can the dog die

[Carbohydrated Caretaker]

I really hope not. been in quite a few stick situations. a giant scorpion just shoved its tail up my ass that was scary af. dogs been down a few times so i had to inject him but can he die?

[kdodds]

No.

[SuperSledgeNY]

All companions in the vanilla game are set as Essential, meaning that they cannot die though they can go down in a fight as you've seen for yourself. Taking this a step further, if you create a robot AND make it a companion, the game will now set that robot as essential as well.

Keep this in mind if you decide to use robots as provisioners. There's an annoying behavior in the game if you make a robot provisioner, add all kinds of upgrades and send it on its way, the robot will reset back to the BASE model as soon as the cell that it's in resets.

You can avoid this by making the robot a companion, dismiss it and THEN assign it as a provisioner. Because the bot is now marked Essential, it will NOT reset to the base model.

[wtiger27]

You do not have to heal a companion in a fight. They will eventually recover and heal on their own and if you are not near by when they do, they will catch up to your char.

The exception to this is on Survival runs. Which if you do not heal them soon enough, they will return to their last assigned settlement or place you got them.

[Chaosium]

Most companions can and will die if you drop their affinity to the extreme bottom level (mostly by committing cold blood murder and ignoring their warnings), after which they refuse to travel with you any longer and lose their essential status.

However this won't happen with Preston, Ada, and of course, the goodest of boys Dogmeat who doesn't judge your actions because he's the best

[Sabaithal]

*Fallout 3 traumatic flashback*
-Dogmeat died-

[The Inept European]

Dogmeat is immortal across all time. Any apparent death (eg FO4) is an illusion.

[meredith999]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

*Fallout 3 traumatic flashback*
-Dogmeat died-

yeah

[XD001]

Dogmeat is immortal unless you intentionally turn off essential. But why would you do that?

[Chilli Dog Dave]

Doggy, preston and i believe nick are the only characters in direct relation to the player who cannot die due to how vital they are in the main quest, otherwise all companions are essential by default and can only die if you persistently attempt to try deliberately kill them while they are down, again with the exception of preston, dog and nick

[steventirey]

Originally posted by Chilli Dog Dave:

Doggy, preston and i believe nick are the only characters in direct relation to the player who cannot die due to how vital they are in the main quest, otherwise all companions are essential by default and can only die if you persistently attempt to try deliberately kill them while they are down, again with the exception of preston, dog and nick

You can go through the entire game and never interact with Preston. He is not required for the game. And no companion* can die in the game, regardless of how hard you try to kill them. Thats what the essential tag does - makes them immune to death. Its the protected status that settlers have that makes it so only you can kill them by hitting them when they are down.

*Exceptions being for characters with potential scripted deaths, like Danse and Gage. Most companions aren't like that however.

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by XD001:

Dogmeat is immortal unless you intentionally turn off essential. But why would you do that?

Turning off essential for dogmeat can potentially break the main questline at several points. I would not recommend it.

[Carbohydrated Caretaker]

thanks everyone for the replies. im glad the doggo cant die.

[Cthonmon]

Dogmeat never dies. Dogmeat is the goodest boy. He is too good to die.

[mexy]

dogmeat is epic