Giving a follower Fortify Carryweight armor

[cgoose500]

Would that let them carry more? I know that enchanted weapons work normally when a follower is using them, but I've never tried enchanted armor.

[Stardustfire]

cant say for sure but for me it looked like armor enchantments worked ok when i gave followers something with an extra kick. (i mainly use the female huscarl from whiterun or erik, both with 1h and shield, and the shield ever gets extra block) and they can wear accessories as well, woud be senseless if armor enchantments wont work for them, because there is no other meaning to give them a ring or a necklace instead of enchantment boni.

[The Why Button]

Yes, Fortify Carry Weight enchantments on a follower's worn armor will increase how much weight that follower can carry.

A bit of background as to why it's not easy to find answers to this question about Skyrim online and why outdated sources you find through Google might say Fortify Carry Weight doesn't work on followers, even though it does:

In vanilla Skyrim before Special Edition, Fortify Carry Weight enchantments on armor always DID work on followers wearing that armor. However, a lot of people thought they didn't, and I can hardly blame them, because once you exceeded any follower's non-enhanced "normal" weight capacity (meaning: the amount of weight the follower could carry before they benefited from Fortify Carry Weight), you had to close and reopen the "give/take items" dialog menu with the follower every time you wanted to add another item (or stack of items) to that follower. Which is kind of a weird thing to have to do, and it definitely wasn't functioning as intended, hence why so many people thought the enchantments didn't work on followers.

[jreese46]

Easier, IMO, to use something like AFT which boosts them up to like 1k lbs.

[258789553873]

Honestly, its rather pointless if you abuse a glitch. You can command followers to do things other than attack. For instance, you can tell them to pick up items. And they'll do this even if it would cause their encumbrance to go above their limit. Abusing this glitch, your follower will essentially have infinite carry weight. Obviously, this is quite useful when you're looting dwemer ruins for scrap metal.

It is true though that very few armor enchantments work on followers. For instance, none of the fortify skill enchantments work on followers (except for the fortify one-handed and two-handed enchantments I think). UESP has an article that lists what armor enchantments work on followers, but honestly I never really thought about testing for myself (I rarely use followers since I mostly play stealth and magic characters).

[cgoose500]

I put Fortify Carryweight on two of Lydia's pieces of armor. Each should give her +35. If it works then that's good, if it doesn't then I haven't really lost anything.

[Perplex]

It works but you need to close/open the trade with her when you reach the normal peak. It is a bit buggy, after they reach normal maximum you can only give them one thing at a time (or a stack) close/open give close/open give etc. Untill you reach the new cap.