Dragonborns Cohort

Dragonborn’s Cohort removes a vanilla engine limitation that forces followers into a distance-ranked queue.

Skyrim adds increasingly large extra spacing to every companion behind the one ahead, creating the long single-file “conga line.” Cohort compresses only this accumulated queue spacing, allowing followers to stay together around the player without changing their personal follow distance.

Installation instructions

Install with a mod manager, or place the DLL into Data/SKSE/Plugins/.

Recommended Mods for Best Results:

Keep Up - Follower Locomotion Fix

Dog Dialogue Story Manager - Disable

Here's what Dragonborn's Cohort does NOT do:

- No fixed formation slots, no KeepOffset targets, no invisible markers dragging companions around

- Doesn't override movement, doesn't teleport anyone, doesn't touch movement speed

- Doesn't change personal follow distance, doesn't override your follower framework's settings - only compresses the extra queue spacing vanilla Skyrim tacks on when other followers are ahead in line

- Doesn't touch AI packages, pathfinding, navmesh, combat behavior, dialogue scenes, or sandboxing

- Doesn't fix genuine movement stalls, blocked doors, broken navmesh, or scene interruptions, that's a different problem entirely (Keep Up! territory, not this one)

What's new in v 1. 1. 0:

- Summoned creatures get pulled into the group now too. Atronachs, reanimated undead and other commanded actors join the ring around you instead. Dismissing or dispelling them returns everything to normal automatically. Summons belonging to other characters aren't affected.

- The heartbeat log line now splits its counter: "capped=N (cmd=M)", where cmd is the number of compression events applied to your summons/reanimated (0 when none are active). One glance at the log confirms the feature is working.

- Improved conflict detection: if another mod is hooking the same engine call sites, the log now names the actual conflicting plugin instead of a vague error. It also catches mods that re-hook these sites later during startup. Nothing changes in how the mod behaves here, just clearer info in the log.