However, a lot of people thought they didn't, and I can hardly blame them, because once you exceeded any follower's non-enhanced 'normal' weight capacity (meaning: the amount of weight the follower could carry before they benefited from Fortify Carry Weight), you had to close and reopen the 'give/take items' dialog menu with the follower every time you wanted to add another item (or stack of items) to that follower. In vanilla Skyrim before Special Edition, Fortify Carry Weight enchantments on armor always DID work on followers wearing that armor. Yes, Fortify Carry Weight enchantments on a follower's worn armor will increase how much weight that follower can carry.Ī bit of background as to why it's not easy to find answers to this question about Skyrim online and why outdated sources you find through Google might say Fortify Carry Weight doesn't work on followers, even though it does:
