How bring an NPC back from the dead?

[Thop]

So I have the Atom Cat's quest going on. I return to them to see that Duke is dead out front. No idea how, but he's dead. I don't know if he's important to the quest, but either way I want him back. Now just how do I do that? I've tried console commands by clicking him, typing "enable" then "resurrect" but it's not working. Any suggestions?

[WildCat]

try

prid 0004863c
resurrect

to be sure you try to revive Duke and not something else. Should work.

[=EGC= kansasterry]

In most cases the sequence would be.
disable
resurrect (or ressurect 1 not sure if it works in Fallout 4)
enable

However if you already tried the ressurect command this probably will not work either.

The main questions are what killed him and when I do not recall any of them being killed at least not outside an attack on the place that as far as I know only happens while we are present at the place.

[Ilja]

Be careful when resurrecting named NPCs. Game runs death scripts to them.

• In best case they will come up and act normally, depending on which script ran and what point.
  
  
• In worse case you will get a useless NPC, with no proper alias checks, due to him being "dead."
  
  
• In worst case game messes up an alias check to character that was resurrected, which may break NPC behaviour and quest lines where these characters were involved.

Comment was not targeted exactly on Duke, but as general advice. Resurrecting named NPCs isn't really recommended. Severity of problem depends entirely if game can create alias checks to such character after resurrection, or not.

[WildCat]

This particular NPC isn't involved in anything so bringing him back should be safe.

And in my experience even reviving a quest NPC can go without bugs, had to bring back to life Barney Rook because the old man decided to die before i met him.

And always be sure you have a save to roll back to if something goes wrong no matter what you're up to.