Food Effect Tweaks - Custom Food Healing
⚪ Last updated 2022⚠️ Install Order · 5 steps
Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.7% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #122 of 441 Gameplay Effects and Changes mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Food Effect Tweaks
Requirements:
JIP LN NVSE Plugin
Description
This is a very simple mod that allows you to customise the healing provided by food, to help balance it against the Medicine healing alternatives. It affects all items that are correctly labelled as food, from all mods, etc, etc.
This works well with JSawyer Ultimate, since Sawyer had the enlightened idea to make Stimpaks both weaker and rarer, so food is pretty much the better choice all-round without this tweak. JSawyer Ultimate also labels some items as food that aren't in the vanilla game, but logically should be, such as the soda drinks and Them's Good Eatin' items.
You can customise food healing using the INI file included. The formula used when modifying healing is below for those that are interested (it's the same as Economy Overhaul's for value). By default, healing is reduced by a fairly substantial amount, so that should suit most people.
oldTotalHealing = oldMagnitude oldDuration
newTotalHealing = baseHealing + healingMultiplier (oldTotalHealing - baseHealing)
newDuration = newTotalHealing / oldMagnitude
In the above formulas, both newTotalHealing and newDuration are rounded to the nearest integer.
There is also some 'fudging' of the results to produce nicer numbers if the magnitude of the effect is 1 and the duration is an odd number above 5 that isn't a multiple of 5. This is to prevent weird-looking numbers like +1(7s) or +1(13s), so you can edit the INI more freely without worrying about that happening.
Installation
This mod requires the following:
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]JIP LN NVSE PluginStandard installation procedure: add the file to your data folder and check in the game launcher or your mod manager of choice. Load wherever.
Uninstallation
This mod can be safety uninstalled at any time and will have no permanent effects on your game. Just delete the file and you're good to go.
Compatibility
This mod detects and modifies all items marked as food, including items added by other mods.
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Food Effect Tweaks - Custom Food Healing is a simple, customizable mod that reduces food healing effects to balance Survival versus Medicine in Fallout 4. It affects all items, including those from other mods, making it a versatile tool for players seeking a more challenging survival experience.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-approved with 2,268 endorsements and over 312k downloads.
- Simple and customizable – you can tweak the healing to your liking.
- Works with all items, including mod-added foods, so it's compatible with your load order.
⚠️ Cons
- Last updated in November 2022 – may not be compatible with the latest game patches or DLC.
- No detailed instructions or documentation provided by the author.
- Purely a tweak – if you want new food items or recipes, this isn't for you.
For Fallout 4 survival players who want to make food less of a healing crutch and force more reliance on Medicine. Also for modders who want a consistent food healing reduction across all items. Skip if you're happy with vanilla food healing or want more content rather than balance changes.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Since it affects all food items, test with a new save or after eating a few items to see the new healing values.
- If you use a mod manager, install via mod manager to keep track of the mod and easily uninstall if needed.
- Check the mod's comments or forum for any known compatibility issues with your other mods, especially those that add new food items.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- New Vegas Mods
- Author
- PushTheWinButton
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Downloads
- 312,216
- Endorsements
- 2,268
- Category
- Gameplay Effects and Changes
- Created
- 1/23/2022
- Updated
- 11/19/2022
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