Devilish Needs (OpenMW)
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 3.4% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #161 of 213 Immersion mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
I use Sun's Dusk - Needs and Survival (OpenMW) as a survival mod now. Further development of DN is therefore discontinued.
Requirements:
- OpenMW 0. 49
- Tamriel_Data
- OAAB_Data
- A "New Game" is required (!)
Installation:
Devilish Needs. ESP
Devilish Needs.omwscripts
(Activate both)
- Implements hunger, thirst, exhaustion, temperature, and wetness, each with lua icons and gameplay effects
- Adjust icon position and toggle death from hunger/thirst in the Scripts menu. Lua icons disappear in screenshot mode (command: tm)
- Includes crafting (campfires, tents, sleeping bags, axes) via opening the Crafting Book in your inventory.
- Cooking and grilling based off Affa's recipes
- Publicans now offer hot meals and drinks
- Easy integration with food and drink items from other mods.
- All food items (including OAAB and TR Data items) reduce your hunger. Some are more effective than others..
- Cook 13 meals and grill 4 over a craftable campfire with the right ingredients. Recipes inspired by Affa's AFFresh.
- Eating raw meat can cause disease
- All drinks (except potions, for now) reduce thirst, including those from OAAB and TR / PT.
- Boil water at campfires and fill bottles, flasks, and other containers for travel.
- Ask any publican who has a kegstand to fill up your flasks and bottles. You can either fill them up yourself at the kegstand or let the publican fill them up for you (if you ask the topic again)
- Go to a well and sneak in front of it to fill up your cooking pot, bottles and flasks
- Sleeping resets your exhaustion, but waiting increases it.
Temperature
- Regions like Solstheim or Skyrim are cold; Cyrodiil or Red Mountain are hot.
- Weather, time of day, wetness, armor, race, lava, fires and damage types affect temperature.
- Your temperature decreases when you are wet, drink water, go inside, or get hit with frost damage.
- Your temperature increases when you are near lava or a campfire, hold a torch, or get hit with fire damage.
- Nords and Khajiit feel a little warmer in general. Light armor protects against the cold better than heavy armor.
- Decreases your temperature
Is this Ashfall for OpenMW?
- No. This is not intended to be Ashfall. It's a standalone survival system created for my own playthrough. You're welcome to expand or modify it (see permission section), but please don’t request it to become Ashfall.
Cheat commands
- Player->Additem "detd_Bucket_Metal_nowater" 1
- Player->Additem "a_crafting_guide" 1
Devilish Needs is a survival mod for OpenMW that adds hunger, thirst, sleep, and temperature mechanics. It includes lua icons, detailed cooking and grilling based on Affa's recipes, and supports OAAB & TR. With 231 endorsements and recent updates, it's a solid choice for players seeking a comprehensive survival experience.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-trusted with 231 endorsements and over 6,700 downloads.
- All-in-one survival solution—no need to juggle multiple mods.
- Actively maintained, last updated December 2025.
⚠️ Cons
- Requires OpenMW—not for players on the original Morrowind engine.
- May conflict with other survival mods—check compatibility before adding.
For OpenMW players who want a deep survival experience without modding hassle. If you're tired of piecemeal needs mods and want a single, integrated system, this is for you. Skip if you're on vanilla Morrowind or prefer lighter gameplay tweaks.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you're running OpenMW, not the original Morrowind executable.
- Check the mod's forum thread for any required dependencies or load order notes.
- Start a new playthrough to ensure the needs systems initialize properly.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Morrowind Mods
- Author
- DetailDevil Merlord jarizleifr
- Version
- 1.5
- Downloads
- 6,733
- Endorsements
- 231
- Category
- Immersion
- Created
- 5/4/2025
- Updated
- 12/5/2025
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