Drinkin Buddy

Drinkin' Buddy, also called Buddy, is a modified Protectron, located in the basement of the Shamrock Taphouse

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 hotel patrons. The project was fronted by Jack West, the manager of the establishment.

To build the robot, the entrepreneur started with a consumer RobCo Protectron, stripped out the robot's main assembly and replaced it with a custom miniaturized micro brewing unit fabricated with unlicensed parts, voiding its warranty ) that was capable of flash-fermenting mash, producing alcohol at a faster rate. He designed the robot to accept recipe holotapes thus allowing it to brew a wide range of different types of beer, also programming in a wide variety of jokes to be told for the customer's amusement.

However, the Hotel Rexford was under contractual obligations to only serve Gwinnett beer. As a result, Merryweather was unable to use his own recipes. However, he 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. This allowed the robot to produce Gwinnett pale ale by default.

After days of tinkering and perfecting, Merryweather managed to finish the robot. He had no respect for copyright, considering the recipe holotapes and the unlicensed microbrewing equipment and modifications, but he was able to complete the robot before the Gwinnett Brewery's lawyers caught up with him. The final product was Drinkin' Buddy, the ultimate automated drinking experience. He designed the robot to be ready for mass-production with the main customers being bars and restaurants. Merryweather had the original prototype unit scheduled for delivery via truck to the Hotel Rexford. However, this was cut short by the Great War, leaving Buddy still inactive in his charging pod, his delivery 210 years behind schedule.

List of Gwinnett recipes
In order to give Buddy Gwinnett recipes, one must first play the recipe holotape on their Pip-Boy. Once done, the Sole Survivor automatically initiates dialogue by stating "Hey Buddy, I found a recipe for you." The recipes are then removed from the inventory, and Buddy will be able to produce the associated Gwinnett beer in the future.


 * Gwinnett ale brewing subroutines - behind the bar of the Colonial Taphouse.
 * Gwinnett stout recipe - in the terminal 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 is marked as owned, and taking it will be considered stealing, turning everyone there hostile.
 * Gwinnett pale - already found inserted into Buddy.

Jokes
Buddy can tell a random joke if asked to.

Appearances
Buddy appears only in Fallout 4.

Bugs

 * If Buddy still provides the dialogue choice to be sold to Rufus after choosing to keep him, one can fix this with the command . The player character will respond "No thanks" from then on.
 * If deciding to keep him, the quest remains active. The Sole Survivor cannot finish the quest and keep drinking Buddy. Since the quest continues, when sending Buddy somewhere, the player character will be able to track his movements using the quest marker on the map.
 * If the player attempts to remedy the quest remaining active after keeping Buddy by killing Rufus, the "No thanks" dialogue option will work the same as the "I've sold you" option, causing Buddy to leave the player's settlement and go to the Hotel Rexford.
 * 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.
 * After sending Buddy to Hotel Rexford, he may not leave the Shamrock Taphouse and instead continuously greet the player character.
 * This can be fixed on PC by using the console. First, reset the Trouble Brewin' quest using, then meet up with Rufus and accept the quest again. After doing so, head back to the Taphouse and in the console, enter . This should reset the dialogue and allow to re-do the quest from that point onward.
 * Attempting to send Buddy to Hotel Rexford results in Buddy accepting request but not going. Talk to Buddy again and tell him you're keeping him for yourself, give settlement destination, then do Hotel Rexford dialogue again will get him to go.
 * Overfilling Buddy's inventory with various drinks can cause some of them to double in quantity when being made ice cold (16 brew, 23 pilsner, etc. came back as 32 brew, 46 pilsner, etc.).
 * Sometimes after having sent Buddy to a settlement and having him there for a while, without further instructions he will start walking towards the Hotel Rexford and will remain there.