Famine - A Loot Rarity Mod

Famine

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Requirements:

Honest Hearts

Old World Blues

JIP LN NVSE Plugin

JohnnyGuitar NVSE

ShowOff NVSE Plugin (optional)

Description

Famine is a simple, customisable, and comprehensive loot rarity mod, utilising dynamic removal of items held by containers and enemies, or placed in the game world. It makes loot much more scarce, creating a harder gameplay experience.

There are a couple of extra scarcity related features:

• []Armour and weapon conditions are dynamically reduced to make repairing harder and to prevent the vanilla exploit of selling valuable weapons dropped by enemies.

  []Plants will sometimes have been harvested already when you find them (the Courier isn't the only one foraging the Mojave). This also affects Cloud Residue around the Sierra Madre

  []Mines have a chance to break when disarmed (player-placed mines are exempt).

  []Loot in the Caesar's Favour containers will be reduced.

  Famine is very similar to Unfound Loot, but has a much simpler set of options and scripts. Almost all the code is taken from similar systems in JSawyer Ultimate, Mojave Arsenal, Water Overhaul, and Loot Assist. I've basically made almost all of this mod before, just not specifically done the loot removal bit, so I thought I'd offer the option.

  Mods with lots of options make me sort of feel like I'm playing a spreadsheet that I have a constant urge to tweak, which is why I made Famine as simpler alternative to Unfound Loot. I've deliberately kept only a small number of essential options, but these include customisable removal percentages for the item categories. In this case, I have the added hot take that probability is a mathematical phenomenon and not something humans can perceive, so gesticulating over an array of rarity options has never seemed too worthwhile in my opinion. Use whatever suits your taste.

  Some other miscellaneous points and features:

  []Items are ignored based on a fairly complex, but logical, set of conditions. For example, quest items, owned items in the world, books, playing cards, notes, and atmospheric junk are all ignored. The list is more extensive than that, but you get the idea; things that shouldn't be edited won't be edited. The criteria has been part of my other mods for a while, so it's a pretty proven formula.

  []Famine has a tighter set of conditions than Unfound Loot, allowing more containers to be edited when they logically should be. For example, Unfound Loot skips all owned c