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I bought Dawnguard before ending a questline from Skyrim. Because of that, I often visit main cities to do some quests. Every time I visit a city, I find dead bodies of NPCs that I talked to earlier. Yey, vampire attack AGAIN!

Maybe these NPCs aren't so important for the quest lines, but they're making my Skyrim experience better.

How do I make NPCs in cities not die from vampire attacks and stop this madness?

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I found the 'When Vampires Attack' mod which should help people with similar issues.

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Thanks for finding this. I just started Dawnguard, and it's frustrating to find random NPCs killed by vampires. – galacticninja Apr 12 at 8:51

If you don't want to mod your game, you can set individual NPCs essential using

setessential <baseid> 1

More info on using that command can be found here: In Skyrim, the console command to set a follower as essential is not working. What am I doing wrong?

Personally, I would go with the mod iber provided. It's not a 100% guarantee that NPCs won't die, but it drastically improves their survival rate, and you don't have to walk around town applying essential commands to every NPC.

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