Public Service Announcement: This works perfectly for SSE and it's still the best "kill essential" mod out there. You must open and save the .ESP in the Creation Kit, and you must extract the .BSA with something like BAE (Bethesda Archive Extractor).
Will there be an alternative version where you only get the spell? In Oblivion there was a mod that adds only a spell allowing you to convert an NPC to essential or non essential
Will this work on NPC's who were made essential by another mod or only those vanilla npc's who start out as essential???
I was looking into this mod because a mod i have to protect npc's from dragons and vampires has broken the dark brotherhood contracts on some merchants by setting them essential
Hi Strategy Master and others reading, i have a problem, do not think it is because of this mod, but i need some help finding a solution. i like playing with my followers being able to die in battle, more realistic and with AFT (Amazing Follower Tweaks) i can get more followers if i need them. Problem is that my followers is not dieing off, they take damage and then fall down gasping for breath but do not die, i have 3 followers now, Lydia, Saadia, and Camilla Valerius. (Lydia - no mod enhancers, Saadia - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/10693/?, and Camilla Valerius - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/14368/? ) i got Lydia first then Saadia and then Camilla. Lydia and Saadia can not be killed but Camilla can be. ingame, in their conversation dialog i have the setting\NPC can not permanently die - unchecked, i even took jspee1965 suggestion (In your Skyrim.ini file after [Combat] place
[GamePlay] bEssentialTakeNoDamage=0 ) and placed it in my Skyrim.ini file but still no effect, Lydia and Saadia still will not die but Camilla will, i then tried a separate mod http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8783/? and still no effect, Lydia and Saddia will not die off but yet Cammila will. Please help anyone know what is going on and how i can fix it so all my followers will die off?
Could you explain the technical reasons why some NPCs get sent to the planes of oblivion when I kill them? Cause this mod is absolutely perfect other than the occasional body disappearing which prevents me from resurrecting them via console.
MUAHAHAHAHA, now when I play as an evil scourge of death that kills everyone, I can kill EVERYONE.
Now all we need is the ability to raise a necropolis full of zombie NPC's and Undead and make the vendors we kill continue to function as zombie vendors.
TO MOD AUTHOR: My friend, your mod is great and I have used it for a while. However, I ran into a bug after the latest patch that I think your mod was causing. Not 100% sure, but I am 85% sure. Might want to look into it
I was having a bug where enemies DON'T DIE ON TIME WITH KILL MOVEs (and I don't use any killmove mods)
for ex: I had a case where I kill moved a falmer. then he got back up with no damage done. this repeated 5 more times (at that moment) with the same enemy. Didn't die. changed around weapons and mods etc, still no luck.
other examples: troll is kill moved, lays on ground for 3 to 4 seconds in death animation with health bar still there, then dies.
I did alot of trouble shooting and I found this: after I deleted the SM Essential Kills mod the game seemed to work. first time having issues with this mod, will continue to test. after I removed it had no more issues. will keep advised. SO, your mod might conflict with latest patch
------------------ update a couple hours later: my friend after removing your mod I ran into the same problem in smaller occasions later. While it may now not be your mod, I just wanted to bring it to your attention in case someone else runs into this problem
Oh man, thank you for this. I can't understand the need of some game designers to lock their games in bubble-wrap to prevent that most dire of circumstances: people playing their game differently than they would.
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They should be able to be ragdolled into oblivion like everyone else
I was looking into this mod because a mod i have to protect npc's from dragons and vampires has broken the dark brotherhood contracts on some merchants by setting them essential
i like playing with my followers being able to die in battle, more realistic and with AFT (Amazing Follower Tweaks) i can get more followers if i need them. Problem is that my followers is not dieing off, they take damage and then fall down gasping for breath but do not die,
i have 3 followers now, Lydia, Saadia, and Camilla Valerius. (Lydia - no mod enhancers, Saadia - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/10693/?, and Camilla Valerius - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/14368/? )
i got Lydia first then Saadia and then Camilla. Lydia and Saadia can not be killed but Camilla can be.
ingame, in their conversation dialog i have the setting\NPC can not permanently die - unchecked, i even took jspee1965 suggestion (In your Skyrim.ini file after [Combat] place
[GamePlay]
bEssentialTakeNoDamage=0 ) and placed it in my Skyrim.ini file but still no effect, Lydia and Saadia still will not die but Camilla will, i then tried a separate mod http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8783/? and still no effect, Lydia and Saddia will not die off but yet Cammila will.
Please help anyone know what is going on and how i can fix it so all my followers will die off?
Now all we need is the ability to raise a necropolis full of zombie NPC's and Undead and make the vendors we kill continue to function as zombie vendors.
I was having a bug where enemies DON'T DIE ON TIME WITH KILL MOVEs (and I don't use any killmove mods)
for ex: I had a case where I kill moved a falmer. then he got back up with no damage done. this repeated 5 more times (at that moment) with the same enemy. Didn't die. changed around weapons and mods etc, still no luck.
other examples: troll is kill moved, lays on ground for 3 to 4 seconds in death animation with health bar still there, then dies.
I did alot of trouble shooting and I found this: after I deleted the SM Essential Kills mod the game seemed to work. first time having issues with this mod, will continue to test. after I removed it had no more issues. will keep advised. SO, your mod might conflict with latest patch
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update a couple hours later:
my friend after removing your mod I ran into the same problem in smaller occasions later. While it may now not be your mod, I just wanted to bring it to your attention in case someone else runs into this problem