Dogmeat loses items

[ManOWar2]

Evertime the dog find something and bring it back to me, the item dissapear. Is there anyway to fix this ?

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Did you select the trade option and check in his inventory?

[The Inept European]

For me he hardly ever finds anything. I need a gun dog, that goes and finds where the animal goes after it gets shot. He is useless at finding warm bodies. He is ok at finding meds and chems - maybe he used to be a police drug dog.

[=EGC= kansasterry]

I have had him drop items that i can pick up and other times they vanish as soon as he drops them I wonder if this is related to the taffington boathouse combat shotgun bug.

The one where if you just pick it up by transfering it to the workbench while looking through the window at it then retrieve it from the workbench and head out a short time later you see the message combat shotgun removed then find it back in its trap position back at the boathouse. Apparently removing it from the trap by storing it in the workbench did not disarm the trap so when it reset the gun left inventory and returned to its position.

I am thinking that some of the items dogmeat retrieves may be setup in some similar manner and just goes right back to where he picked them up when he drops them because he retrieved them instead of the player.

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

Did you select the trade option and check in his inventory?

If I may 'Second' this, you might have to open his Inventory ("Trade" with him) and dig it out of his fur as it may be sticky from never bathing and collect items in it

Edit:
If I may add,

ITEM SPOILER, BEWARE
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Don't forget - Dogmeat can get that special gun for you still to this day
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1486529580

[ZaggRukk]

I don't know if this can be related or not. But, I'm going to throw it in here anyway. The disappearing items, if not in his/her/apache helicopter's inventory, may STILL be in his mouth. I've had him randomly have items appear in his mouth for no reason and not appear in his inventory. And if he drops items and they disappear, I'd associate that with bethesda trying to fix his duping glitch. My encounters with this happening were just bugs, where I had already retrieved the item that he had found and later it reappears in his mouth.

[ManOWar2]

Thanks for all the input people. Great community.

I will make some tests and see what happens !!

[Claybot]

Best thing you can do with Dogmeat is to dismiss him. I get rid of him as soon as I can. Rather play the game without companions since they seem to be good at one thing, getting you killed.

[ManOWar2]

Originally posted by Claybot:

Best thing you can do with Dogmeat is to dismiss him. I get rid of him as soon as I can. Rather play the game without companions since they seem to be good at one thing, getting you killed.

I'm not even sure how to dismiss him. I'll try to look for that. For now I find this amusing, I feel less lonely. I find the dog usefull vs bugs and monsters also...

[Out Of Bubblegum]

IMHO Codsworh is much more useful early on. The biggest problem is that he is melee and keeps getting in the way.

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

IMHO Codsworh is much more useful early on. The biggest problem is that he is melee and keeps getting in the way.

They seriously are in the way even when they are not in the way...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1087416770
But I'll never give them up

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by ManOWar2:

Originally posted by Claybot:

Best thing you can do with Dogmeat is to dismiss him. I get rid of him as soon as I can. Rather play the game without companions since they seem to be good at one thing, getting you killed.

I'm not even sure how to dismiss him. <snip>

If I may pop in on this, the 'directions' of dialogue are
Up (Talk)
then
Left (Dismiss)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1509986356
And they are similar for almost all Companions
HTH

[bunny de fluff]

get the companion + dogmeat mod, the more the merrier.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Originally posted by Tesityr:

But I'll never give them up :heart_me:

Me either. If I do not have a companion then I would be playing Borderlands.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

IMHO Codsworh is much more useful early on. The biggest problem is that he is melee and keeps getting in the way.

Yes, this - agree all these points.

[Serath]

Originally posted by ZaggRukk:

I don't know if this can be related or not. But, I'm going to throw it in here anyway. The disappearing items, if not in his/her/apache helicopter's inventory, may STILL be in his mouth. I've had him randomly have items appear in his mouth for no reason and not appear in his inventory. And if he drops items and they disappear, I'd associate that with bethesda trying to fix his duping glitch. My encounters with this happening were just bugs, where I had already retrieved the item that he had found and later it reappears in his mouth.

I didn't know Dogmeat can drop items on his own accord. I think he's supposed to behave similar to how you find other companions with items magically in their inventory.

Companions tend to "find" items and ammo and put them in their inventory. It's kind of why you sometimes see companions all of a sudden firing something other than their default gun if you didn't give it to them in the first place. But there's no animation of them actually picking it up, they just suck them up non-chanlanty without telling you.

Dogmeat on the other hand will usually bark and the notification that he's found something should appear. If you follow him he picks up the item with his mouth and turns to you. At this point you can pick it up from his mouth by pushing "E," but if you don't do anything for a second or two it will disappear from his mouth and just go to his inventory.

So far these have always been items there are phsycially dropped in the world (hand placed items and or guns enemies had equipped when you killed them) and never items from containers. Not sure about humanoid companions.