Skyrim Immersive Creatures

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gsev717m0g1vorr/GRdtoDo9SY

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/24913

Version: v5.1.1
Requirements: Skyrim Version 1.8.151.0.7 or higher and the official Dawnguard DLC



Description:

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/24913 expands the vanilla creature pool with wide palate of new abominations. I tried my best that everything fits into the vanilla gameworld. So no creatures from other games are and will not be included into this mod. For some people the word "immersive" mens "lore friendly" in the Elder Scrolls context. SIC doesn't aim to be "lore friendly", but it also don't aim to be "not lore friendly". There is an there will alwayas be content some people love and others not. At the end it's just a matter of personal taste.

Beside adding my own creatures, the earlier version of SIC merged some well known single creature mods.



List of merged mods:

• http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/28957
  
• http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/24587
  
• http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/23911
  
• http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/16659
  
• http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9628
  
• http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17011
  
• http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/8579

Thanks for allowing me to do so! If you like the original take a look at them and please show this to the original authors and give them your endorsemant!



Here a small list of things you can expect in whole:

• Over 1500 creature variants
  
• About 100 new spells used by the npcs
  
• Skeleton Random Resurrection
  
• Nighttime Encounter
  
• Unique encounter spots
  
• Unique Boss encounters
  
• Creatures only spawn in fitting locations
  
• Enemies own advanced perks
  
• NPCs use potions in battle
  
• New custom loot
  
• New spells that can be used by the player

The features in detail:

Night Time Encounter:

• effects Werwolfes, Vampires and Hybrids
  
• from 9pm to 5am you have the chance to encounter them at new spawn points in the outside world

Skeleton Resurrection:

• after killing a Skeleton they have a random chance to come back to life
  
• random chance & time of resurrection

Transformation:

• some unique Vampires have the ability to turn into their beast form if their life went under 60%
  
• Hybrid Soul Cultists have the ability to turn into their beast form if their life went under 60%

The way of distribution:

Instead of cluttering the vanilla level list with single creature entries, I have created region based sub-lists. These sub lists are divided into five level blocks: Prey, Low, Mid, High and Higher. This system has the advantage that the encounters at several levels are soft un-levelled, but they stay also beatable. The other advantage is that the original vanilla entries don't get overrun by SIC creatures.

Level Ranges:

• Prey - available only at level 1 like vanilla prey lists
  
• Low - level 3 up to level 12
  
• Mid - level 12 up to level 24
  
• High - level 22 / 24 up to level 50
  
• Higher - levels &--#62;= 50

Under some conditions this system can vary.



What is touched by SIC:

I took care to touch as few vanilla records as possible. But somehow the new content must find it's way into the game. To do so I touched this kind of records:

• NPC level list
  
• Item level list
  
• Cell edits
  
• Worldspace edits
  
• 4 vanilla NPC records (mainly to distribute more Skeletons)

All other things like races, spells, magic effects or other things are totally untouched. So SIC can barely be effected directly by other mods, but can profit by other mods.
I decided to work this way to keep the most possible mod compatibility. Most issues can solved by merging level list with http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/1840.



Is there a lore friendly version?:

Yes, there is. http://www.gamesas.com/user/308438-jackstarr/ released recently his http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/31256 version. Thanks for doing so!

Full Details:



Complete Changelog for v5 onwards:

Version v5.1.1:

Version v5.1:

Version v5:

Silly question already answered in the nexus page....sorry

glad to see this updated. Can I recommend putting the changelog here, also, at the end of your post?

Added changelog for version v5 onwards.

Great work, lifestorock!

For those of you wondering how my lore-friendly version differs - mainly it removes the Dramans (dragon-headed humanoids), Dwarven Mechanical Dragons, Chaurus Warriors (Chaurus-headed humanoids) and the Hybrids (Vampire/Werewolf hybrid) - plus a few other changes. Basically, it removes anything without precedence in lore.

Full details:

Jackstarr, I added your detail list to the OP. x)

Great, thanks!

Bump.

"removed Hybrid spawn point on the path up to Bleack Falls Barrow" I would like to thank you very much for removing this. In my opinion it was an un-immersive addition to the game.

I really like your mod. Nearly everything in your mod blends really well with the vanilla game. It also adds a slight feeling of "un-scaled-ness" to the game world while retaining Skyrim's basic leveling and scaling mechanics (which I like - I like that occasional panicked feeling of "Whoa! I had better make a wide detour around those creaures!")

I think Skyrim Immersive Creatures is one of the best creature-adding mods I've played. I place it right up there with Giants and Creatures X for Morrowind and Martigen's Monster Mod for Oblivion. You do excellent work and I look forward to seeing where you take this mod in the future.

did I read right? Winged twilights?
how did you do the spirit fire wolf?

Such a blast playing with this. Doing the usual quest in the Dwemer ruins under Markath became a whole lot more hectic and complicate with freaking Dwemer Spectres throwing gear-doukens at me!

I like how the mod keeps the spawn points in relevant areas and just blends in so well (I'm using the Lore-friendly patch from jackstarr though).

It's actually Creatures XI now : http://morrowind.nexusmods.com/mods/30563

But yes this is definitely up there with the best work from previous Elder Scrolls games. Jackstarr's little tweaks to it is just the icing on the cake.

Artorius.

This is awesome. This is my new must have mod.

Thanks a ton.

So this was the mod that did that! When I started a new game I literally had to equip a bow, take a couple shots, and then sprint back to the village. I did that about 10x until the NPC just disappeared. Removing that makes things much easier for a new character .

New version of Purist lore-friendly Immersive Creatures available - includes bugfix for skeleton spawn and invisible creatures. Please update to this latest version if using the beta version of purist lore-friendly 5.3.

UPDATE v5.1.1 online:

Main File:
- fixed a issue with invisible skeletons
- modified skeleton list for levels 1-5

DLC2:
- reduced spawn chance of Bristleback and Rieklings

Other:
- fixed Installer so that people that don't own the latest DLC aren't forced to install the optional plugin

Wanted to pop in and say thanks as well for this excellent mod. I just endorsed, I've been playing with this for about 20 hours now. No crashes, works great with about 100 other mods (including SkyRe). The hybrid on the way to Bleak Falls was quite annoying though, so glad to see that removed. I am planning on updating from v5 to 5.1.1 today. Hopefully, it will be a smooth upgrade. I use BAIN so adding and configuring are straightforward.

Yep, but the Hybrid at this point was more of an accident. With the introduction of the Night Time & Transformation feature I altered the level list. In versions prior v5 the list only had a chance of 1:12 to spawn a Hybrid instead of an ambient creature. I erased the ambient creatures, but forgot to remove the Hybrid spawn up there.
For me it wasn't a real big deal, I like walking the alternate ways. x)

You may know that I had a tiny unlevel mod online, but at certain circumstances a total unlevelling is way to hard for new characters, if not totally impossible. The way SIC handles the situation is way more comfortable but can be also very challenging. Glad someone spotted and liked it.

Thanks for mentioning SIC in conjunction with these great mods and I'm also excited where the way leads to.



Thanks! Always a pleasure to read to read such comments!


Yep, for sure. But your adventures sounds great even if the Hybrid was a hell of an enemy at this level.


Thanks! I don't think that you will have any problems with updating the mod.

Upgraded to 5.1.1 and everything seemed to go smoothly, so great work there.

I did want to ask you (and maybe this is better for the Wrye Bash thread), but the SIC esm is marked only with the Delev bash tag, not the Relev as it mentions in the description. Should I add the Relev tag or just leave it as the default Delev only.

Thanks.

Could you explain why one would choose for either the esm or esp loading methods?

From the description page:


Some People like the placebo effect an ESM can have. x)

Thanks, good stuff!

From what I have understood there is actually a difference between ESM and ESP. There are people who couldn't get the esp version of my mod working at all. On the other hand the ESM works for them perfectly. So there is likely some difference how the engine handles esp and esm files.

Well, for a start, esm's are loaded before esp's. So if they were putting it too late in the load order, an ESM would help... (I don't really know any more than that though)

Maybe for the engine it's easier to handle cell / worldspace edits when using an ESM. Especially with a huge loadorder and many things that overwrite each other. What I can say for sure is that CTD reports stopped after releasing a fix for a critical bug in earlier versions. And that was not solved by just switching to an ESM.