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About this mod
Sensible loot reinstated for animals, by disabling reactive potion drops and money generation for those creatures. With this mod, animals only drop treasure it makes sense for them to drop.
- Permissions and credits
Do deepstalkers have an economy? Do bears have apothecaries? Do wolves have Chantry contacts to supply them with lyrium potions?
If you think the answer to those questions is "no", this is the mod for you.
Over 450 animals in Dragon Age drop money, potions, poultices, and other incongruous automatically generated items.
To improve immersion, this mod eliminates those inappropriate drops by editing 57 UTC files belonging to bears, bereskarn, blight wolves, brontos, deepstalkers, dragons, dragonlings, drakes, mabari hounds (not including Dog, who is already quite sensible), spiders, and wolves.
This significantly reduces the loot in the game. With this mod installed, only these animals will produce loot of any kind:
* Dogs
The mabari in Redcliffe will still drop its collar.
* Wolves
Wolves and Blight Wolves will still drop wolf pelts.
* Drakes
Drakes will still drop drake scales.
* Dragons
The dragon in the Orzammar Royal Palace will still drop Ageless.
The dragon in the Brecilian Ruins will now drop the Armband and Ancient Elven Boots, which were previously unobtainable.
* Spider Queens
The Corrupted Spider Queen in Ortan Thaig will still drop Bloodline, Silk Weave Gloves, money, and General loot. In addition, she may now drop toxin extract (since she can spit poison) and the other two items (a dwarven chestpiece and a darkspawn shield) she was carrying.
The Queen Spider in the Dark Forest will now drop toxin extract (since she can spit poison) and the Black Gemmed Ring, which was previously unobtainable.
* Poisonous Spiders
The Giant Spiders in Lothering will still drop toxin extract.
Poisonous Spiders will now drop toxin extract.
Poisonous Giant Spiders will now drop toxin extract.
[ Additional spider changes:
- Since the Lothering spiders are poison-producing, their appearance, label, and behavior have been changed to those of Poisonous Spiders.
- The Giant Spiders from the Magi and Dalish Origins have been given standard Giant Spider appearance.
- The spiderlings in the Dark Forest labeled "Giant Spider" have had their label corrected. ]
* Magical animals
The magical animals in this game -- namely, High Dragons, Dragon Thralls, Spirit Hog, Fade Rifter, and Witherfang -- already produce appropriate loot, and therefore are entirely unaffected by this mod.
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Installation: unzip and place in your override folder.
Compatibility: only unnamed animals are affected by this mod, so conflicts are unlikely. In the case that another mod you have installed edits one of the same UTC files, simply delete the UTC file in question in one of the mods.
Trivia: While taking extensive notes for this mod, I discovered that there's a mutt in Denerim wearing a dress. You can't see, take, or steal the dress, but I promise you, it's there. It makes her feel pretty.