Dirt and Blood - Dynamic Visual Effects

Dirt and Blood

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Subtle and slow effect that keeps adding up as you play

• []TWEAK IT: Almost everything in the mod is configurable to your liking via the MCM. Don't like a feature? Disable it! Don't agree with the frequency of the stages? Change them!
  • []PLAYER GETS DIRTY/BLOODY: There are 4 stages of Dirt (and 4 equivalent stages of "Dirt + Blood"). Your character will become dirtier every 2 days, but it might be faster if you get into combat often. Getting hurt in combat has a small chance to make you advance a "Bloody" stage.
    • []MOSTLY VISUAL, DOESN'T AFFECT GAMEPLAY: My mod is designed NOT to affect gameplay. There are only 2 exceptions: If you've reached stages 3 or 4 of the dirt/blood system, you will get small debuffs to your speech related abilities (prices, persuasion, intimidation) and disease resistance. These modifiers are very small though, so they mostly only exist as an intrinsic reminder that you might want to get cleaned, but they can be easily ignored and won't have any meaningful impact in your game. Likewise, if you've taken the extra steps to be extremely clean (by a thorough washing), you will get a 5% price discount when buying from merchants. By default, it can take around 12 days to go from clean to the last dirt stage in which merchants dislike you. (Let's say the Medieval-based world of Skyrim does not have today's standards of cleanliness). In practise, you will get dirtier quicker as you hack and slash your enemies and get hurt in battles. However, most likely you will get rid of the dirt without even realising. See next point :)
      • []GET CLEAN WITHOUT EVEN TRYING AS YOU PLAY: By default, taking a swim will wash most of the dirt and blood away. Standing in the rain also gets you clean, but it's not as effective as swimming. Lastly, if you wish to, you can use a "washing" ability, which will perform an animation and leave you very clean. By default, no soap or standing near water is needed to use this ability as I didn't want to add more elements into the game, but you can add a soap requirement via the MCM. By default, you can use the washing ability when you think it makes sense for your character, regardless if you're standing on water or not. This can be changed via the MCM though.

        [*]BLOOD ON NPCS: NPCs that get attacked either by the player or other NPCs also have a chance to get bloody. Completely compatible with Enhanced