Ron Staples

Ron Staples is a bartender traveling the Commonwealth in 2287.

Background
Ron Staples is a traveling bartender that can be found in a random encounter. 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.

Possible encounter 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.

Appearances
Ron Staples appears only in Fallout 4.

Bugs

 * After you assign him to a settlement, he continues to sit at the campfire rather than walking towards the settlement, and he will never show up there.
 * 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 command, and then using the commands,  and finally.
 * 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 event or when '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, , while inside a settlement, , , , fast travel far away and back, hit move and set a settlement than hit move again and send him to the settlement you want him at. then you should be able to issue commands.
 * After successfully recruiting him and he shows up in your 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 settlement you are at/want him at. Then as he starts to walk away, hit R on him again and tell him to go back to wherever it was you wanted him, 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).
 * When attempting to trade with Ron, the player's inventory does not display on the left side of the interface.
 * 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.
 * If Automatron has been installed, then Ron Staples may become permanently disabled, and you will be unable to find him for recruitment.
 * Using, , , and resolves the problem.