They don’t lose the equipment you give them, but they will revert to their old loadout. You will need to give or take a piece of armor or a weapon for them to equip the best things they have.
How do you reset your followers inventory in Skyrim?
The command: resetinventory will reset the inventory of a target (select the NPC first) to its default. If you are just doing this to make the merchant have more money, you should just add more gold into his inventory via: additem f after selecting the NPC. After that just sell whatever you want.
Do followers inventories reset?
Followers maintain their inventories forever, even when you dismiss them.
What happens if I dismiss a follower Skyrim?
Effect dismissing has on equipment If the Dragonborn sends their follower away, i.e. dismisses them, and later decides to recruit him/her again, the Dragonborn will find the follower wearing their original equipment.
How often do shopkeepers restock Skyrim?
Merchant inventory do respawn every 48h though, and it is in a hidden chest. Each merchant has a hidden chest that is renew every 48h OR after you attack/kill him. So to have a new inventory for a merchant, SAVE, attack/kill him and reload.
Can I change my followers armor in Skyrim?
When you give a companion armor he/she will wear whatever has the highest armor rating regardless of what sort of enchantments it may possess. You also can not remove your companion’s basic apparel.
Where do followers go when dismissed?
When dismissed, the follower returns to wherever you first found them (e.g. Lydia can be found at Dragonsreach in Whiterun). You can equip followers with additional, or better weapons and armor to make them even more valuable assets to combat situations. When sneaking, your follower will sneak with you.
Why do followers have their own item ID?
It seems like it might be a good idea to give the follower default kit (hidden) items their own special item IDs so that player obtainable world items wouldn’t ever stack with those other items.
Can you remove a hidden item from a follower?
However, the item appears nowhere in their inventory, so I cannot remove it. The thing must be mighty heavy because now I can’t give my follower anything because their weight allowance is completely hogged by this gigantic club their holding in some hidden orifice… don’t ask….
Why does my follower go back to life?
Your follower should go back to life. If for another weird reason, your follower is still not near your vicinity after doing this, they may have been “disabled” from the game (might happen with NPCs that are long dead), making them not appear in the game. Type enable in the console to remedy this.
What happens if you take part of a follower’s outfit?
I can’t fix this: if you take only part of your follower’s original outfit, they will dress themselves only in what you left them, assuming that you haven’t given them anything else. However, you can simply take the rest of it and when dismissed they will gain their original garments back.
