Junkyard Dog Stationary Vendor

[Kodiak412]

Recently a mod was posted called Puppies. It was just kind of a fun mod that added a woman that tended to "puppies" that Gene sells. She doesn't sell them and the pups are just regular dogs that are sized small.

 

This got me wishing that there was a stationary vendor like the Super Mutant in Far Harbor that would sell Junkyard Dogs. Finding Gene is not easy and I think once you reach a certian level he stops showing up altogether.

 

It would nice to have a dog vendor somewhere on the map that you could always go to and buy a dog.

[genolune]

Where is Gene supposed to be? One could always try to get him to a fixed location in the Creation Kit possibly.

[Kodiak412]

Gene is a random encounter that can pop up at a handful of the random encounter spots. He is more visible early in the game so you will see him at the earlier random encounter spots. It is hit or miss though if you see him and when you do, you need a higher Charisma to buy the junkyard dog. Low Charisma and he will turn you down.

 

The dogs look like junkyard dogs (not Dogmeat) add happiness and defense to a settlement and if you build them a doghouse they will hang around it so you can select where in the settlement you want him/her to hang out at.

 

One of the problems with the dogs is they will defend your settlement and if you are a little careless you can kill the poor dog. Then later in the game you just will not see Gene anymore so you cannot get a new pet to replace the one you killed. :(

 

I have not messed with the Creation Kit for FO4 so I do not know what it can do. I have spent a lot of time with the FONV kit so I am sure there are a lot of similarities, but I just never got that far for FO4.

[caleb68]

my first playthrough I didn't see Gene until I was around level 45, he's pretty random, just like that little girl and her sentry bot that roams the wasteland, I tend to run into all the others including the bartender more often then those two. Even had that bartender spawn right next to a super mutant camp over by good neighbor. It would be nice to have a stationary dog vendor like they have in far harbor in the common wealth, there are a few nice junkyards that would make sense for him to be hanging out at rather then roaming the commonwealth looking for someone to pawn his dog off on.

 

Would most likely have to remove him from the random spawn or set it up so that a trigger will make him & the dog pop into the fixed location, haven't looked at the scripting that handles the random encounters to see if it will just ignore popping them in if they've already been added to the world, the random encounters that do wander have a rather large wander circle across the commonwealth, followed one around just to see where they went once or to see if they would just pop out like they pop in for the encounter.

[damanding]

Or just make a new NPC that sells dogs instead of trying to make Gene stationary. I would love to have this mod as well. NPCs, quests, dialogue, etc are parts of the CK I've never really looked at so I have no idea how to do this.

[Kodiak412]

I don't think I have ever seen Gene past level 30 or so, in about 5 different playthroughs. I even have a fast travel route that I can use to help increase the odds of specifically finding him, but no luck there either.

 

I like having the junkyard dogs in some of the settlements but the tendency for them to charge into a melee can lead to early death for the poor pup. Then I have to go back to a previous save. It would be nice to travel to "Calebs Junkyard" to buy a new junkyard dog from poor Caleb the dog vendor. (He is Genes partner in the dog business). :)

[wpfouts]

I would love this, and add a second NPC that's an honest-to-goodness Brahman rancher, who just happened to set up shop in [insert settlement here].

[Tulius]

Gene seems hard to find. A junkyard dog vendor in the Commonwealth, established in one place, near a settlement or a marked place, would be excellent. I am trying to do it but until now it has been a huge disaster, so it would be interesting to see a well done mod about it.

Edited January 12, 2018 by Tulius

[SKKmods]

I may pick this up and add buyable dogs to one of the established wasteland vendors like Egg Rock Pond or Forest Grove Overlook (to use the more map marker names). Would prefer to sell cats at Roof Rabbit Ranch, but that will be a tougher challenge.