Follower Potions and Poisons

Ever found it frustrating that followers wait until the last second before using potions?  What use is a minor Restore Health if they're dead on the next hit?

How about all those Fortify and Resist potions that you cook up for your followers, which they totally ignore?  How annoying is it when they charge straight into battle, blissfully unaware of the advantage you've tried to provide?

While we're at it, what about the deadly poisons that you can find/craft/buy/steal? How come you - the player - are the only one capable of putting poison on a weapon?

This mod aims to change all that, allowing followers to use their potions intelligently, and keep them in the fight longer. They will also use any poisons you give them, whihc can make a life-saving difference in a scrap.

Installing

No special procedure - install normally with a mod manager (I recommend Mod Organizer), or manually if that's how you roll. Of course, as with any mod, for the love of Talos, make (and keep!) a backup of your savegame before installing this.

Requires:

• []SKSE v1. 7. 3 (get it from skse.silverlock.org).  The mod just straight-up won't work without this.

  []SkyUI is also a functional requirement. The mod will, technically, work without it, but you won't be able to configure anything without the MCM, so I really wouldn't recommend it.

• This mod also uses the Inventory Functions SKSE plugin.  This was originally by Quad2Core, but did not work with SKSE 1. 7. 3.  I have updated the plugin, and it is included in this mod. It's also hosted standalone, in case it's handy to anyone else.

Telling followers to use potions/poisons, or STOP using them

Any NPC in the Current Follower Faction will have a new dialogue option: "Concerning potions..".  Select this to tell them to start, or stop, using potions and poisons in their inventory.  A maximum of fifteen followers can be tracked by this mod - any more than that, and they're on their own.

By default, animal followers (eg dogs and horses) are excluded, as they don't tend to have potions.  Or inventories.  Or, y'know, opposable thumbs..  If you definitely do want your animal to swig potions with the rest, there is a means to do this (see the Compatibility section below).

If all else fails, there is also an option in the MCM (on the 'Config and Status' page) to 'force-add' any actor the to tracking system. This is handy for followers who operate outside the vanilla follower system.