Fallout 4 companions

For companions in other Fallout games, see companion.

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This page lists all companions in Fallout 4.

• The content is not described in full detail on this page. For details, please see the respective articles.
• For companions in other Fallout games, please see "Companion".
• For an overview of Fallout 4 content, please refer to "Portal:Fallout 4."

 

Permanent companions

The base game has 13 companions; four more are available with the Automatron, Far Harbor, and Nuka-World add-ons.

Companion	Location	Prerequisites	Base S.P.E.C.I.A.L.	Hit Points	Personal Quest	Perk	Romance	Gift	Special Skill
Cait	Combat Zone	Ask her to join after clearing the Combat Zone	5 ST, 10 PE, 7 EN, 7 CH, 7 IN, 10 AG, 7 LK	185 + ([Player Level - 10] x 5)	Benign Intervention	Trigger Rush			Pick Locks
Codsworth	Sanctuary Hills	Ask him to join after visiting Concord in the quest Out of Time	9 ST, 10 PE, 7 EN, 7 CH, 16 IN, 10 AG, 7 LK	195 + ([Player Level - 10] x 5)		Robot Sympathy		1 Purified water
Curie	Vault 81	Complete the quest Hole in the Wall	5 ST, 4 PE, 4 EN, 4 CH, 4 IN, 4 AG, 4 LK (Synth) 4 ST, 4 PE, 4 EN, 4 CH, 11 IN, 4 AG, 4 LK (Miss Nanny)	440 (Miss Nanny) 670 (Synth)	Emergent Behavior	Combat Medic		Stimpak
Paladin Danse	Cambridge police station The Prydwen (after Shadow of Steel)	Upon receiving the quest Tour of Duty	5 ST, 10 PE, 8 EN, 8 CH, 8 IN, 10 AG, 7 LK	185 + ([Player Level - 10] x 5)	Blind Betrayal	Know Your Enemy		Righteous Authority (quest reward)
Deacon	Railroad HQ	Complete Tradecraft and join The Railroad	5 ST, 10 PE, 7 EN, 9 CH, 8 IN, 10 AG, 8 LK	185 + ([Player Level - 10] x 5)		Cloak & Dagger
Dogmeat	Red Rocket truck stop	Ask him to join	4 ST, 14 PE, 4 EN, 4 CH, 8 IN, 14 AG, 4 LK	150 + ([Player Level - 1] x 5)		Attack Dog
John Hancock	Old State House in Goodneighbor	Ask him to join after completing The Big Dig (if sided with Bobbi No-Nose, after completing Recruiting Hancock)	5 ST, 10 PE, 8 EN, 9 CH, 14 IN, 10 AG, 8 LK	185 + ([Player Level - 10] x 5)		Isodoped		Chems
Robert MacCready	The Third Rail in Goodneighbor	Hire him for 250 caps or 200 (Easy speech check)	5 ST, 10 PE, 4 EN, 6 CH, 7 IN, 5 AG, 5 LK	185 + ([Player Level - 10] x 5)	Long Road Ahead	Killshot		Ammo	Steal Items Undetected
Nick Valentine	Vault 114 Diamond City after Unlikely Valentine	Complete Getting a Clue	5 ST, 7 PE, 8 EN, 8 CH, 16 IN, 10 AG, 8 LK	225 + ([Player Level - 10] x 5)	Long Time Coming	Close to Metal			Hack Terminals
Piper Wright	Diamond City	Complete Story of the Century or during Dangerous Minds	5 ST, 10 PE, 7 EN, 10 CH, 8 IN, 10 AG, 8 LK	185 + ([Player Level - 10] x 5)		Gift of Gab		Sweet Foods
Preston Garvey	Museum of Freedom Sanctuary Hills (after When Freedom Calls	Complete The First Step	5 ST, 10 PE, 7 EN, 9 CH, 8 IN, 10 AG, 8 LK	185 + ([Player Level - 10] x 5)		United We Stand		Radiant Quests
Strong	Trinity Tower	Ask him to join after Curtain Call	24 ST, 12 PE, 8 EN, 1 CH, 6 IN, 18 AG, 1 LK	245 + ([Player Level - 10] x 5)		Berserk		Meats
X6-88	The Institute	Join the Institute and complete Mankind - Redefined	16 ST, 18 PE, 17 EN, 8 CH, 10 IN, 18 AG, 8 LK	185 + ([Player Level - 10] x 5)		Shield Harmonics		fusion cells
Ada	Near Wattz Consumer Electronics Red Rocket truck stop	Complete Mechanical Menace	9 ST, 5 PE, 1 EN, 1 CH, 7 IN, 10 AG, 1 LK		Automatron quest line	None		Junk Items (possible radiant quests)	Steal Owned Items (may upgrade to Hack or Lockpick)
Automatron	N/A	Must be built at a Robot workbench	9 ST, 5 PE, 0 EN, 0 CH, 0 IN, 10 AG, 0 LK	Variable		None		Junk Items	May Upgrade to Hack or Lockpick
Old Longfellow	The Last Plank	Complete Walk in the Park	5 ST, 7 PE, 7 EN, 7 CH, 7 IN, 10 AG, 7 LK		Shipbreaker	Hunter's Wisdom
Porter Gage	Fizztop Grille	Complete An Ambitious Plan	7 ST, 9 PE, 7 EN, 3 CH, 6 IN, 8 AG, 7 LK			Lessons in Blood			Limited Merchant

Temporary companions

The game has a number of temporary companions that will only be available during certain quests.

Name	Race	Quest	Location
Honest Dan	Human	Human Error	Covenant
High Rise	Human	Boston After Dark	Church close to Bunker Hill
H2-22	Synth	Boston After Dark	Church close to Bunker Hill
Travis Miles	Human	Confidence Man	Diamond City
Jack Cabot	Human	The Secret of Cabot House	Cabot House, Parsons State Insane Asylum
Mel	Human	The Big Dig	Goodneighbor
Bobbi No-Nose	Ghoul	The Big Dig	Goodneighbor
Sonya	Eyebot	The Big Dig	Goodneighbor
Glory	Synth	Memory Interrupted	Malden Center
Rex Goodman	Human	Curtain Call	Trinity Tower
Brotherhood squire	Human	Leading by Example	The Prydwen, Boston Airport
Brotherhood scribe	Human	Learning Curve	The Prydwen, Boston Airport
Allie Filmore	Human	Mass Fusion	The Institute
X4-18	Synth	The Battle of Bunker Hill	Bunker Hill
Arthur Maxson	Human	The Nuclear Option	The Prydwen
Paladin Brandis*	Human	The Nuclear Option	The Prydwen
Knight Lucia	Human	The Nuclear Option	The Prydwen
Proctor Ingram	Human	Spoils of War	The Prydwen
Billy Peabody	Ghoul	Kid in a Fridge	Peabody house
Pearl	Miss Nanny	Brain Dead	Cliff's Edge Hotel
Cito	Human	Safari Adventure	Safari Adventure
Cleansed	Human	Trip to the Stars	Hubologist's camp

Interests

Main article: Affinity

General behavior

Event	Cait	Codsworth	Curie	Danse	Deacon	Hancock	MacCready	Piper	Preston	Strong	Valentine	X6-88	Longfellow	Gage
Being generous
Being mean
Being nice
Being peaceful
Being selfish
Being violent
Flirting with someone else if romanced

Miscellaneous actions

Event	Cait	Codsworth	Curie	Danse	Deacon	Hancock	MacCready	Piper	Preston	Strong	Valentine	X6-88	Longfellow	Gage
Get addicted to a chem	varies
Use a chem	varies
Give away an item
Drink alcohol	varies
Eat a corpse
Use power armor
Board a Vertibird
Hack a terminal
Heal Dogmeat
Modify armor
Modify a weapon
Commit a murder
Pick an unowned lock
Pick an owned lock
Ask for extra caps
Steal an item
Pickpocket an item
Walk around naked

Faction activities

Event	Cait	Codsworth	Curie	Danse	Deacon	Hancock	MacCready	Piper	Preston	Strong	Valentine	X6-88	Longfellow	Gage
Help the Brotherhood													?	?
Help the Minutemen													?	?
Help the Railroad													?	?
Help the Institute													?	?
Accept a settlement quest
Refuse a settlement quest

Notes

• Unlike Fallout 3, companions are marked as "essential" when acting as active companions, meaning they cannot be killed. If incapacitated, they will automatically heal after combat ends.
  • If one is playing in Survival mode, the companion must be healed when incapacitated, even after combat. If they're not healed within a set period of time, or when the player travels beyond a certain distance, they will leave and return to their last used home base.
  • Some companions lose their essential status when dismissed. They do, however, remain protected like other settlers and cannot be killed by NPC attacks (only by the player or their active companion or related action)
  • Some companions lose their essential status upon reaching the lowest level of affinity and leaving the player character.
• If the Sole Survivor fires a weapon in a settlement, any companions present in that settlement will often become annoyed and make backbiting comments on how that is best saved for another time. This does not count as a disapproval.
• If the player character murders an innocent, their affinity with their current companion will drop by 10% and will trigger dialogue with the player character expressing anger and warning them to never do it again. They may also leave the player character instead of speaking to them. They will refuse to speak to the player character at first, but after a few days, the companion will be able to travel again. Should the player character ignore this warning and repeat a murder, companions will permanently leave. This applies to every companion except Strong, as he likes murder. Dogmeat, Ada, and automatrons are neutral about murder.
  • Depending on what kind of innocent murdered, the companion may even become hostile towards the player character. For example, Piper and Nick will turn hostile if a DC guard is killed, while Hancock will turn hostile if a Goodneighbor guard is killed.
• Companions will give different thoughts and relationship statuses depending on their relationship with the player character. They will also differ in attitude when dismissing them or asking them to join. These comments can be hateful, disdainful, neutral, admirable, generous, and for romantic companions, affectionate.
• Raising or dropping a companion's affinity to a certain amount will trigger a unique dialogue with the player character. Positive affinity will reveal some of the companion's background and how they ended up here. When reaching idolization, the companion will admit to having the player character being their best friend. Negative affinity results in disappointed companions asking the Sole Survivor to change their ways. When reaching hatred, the companion will threaten to leave for good. A moderate persuasion check can convince them to give the player character one more chance. If the persuasion was successful, but the affinity still goes down, the companion will eventually snap and leave for good. This applies to every companion except for Dogmeat, Ada, and an automatron.

• Companions can be directed and can have more options if they like the Sole Survivor a lot, whether being a human, a synth, a dog or a robot. This is influenced by how the Survivor approaches quests and talks to other people.
• Humanoid companions can be ordered to use power armor; to do so one needs to "command" the companion to simply enter the armor. Whether the armor is racked or not, they will walk up to it and enter it. One has to be standing a bit away from the armor; if too close, the command option will change to "enter" and if hitting the activate button, the Sole Survivor will mount the power armor instead.
  • To get a companion out of power armor simply talk to them and there will be a dialogue option to ask them to get out of it.
  • When the companion is dismissed they will return to the designated "home" wearing the armor and will continue to wear it until telling them to exit their power armor suit. Sometimes one may find the dismissed companion in the settlement sent to without their power armor. In that case, look around the settlement for the power armor suit as the companion may have exited it and left it somewhere in the settlement. The larger the settlement, the longer or more difficult the search for the lost armor suit may be.
    • To make a companion not leave the power armor at the settlement, make sure both the power armor and the companion is equipped with a fully charges fusion core. (It might also help to assign them guard duty, so they don't go to sleep)
  • Humanoid companions can wear power armor without needing a fusion core. If removing the fusion core from the suit, they may still enter it and never need a fusion core. It is unclear if this is intended behavior.
• Humanoid companions can also be equipped with weapons and armor of choice. To do so, go to the trade dialogue option and place whatever items the player character wants them to use or wear in their inventory. Then, in their inventory, press the button to "equip" the item(s). Weapons equipped must also have an ammunition supply, so they must be provided with the ammo type the weapon requires. Even weapons that use the same ammunition as a companion's default weapon must have ammunition supplied.
  • There are some exceptions to this rule: Paladin Danse cannot wear anything other than headgear as long as he has his power armor, Codsworth can wear certain hats, Nick Valentine will only wear his trenchcoat (although an extra one is given to the player character; this one can be modified and equipped on Nick) or he can wear the High Confessor Tektus' robes from the Far Harbor add-on or power armor, Strong can wear super mutant armor, Dogmeat can wear dog armor, bandanas and eyewear.
  • Humanoid companions can and will use all types of grenades when equipped with them. While they possess remarkable skill and are fully capable of hitting even moving targets with astounding accuracy, they are completely oblivious of any collateral damage they might inflict on allies caught in the blast radius, the Sole Survivor included. Investing at least one point in the Inspirational perk is therefore recommended before equipping companions with grenades or any explosive weapon for that matter.
• All companions have a carrying capacity of 150, except Strong with 200, and Danse with 210. Note that this is changed substantially in Survival mode, causing many companions to be able to carry little more than their own armor and weapons.
  • It is possible to make companions wear pocketed or deep pocketed armor to increase their carrying capacity by +30 or +60, respectively.
  • Companion carry capacity can be increased by +10 by acquiring Live & Love Issue #3.
  • A trick can be used to push a companion past their carry capacity. Companions can always be commanded to pick up items or loot containers & bodies, even when at or beyond capacity. Note when commanding them to loot containers & bodies they will only grab one item at a time, so one may need to command them repeatedly. Once at or beyond capacity, it will not be possible to give them items any other way. This will not work with Dogmeat.
• Dogmeat does not count as a companion for the purposes of the Lone Wanderer perk, therefore the Survivor can adventure with him and keep the benefits of the perk.
• Traveling with a companion bestows the player character with an inherent 5% bonus to all Experience gained. This bonus can be further increased by acquiring Live & Love Issue #8. These bonuses are multiplicative with other experience bonuses such as Intelligence and Gift of Gab.
• When choosing a location to send a dismissed companion, selecting 'Cancel' will not cancel the dismissal, but will instead send them back to the last location they were sent to when dismissed. If no settlement has ever been selected, the companion will be sent to their original location rather than a settlement.
• If one accidentally dismisses a companion, just walk up to them again and ask them to re-join. One must also confirm the companion's desire to re-join after asking.
• Danse, Deacon, Gaige, and X6-88 are the only companions who can be killed by the Sole Survivor if they're not following the Survivor.
• Perks gained from companions are permanent. This holds true regardless of the status of the companion (e.g. hostile towards the player character, dead, etc.).
• It is impossible to complete the main story of Fallout 4 and keep all companions (so if one wants to get all companion perks a few must be done before completing the main quest).
• Companions can be tracked down using the Vault-Tec Population Management System introduced in the Vault-Tec Workshop add-on.
• Some pacifist companions, like Curie and Piper, will still have their affinity raised when asking them to wait while fighting enemies alone in that same area. In contrast, aggressive companions, like MacCready, will only have their affinity raised if they are directly in contact with the enemies together with the player character.
• Most companions complain when picking up junk, however, Old Longfellow will praise the player character and even have his affinity raised. Piper will complement the player character's ability to find a use for junk but does not gain any affinity.
• When the player activates an elevator that takes them into a different location, all companions will seem to disappear for a short period, and then reappear, although it is still possible to locate them with the reticle. An example is an elevator in Secret Vault 81 To Vault 81, where the Curie follows the player to the last quest marker for Hole in the Wall.
• Some companions will, when talked to, give the Survivor a gift. This can happen once/day.

Bugs

• PC Playstation 4 A companion may become stuck in a reference pose position, flying around unanimated about 1-2 feet off the ground following the player character. The companion can be spoken with and interacted with in a normal manner, however, the companion will not fight. Even loading a new area by going through a door will not fix this behavior.^[verified]
  • One potential fix is to fast travel to another location.
  • Another fix is to dismiss the companion. The companion can be re-recruited back.
• PC Playstation 4 Certain sound effects can get "stuck" to companions and continue to play after said companion quit performing the respective action. Known examples include the sound of wielding a Ripper, firing a Gauss rifle and using the weapon bench's drill. When the bug occurs it follows the companion around, waxing and waning depending on their distance, and can neither be stopped by fast-traveling, reloading or taking the weapon away from them. It can, however, be fixed by closing and restarting the game. It is currently unknown what exactly causes the bug.^[verified]
  • Should the Ripper sound be playing over and over, having the companion use the weapon again may fix the bug.^[verified]
  • If a companion has the drilling-sound glitch from an armor workbench or weapon workbenches, allowing them to re-use the corresponding workbench from where the glitched sound is and let them end its use by themselves without interruptions, the sound glitch should stop and be fixed.
• Playstation 4 Xbox One Ada may remain with you even though you have just selected dismiss in dialogue, as well as the option of the settlement won't pop up.^[verified]
  • One solution is to restart the game.
  • Another solution is to acquire a different companion.
• Playstation 4 When sending a companion to another settlement using the workshop he/ she will not go there straight away, and bringing the settlement choices back up will show the place still has an option to where they can be sent.^[verified]
  • A fix for this is to turn the game off, then reloading the save.
  • Another fix is to fast travel to a different place and sleep in a bed and return.
• Playstation 4 Xbox One If a companion is down while changing zones, they may remain "downed" permanently, only changing areas along with the Sole Survivor. This can be fixed by damaging their HP until they go "down" and regenerate again while out of combat.^[verified]

References

Companions in Fallout 4 Permanent Cait · Codsworth · Curie · Danse · Deacon · Dogmeat · John Hancock · Nick Valentine · Piper Wright · Preston Garvey · Robert MacCready · Strong · X6-88 · Ada  · Automatron  · Old Longfellow  · Porter Gage Temporary Allie Filmore · Arthur Maxson · Billy Peabody · Bobbi No-Nose · Paladin Brandis · Cito  · Glory · H2-22 · High Rise · Honest Dan · Proctor Ingram · Jack Cabot · Knight Lucia · Mel · Pearl  · Rex Goodman · Sonya · Travis Miles · X4-18