Spell Research - Convenience and Sitting Animations Add-on

Overview

Spell Research is one of my favourite mods. It adds so much to magic gameplay that it feels like a DLC, and I think it’s a must-have for any mage playthrough. However, there were a few details I thought could be improved, so I made this patch. The changes include the following:

[] The screen now fades to black when time passes during scholarly activities (just like while sleeping) — for more immersion. If you don’t like that change, you can download an override that removes it made by DiscipleDarkfriend here.

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[] Messages/notifications are said in first person instead of second.

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[] The alembic gives alchemy experience (when refining solutions, creating elixirs etc.) — with this it feels more meaningful to advance alchemy than create countless poisons never to be used.

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[] The refining recipes now have a ‘30 to 10’ and a '300 to 100' version if you have enough material — it was easy to end up with hundreds of solutions after dissolving a lot of ingredients, and it took forever to refine them with the default ‘3 to 1’ recipes. It’s much faster when you can refine more at once.

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[] ‘Degrade’ recipes for solutions (‘1 to 2’) are now only visible if you have the “Herbalist’s Guide to Skyrim” book in your inventory — I never needed them, and they just tend to get in the way while refining. I didn’t want to completely remove them, so adding an extra requirement for them to show up seemed to be the best way to deal with them.

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[] The weight for theses and rolls of paper is reduced — it didn’t make sense that a single roll was a heavy as a full book with a leather cover. So now a single roll weighs 0. 1 (it was 1 vanilla), and the theses weigh depending on how much paper was used to write them (0. 1-0. 5).

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[] I added a novice alteration spell that transforms a ruined/burned book into 2 rolls of paper. While this is not absolutely necessary given that you can use those books directly for writing, it’s complementary to my weight changes — every book weighs 2, and there are a lot of them in some dungeons, which makes it really easy to reach carrying capacity. If you transform them into rolls, it’ll be 10x less weight to carry. The spell is obtainable via research only.

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[*] You can fully recover from mental exhaustion if you sleep for 8h or more — I have seen a lot of people complaining about mental exhaustion and wanting it to be gone, but I personally think it makes sense that it’s included — the real problem with it was how long it took to recover. Often even 12 hours weren’t enough, and that didn’t really work well with a needs mod. If you don’t like the default value of 8, you can change it by typing into the console set _SR_GlobalExhaustionRecoverySleptHours