Public Works Maintenance (Main Quest Shortcut)

This mod allows you to - you guessed it - take a shortcut during the main quest. More specifically, it allows you to reach the Institute on your own. Possibly right after exiting the Vault if you can tackle high-level enemies. Technical details will be listed at the end (if you want to skip my rambling) and obviously contain spoilers so bail out if you haven't finished at least the first two acts of the game.

My reasons for creating this are twofold and both are going back to some aspects of Fallout 3 and New Vegas:

Firstly, I loved New Vegas for its companions, you really could have had the feeling you could develop a relationship with them and you valued them because you could lose them. Some of the Fallout 4's companions too have really nice personalities but the do NOT feel like your comrades in a dangerous post-apocalyptic world because nothing can ever happen to them (unless they are synths and members of a fanatical order at the same time and such :-D ). And while it's not hard to create or download a mod that makes them mortal, the fact that some of them are related to the main quest-line can have consequences the game will not handle as some quests will not start properly if they are dead. Shortly, the first purpose of this mod is to allow the player advance in the game (at least to a certain point) even if companions like Nick, Piper or Dogmeat are already dead. However, the mod itself does NOT make them mortal. You need Mortal Companions or a similar mod for that.

Secondly, when playing Fallout 3 for the first time, you would leave the vault, go to Megaton, go to GNR, go to Rivet City, go to Jefferson Memorial and go save dad from Tranquility Lane. However, when playing Fallout 3 for the 198th time, you could... Well, you could go straight to dad, if you didn't want to play the previous quests for the 198th time. I feel this is even a bigger issue with Fallout 4 because all the beginnings feel almost the same. After leaving Vault 101, you could at least go in multiple directions. After leaving Vault 111, which is essentially exactly in the top left corner on the map, you have almost no choice what direction to take - you will go more or lest south-east. Not to mention that huge parts of the game are actually locked away until you reach the Institute (or at least kill Kellogg).

My first priority was keeping the mod clean and compatible. I wanted to touch as few cells and vanilla quests as possible, so that nothing in the game breaks and it is compatible with other mods. BE WARNED THOUGH! I am more than sure there will be some little inconsistencies and maybe some big ones (which haven't fixed yet).

As for COMPATIBILITY, this mod currently only edits the Public Works Maintenance Area cell (ID: InstituteTunnel01) and makes little changes to a few main quest related quests. Any mod that edits the Public