A Dog's Life

Description

A Dog's Life improves upon and adds to the base functionality of dogs in Skyrim in an immersive and intuitive way, whilst also providing control over the mod's wide range of features. Basic new features include trading, home assignment, naming, and petting. More advanced features include dog harnesses, dog armour, fetching items and dog tracking.

For those looking for an even more immersive experience, you can enable the needs features, including Happiness and Hunger. This means you will need to keep your dog happy by playing ball and giving regular pets, alongside feeding your pooch to prevent starvation.

New Dogs

Some new strays have been hand-placed into the world at the Riften Docks, Windhelm Docks and Morthal. They will need to be petted and given food in order to gain their trust, however, some stray dogs can be trickier than others to gain their trust and might take a few scratches here and there. Alternatively, you can purchase a war dog at Markarth or find other stray dogs in Skyrim added via random encounters. Dawnguard DLC dogs are also taken care of but will have limited capabilities as they are only hired and not owned dogs.

Dog Items

Dog items can be purchased from general goods stores and blacksmiths, however, these items are restricted and randomised so as not to flood merchants with new items. Alternatively, you can purchase a wider range of dog equipment and items from Banning in Markarth. Items can also be crafted at the tanning rack.

Dog Rextetures

Dream's Unique Dogs has been implemented directly into A Dog's Life, providing standard dogs (Wolfhounds) with improved and unique textures. PlagueHush's husky textures have also been implemented and their alpha channels fixed, providing Huskies with new unique looks, and also changing Bran and Sceolang to have a unique look. Finally, Garmr and CuSith have also been given their own unique skins to one another.

As of update 1. 1, you can change your dog's breed and colour via the Mod Configuration Menu.

Dog Armour

The Dawnguard armour has been tweaked to allow it to be added to any dog, however, it's not necessarily going to fit perfectly on all dogs. I could have restricted the use of armours on dogs with clipping, however, it may bother some less than others and is worth allowing, giving the player more options.

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