wip Underground Survival (UGS) 0.1.1

 

Underground Survival (UGS)

early alpha WIP

 

This mod is designed to work alongside Chaurus Life (https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/9304-chaurus-life/), but functions on its own.

 

Underground Survival attempts to remedy some shortcomings in most survival mods by adding resources to caves and lairs that can be used to extend the PC’s survival in these environments, possibly indefinitely.

 

The mod has two principal effects:

First, it makes many underground roots, ferns and shrubs harvestable, allowing you to acquire a small assortment of items from them, including some of the “edible” items from Hunterborn, some fire-making materials from Campfires, and a few custom ingredients meant for use with Chaurus Life.  Note that though this is targeted at underground plants, if those same plants are found above ground, those can also be harvested.

 

Secondly, it provides a minor drinking source (via iNeed) in some caves that otherwise don’t have any such sources.  Note these sources might be hard to reach in some places.

 

Hard Requirements:

Campfire v 1.11 (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/64798?)

Hunterborn v 1.6 (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/33201)

... and any patches needed to make these work together.

 

Soft Requirements/Integration:

Though not strictly required, Underground Survival is built to integrate with needs mods.

 

iNeed v 1.602 (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51473)

OR

Realistic Needs and Diseases 2 (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/78785; not tested on any other version, though they should still work)

 

If integration is needed for other needs mods, please notify me of which mods you need integrated.

 

Additionally, one of the alchemical effects available through this mod is associated with Sexlab Aroused Redux, and will do nothing without that mod installed.  (In point of fact, at present it also will do nothing without Chaurus Life since there isn’t another ingredient to pair the effect with.)

 

Incompatibilities:

YASH (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32562), which is where I got this idea.

 

Any other mod that makes the same plants harvestable will also conflict, with the last one loaded being the winner.  I don’t know of any such mods, but I assume there are some.

 

Injected Records:

To have compatibility with other mods without needing dependencies, this mod uses the following injected records (all shared with Chaurus Life):

 

01CECE1E: INJArousalSuppressantMGEF

01CECE1F: EcoSystemREF

01CECEA1 through 01CECEBD: placed instances of EcoSystemREF

 

In the exceedingly rare event that another mod uses this same method and selects that same FormID, bad shit may happen… or it could do nothing at all.  No way to know.

 

(Thanks to Chesko for introducing me to this idea.  I don’t know if it was original with him, but the Frostfall API web page is where I first learned of it.)

 

Future Plans:

While Underground Survival can be used by itself, it is intended to pair with Chaurus Life and will serve a secondary role to that mod.  As development of Chaurus Life continues, this mod will grow to add more options.