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About this mod
Boss containers can now grant experience in the form of Skyshards, providing advancement in a chosen skill or bestowing perk points.
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💎 Installation:
💎 Features:
Uses Skyrim's Radiant Quest engine to dynamically place Skyshards in boss containers you encounter whilst adventuring. This means that nothing needs to be hand-placed, nor do any levelled lists need to be patched. You'll even be able to find them in mod-added content.
Any Boss Container in a Location that hasn't been Cleared can receive Skyshards. Locations that have been Cleared will be able to receive Skyshards again after they reset. Locations that never reset will not be able to receive additional Skyshards.
Three types of Skyshards can be found:
The [chance] to find each Skyshard can be configured via console command (see spoiler below) or by editing the values in the JSON config file provided (requires PapyrusUtil). Changes made to the json config file won't take effect until you reload your save.
💎 Skill Selection:
Equipping a Skyshard will allow you to deposit items within to focus its energy on particular skills. The focus item and Skyshard will be consumed with the corresponding skill advancing one level. Skills at maximum level will not consume any items or Skyshards. Leftover items are returned to your inventory.
No clunky menu's, no message box spam! Now some of that junk you usually ignore can even be exciting!
The following items can be used to focus a Skyshard to a skill:
In addition to the above, skill books and fortify skill potions can act as a focus for that skill (Player-made potions are not supported).
Typically, Vanilla items are required, however it is possible to support any additional or mod-added items by adding them to the formlists provided for each skill. Many of the items above use these formlists already.
As a safeguard against consuming anything irreplaceable you can forbid items from being accepted into the Skyshard by adding them to the exclusion formlist provided.
Furthermore, nothing will be consumed or confirmed until after exiting your inventory.
💎 Compatibility:
Skill advancement may interact sub-optimally with anything that removes or reduces experience rates.
Support for skill advancement when using Experience is planned for a future update.
- Install with mod manager of choice
- Plugin can be placed anywhere in load-order. No Vanilla records edited, conflict-free. Load-order agnostic
- PapyrusUtil requirement is optional, but recommended if you'd like to use the config file instead of console commands
💎 Features:
Uses Skyrim's Radiant Quest engine to dynamically place Skyshards in boss containers you encounter whilst adventuring. This means that nothing needs to be hand-placed, nor do any levelled lists need to be patched. You'll even be able to find them in mod-added content.
It Just Works!
Any Boss Container in a Location that hasn't been Cleared can receive Skyshards. Locations that have been Cleared will be able to receive Skyshards again after they reset. Locations that never reset will not be able to receive additional Skyshards.
Three types of Skyshards can be found:
- Skyshard Splinter [100% chance] - The most common variant. Collect [5] of these to assemble a Skyshard
- Skyshard [5% chance] - Equipping this Skyshard will allow you to deposit items within to focus their energy on the skills you want to improve
- Skyshard (Epic) [1% chance] - Equipping this Skyshard will bestow a perk point for each one carried
The [chance] to find each Skyshard can be configured via console command (see spoiler below) or by editing the values in the JSON config file provided (requires PapyrusUtil). Changes made to the json config file won't take effect until you reload your save.
Spoiler:
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Use the following console commands to adjust the drop-rate of each Skyshard:
NOTE: The value of X is the % chance of not getting that particular Skyshard. Setting one of the globals to 1 means you'll find that Skyshard in 99% of boss containers (because you have a 1% chance to not find it).
It's a bit backwards, but that's just the way Bethesda implemented RNG for their levelled lists.
The value of Y is the number of Skyshard Splinters needed to assemble a complete Skyshard.
Set SOS_ChanceNoneSkyshard to X
Set SOS_ChanceNoneSkyshardGrand to X
Set SOS_ChanceNoneSkyshardSplinter to X
Set SOS_SkyshardSplintersNeeded to Y
NOTE: The value of X is the % chance of not getting that particular Skyshard. Setting one of the globals to 1 means you'll find that Skyshard in 99% of boss containers (because you have a 1% chance to not find it).
It's a bit backwards, but that's just the way Bethesda implemented RNG for their levelled lists.
The value of Y is the number of Skyshard Splinters needed to assemble a complete Skyshard.
💎 Skill Selection:
Equipping a Skyshard will allow you to deposit items within to focus its energy on particular skills. The focus item and Skyshard will be consumed with the corresponding skill advancing one level. Skills at maximum level will not consume any items or Skyshards. Leftover items are returned to your inventory.
No clunky menu's, no message box spam! Now some of that junk you usually ignore can even be exciting!
The following items can be used to focus a Skyshard to a skill:
- Alchemy: Ingredients
- Alteration: Sapphires
- Archery: Bows, Crossbows, Ammo
- Block: Shields
- Conjuration: Amethysts
- Destruction: Ruby's
- Enchanting: Soul Gems
- Heavy Armor: Heavy Armors
- Illusion: Emeralds
- Light Armor: Light Armors, Clothes
- Lockpicking: Lockpicks, Locks
- One Handed: Swords, Maces, War Axes
- Pickpocket: Gold
- Restoration: Diamonds
- Smithing: Ores, Ingots
- Sneak: Daggers
- Speech: Paper, Quills, Inkwells
- Two Handed: Battleaxes, Greatswords, Warhammers
- Random: Skooma (will advance a random skill)
- Special: Sweetrolls (will advance the skill that was last advanced)
In addition to the above, skill books and fortify skill potions can act as a focus for that skill (Player-made potions are not supported).
Typically, Vanilla items are required, however it is possible to support any additional or mod-added items by adding them to the formlists provided for each skill. Many of the items above use these formlists already.
As a safeguard against consuming anything irreplaceable you can forbid items from being accepted into the Skyshard by adding them to the exclusion formlist provided.
Furthermore, nothing will be consumed or confirmed until after exiting your inventory.
💎 Compatibility:
Skill advancement may interact sub-optimally with anything that removes or reduces experience rates.
Support for skill advancement when using Experience is planned for a future update.