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About this mod
A simple combat enabled cat follower using the vanilla animal follower system. What he lacks in features he more than makes up for with violence!
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Changelogs
Description
Ironclaw can be found wandering outside the Vilemyr Inn in Ivarstead. He's available for recruitment immediately upon starting the game, provided you have no other animal companions following you (using the vanilla animal follower system). He will return to Ivarstead after being dismissed, and can be recruited again at any time.
- Ironclaw has similar faction relationships and patrol packages to the cats in my House Cats - Behaviour Tweaks mod. When not in your service, he will go hunting for rabbits twice daily at dusk and dawn - new rabbit spawns have been placed around Ivarstead to encourage this behaviour. If you're having trouble finding him during this time, he shouldn't be too far from the village, and will return home within two in-game hours.
- Ironclaw is flagged as essential, so he won't meet an untimely end during combat, when returning home, or while hunting in the wilderness outside of the village.
- Ironclaw will level with the player, with a minimum level of 6 and a maximum level of 30 (and a level multiplier of 0.6). This limitation seemed appropriate for a cat, while keeping the levels of common enemy NPCs in mind. His attacks have a bleed damage effect attached to them to compensate for his low level.
- Ironclaw has a confidence level of "brave", meaning that there are some fights he will opt not to partake in (i.e. enemies higher than 2.0x his level). Once again, this seemed like appropriate behaviour for a cat.
- Ironclaw uses the vanilla skeever combat animations. This works well for the most part, but the installer has an option to replace two of the combat idles with something more fitting.
- Ironclaw uses the vanilla skeever combat sounds, but has a custom voice for his dialogue, which is the same as the cat voice used in my House Cats - Dialogue Tweaks mod.
- Ironclaw is a spotted tabby cat by default, but taupe, brown, grey, black, and white coat colour options are available in the installer.
- Ironclaw has the option to wear an iron helmet (pictured in the screenshots) if selected in the installer. It's an edited vanilla iron helmet mesh and shares it's texture path, so it will use whatever iron armour textures you have installed.
Notes: As Ironclaw is using the vanilla follower system, a patch may be required for other mods that make edits to the same records. I'm open to making compatibility patches on request - just ask!
In the future, I hope to create a custom follower script for Ironclaw, and remove him from the vanilla system altogether, but that will take some time to implement. The current version is fully functional, so I decided to release him as is.
Requirements
- Mihail's Monsters and Animals - House Cats
- House Cats - My Version by Xtudo - the fluffy version is required for Ironclaw's iron helmet outfit.
- House Cats - Behaviour Tweaks and House Cats - Dialogue Tweaks from my Immersive Tweaks - Animal Behaviour page. I may consider releasing a more standalone version in the future, but Mihail and Xtudo's mods will always be required.
Patches
- Immersive Interactions - Animated Actions Patch: Adds cats (including Ironclaw and the new cats added by House Cats - Behaviour Tweaks) to the list of animals that can be interacted with in jayserpa's Immersive Interactions - Animated Actions, enabling you to pet them. Replaces the patch on my Immersive Tweaks - Animal Behaviour page - choose only one. Requires Dynamic Activation Key.
- Animals Swim (Sort Of) Patch: Distributes the waterwalking spell from jayserpa's Animals Swim (Sort Of) to cats (including Ironclaw), using the vanilla skeever swimming animations. Requires Spell Perk Item Distributor. Available on my Immersive Tweaks - Animal Behaviour page.
Load Order
Due to the large number of dependencies, I thought it might be helpful to provide a recommended load order. I use the following for both my mod list and plugins list (with the exception of patches that must be loaded after their masters), which seems to work well:
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- Mihail's Monsters and Animals - House Cats
- House Cats - My Version by Xtudo - Head-Tracking
- House Cats - My Version by Xtudo - Fluffy
- Mihail's Monsters and Animals - Sewer Rats (port by PapaQuill)
- Sewer Rats - Cities and Towns Only
- Mihail's Monsters and Animals - Pigeons
- Pigeons - Cities Only
- (...)
- House Cats - Behaviour Tweaks - Full
- House Cats - Dialogue Tweaks - Full
- House Cats - Cat Follower - Ironclaw - Full
- (...)
- Brawl Lines Expansion and Fixes
- (...)
- Immersive Interactions - Animated Actions
- Ironclaw - Immersive Interactions Patch
- Animals Swim (Sort Of)
- House Cats - Behaviour Tweaks - Animals Swim Patch
Notes: There are some minor conflicts with jayserpa's Brawl Lines Expansion and Fixes - simply load it after my tweaks (and Ironclaw) to ensure it's changes take priority.
Credits
- MihailMods for their wonderful monsters and animals.
- Xtudo for their thoughtful additions to Mihail's mods.