this type of merchant, sometimes if you already talk to this merchant because random encounter but ignore him/her or fail recruit him/her, you maybe won't have chance to see them again. so avoid any random encounter spot when play really recommended to get all this merchant.

before get them, i recommend you to create level 4 stores you need at settlement to keep them later.
doing multiple saves also recommended here to avoid missed them.
if you not meet the merchant at trigger spot (like another random encounter happen) just do load from quick save we make before.

so lets get them,

First part of this merchant can be triggered at this spot. i choose this spot because its good for usual player or survivor. The spot at the Bridge near Relay tower 1DL-109, Oberland Station.
here the exact location where random encounter happen (green dot, zoom to see).
for usual player, you can make quicksave at sanctuary and fast travel to tower, it will trigger the random encounter. But, for survival mode (without fast travel) you can make quicksave at railway near oberland station and go to tower to trigger it.
bit warning make sure calculate the time for fast travel or quicksave since time in here will affect the random encounter.

here, the list merchant you can trigger here.

Character Name
Role
Time
How to Get
Doc Anderson
Clinic Doctors (Surgery center)
Morning to Evening (7am to 6pm)
Talk to her and ask her to settle at your settlement.
Ron Staples
Bar (Restaurant)
Night (10 pm to 4am)
Talk to him and ask him to settle at your settlement.

*Ron have bug, his specialty only show if you assign him at trading emporium instead restaurant. BUT i still recommend you to place him at restaurant, i will explain it later at next section.

Second part, The next trigger spot location at the Road behind Cambridge Police Station. You can see the image here, Red Cross is the spot, and Yellow Square is quicksave location.
here the exact location where you need to quicksave and the exact trigger location.

here, the list merchant you can trigger here.

Character Name
Role
Time
How to Get
The Scribe
Armor Merchant (Armor emporium)
Morning to Evening (7am to 6pm)
Talk to him and ask him to settle at your settlement.
Smiling Larry
Weapons Merchant (Weapons emporium)
Morning to Evening (7am to 6pm)
Talk to him and ask him to settle at your settlement.
Unique NPC as Settler Merchant
This actually the glitch you can made by using "Intimidation" Perk Level 3 at Unique NPC called "Parker Quinn" who share same code with Ron Staples.

Parker Quinn is npc who trying to scam you by selling "Charge Card" near South Boston Police Department. To get him as merchant bit tricky, but its worth the try. make sure do multiple saves since this glitch sometimes fail.

1. First Travel to South Boston Police Department. You can meet him at alley near broken building.
make sure you already have the castle as settlement before.

2. Talk to him, BUT DONT BUY HIS CHARGE CARD. You can just use up arrow to talk about charge ccard he selling. until its only show option
-up, scam?
-left, i think about it
-right, no
-down, yes

in here you can choose up, then left (or just left after got the i think about it option). leave him and Make save here. after that clear the path to the castle, this important since later we will drag him to castle, it wont work if he got attacked. After clearing supermutant, murelurk, and ghoul near area, go to parker quinn again and make save before do next steps.

3. Intimidate him and ask him to follow you, intimidate perk level 3 have 50% chance to make him submit to you, so if you fail make him submit just load the save.

4. Drag him to the castle, make sure he not got attacked and keep following you until you at the castle.

5. THIS IMPORTANT PART, dismiss him, and make sure he not become hostile. He have chance to become hostile after dismissed from intimidate (usually because got attacked when following you). IF you fail to dismiss him without turning him to hostile, you need load again save and do same thing from number 3.

6. IF you success dismiss him without become hostile, start workshop mode (V at PC), and look at him before he leave the castle. In here make sure to send him to your settlement (in my case i send him to sanctuary or rocket truck), DON'T assign him at the castle, it wont work.

After that you just need back to your settlement and wait 2x24 hours to make him show. And you will see him as settlers and assign him to trading emporium. After assign him to emporium, talk to him and buy his charge card, this will remove his dialog about charge card and change it to trade like usual stores option.

And remember when i said about his share same codes with Ron Staples? this will make him sell food and drink from Ron Specialty. So you don;t need assign Ron to trading emporium and keep him as bar.

Ending
So that all 10 Expert Merchant you can have for your settlement.
Maybe in the future i will make the videos walkthrough for this guide.

Thanks for read my guide. :D