dogmeat is immortal, want to make him mortal

[dammskog]

It seems that DogMeat is immortal and cannot die. Is there someway to make him mortal again?

I think I may have done when I played last time, either through console command or essential followers mod.

I have disabled the essential followers mod but it still is impossible for dogmeat to die. Since I am playing on very hard difficulty for a reason this makes the gameplay not as difficult as I want it since he acts as an immortal tank for me.

Is there a fix or should I just send him to sit att vault 101 forever?

[DagonTheranis]

If you have Broken Steel, dogmeat will level up with you, and his health doubles with each level. So if you're at a high level, he's immortal.

[dammskog]

I have broken steel. But should he be able to take on two supermutants with no problem when I am at level 7?

[DagonTheranis]

His health doubles as in it accumulates. At lvl 1 he has 500, lvl 2 1000, lvl 3 2000 and so on and so forth. So yes.

[Azziane]

Nobody has found a fix for Dogmeat with BS installed? This is the 7th thread I find on the topic, with no solution.

[evilneko]

There's a mod to fix it.

 

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11926

[Fonger]

setessential 6a772 0

 

prove it worked, by clicking on him in the console and "kill"

[tegthelord]

my Dogmeat always dies on me. Never took the Puppies perk, too many other good ones to take

[gormonk]

steap 1. get the MIRV

steap two, tell dog meat to wait in the parkinglot neer tenpenny tower

steap three.... proceade to kill dog meat with the MIRV(and watch those gibs fly)

[Madcat221]

The problem is that there is a field pertaining to health that changes function when a creature is set from non-leveling to leveling: "Health" changes to "Health Mult". If the original "Health" value remains (say, 500), then when it becomes "Health Mult", it becomes 500 * (level). so 500 * say... 14 = 7000 health.

 

IOW: BethSoft didn't check all the fields when they altered Dogmeat's form data.