Immersive Common Rooms

Announcement

As of 21 Nov 2024 development of this module has been discontinued. Instead, it has been combined with all my other Immersive modules into a single mod call the "Immersive ModPack". If you intend to install all four of my Immersive modules, you should install the Immersive ModPack instead. If not (or you have a low spec system which might not be able to handle the Immersive ModPack) feel free to install whichever modules are of interest.

Versions

See the "Changelogs" dropdown just above.

Important Note: If you installed v2. 1. 1 please update to 2. 1. 2 to avoid stutters in your game!

Acknowledgements

HUGE thanks to nathdev for a) figuring out how the beds are supposed to work, b) explaining it to me, c) undertaking the ENORMOUS task of replacing every non-functional bed in every Common Room Dorm with a functioning bed, d) providing the source code for that so I could create this mod, and e) incorporating my stuff into the Emote mod to make them compatible.

Crashes

On 04 May 2023, an official game update changed the format of the SQL database. If you're running an old version of the game (from before 04 May 2023) then SQL mods created in the new format will crash your game. To avoid this you must select a game version close to the one you're actually running when you merge your mods with Hogwarts Mod Merger (v0. 14 or later). HMM will then output a zMergedMods.pak file compatible with your version of the game.

Description

The NPC Schedule Enhanced mod by Khione is brilliant, but there are a few things I would have done differently. Khione no longer seems to be actively developing or supporting the original mod, so after a year of putting it off I finally decided to create my own version.

In the base game virtually nothing happens in the Common Rooms. From 5:45am every day the same number of students sits there not doing much... until 8pm when they all get up and leave the Common Room. This is odd because dinner ends at 7pm in the base game so they're not going to dinner (though desert runs from 7:15pm to 9pm so maybe everyone is going for dessert). They do not return, so where did they go all night? The Common Room is then populated by a handful of students who continue to do very little. Younger students (1st and 2nd years) are completely absent in all Houses, except Gryffindor where there are three.

This module attempts to do something more realistic.

Why do it in modules you (didn't) ask? Well, for several reasons. First, these mods are very resource-intensive so low-spec systems might not be able to cope with all mod