Survival AE Recommendations: Survival/Needs/Camping Mods W/O Conflicts

[thefabulousfink]

I've still been trying to build a modlist that works for AE and one of the headaches that I've run into is making older survival and needs mods work together.  I used to run Frostfall, Campfire, Realistic Needs & Diseases, Hunterborn, and CACO, but most of these mods haven't been updated since the AE release and the patches are hit or miss. 

 

What are people using these days to get a reliable survival experience?  Are there newer mods that replace some of these old ones or bring them up to date?  Should I just use the native AE Survival Mode (I haven't used it much because I liked the mods)?

 

The main functionalities that I am looking for are:

1.  Needs: hunger, thirst, sleep

2.  Expanded cooking 

3.  Weather and environment effects (cold, heat, and equipment)

4.  Camping equipment that works with the above mods.

5.  Expanded hunting/gathering.

 

So what mods are people using on AE these days? Do you have a mod or mod combo that meets at least some of these requirement?  Or have you found ways to make some of the older mods compatible with the current game?

 

Thanks.

[Duburgue]

There are lots of different survival mods these days : Last Seed, Sunhelm, iNeed, Survival mod improved, Starfrost and several others. No clear favorite, you have to look and choose yourself what you want.

 

*Campfire is still there.

*Tentapalooza  and Campfire - Primitive Shelter for more tents and stuff.

*Utenlands nordic Tents for a Tent replacer. There are lots of gorgeous bed replacers by the same author.

*Apothecary + Gourmet is an alternative to CACO.

*Immersive diseases for illnesses.

*Lots of different mods for wet and cold visual effects.

*Different mods can handle injuries and progressive healing (Simple Combat Injuries or Blade and Blunt for gameplay, Dynamic Scarring and Healing for visuals, to name a few...)

*Bathing and dirt mods : Dirt & Blood or more recently Bathing in Skyrim renewed.

*Campfire collectible deadwood and branches : to harvest manually the wood to lit fires instead of a black screen.

*Usable campfires : to lit and use already existing campfires.

*Hunterborn is now often replaced by Simple Hunt Overhaul.

*Skills of the Wilds adds new skill trees related to survival mods and campfire : cooking, taming, environment awareness, crafting...

 

And of course a gazillion of patches and small tweaks/addons, this is skyrim AE.