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Thinking back to January, here’s what I was wrestling with: I had hoped to install the full Simonrim suite and test it out over a period of weeks to see how I liked it (I’ve never played with a majority of Simon’s mods installed, and certianly not with the purpose of deciding whether or not to build a modlist with them). When I reached the point where I should<\/em> have installed Blade and Blunt, I paused. It just didn’t sound fun to me. So I started researching other combat mods, thinking that I’d probably Frankenstein an overhaul together that relied mostly<\/em> on Simon’s mods, with more-fun sounding mods in it’s place (specifically for religion and races and maybe a few others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n And that was a lot of work. And that’s where I got sidetracked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n (I’m leaving out my decision to try Starfrost, which is mod I probably never thought Id’ try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m enabling Mysticicm and Adamant, run SSEEdit, and see where we’re at. (I’m scared. It’s very likely the board was lit up like a Christmas tree and that was one of the reasons why I was so happy to be sidetracked.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Starfrost<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enabled Starfrost, and this appears in LOOT immediately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s fine, injuries may not work for now. Reading through the Simonrim injury system, it may be more than I’m looking for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Taking a look at the Starfrost Nexus page, it appears the hunger system won’t work without Gourmet installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Starfrost has several features that rely on Blade and Blunt – A Combat Overhaul <\/a>and Gourmet – A Cooking Overhaul<\/a>. These are technically soft requirements; you can use Starfrost without using either of these mods, but several major features (Injuries and the Hunger system) simply will not work. Gourmet comes with a robust Survival patch that distributes Hot Foods throughout the game; that patch is recommended to be used with Starfrost.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m not sure I want to install Gourmet yet, certainly not at this point, delaying any test of Starfrost. Though this does leave me wondering: Without injuries and hunger working, and offering no thirst system , just what’s left in Starfrost? <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hm, yeah. Sounds a bit annoying actually. I’m changing my mind again<\/em> on survival mode, and nixing it from Dii at least for the initial release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coming back from a five-week break, I’m taking stock of where Dii is at before deciding where to go from here. Running (the new v0.25) of LOOT I discovered right off the bat that something was amiss. Numerous patches lit up red with ‘This plugin requires “MysticicmMagic.esp” to be installed’ and “This plugin requires ‘Adamant.esp’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-logs"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upstairsempire.xyz\/dii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upstairsempire.xyz\/dii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upstairsempire.xyz\/dii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upstairsempire.xyz\/dii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upstairsempire.xyz\/dii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/upstairsempire.xyz\/dii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/upstairsempire.xyz\/dii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upstairsempire.xyz\/dii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upstairsempire.xyz\/dii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upstairsempire.xyz\/dii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Finding my combat mod prefernce made great sense to me because testing overhaul mods requires playing the game and the game requires combat. So I started researching….<\/p>\n\n\n\nGeneral Updates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Injury System:<\/strong> Health-based injury progression (Minor \u2192 Major \u2192 Critical) affecting max health, requiring rest to heal. Untreated injuries lead to infections, reducing health regeneration.<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\nHunger & Food Buffs:<\/strong> Eating provides buffs; lack of food results in penalties to regeneration.<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n