Settlers immune to being dismembered or blown up?

[Dimensionlord1]

So I'm playing as a raider and when actually raiding settlements to turn into outposts I've noticed that forever no matter how I kill a settler they can never be dismembered. Can't cut off, or blow off limbs, and can't blow them up in general. Is there a mod out there that fixes this to make them actually be able to be blown into little bitty pieces or chopped up like other NPCs?

[Karna5]

The default version of CBBE, the early versions of Fusion Girl, the early version of BodyTalk, and probably several other body texture replacements lost the ability to dismember corpses. Fixing this required either going with a lower polygon version of the bodies (such as for CBBE) or more advanced updates (such as BodyTalk).

Basically you've got to pick, in general, whether to go with high-poly body textures which don't have limb dismemberment or low-poly versions which do.

[Dimensionlord1]

1 hour ago, Karna5 said:

The default version of CBBE, the early versions of Fusion Girl, the early version of BodyTalk, and probably several other body texture replacements lost the ability to dismember corpses. Fixing this required either going with a lower polygon version of the bodies (such as for CBBE) or more advanced updates (such as BodyTalk).

Basically you've got to pick, in general, whether to go with high-poly body textures which don't have limb dismemberment or low-poly versions which do.

Thing is it's male and female settlers not just females. I do have body replacers for females but they still blow up, just can't blow up the settler NPCs. Males are vanilla body and texture, same issue with the settler NPCs.

[Karna5]

36 minutes ago, Dimensionlord1 said:

Males are vanilla body and texture, same issue with the settler NPCs.

I've not heard of vanilla humans not being able to dismember limbs. I remember when the BodyTalk team and helpers were working on adding dismemberment (I was part of that testing and think tanking), but if your vanilla NPCs have that issue, I have no ideas. Sorry, though you may want to scrutinize your mods to see if any possibly overwrite the human race, the settlers or gore.

[rsm000rsm]

Since settlers are immortal by default, there's likely a condition in their data that prevents dismemberment--after all, you don't want limbless settlers populating your settlements. In the case of a Nuka Raider play through, settler immortality is removed to allow settlement conquest, but I imagine the dismemberment block remains intact to accommodate settler subdual--again, you don't want limbless vassals populating your settlements. That's my theory, anyway.