Fixing Barney Rook

[Nuka Girl]

This is my first time having issues with Barney Rook. When I finally went to Salem, I found dead mirelurks and no Barney Rook AT ALL. I've read online to look for his corpse, but I couldn't find it. I have previously brushed up against Salem before, but never got the quest parameters to initiate and that many saves ago so I can't reload a previous save.

I've tried all the fixes listed on the wiki by using:
player.placeatme 0004d472
player.setstage 0001243d6 15

which spawns him, but doesn't allow me to speak with him at all and he just stands there. Is there anything I can do to get him to initiate the quest with me or should I just give up on the Gun Run all together?

[Xenon The Noble]

I think you have to shoot the three crabs first.

[tulle040657]

player.placeatme just makes a copy of the object given its base id. It's a very bad command to use on a named NPC, it can break your game. Very few quests will work with a copy of a named NPC

Your Barney has a different refid than the one that gives you the quest and any checks on the refid will just not work

[tulle040657]

Try this...

1) if you have a save from before you used the placeatme load it.
2) in the console type
prid 67C96
if that does not give an error type
moveto player
see if that brings you to you

[dolmore]

Originally posted by Xenon The Noble:

I think you have to shoot the three crabs first.

Yep. I did a playthrough once where I let Barney kill the mirelurks by luring them back to him and he wouldn't let me in after that. Had to do it myself.

[ᕮᗪᗯᗩ®ᗪ🍀]

If you just need the gun and the book inside the bunker, you could add the key for it to your inventory. Had the same issue in a previous playthrough. Barney and all mirelurks in the area were gone, so no point in starting the sidequest. Just get the key and grab the weapon. I don't know the ID for it, you have to use the console help option or look it up somewhere.

[tulle040657]

Originally posted by ᕮᗪᗯᗩ®ᗪ¹°¹🍀:

If you just need the gun and the book inside the bunker, you could add the key for it to your inventory. Had the same issue in a previous playthrough. Barney and all mirelurks in the area were gone, so no point in starting the sidequest. Just get the key and grab the weapon. I don't know the ID for it, you have to use the console help option or look it up somewhere.

The unlock command works on doors that need a key

[Iron Knights]

Reba II is just a mirelurk Legendary, you can probably find one.
But it's possible you started off the defense quest then left the area. he died and then corpse is gone. You can find his REFID online then type in console: REFID.moveto player & check his pulse.

[Iron Knights]

TCL works on all doors...

[Nuka Girl]

Originally posted by tulle040657:

Try this...

1) if you have a save from before you used the placeatme load it.
2) in the console type
prid 67C96
if that does not give an error type
moveto player
see if that brings you to you

Unfortunately my game isn't recognizing this ref id at all either :/ I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Thank you for your help!

[Nuka Girl]

Originally posted by ᕮᗪᗯᗩ®ᗪ¹°¹🍀:

If you just need the gun and the book inside the bunker, you could add the key for it to your inventory. Had the same issue in a previous playthrough. Barney and all mirelurks in the area were gone, so no point in starting the sidequest. Just get the key and grab the weapon. I don't know the ID for it, you have to use the console help option or look it up somewhere.

Yeah this is what I ended up doing. I love completing every side quest everytime I play but the book was really what I wanted :)

[BigVern]

It seems to glitch out if you stop at the Rest Home, book a room then battle the synths that appear. Just happened to me. Shame as Reba is a handy gun to have.

[Zes]

I fixed it like a week ago, but it's not easy. There is no full solution on the internet (i searched a lot before getting my hands dirty ;)

My fix completely resolves it but it's not for regular players, well I'll tell you anyway;

- open fo4edit and find quest by searching its questId (upper left corner)
- then right click on the quest and choose "copy into (overwrite)"
- on the upper right there is a editbox for filtering the choosen content, write "run once" in it and press enter
- it will find an entry contains run once string. change it and make it repeatable.
- save your changes (make an .esp, a mod) and exit.

+ before activating your modification enter your game once and go ontop of the house (where barney should be standing) and make a quicksave

- exit game activate your mod and enter the game and load your quicksave

- nothing will happen for a while, turn around and go back to the stairs.. and you will hear barney talking..
- dont lose any time and turn around again and run, jump down and keep running (towards salem along the shoreline)
- then turn around and come back to the barney's home front as it was your first time..

Quest will work like it never bugged out.. mirelurks will spawn etc. good luck :)

[TokGajjah]

So you might encounter the bug where you only see 3 mirelurks and Barney Rook dead on the balcony of Rook Family House at Salem, with Reba and basement key in his inventory.

I found out that if you found/enter/do things (unconfirmed which action does it) at Sandy Coves Convalescent Homes (SCCH) first BEFORE going to where Barney is, this bug happens.

What I did was circumvent SCCH altogether to avoid discovering it. I think it doesn't matter how you do it as long as you don't discover it, and go straight to where Barney and the 3 m'lurks is and I get the entire side quest done with no problems.

[the_asphyx]

I always stay well away from Salem, until I'm ready. Then make a save, then head all the way up to meet Barney Rook. No Stopping to look around, as he can die and de-spawn, for no reason.

It doesn't fix if he's already vanished though, or dead.

[Xenon The Noble]

I have taken to just shooting Barney Rook.
In playing "Punished Nate", he doesn't stand insults from anybody. It's another "I'm your better so you go out and die doing my bidding" quest.