This plugin changes the soul trap spells and enchantments so you never underfill a soul gem, and unlike the original, has full support for trapping multiple souls at once, as well as never needing compatibility patches for other mods.
This mod is freely available. The source for the plugin's scripts are also included. Please be sure to credit both myself and the original author, bluedanieru, for any works you make that use anything from this mod.
Thank you.
File credits
The USKP team, for both making the USKP patch and explicitly allowing anyone who wishes to use the resources in it however we like.
bluedanieru, for making the original Acquisitive Soul Gems mod, taking the time to respond to all my pestering, helping me make the coding changes to the script that made this all possible, and for giving me permission to upload my version.
All the users of this mod, especially those who found any bugs or suggested improvements that have been implemented.
Updated Lossy Capture to not include Black Souls, as was originally intended. Oops.
Version 4.6.2
Updated .esp to fix bug with capturing souls from already dead creatures. Updated Settings book text.
Version 4.6.1
Fixed issues with book not loading at game start (Skyrim and SkyrimSE) and on saved game loading (SkryrimSE).
Version 4.6
Added option to capture souls in a too-small container at a loss. (Credit goes to DarknessO7 for the idea.)
Version 4.5.2
Added option to allow removal of book.
Version 4.5.1
Added text to the book. Renamed book to sort to top. Prevented book from showing in trade menus. Prevented crafting book when book exists in inventory. Make it more likely book will be given to player on game load.
Version 4.5
Added recipe for Options Book so it is craftable if needed. Uses 1 leather strip. Changed message silence option to be two settings, one for silencing success messages, and one for silencing fail messages. Revamped how settings are stored, now uses one global for all settings rather than one for each.
Version 4.2
Added Options Menu Book for those without access to the console. Minor fixes and optimizations.
Version 4.1.1
Removed edits to soul gems for mod compatibility. No longer fixes soul gem dropping bug (use USLEP for that), no longer breaks names from sorting mods.
Version 4.1
Fixed Soul Stealer perk not working with mod.
Version 4.0.m
Merged non-SKSE and International forks, SKSE only required for International mode, off by default. Fixed Black Soul Gem duplication bug.
Version 3.2
Version 3.2.r, 3.2.i.r: Reupload to fix incorrect linking of Petty Soul Gems.
Version 3.2, 3.2.i: Fixed soul gem bug regression.
Version 3.1
Version 3.1.i: Language localization support added. SKSE required for international version to work correctly! Still not required for standard, English-only version.
Version 3.1: Fixed bug w/ Black Soul Gems introduced in 3.0, no longer interferes with autolooting mods at all.
Version 3.0
Removed mod dependency, no other mods required to be installed for this mod to work correctly.
Version 2.9.1
Fixed soul gem duplication bug introduced in v.2.9.
Version 2.9
Updated gem checking to interfere with looting mods less. Glitches will now only occur, if ever, once the player has either Star.
Version 2.8
Bugfixing: Stop trying to steal souls from the ones that aren't dead yet. Initial release - USLEP dependancy update.
Version 2.7
Bugfixing: (Failed to) Capture spamming, most noticable with soul trap enchanted weapons, fixed. Uses unused ActorVariable BrainCondition to make sure soul traps are not performed on soulless victims.
Version 2.6
Initial release No patches required for Apocalypse, PerkusMaximus, etc. Uses MCM for configuration. (Not required.) Able to capture multiple souls at the same time, unlike ASG v2.5.6 Upgrade Ordinator if experiencing problems with this and it.
Available for Skyrim Special Edition! Language localization support (w/ SKSE)! No patches needed! Trap multiple souls at once! Configure it how you like!
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This mod is based on the now "obsolete" and unsupported mod ACQUISITIVE SOUL GEMS. In fact, it's almost the same mod. Just like with that one, this mod makes it so you never trap anything less than the maximum size soul a Soul Gem can handle.
"Almost the same mod? What's the difference?", you say? --- ASGM has localization, which means that the mod is in your language, not just English. Supported languages are Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
If SKSE is installed, which is required by SkyUI, Internationalization will be enabled automagically when the ASGM MCM menu is opened.
(Thanks go to dodo007777, Ulrik, archerarcher, Oktober, lolikyonyu, Keresh, adelinadragonborn, and Jokerine for their work on the translations.) (Thanks also go to irasik, Zwizzor, Ranua, and DemiMaxzu for the translations for the new feature added in v4.6)
If SKSE is not installed, all messages will only be in English. --- ASG requires USLEEP to work now, while ASGM is dependency free. I don't really consider this a big deal, since most of you should have USLEEP anyway, and if you don't, I recommend getting it. It's a really useful patch. Much love. (Even if I do hate the fact that the acronym makes it sound like a sleep mod.)
(ASG 3.0 and later can also handle multiple Soul Traps at the same time, and no longer needs compatibility patches, so that's no longer a difference.) --- Here's a video showing the difference between how Soul Trapping looks in Vanilla, old versions of ASG, and, finally, ASGM and ASG 3.0:
Personally, I think the mod's staggering trap effect is much cooler than vanilla's all-at-once thing.
--- Brand new with v4.6.6 is the ability to tell ASGM about any non-Vanilla soul gem items that were added by a mod by simply placing a json file in a certain folder. This is more for modders than for users, but literally anyone can make the needed file, so if the author of your mod hasn't made an ASGM json file for the soul gems added by that mod, feel free to do it yourself, and pm the file to the author so (s)he can include it in the mod!
Details are in the readme file. --- Finally, and most importantly, IMO, ASGM has options. With ASG, Black Soul Gems can only harvest Black Souls, and that's also true of the Black Star, and Azura's Star isn't restricted to only being "full" like the regular gems are- it can hold any size soul except Black. With this mod, that's all configurable.
Do you want to be able to trap not-Black souls in Black Soul Gems and the Black Star? Do you want to not waste Azura's Star on a Petty Soul? Do you want those messages about if a soul got captured or not to stop showing up? Do you want to be able to capture souls when you don't have a big enough Soul Gem, even if that means capturing it as a smaller soul?
Well, I have good news for you, all of those things are configurable in this mod! Even better, while I do provide an MCM menu for you to change the options, you poor laddies and gentlelasses that don't have SkyUI can still change the settings with the included ASGM Settings Book! Yay!
That's it! That's all the wondrous goodness of this mod!
Conclusion: Use it or don't as you wish.
If you like it, thank you. I don't personally care if this gets endorsed, but endorsing does make it more likely that other people who may like it will see it, so, do it for them. :)
This isn't the only ancient mod I've made an update for! Check out this bad boy over here!: Rupture and Craft Soul Gems
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