Hunterborn Extender

I love the Hunterborn mod. But it lacks support for a LOT of creatures, especially if you use mods from Mihail, GG77, any of the many other creature and new-world mods, and so on.

The Hunterborn ZEdit Patch was good. REALLY good. But ZEdit struggles with large load orders and the Hunterborn ZEdit patch is hard to modify.

Now that we have Synthesis and Mutagen, we can make patchers that are far more powerful and flexible than ever before.

The Hunterborn ZEdit Patch cleverly uses Json plugin files to define new entries, using simple information like

• []What is the name of this creature?

  []Is it an animal or a monster?

  []How big is it?

  []How much does it weigh?

  []How many pelts does it provide at each skill level (1-4)?

  []Does it have extractable venom?

  []What materials can be extracted from at each skill level (1-4) and what are their EditorIDs in the creation kit?

  []Does it have any inventory items that need to be removed (like pre-existing pelt items)

  It helpfully generates new meat and pelt items for creatures not already covered by vanilla Hunterborn. And for pelts, it automatically generates recipes for converting them into leather (and autodetects CACO, and utilizes Hunterborn's soft-depenency on Complete Crafting Overhaul).

  Piranha91 and myself (with considerable help from Noggog) are developing Hunterborn Extender, a synthesis patcher that will act as a modernized version of the ZEdit patcher. The beta is already available in Synthesis.

  Features:

  • []Runs in Synthesis!

    []Maintainable

    []Heuristic matching of creatures to plugins

    []Gui will allow correcting heuristic matches

    []Gui will assist with creating new plugins

    []Advanced Taxonomy power

    The Advanced Taxonomy power is available as a prototype.

    • []Uses UIExtensions list menu to allow showing new creatures types as well as vanilla.

      []Without HunterbornExtender, Advanced Taxonomy can't distinguish some creature types - for example, 'Cave Bear' and 'Bear' are both listed as 'Bear'. But the regular Taxonomy power can't do that either.

    • If you have more than 127 plugin entries, you'll need the UIExtensions HugeList patch from Optional in the downloads section.

      This is all still experimental so let us know how they work for you in the comments section and the bugs section.

      But if you come here to complain about bugs in the mods that add the creatures, I will block you immediately. It is not our fault if some mod authors don't design their creatures well.