Lost modded follower, can't find her or recruit a new follower

[Otter Flooflord™]

I have been using Ella -Standalone Follower as my main follower, and doing the no fastravel challange.

Last time I remember seeing her I told her to wait in my home in Whiterun. I dropped some items at home, and left again.

I had traveled to High Hrothgar when I noticed she wasn't around. I thought she was left in Whiterun in "Wait mode", and that I forgot to tell her to follow again. Made all the way back to Whiterun again looking for her, but couldn't find her anywhere.

I have asked Lydia to follow me, but she states that I already have someone else following, so Ella can't be dead, right?

I have waited +3 days, hoping she'd be back at my home or the Drunken Huntsman, but she is nowhere to be seen. I also do not have any save file before I have lost her. Any help?

[Freeasabird🕊]

Find her ID tellepoert her to you.

[Otter Flooflord™]

Originally posted by Freeasabird:

Find her ID tellepoert her to you.

How can I find her ID?

[Freeasabird🕊]

Originally posted by Otter Flooflord™:

Originally posted by Freeasabird:

Find her ID tellepoert her to you.

How can I find her ID?

well, whats her name? open the Console with ~ and type Help (Her name here) and hit enter. you should see her ID in there so you can Player.placeatme

[Freeasabird🕊]

Originally posted by Otter Flooflord™:

Originally posted by Freeasabird:

Find her ID tellepoert her to you.

How can I find her ID?

Or even, use Player.Moveto (her ID here) code this will telleport YOU right to where she is.

[Otter Flooflord™]

I did "Help Ella". It showed her as "NPC_: (05001838) 'Ella' "
I used Player.Moveto 05001838, and it returned "Invalid object refference '05001838' for parameter ObjectReferenceID". I also tried "player.placeatme", but she has none of the armor I gave her, cant seem to trade with her, give her any orders (wait, follow) or even part ways with her

[Freeasabird🕊]

Originally posted by Otter Flooflord™ battleforthenet:

I did "Help Ella". It showed her as "NPC_: (05001838) 'Ella' "
I used Player.Moveto 05001838, and it returned "Invalid object refference '05001838' for parameter ObjectReferenceID". I also tried "player.placeatme", but she has none of the armor I gave her, cant seem to trade with her, give her any orders (wait, follow) or even part ways with her

Do you have the Creation kit installed? if not go to library then Tools and find the Skyrim Creation Kit. install it and once thats done turn on the creation kit and wait a second for it to load, once the screens are visable and everythings loaded go to Load you should see all the mods you currantly have downloaded set the follower mod as the active file by clicking the box next to it and clicking the 'Set as active file' button. go to the characters section you should see it, and look for the follower. theres a search bar, put her name in there, and you'll hopefully see her name and Object ID/Ref ID write the Ref ID down and use that in the Player.moveto code.

Or you can ask the mod autor what her Ref id is if you don't mind waiting.

[Otter Flooflord™]

Nevermind! After messing around a bit, I managed to find her. I used a really old save (when I first met her at Whiterun, when I was lvl 6) and clicked on her. Her ID was 050058d5. I used player.moveto (her new ID) and found her stuck in between some rocks

[Otter Flooflord™]

But thank you very much anyway. You made me not want to quit Skyrim a 3rd time

[Freeasabird🕊]

Originally posted by Otter Flooflord™ battleforthenet:

Nevermind! After messing around a bit, I managed to find her. I used a really old save (when I first met her at Whiterun, when I was lvl 6) and clicked on her. Her ID was 050058d5. I used player.moveto (her new ID) and found her stuck in between some rocks

LOL oh ♥♥♥♥..that sucks..well okay then glad you found her.

[Freeasabird🕊]

Originally posted by Otter Flooflord™ battleforthenet:

But thank you very much anyway. You made me not want to quit Skyrim a 3rd time

this is probably a stupid question but have you heard of the Skyrim Nexus, man? theres a mod there called Amazing follower tweaks, or another one called Extensible Follower Framework (EFF), with eaither of these mods you can have as many followers as you want (i think up to 100) so you won't run into the issue of loseing a follower and not being able to recuit another one.

[Otter Flooflord™]

I have used Nexus before, but never stumbled to those mods. Thanks for recommending them! I'll take a look at them and use them if they're good

[shoopy]

For future reference, the number in help is not the refid. It's the number of the base copy of that NPC. If you use console commands on that number, you will not get your actual follower, you will only get a copy of her.

You need the refid which you get by actually clicking on the follower in console to move that actual instance of your follower.

[Jjp7123]

Originally posted by Otter Flooflord™ battleforthenet:

I have used Nexus before, but never stumbled to those mods. Thanks for recommending them! I'll take a look at them and use them if they're good

I also recommend you use this mod to keep track of your followers: https://old.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25554/?