ℹ️  About the Mod

"SET for the Great Hunt" is the latest "Skyrim Encounters and Themes" mod and a must for players who love to hunt, or who just want to make traveling Skyrim more immersive, challenging and fun. It causes the existing animals everywhere in Skyrim to spawn other animals and creatures, adding many more predators and prey. Over time, the world becomes teeming with wildlife. Lone wolves become wolf packs with black, red and ice wolves. Bears lead bear cubs. Horkers protect horker younglings. Lone deer become herds. Rabbits breed like...well, rabbits. But that's not all! Animals found only in Solstheim or The Vale also spawn in Skyrim. Bristleback boars gather at streams with mudcrabs. Giant netches and netch calves sing their eerie songs on icy shores. Glowing vale sabre cats prowl the plains at night with Vale deer. Frost giants inhabit the coldest giant camps. And be warry of werebears stalking you beneath Skyrim's twin moons.

🆕 WHAT'S NEW

(1) Increased the aggression of werebears so they won't flee combat when their health gets low. Aggression returns to normal when they transform back during day. (2) Added the werebear's faction to cave bears that transform into werebears. The faction is removed when they transform back during the day.

⬇️ 50,000 DOWNLOADS

Many thanks to all who tried the mod on PC, PS4 and Xbox. I hope you enjoyed playing with it as much as I did. You're the best!

👍 PLEASE ENDORSE & COMMENT

If you like this mod, please rate it. The mod was tested using the command console to spawn each animal and observe that it spawned animals or transformed as expected. However, if you encounter an issue, let me know by messaging me at NexusMods.com or posting a comment at this mod's page when I upload it there. My user name is the same: sp0ckrates (spelled with a zero).

⚙️ HOW IT WORKS

The mod makes most animals in Skyrim automatically spawn other animals as they load into the game. It also has a chance to transform a few animals into creatures not seen in Skyrim's wilderness during the night (between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m.). What each animal spawns or can become:

• Black bears: 50% chance to spawn a bear cub
• Cave bears & snow bears: 50% chance for a bear cub (during the day); chance to become a werebear (at night)
• Deer: 50% chance for rabbits or more deer (day); and more deer or the White Stag (night)
• Elk bucks: elk does (day); elk does or Vale Deer (night)
• Foxes & snow foxes: rabbits or more foxes (day); Bristleback boars or crazy foxes that attack (night)
• Giants: In snow-covered giant camps, the giants become frost giants
• Goats (wild): more goats (day & night); alpha male goats that attack (night)
• Horkers: 50% chance for horker younglings, netch bettys, netch calves
• Sabre cats: become Vale Sabre Cats (night)
• Skeevers: more skeevers & venomfang skeevers (outside & inside)
• Wolves (black): black, red and ice wolves (day & night); leveled werewolves (night)
• Wolves (ice): red & ice wolves (day & night); death hounds (night)
  

Profitable Hunting: Dragons, vampires, civil war. Like the Whiterun's pawnbroker Belathor says, these all make for great profit!  The mod makes hunting more profitable too. The gold you get selling animal pelts, hides and furs is now 3 to 5 times greater.

💡 TIPS & TRICKS

• Freaks come out at night. If you're up for the fight, travel between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. You'll have a better chance of running into Bristleback boars, death hounds, werebears and werewolves.
  

• Frosty the giant. Giants turn into frost giants only at the coldest giant camps. To hunt them, go to Blizzard Rest, Red Road Pass, Stonehill Bluff and Tumble Arch Pass.
  

• Grill for gold. Instead of selling raw beef, try cooking it in a pot. You'll turn a greater profit.
  

• Wait for it... If you're not satisfied with the number of wildlife, return to the same location later. When animals reload, they can spawn again, creating larger deer and horker herds, making larger wolf packs, giving bears more cubs, and spawning rabbits--more rabbits! You get the idea.
  

• Knowing it works. Many of the animals spawned in the game will have an asterisk in their name, so you will know the mod is working.
  

• Leveled spawns. Some creatures won't appear until you reach a high enough level. Ice wolves won't join wolf packs until level 6. Werewolves won't be seen until level 10. Werewolves themselves are leveled. As you level up, they get more health and stamina.
  

• Rabbit kill count. The game keeps a record of how many rabbits you kill, which you can view in the menu.
  

• Troll trophies & armor. If you want a mod that lets you loot skulls from trolls and mount them on walls or make them into helmets, get the mod "HUNT Troll Skulls". Just be sure to put it below this mod in your load order.
  

• Using other mods. If you have a mod that changes the default animals or prices in the game, you can move them below this mod. This will override the changes of this mod. For example, if you put a mod that changes chickens into turkeys lower in the order, chickens will no longer spawn more chickens,  but wolves will still spawn more wolves.
  

• Vanishing animals & moths? Most of the time you won't see animals spawning more animals, but if you do, you will see moths and animals briefly appear and disappear when a new animal spawns. The mod uses existing scripts, which is a requirement for PS4 and saves space on Xbox.
  

🏆 20 MILLION DOWNLOADS

My son and I have more than 20,000,000 downloads of our Skyrim mods on Bethesda, Steam and Nexus. Our mod series that you might like:

• ART: Amazing Race Tweaks
• BIG: Better Improvements for Gameplay
• GET: Game Environment Tweaks
• HUNT: Hunters of Unusual and New Trophies
• SET: Skyrim Encounters and Themes
• STAR: Superior Treasure and Rewards
• WAR: Weapons, Armor or Robes
  

Please let me know if there are any of our mods you'd like ported over to Nexus.