CC Crossbows and Bolts - Tweaks and Enhancements

Description

Disclaimer: There are some similar mods to this one. (See Compatibility section) But I'm keeping my mod up for reference's sake and for people to make the decision which one they want to use.

There are several Creation Club Creations that add new crossbows and/or bolts. Unfortunately none of them are properly integrated and actually make the Dawnguard quest, Ancient Technology, to seek out hidden crossbow schematics to be useless.

• []Rare Curios: Adds new bolts that can be acquired or crafted by joining the Dawnguard, but don't require completion of Ancient Technology.

  []Elite Crossbows: Adds 2 new types of crossbows and a shortcut quest involving a Vampire Hunter. But again, it doesn't require any completion of Ancient Technology, while the crossbows from this Creation are actually better than those from Dawnguard.

  []Expanded Crossbow Pack: This one adds the most crossbows but is integrated the worst. All new crossbows are just available from level 1, at the Solitude Fletcher. They are vastly superior to the ones from Dawnguard, removing any reason to actually do Ancient Technology.

  I made the following changes to adress this:

  • []Any new crossbows and bolts are no longer obtainable in the world, nor craftable, from the start of the game.

    []After you have completed all the quests from Ancient Technology, a courier will hand you a letter that will start the quest from Elite Crossbows (which I renamed to "The Forgotten Crossbows")

    []The Vampire hunter's hideout has been redecorated a bit to reflect these changes. Inside you'll find a schematic, which you can bring to Sorine.

    []The hideout will also have a map which contains flags at many important locations for Dawnguard, for some additional immersion.

    []After bringing it to Sorine, you'll be able to craft the new bolts and crossbows (given you have the corresponding smithing requirements) and buy them at Sorine and Gunmar. (This might require an inventory reset to trigger.)

    []After you also finished the Dawnguard questline (Kindred Judgment), and a few days have passed Sorine will send you a letter through a courier. The letters will say that Sorine sold copies of the schematics to several factions in Skyrim. As such, crossbows will be used by several NPCs and sold by fletchers and blacksmiths.

    []Enhanced Crossbows and Explosive Bolts will remain exclusive for the dawnguard though and won't show up in the world.

    This mod has a main file, that deals with the crafting and the quests, and 2 different ways to distribute the crossbows and bolts. You'll need to pick only 1 of these 2 options:

    [*]Manual distribution: makes manual edits to NPCs and containers. Less compatible, but doesn't require any