About
The Skyrim Immersive Adventure Project is a large collection of over 200 Skyrim mods, assembled together into a single installable package. Many of the mods have been tweaked to coexist with one another, modified for immersion, and fixed where necessary. Countless hours have been spent merging mods (well over 200), adding/cutting content, and paying meticulous attention to detail. The goal is to provide a more immersive Skyrim experience without breaking the lore Bethesda brings to the game.
YOU MAY DISTRIBUTE SKYRIM IMMERSIVE ADVENTURE PROJECT FREELY *WITHOUT CHARGE*. IT MAY BE MODIFIED AND SHARED AS YOU WISH (YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO MAKE CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS).
Features:
- New lands, mysterious places, hidden items, and new quests.
- Higher-resolution graphics meshes and textures, with many fixes applied.
- Updated musical score, with plenty of new tracks to enjoy. Audio effects have been overhauled.
- Updated UI and compass. No more red dots showing your enemies. No more psychic ability to detemine lock picking difficulty.
- More food and craftable items, with recipes for both always shown regardless of what materials you have in your inventory.
- Drunk/drugged/Skooma effects.
- More realistic item carrying functionality, with additional carrying gear available. No more carrying an entire dungeon worth of loot; inventory use must be strategic.
- Campfires, tents, bedrolls, and winter gear, for staying warm and rested.
- Livelier taverns and new entertainment venues: Sky Ball stadium, casino, arena, and theater.
- Notice boards - where there's always something new posted to do!
- More realistic wildlife, birds, and aquatic creatures, with an improved fishing and hunting system.
- Cities have been revised and expanded in a lore-friendly manner.
- A basic needs system: hunger, thirst, and fatigue.
- Disease progression, more dangerous traps, and more lethal poisons.
- Dragons are more ferocious, and bosses are more difficult to defeat.
- Lighting is revised, placing an emphasis on the use of torches and lanterns.
- Clothing and armor have more purpose than simply adding to armor points.
- Armor and weapons have varying degrees of durability, and can break.
- More immersive environment, enhanced scenery, and revised weather.
- More NPCs, more followers, and lore-friendly creatures.
- Followers are more talkative and can ride their own horses.
- Updated combat AI.
- More books - plenty of stories to enjoy.
- Plenty of other subtle immersion features (inn pricing, item weights, footprints, animations, effects, stealth, etc.).
- Plenty of surprises. Never play the same game twice!
- Unofficial fixes for the vanilla game.
Requirements
Skyrim LE (Legendary Edition - "oldrim" - not Special Edition) for Windows/PC, updated to version 1.9.32.
Skyrim DLC: Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn.
Skyrim official high resolution texture packs (free DLC).
Microsoft Windows 7 / 8 / 10.
Intel 'Haswell' Core i7 quad-core CPU or newer / AMD 'Pinnacle Ridge' Ryzen quad-core CPU or newer, preferably running at 4 Ghz. or faster.
Nvidia GTX 1070 video card or similar, with 8 GB. video memory.
1080p HD display (1920x1080 resolution).
16 GB. or more memory preferred.
SSD (solid state drive) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for best performance.
Microsoft Xbox 360 / Xbox One gamepad controller recommended.
Skyrim requirements:
Game dialog captions must be enabled.
For best performance, Skyrim graphics settings should be set to not use anistropic filtering (to be handled by ENB instead).
Download
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Version 1.5 (354 MB.) (Released November 5, 2024)
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Version 1.4 (17.9 GB) (Released April 1, 2024)
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This is a stand-alone release and does not require older versions to be installed.
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Old releases:
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Download and install 1.0, then 1.1, 1.2, etc.
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Version 1.0 (17.61 GB)
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Version 1.1 (115.7 MB)
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Version 1.2 (241.3 MB)
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Version 1.3 (15.2 MB)
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To install update:
Run the "setup.exe" program.
To play:
Run the "Skyrim Immersive Adventure Project" shortcut from your Desktop or Start Menu. If you run Skyrim directly, the game will not function properly (you must run the SKSE loader). For best results, start a new game using the save game file included with SIAP. SIAP probably won't work well with existing save games created before SIAP was installed (if you really wish to do this, you will need to clean your save game thoroughly, removing existing mod forms and scripts).
To uninstall:
Run the SIAP Uninstall shortcut in the Start Menu, or choose "Uninstall" from the "setup.exe" program. To manually uninstall, you can locate your original files backed up in the Skyrim folders that have ".SIAP_backup" appended to their names.
PGP authentication:
You can verify the authenticity of PGP digitally-signed documents using the SIAP PGP public key, which is available on the website.
Known issues:
Trying to get over 200 mods working together cooperatively is tough. It involves many hours of testing, tediously checking for conflicts, and keeping an eye out for game-breaking script code. Some of the know issues are:
- Occasionally the game will not play audio when loaded, or the game won't load at all after opening the shortcut. Not sure if this is a hardware or driver specific issue. Simply reloading the game fixes the issue.
- Music may not play until game is first saved and loaded. Not sure what causes this. When you first play the game, you will need to save and reload in order for the music to play correctly.
- Navmeshing. There are navmesh conflicts which couldn't be avoided. What this means is that one mod may change the area an NPC (computer character, such as a vendor) can walk on, while another may change it differently. Navmeshes let the game know the proper pathing of where NPCs can go, to avoid them trying to walk into walls and such. Because of the conflicts, there are times where NPCs (including animals) will be seen trying to walk through walls or will not follow beyond certain areas. It's not game-breaking, but annoying. There are areas with faulty or missing navmeshes, which will prevent your followers from following you. This may get fixed in a future release as navmeshing is a complicated topic which involves the use of the Skyrim Creation Kit (which hasn't been too friendly to me!).
- Textures not loading occasionally. This seems to occur after an extended gameplay session. Reloading the game fixes it. Could be caused by the new memory performance settings.
- Script overload. Quite simply put, SIAP taxes the Papyrus scripting engine HARD. There's a lot of scripts running. Even on a 4 GHz. system, FPS will be affected. I haven't found anything game-breaking, but the performance degradation is noticeable at times.
- There are some lighting issues, where light isn't emitted from light sources (fires, etc.) or the light emitted is not the same as other nearby sources. Part of this issue is due to ELFX, and part of it is due to the vanilla game. I've already fixed much of this. It's not game-breaking by any means.
- At least one of the windmills in Wyrmstooth may be “invisible”. This is a known bug in the “SkyFalls and SkyMills” mod that was supposed to be fixed in version 3.3.1 but is still present. It’s not gamebreaking. The workaround is to save and reload the save in Wyrmstooth.
- Lip movement bug. This is a vanilla game issue. I've included some fixes to reduce the occurence of it, but it still happens - NPCs talk without moving their lips. Annoying, but not gamebreaking.
- CTDs (crash-to-desktop crashes) and ILS (infinite load screens) will happen. Be sure to save often, especially before each stage of a quest, and before entering doorways and cities. It is wise to alternate between about 10 save game slots.
- Long load times during save game reloading. The ILS (infinite load screens) during cell/world transitions seems to be resolved with the version 1.1 update, but the downside appears to be that reloading save games after dying/etc. causes the game to take a very long time to load. (May be best to terminate the TESV.EXE process and reload the game instead.) UPDATE: With the new performance tweaks and Safety Load, this issue appears to be resolved.
- Equipping a lantern or visor may unequip a pouch or bandolier (example: equipping travel lantern unequips the back right storage pouch). After equipping or unequipping a lantern or visor, you may need to re-equip a pouch/bandolier.
- "The Forgotten City" mod has a known bug in which the Forgotten City music will often continue to play outside of the mod. This can usually be resolved by returning to the Forgotten Ruins, entering the doorway into the ruins, then moving past the doors that open automatically. If that doesn't work, a console batch file has been included to fix this glitch; enter "bat stopfcmusic" (no quotes) within the console to run it. More info at https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/7hjwwd/forgotten_city_and_the_infamous_music_bug/ .
Tips:
- SAVE OFTEN! It's best to have about 10 save games, overwriting the oldest one each time. If you find yourself stuck or the game becomes "broken", you can reload from an earlier point in time.
- If you find yourself unable to advance because of the increased difficulty (combat, poison effects, etc.), try lowering the difficulty setting in Skyrim options.
- It's a good idea to play the unofficial expansion mods (Falskaar, Wyrmstooth, etc.) first before proceeding to the official endgame content, as those mods offer some very helpful enhancements (spells, etc.).
- Find or craft a backpack as soon as possible, to be able to carry more items without being overburdened.
- Find or craft a bandolier to be able to carry more potions.
- Sometimes less is more; certain perks are available (speechcraft, stealth, etc.) by not wearing armor or wearing lighter armor.
- You can't pocket most pies, soups or stews. You'll eat them upon picking them up. Breads, vegetables, and preserved meats are more suitable items for carrying.
- Find or craft a fur cloak, to help keep warm in cold harsh environments.
- Find or craft a wearable lantern, to help see in dark conditions. You will need lantern fuel in order for it to function. You may buy or craft it.
- Keep a few torches handy.
- Avoid blizzards or prolonged swimming in cold water, or you may die of hypothermia.
- Be careful not to burn yourself when in the vicinity of fires or hot springs.
- Keeping some firewood in your inventory is wise, as you may need it to start a campfire to keep warm in frigid cold environments. To create a campfire, select firewood from your inventory.
- Fire spells can be used to re-light campfire wood collections.
- Keep plenty of food and drink in your inventory, as you will become thirsty and hungry as time passes.
- Water can be consumed from water bodies by standing in the water and pressing the LEFT D-PAD button on the game controller.
- Empty bottles and waterskins can be filled with water by standing in lakes/rivers and activating them in inventory. Be sure to boil it first at a cooking spit first to make it safe to drink.
- Boiling water makes it potable for drinking. Filtering it makes it usable for cooking. Filtered water can be purchased from innkeepers and vendors, or created using boiled water, linen wraps, and charcoal clumps. Charcoal clumps can be obtained from mining ore. Linen wraps are available in dungeons, random containers, and sold randomly by vendors.
- Food items in inventory will spoil at varying levels of time. Certain foods, like salted meats and jerkys, won't spoil and are suitable for long adventures away from inns.
- Spoiled food may turn to mold, which can be used as an ingredient for making potions.
- Equipped weapons and armor/clothing will degrade while in battle, and will eventually be destroyed if not tempered or repaired.
- Weapons and armor can be tempered/repaired by visiting various blacksmiths, or by using a forge with the proper materials.
- Your 'trash bag' is useful for removing useless items from your inventory. To use it, simply select it within your inventory and move trash items into it.
- A craftable tent, although very heavy, can provide you with a permanent place to find shelter. You can set these tents up across the land. Tents provide shelter from wet weather. To pitch a tent, select it from your inventory.
- A bedroll provides a way to sleep nearly anywhere without incurring a cost (unlike sleeping at an inn). However, you won't get well-rested sleep when using one and it won't provide shelter from wet weather. To use a bedroll, select it from your inventory.
- Inns provide a safe, comfortable place to rest. You will level up quicker by staying at inns.
- Sleeping in dangerous areas (typically outside of inns or outside of well-guarded areas) may invite unwanted foes to attack you in your sleep.
- Want to plant some trees? Find a tree seed vendor! To plant a tree, simply equip the tree seed and throw it to the ground. Planted trees grow gradually over time, and will yield more seeds and firewood once dead.
- There are hidden underwater treasure chests from ships that once sailed the icy cold northern waters of Skyrim.
- You can check your needs (hunger, sleep, etc.) by pressing the RIGHT D-PAD button on your game controller.
- Be sure to keep an eye on your current conditions (blessings, sicknesses, hunger/thirst, etc.) by checking the "Effects" submenu within the "Magic" screen.
- Fast travel causes time to accelerate much quicker, and thus you also become more tired, hungrier, and thirstier quicker too.
- Skooma's powerful, addictive rush can help you overcome difficult battles and travel at an elevated speed. But it has some terrible withdrawal effects, and too much can kill you!
- With a hunting knife, you can field dress animals, skin them, and harvest their meat.
- Fishing poles and bait can be used to catch fish. Or Dwemer explosives for fishing and fun!
- The "scrimshaw" ability allows you to create unique weapons and survival items from animal bones, etc.
- The "forage" ability allows you to forage for survival items like firewood, etc.
- The "primitive cooking" ability allows you to cook foods while traveling the wilderness.
- You can craft candles, candle lanterns, and other portable light sources which you can place wherever desired.
- You can craft shovels and use them to dig for treasure. Find a spot and activate the shovel in inventory.
- To milk a cow, sneak crouch next to one and interact with it. You must have a milk bucket in inventory.
- Boats can be used for travel. Some are operated by ferrymen while others can be used directly with oars.
- You can equip your horse with horse armor, which may be purchased from an armor vendor.
- You can transfer items to your horse's inventory, which has vast carrying capacity. Although you can use your horse to carry extra items, beware: if you lose your horse, you lose your items too!
- It is safe to store items on a horse you own. Other horses, such as stolen horses and randomly spawned horses, are NOT safe to store inventory in! Unless the horse specifically has your name assigned to it, i.e. "Joe's Horse", you should only use it for temporary transportation and not inventory storage. Otherwise, you will probably lose the horse and your items.
- Horses are not reliable places to store your items long-term. For long-term storage, buy a home and store items there.
- Various game mod settings can be changed via the MCM menu which is within the pause menu screen. Note that the custom settings included in the Skyrim Immersive Adventure Project are already configured optimally, and changing these settings may cause undesirable effects.
Command console:
With so many mods, it is important to use the command console to work around bugs/glitches. Even in the vanilla Skyrim game, the command console is useful for completing bugged quests or moving your character (or NPC) out of a stuck position. The default key to enter the command console is " ~ ". Bugged NPCs which don't respond or move to their appropriate locations can often be fixed by disabling/enabling them using the console commands "disable", "enable", and "moveto player".
Changelog (Update Notes)
Version 1.5 (Released 11-5-2024)
- Updated list of fire sources that can burn you: Solitude lighthouse fire; Borvald city burning flames (Falskaar/etc.).
- Changed some smoke sources to steam sources in the burning Hall of the Vigilant building, which can burn the player (Dawnguard DLC modification).
- Troll fat can now be used to create lantern oil.
- "The Drunken Dragon" mod updated to version 2.2. The Drunken Dragon store now has a sign outside, and some minor quest bugs were fixed (you may need to load the new SIAP 1.5 save game for the quest fix to take effect). The prior quest bugs are extremely minor and non-game breaking; the quest log will simply show the quest as not being completed. The updated mod has once again been modified to provide less gold for sold items.
- Added new music to The Drunken Dragon Inn.
- Purchasing The Drunken Dragon Inn now increments the game's "houses owned" count by 1, allowing proper tax to be collected.
- Added "Red Eagle's Fury" and "Vanvir's Masterpiece" quest item weapons to the "Loot & Degradation" mod no-break list.
- Fixed a few minor lighting issues.
- Added a date/time widget to the HUD to the top of screen.
- Doubled the duration of magic/healing/stamina fortication of Homecooked Meals.
- Added some potions and food to the table with the chests before the fire trial in "The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mod.
- Added a camel to "The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mod.
- Assigned proper potion drinking animation to more portions that needed it.
- After dying, player is now able to transport to a graveyard near Falkreath and resurrect, or resurrect at current location. This is helpful if in a situation where continual death is inevitable and there is no way to proceed.
- Fixed some deleted tree references. This eliminated some ugly LODs and should increase game stability.
- Revised food/potion effects (increased buff durations om some foods; added hypothermia resistance to frost-resist and warming foods/potions; adjusted some food buffs for proper proportions; adjusted prices of some foods).
- Fixed an airship anchor chain that was visible in the sky in Shors Stone despite the airship not being present.
- Shrine of Auriel added to the shrines that display a praying animation when used.
- Some more wells now provide water: Dragon Fountain in Solitude; North Keep (Skyrim); Mammoth Keep (Falksaar); Borvald (Falskaar); Emerald Valley (Falskaar); various wells in Wyrmstooth; Imperial City Prison (Gray Cowl of Nocturnal); Ben Erai (Gray Cowl of Nocturnal); Cave of Mora Sul (Gray Cowl of Nocturnal); Sunhold (Summerset Isle).
- Casino/arena mod updated (ability to cancel out of options menus; more realism; etc.).
- Slight edit to Solitude Reborn mod for better immersion (removed spiced wine case sitting just outside of Blue Palace; another quest requires you to steal one inside the palace).
- Volume adjusted on some College of Winterhold music and some other music tracks as well.
- Some mods consolidated, to free up mod slots.
- Craftable lights added (candle lanterns, crypt candles, wizard's lamps, etc.).
- Craftable lantern oil recipes updated to include salty troll fat, and removed the one using animal fat (which is used to make tallow for candles).
- The Solitude Theater is now even more livelier ;-)
- When food in inventory spoils, it no longer gets converted into "spoiled junk". Instead, it will be converted to either mold or rotten flesh (ingredients). Having to eat spoiled junk for a chance at finding mold or rotten flesh didn't make much sense, and the debuff was annoying as well. No more having to purge inventory of spoiled junk. Any existing spoiled junk items in game will still function normally.
- Mattresses added to stone Dwemer beds. It's important for the Dragonborn to care for their back!
- Henrik (vendor) in Falskaar now sells lantern oil.
- The player eating (bread)/drinking (tankard) animations have been disabled and replaced with a much simpler, quicker animation. This removes the annoying delay and improves immersion.
- Corrected some crafting "recipes" to use the proper crafting source (forge, etc.).
- Shovels can now be used to dig and search for treasure. Simply activate a shovel from inventory in the spot you wish to dig.
- Some minor fixes/tweaks/cleanup (disabled stray objects, faction adjustments, removed ITM records, location keyword updates, etc.).
- There are now pickpocketers in various cities that can pickpocket gold from you. Be on your feet!
- Tree and flower seeds will no longer grow indoors.
- Made some minor updates to "Campsite" mod script.
- Rangarr (a Falskaar blacksmith) can now temper weapons and armor for player.
- Changed some "BS:Bruma" and "Wyrmstooth" mod object names to not conflict with vanilla Skyrim names (i.e. "Fly Amanita" is now "Cyrodiilic Fly Amanita", etc.).
- "Falskaar" mod outro (ending) video added (it was missing previously).
- New music added for Thalmor Embassy.
- Added tropical fish and more sharks to the waters of Summerset Isles.
- Added a few special food recipes, for those dressed to cook!
- Travel carriages fixed (the driver would take gold but the player would not be transported to the new location, most likely due to fast travel being affected by other mods). The change will take effect when starting a new game with the new SIAP 1.5 saved game. Or, go into the command console (~) and enter "stopquest DialogueCarriageSystem" followed by "startquest DialogueCarriageSystem".
- Falskaar boat travel fixed (weird fast travel glitches would occur afterwards).
- Rowable physics-enabled boats added in various locations that can be used to move about the waterways.
- Some Skyrim vanilla fish spawns in some ocean areas have been disabled (they may spawn salmon in the air - a known vanilla Skyrim glitch). Fish spawns in existing saved games will not be affected.
- Some more fish types disabled from being "caught" in the water by hand.
- Tornadoes! Be careful when adventuring in Skyrim as the winds pick up...
- Model toys of animals, dragons, etc. added for purchase at Bits & Pieces shop in Solitude.
- Resolved an issue where bird sounds (woodpeckers, etc.) could be heard inside interiors.
- Fixed issue where Professor Annalyn Sunhand, Professor Ynwiihr Greenhand, and other NPCs in Winterhold College would attack player for no reason.
- Revised some more notifications to reflect “I” instead of “you”, for better consistency and immersion.
- Draugr, Falmer, spiders, etc. have been replaced with bandits in "Sands of Time Sleeping Encounters" mod for better immersion (it doesn't make sense to have a draugr attack you inside the Thieve's Guild hideout, for example). The change will take effect when starting a new game with the new SIAP 1.5 saved game.
- Replaced many instances of alcohol with water and teas, for more variety of drinks in inns/houses/etc.
- Flagged various followers as 'essential' to prevent them from dying.
- Penguins and penguin meat/blubber added to Wyrmstooth.
- Craftable Wyrmstone and Brimstone arrows added to Wyrmstooth.
- Fixed duplication glitch on carryable bedrolls.
- Hypothermia effects disabled in warm areas (beaches, deserts, etc.). The change will take effect when starting a new game with the new SIAP 1.5 saved game. Or, go into the command console (~) and enter "stopquest HypothermiaQuest" followed by "startquest HypothermiaQuest".
- Thirst is increased in desert areas. Be sure to pack plenty of water!
- Made some environment changes to the Coldharbour region in "Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mod, reducing the texture "blackout" issues (mountains/cliffs/etc. turning black). The issue appears to be a VRAM memory limit or lighting conflict issue, and is worsened by using the map in this area.
- Added helpful knapsacks throughout the area in the Coldharbour region in "Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mod, containing useful potions and other items.
- Increased weight/value of desert wolf and ancestral cheetah pelts, and they can now be crafted into leather. Also increased the value of "Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mod ingredients (ancestral cheetah tooth, etc.).
- Added some Arrow of Extrication arrows to the Mausoleum in "Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mod (on the ground near the target).
- Lowered the volume of "Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mod music tracks.
- Some grammar fixed in "Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" and "Wheels of Lull" mods.
- A Black Horse Courier NPC was inside the Citadel in the "The Forgotten City" mod, due to the Citadel being tagged as an inn (to prevent enemy ambushes while sleeping). Not a big deal, but a little bit immersion breaking. Fixed the tag so the NPC won't appear there (requires using the new SIAP 1.5 saved game).
- Vernon in "The Forgotten City" mod now sells Cure Disease potions and bottles of boiled water.
- "The Forgotten City" mod quest won't start until player reaches level 45 (previously level 5).
- Added armor items to the "Loot & Degradation" mod no-break list: Gray Cowl of Nocturnal; Boots of Springheel Jak.
- Falling minecarts in "Wheels of Lull" mod now disappear after exploding, to prevent accidental death from barely touching them.
- Lowered the volume of various music tracks in "Wheels of Lull" mod.
- Some "Wheels of Lull" quest objectives updated for better clarification.
- Half of the fire pressure plates in the Heating Boiler Room in "Wheels of Lull" mod have been disabled, to help balance the difficulty.
- Reduced the Whistling King's steam breath damage in "Wheels of Lull" mod, to help balance the difficulty.
- Removed the "lock" from the drain hole door in Tenmar Cathedral in "Moonpath to Elsweyr" mod. It made no sense to have to lockpick it.
- Poisoned Hyena Meat is now classified as food instead of a potion in "Moonpath to Elsweyr" mod.
- Removed Malsato the Hungry (sload) as the owner of Sload's Lair in "Moonpath to Elsweyr" mod, preventing accidentally "stealing" items in that location and causing him to turn hostile (which breaks the quest).
- Food merchants in "Summerset Isles" mod now sell boiled water.
- Lowered level modifiers of Dremora enemies and made some subtle landscape changes to Oblivion Cave in "Summerset Isles" mod, to help balance the difficulty.
- "EK Limited Items" mod updated to wait a moment before dropping inventory items each time the game is loaded, to allow any previous script instances to complete (otherwise, potions and other items could randomly drop despite having enough inventory space). Items are now dropped from a higher elevation to help prevent them from 'falling' into the ground. Dropped items that don't 3D load are now automatically placed back in inventory as well.
- "Wyrmstooth" and "Summerset Isles" mods had conflicting "Cure Disease" spells. Renamed each to "Cure Disease - Expert" and "Cure Disease - Apprentice", respectively. (Both spells do the same exact thing: cure disease. However, one requires expert level restoration, and the other apprentice level restoration.)
- Hunterborn configured to allow cleaning/skinning animals while in battle. The change will take effect when starting a new game with the new SIAP 1.5 saved game.
- Degraded untempered weapons and armor can break again. This was inadvertantly disabled in SIAP 1.4.
- Inventory carry limits and encumbrance nerfs eased up a bit. The change will take effect when starting a new game with the new SIAP 1.5 saved game.
- The rainbow bridge leads to Sovngarde.
Version 1.4 (Released 4-1-2024)
- This is a standalone release and does not require any previous versions to be installed first. Older versions of SIAP should be uninstalled first.
- Performance and stability tweaks, including the addition of Safety Load mod.
- Adjusted brightness, gamma and volume levels.
- Revised PureVision ENB settings for skybox, water, and sun. No more washed out clouds, better water reflection and color, bigger sun, and more colorful sunsets. No more sun glare effect.
- Updated enbseries.ini to state “Pure Vision 1.6” (1.6 was already slipstreamed into SIAP 1.3 but the INI wasn’t updated to reflect such). ENB core not updated beyond included version 0.431 due to no need to (no Pure Vision ENB updates nor significant core ENB fixes).
- Removed the “NPC Reactions” mod by Kuertee. It made the game unstable and created annoying delays in interacting with NPCs.
- Updated the windmills to have colorful sails (red in Solitude, yellow in Markarth, etc.).
- Updated the water color to remove the green tint for a more natural look.
- Replaced procedural water mesh with one providing better performance (slight FPS boost with no noticeable change in appearance).
- Updated the juniper trees, removing the old ugly ones.
- Removed cricket sounds from Windhelm.
- Updated the Solitude Theater to be more livelier ;-) .
- Jail stays are now more immersive.
- Updated the Solitude Treasury.
- Modified loading screens to show more appropriate ones, and added a few more.
- Bedrolls can no longer be used in jails or barracks.
- Disabled inventory status items in inventory (unnecessary clutter).
- Removed annoying “did not 3D load” benign error messages that would display occasionally when items would drop from inventory.
- Updated Pinemist, darkening some bright windows (and the people too...).
- Small revision to post-death effect.
- Fixed the annoying collision on the wheat (Renthal311’s textures are fantastic but the mesh had improper collision flags; fixed).
- Adjusted some Realistic Needs & Diseases food/drink/sleep settings (only applicable to a new game session using the SIAP 1.4 save game).
- Revised Windhelm exterior (replaced the exterior braziers in Windhelm (the original ones had a weird green glow); ‘deadend’ much of the flora; replaced the kings tribute stones with higher-quality ones; replaced the graves with higher-quality ones).
- Reduced torch light radius back to default level (the larger radius was hindering game performance and causing too much brightness).
- Synced the cough sound with the eating/drinking animation.
- Notifications and coughing sound now occur when diseased.
- Reduced “glutted” speed debuff from 30% to 10% in Realistic Needs & Diseases mod (less slowdown from overeating).
- Revised more notifications to reflect “I” instead of “you”, for better consistency and immersion.
- Reduced the number of random NPCs in cities and some taverns, boosting FPS and stability. The cities still appear plenty populated.
- Removed a group of horkers in the northeast frigid waters which were awkwardly located on top of the water.
- Added status notifications to Hypothermia mod.
- Using water in cooking recipes now requires filtered water, which is created using boiled water, coal and linen wraps. Coal can now be obtained while mining ore. Linen wraps are now available in dungeons, random containers, and randomly at vendors.
- Cows now yield raw milk, not boiled milk.
- Added new crafting "recipe": charcoal (created using firewood).
- Added new crafting "recipe": torches (created using firewood, coal and linen wraps).
- Added more "recipes" to create lantern oil with, using penguin blubber, etc.
- Overhauled many food/etc. recipes.
- Adjusted the weights/values on more ores, ingots and hides.
- Revised some ocean waves for better realism.
- Added music from “The Northerner Diaries” by Jeremy Soule.
- Disabled auto-spin camera view when player is idle for too long.
- Fixed some ownership issues on items in jail cells, to prevent stealing items while in jail.
- Fixed a LOT of mod conflicts and general errors (navmeshes, dialog text, invalid references, etc.). This should increase game stability. CTDs (game crashes) occuring in various areas (northern Skyrim waters, Pinemist, etc.) have been fixed.
- Some more lighting issues fixed (road lanterns, conflicting light sources, etc.).
- Some minor fixes (disabled glitchy torch sconces, etc.).
- Enabled water gathering from additional wells.
- Replaced well meshes/textures with ones that show water inside of them.
- Wearable lanterns now stay lit regardless of the time of day when equipped. To turn them off, simply unequip them.
- Volumetric 3D clouds added.
- Sky revised with a smoother mesh (less banding).
- A new autosave mod added. It does not appear to have the stability issues of the prior mod included in the original SIAP release.
Version 1.3 (Released 9-12-2020)
- Some fire objects (flaming craters, burning logs, etc.) from "Dragonborn" and "Dawnguard" DLCs added to "Fires Hurt" and "Hypothermia" mods.
- Some misc. lighting issues fixed.
- Audio and lighting levels adjusted slightly.
- Dwemer doors prevented from being closed by the "Door Observer" mod (otherwise, the "The Path of Knowledge" quest may become disrupted/uncompletable inside Nchardak).
- Some food item entries corrected (some bottles of mead were considered to be potions - fixed, etc.).
- Some misc. items' weights/values set to more realistic values.
- Blood Potion drinking animation fixed.
- Mug of Coffee and Coffee Beans effects updated.
- Alcohol effects updated. Getting wasted makes time fly!
- A few College of Winterhold 'teleports' were disabled in "Solitude Reborn" mod (they were causing some quest NPC markers to show up incorrectly on map).
- Added weapon/armor quest items to the "Loot & Degradation" mod no-break list: Bloodskal Blade, Alessandra's Dagger, Ceremonial Axe, Ceremonial Sword, Dravin's Bow, Harrald's Sword, Helm of Winterhold, Hjalti's Sword, Hrolfdir's Shield, Kahvozein's Fang, Noster's Helmet, Queen Freydis's Sword, and Roggi's Ancestral Shield.
- "Bells Of Skyrim" mod updated.
- Fixed some more minor cosmetic issues (trees out of place, etc.).
- "Hunterborn" mod updated for proper elk items (harvest elk pelts/hearts/etc. instead of deer items).
- Hearthfire DLC constructable trophies and animal wall mounts now require full animal carcasses and materials instead of a few trivial animal parts (more realistic and challenging).
- Constructable bedrolls and tent/bedroll combos now require quality animal hides/pelts. They've also been added to the Drunken Huntsman vendor store for immediate purchase if desired.
- Bridge added by "Shelter,Cabins & Hideout" mod near Deep Folk Crossing fixed (for some weird reason, you would walk through it).
- ENBSeries for TES Skyrim updated to version 0.431.
Version 1.2 (Released 10-28-2019)
- Slowed down the minecarts in the "Wheels of Lull" mod so the player has more of a chance to escape (door teleports are putting the player in the middle of the tracks for some strange reason, even when they are modified otherwise).
- Corrected some food item effects in "Wheels of Lull" mod.
- Added playable armor and weapons from "Wheels of Lull" mod to the ignored items in "Loot and Degradation" mod, to prevent them from being broken to pieces during use. (You may need to drop and re-pick up your Wheels of Lull armor/weapons for this change to take effect.)
- Fixed some glitched text in "Wheels of Lull" mod.
- Lowered "Thalmor Experiment" and "Lobotomized Miner" NPCs speed in "Wheels of Lull" mod so they are easier to sneak and run past.
- Increased the size of some platforms and updated some door teleport locations in "Wheels of Lull" mod so you no longer fall down through the ground when going through certain doors/passageways.
- Increased size of some tree branches and pipes in The Brass Forest in "Wheels of Lull" mod, to make jumping across certain areas possible.
- Made the Familyman enemies in "Wheels of Lull" much easier to kill, since they were too overpowered especially in groups.
- Slowed down the Old Tho Mahalis boss in "Wheels of Lull" mod, and made its Familyman spawns occur less frequently.
- Dullimer enemies in "Wheels of Lull" mod weakened to be more easily killed.
- "Wheels of Lull" mod set to start once you reach level 35 or greater.
- Masscroft boss in "Wheels of Lull" mod easier to stun and target.
- Extended duration of the flames removal lever in "Wheels of Lull" mod cave area.
- Reduced the size of some lethal flames in "Wheels of Lull" mod cave area.
- Justicar Archeron and R.A.M.O.N. bosses in "Wheels of Lull" mod adjusted to be not so extremely difficult to defeat.
- "Wheels of Lull" mod: added actual water to the underwater area, and made the diving helmet much more useful.
- Fires from "Dragonborn" DLC added to "Dynamic Fires" and "Hypothermia" mods.
- Sovngarde sky and particles adjusted for improved look.
- "Alduin's Bane" quest fixed; Alduin trigger location expanded to prevent stopping quest progression.
- "Alduin's Bane" Elder Scroll sequence music restored to original; Alduin defeat music updated.
- Harkon from "Dawnguard" DLC now has fangs and slit eyes.
- Adjusted lighting handling for "Wheels of Lull" and "Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mods.
- The Chamber of Fire in the "Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mod is now HOT!
- Fixed some glitched text in "Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mod.
- Some food, water, Cure Disease potion, and bedroll added to Halls of the West chest in "Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mod.
- Skyrim quest menu, magic menu, and inventory menu backgrounds changed from black to parchment background, with updated icons and fonts.
- Screenshot alerts now display in console window instead of the game screen.
- Fountains of Restoration in "Gray Cowl of Nocturnal" mod now quench thirst, cure hangover, and cure disease as well.
- Removed a few out-of-place wall sconces in Labyrnthian which were added by "ELFX" mod.
- Fixed a minor music playback glitch in "Summerset Isle" mod.
- Updated conditions for combat music.
- Fixed some glitched text and grammar issues in "Summerset Isle" mod.
- Disabled glitched navmesh in Githrosandini cave in "Summerset Idle" mod (it would cause a CTD).
- Prepared Meals in "Summerset Isle" mod now cure thirst in addition to satisfying hunger.
- Signs fixed in "Bruma" mod.
- A few more helmet overlays added for the "Bruma" mod.
- Some fires from vanilla Skyrim and "Bruma" mod added to "Hypothermia" mod.
- When you die, you now lose a lot of skill progress, and auto-resurrect after a delay. The previous saved game is not reloaded, speeding up gameplay tremendously. If a bounty is owed, the bounty is paid, and any stolen items are removed.
- Fixed some glitched text and grammar issues in "Bruma" mod.
- Some drinks associated with the correct animation (drinking, not eating).
- "Sky Ball" mod music added and some audio updated.
- Atronachs in the Daedric Realm in "Sky Ball" mod now have reduced difficulty.
- Hidden bridges in the Daedric Realm in "Sky Ball" mod now reveal themselves for a few seconds longer.
- Sleeping Potion keyword fixed in "Sky Ball" mod.
- Some grammar issues fixed in "Sky Ball" mod.
- Yardak Prison in "Sky Ball" mod made to be more abandoned and realistic, with reduced difficulty.
- The main quest in the "Sky Ball" mod has been fixed; it will now move forward properly after speaking to Coach to start a new tournament. If you've already spoken to Coach and the mod doesn't proceed to the next stage (a new Sky Ball tournament game), go into the command console and enter "setstage _sbtournament 60".
- "Sky Ball" mod 'celebs' (Ulfric Stormcloak, Balgruuf, etc.) will no longer appear in Eldergleam Stadium (this was immersion-breaking and potentially game-breaking, too). If you have already visited Eldergleam Stadium and have saved your game prior to this SIAP update, you can remove them manually from your save game by selecting them within the command console, entering "markfordelete" for each one, and then saving your game to commit the changes.
- "Sky Ball" mod defaults to using brighter lighting in the trophy room and the maze. Trophy room lighting was increased even more.
- Fixed Aventus Aretino package override overlooked in the "Randomly-Generated Generic Townsfolk" mod.
- "Pirates of Skyrim - The Northern Cardinal under the Black Flag" mod changes: new music; some odd object placement corrected; Red Cardinal doors now locked when it's initially at port in Frostreef (originally, the doors would teleport you to Solitude - an annoying oversight by the mod author; the ship's wheel is the proper method of commandeering the ship); a ship crew added to Red Cardinal automatically upon retrieving the ship (no more having to add your followers one by one - a tedious and unreliable process); crew morale system disabled; various items updated with more realistic carry weights; grammar issues corrected.
- Some corrections made to the "ThievesGuildTreasure.esp" mod: Treasure in the Thieve's Guild vault will only appear after the "The Pursuit" quest is completed (Mercer stole it originally, and it's immersion-breaking to have it there during the initial quest dialogs); German text changed to English; jewelry boxes provide proper loot.
- Increased the value of "Right Eye of the Falmer" and "Left Eye of the Falmer" artifacts by 10x.
- Disabled the Twilight Sepulcher Pilgrim's Path light from being 'extinguished' by the "Torch Off" mod.
- "Depths Of Skyrim" mod added.
- "Container and Arrow Weight Restrictions" mod updated so that it re-initializes itself every time the game is loaded (otherwise, there is the potential of it becoming "stuck" with a container weight value and not allowing any further containers to be properly used).
- Removed annoying light pop-in near meeting room table in High Hrothgar, and increased the brightness.
- Removed "NPC Knockout Overhaul" from the mods credits listing (this mod was never part of SIAP).
Version 1.1 (Released 10-25-2018)
- Set the default brightness higher, to the middle. The low brightness provided deeper blacks and more contrast, but made the game too dark at night and in darker places.
- Set the default waterfall sound level to the middle, so it's not excessively loud.
- Fixed some minor cosmetic issues (trees out of place, etc.).
- Adjusted the high-end slot machines, lowering the betting amounts (more realistic). Also added more realistic coin sounds.
- Adjusted Dawnguard and Dragonborn questline timing.
- Updated vial belts (dark and leather) to increase the number of potions carryable in inventory. Other vial pouches already had this working OK.
- Item description boxes have been enlarged for easier reading.
- Draugr and ghosts no longer drop gold coins.
- Animals no longer report crimes.
- Removes Skyrim sidestep.
- Distance enemies can chase or detect you has been cut from 2500 to 1250.
- Bounty quests now give you real rewards for risking your life.
- Torches have a larger area of illumination.
- The smelter levels up smithing.
- The tanning rack levels up smithing.
- Guards will attack hired thugs once they attack you instead of just watching you get killed.
- Made fall damage slightly less due to shoddy navmeshing.
- Player and all NPCs now blink (player still cannot blink in 1st person mode).
- NPCs will now walk at your pace when leading you somewhere.
- Followers move a much greater distance if you bump into them.
- "Falksaar" mod: player home music set to none.
- Added "Destructible Display Cases" mod.
- Items sell for far less gold in Drunken Dragon store (it's a low-traffic store outside of the major cities; was originally able to raise an obscene amount of gold very quickly - fixed).
- Scavenged stray meat from dead corpses is considered 'dirty' but has no downsides other than tasting bad and inability to use in most recipes.
- AutoSave mod removed (it would cause occasional freezes).
- "Vagrants" NPCs renamed to "Angry Vagrants" to prevent conflicts with vanilla NPCs.
- Updated water in "Moonpath", "Summerset Isles", "Forgotten City", and "Wheels of Lull" mods to allow drinking/bottling.
- Enabled Papyrus logging, which seems to enhance stability (may help eliminate race conditions).
- The door in "Moonpath to Elswyr" which takes you back to Skyrim fixed (the teleport link was broken - major fix).
- Fixed issue where various Winterhold College NPCs would show up at incorrect locations on the world map.
- Helmet overlays no longer display debugging information (a known bug - fixed).
- "Dwemer Colosseum" and "Forgotten City" mods: enemies no longer attack/interrupt you while sleeping.
- "Dwemer Colosseum" mod prison cells area have lighting fixed.
- Fixed the lighting in "Forgotten City" mod.
- Fixed some dialog grammar in "Forgotten City" mod.
- "The Forgotten City" mod has a known bug in which the Forgotten City music will often continue to play outside of the mod. A console batch file has been included to fix this glitch; enter "bat stopfcmusic" (no quotes) within the console to run it. More info at https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/7hjwwd/forgotten_city_and_the_infamous_music_bug/ .
- ENBSeries for TES Skyrim updated to version 0.319.
- Dynamically-lit fires (campfires, etc.) now provide heat to eliminate hypothermia.
- Some fires wouldn't burn player - fixed.
- Fixed glitch which caused incorrect amount of firewood to be placed back into inventory when setting up campfire failed.
- "Falskaar" wounded bandit scene in the "Lost Knowledge" quest modified to correct an improper use of script property (Actor Base was referencing instance of NPC base, not the NPC base itself).
- "Falskaar" aliases in the "Lost Knowledge" quest modified to enable the quest to initiate properly.
- "Falskaar" wounded bandit NPC instance corrected to start initially disabled and unaggressive.
- "Falskaar" mod glitches / fixes:
There are still bugs in the "Falskaar" mod that may prevent progression. If you encounter one, do an online search for the fix. Some fixes consist of either reloading your save, loading an earlier save, or performing a console command. Most of the glitches can probably be resolved by disabling/re-enabling the affected NPC and/or waiting about 6 hours in-game before advancing forward in the questline (example: the "Lost Knowledge" quest won't activate unless Agnar, Brother Thorlogh, Svegard, and Ulgar are all in Borvaldur Manor prior to you sitting at the table to complete the "Strength and Wisdom" quest). Timing is everything, and Falskaar's quests and scenes often times rely on it to be just right or else a disruption in the flow occurs. Be sure to save often, using multiple save game points, especially before and after completing quests!
The "wounded bandit" NPC instance was fixed. If you are unable to return the Heart Chamber book to Agnar at Amber Creek (with the group standing around waiting indefinitely), open up the command console and enter the following commands:
Prid 0A058620
moveto player
recycleactor
This should "refresh" the wounded bandit and place them back into proper position, to allow the scene to continue properly.
- Added "Light Up the Night - People Have Torches" mod.
- "Fishing In Skyrim" mod: Changed Lillani's behavior so they aren't continually sheathing/unsheathing their weapon.
- Added 'food item' flag on various drinks (so they are not considered as potions): Velvet LeChance, White-Gold Tower, Cliff Racer, Stros M'Kai Rum, and Balmora Blue.
- ENB & SKSE memory management config modifed (slightly reduces CTDs (crash-to-desktop crashes) and ILS (infinite load screens)).
- Removed the 'Iron Dagger' crafting recipe from "Beyond Skyrim: Bruma" mod to prevent causing confusion with Skyrim vanilla forging tutorial quest requiring the creation of an iron dagger (Bruma adds duplicate weapons and armor to the game).
- "Harvest Overhaul Creatures" mod updated to not conflict with "Hunterborn" mod (i.e. no more multiple skull harvesting, etc.).
- Fixed farmhouse texture issue in "Wyrmstooth" mod.
- Fixed music playback issue in "Wyrmstooth" mod.
- Gave essential "Wyrmstooth" mod followers (Athir, Daenlit, Elmera, and Shargam) poison-resistent armor to prevent them from dying permanently from Falmer/etc. poison.
- Fixed some lighting issues in "Wyrmstooth" mod.
- Added an extinguished campfire pit just outside the dragon encounter in "Wyrmstooth" mod, which can be lit to remove hypothermia prior to battle.
- Volum in "Wyrmstooth" mod modified to not be virtually impossible to defeat at level 30 (this boss was ridiculously overpowered - fixed).
- Added "Never Again Bald - Hairline Textures" mod.
- Fixed floating Imperial Mail sign at Nightgate Inn.
- Blackreach music restored to default vanilla Skyrim tracks.
Version 1.0 (Released 10-25-2017)
Initial release.
