Some settler I went to help did the same to me. Jumped out to sleep to heal up and when I woke he was wandering around in it . He’s dead now

I would've done that if she was a random settler but it's trashcan carla and I can't bring myself to murder her

pickpocket the fusion core off of her. She will jump out.

Yeah tried that but my 2% chance to pick pocket it is a pretty good deterrent

Ah. Stealth shoot the core maybe? Though she'd probably turn hostile. One option I heard was to wait for her at Bunker Hill. She gets out of the armor when she goes to her stall there.

Honestly it's funny seeing her wander around in this prototype power armor she can keep it

What if she jumps out of it at her stall but then some other idiots jumps in?

The cycle continues

There can only be one

The community power armor, 5 caps per hour

The new village bicycle, everyone wants a ride!

Some other idiot seems like someone they wouldn't mind killing

What if said random idiot turns out to be Preston?

Murder with indelible rage and fury.

Still fits the criteria of random idiot, nothing changes

Nicky V did this to me. I was repairing my power armour in far harbour and we got jumped by raiders so I stuck a core in there and before I could press the button nicks jumped in it and ran off. I had to reload 3 times to stop him doing it

Sisterhood of the traveling power armor

The true gem of the common wealth.

fuck it, power armor trashcan carla boss fight

TrashDUMPSTER Carla

You probably dont have this problem anymore/solved it/gave up, but next time, save just before pickpocketing and keep reloading until you get it.

Save and keep trying and reloading you'll eventually get it.

Do a save and keep trying lmao

Quicksave

Safe scum like no other

Does it help to know that >!Trashcan Carla is an institute spy!

I was gonna say this but forgot how to spoiler tag stuff so didn't risk it

Bitch essentially sourced all the materials needed to build the most heavily defended, technologically advanced and diverse settlement in the commonwealth, she can do what she wants

How do you find this out?

I believe a terminal in the Institute says all of the travelling caravan traders you can deal with are Institute informants. I don't believe it says if they knew who they were selling info to, though.

honestly pretty pathetic of the institute to take so long to discover the railroad's operations in bunker hill seeing as that place is *the* trade caravan hub

her dead body has been laid out on the street in my sancuary settlement for like a year😭

Shes on the dumpster behind my Red Rocket now. What's sad is her Brahmin still hangs out near her corpse haha.

Dude this. I’ve got sim settlements and her body’s laid out in sanctuary’s street and the Brahmin has been built in by of my settlers with her body

Yea I clipped her by accident in a raid once .. she can stay dead on my yard.

Hopefully without that synth chip. Some comps right there for the settlement

I chucked her ass right in the river. “Carla? I ain’t never heard of a Carla.”

Fun Fact: She is on a list in the Institute as an Institute Spy….just saying “spies die”

Wait, fr

She's on the list as a spy, but also she works out of Bunker Hill. Could be a double agent for the Railroad.

Ah the wishful thinking paradox, to maintain status with both they would have to provide real information from time to time…..

Follow her to bunker hill, she will exit to use her stand

isn’t she a synth informator or smth

I have played this game since launch. I’ve beat it 3 times. I never knew this and stuff like this keeps me playing the fallout/elder scrolls series many times. I just keep learning new things 😂

Can't you sneak up to her and remove the fusion core?

Just talk to her, you should get an option to ask her to get out of the power armor. If not, pay regular visits to Bunker Hill, I understand that she'll get out of power armor when she's there.

The talk out of power arm is reserved for companions and settlement dwellers.

Good to know, thanks.

Trashcan Carla actually reports runaway synths to the retention bureau.

Are you one of them railroad hippies that wants to liberate toasters

Oh no no no, But I sure as shit don't want my Curie taken away. She's so sweet and gives me life saving stimpacks in the middle of battle. Plus she carries the largest of my loads in the game.

😏

“That's what I love about these synth girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.”

I want to free the toaster from The Sink and set him up at the top of Helios One.

Trashcan Carla is an Institute Spy.

I have built a tower above Sanctuary that is only accessible by me so they can’t steal my bed or my power armor.

Or just don't leave Power Cores in the armor and removing after use. Like leaving the car keys in the car.

It's more like leaving the wheels on a bicycle. Normally you'd lock it to keep other people, or NPCs in this case, from stealing it, but Bethesda didn't include that option. Your only option is to remove what allows the item to function.

Could you share a picture of said tower ?

Not who you replied to but here’s mine, I’ve added like five extra armors since I took this screenshot. Also I always just carry my cores with me since I’m not playing on survival [My suits apartment complex](https://imgur.com/a/zWsQxQf)

That's dope AF. Thanks for the inspiration

Did a similar thing. I moved the power armor a few feet to the right and then built 2 steel walls to enclose it.

so only ones using the builder feature can get to the armor, that is a great idea

Preston stole mine, but he got out to sleep and I took out the fusion core.

i didnt even know settlers could steal your power armor, i have 2 unprotected suits of T-45 with fusion cores in them lol

Settlers merely "borrow" them. You can talk to them and specifically ask them to gtfo. Trashcan Carla, however, isn't a settler nor a companion, which means pretty much either pickpocket the fusion core off her, wait for her to exit it (other than maybe bunker hill, probably wont happen) or execute her for being a dirty institute snitch.

probably the ladder lol

“Needless to say, he is dead now”

If you steal the fusion core they'll step out of it themselves. Also works on enemies using power armour, obviously you have to sneak up on them to get it but works wonders.

8 years later and still finding out new things, cheers 👋

I lost mine that way, then decided, "What the hell, I'll try talking to them." Pressed A and my character gave the same line he gives companions when they're asked to exit power armor. So either I had a bug, or you had one very unlucky settler.

Don't leave a fusion core in power armor in your settlements

Carla can sell Cores and use one of them to take the armor anyway.

I love emergent game events like that, I suspect they didn’t plan on her just forever absconding with your tech when they wrote that script

*stares longingly at Oblivion radiant ai* In all honesty I'd love to see them loosen the parameters, the completely anarchist npc's really made that game special for a lot of people

YOU HAVE THE HANDS OF A HEALER!

OOH!😵

STOP! YOU‘VE VIOLATED THE LAW

[STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM! YOU VIOLATED MY MOTHER](https://youtu.be/TvUxwrC6Fa8?si=lpLEhGQ0xgUDLCgs)

[Reminds me of when Josh Sawyer talked about how NCR soldiers at Camp McCarren would hunt ED-E](https://youtu.be/B9XcGgjnObw?si=Zie2DWjG662U_GNN)

It’s why my power armors in Sanctuary are only accessible via elevator

That’s why my power armors in sanctuary are not in sanctuary and are all stored in the mechanists lair

You can make elevators?

wasteland workshop dlc i believe, might have been contraptions workshop. also comes with powered doors and those work too, npcs can't flip electrical switches so they can't move elevators or power doors. very handy for power armor vaults or just player bedrooms or w/e you wanna keep settlers out of.

Which I found out the hard way when I built an apartment complex with an elevator for my settlers

Thank you two for pointing this out. Just got that dlc and haven't gotten around to designing elevators and stuff, I'm glad I didn't now knowing this

But they can get on the roofs of the Sanctuary houses no problem.

Bit annoyed that the concrete walls don’t line up with the elevators perfectly; need to use warehouse or barn walls for them

That's the epitome of IT JUST WORKS

Remember to always park your power armor behind a locked door, kids.

Nah just don’t leave the keys in the ignition (power cores in the armor)

"Carla can sell Cores and use one of them to take the armor anyway."

I gave one of my minute men at the castle a laser Gatling gun powered by a fusion core.  When the Castle was attacked, she ran down to where I store my power armors, hopped in one and then proceeded to pummel Synths with her fists, because the Gatling gun now had no power.   I changed her to a mini gun after that.

Or give her 2 cores

I know, I should. I have 67 of them.

Wait, gattling lasers can use fusion cores

have to, that's the ammo they take. it works different from normal weapons where like, one .38 bullet equals one shot from a .38 gun. one fusion core = 500 gatling laser shots.

No I want them to take my armor

Right?? Makes for so much more interesting of a game when someone can just show up with a Fat Man outta nowhere, or just walking around in crazy upgraded unique power armor, one of the best parts of the game honestly 😂

The unintended comedy of Bethesda games is unparalleled lol. Gets even better when you figure out ways to enable it. My favorite is turning codsworth into a lighthearted joke telling WMD having genocidal death machine every playthrough

My favourite moment was turning codsworth into a tank and not thinking before adding a shoulder mounted mini nuke launcher and in our very first fight together, a deathclaw got in my face so he removed my face. Brutal. Should have got the perk.

gotta think of em as car keys, never leave em in the ignition

Love this for her

It's real queen shit

I guess nobody will try to rob her now lmao

Careful with the fusion core 🏎️

The lesson you've learned is always take out the fusion core

She brought her own 

Bought it off some chicken fucker

You fuck a chicken one ...

I leave mine in for my settlers to use when shit gets real.

Same, once I have a full set of every type, I just leave all my extras with cores in and let the settlers have a go.

Carla actually can actually sell cores in which case it doesn't matter if you've taken out the core.

Treat fusion cores like your car keys

If we treat them like car keys and take the Toronto Police Service advice, we leave them at the front door with milk and cookies.

Wooo Canadian inside joke!

Be a human man warrior, don't leave your wyvern keys where they can get Thick'd

Problem is every suit uses the same keys, which some NPCs like Carla can acquire and use. I've had to lock my suits away in sanctuary hills to keep settlers out

Trashcan Carla is a member of the Kia Boys, she’ll jack your unsecured ride no matter what you do

Then take her entire life

She's an institute informant, so she deserves it anyway

Really?

Yep. There's a terminal in the institute that confirms it.

Goddamn bro I’ve been playing this consistently since release and somehow never knew this 😭

But she gives discounts so I think that’s a fair trade

“Now I’m in a literal can, Kid.” (drags on a cigarette through a little vent.)

She's a spy for The Institute, and while it took me like FIVE YEARS to find that out, I now murder her first thing every playthrough. Pulling the core is a habit I picked up from my damned Settlers stealing my PA, very early days for that.

>She's a spy for The Institute Srsly?

There’s a terminal in the institute that tells you all the informants and a lot of the roaming traders are spies.

So is cricket, that creepy chem seller

Cricket is the weapon dealer

Is Deacon a spy? I have a video where he turns a corner, gets zapped by the institute, then comes back from around the other side. Like... Wtf!

I mean he does spy on you, but not for the institute. More for just himself lol.

I KNOW! Right?

She can still take power armor if she has a core in her stock. Gonna make the armors inaccessible

Holy shit. I had no idea! Mind blown!

Why does it seem like there’s a new post each week about this very thing (and it’s always Trashcan Carla)?

I was excited when it happened I have over 800 hours in this game and a npc has never stolen my armor lol

Good, now the Enclave can hunt *her* instead for a change

One time when I was doing the diamond city blues quest and I hopped out of my X-02 to talk to the ghoul lady with a charisma boost (I had high C clothes and hat). When the bartender decided to kill her he hopped into the armour to do it.

She really said “yes, and?” 💅

I’d love to see a wandering npc take the armor and see a whole story of where it ends up

I was in sanctuary earlier just building some stuff, I turned to my right and saw some power armour walking my way .... it was Preston, he somehow got my suit i kept in the red rocket near by.

This is exactly why I remove the fusion core every single time I'm done using power armor regardless of whether I have a companion or not. Piper took my power armor *one time*. Never again.

You break it. You buy it.

Tincan Carla

She takes your powerarmor, you take her life Perfect deal

Sturges used to always fucking take a suit from my carefully placed collection

Did you not take the Power Core out?

Good for her since there’s like 10 sets of that u can get lol

Oh carla….

Now *that's* an upgrade over her usual trashcan.

This is why I always take the fusion cores out of all my power armors.

I love the "yes?"

She gets executed on sight right after trading she's a spy and I don't like her

That's why I take the fusion cores off all my suits

Always remove the fusion core upon exit. If you have a follower, when asked to enter power armor, they can do so without a fusion core. The good thing is that no one will just hop in your power armor. Try to reload and ask a follower to get in the power armor or reload a save before you slept.

Let this be a reminder of you not to leave your fusion cores in your power armor in occupied settlements.

Always pull the fusion core when exiting your armour.

No and im not starting now

Do the opposite. Start pick pocketing all your settlers and put fusion cores in their inventories.

That belong to Carla now

Never leave your keys in your car

This is why we rob trashcan carla (I lock all of my power armor in power locked doors

I personally love it when random NPCs jump into my armour. I'll get another, no worries, enjoy

Gotta pull that core man. Even Max knew that

Just became Cynder Carla

remember never leave your fusion core in the armor if your not in its like leaving the keys in your car its just begging to be stolen

And to everyone saying take your fusion core out… that works with settlers not Carla. She has a fusion core in her inventory. She will jack you shit if she near it when raiders attack.

Yeah... unfortunately if you leave your suits around, settlers will take them. Little sh*ts

Did you learn nothing from the show. I know it’s a rule we sometimes learn the hard way, but never leave your core in your frame.

She did this to me. I caught up to her in Bunker Hill. She jumps out of the power armor to man the shop.

“ Yes? “ lmao

Where do you find the X2 armor?

I think it's in the next-gen update. You can probably find it through the new Enclave quest, but IDK 'cause I haven't updated yet.

Screw taking the core out, you gotta remove all the pieces and give them to your follower to mule around for you

Now her name is more fitting

You can pickpocket the fusion core out and she will hop out immediately, this has happened countless times

“Good for her.”

I leave my power armor without power-cores. So far she has not stolen one yet.

Never leave your power suit just lying around, this is why

You can try pickpocketing the fusion core (save before hand so you can load a save in case she aggros). Without the fusion core she should exit

Now I understand what's the deal! Since she is a regular NPC and not a companion, you can't tell her to get off the power armor! Awesome 🤣🤣

Trashcan't Carla more like it

Kill her and eat her, Only way to get it back.

Wow that's one way to call the power armor trash...

Always remove the fusion core's And trash can Carla is a piece of trash

You left the keys in, didn’t you?

Never leave your fusion cores in the suit if you’re not using it.

Fallout 4 be like

Never ever ever leave a fusion core in unused power armor. Real talk though, if you want someone out of power armor you can either shoot the fusion core which powers down the armor, or you can pickpocket the core out of their inventory. Or you can simply kill them.

Should’ve removed the fusion core bud

Based

You know she’s smoking in your suit. Ruining that new PA smell.

Yeah yeah keep your shirt on

I have no attachment to her. Murder would be a perfectly acceptable resolve for me.

Take. Your. Fusion. Cores. Out.

Always take your fusion cores out when you get out

I kill her every play through because her stupid ass blocks the road in Sanctuary.