This is my contribution for April Fool's Day, but don't worry. Skitters is a real, functional animal follower just waiting to be hatched. Like the description says, Skitters will hatch after you keep a chaurus egg in your pocket for a while.
Have fun with your new venomous bug-dog friend!
Update 1.1
- Skitters can become a chaurus hunter! Just feed Skitters its favorite food, made at a cooking pot with glowing mushrooms, carrot, and bone meal.
- The quest now attempts to detect if you're already carrying chaurus eggs in case you installed this mod mid-game.
Warning
Do NOT attempt to use the COC command with Skitters following you. It will glitch out.
just so to be clear, if i use a mod that makes me able to set a new home for followers (like Nether's follower framework), would Skitter's new home be the one i choose too? instead of Understone's Keep
btw, what about a option that you're able to turn Skitters into that big chaurus reaper that you find when doing the frostflow abyss quest, or just be able to change Skitters name?
Was so excited to finally find something that lets us have a chaurus ally since I feel creature designs are wasted if they are only enemies. But Skitters so far has been... a little lackluster. Haven't tested him out in hunter form but in normal he can't keep up with a player just using the normal run much less sprinting or having any speed boost. Falls behind immensely far very easily and even when around for combat he's got a weird tendency to just stay back maybe attacking at range unless something goes to him. So without LoS he often ends up a bad sentry. Also seems to have different AI from usual Chaurus in that he's got absolutely 0 good pathing skills during combat. Watch him get stuck on anything and everything...
Maybe I'll try hunter form and see if that changes anything since from what im reading there is no way to get him to the grown Reaper state for another power boost.
Hello! I found this mod Stuffed Chaurus and thought it'd be so cute to use alongside yours. I noticed that Skitters is their own race in SSEEdit, but do you think it's possible to somehow use Stuffed Chaurus with this mod so I can have a plush bug friend following me around Skyrim? Thanks!
Cool addition, i rly like you can take a pet now that actually is useful in battle.
However, Skitters glitched for me for no reason, i didn't use coc/any console commands, so he ended up only spitting poison, but stopped attacking enemies at all. Transfering him back to usual chaurus and then back again to hunter resolved the glitch, but i wonder what specifially causes this glitch and whether or not there is an easier workaround?
EDIT: unfortunately had to delete the mod because the glitch just appears every 15-30 min :(
I was searching for a Frostbite Spider Follower, then someone pointed me to this mod. Skitters is AWESOME, thanks for making him :) He's just hatched to my first pure mage character, and saved my level 1 ass every so often. I'm relieved he can also keep up with a horse on his clicky sticklegs (look back occasionally and you can see Skitters the Hurtling Chaurus =) ) I'm wondering, options from Nether's Follower Framework appear in his dialogue - if I used NFF to set his home to a different place - would that break something? As you say his designated home when he is dismissed is Understone Keep. I don't want to mess anything up.
I've never used NFF before so I can't say for sure, but I think it should be fine. In vanilla, when a follower goes home, they're basically just returning to their default location, and it's the same for Skitters. I would make a saved game and then test it out.
That is unfortunately beyond my current skill set. I would love to see a giant chaurus mount though; there was some really cool Skyrim concept art showing Falmer warriors riding them.
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This is my contribution for April Fool's Day, but don't worry. Skitters is a real, functional animal follower just waiting to be hatched. Like the description says, Skitters will hatch after you keep a chaurus egg in your pocket for a while.
Have fun with your new venomous bug-dog friend!
Update 1.1
- Skitters can become a chaurus hunter! Just feed Skitters its favorite food, made at a cooking pot with glowing mushrooms, carrot, and bone meal.
- The quest now attempts to detect if you're already carrying chaurus eggs in case you installed this mod mid-game.
Warning
Do NOT attempt to use the COC command with Skitters following you. It will glitch out.
btw, what about a option that you're able to turn Skitters into that big chaurus reaper that you find when doing the frostflow abyss quest, or just be able to change Skitters name?
Maybe I'll try hunter form and see if that changes anything since from what im reading there is no way to get him to the grown Reaper state for another power boost.
However, Skitters glitched for me for no reason, i didn't use coc/any console commands, so he ended up only spitting poison, but stopped attacking enemies at all. Transfering him back to usual chaurus and then back again to hunter resolved the glitch, but i wonder what specifially causes this glitch and whether or not there is an easier workaround?
EDIT: unfortunately had to delete the mod because the glitch just appears every 15-30 min :(