Many player do not (yet) know that they actually can create a different type of follower with the Imbuing Chamber in White Ridge Barrow (Solstheim). In the vanilla game you can craft spider scrolls that will allow you to use up to 6 spiders that will fight for you and will keep following you. This type of follower does NOT count as normal follower or pet, so you can keep your follower and your favourite pet in your team plus 6 scroll spiders.


INSTALLATION
First time? no problem! Go ahead as for a normal mod

Are you updating? If you are updating to the v1.5 (included) onwards, you should follow these steps:
1. use away all the spiders of this mod. Cast them all!
2. put on the ground 6 vanilla spiders in order to kill all your mod spiders. Or get rid of them in any other way
2.1 (optional) if there are dead bodies of your mod spiders, open the console command, select them dead bodies, write "disable" and press enter.
3. Go in a interior, and wait 7 days
4. Install the new version, v1.5 (included) onwards. You can overwrite the old files.
At this point your old mod spiders will not exist anymore. The new file (v1.5 onwards) uses different reference numbers for the spiders and every item of the mod, that's why we have to do these steps
4.1 (optional) keep a buck up. If you don't, don't worry, I am leaving all the former versions available to download so you can go back at any time
5. load your saving 
6. save again, in a new file
7. use this to clean up your just saved file (it might be dirty might be clean already) - click here for the 46s tutorial 
8. enjoy!

[troubleshooting and bug fixing: for any problem, just put it up on your load order and try again]

DESCRIPTION

Unfortunately, the vanilla spiders are kind of one use only. The explosive ones die as they attack, the other ones are capable of melee attack only and they are not so resistant. So they usually die in the first few fights. This mod will introduce 5+1 new types of scroll spiders, much stronger than the others that will attack your enemies from a distance:

• Infernal Spider - fire bolt like a atronach 
• Glacial Spider - frost bite, but I don't know why they prefer melee combat anyway :/ 
• Thunder-Born Spider - shock attacks like a strong Dwemer Spider
• Predator Spider - poison attacks, due to the short range I gave them some extra health, armor, speed, regen and other interesting abilities. 
• Nightmare Spider - Ghost spider, my favourite. It uses the elemental attacks, can conjure other unique ghost spiders, plus it has some extra abilities, most notable: damage 50% reduction. Having 6 of them is very funny since each will conjure its own spider. You can end up with 12 spiders on your side, a very strong army, get ready
• (Bonus) Chimeran Ash Hopper - We all faced them in Solstheim, it made sense from a roleplaying perspective to add them (if you read the book you will understand). Melee attack only, but very fast to jump against the enemy, a bit of armor (from the chitin) and very high health regen. They are small, so you can easily fight from a distance without hitting them
• (Bonus) Winged Death coming soon... I still need to do some testing
  

Location:
as mentioned before, you can craft scroll spiders at the Imbuing Chamber in White Ridge Barrow (Solstheim). There is also the recipes book, inside the bag just next to the table (see picture).
If you have other mods adding other imbuing chambers, this mod should be compatible, but I am not 100% sure


Recipes: 

• Infernal Spider: 
  daedra heart, albino pod, vampire dust, fire salts 
• Glacial Spider:
  daedra heart, albino pod, vampire dust, frost salts  
• Thunder-Born Spider:
  daedra heart, albino pod, vampire dust, void salts 
• Predator Spider:
  daedra heart, damaged albino pod, nirnroot, taproot, poison bloom, chitin (Mudcrab, or Chaurus, or Chitin plate)
• (Ghost Spider) Nightmare Spider
  heart stone, damaged albino pod, fire salts, frost salts, void salts, vampire dust, moonsugar, ectoplasm, ice wraith teeth, glow dust, wisp wrappings, flawless diamond (being the strongest the recipe is the longest and hardest)
• Chimeran Ash Hopper
  heart stone, damaged albino pod, troll fat, vampire dust, moonsugar, hopper leg, chitin (Mudcrab, or Chaurus, or Chitin plate)