any way to give my minutemen power armor?

[Ms Peaches]

I want to give my minutemen settlers some power armor because it would look awesome. I know you can't get the frame back if they die so I'm just using low end power armor with the minutemen paint.

but the main question is how do I get them in the suit?

[Frostbringer]

Put a suit near the entrance to a base, or where ever the enemies spawn. I've only had mine jump into the suits if they were near one during an attack.

[Frag Maniac]

Wear it, go into your Apparel inventory after engaging in a Trade conversation with them, transfer all the pieces to their inventory, and equip them to that character. Default equip key for companions on PC is T.

This is how I got Preston to wear it, but it took a LONG time to get it back, because there was no option in the Talk dialog to get him to exit it, and doing the above mentioned procedure in reverse left him always wearing the frame.

At one point while in Sanctuary he finally exited it though.

[Frostbringer]

Originally posted by Frag Maniac:

Wear it, go into your Apparel inventory after engaging in a Trade conversation with them, transfer all the pieces to their inventory, and equip them to that character. Default equip key for companions on PC is T.

This is how I got Preston to wear it, but it took a LONG time to get it back, because there was no option in the Talk dialog to get him to exit it, and doing the above mentioned procedure in reverse left him always wearing the frame.

At one point while in Sanctuary he finally exited it though.

Does that work with settlers? You can tell companions to enter/exit power armor, but can a settler equip a PA frame if you give them one?

You can't pick up PA frames like you can with the pieces.

[Nite69]

Leave the power core in it, someone will randomly jump into the suit eventually (though I'm not sure if 1.3 patch fixed this or not)

[loverevolutionary]

Originally posted by Frag Maniac:

Wear it, go into your Apparel inventory after engaging in a Trade conversation with them, transfer all the pieces to their inventory, and equip them to that character. Default equip key for companions on PC is T.

This is how I got Preston to wear it, but it took a LONG time to get it back, because there was no option in the Talk dialog to get him to exit it, and doing the above mentioned procedure in reverse left him always wearing the frame.

At one point while in Sanctuary he finally exited it though.

How can they wear the pieces without the frame? I SO doubt this really works...

With Preston, you can just command him to get into armor when he's a companion, then dismiss him.

I put power armor next to all the artillery emplacements in the Castle. When an attack happens, there's a pretty good chance the crew will get into the armor since they have to go right by it to get to the enemy.