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Give your settlers (and other NPCs) abilities like being able to keep their power armor repaired.
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What does the mod do?
The concept of this mod is to expand the abilities of settlers by giving them guide books.
The abilities currently released are:
How to use this mod:
Create the books from the utility section in the chem station. Place the books in the inventory of the NPC you wish to modify.
The Books:
Care and Feeding of Power Armor
That's it?
More functionality will be added soon. I decided to release this at bare-bones functionality.Check back frequently for updates (Development speed has been significantly reduced or put on hold for up to 2 months due to personal reasons. - 2017.9.21 ) Tribulations over. Modding will resume when number of fricks exceeds 0 Next version (0.0.3) will add new books.
The Future:
Care and Feeding of Power Armor:
With Danse already having infinite power armor, I feel that giving other companions a similar ability isn't overpowered. Moreover, with settlers having infinite ammunition, this change seems more fairly balanced. Lastly, and most importantly, I got tired of my provisioners looking like they were mauled by a pack of deathclaws and then thrown into a dumpster that was subsequently lit on fire.
Performance, Stability, Compatibility:
This mod uses a very lightweight script and should not cause any performance loss. This mod will be stable regardless of what other mods you have installed. This mod adds and removes keywords of NPC actors as triggered by books inside inventories. If you run into a "conflict" just don't put a book in their inventory and you'll be fine. That said, this mod is very new and currently in alpha stage- please report any strangeness you encounter.
Care and Feeding of Power Armor:
If you have a mod that deals with power armor damage negation or has added a character with unbreakable power armor, avoid giving them the book. The keyword added and removed is: "PowerArmorPreventArmorDamageKeyword"
Thanks to:
rbddc12- Thanks for getting me started. Check out their Better Companions mod (and if you've already got that mod installed like I do, don't give your followers one of my books.)
kinggath- Thanks for walking me through a few things. If you don't have his Sim Settlements mod installed- you're missing out
The concept of this mod is to expand the abilities of settlers by giving them guide books.
The abilities currently released are:
- Prevent durability loss of power armor
How to use this mod:
Create the books from the utility section in the chem station. Place the books in the inventory of the NPC you wish to modify.
The Books:
Care and Feeding of Power Armor
- Teaches settlers how to keep their power armor maintained
- No effect on Paladin Danse or the Sole Survivor
- Keep in mind that fusion core drain is still possible for followers
That's it?
More functionality will be added soon. I decided to release this at bare-bones functionality.
The Future:
- The ability to sync settler and follower* faction membership to reflect the Player's faction membership (For example, if Player is a Paladin in the Brotherhood, settlers can be initiates. ) status: planned; need to code it in. *Enabling this functionality for followers is still being researched due to possible volatility with story-lines. (ETA: Version 0.0.3)
- The ability for settlers to benefit from certain perks which the Player has (such as negating wasteland creature aggression Note: this may only be added to the cheat version, depending on how balanced I feel it makes things.) status: conceptualized; need to plan how to implement. (ETA: unknown)
- The ability to ignore fall damage (Due to poor pathing) status: conceptualized; need to plan how to implement.(ETA: Version 0.0.4)
- Visual improvements status: planned; Need to code it in (ETA: version 0.1.0)
- A few other ignore-damage-mechanics status: researching; investigating the scope of changes needed (if any) (ETA: unknown)
- A settler level-up system including perks status: far-future; this will not be released any time soon (ETA: Version 2.0)
If you have an idea on what features to add, please leave a suggestion.
Care and Feeding of Power Armor:
With Danse already having infinite power armor, I feel that giving other companions a similar ability isn't overpowered. Moreover, with settlers having infinite ammunition, this change seems more fairly balanced. Lastly, and most importantly, I got tired of my provisioners looking like they were mauled by a pack of deathclaws and then thrown into a dumpster that was subsequently lit on fire.
Performance, Stability, Compatibility:
This mod uses a very lightweight script and should not cause any performance loss. This mod will be stable regardless of what other mods you have installed. This mod adds and removes keywords of NPC actors as triggered by books inside inventories. If you run into a "conflict" just don't put a book in their inventory and you'll be fine. That said, this mod is very new and currently in alpha stage- please report any strangeness you encounter.
Care and Feeding of Power Armor:
If you have a mod that deals with power armor damage negation or has added a character with unbreakable power armor, avoid giving them the book. The keyword added and removed is: "PowerArmorPreventArmorDamageKeyword"
Thanks to:
rbddc12- Thanks for getting me started. Check out their Better Companions mod (and if you've already got that mod installed like I do, don't give your followers one of my books.)
kinggath- Thanks for walking me through a few things. If you don't have his Sim Settlements mod installed- you're missing out