Description

General idea of the mod is to turn meditation into more meaningful process: it's no longer used to simply skip time and auto-refill your potions and bombs, you need meditation/campfire to manage your character skills, equipment and alchemy.

The mod works both with vanilla meditation and with Friendly Meditation. The use of the latter is recommended for better, more immersive experience.

By default with the mod installed you can no longer buy or rearrange skills and mutagens in your skill tree while not meditating/not at a campfire. Same is true for performing alchemy and for repairing and upgrading your equipment. You can configure these restrictions via in-game menu.

The larger part of the mod is related to how you refill your alchemy items: you now need to do it on per item basis using alchemy menu while meditating (requires Friendly Meditation) or while near a campfire. By default refilling one item (restoring all its "charges") requires the same alchemical "base" you used to create it in the first place: Alcohest or Saltpetre, for example. Oils also have limited amount of usages and are refilled in the same way using corresponding base. Refill mode is configurable via in-game menu: you can set it to "full recipe" and refilling will require full set of ingredients (excluding lower tier version of the same item), "exclude mutagen" (for mutagen potions), set one single refill item per alchemy item type or switch the system off and return to vanilla auto-refill.

Meditation requirements and restrictions are also configurable via in-game menu: by default meditating away from fire is disallowed and you need to either use an existing campfire or, if you have Friendly Meditation installed, spawn a campfire of your own using timber. You can remove timber requirements or disable campfire requirements completely to be able to meditate anywhere at any time. And you can also set up harder requirements like disallow player spawned campfires to only use pre-existing ones, or disable meditation in interiors, in settlements, near non-allied NPCs.

Managing your skills and alchemy while meditating is not instantaneous and takes time: 15 game minutes by default to brew or refill a potion, buy or equip a skill, repair or upgrade an item. Time intervals are also configurable via in-game menu.

By default the mod also disallows eating and drinking in combat - both from the inventory menu and from quick item slot. And you can no longer apply oils in combat - use your witcher senses to prepare for what's ahead. You can disable both of these options in the menu or switch on even harder option - completely disallow inventory access in combat.

Note: The mod is compatible with existing saves, you can install and uninstall it at any point of the game with no risk of breaking your saves.

How to install/uninstall the mod

It is recommended to use The Witcher 3 Mod Manager to install the mod. It handles installing the mod itself, the menu, the hotkeys and user settings automatically (note some of the Next Gen Edition changes below). You still need to run the Script Merger to fix script conflicts with another mod(s), if you have any.

Since v.4.0 (Next Gen Edition) the game is using two additional files to list in game menus and one additional options file:

• "[Path To The Witcher 3]\bin\config\r4game\user_config_matrix\pc\dx11filelist.txt"
• "[Path To The Witcher 3]\bin\config\r4game\user_config_matrix\pc\dx12filelist.txt"
• "[Path To Your Documents]\The Witcher 3\dx12user.settings"
  

DX11 version still relies on user.settings file for user settings. If you don't see mod menus in game or have troubles with mod settings, make sure to read the readme manual steps on adding mod specific menus and options to those new files. Until TW3MM is updated to do it automatically, you will need to do it manually! Don't forget about this step!

You can uninstall the mod using TW3 Mod Manager (until TW3MM is updated you will need to clean up the new txt files with menus manually, everything else should be automatic).

For manual install/uninstall instructions, please, refer to the readme file.

No matter which install method you prefer, read the readme file for mod defaults and configuration explanations!

Troubleshooting

Read the readme included with the mod.

Acknowledgements

- xMD11x and Xyarvius for German translation.
- Arthandas9 for Polish translation.
- ricardotanaka for Portuguese (Brazilian) translation.
- Belzebox and lexo1000 for French translation.
- Philos2236 and Mazii for Czech translation.
- Juan Manuel Martinez for Spanish translation.
- erxv for permission to use campfire despawn code from his Meditation UI Change mod.
- delamer for beta testing.