Respawning Dead NPC's

[Fabian]

ingun black briar and a few other npc's have died thanks to random vampire attacks in the middle of riften, does anyone know if there is there a code to respawn them to type in or something please? any help would be appreciated, thank you

[Braden]

open console click on the dead npc and type resurrect

[CAP]

Open you console (type ~) and the bottom of your screen has a light grey coloring. Type resurrect and click on the dead body. Hit enter and ~. The poor soul will come back to life. There are mods, "When Vampires Attack" and "Run for Your Lives". You NPcs will run from Vampires and Dragons.

[SucsubaG]

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Console_Commands_(Skyrim)

[Fabian]

thank you, if her body isn't there what then though? :-S.... i got the run for your lives one, it's awesome, my game would be screwed without that :-D

[CAP]

Go to The Hall of the Dead and see if you can find her coffin. If you can then, to quote the movie Wizard of OZ "She's not only merely dead, she's really quite sincerely dead" In other words it is too late. Happened to me in Whiterun with Adrienne and Amren. You have my sympathy.
Edit: If someone knows how to get a person back from this level of demise I'm all ears.

[Fabian]

happened with adrienne with me too, take your favorite person, would be my most easy to use shopkeeper for shifting loot which is like a full time job on that game.... :-(

[Jempa92]

Type this: player.placeatme <BaseID> (with the base ID of the NPC you want to revive) into the console

(Found this article as I needed to respawn someone)

[The Crown of David]

To help keep people alive i make followers and place them where vampires spawn in city,towns and that helps...so usually they are dead before vamps have a chance to kill anyone

[Ilja]

Originally posted by Jempa92:

Type this: player.placeatme <BaseID> (with the base ID of the NPC you want to revive) into the console

(Found this article as I needed to respawn someone)

Do not use that command. It does not respawn the character itself, but a new reference from the NPC. Character is still considered dead and game can get (or not) heavily bugged because of it.

Keep in mind that even if you resurrect merchant characters, then they might be unable to sell you any items. Their deaths are already recorded and store ownership either removed or changed to other NPC.

If an important NPC dies, then load an earlier save. You can prevent them from dying by using mods When Vampires Attack and Run For Your Lives. These mods will send civilians to safety, when dragon or vampire attack occur, leaving only characters with combat classes to deal with the threat.

[Dexter]

As other have said, the mods Run for you Lives and When Dragons Attack are vital in keeping NPC's alive.

You could also use the Creation Kit to protect important NPC's further. Create an ESP or use an existing one from a mod, then go down the list of actors find all the blacksmith and vital NPC's like merchants or trainers and set them to either protected or essential.

Protected NPCs can still die to the player, but will go into bleedout when they are low on health and are ignored by other NPC's.

You can also set NPC's to respawn.

[KiraTsukasa]

If you're worried about people dying during vampire attacks, you should install Arthmoor's When Vampires Attack mod. When a vampire attack random event occurs in a town, it causes townspeople (except guards, followers, Companions, etc) to retreat to their homes or the town inn rather than try to fight with a dagger or, even worse, their fists. Also consider his Run for Your Lives mod, which does the same thing for dragon attacks.

[Daenir]

I might be quite late for a reply to this but I've done some theory testing for dead npcs in game. Seems 'essential' npcs don't really die unless they're unfortunately hit by the poison bug; named 'semi-essential' npcs can die from either you or creatures that go for the kill; general npcs (guards mainly) can die and be easily replaced. On the occasion that a 'semi-essential' npc drops dead, i decided to run a few tests to see what happens for respawn.

1st theory: an npc may respawn after say, 30 in game days. 2nd theory: a named npc can be brought back to life through console commands. To test it, i used AFT and made a random named npc a follower ** not necessary, but helps move them to a more secure location for testing**. In my tests, I used Karita the Bard from Dawnstar - made her a follower and travelled to Lakeview Manor. i then took her off the follower list so she'd walk away and transformed into a werewolf **again, not necessary to kill her this way but still fun**. To ensure the cell refreshed i went into my house and then proceeded to go through the 30 days resting at my bed. After, i went back outside to find her body gone - fast travelled to Dawnstar Inn to not find her there either.
With the 1st theory down, i looked a bit through forums etc. and on the wikia for console commands. Of course, the 'player.placeatme 'reference' 1' would have worked but it makes a copy of the original and not use the original body. Instead, since the targeted command 'resurrect' works well for original bodies i decided to find the dead body. Insanely, long story short - i used 'coc wideadbodycleanupcell' command to teleport to a developer room where all named bodies are kept. Sure enough, i found Karita's body here and was able to use the 'resurrect' command to bring her back.

To ensure my theory worked, i used 'coc dawnstarexterior01' to teleport me to in front of the Jarl's house in Dawnstar, ran along to the inn and found her near the bar with her lute - still voiced and still rather miffed that i killed her hehe. Hope this helps.

[sim__2]

If ist is a shopkeeper, he won't be able to sell things If you bring him back with placeatme. If you find him in the dead Person room, you can resurrect him and make him follow you with setrelationshiprank. Now you can teleport Outside with moveto and He will follow.

May be a Bit late

[alexander_dougherty]

Do not use Resurrect command, once death script has run the game views the NPC as dead and alive at the same time (aka it will cause bugs).
Other commands that revive dead NPCs have similar issues.

Also do not use Placeatme, this causes two instances of the NPC, which on it's own causes bugs, but if one is dead and the other alive then you get more bugs as the issues from resurrect apply ontop of the duplication issues.

If you REALLY want that NPC alive, load a save from before they died.

[Docsprock]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

If you REALLY want that NPC alive, load a save from before they died.

This is the only correct answer. ;)