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

[Valden21]

Publicado originalmente por Docsprock:

Publicado originalmente por alexander_dougherty:

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

This is the only correct answer. ;)

True that. Why are there so many people claiming that the "Resurrect" console command works? It DOESN'T, and there's a great big warning about that fact on UESP. All that results from it is a borked game and NPCs that just stand around. It may not happen right away, but it will eventually, and there's no way to predict exactly when it hits. Seriously, it's one of the most dangerous console commands you can use, and one of the main reasons why using console commands is strictly a last-resort thing.

[jle30303]

I have used the "resurrect" command on a few characters - even characters who had been dead for long enough for their bodies to despawn and go to the developer room for named corpses (the Llanith couple in the farm just NW of Riften have an annoying habit of being killed by bears when I was too far away to see, while I step out of the front gate of Riften: and Nilsine Shatter-Shield and Niranye both appear to have simply fallen through the floor a couple of times and crash-landed in the game structure underneath Windhelm) - and there have been no issues, they have all worked fine. They are all still carrying on with their daily routines after resurrection. This may or may not be because I also used either the "resetAI" or "recycleactor" commands to reset their AIs. All the characters still perform their regular functions, have their conversations with other characters, and stick to their regular schedules.

I think I've got six such survivors in my current savegame, four of whom have burial urns in their Halls of the Dead... admittedly including such inconsequential NPCs as Sigurd (Whiterun) and Valindor (Riften). Niranye (Windhelm) is the only shopkeeper that I saved this way, and that only because I had no saves from before her disappearance (she, too, had fallen through the floor, and attempting to move myself to her position to find where she was put me floating in the air underneath Windhelm city.)

It even worked with shopkeepers who died, remembering that I'd invested with them, or in Niranye's case remembering that she was now a fence for the Thieves Guild, and it worked for people who remembered that I'd befriended them in whatever way was necessary, or completed their quests. So please don't go saying "it always breaks things": it CAN work just fine. It just doesn't always do so. And since the survivors have been acting normally, and even having their regular conversations with other NPCs, for about 200 in-game days and a similar number of saves now, I would like to hope that any errors are long since gone.

It didn't work so well if the shop has transferred to a new owner (e.g. Camilla Valerius taking over her brother's store after Lucan was killed by a "Thief"), so I reloaded back to a save where he was still alive. Fortunately I was able to do that because I'd actually seen him die (about five seconds after I fast-travelled to Riverwood, where the "Thief" spawned just as he was walking from his store to the tavern.)

My game hasn't crashed yet. But then, I'm only using about four mods, and one of those is the Unofficial Patch.

However I still don't recommend it, on the above warnings. I've taken a chance on it, and it's been okay SO FAR, and to be honest, the only reason I'm keeping going with it is that I did most of these resurrections after having seen the instructions about "resurrect" and "recycleactor" and before seeing all the scare stories about "don't do it, it'll crash your game", I had no savegames left from before resurrecting them, because it happened too long ago, so I had to either restart right from scratch or carry on and hope.