Exercise - Incremental Growth

Exercise is an expansion for Exhaustion - Incremental Fatigue that changes how you increase your health, magicka, and stamina. When you sleep, in addition to having exhaustion reduced, you gain a percentage of the recovered stats as an increase to your stat pool (10% by default, separately configurable for each stat through the Exhaustion MCM).

This means stat pools grow naturally with the use of that stat: taking lots of damage increases health, casting lots of spells increases magicka, and sprinting and power attacking increases stamina.

Stat growth also causes carry weight to increase, and the effect of each stat on carry weight can be configured in the MCM. By default it is like vanilla: stamina gains cause carry weight gains at half size, but health and magicka do not affect carry weight.

 This takes into account that fact that Exhaustion lets you set the initial caps above 100%, so you can gain some exhaustion without losing stats. As such, there is no need to set caps to 100% to maximize stat growth - even exhaustion that doesn't eat into your stats will cause stat growth when you sleep.

Requirements

Exhaustion - Incremental Fatigue - core requirement.

The Uncapper - If you want to disable (or adjust) vanilla stat growth on leveling up. For an exercise-only playthrough you need to set HealthAtLevelUp, MagickaAtLevelUp, StaminaAtLevelUp and CarryWeightAtStaminaLevelUp to 0.

SkyUI - for the MCM.

Installation

Download and install through your mod manager of choice. It is safe to install on an existing save, but needs to be installed at the same time as Exhaustion. The plugin is ESL-flagged.

Check the update notes. Updates that change script properties will require a new game.

Uninstallation

Safe to uninstall at any time, but your stat pools will be set in your save.

Performance impact

Compatibility

Compatible with everything except some mods that involve stat gains on level up. For Geometric Stat Growth there's a patch in the optional downloads. For mods like Limited Leveling, set the values you want in the uncapper ini instead. If you are using Valhalla you might want to lower the growth rate for stamina as Valhalla drains and restores stamina very fast leading to rapid growth with exercise.

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