About

This mod adds in a new creature type, the Scorcher Beast, based on the creature of the same name from Fallout 76.

The Scorcher Beast comes in five "varieties":

• Normal
• Feral
• Albino
• Glowing
• Rabid
  

The type that spawns depends on the current level of your player character, just like with vanilla enemies. They can also all spawn as legendary versions. Scorcher Beasts were added to the Mole Rat leveled spawn list, so can spawn anywhere that mole rats spawn. And because they are set to a higher level cap than the vanilla mole rats, they will eventually replace mole rat spawns (other than "ambush" set-piece spawns) entirely at later player levels.

Scorcher Beasts also drop three new items:

• Mutated Bat Skin
• Albino Bat Skin
• Mutated Bat Meat
  

"Normal", Feral, Glowing, and Rabid Scorcher Beasts will drop mutated bat skins (with certain ones dropping more or less skins), and Albinos will--obviously--drop albino skins. All Beasts will drop mutated bat meat in various amounts. The skin is a junk item made up of leather, and the meat is a food item that can either be eaten raw or cooked to make "Mutant Bat Steak".

There is also a single unique "boss" Scorcher Beast named "Noivern" that can be found in a small new cell. See the ReadMe if you want to know exactly where to find it, as well as for a hint on where to look if you want to search for it instead of just coming across it randomly. Noivern is set to level with the player, and is fought in a fairly tight space, so it can be a bit of a hard fight at higher levels!


Installation

Install either using a mod installer such as Nexus Mod Manager, or manually by placing the files from the .zip into your Fallout 4 "Data" folder. Enable the mod in your game, and the Beasts will start spawning in wherever you find mole rats!


Permissions/Credits

The mesh for this mod, and the texture for the "normal" Scorcher Beast were both created by Nexus user SpaceDende. You can find their original Modders' Resource files here: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/32648

If anyone wants to use assets from this mod, they can, as long as they credit both SpaceDende and myself for what they used.

Special thanks to EJ Black and RennisTora for giving me the ideas that lead to the "Noivern" boss creature!


Conflicts/Bugs/Glitches

This mod may conflict with other mods that edit the Mole Rat leveled spawn list. I plan to eventually create a custom leveled list as well, but at the moment it's more work than I can put into this mod.
If you run into any other conflicts, or any bugs/glitches, let me know! Either leave a comment on the mod's Discussion tab, or contact me directly on the Nexus forums.