iWant RND for CACO

A unification of Realistic Needs and Diseases (RND)’s eat, drink, and sleep mechanics with Complete Alchemy and Cooking Overhaul (CACO)’s food, inebriation, item distribution, and effect changes.  An optional dynamic food plugin allows virtually limitless compatibility without external patching.

Design philosophy

RND and CACO complement each other in their core strengths (needs / alchemy improvements) but conflict in some areas (food / alcohol).  The design selected for this project removes those conflicts from RND thus allowing CACO to use it’s expanded food items and distributions within RND’s system while relying on RND to perform its core functions (needs and diseases).

iWant RND for CACO introduces a new Dynamic Food system if the corresponding plugin is used.  A longtime weakness of RND has been the requirement that each food item be manually patched in a plugin file.  In fact, it was this requirement that led to the original development of iWant RND for CACO.  With the Dynamic Food system, known food is updated dynamically to use RND mechanics.  Unknown food can either be treated as a minor food and drink or, based on the user's preference, identified when first consumed.  Once identified, the food item will be recognized through all future games (including new characters) as long as the created user database is accessible.  Spoiling of Dynamic Food is integrated into the native spoiling mechanics.  Unless a classic RND visual experience is preferred (with it's identified patching requirements), use of Dynamic Food is recommended.

In the context of iWant RND for CACO, Dynamic Food is now the preferred method of patching mods without native RND support.  Most patch requests, if completed, will be done through this system.  Patch requests will likely be processed faster if the requester provides a user database file (Data\SKSE\Plugins\StorageUtilData\iWant RND for CACO\Dynamic Food\user.json) with the items classified.  This can be most easily achieved by playing with the target mod and Dynamic Food installed for a period of time with user identification enabled.  Provided JSON will be vetted then introduced to master database for all iWant RND for CACO users to benefit from.  To submit a patch request, complete a bug ticket with the name of the mod, a link to the mod page, and a user database file if available.

RND will operate mostly like it originally did with the following changes:

[]Most items introduced by RND will not be found.  This includes food, specialty drinks, and camping supplies

[]Inebriation will be handled by CACO rather than RND

[]The boiling mechanic is now automatic

[]Cow milking will be handled by CACO

[]The sugarball should not be given to the player if you have SkyUI