Homesteader

Homesteaders are people who live on the wastes, mostly around the Redding area. They can be enslaved, or recruited. Only a faction leader can recruit a Farmer from a Homesteader group. This requires 5,000 caps and sufficient Charisma.

Recruiting

If the faction leader has 5,000 caps as cash in hand, they can talk to a male Farmer in a Homesteader encounter, and offer him money to pay off their debt in exchange for reporting to the faction as a faction employee. They will not fight, and can only do a few things. Note that this feature only works on male Farmers who are found with Homesteaders. Once you've struck this deal with a Farmer, you will find them standing at one of your faction bases. Via dialogue, they will gather the following basic resources for you, once per hour:

• Scorpion Tails
• Fruit
• Fibers
• Wood
• Gecko Pelts
• Golden Gecko Pelts

Dialogue Tip
Negotiating a Homesteader's employment so he'll work for you, does have some requirements. If you meet the requirements, including having the 5k caps in hand, you'll get some dialogue options that are invitations for him to work for your faction. If things go properly, he will reply with gladness but ask if you can help pay his debts.

Enslave

Homesteaders can be enslaved in the normal fashion.

Skins And Notes

Names	Skins	Where to encounter	Weapons handled*	Comments
Homesteader (Male)		Near Redding.	Knives, clubs, grenades and pistols.	They can be useful with a Cattle Prod or a pistol. If only they had more hit points.
Homesteader (Female)		Near Redding.	Knives, grenades and SMG.	As the female Homesteader, she has good eyesight, which makes her an accurate shooter.