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 game has 13 companions, including:

Name	Perk	Location	Gender	Race	Romance
Cait	Trigger Rush	Combat Zone	Female	Human
Codsworth	Robot Sympathy	Sanctuary Hills	Male	Mister Handy
Curie	Combat Medic	Vault 81	Female	Mister Handy/Synth
Paladin Danse	Know Your Enemy	Cambridge police station	Male	Synth
Deacon	Cloak & Dagger	Old North Church	Male	Human
Dogmeat	Attack Dog	Red Rocket truck stop (Outside Sanctuary Hills)	Male	Dog
John Hancock	Isodoped	Goodneighbor	Male	Ghoul
Robert MacCready	Killshot	Goodneighbor (Inside The Third Rail)	Male	Human
Nick Valentine	Close to Metal	Vault 114 Diamond City	Male	Synth
Piper	Gift of Gab	Diamond City	Female	Human
Preston Garvey	United We Stand	Museum of Freedom	Male	Human
Strong	Berserk	Trinity Tower	Male	Super mutant
X6-88	Shield Harmonics	The Institute	Male	Synth

Personal Quests

Some companions have personal quests, usually given after reaching a certain amount of approval:

• Cait: Benign Intervention
• Curie: Emergent Behavior
• Robert MacCready: Long Road Ahead
• Nick Valentine: Long Time Coming
• Paladin Danse: Blind Betrayal

Temporary companions

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

Name	Race	Quest	Location
Honest Dan	Human	Human Error	Covenant
High Rise	Human	Boston After Dark	Church close to Bunker Hill
Travis Miles	Human	Confidence Man	Diamond City
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 Station
Brotherhood Squire	Human	Leading by Example	Prydwen, Boston Airport

Interests

Main article: Affinity

Companion affinity is gained and lost with two varying degrees for both. For gaining affection, actions that are liked are represented with and action that are loved are represented with in the chart below. For losing affection, actions that are disliked are represented with and actions that are hated are represented with in the chart below.

Behavior	Cait	Codsworth	Curie	Danse	Deacon	Hancock	MacCready	Nick Valentine	Piper	Preston	Strong	X6-88
Generous
Mean						deserved, otherwise
Nice				with ghouls
Peaceful
Selfish
Violent
Sarcasm									sometimes
Accept Pickman's Gift
Chem Addiction	before personal quest after personal quest
Chem Usage	before personal quest after personal quest
Eat Corpse
Enter Covenant
Side against Covenant
Side with Covenant
Flirt with someone else	if romanced					if romanced			if romanced
Give Drugs	before personal quest after personal quest
Give Item
Give Vault-Tec rep a home
Hack Computer
Give Vault 81 cure to Austin			?								?	?
Keep Vault 81 cure		?	?	?	?	?	?	?		?	?	?
Heal Dogmeat
Modify Armor
Modify Weapon
Murder Non-Hostile
Naked
Pick Lock (Owned)
Pick Lock (Unowned)
Pickpocketing
Save Kent Connolly
Say you'd kill Kellogg again
Speech Success
Theft
Use Power Armor
Use Vertibird
Help Brotherhood
Help Minutemen
Help Railroad
Help Settler/accept Minutemen quest
Kill Settler/Railroad member					Hostile
Say neutral things about Synths
Say good things about Synths
Say bad things about Synths
Give the egg to the Deathclaw ( Quest The Devil's Due )

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.
  • Companions can be killed if sent to a settlement and it is raided by hostiles. ^{[verification needed]}
  • Some companions lose their essential status when dismissed.
  • Some companions lose their essential status upon reaching the lowest level of affinity and leaving the player.
• 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 the 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. You have to be standing a bit away from the armor; if you're too close, the command option will change to "enter" and if you hit 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 "home" wearing the armor, and continue to wear it until you tell them to exit their power armor suit.
  • There is a potential bug that will allow the humanoid companions to wear a power armor suit without a fusion core. If you remove the fusion core from the suit they may still enter it, and never need a fusion core.
• Humanoid companions can also be equipped with weapons and armor, of your choice. To do so, go to the trade dialogue option, and place whatever items you want 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 you must supply them 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 exclusions to this rule, Paladin Danse cannot wear anything other than headgear, as long as he has his power armor. Codsworth can wear certain hats, and Dogmeat can wear dog armor, bandanas, or eyewear.
• All companions carry 150, except Strong 200, and Danse 210.
  • It is possible to make companions wear pocketed armor to increase their max weight (+30 pounds with the basic pocketed armor modification).
  • There is a skill magazine perk that will increase the companion carry weight by 10.
• 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.
• Travelling with a companion bestows the player 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.

Bugs

• Should you send a companion to a settlement and make them permanently hostile, with Danse and X6-88 being examples, they will remain in the settlement you sent them to and are unable to be killed. Though they will not attack the settlers they will attack you when you approach them. Currently there are no patches or fixes to this bug. ^{[platforms tag needed][verification overdue]} X6-88 verified
  • On PC you can use console commands to change them to non essential with "setessential (base_id) 0", then you can kill them.

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