Skyrim Mods Options

[King Coin]

Post your mods, or post your favorite ones here!

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I made Followers can Relax.

This mod adds a command to any companion in the game that lets them chill out and relax instead of standing at attention all the time.

To do this, just talk to your companion and choose the topic "We'll stay here for a while." They will start interacting with the environment (eat, drink, sit, ect). To get them to start following you again, just talk to them and say "Let's go."

It can be DLed at Nexus here.

I plan on doing more with it as I have time to fix things and polish it. One bug that I've noticed in Breezehome is sometimes when Kharjo wanders into the little room in the back with the alchemy station he disappears. I recommend you know your follower's ID so you can console them back in case something like this happens until I figure out what the heck is happening there. Pretty sure that was a different mod and not mine now!

This post has been edited by King Coin: Feb 17 2012, 12:52 AM

[SubRosa]

I cannot download anything from TES Nexus right now. Looks like their servers are having a coronary.

Does transitioning to a new zone, or fast traveling make Kharjo reappear? Often that does it when companions get lost.

I am currently working on a pair of mods to disable the main quest. I just finished one that disables it after Before the Storm (when you go to Whiterun and tell Jarl Balgruuf about the dragon attack on Helgen). The problem with this is that it ends with the Jarl standing next to the court wizard, and Irileth walking out to stand by the front gate. I am not sure if they will ever reset from those positions or not.

The other problem is that using this, you can never buy Breezehome or get Lydia as a follower. Right now my workaround for that is to manually type in a console command. For some reason whenever I try putting that command into the Before the Storm quest, it refuses to work.

Next up I am tinkering with a similar mod, that halts the MQ after doing Bleak Halls Barrow for Farengar. My thought with this, is that it could get you the option to buy Breezehome and get Lydia through the normal means. It is difficult, because you do not get Lydia and the option for Breezehome until after you kill your first dragon at the fort. So I have to tweak that quest to keep the dragon and fort scene from ever activating.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 14 2012, 07:50 PM

[King Coin]

Does transitioning to a new zone, or fast traveling make Kharjo reappear? Often that does it when companions get lost.

Aravi was able to leave Kharjo just outside of Jorrvaskr where the companions train and wander around Whiterun. She went inside of The Drunken Huntsman without Kharjo appearing. She went back to Jorrvaskr and he was still hanging around in the training area.

I have not tried leaving Whiterun or fast traveling. Someone commented that they will appear though.

I haven't had much time to play so I haven't personally done much with it yet.

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I would really like to use the mod you described to disable the MQ after giving the claw to Farengar. Would it cause the quest to not function even if you moved beyond that point? I'd like to use it for one character, but not Aravi. Would I have to be very careful about removing the mod each time I load Aravi?

[SubRosa]

I would really like to use the mod you described to disable the MQ after giving the claw to Farengar. Would it cause the quest to not function even if you moved beyond that point? I'd like to use it for one character, but not Aravi. Would I have to be very careful about removing the mod each time I load Aravi?

These two mods will have no effect on your game if you have already progressed beyond those particular quests. They will only work with a game where you have not started the quests. Since Aravi has gone beyond those quests, so far as I can tell, you should be able to have it loaded with no effect on her game at all. Because she has already triggered the things that start the dragons spawning, and the civil war (there is a trigger for that in these quests too).

Keep in mind that I have been able to do very little testing, outside of making sure that the quests stop where I want them to and the rest of the MQ does not pick up. So I really do not know if there are any long-term effects they might case with other quests. I kept all the civil war triggers alive and still working, but there could be something else I missed. So really both these are a use at your own risk situation. If you want to be a beta tester, I can email you a copy once the Bleak Falls Barrow mod is done.

I have also been having a weird issue when doing these two mods. Somehow, something else in the game is getting modded, outside of the .esp files I am working on. I have had over half a dozen times where the MQ stops in Before the Storm, after first talking to the Jarl. Even though neither mod was loaded! It just happened to me again with the Bleak Falls Barrow mod, even though the Before the Storm quest is untouched in that .esp!

Looking at the Skyrim.esm in the creation kit showed no changes to it at all, as did the timestamp on the file. But the game had been changed somewhere. The only way I have been able to fix it is by restoring a full backup of my entire Skyrim folder. I have no idea why this is happening, or just what is being edited behind the scenes. It is probably only one or two files, but I have no idea which ones.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 14 2012, 08:32 PM