Sunhelm - Follower Needs and Needs Based Fast Travel

⭐ — (79 endorsements) 📥 4,859 downloads 📌 v3.4.0 📅 12/17/2025
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By Blackspine18859 · Patches

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 6/16/2026 📅 Created: 12/17/2025
⚠️ Install Order · 5 steps
1🛠️ SKSE64 — Skyrim Script Extender 64 Download ↗
2🔧 USSEP — Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch Download ↗
3🖥️ SkyUI — SkyUI (MCM framework) Download ↗
4🧩 Address Library — Address Library for SKSE Plugins Download ↗
5🔧 SSE Engine Fixes — SSE Engine Fixes Download ↗

Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 1.6% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
  • 🏆 #70 of 197 Patches mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

Followers can now experience hunger, thirst, and fatigue. Includes an option for needs based penalty spells to apply to them as well. Additional new feature: Needs-Based Fast Travel, which requires that hunger, thirst, and fatigue be fully

DESCRIPTION

This is an add-on for Sunhelm. It does two distinct things:

  • []Adds an MCM toggle to only allow fast travel if your hunger, thirst, and fatigue are all fully satisfied. This means you need to be well-rested, well-fed, and your thirst must be quenched. Toggling on the option to disable fast travel makes this mechanic do nothing. [/]

    []Introduces follower-needs with adjustable MCM settings. Read below for details. [/]

    NEW SAVE REQUIRED

    Due to extensive script changes, a new saved game is required if you already have Sunhelm running on your game. Sorry for the inconvenience.

    FOLLOWER NEEDS

    Followers who join your group will share needs with you. They are automatically added to the system when they join and removed if they are dismissed or killed. You can also manage them in the MCM. Additionally, there is a lesser power available in the MCM (off by default) that you can toggle on which allows you to manually add/remove followers in case the system fails to see a follower for some reason, though this should not happen.

    When at least one follower who is sharing needs is journeying with you, your personal needs become "party" (group) needs. This means any food or drink you consume will be shared with your followers. The more followers you have, the more provisions it takes to restore hunger and thirst. Fatigue is restored equally to you and your followers when you sleep, so you won't need to sleep longer when you have followers in the system.

    The scaling sliders allow you to set the degree to which each follower affects hunger and thirst restoration when you eat and drink. A scaling setting of 1. 0 means each follower consumes as much as you do. If you eat an Apple, for instance, it normally restores 40 points of hunger. With a single follower set at a scaling of 1. 0, the apple will be divided between you, which means only 20 points of hunger is restored. An apple shared by three followers  restores approximately 13 points of hunger, and so on. The lower you set the scaling, the less each follower affects hunger/thirst restoration. Default setting is 1. 0.

    SATISFYING PARTY NEEDS

    It's incredibly simple. Whatever you eat, the party shares. It doesn't matter if the item comes from your inventory, their inventory, a dead bandit, etc. If you enable the option for follower animations while eating/drinking, you can see your followers having a meal with you. Animations are staggered and occur randomly in 1-3 second

📊 Mod Details

Game
Skyrim Mods
Author
Blackspine18859
Version
3.4.0
Downloads
4,859
Endorsements
79
Category
Patches
Created
12/17/2025
Updated
6/16/2026

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