Drinkin Buddy

Drinkin' Buddy, also called Buddy, is a modified protectron, located in the basement of The Shamrock Taphouse in 2287.

Background
The owner of the Shamrock Taphouse, Patrick Merryweather, was contracted by the Hotel Rexford to design and manufacture a specialized brewing robot capable of producing beer at an accelerated rate, with the intent of serving ice cold beer to patrons at the hotel.

To build the robot, the entrepreneur purchased a consumer RobCo protectron. He stripped out the robot's main body frame assembly, replacing it with a custom miniaturized microbrewing unit fabricated with unauthorized parts, capable of flash-fermenting mash, in turn producing alcohol quickly. In doing so, he voided the robot's warranty, as the modification was not authorized by the manufacturers. He designed the robot to accept recipe holotapes, allowing it to brew a wide range of different types of beer. Unfortunately, the Hotel Rexford was under contractual obligations to only serve Gwinnett beer, so therefore Patrick was unable to use his own recipes. He however, managed to get in contact with a person who was able to illegally crack the encryption on one of the brewery's proprietary brewing holotapes, evading the company's lawyers in the long run. This allowed the robot to produce Gwinnett Pale ale by default.

After days of tinkering and perfecting, Patrick managed to finish the robot. The final product was Drinkin' Buddy. He designed the robot to be ready for mass-production, with the main customers being bars and restaurants. He had the original prototype unit scheduled for delivery to the Hotel Rexford. Unfortunately, this was cut short by the Great War, leaving Buddy still inactive in his charging pod, his delivery 200 years behind schedule.

Quests
Trouble Brewin' - Rufus Rubins will ask the Sole Survivor to retrieve Drinkin' Buddy for the Hotel Rexford. Alternatively, they may claim the robot for themselves and send it to an allied settlement.

Other interactions
He can be given holotapes containing alcohol recipes and makes them to store in his inventory. He can also change regular beers and soft drinks into their ice cold variants granting 35 AP in addition to the usual STR/CHR +1, INT -1; this is done by following the dialog option to request a beer, but instead placing drinks into his inventory. Alternatively, the recipes may also be removed just by trying to talk to him.
 * Gwinnett ale brewing subroutines - behind the bar of the Colonial Taphouse.
 * Gwinnett stout recipe - in a sealed control room on the roof of the Gwinnett brewery.
 * Gwinnett brew recipe - on Tower Tom's desk in the Beantown Brewery.
 * Gwinnett lager recipe - behind the bar counter under the collapsed floor of The Shamrock Taphouse.
 * Gwinnett pils recipe - on the counter behind the bar of The Third Rail. It must be stolen.
 * Gwinnett pale - already found inserted into Buddy.

Effects of player's actions
Buddy is found in the basement of the Shamrock Taphouse. The Sole Survivor can choose to keep him or send him to the Hotel Rexford at the request of Rufus.
 * If you select to keep him, he will ask for his default "HOME" which will be any of your settlements that you select.
 * If you select to send Buddy to Hotel Rexford, he will be stationed at Hotel Rexford.

Appearances
Buddy appears only in Fallout 4.

Bugs

 * If Buddy still provides the dialogue choice to be sold to Rufus after you chose to keep him, you can fix this with the command . The player will respond "No thanks" from then on.
 * If you decide to keep him, the quest remains active. You cannot finish the quest and keep Drinking Buddy. Since the quest continues, when sending Buddy somewhere, you will be able to track his movements using the quest marker on your map.
 * If Buddy is sent to Sanctuary Hills he may try to reach the settlement by crossing the river and will stop halfway across the river. If this happens, send him to a different settlement (preferably the Red Rocket truck stop due to its proximity) and then send him back to Sanctuary.

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