Fallout New Vegas

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About this mod

Adds a list of useful, lore-friendly actions when using a campfire, beyond just cooking and sleeping.

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Campfires Expanded

This mod adds a new script to all campfires scattered throughout the game. Originally, you could only cook at a campfire (or sleep if you have the right perk), but I thought you should be able to do more than that.

This should give players a more fun, useful, and immersive campfire experience in Fallout: New Vegas.


List of Actions

  • Use Stimpak - If you have a Medicine skill of 15 or greater, and at least one Stimpak in your inventory, you can use one to fully heal yourself.
  • Use Doctor's Bag - If you have a Medicine skill of 25 or greater, and at least one Doctor's Bag in your inventory, you can use one to fully restore all your limbs.
  • Use RadAway - If you have a Medicine skill of 25 or greater, and at least one bag of RadAway in your inventory, you can use one to remove all radiation.
  • Cook Something - Opens up the cooking menu. Player must have either a Pot, Metal Cooking Pot, or Metal Cooking Pan in their inventory to cook.
  • Purify Water - If you have a Survival skill of 50 or greater, and a Water Purifier in your inventory, you can purify all Irradiated or Dirty water in your inventory. Water Purifiers are reusable and are crafted at a Workbench.
  • Craft Items - If you have a Repair skill of 50 or greater, and a Portable Workbench in your inventory, selecting this will open up the Workbench menu. Portable Workbenches are reusable and are crafted at a normal Workbench.
  • Craft Ammo - If you have a Repair skill of 50 or greater, and a Portable Workbench in your inventory, selecting this will open up the Reloading Bench menu. Portable Workbenches are reusable and are crafted at a normal Workbench.
  • Sleep - Allows you to sleep if you have the Home on the Range perk, from the Honest Hearts DLC. (You just need 70 survival skill in the No DLC version).



Other Features

  • Campfires in Goodsprings (across from the General Store, by the two large crates) and Novac (outside the dining tent).
  • New perk: Burning Man, available at Level 8 with 35 Survival. With this perk, just being near a Campfire will slowly increase your health, as well as boost your Perception and Survival.



Installation

Use the Nexus Mod Manager, or extract the Data folder to your ...\Fallout New Vegas\ directory. Please select only one .esp in your load order after installation (normal or No DLC).

As for load order, as long as the .esp is below any other mods that have to do with campfires, you should be fine.


Version History

  • 1.4 - Fixed a small bug that sometimes prevented the Burning Man actor effect from activating properly.
  • 1.3 - Doubled the range that the Burning Man perk activates at, as well as added a 2-second message whenever you enter or leave that radius (which can alert you to a campfire you might otherwise have missed). Sleep option is hidden completely until you get the required perk (still always visible in No DLC version). Created and added custom icons for water purifier and portable workbench. Moved "Exit" button to top of list. A Metal Cooking Pan will now also fulfill the requirement for being able to cook. Fixed a bug with the script that gave you the notes/messages when you create your first workbench or purifier.
  • 1.2 - Added Burning Man perk. Added pot requirement to cooking option. Increased weight of Portable Workbench. Added Water Purification option. Added campfire to Novac. Various spelling/wording changes.
  • 1.1 - Fixed master file issue. Included alternate .esp for those without the Honest Hearts DLC. In this version, you just need a survival skill of 70 to sleep at a campfire, instead of the Home on the Range perk. Only choose one .esp after installation. Also fixed a spelling error in the main menu ("stimpack" to "stimpak").



Requirements

  • Normal version requires the Honest Hearts DLC. If you do not have Honest Hearts, use the No DLC .esp.
  • Does NOT need NVSE (yet).



Compatibility

  • The mod Burning Campfire will not work with this mod, as it uses an altered version of the original script for campfires. I may try to release a version of this with that mod incorporated into it, in the future (with the author's permission of course).
  • It may conflict with any mods that alter which script the vanilla campfires use. The original script for campfires was left untouched, so it should still work fine for anything that needs to use it (hotplates, etc).
  • Mods that add NEW campfire objects (i.e. new user-created activators set to use the original campfire script) will not be affected or changed by this mod. This is because this mod alters the vanilla/Honest Hearts campfires only.



Known Issues/Bugs

  • If you are close enough to more than one campfire at a time, the Burning Man perk effect may be cancelled out, along with the messages doing odd things (appearing twice, not appearing at all, etc).



Misc. Notes

  • Campfires cannot be used in combat, like usual.
  • Interacting with the campfire will autosave your game (unless you are in combat).
  • Recipe for a Portable Workbench is: 2x Wrench, 1x Hammer, 2x Scrap Electronics, 5x Scrap Metal, 2x Duct Tape, 2x WonderGlue, 1x Leather Belt, 1x Lunchbox, 1x Abraxo Cleaner, 1x Turpentine, and 1x Paint Gun. The recipe will not show up if you already have one in your inventory.
  • Recipe for a Water Purifier is: 1x Pot, 1x Surgical Tubing, 1x WonderGlue, 1x Coffee Kettle. The recipe will not show up if you already have one in your inventory.
  • Thanks to user TheAmazingPixel for the Water Purification idea!
  • Please let me know of any bugs or compatibility issues! Also, suggestions are welcome!