tight panther
So today I found Lumber (Yew) in my bonfire.
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This is the 2nd one that I need for a level progression quest. Once again my retainer has thrown something in a fueled workstation to reduce it all to cinders & ash. I've filed a Feedback on the official forum for that, but has anyone discovered a way currently to disable this? I never put anything wood on it for weight anymore, but it still grabs stuff sometimes before I get to it (as it apparently did with this VITAL QUEST ITEM).
eternal notch
Simple really. Clean your minion's inventory.
And abuse the area pick up when fighting bound, so that you get everything
Or maybe door. Not sure if they can open those
serene phoenix
Extinguisher fires when you're done with them. Put everything in your followers inventory into your storage when you get back to your base. Do not allow your followers to access your base storage. There's a button for this
thin trout
What is this button you speak of? I know of a check box on storage containers for "survivors" but that is to get your recruit to put something in there.
serene phoenix
Yeah the checkbox on storage.
Much like training dogs, if you remove the ability for bad habits to happen, then it can't happen
thin trout
So by default that is unchecked. If i check it they will put stuff in there. I do this with a chest outside my base so they just go and put anything in there.
serene phoenix
That's fine, but not what this is about. Just removing all possible interactions between them and your base.
thin trout
Ok that is fine. you just made it sound like that if you checked that box it would prevent them. Its all good. i just thought you might know something I didn't. =)
serene phoenix
Gotcha. Its less an issue when you upgrade your own carrying capacity. I really o lay use mine when farming stone/logs now, and if she adds 25 logs to every fire I'm fine with it, but she's not allowed to pickup mob drops or anything else. I auto AoE pickup any drops.
thin trout
Yeah same. I put a chest right outside my front door and they just default to putting everything in there. I also keep my front door closed and my recruit seems to not come inside. I am not sure if they just can't open doors yet or the pathing is messed up for them when I did that.
serene phoenix
Yeah same. I put a chest right outside my front door and they just default to pu...
We used to not have stairs around our foundation, no NPCs could ever make it up that little lip 😂
tight panther
All of my boxes are unchecked so they can't access. I use the 'harvest all' feature regularly, but still there are moments when the retainer is faster than I am - particularly on a fight where I might be running after (or away from) 1 that hasn't gotten retainer agro while he's walking around vacuuming up drops.
The idea of an accessible chest outside of my base is interesting. I wonder if that might trick it into throwing things into that before it gets inside & near the fires? They will blink through doors; mine gets in all the time even though I always slam the door in its face.
Even if we could disable retainer vacuuming it would help. Then the only things in its inventory would be things that I knew I'd placed there - no surprises like this quest piece was.
serene phoenix
All of my boxes are unchecked so they can't access. I use the 'harvest all' feat...
If you really wanted, you could put a bunch of rare useless unique things in their inventories to fill it up
novel summit
If you put a torch on your follower, and equip it, they go to 'I'm going to light your path' mode and they do not interact with nor put anything anywhere.
This will also stop them contributing to building projects anywhere (in base, and in Aid missions)
I keep a torch on my follower, and if I'm approaching an Aid mission in game, I immediately go in and have them equip it.
You can also give them a 1 handed weapon to still do some damaage to stuff? but I usually don't bother 😄