Pickpocket question

[chemzy]

I have seen online that certain named npcs with unique clothing respawn their clothes after x amount of days, I am wondering if anyone here tried this on the nuka world gang bosses would like their unique clothes while keeping them alive and hopefully not naked forever after doing so.

[DouglasGrave]

I seem to recall it working, though they ended up dead and naked anyway, so it ultimately didn't make too much difference.

It's worth noting that the respawning of clothing may not happen if the NPC is left wearing anything at all. For example, leaving Proctor Quinlan (of the Brotherhood of Steel) with even just his glasses may be enough to prevent his clothes from respawning. It's also best to take any other clothing they may have in their inventory, even if they're not wearing it.

[Death Approaches]

Some will, sure. Some are unobtainable, 0% regardless of your picpocket or agility, you want it, you gotta console it. But the easiest way is to try a few (dozen) times, and once you do, sleep for a few days and go back and visually inspect said raider.

[chemzy]

I gave this a try, not only does it work but if you take masons outfit and immediately leave his area cell and walk back in its respawned you dont even have to wait, good way to farm his outfit for settlers or followers. Thanks for the responses!

[Death Approaches]

lol pickpocketing is fun and all, but that's such an exploit, to farm it enough to outfit a settlement? Just give them to yourself, player.additem ??04a6a1 25. It's pretty crap as unupgradable armors go, but if you want your settlement to all wear the blue wife-beater variant as opposed to the white one.

Just don't try your new skill on Maxxon; everyone wants his DR50 battlecoat but you gotta kill him for it. :-) (or the console)

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

lol pickpocketing is fun and all, but that's such an exploit, to farm it enough to outfit a settlement? Just give them to yourself, player.additem ??04a6a1 25.

Personally, I much prefer exploits to console commands. I'd rather play around with weird loopholes in the rules of the game than go outside them with developer tools or mods. Not that I haven't ever played around with them for fun, investigation, or for setting up conditions for a particular character.

But rather than relying on inventory respawning, nowadays I mostly do item duplication with a manufacturing loop of vacuum hoppers and conveyor storages, since it can duplicate all sorts of items and works quickly if I get a good rhythm with my timing.

[chemzy]

I wanted to do a few “legit” playthroughs before using console, that being said testing this in itself I used to console to get to nuka world at the beginning of the game but I restarted and will do a legit playthrough now,