Giving Companions New Items Permanently

[tinyhamster]

Hi guys and girls,

 

I am absolutely loving the game except for a few issues like bugs, the under-poweredness of magic in Skyrim and finally the inability to give companions new body armor. With this last point, I remember reading in some forum that through a series of console commands you could list the companion's inventory, remove INDIVIDUAL items one at a time, and then give them items from your inventory without having them re-equip everything they had by default (the way it would happen if you used the removeallitems console command). I have been searching on this forum for that same post without an answer. Does anyone have a strong grasp of console commands and able to tell me how to do this or maybe direct me to the page I have been looking for?

 

Thanks,

Buckwild

[dadjitsu]

I only know about the housecarls, I have fully equipped one , gone off on missions with others and never had a problem with gear, She always has what I have given her, I did think she had lost the gear once when I came back from a mission with another NPC, as she was sat drinking beer in my bedroom in her old gear, however when I asked her to follow me, she re equipped all the items I had given her when we left the house.

[TheOutlander]

If the armour you give your companion isn't as good as the armour they are already wearing they won't equip it.

[saldu]

my Lydia equipped the daedric armor with poison damage aura just fine.

[Beriallord]

Same here, never had problems with companions equipping gear I gave them. Although if they leave your group, they put their original armor back on, but still keep what you gave them in their inventory. Remove one piece and give it back and they re-equip everything.