Trade with allied NPCs grants remote access to vehicle inventory

[EvanBalster]

Describe the bug

When trading items with an allied NPC, the player's side of the trade dialog will include both their personal inventory and the contents of any nearby player-owned vehicles.

This makes it a pain to split backpack contents with fellow scavengers, and also provides an unbelievable mechanism for teleporting weapons and supplies to your team.

Attach save file

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Steps to reproduce

1. Obtain a car
2. Obtain a follower
3. Put some weird stuff in the car.
4. Walk a short distance with your follower.
5. Trade with your follower. Notice that your weird stuff is available for trade.

Expected behavior

Remote access to vehicle inventory should be disabled when trading with followers.

Screenshots

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Versions and configuration

Experimental 2026-04-12

Additional context

No response

[PGR-14]

It's a side effect of an intended feature, was made so that large loads of supplies could be transported & traded much easier. Could set up an exception for allied NPCs, but what's the point?

[Good-Ol-Been]

I think this is a nice side effect personally. Can't one just move the vehicle or the NPCs a bit further from the vehicle before trading with them?