companion Meet Companion Ivy

[Reginald_001]

On 1/21/2025 at 6:19 AM, DisplayName118 said:

So first playthrough with Ivy. Is she supposed to be able to go to the institute right away? Every time I would start the institute quest Shaun wouldn't respond. So I dismissed Ivy then started the quest. After that Shaun responded. 

Use the teleport module and teleport her to you as soon as you land in the institute.

10 hours ago, Jpnts said:

how do i exclude her from facegen/xcell? she doesnt have a head and if i use wasteland wonderglue i cant edit her hair or face.

Edit X-Cell.ini and add Ivy as excluision. I don't use it myself just got this from hearsay so if you don't know how to edit X-Cell.ini try their support pages or discord.  

[Jpnts]

15 hours ago, Reginald_001 said:

Use the teleport module and teleport her to you as soon as you land in the institute.

Edit X-Cell.ini and add Ivy as excluision. I don't use it myself just got this from hearsay so if you don't know how to edit X-Cell.ini try their support pages or discord.  

yea i wish i didnt have to use it but Storywealth forces it so...

 

i found a solution:

 

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1. Download better console
2. click on ivy in game and copy down where it says base ID which should be 000803
3. Put "Ivy=0xXX000803" without the qoutations in the exclusion part of the x-cell ini. And where the 2 XX's are you put the first 2 numbers that show
for your specific base id, mine was 08000803, your first 2 numbers will be different. 

 

Edited February 2, 2025 by Jpnts

[Sledge]

On 2/1/2025 at 2:33 PM, Reginald_001 said:

Use the teleport module and teleport her to you as soon as you land in the institute.

I'm still having this issue. Teleport module doesn't work in the institute. Even player.moveto doesn't seem to do anything. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong here.

 

FWIW disabling CompanionIvy allowed the conversation with synth Shaun to work first try. Alternatively disabling Subversion also allowed the conversation to work, so I'm guessing they both affect the same scripts. Still couldn't teleport her to me though.

Edited February 10, 2025 by Sledge

[Simpossible_xx]

Hi, Collective Modding Toolkit scanner says there are issues with Meshes and Sounds archives so they won't be loaded by the game.

 

Mod: CompanionIvy6.1
Problem: CompanionIvy_quest - Meshes.ba2
Summary: This is not a valid archive name and won't be loaded by the game.
Solution: Archives must be named the same as a plugin with an added suffix or added to an INI.

Valid Suffixes: main, textures, voices_en
Example: companionivy_quest - Main.ba2

 

Mod: CompanionIvy6.1
Problem: CompanionIvy_quest - Sounds.ba2
Summary: This is not a valid archive name and won't be loaded by the game.
Solution: Archives must be named the same as a plugin with an added suffix or added to an INI.

Valid Suffixes: main, textures, voices_en
Example: companionivy_quest - Main.ba2

 

While meshes archive has only dummyfile, the sounds archive contain 4 files. What should I do with them? Would you update it or I can troubleshoot it myself?

 

UPD: Seems like those archives are obsolete and sounds are already included into folders.

Edited February 4, 2025 by Simpossible_xx

[Reginald_001]

I owe you all an.. **Ivy in Far Harbor: Space Vault 14 and the Pelican Conundrum Development Update**

 

**FEATURES:**
- 8 Custom Cells
- 1 highly detailed and feature filled played home, featuring a configurable VR Fighting Arena, a fully working automated Quantt!! holographic board game, a fortune teller, a working gambling machine and more..
- **Space Vault 14:** Visit a reality altering and mind bending crashed space ship, explore it to find the secrets of Ivy's future past!
- **The Pelican Conundrum:** When Ivy finds a new friend in Maxx, she learns the true meaning of duty of care.
- New custom NPC's
- A whole new faction with playable armor.
- 1672 total new lines of dialog. (About 1400 for Ivy)

- 61 new lore notes

- 58 new lore terminals

- Integrates into the vanilla story line, and interjects during vanilla dialog.
- Can be played at any of Ivy's affinity levels: It is encouraged to play at least 2 times, 1 time before 'Into the Deep' and 1 time after 'Nuka World' , but to learn fully about Ivy it is recommended to play the addon at all three different affinity levels (before Into the Deep, after Into the Deep, and after Nuka World).

 

**UPDATE**
All of that is now finished and I'm going into the last development phase. I have worked harder than hard the past few weeks and especially days. I have churned and burned through content like crazy and feel like this is the best work I have produced yet for Ivy. It feels like a fulcrum, a culmination of everything she worked through and all the questions that were still left open. I'm very proud of this and once I release, I will let you know just how proud I am. This time without bullshit: 1 more week of development then I'm shipping for voicing and it's *tweak/bugfix/make shit cooler* time! It's coming!

 

Edited February 4, 2025 by Reginald_001

[IBAGadget]

this alone would get me back in to playing FO4 after a long break

[OzmaDomino]

On 2/2/2025 at 3:49 PM, Jpnts said:

yea i wish i didnt have to use it but Storywealth forces it so...

 

i found a solution:

 

 

Don't work ((

[Jpnts]

On 2/7/2025 at 3:46 AM, OzmaDomino said:

Don't work ((

 

is there a ; in front of the line? ie: ;ivy etc? get rid of it. should work then. took me forever to figure that out xD

[OzmaDomino]

13 hours ago, Jpnts said:

 

есть ли ; перед строкой? например: ;ivy и т. д.? избавьтесь от него. тогда должно сработать. мне потребовалась целая вечность, чтобы понять это xD

Thank you ))

Edited February 9, 2025 by OzmaDomino

[zpain]

Is anyone else encountering a bug where Ivy constantly gets downed by nothing as soon as she heals back to full?

[AnbuDemi]

Any way we can support you ? You legend would deserve that ...
At this point I want you to never stop making Companions. xD
First message in almost 4 years just for you.

Edited February 20, 2025 by AnbuDemi

[sickzpack]

Awesome to see this mod still going strong. Not played F4 for a few years and re installing it now. First mod to go in my game lol.

[conceptna]

Hey Reginald, love your work, I've played FO4 3 times and except the vanilla run, she's been in my two playthroughs, I just finished into the deep and I'm just wondering if you're planning on adding any more content in the future. I also don't keep track of the development blogs at all so if I'm missing any quests, please lmk.

[Lemurion287]

12 hours ago, conceptna said:

Hey Reginald, love your work, I've played FO4 3 times and except the vanilla run, she's been in my two playthroughs, I just finished into the deep and I'm just wondering if you're planning on adding any more content in the future. I also don't keep track of the development blogs at all so if I'm missing any quests, please lmk.

 

I'm not Reginald, but he does have a Far Harbor add-on under development, and it's already reached the playtest stage on his Discord with a full release planned in the next few months.

[Reginald_001]

On 3/5/2025 at 4:19 PM, conceptna said:

Hey Reginald, love your work, I've played FO4 3 times and except the vanilla run, she's been in my two playthroughs, I just finished into the deep and I'm just wondering if you're planning on adding any more content in the future. I also don't keep track of the development blogs at all so if I'm missing any quests, please lmk.

Indeed as Lemurion said. And you still have the entire Nuka World content with Ivy to look forward to.

[DJ2003]

I remember finding a bobblehead that increased the chance of finding the porn magazines but i don't remember the location, is it a random spawn chance or is there a specific location where it spawns?

[dorkulon]

I've been mucking about with FO4 NG (aka 1.10.984) - and in the midst of reinstalling everything, found a very odd crash: CompanionIvy_MagAddon6.7z consistently causes FO4 to crash when either starting a new game or loading a savegame. The rest of the Ivy mods are A-OK, but CompanionIvy_Mags.esp causes trouble, and it's even exposed in the crash traceback:

 

  [RSP+B8  ] 0x199D43C6B18      (TESLevItem*)
        File: "Fallout4.esm"
        Flags: 0x00000009
        EditorID: "Container_Loot_Mailbox"
        FormID: 0x001C246D
        FormType: kLVLI (56)
    [RSP+C0  ] 0x4C56             (size_t) [19542]
    [RSP+C8  ] 0x7FF6FDCA4762     (void* -> Fallout4.exe+02C4762    mov r12, rax |  FUN_1402c46f0_2C4762)
    [RSP+D0  ] 0x19A5E068650      (char*) "b"
    [RSP+D8  ] 0x12               (size_t) [18]
    [RSP+E0  ] 0xFFFF001C0001     (size_t) [281470683578369]
    [RSP+E8  ] 0x7FF6FDDDD400     (void* -> Fallout4.exe+03FD400    and al, 0x38 |  FUN_1403fd380_3FD400)
    [RSP+F0  ] 0x199DB2A5D18      (TESLevItem*)
        File: "CompanionIvy_Mags.esp"
        Flags: 0x00000008
        EditorID: "LL_ivy_skillmags_rare"
        FormID: 0x15003622
        FormType: kLVLI (56)
 

I am not familiar enough with FO4 modding to say why this happens or how to fix it, but figured I should at least document that this happens. (It doesn't matter whether UOP is enabled or not, and that's the only leveled-list affecting mod I have enabled that I know of.)

[cosworth]

3 hours ago, DJ2003 said:

I remember finding a bobblehead that increased the chance of finding the porn magazines but i don't remember the location, is it a random spawn chance or is there a specific location where it spawns?

Yes, it is. In a certain well-known comic shop.

[sickemoji]

OK but can you fuck it? I can't believe know one asked this.

[Enkidu222]

2 minutes ago, sickemoji said:

OK but can you fuck it? I can't believe know one asked this.

no because you are a bad boy. she needs to love you first. and if so, maybe.

[dx46]

On 07.03.2025 at 11:36, DJ2003 said:

Я помню, что нашёл болванчика, который увеличивал шанс найти порножурналы, но не помню, где именно. Это случайная вероятность появления или есть определённое место, где он появляется?

Hubris Comics

[deluges]

How are you going to say that multiple companion mods are incompatible with Ivy when she literally has conversations with Piper?

[Will55]

Been running with Ivy and a load of other companions for many levels( La LIga). Nearing the beginning of the end of the MQ and not a murmur WRT her quests despite the fact that she wants to bonk my char all day long now that only she and Ada are currently following.

 

Now this is probably my fault as I installed IvyQuests along with 6.7 and finally read the instructions (Oops!) where there is  NO mention of any quests esp/ba2 etc.. That was why I included the quest mod in the first place.

 

Now realising this, I have unticked the quest esp and will see what happens. Unfortunately Ivy talks off screen (No subtitles) a lot and being 75% deaf (totally in the right ear...blast injury) I have no idea what she is saying half of the time and may well have missed some verbal prompts.

Any advice from the cognoscenti here please?

 

Addendum: I unticked the quest esp NPs. But I realised that I has missed the esm so I unticked that and the mags esp and the Nukaworld esp cried that they had lost their master. Now I have not a clue what to do as the esm is part of the IvyQuest mod.

 

 

BTW Companion Ivy esp screws up totally the Institute scene where you meet Shaun child and then father. With the esp present no action nor conversation is possible. I had to untick the esp for some 10 mins to progress and while Ivy is still hot and with me I am told that I have to redeem her...again??? I don't mind doing it again but what else may have hit the fan?

Edited March 17, 2025 by Will55

[IBAGadget]

2 hours ago, deluges said:

How are you going to say that multiple companion mods are incompatible with Ivy when she literally has conversations with Piper?

Conversations between NPC's that are written into the mod are completely different from a Multi Follower Framework that rewrites and edits the followers AI packages. It is precisely this overwriting and editing of the follower AI packages that screws up custom followers like Ivy, as it can remove vital dialogue cues and location awareness needed to progress their quests.

 

 

2 hours ago, Will55 said:

Now realising this, I have unticked the quest esp and will see what happens. Unfortunately Ivy talks off screen (No subtitles) a lot and being 75% deaf (totally in the right ear...blast injury) I have no idea what she is saying half of the time and may well have missed some verbal prompts.

Any advice from the cognoscenti here please?

Have you tried talking to Ivy?

Also maybe turn on subtitles in the main settings menu, as well as make sure you have F4z ro d-oh (https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/39848) installed, as this will give you subtitles for added/unvoiced dialogue

 

2 hours ago, Will55 said:

BTW Companion Ivy esp screws up totally the Institute scene where you meet Shaun child and then father. With the esp present no action nor conversation is possible. I had to untick the esp for some 10 mins to progress and while Ivy is still hot and with me I am told that I have to redeem her...again??? I don't mind doing it again but what else may have hit the fan?

Known issue, covered in the FAQ for Ivy. When you enter the Institute for the first time, just teleport Ivy to you using her holotape before you go to Shawn.

 

Activating and deactivating her esp mid game like that may have totally screwed things up and your best bet to fix it is to start a new game.

[Will55]

6 minutes ago, IBAGadget said:

Have you tried talking to Ivy?

Also maybe turn on subtitles in the main settings menu, as well as make sure you have F4z ro d-oh (https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/39848) installed, as this will give you subtitles for added/unvoiced dialogue

Thank you for the quick reply. subtitles are always on while F4z-ro doh is a base mod. Often she talks with black screens(AAF and others).

6 minutes ago, IBAGadget said:

Known issue, covered in the FAQ for Ivy. When you enter the Institute for the first time, just teleport Ivy to you using her holotape before you go to Shawn.

Activating and deactivating her esp mid game like that may have totally screwed things up and your best bet to fix it is to start a new game.

Do I need the quest esp? As the mod demands the quest esm. At level 285 and every side quest done and every main game settlement owned with all using 606 slaves I am not capable of a restart as I have NukaRide waiting(char ready) and NukaWorld and Far Harbor to do. This has been my best char in many F4 runs. I really am attached to her and  both Ivy and Ada, and rather than  a new game could I just wipe the whole mod, save, clean and re-install and start from scratch with Ivy? When I first met Ivy I had stalkers after my low level char and the introduction was fairly rushed as they will enter cells.