GowiHasti Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 I was modding a few favorite characters as essential and was able to via quest aliases for radiant quests Aela but others without quests I could find such as Faendal even though I hit essential he wasn't. What am I missing? What do I need to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iXenite Posted June 3, 2017 Share Posted June 3, 2017 Maybe using a mod will be better than doing it yourself. Everyone is Essential - NPC's Protected:http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/34623/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GowiHasti Posted June 4, 2017 Author Share Posted June 4, 2017 I don't want everyone essential, just a few. All I want to know is what exactly it takes to make them essential as simply clicking Essential isn't it and some don't have radiant quests to use their aliases to make them essential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iXenite Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 What that mods does is make all named NPC's "Protected". It says in the title it makes them "Essential" but it doesn't. What "Protected" means is that only you can kill them. The other NPC's cannot kill them - but you can. It is my understanding that this mod will not overwrite "Essential" flags for NPC's that are not supposed to die for gameplay reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GowiHasti Posted June 4, 2017 Author Share Posted June 4, 2017 And if I prefer they be essential so I can't kill them either then it won't help. Thats why I want to know is what exactly it takes to make them essential as simply clicking Essential isn't it and some don't have radiant quests to use their aliases to make them essential. Maybe it's because my mod is at the bottom of the load order? Or could it be something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iXenite Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Well, you would want your mod at the bottom of the load order. This way it overwrites everything else. Something else must be wrong. You said you want to only make a few NPC's essential right? It might be better to just write down their BaseID (which is what I think you need in order to do this) and then use the console to set them as essential. I believe that the console command is something like setessential followed by their BaseID. You can Google that to be sure. If you want to do it all at once, you could probably make a batch list that you can run from in-game and just make all of those NPC's Essential at once. How to make a batch list:http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:CC:Console_Command_Batch_Lists_(Skyrim) Hopefully this helps you out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GowiHasti Posted June 5, 2017 Author Share Posted June 5, 2017 Yeah, it sounds like thats going to make it easier to work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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