This mod changes the way most animals behave so they feel more like animals and less like monsters to be killed on sight.
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File credits
Animallica Patch uses assets from the Animallica.esp - Animallica is created by sliceandkill and can be found here: nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57413/? High Level Enemies Patch uses assets from the HigherLevelEnemies.esp - High Level Enemies is created by Dalquist and can be found here: nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27866/? Real Wildlife Patch uses assets from the Real Wildlife Skyrim 0.1.esp - Real Wildlife - Skyrim is created by Nedius and can be found here: nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/9778/?
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Animals are not Monsters
This mod edits the AI Data of hostile animals to make them behave more like animals and less like monsters. In general, animals will have a warning radius approximately 5 times larger than their attack radius, and are not guaranteed to fight to the death. Often, bashing an animal a few times is enough to get it to change it's mind about eating you. The goal of this mod is to provide you with more options when dealing with animals, as well as an experience that feels more true to life. No longer will you have to slay every predatory animal that can see you. No longer will wolves throw themselves at you mindlessly until they die. This mod is also very lightweight. It can go more or less anywhere in your load order, and it should be compatible with basically everything, even SkyTest ~_^
Add specific mod version for Skyrim Immersive Creatures (completed patch, permission granted, but I am feeling lazy and not playing Skyrim currently so here is a link to the file Skyrim Immersive Creatures Patch) Please send me a message to request a patch for other animal/creature mods Figure out how to get wolves to use their aggro warning audio files
Compatibility
I checked this mod along side my other 253 installed mods, the only conflict was Predators - Lost Tribes and it was inconsequential. Please note that any animals added by mods will be unaffected by the main file.
Requirements
Legendary version requires Dawnguard and Dragonborn DLC Dawnguard version requires Dawnguard DLC Dragonborn version requires Dragonborn DLC Animallica Patch requires Animallica High Level Enemies Patch requires High Level Enemies Real Wildlife Patch requires Real Wildlife - Skyrim