Slaughter in the Water
🟠 Updated over a year ago⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 🏆 #21 of 35 Creatures mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Slaughterfish have a very peculiar ecological niche: making water more annoying to player characters. I've tried to make them a little more interesting hopefully. They will smell your blood in the water now!
This mod sets the Fight value of normal and small Slaughterfish to 81. They will attack you when they bodily bump into you or if you stay very close to them too long but will no longer swim through the entire cell to taste steel the moment you put your toes in the water. However it also adds a script to both 'fishes that sets their Fight to 100 when the player's health is under a certain threshold (90%), restoring their hyper aggressive vanilla behavior and likely making them swarm you.
Tested in MGE XE and OpenMW nightly build 20250211.
Changes both Slaughterfish variants. Doesn't change the quest-related Old Blue Fin. If you use a different mod that adds scripts to Slaughterfish let me know and I'll see if I can make a patch. Same for mods that add more slaughterfish variants. I will do one for Tamriel_Data at least and one for whatever mod adds diseased ones to my game.
Also I may do an optional Dreugh version that also allows Dreugh to smell Water Breathers and follow Water Walkers...
... Okay, T_D patch is online. Same stats as the main slaughterfish. Blind fish had their Fight reduced to completely tame 70 but they can smell blood once you're down to 99% HP!
... OAAB adds a different Blind Slaughterfish. It needs its own script because it's also diseased. Done!
Slaughter in the Water is a small creature tweak mod for Skyrim that reduces Slaughterfish aggression, making them passive unless the player is already hurt. With 16 endorsements and a recent update, it's a niche quality-of-life change for players tired of constant fish attacks while swimming.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Finally, I can swim without getting nibbled every two seconds.
- Tiny mod, does exactly what it says — no bloat.
- Recently updated (Feb 2025), so it's fresh.
⚠️ Cons
- Only 16 endorsements — not a lot of community testing.
- No screenshots or detailed description, so you're flying blind on exact behavior.
- Might make Slaughterfish too passive for some — they'll never attack unless you're already bleeding.
For Skyrim players who hate getting harassed by Slaughterfish while exploring rivers and lakes. If you want a more relaxed swimming experience without combat interruptions, this is for you. Skip if you enjoy the challenge of aquatic ambushes.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Just drop the .esp into your Data folder and enable it in your mod manager.
- If you use other creature behavior mods, load this one after them to ensure its changes take priority.
- Test near Riften's waterways to see the new behavior in action.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Morrowind Mods
- Author
- Dorfklaus
- Version
- 1
- Downloads
- 412
- Endorsements
- 16
- Category
- Creatures
- Created
- 1/31/2025
- Updated
- 2/1/2025
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