SKK Combat Settlers (health and power armor)

DO YOU ENJOY SETTLEMENT COMBAT ? Switch your settlers combat damage to stay in bleedout until healed, or be mortal. Scale health and shooting perks with player level. Command them in and out of power armor individually or all at once. Make settlement attacks scale to be more challenging and immersive.

[ settlers can now be meat shields or lords of war ]

Default base game settlers automatically recover damage, only the player can kill them. This invulnerability makes settlement attacks, spawns or the ambush kit rather lame as a combat challenge and not immersive. Settlers will randomly grab power armor in combat and break components which may irritate you.

This mod can be installed at any time to provide a [. SKK Combat Settlers Holotape] in MISC inventory which enables actors assigned to player owned workshops to be dynamically switched between:

1. DAMAGE

(1. 1) Protected: only the player can kill them, otherwise they will bleedout self recover ~15 seconds. Will turn hostile on player damage.

(1. 2) Essential self recover: like 1. 1 protected but the player cant kill them. For players who's aim is worse than Companions. Will not aggro player damage.

(1. 3) Essential no recover: like 1. 2 unkillable needing a stimpak to recover. If there is a Stimpak in inventory they will self medicate, or wait for the player to heal them (optional map markers pop to find them). Will not aggro player on damage.

(1. 4) Mortal take damage from and be killable by anyone. They do not bleedout and use stimpaks, they die, which is a setting to recycle your actors. Will turn hostile on player damage. This can kill quest related settlers, so do not use this setting if you have settlement quests open.

Protect Unique Actors will apply (1. 2) to any workshop assigned named unique actor (Sturges, Finch, Abernathy), provisioners and dismissed companions regardless of the general setting to ensure their dialogue wont be blocked by bleedout and they can't be killed. This will not protect any settlement spokespersons you need to turn settlement quests in to as they are not unique and undetectable.

By default robots, children and dismissed companions are excluded from management to avoid killing 'em. They can be enabled as options in the holotape. Workshop animals such as Brahmin, Dogs, Cats are always excluded as they don't have appropriate scripts or settings.

2. STIMPAKS

Enable or disable settlers taking one Stimpak from their local workshop (or SKK Global Stash) if they are configured (1. 3) to use them. Checks workshop/stash stock after each Stimpak use when not in combat and replenishes. Run after restocking to force a refresh.

3. HEALTH