This is probably a stupid question for experienced modders, but I cannot figure it out ... it was no problem with the editor in Oblivion, but I do not get it with the Skyrim one. So maybe someone could please give me a short advice

I found the foxes under actor/actor/foxrace/male and there EncFox and EncFoxArctic. I edit both entries and set the foxes to Essential.

But still my foxes keep dying ingame.

I have no idea what I am doing wrong here, if this is maybe the wrong menu where I am looking (but I didn′t found creatures anywhere else). I also searched with Google but couldn′t find anything useful.

Any help would be very much appreciated

Thanks!

I am pretty sure it's probably the individual instances of foxes you want to make essential...I don't think the game allows making an entire race essential http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo9t5XK0FhA

So you made a new Actor "MyFox" or something, and replaced the normal fox that the critter spawning thingamabobs in the world use to "MyFox?" Lvlcreatures I think?