I have an interesting problem. My build is part of a group of four friends that have all connected together through a Guild tag that was working perfectly. Then I started making some roads from my main build out into the world. During this project my plots went within one space of another beacon area and I noticed that it fell within my reserved plots so I went to investigate. Turns out the players beacon had expired and the plots had gone wild. There was stuff literally cooking in the furnace so I figured the person did not do this intentionally, so I plotted his area attached to my road. Here’s where things get weird. I assume when I did that it seems to have screwed up my main beacon. I am getting an error message stating that my build bridges two settlements and cannot merge. This is on an endless 30 second loop. It has erased my 300k prestige build from the overall guild village and converted it back to an outpost, but still counts the 300k so that makes no sense. I deleted the plots I used to claim the players area and checked all my borders and beside the friends I was originally connected to, who are all gilded, I am not touching any other players plots… I am at a loss on how to fix this now. I hope a game admin can God-mode my area and check for bugs? Beacon location is on Raxxa, 706N -1,191E. Thank you. Also open to ideas from the community if this has ever happened to you.
You need to add or remove plots to fix this. If you open the beacon map any areas that have red lines going thru them either need more plots added or subtracted to fix it. If you’re on pc you have the debug menu that’ll help a little bit better than the builder version of it I believe. @Ratchel @majorvex @AeneaGames one of them might be on that can help. Or hopefully someone else reading the forums can come help you.
Oh boy I do love bridging settlement issues 
I’ll head over there now and see if I can figure it out for you with the beacon viewer.
Oh and the builder version is exactly the same as the beacon one @FireAngelDth Is it competely different on PS4 builder mode?
Yep it’s a simple fix for you. All your roads are only 1 plot wide. You need to make strips like this at least 2 plots wide or the game simply deems them as “roads” which will not combine beacons into settlements.
Dang. I thought I fixed that by making them 2 plots high. I noticed that when I only had one plot it would not give me the protection “reserve” area but when I went 2 high it did.
oh they’re 2 high? My bad sorry, I assumed they were just 1… Honestly I’m not sure if having them 2 high will work when it comes to bridging, must work a little differently to the reservation thing.
Or maybe you have changed altitudes at some point? I.e. your plots step up or down at some stage and you haven’t adequately plotted the transitions?
Ah, that’s a thought. That could very well be the issue. I kinda lost sight of an area in some bushes. I will check that, thanks.
There’s a little more data on the pc debug if I remember correctly. For one we have nothing telling us what the different colors mean 
and I’ve only seen white squares or white squares with red stripes. Thought there was yellow and purple on pc for something
I can come have a look in a few minutes…
2 high should work
I’m not online but I’m guessing the stuff you plotted forms a 1 wide road to another settlement somehow? Just a guess.
Try deploying the build you saved then save it with a separate beacon control (separate from your build)
Thank you everyone. Found the culprit. @FireAngelDth Did not know about the red lines. Fixed it!
Ah yes of course, I see what you’re saying now, the 2 modes on PC display different, it’s been so long since I used the debug menu one… well since the builder view one was part of the game anyway.
Maybe I would of had better luck identifying this problem in debug menu view? Honestly I didnt even look hard… just immediately saw 1 wide strips of plots built as actual roads and assumed this was the issue, he wasnt there at the time to try any fixes. I’ll keep that in mind for next time!!
Snaark? IS THAT YOU? :>
edit: i seriously ran in the road in the screenshot Snaark! Hope gleann easan turns into a flourishing city!