Companion Inventory Monitor
⚪ Last updated 2023⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.4% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #164 of 193 Gameplay mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Companion Inventory Monitor
Monitor, filter and restrict your companion's inventory
"Hoarding now?" - Cogsworth, Fallout 4
Yeah, Cogsworth, pretty much! Everyone reading this, let's all come clean: almost everyone hammers that trashcan, file cabinet, or corpse telling their companions to take every item. It takes patience, but after many "Get that", "Take that", "See if there's anything worth taking" requests you can get everything due to a bug/feature in the game that companions can take items past their carryweight limit.
This bug/feature affects my gameplay drastically sitting for long periods picking up everything and I cannot resist the temptation to use it. To cure myself of this temptation, I wrote a mod to enforce your companion's carryweight limitation. This turns me more into a scavenger taking only what I need. That is where this mod started. From there it expanded in other ways.
Companion Inventory Monitor (CIM) introduces a tight quest script that monitors when items are added to your companion's inventory. The following conditions are monitored:
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[]Companions may only carry less than their carryweight (toggleable) -- yes that means only 99. 99% of their carryweight
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]Allowing Stimpaks for overweight companions required for healing them[]Allowing overweight companions to take a subset of items less than their carryweight if possible
[]Filter items by a minimum value, if they are Legendary, or must be better value than current Weapons/Armor
[]Configurable notification messages for everything: Companion Overweight, Amount Carried, Items Taken, Container Empty
All of the features can be toggled or configured through Mod Configuration Menu (MCM).
Requirements
- []Fallout 4 Script Extender (F4SE) - required for script code to get inventory weights
- Mod Configuration Menu (MCM) - required to toggle/configure the features of the mod
Installation and Removal
Use Vortex or another mod manager to install or extract the archive to your Data directory and enable. There should not be any issues with removing this mod mid-game, but if you are concerned go to the MCM and stop the mod before removal which stops the background quest.
Questions and Answers
Should I install this mod?
CIM is awesome and has changed the way I play the game. If you want to play more as a scavenger, then t
Companion Inventory Monitor is a gameplay mod that displays companion carry weight, filters what they pick up, and enforces carry limits. With 115 endorsements and 26,321 downloads, it's a niche utility for players who want tighter control over companion inventories. Last updated March 2023.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Solid download-to-endorsement ratio (26k downloads, 115 endorsements) suggests it works for many.
- Solves a real pain point—companions hoarding junk or over-encumbering.
- Three-in-one utility: display, filter, and enforce—no need for multiple mods.
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated March 2023—might be out of sync with recent game patches.
- Niche feature set—if you don't micromanage companion inventories, this won't matter to you.
For players who hate when companions pick up every piece of junk or get over-encumbered. If you're a loot goblin who wants to keep your party lean, this is for you. Skip if you don't care about companion inventory management.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Check if your game version is compatible—mod was last updated in 2023, so test after patches.
- Use a mod manager to easily toggle the mod on/off if issues arise.
- Start with the filter feature to see which items you want companions to ignore before enforcing carry weight.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Fallout 4 Mods
- Author
- louisthird
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Downloads
- 26,321
- Endorsements
- 115
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 9/9/2020
- Updated
- 3/9/2023
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