Essential NPCs - Batch File

DESCRIPTION (V4. 2)

USERS OF V4, 4. 1: PLEASE SEE STICKY POST FOR MINOR TYPO FIXES

Batch file that makes various NPCs essential (89 in total, and well over 100 with the optional codes in this description and the ones provided by a kind user in a stickied post).  You don't have to start a new game but, if an NPC is already dead, the bat command won't effect them and won't do any harm.  You can easily make any of the NPCs unessential later but PLEASE first read what I've mentioned below on that.

There's no DLC content or, except for Trudy and Patrick (Drumlin Diner), any NPC that you may decide to kill as part of a quest.

I included so many NPCs because you can easily edit the file to suit your own tastes.  If you don't want one or more NPCs to be essential, just open the "enpcs.txt" file, delete the appropriate line(s) and save before activation.  The description after each line makes it easy to find the NPC(s) you want.

MOD INSTALLATION/ ACTIVATION

Download the mod manually, unzip and place enpcs.txt in your main Fallout 4 folder (the one that has the FO4.exe).   Activate it in-game by going into console (press the tilde key, i.e. "~") and typing "bat enpcs" without quotations and hit .

NPCs INCLUDED IN THE MAIN FILE

Abernathy Farm:  Blake, Connie, Lucy, Clarabell (brahmin), Maisie (cat)

Atom Cats Garage:  Bluejay, Duke, Johnny D, Rowdy, Roxy, Zeke, Peepers (eyebot)

Bunker Hill:  Deb, Joe & Tony Savoldi, Kay, Kessler, Old Man Stockton, the Brahmin and the (4) unnamed Caravan Workers

Caravan Merchants:  Cricket, Doc Weathers, Lucas Miller, Trashcan Carla and all their guards and Brahmins

Covenant:  Dora (cat) see below for adding other Covenant residents

Diamond City:  Sheffield

Drumlin Diner: Trudy and Patrick see below for adding the 2 raiders when you first meet Trudy

Egret Tours Marina:  Phyllis Daily

Finch Farm: Abigail, Abraham, Daniel see below for adding Jake

Graygarden: Supervisors Brown, Greene and White

Level 4 Merchants:  Anne Hargraves, Doc Anderson, Holt Combes, Ron Staples, Smiling Larry, The Scribe, Tina DeLuca, Trader Rylee, Vault-Tec Rep

Salem: Barney Rook see below re: UFO4P v2. 0. 6+

Sanctuary:  Jun & Marcy Long

Shamrock Taphouse:  Drinking Buddy

Sunshine Tidings Co-op:  Professor Goodfeels

The Castle: The 2 previously killable Minuteman who help fight the Mirelurks and their Queen during Taking Independence

The Slog:  Arlen Glass, Deirdre, Holly, Jones, Wiseman, and the (3) unnamed Workers

Warwick Homestead:  Janey, Roger & June Warwick, Cedric Hopton See below re: June Warwick bugfix, and adding Bill Sutton

Stationary Wasteland Merchants:  Bethany, Eleanor and her dog Teddy, Leonard Moore, Opal, Slim

Wandering Wasteland