I have played through the entire Dead Money DLC, and I am still unable to craft the following items:
- Knife Spear
- Cloud Kiss, Weak
- Cloud Kiss, Potent
- Cloud Kiss, Lethal
- Cosmic Knife, Clean
- Cosmic Knife Spear
- Cosmic Knife, Super-Heated
- Ghost Sight
There might be more, but I couldn't craft these items until I made some changes in xEdit. I changed the crafting condition from checking if the NVDLC01VillaFountainMarkerRef was visible, to whether the "Sierra Madre Grand Opening!" quest was completed. Once I did that, I could now craft those items. This issue doesn't happen with the other DLCs, just with Dead Money. Was I supposed to be able to find a map marker that I couldn't access?
Also, throughout my entire time with Dog/God, I made absolute sure to never let Dog out of the mind cage and I only talked with God. When I get to the part in the Dead Money main quest where I have to confront Dog/God in the Sierra Madre kitchen, Dog talks as though I was nice to him while God is very bitter at me for letting Dog out. The speech options I get only allow me to side with Dog, despite me never having talked to Dog specifically throughout the entire questline. I also recall this issue happening in vanilla New Vegas as well. Unless I'm misunderstanding, I think Dog is supposed to be bitter at me instead since I never let him out, and I should be able to side with God. Is this issue fixable?
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Can't craft certain Dead money recipes; God/Dog resolution bug
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GalenKnight56
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Re: Can't craft certain Dead money recipes; God/Dog resolution bug
Dunno about the quest bug, didn't change anything there afaik.
Will check the crafting issue.
Will check the crafting issue.

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GethinPetrelli
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Re: Can't craft certain Dead money recipes; God/Dog resolution bug
Ditto on the crafting issue for me as well. Even once I've found the recipe for the super-heated knife it wouldn't show in any list of craftable items.
Didn't have the same issue with Dog but Dean was completely hostile with me at the end despite me not having done really anything to get on his bad side. Although it has been a long time since I've played this DLC so I'm happy to admit that maybe I missed doing something for him.
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Also based off the above I found the recipes category of DeadMoney.esm in xEdit. But none of the ones listed have any condition at all for me. Also I can't make heads or tails of setting one so just going back to plan a. Spawn the items I want through the console.
Edit 2:
Scratch that. Realised that I should probably be looking in the TTW esm file and yeah, my conditions as the same as OP.
Didn't have the same issue with Dog but Dean was completely hostile with me at the end despite me not having done really anything to get on his bad side. Although it has been a long time since I've played this DLC so I'm happy to admit that maybe I missed doing something for him.
Edit:
Also based off the above I found the recipes category of DeadMoney.esm in xEdit. But none of the ones listed have any condition at all for me. Also I can't make heads or tails of setting one so just going back to plan a. Spawn the items I want through the console.
Edit 2:
Scratch that. Realised that I should probably be looking in the TTW esm file and yeah, my conditions as the same as OP.
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Re: Can't craft certain Dead money recipes; God/Dog resolution bug
make a patch for DM that removes the marker visible check, this is a bug, and fixed for next 3.3.2
Dean will be hostile to you if you ever do speech checks on him.
Dean will be hostile to you if you ever do speech checks on him.

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Racounous
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Re: Can't craft certain Dead money recipes; God/Dog resolution bug
Hey, just ran into this issue, made a patch that removes marker checks like RoyBatty sugested. WARNING, i'm not a modder, almost definitely not how you're supposed to do this, no support, no guarantee it won't break everything, etc...
Create an empty mod in MO2 and drag the file into it. Load after DM and Taleoftwowastelands.esm
Hope this helps anyone that comes across this thread like i have untill a patch is out.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qiyCYe ... sp=sharing
Create an empty mod in MO2 and drag the file into it. Load after DM and Taleoftwowastelands.esm
Hope this helps anyone that comes across this thread like i have untill a patch is out.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qiyCYe ... sp=sharing
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Paradox
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Re: Can't craft certain Dead money recipes; God/Dog resolution bug
Hey, I know this might be a little late but just thought I'd give a heads up to the mod/patch author above, the patch works as stated. All crafting recipes from DM now show up as they should. Didn't even realize I couldn't craft them until I got to the end of the DLC. Lol. Anyway, thanks for the quick-fix. I'll probably update my TTW at some point in the next few weeks but I'm only 1 version behind so I should be good for a while.