Origin Tents

Made for Patch 7 - Hotfix 27, Updated for Patch 8 - Hotfix 34

Mod page images/description contain (minor) spoilers for some Origin playthroughs!

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It's always been sad to me that companions lose their tents on Origin playthroughs. The camp just feels so empty without them... Wyll deserves his abacus!!! Where did it go?! And for that matter, where's Clive?!?! Karlach needs her little friend!!!!

... And so, I fixed that! (Finally!!!)

This mod lets companions retain their camp tents, even when you're doing an Origin playthrough. It'll also restore their belongings around their beds in the Elfsong. It works for all 6 Origin characters, for all camps. The mod should also work for custom origin characters, as long as they have camp data set up.

Now your camp won't feel so barren when playing as a companion!

Tav and Durge are unaffected by this mod! It won't spawn camp tents for them, but I didn't run into any issues while testing for Tav/Durge at all, so you're good to go to have it installed for both Origin and Tav/Durge playthroughs. It just won't affect anything if you're not playing an Origin!

There are a few quirks with the mod, which might actually explain why Larian decided to disable the Origin characters' tents in the first place:

• []Origin Avatar characters won't return to their tents when another character is selected; they'll just stay where they were originally standing. This is kinda necessary for the player character to function! It'd be really annoying if the character you're playing as kept walking back to their tent. This is not a bug, (none of the things I've listed here are, really) and it's not something I'll be changing.

  []Origin Avatar characters also won't do their camp idles. Some of their idles are dependent on location wrt their tents, so again, it's kinda necessary for the player character to not be pulled to those areas. I'd recommend the mod Stay still in camp and play idle animations everywhere by SatanModding and AlitheaAncunin if you'd like to bring back some of those camp idles!

• When loading a given camp level for the first time, sometimes the character will be placed directly where they normally would in front of their camp tent, but this doesn't apply to all levels! This also won't happen on subsequent loads of that camp level (or at least, it didn't while I was testing.) Instead, they'll spawn where the player character usually spawns. This no longer happens as of the 2. 0. 0. 4 version; Origin characters will now spawn in the default spot for player characters, even for the first time you load a given camp level.

  These aren't game-breaking issues at all, they're just, again, little quirks with the way the Origins function as player characters/avatars,