About this mod
Fundament is a generalized replacement for countless small mods, including its predecessor, Progress. Through simple initialization files the user can safely edit skill advancement rates, game settings, and even Oblivion.ini settings.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Mirrors
Fundament comes with a collection of scripts which change various aspects of gameplay. These are collected into a single mod, Bundlement.esp, but each individual feature can still be enabled or disabled separately. As with the rest of Fundament, everything is disabled by default.
- Global Rate Control Base skill slowdown and training cost control, with change-over-time options.
- Magic Prices Adjusts gold prices for enchanting, spellmaking and spell purchase.
- Racial Talents Skills with a racial bonus also get improved advancement rates.
- Variable Advancement: Armorer Rate of Armorer advancement depends on amount repaired per swing.
- Variable Advancement: Marksman Gains are dependent on target's range; bonus for sneak attacks.
- Variable Advancement: Melee Slower weapons give more skill; bonus for power attacks and sneak attacks.
- Variable Advancement: Mercantile Rates vary with trade value and vendor's skill; get skill for buying spells.
- Variable Advancement: Spells Per-effect gains; gains on-cast; magicka-based, range-based, and more!
Fundament is also a modder's toolkit. Fundament-based mods can freely apply separate modifiers to the same game settings, Ini settings and skill use rates, and Fundament sorts it all out. Any time you load a game or quit to the main menu, it resets everything so there's no danger of bleed-over. All of this is done with user functions that are generally more convenient to use than the raw OBSE commands they replace, and even mods which don't have Fundament.esm as a master can make changes to its records through special features of the initialization system.
Several other utility functions are included for convenience and efficiency, including Formulator, a self-managing CloneForm database. This tool greatly simplifies the task of avoiding bloat in mods that make heavy use of CloneForms.