Hi

I searched the googles and forums, but to no avail. My problem is that My shieldthane Lydia can only carry around 110 units, this is a full set and a 2handed weapon, bow is not possible. At the start of the game i always used her as mule and i could give her significantrly more extra items than now, none! I've read that the game bugs somehow, if you trade too much between followers or switch between them. My plan was to give them all a full armor set and weapons.

Do you have the same problem and found a way to fix it? Please let me know!

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No clue, but now that you mention it, they seem to carry less and less.
Maybe make them a full "carry weight limit" armor setup for them with enchanting.

ah, so I was right after all
I thought she was able to carry a lot less but I wasn't sure (never counted and there's no numbers like with your own character)
wonder what causes this though, only sent her home once
perhaps empty her inventory before sending her home, did notice she still had everything I gave her but wasn't wearing any of it while waiting at home

Followers go into "chill" mode when not following you, but re-equip everything when they follow you again and you go through a door/loading screen.

Thanks for the replies, if anyone has a solution for this peculiar problem, please post it here.

Just an update for the ones who are interested, i found a way which resets your follower to your current level, problem is you get Lydia pretty early in the game and your follower doesn't level up with you and only gets a bit of an edge due the better gear.

Here on the wikipage: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Lydia

"Not positive if this is considered a bug, but Lydia, like all companions, do not level with the player. They are spawned at player level when you first meet them, then never level at all. To update Lydia's level, open the console and type "player.placeatme a2c8e 1" You will have two Lydia's, so you should kill the original then keep the clone."

To get rid of the corpse you open the console, target the corpse of low level lydia and type "disable", very clean disposal, no stains, no nothing. Now i can finally give her full weaponary. Hope this helps some people who didn't find the solution yet.

The problem ist that anytime you hire / fire her, she aquires her weapons anew, so she basically carries some 20 swords or so. Until now, my only solution ist this:

1.) take all items from her
1a.) DISMISS HER!
2.) open console via the " ^ " key
3.) klick on her with your mouse, you should see an ID number
4.) type removeallitems
5.) type disable
6.) type enable
7.) close the console


You can look up her inventory as well with "showinventory" while having her id'd with your mouse. There you see the amount of swords and bows she drags with her.

Ah, IMPORTANT! She has to be dismissed

I have the same problem with Lydia. I did find the answer on another site. Apparently, there is a bug for all followers. Each time you ask them to follow you, some of their default equipment will be duplicated. The person who confirmed this was on PC and was able to see Lydia's loot. In her case, she has a default bow. Each time he would ask her to follow him again, a new bow was added. This is the reason carry weight is diminishing. It will happen with any follower that you hire, fire and rehire. The only solution I have seen is for PC users. They use commands to remove the duplicated items. Console users can't because we cannot see the NPC's default items. At this point, I just drop loot on the ground and command the follower to pick it up. Be careful because taking it back sometimes sets an item as stolen. Hopefully, this will be fixed in the January patch.