No Saving Without Beds

This tiny mod is inspired and based on Savepoints by concit. It reuses the concept of setting a charGenState value of -2, while temporarily changing it back to the normal value (-1) when approaching a bed.

No extra textures or objects have been added with the mod. And no placements of anything has been made anywhere.

The following are the contents of this mod:

1. A new startup script that keep track that the correct state is maintained.

2. A new Global Variable that is used in the scripts.

3. An edit of the vanilla "bed script" used for all bed objects in the game to activate the Rest menu. This is to measure the distance to each bed activator where this script is used. Saving will be enabled within 150 units (2. 1m) of a bed activator and disabled again further than 300 units away (4. 2m).

4. A sound and text notification popup whenever you are able to save the game. I believe the sound effect is discrete, non-invasive but also familiar to everyone.

5. Finally an edit of a Guard Topic that is triggered on charGen when you commit a crime. Required to not have Guards remove all your bounty for free.

I will attach a screenshot of the scripts involved to save time for the curious.

Install & load order

Like usual, place the .esp file included into your Data Files folder or manage it via your Mod Organizer of choice.

Can be placed anywhere in the load order. The only dependency is Morrowind.esm.

Compatible with OpenMW & vanilla engine

Why did I make this mod instead of the existing one?

To be automatically compatible with any future content. The only requirement is that the vanilla bed script is used for new bed placements. Very few exceptions exist for scripted beds related to a few quests.

Requires little to none maintenance. It should just work.

Seamless integration by reusing objects already present.

No dependencies. Just Morrowind. ESM.

Possible concerns & compatibility issues:

Some small huts with compact interiors might be tricky to re-trigger the save-enabling state if there is a door right next to the bed (like Foryn Gilnith's Shack). This is because I defined a range of 300 units where you can stay near a bed activator before the save feature is disabled again. Try walking to a corner of the room to reset the state. Hopefully there should be no interior small enough to get "perma savelocked".

* The nature of modifying the charGenState comes with its own issues. You may run into issues with some mods that are paying respect to this value. I have found a few in my modpack but luckily so far I've been able to make hotfixes for all cases I've encountered. I will try to upload these to the modpage as soon as I know I am given permission to do so. Apart from charGenType issues the only thing that could possibly interfere is