More Interesting Loot Reborn

We’ve all been here: you're traipsing through a dungeon, slaying all sorts of threats to your existence but finding limited loot. After a trek, you enter into the boss chamber, steeling yourself for the fight. Using skill or guile you slay the boss, open the chest and expecting something worth your time.

You open the chest at level 80 and get...

• []Meridia’s Beacon

  []Steel Nordic Gauntlets

  []Iron Sword of Fear

  []250 Gold

(and this WAS a random preview generation from a vanilla Boss chest)

What the heck, isn't this the Boss's chest? Why is it holding such a pittance? The ores you mined through that dungeon are probably worth more!

This would make any player frustrated. (Including the irritating stone as a nice little finger the game gives you with a giggle.)

Now, what if these bosses had some special items stashed in the chest? Additional loot like jewelry, relics and recipes to loot long lost to the annals of time? After all, these dungeons have been sealed - they haven’t been opened for ages and who knows what existed at that time. Plus, your typical bandit's taken one too many blows to his helmet - you think they can distinguish rare relics from whatever other shiny weapons they have? It would easily offset the soured feeling of having to listen to her. AGAIN.

Well...wonder no longer, adventurers. Behold!

This mod is the spiritual successor of More Interesting Loot by Ghengisbob. Initially, the goal was to make a patch for Legacy to address the elusive drop rates.

However, the more I looked into the mod's innards the more I was astounded at how much looked like it was just… abandoned and unfinished. Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE More interesting Loot, but I saw so much lost potential that I decided to rebuild it from the ground up.

Like I mentioned, the drop rates were… less then ideal even with everything set at a very high drop rate, even with the MCM menu maxed out. My method of loot distribution is far different from his, making use of various entries and injections into chests all across the worlds to make it fit. This leads into my next point.

We’ve all seen the containers scattered across the dungeons: the urns in Nordic barrows, some Dwemer chests, and the ilk being empty. It makes sense for some to be empty but not most of them - they are sealed dungeons, abandoned long ago.

Would it make sense for a piece of Dwemer armor to be in something like a small chest on the wall? No, that chest isn't the TARDIS why would anyone stuff something big like that in there? The chests and containers are going to reflect their dungeons and locations as well. For example, would you find