I've been following Monitor's progress on Loot Spillage since he first announced it on his Patreon. I'm a big fan of this concept and making the loot experience more satisfying in Skyrim. So once he made the source code public and released Loot Spillage on Nexus I decided to expand on his efforts for my own personal setup. It started as just adding a simple MCM menu but then evolved into bug fixes and a few new quality of life features. 

A HUGE thank you to Monitor144hz for all his initial work on Loot Spillage, and making the source code public allowing me to expand on it.

You're awesome Monitor!


MCM

In game Loot Spillage configuration. There is now an MCM menu that allows you to configure Loot Spillage settings when ever you want. No more opening and closing the game to tweak ini settings.



Keyword Exclusion

Items and Actors can now be excluded from dropping loot by applying the DisableLootDrop keyword to them.
This keyword can be applied using KID for items and SPID for actors. Settings to toggle keyword exclusion for items and actors is available in the MCM.
I've included a few optional patches that use this feature. See the Optional Patches section for more details.

Additional Shader Control

The MCM expansion adds additional control settings for item shaders.

• Completely disable item shading
• Fade after a set duration (default behavior)
• Never fade. Keep item shaders active until the item is picked up or the player leaves the cell.
  



Shader Color Configuration

You can now configure the shader colors for each item type. The default colors are the same as the original Loot Spillage mod.

I plan to add 2 new shader colors for Unique and Legendary items. These colors will be assigned using keywords applied through KID.



Drop Limits

Limit the amount of items dropped per actor. If too many loot items are dropped all at once it can cause a CTD or large FPS drops depending on your setup. This should also help limit the number of item references introduced by Loot Spillage.

The default drop limit is set to 15 but can be adjusted in the MCM. Drop Limit is ignored If DropAll is set to true.



Quest Item Drop Control

Quest Items can now be configured to be dropped or remain on the actors body. This feature is helpful in some cases where a quest item is required to be looted from a body to progress a quest like the Heads introduced by Headhunter - Bounties Redone.

Quest Item drops are disabled by default.

Actor Loot Drop Filters

In addition to the original CreatuerDrops setting, you can now configure Loot Drops to only occur for actors killed by the player or a follower.

This should help cut down on the number of item references introduced by Loot Spillage, specially in cases where a battle is happening in the same cell and actors are dying without the player being involved.

These filters are enabled by default, but can be toggled in the MCM.






In addition to some of the new features, MCM Expansion also fixes up a few bugs.

• Fixed a bug where items with blank names would still go through the item drop process even though they are not valid.
• Unplayable items would still be dropped if the "DropAll" setting was enabled. The "DropAll" setting will now only override "DropWeapons", "DropArmor", and "DropOther"
• In some cases NPC inventory would include an item that is not a "droppable" FormType which would cause a CTD. To fix this, the logic for "DropOther" has been updated to white list supported FormTypes instead of dropping anything that's not weapons or armor.
• Added a few more checks for item reference validity after being removed from the actors inventory. In some cases changing cells would sometimes cause a CTD. Validating the item drop regularly prevents this CTD.
• Fixed a CTD caused by NPCs prematurely spilling their lootage before they were dead dead. The DeathEvent used to track actor deaths triggers twice, once when the actor is dying and once when they have finished dying. This will now only trigger once when the actor has finished dying so that spilling loot during certain death animations won't cause a CTD.
• New log messages have been added to help identify any additional issues with the item drop process. If you experience CTD related to LootSpillage.dll please send me your log file so I can investigate. I'll be looking at adding a Debug Mode setting to the MCM in the future to prevent log spam unless you need it.
  



Creature Exclusion Patch

This patch is for anyone having issues with creatures still dropping loot.

The issue typically arises due to some mods like SkyTEST - Realistic Animals and Predators SE removing animals from the CreatureFaction.
The CreatureFaction is what Loot Spillage uses to identify creatures for the 'CreatureDrops' setting. This patch uses SPID to apply the new "DisableLootDrop" keyword to all animal races.

Requires SPID

Bandolier - Bags and Pouches Patch

Some of the models used in Bandolier - Bags and Pouches cause CTDs when shaders are applied. I'm not sure why, but this patch will prevent the bad items from dropping using the new "DisableLootDrop" keyword.

Requires KID

Underwear Exclusion Patch

This patch will prevent underwear from being dropped. Very helpful if you are using an underwear mod that dynamically adds underwear to NPCs like NPC Underwear Distribution Engine or Equippable Underwear for NPCs. Dead actors will no longer be showing their bits until you manually take their no no cloth.

Requires OCF and KID

NOTE: If you don't already have OCF installed, a new game is recommended.

• Loot Spillage NG
• SKSE
• Address Library for SKSE Plugins
• MCM Helper
• SPID - Optional if using optional patches
• KID - Optional if using optional patches
• OCF - Optional if using optional patches
  



Just like Loot Spillage NG this mod utilizes CommonLib NG so it should be compatible with any version. 
As far as compatibility with other mods, just like the original this should be compatible with any mod. But I did find some that would cause CTD's with bad World Models for droppable items.

If you identify one of these mods please let me know in the Bugs section and I can look into making a compatibility patch for it. Or if you're so included you can simply use SPID or KID to disable look spillage for the offending item/actor.



MASSIVE thank you to Monitor144hz for his work on Loot Spillage NG and making it public on GitHub. I've learned so much about SKSE development from looking at your code. 

A big thank you to the team behind CommonLib NG, you guys are awesome and make so many things possible for Mod Authors.









Here is the source code for this mod if anyone is interested in looking at it. Source

I'm a big supporter of open source code and I feel like lots of mod authors benefit from being able to see how things are done. Also I've got a severe case of ADHD, so I'm not super reliable when it comes to up keep on mods and open source allows others to take up projects that my brain decides I'm not allowed to look at it anymore...