Unloseable Lockpicking - Pins Never Break

⭐ — (50 endorsements) 📥 991 downloads 📌 v1.1 📅 10/31/2022
⚪ Last updated 2022

By Mr Mister · Gameplay Effects and Changes

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 11/4/2022 📅 Created: 10/31/2022
⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
1🛠️ FOSE — Fallout Script Extender Download ↗
2🔧 UFO3P — Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch Download ↗

Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 5.0% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
  • 🏆 #302 of 437 Gameplay Effects and Changes mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

Please don't do this.

Update: I packed and uploaded the non-final version by mistake, still with master dependencies, derp. It should work now.

While creating my Instabreak Pins mod, I discovered that setting iPickBreakSecs  to zero (or a negative value) makes it so bobby pins never break (or at least not within the 10 seconds I bothered to test this; I dunno if you can float overdlow your way around).

Please don't use this; vanilla lockpicking is easy enough already.

As in with Instabreak Pins: some credit to AshenBonfire (read my other mod's description for details).

I guess I should give credit to AshenBonfire : I could not figure out how to do this, until I took a look at the script in their Skillful Lockpickery mod for New Vegas and saw the iPickBreakSecs game setting used there. Then it was a matter of opening FO3Edit, creating a masterless .esp, and creating a gamesetting record in it with EditorID iPickBreakSecs (this is the important part) and value 0. 000001.

Can you believe that , before I upload this mod, iPickBreakSecs returns 0 google results? If anybody knows the proper channels, feel free to document this.

Being a masterless patch, this should also work in New Vegas, and probably Skyrim too. Hell, it may even work in Fallout 4, though looking at the wikia there's a perk there whose 4th rank makes them unbreakable (maybe through a lockping bonus health setting), so maybe not - feel free to comment on whether it works for Syrim and F4, and if it does, I'll upload this on their nexuses too.

Please don't use this; vanilla lockpicking is easy enough already.

As in with Instabreak Pins: some credit to AshenBonfire (read my other mod's description for details).

I guess I should give credit to AshenBonfire : I could not figure out how to do this, until I took a look at the script in their Skillful Lockpickery mod for New Vegas and saw the iPickBreakSecs game setting used there. Then it was a matter of opening FO3Edit, creating a masterless .esp, and creating a gamesetting record in it with EditorID iPickBreakSecs (this is the important part) and value 0. 000001.

Can you believe that , before I upload this mod, iPickBreakSecs returns 0 google results? If anybody knows the proper channels, feel free to document this.

Being a masterless patch, this should also work in New Vegas, and probably Skyrim too. Hell, it may even work in Fallout 4, though looking at the wikia there's a perk there whose 4th rank makes them unbreakable (maybe through a lockping bonus health setting), so maybe not - feel free to comment on whether it works for Syrim and F4, and if it does, I'll upload this on their nexuses too.

📊 Mod Details

Game
Fallout 3 Mods
Author
Mr Mister
Version
1.1
Downloads
991
Endorsements
50
Category
Gameplay Effects and Changes
Created
10/31/2022
Updated
11/4/2022

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