A Tribe of Two - An Orphaned Baby Companion

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PREAMBLE

Do you like role-playing in your role-playing games? Do you think Hardcore mode isn't hardcore enough? Or are you, like me, just trying to kill time until the next season of The Mandalorian drops? If you answered "Yes" to any of those questions, this mod may be for you.

I find that my interest in New Vegas waxes and wanes in lengthy cycles, which I attribute to the fact that no matter how many new weapons I add, it always just boils down to "point the mouse at the bad guy and click 'til he dies." That's why, like with my customizable companions before this, I enjoy experimenting with adding new gameplay elements. And as all my friends are getting married and having kids while I'm sitting here making content for a ten-year-old game, I thought, why not try to get a taste of parenthood in the only way I know how?

DESCRIPTION

As you wander around the Wasteland, you stumble across an orphaned baby and, if you want, can decide to take it under your protection. If you do, you will be responsible for managing the baby's Health, Hunger, Hygiene and Comfort in addition to your own as you travel. Environmental factors will affect the baby's needs, and your character's skills will affect how well you perform at managing them. If you get overwhelmed, you can always try to find someone who will take the baby off your hands.

In addition to the baby itself, this mod also adds Baby Food and Brahmin Milk (two new ingestibles that are supposed to be used to feed the baby but which you can benefit from too), campfire recipes for the former, and the ability to milk Brahmin in order to get the latter.

The difficulty can be adjusted by changing the aaaGLOBDifficultyMult global variable using either FNVEdit, or the console (i.e. set aaaGLOBDifficultyMult to 0. 85). By default, it's set to 1. 0 but raising it will make things harder and lowering it will make things easier. I don't recommend setting it to 0 or below, as I don't know how well New Vegas handles divide-by-zero errors. I designed it so that you can easily play around with it until you find a setting that you're comfortable with.

As of v1. 1, there is an optional babysitting service that you can toggle by setting the aaaGLOBEnableMrNanny global variable to 1 using FNVEdit or the console. Mr. Nannies will take the baby from you and maintain its needs while you go off and do your own thing. The service costs 500 caps up-front plus 100 caps per day (which you pay upon picking up the baby). These costs can be adjusted by changing the aaaGLOBBabysitDeposit and aaaGLOBBabysitPerDiem global variables. Mr. Nannies can, for the right price, also provide emergency treatment if th