This mod includes three new workshop objects: A Minutemen Campfire, Minutemen Bunks, and a Minutemen Watchtower. These objects can be found in your workshop menu under the Defense->Guard Posts category, and are limited to one of each per settlement. You can unlock the objects by completing Minutemen quests, more specifically by becoming general, completing Taking Independence, and completing Old Guns.
The workshop objects all grant a significant amount of defense to your settlements, and when placed a minutemen patrol will spawn nearby and wander into your settlement, if a patrol is not already present. The patrol will then live in and protect your settlement indefinitely, and will actively use all three of the workshop objects as available.
Notably, these spawned patrols will go away if you remove all three workshop settlements and leave the area. Similarly, they will also go away if you capture the settlement for Nuka World raiders, or turn the settlement into raider vassals. Raider settlements and their vassals also get no defense out of the workshop objects, since the Minutemen are no longer protecting your settlement.
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Edit: For context, the tower has several invisible objects attached to it. Most of them are animation markers for minutemen to use when they wander up to the top, but one of them is an extra physics object that was needed so that you can properly build things on and inside the tower.
These objects get replaced any time you move the tower in workshop mode, but I forgot to account for using a mod like place anywhere to fine tune the placement. If you try to pick up the tower, the attached objects are removed to prevent them from interfering with placement. They will be re-attached when you cancel the movement or place the tower somewhere else.
Please note that some mods, such as Sim Settlements 2, use the raider settlement flag for custom settlement types like their Outposts. Similarly, a mod that significantly rearranges the workshop menu may require a patch to make these objects show up properly.
I have several mods that could POTENTIALLY be interfering with yours, but I'm not entirely sure. The following mods, are;
Unofficial Fallout 4 patch
Workshop framework (I have this disabled though)
Settlement Management Software
Minutemen Morale pack
Minutemen Settlement Guards
I'll go about disabling a few of them to see if it fixes it, because as of right now the watchtowers are still not appearing in the Guard post section.
EDIT:
Just came back from testing, I disabled the Minutemen Morale Pack, Minutemen Settlement Guards, and Settlement Management Software mods to try and build the outposts, and they still do not show up in the Defense > Guard Post menu. I'm beginning to think this could be because the relevant quests that are pre required to build these items, are already completed prior to installation of the mod.
EDIT 2:
Found the issue. User error on my part, I had forgot to enable it on Vortex ¯\_༼ •́ ͜ʖ •̀ ༽_/¯
Were you able to build the other two objects in Starlight Drive-in?
Absolute brain fart move on my part lmao